Jesus' Mandate for Justice: Human Trafficking & Abortion
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007, 8:30 PM
Fire in the Night Internship: International House of Prayer, Kansas City
I. The Justice Mandate at IHOP
A. Recently we called the house to stand on our "LIFE lines" to pray concerning three injustices: abortion, human trafficking, and for God to break in with revelation to the Homosexual community.
1. In the front right side of the prayer room we have LIFE lines.
2. On these lines we stand in the place of prayer to contend for the rescuing of the unborn.
B. IHOP has a mandate to contend for the ending of abortion.
1. Some of you have heard the prophetic history set called Encountering Jesus and have heard of Bob Jones.
a) August 7th, 1975- God told Bob about all the ways technology would perform abortions.
b) The enemy later appeared to Bob and told him if he shared about this that he would kill him.
c) Bob shared about it anyway and died.
2. May 7th-28th Bound4LIFE, a ministry of Lou Engle, and IHOP did a 22 day "Silent Siege".
a) God put it on Brent Steno's, an intercessory missionary here at IHOP, heart to call IHOP to pray.
b) We stood outside of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic about 10 minutes from here ominously located on Roe Ave. (Roe v. Wade).
c) Amazingly, as Mike and Brent looked at the calendar they saw the only space were the same days as the fast that Mike had called in 1983 that established the mandate for raising up the tabernacle of David. God confirmed this fast sending a commit unpredicted by science and spoke audibly to Bob Jones "24/7 prayer in the spirit of the tabernacle of David".
II. Abortion, Human Trafficking, and Homosexuality- Social Injustices
A. Abortion- Killing of Innocent Babies
1. Some Statistics:
a) Since 1973 over 48,429,271 babies have been killed from abortion in America alone.
b) Over 4,400 babies are killed every day.
c) Worldwide abortion totals are 50,000,000 every year.
2. An especially evil part of the abortion industry is the late-term Partial-Birth Abortion.
a) In this procedure the baby is partially delivered and then killed partially outside of the womb.
b) According to the CDC's conservative estimates, in 2003 11,874 babies aborted were over 21 weeks.
3. Points for Prayer
a) Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
1) In 2003 President Bush signed this ban into law making Partial Birth Abortion illegal in all circumstances.
2) However, the law never went into affect because it was challenged by the courts.
3) We are now in a battle in the Supreme Court over whether this law will now go into affect.
4) Pray for the nine Supreme Court justices.
5) We also must pray for the appointing of a godly justice this year as there will most likely be a vacancy.
b) South Dakota, Utah, and Georgia
1) These three states have legislation in committee to ban abortion.
2) If they passed, it would create a law that would directly challenge Roe v. Wade.
3) It would force the Supreme Court to re-examine abortion laws in our nation.
c) Ending of Abortion in Kansas City- city of refuge
B. Recently God has gripped our house with the issue of Human Trafficking.
1. On Monday, February 5th of this year Benji Nolot, one of our leaders, shared a burden the Lord had been placing on his heart for human trafficking in a briefing before the 8pm intercession meeting.
a) As the team discussed it, one of the singers spoke up that she had just had a dream related to this issue the week before.
b) She said that in the dream she was kidnapped by a foreign man and taken to the home of an American man. Once inside this home she realized she was in a brothel, and would be forced into a life of prostitution. In the dream she began to see the babies she would have to abort as a result of this lifestyle. She then heard someone (she believed was Jesus) singing "Open up the heavens over the weak!"
2. So, they focused the 8pm intercession meeting on the issue and it gripped the entire room. For two hours we cried out for woman and children enslaved through traffickers.
3. A day and a half later Wednesday, Feb. 7th, Austrian authorities busted a huge child pornography ring involving over 2,300 child pornographers in 77 countries.
a) The suspects paid to view videos depicting infants and young children being sexually abused. Federal police called the case "a strike against child pornography unprecedented in Austrian criminal history."
b) Interior Minister Guenther Platter said the FBI was investigating about 600 of the suspects in the United States.
c) German authorities were following leads on another 400 people, France was looking into about 100 others, and at least 23 suspects were Austrians, he said.
d) Platter affirmed videos downloaded from the Internet and seized by Austria's Federal Criminal Investigations Bureau included images that showed "the worst kind of child sexual abuse. Girls could be seen being raped, and you could also hear screams," said Harald Gremel, an Austrian police expert on Internet crime who headed the investigation.
4. The gruesome reality is that trafficking in women and girls is the second or third most profitable industry used by organized crime after drugs and guns.
a) The United Nations estimates that as many as 4 million women and children are trafficked around the world for purposes of forced prostitution, labor and other forms of exploitation every year, meaning every thirty seconds or 2,500 per day another person becomes a victim.
b) The UNICEF reports that across the world, there are over one million children entering the sex trade every year and that approximately 30 million children have lost their childhood through sexual exploitation over the past 30 years.
c) There are currently 27-30 million (more than the 1800s) individuals in slavery today, 70-75 percent of whom are sex slaves.
5. To make matters worse, according to a survey, 40 percent of the ex-prostitutes interviewed said policemen were clients at their brothels.
a) Some reported seeing money changing hands between pimps and police officers.
b) In one case, a woman said the police tipped her pimp off about an impending raid.
c) Another woman claimed the police dragged an escaped prostitute back to their brothel.
