Enchantment Sleep in Sin Forest

Do you recall the story "Rip Van Winkle," by Washington Irving? Rip Van Winkle went to sleep before the American War of Independence and woke up twenty years later. A loyal subject of the British monarch, he went to sleep to escape his nagging wife. But when he woke up, he found that his wife had died, his friends were nowhere to be found, and the British monarch was no longer of any importance in his land. To Van Winkle, these dramatic changes seemed to have happened overnight. How does this story relate to the church today? The church, which is a people — not a building or a place — is sleeping in sin today.

Christianity was founded in the United States during the early colonial period by the Pilgrims, who brought it with them when they fled religious persecution in Europe. According to Wikipedia, there are nearly 280 million Christians, making Christianity the largest religion in the world. The author do not believe that Christianity should never be considered a religion, because Christianity is a God doing and religion is a man doing. According to an ABC News poll, 83 percent of Americans identify as Christians. Most of the rest, 13 percent, profess no religion. If this is the case, why aren't Christians making a difference in the United States? Only fifty people were surveyed for this poll, so it probably isn't an accurate representation of the United States population.

Sleep can be defined as the state of an animal during hibernation, a state of torpid inactivity resembling sleep, or a trance or coma. The devil has put the church into a sleep-in-sin trance, and the church doesn't even know it. The church knows something is wrong, but it cannot escape this trance. Rip Van Winkle, who tried to escape reality by sleeping, found that the world had changed when he finally woke up. The story of Rip Van Winkle sounds much like the church today. Is the church trying to hide its head in the sand, hoping that the evil things happening around us will just go away? Our world is moving in a direction that we don't want it to go, but the church refuses to wake up from the sleep in sin. We are heading toward a collision like a runaway train. We see children shot in our schools and people gunned down in the streets because of the color of their skin. We see sexual immorality running rampant, human trafficking, and children sold into the sex trade, because of lust, greed and the heart of man. We see drug overdoses increasing because the flesh just cannot be satisfied, and our children are committing suicide.

So, you ask, how does this relate to Christianity? Good question. Christians are being lulled into an enchanted sleep in Sin Forest by satan without their consent or knowledge. The Bible tells us that God's people are perishing because of lack of knowledge. By this happening the following devastation has been introduced into the United States: One of the first signs was Roe v. Wade. Roe v. Wade came on the scene while we were under the sleep-in-sin trance of satan in 1973 where the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Roe, who was single and having sex outside of marriage and got pregnant. Now, who was the president at the time during the Roe v. Wade trial? A Republican named Richard Nixon. Roe admitted that she didn't want the baby. She wanted to abort her baby. She claimed that her life wasn't endangered. She didn't want the unborn baby. The baby was a human being at the time of conception. Here are some statistics from the outcome of Roe v. Wade. Ever since the Roe v. Wade ruling, more than 58 million unborn children have lost their lives in their mothers' wombs because of lack of knowledge. Jane Roe, who has since become a vocal, passionate leader in the pro-life movement, challenged abortion regulations and won the court decision. Ever since then, more than 48 million unborn children have ceased to exist in this world. In 2005 alone, there were 1.2 million abortions in the United States. One court decision, instigated by one person, changed the fate and face of generations who have never had the chance to cure cancer, create art and literature, discover energy-conserving innovations, or advance the population of a freedom-loving nation.

In its report titled Abortion Incidence and Service Availability in the United States, 2011, the Guttmacher Institute, originally founded as a research affiliate of Planned Parenthood, reported that for 2011, there were 1.05 million abortions in the United States — 550,000 fewer than the peak of 1.6 million in 1990. I believe that abortion numbers are declining because of the morning-after pill.

The total number of abortions, since Roe v. Wade in 1973, is 60,069,971. This is based on the numbers reported by the Guttmacher Institute (GI) 1973–2014, with projections of 926,190 for 2015–17. GI has estimated possible undercounts of 3 to 5 percent, so an additional 3 percent is factored into the overall total.

According to the National Pro-Life Alliance, abortion is the leading cause of death in the United States every year, with more than 1.6 million abortions performed on average per year. Those unborn children might have grown up to be doctors or scientists who found a cure for cancer or AIDS, or one of them could have easily became the president of the United States.

Abortions are a tragic within itself, partly because of the devastating remorse, guilt, and condemnation that follow. If you have been a victim of this tragedy, I don't condemn you. God is your judge, not me. The Bible tells us in 1 John 1:9, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just [righteous] to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [our sins]." That is the kind of God we serve — a merciful God. I believe that if you have confessed your sins, God has forgiven you and those sins...