"So Pope Pius XI explicitly said that married people should have sex with the full expectation that children could result each time. A married couple should in no way interrupt God's plan for them to have lots of children. To do anything else is a grave sin."(http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/aboutme/birthcontrol.html)
It is actually hermaneutically sound to believe that birth control is not God's will based on the Bible. God said He knew us before we were formed in our mother's wombs, anointed us before we were born. (Jeremiah 1:5). Jesus lived a life of sacrificing His own life for his friends. He said that He came that we might have life and life more abundantly, but the thief came to steal, kill, and destroy. Anything that is not bringing life is siding with the thief (as I have heard many preachers conclude).
Yet today, most of us have a limit on just how much sacrifice we can handle when it has to do with children. We say that children are a blessing but when it comes to having them we treat the idea like a burden. We love the ones we have but we ask God to stop giving them to us once we have like 4 or 5. Hey, I now fit into the category of the 4 and now 5 soon, what should I do?
I have noticed that most of us want to be the ones to tell God when or if we will have them, but do not want God to refuse them to us. But God said to love God with all of our might, this is the first commandment. Second one is to love our neighbor as ourselves. If you were a baby, would you want to be your child? If you were your friend, would you like you? (joke) Well, if you love God, and you love yourself, then you can love your child, neighbor, friend, or the world, even enough to let them pass through the womb that God gave women.
Therefore, I have designed this analogy, with disclaimer, that I am not saying that children are a "cross" or a "ball" or anything less than a human being such as myself. I am grateful for the ones that God has given me and do not downplay their value in any way. This is only to illustrate the value of the decision whether to be fertile or sterile. The ultimate decision, however, is in each individual's hands.
Now for the football analogy:
In football, there is a move called INTERCEPTION, wherein, a player from the other team catches the ball while it is in mid-air, and thus, prevents your team from gaining yards on the football field through that pass.
With INTERCEPTION, your team is forced to retreat the ball to the team that intercepted the ball, allowing them to run the ball toward their goal instead, increasing the possibility of them scoring a touchdown, or getting a field goal, during the game time.
Consider the result of INTERCEPTION. Interception allows one team to virtually "STEAL" the ball from the opposing team so that it may score points against them and win the game.
Therefore, we may equate INTERCEPTION with STEALING, even though it is not technically called STEALING.
Now let us put the theological stuff in.
John 10:10 NIV states "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."
In this context, the "thief" is the devil, or those working for him. But "I" is our LORD Jesus Christ, and those He works through.
The "they" is people, born or unborn.
All people (babies) come from God. God creates them and He "knows them before He forms them". Therefore, let us apply the metaphor.
Let us imagine that the football field is the "game" of life. Life on one end, Death on the other. The womb is the matrix. The ball symbolizes the spirit of the child, being chosen to be sent into a particular mother's womb, prior to conception. Remember that God is Who we are supposed to be routing for!!!
God has the ball. He has to get the ball into the touchdown zone in order to place the baby into a mother's womb. Then, He will provide all food and shelter for the baby, through the channel of the parent to whom He will entrust those resources. He will also provide for the parent. He knows the plans that He has for them. Plans to prosper them and not harm them. To give them an expected end. God is excited and ready to win the game of LIFE.
The devil is angry. He doesn't want God to send more ministers into the earth. He is prepared to steal, kill, and destroy the spirit baby before it is ever conceived in that chosen and anointed mother's womb, and win the game. All he has to do is INTERCEPT the ball, and he will prevent God from winning the game of LIFE. Then, he will run the ball to the touchdown line in order to ensure that those parents miss out on the greatest gift that God gives as an inheritance to man: a living child. He begins with his lies.
Before the game...
The Devil goes and speaks to the mother and father. He tells them that they are not competent enough to win the game. And that even if they do win the game, then he will cause them to have lack anyway. He will steal all of their money, peace, time, and happiness if they win. The Devil tells the mother and father (who are on God's team) that they need to stay away from him while he is on the field. And that if they pass the ball, to pass it to the Devil, so that God cannot run it to the LIFE side of the field and create conception.