6. The United States is not aloof from Human Trafficking.
a) Relying on research from the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department estimates there are at least 50,000 human trafficking victims brought into the United States each year.
b) The United States is among the top three destination countries for sex traffickers, along with Japan and Australia.
c) There are at least 2.4 million children that are exploited in the sex industry in America.
7. There is a major connection in between Human Trafficking and abortion in both the spiritual and natural realm.
a) Both issues are justice issues and God's heart for Justice touches both issues very deeply.
b) Also, as we have researched this topic we have shuttered to find that it is not unusual that if a woman or girl has been trafficked for only two to three years that she has endured more than a dozen abortions at the hands of her traffickers.
8. Human trafficking is only going to increase in the end-times.
And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargos (merchandise) any more; 12 cargos of gold and silver, precious stones and pearls and fine linen and slaves and human lives. - Rev. 18:11, 13 (NASB)
C. Encountering of those in the Homosexual Lifestyle
1. The percentage of Americans with same-sex attraction is approximately 3%.
a) The number of people experimenting with same-sex behavior is increasingly rapidly, as a result of marital breakdowns, a disintegrating family, and a spirit of license and rebellion in our culture.
b) Teen culture has become so gay-friendly that it is considered hip to experiment homosexually. Gay sex is becoming the new drug, even among those who have not previously "felt" they were gay.
2. We must begin with repentance for the breakdown of marriage and family in our land, for heterosexual promiscuity and porn addictions, and the other idolatries that surround homosexuality.
3. We must raise a standard based on the testimonies of men and women who have come out of sexual brokenness, including homosexuality, through the mercy of Jesus and His Church--the worship of the One true and living God among the believing community.
4. Pray that IHOP will be a meek and powerful expression of how Jesus transforms idolaters into lovers of Himself.
III. Isaiah 42- Beholding The Warrior Son
Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one {in whom} My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.
He will not cry out or raise {His voice,} Nor make His voice heard in the street.
A bruised reed He will not break And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
He will not be disheartened or crushed Until He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law. (Isaiah 42:1-4 NASB)
A. "Behold My Servant"- The passage begins with an exhortation from the Father for us to Behold Jesus, the Servant-King.
1. In this passage we see several aspects of Jesus' character.
2. One principle you will hear about in your time here is what we like to call the "beholding becoming principle".
a) This chapter is filled with aspects of the character of the Son that can transform us as we look at them.
3. I like the way New Living translates this phrase,"Look at my servant". We are called to look at Jesus. Look at how he runs His Kingdom. Look at the way he operates.
4. So, let's look at Jesus for a few moments.
B. Verse 4- "He will not grow faint or be discouraged until He has established justice in the earth" (ESV)
1. Jesus will not relent, He will not stop until.
2. In the midst of this battle with ups and downs it is critical that we behold this in the Son.
a) Last year I faced the necessity of this verse first hand.
1) South Dakota tried to ban abortion.
2) However, after months of battling in prayer, the measure failed. We lost.
3) It was only in beholding the Son that I was strengthened. The Man who neither grows faint nor is discouraged- UNTIL.
b) We will win many more battles and loose many more until Jesus fulfills the hope of our hearts setting up His Kingdom where these injustices will be forever defeated.
C. Verse 3- "A dimly burning wick He will not extinguish"
1. Let's not forget this- mercy.
a) Everything He does, He does with mercy.
1) My paraphrase that I use in a song I wrote called 'Mighty Warrior" of this phrase is "even the flames that are barely flames at all / You will not quench."
2) If He sees even a flicker of a flame, He doesn't put it out.
b) As we approach these topics involving wicked men, we must remember His mercy.
1) He is a judge and He will judge wickedness, I assure you.
2) But, for the offenders and the offended He stands with nail pierced hands offering them to repent and be saved from eternal punishment for their eternal offense.
2. All of us have drunk from the fountain of convenience and sexual immorality which fuels these issues.
a) As we pray over these issues, it is not a matter of us and them!
1) Daniel prayed a wonderful prayer in Daniel 9, "Lord we have sinned, we have acted wickedly"
2) Daniel bore the guilt for his nation.
b) This is how we must come before the Lord with these issues - our hands are dirty with the blood of thousands as a nation.
c) As we come to these issues we must come clean.
1) We can not war over these issues with effectiveness if we are looking at porn and lust is consuming our thoughts day and night.
2) Zechariah 3:3-5 gives a call for us as intercessors to come clean.
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and standing before the angel.
He spoke and said to those who were standing before him, saying, "Remove the filthy garments from him." Again he said to him, "See, I have taken your iniquity away from you and will clothe you with festal robes."
Then I said, "Let them put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments, while the angel of the LORD was standing by. (Zechariah 3:3-5 NASB)
3) Some of you today, before you come before the Lord concerning these issues of great immorality, is calling to lay these things down and be clothed with the clean garments of His grace.
4) I also know that there is a high chance that some of the women in here have had an abortion
i. God is merciful to you today. I want you to know that He does not condemn you.
ii. You are forgiven! He forgave you a long time ago! You are clean as you have turned to Him and fallen at His feet for mercy.
iii. Just like the woman caught in the act of adultery in John 8, He says to you, "were are your accusers? Go and sin no more"
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