17th June 2021
SEXUAL IMMORALITY
David Abankwah
Birth Control (Family Planning)
(SERIES: Day 13)
But Onan knew that the heir would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he emitted on the ground, lest he should give an heir to his brother.
-Genesis 38:9 | NKJV
Birth control is one branch of sexual immorality that many people are not mindful of. When God finished creating man, he gave a strict commandment that they should be fruitful, increase and subdue the earth too (Genesis 1:28). Yet, that commandment is not obeyed by many people now. Today when you give birth to many children, the world thinks you are insane. The world makes you feel worthless. The world makes you feel you can’t take care of them. But least do the world know that God is the Jehovah Jireh – the God our Provider. It is Him who provides children and He knows how to take care of them all. His hand is never short of providence.
Today when you ask many believers the children they want to give birth to, you will hear them saying, just 1, 2 or at most 3 as if they are the Creators of their own children. Many believers will tell you that the world is in economic crisis so many children is not a good idea. Believer, you are behaving like Onan and Er in the Bible who engaged themselves in family planning. In Israel, there was a law concerning Levirate marriage that states that: When an elder brother dies without having children even though he was married, his younger brother will marry his wife and the firstborn son they will give birth to, will succeed the name of the dead brother (Deuteronomy 25:5-10).
Before Er died, the reason he didn’t have children was that he was practising withdrawal method, thus another way of performing family planning or birth control. Because he did that, the Lord killed him (Genesis 38:7). When Er died, Onan accepted to perform the Levirate marriage and he also practised the same thing and God killed him too (Genesis 38:9-10). Now, if God killed someone in the Bible because of family planning, what will God do to you when you wear a condom? What will God do to you if you take in pills for birth control? What will God do to you if you practise vasectomy? What will God do to you if you practise withdrawal method of birth control?
There is a safe natural way of birth control when you study the safe periods of your wife. The best birth control practice is abstinence. If you know the implication of family planning, you will never have one. If you don’t want to give birth, you better abstain from sex. The only reward you can have from sex is a baby. Today, many men know how to have sex but they are afraid of giving birth. If you have given birth to any child somewhere, better look for the child before it is too late. Or else, it will definitely stop you from going to New Jerusalem. There are workers who give birth everywhere they are transferred to. Some even have sex for fun and abort the pregnancies at will.
•| Prayer Diary |•
¹Lift up prayers for forgiveness and cleansing of your body and soul from every act of birth control you have engaged yourself in before. ²Lift up prayers for repentance from all acts of birth control. ³Lift up prayers for the strength to overcome all future temptations of birth control in the name of Jesus Christ.
Quote
“The best birth control practice is abstinence”
One-Year Bible Reading Plan
Psalms Chapters 69-72
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