Now, we have someone who is burdened, paranoid, with no peace. The parents feel threatened by the other team, and so for the next play, they decide to take a passive stance on the field.
This is where birth control comes in. The method of contraception doesn't quite matter. Ultimately, it is the decision to not be willing to help the team of LIFE to win the game.
Remember, it is the conspiracy, the bribe, and the propaganda created by the enemy that caused all of this fear. Before the game, the parents trained, and were excited. They even won a few games before. But this time, the devil has promised them that they will not be blessed if they win. They think, what would they do with another child anyway? They already have enough love and not barely enough time for the ones they have. Besides, labor hurts! Why would anybody want to have another baby? Isn't this a pro-choice country? Aren't children sent to earth just to us and for us? Then the responsibility falls on us alone, not God, to provide for these children. God will understand if we decide to let the devil win this time.
So, the parents go and clearly let God know that they will not sit out on this play, (stop having sex), but that they are going to allow the other team to intercept the ball, and win the game.
God looks at them perplexed. But being that God is a forgiving God, He grants grace, and allows them to go into the field and play anyway.
Deep in the parents' hearts, they think, God's team can win anyway, we are not the only players on the field (factors involved).
The play begins.
God passes the ball to them. But they do not try to catch it. Instead, they allow the ball to be INTERCEPTED BY THE DEVIL!!!
Demons are cheering!!! Go devil go! Go devil go!
The parents, standing on the field, quietly cheer on the devil in their hearts too, grateful to have escaped the burden of the threats that they heard before the game.
The devil runs..... runs..... runs..... and the ball is SAFE in the END ZONE OF THE DEVIL!!!
The baby is never conceived.
The family does not multiply.
God watches in awe...
But because of His love for the parents, He keeps them on the team anyway, as they are only human, and He knows that they can only handle so much pressure.
Now for some Scripture:
Psalm 127
1Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
2It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
3Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
4As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
5Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Verse 1: If we do not allow God to build our household on His terms, then we are trying to build it ourselves, and thus, we are building in vain.
Verse 2: All of the responsibility of child-rearing is not ours, but God shares in it. We must have a willing heart, and trust in Him, so that we might be able to sleep at night knowing that He will bless the fruit of our womb and the fruit of our hands.
Verse 3: Children are God's reward!
Verse 4: When we are young, and we have children, they are like spears or arrows that will be sent out with vigor.
Verse 5: God promises that the man with many children will be happy, and that his children will not be ashamed. The soldiers who speak with the enemies at the gate are the front-line warriors! Together they bear one another up, and they are strong!
Psalm 37:25
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
God promises us that now when we believe in Jesus Christ, and are born again, we are not bound to the curses of this world, but that goodness and mercy shall follow us all of the days of our lives.
Deuteronomy 28: 2-4
2And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
3Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
God shows man that when they follow all of God's precepts that right along with being blessed in the city and the field, they will be blessed with the fruit of the body (children), and of the ground, and of the cattle, and the increase of the kine... in other words, having children does not equate to poverty, it is a part of prosperity in Christ.
In response to the enemy's propaganda, God would never allow His people to suffer because of His blessings. He doesn't make any mistakes. There are no "mistake" children. All of them are ordained before they are born, and God has a purpose for every child before they enter the womb. He knew us and He knows the ones He has chosen those alive to have. Poverty will not accompany childbearing, so long as one continues to walk in the Word of God. And poverty can still come to one who does not abide in His Word whether they have more children or not. The key is to trust God and know that He Is Able to be the Pro Who has the Choice of how many, when, and where each baby is conceived and when they are born. He also Is the giver of LIFE.
1 Timothy 6: 7
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
Acts 17:28
For in him we live, and move, and have our being;
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