Hello. I'm Pastor Bryan Longworth. I grew up in a Christian home in South Florida and at 6, accepted Christ as Savior. In December 1994, I answered the call of God to preach the gospel. I am involved in the pro-life movement and in calling the church and our nation to repentance. We need revival and reformation like never before. The blood of over 50 million children cries from the ground for vengeance, and God will avenge! God send us a true move of God lest we perish in our iniquity!
I have a dream that one day all innocent human life will be protected by love and by law in Florida. For this to happen, we need your help to make the case for life in every region, every county, every city, and every church. Indeed, we need every pastor in the state of Florida to present the prolife personhood petition to their church.
In reference to salvation, the Apostle Paul ponders, "How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher"? (Romans 10:14 NKJV) In reference to the personhood petition, we might ask: how shall they petition without a preacher, and how shall they preach if they haven't heard?
I recently attended a large pastors meeting in Orlando with my dad. Central Florida Co-Chair Jay Rogers joined to help present the prolife personhood amendment to Florida pastors. You would be surprised at what we found! We met pastors from all over the state. The pastors all received the petition with open arms. Those who hadn't previously signed the petition singed it at the conference and took additional copies to pass out to have their congregations sign the petition! What percentage of Florida pastors do you think have heard about personhood? Answer this weeks online poll to give your opinion. We'll announce the poll results and the actual percentage next week.
To reach every region, every county, every city, every church, every pastor, we need your help. We need volunteers who will mail letters to pastors, call pastors, visit pastors, attend pastors fellowship meetings, and petition in churches, and we need donors who will provide the necessary funds to pay for the mailings. Will you help us with one or more of these tasks?
We are currently organizing teams of volunteers in counties across FL to contact churches in their county. Will you help us take the message of life to every region, every county, every city, every church, every pastor? Please join us for a conference call/training Tuesday, November 15 from 9 - 10 PM. This call will cover key strategy for ending abortion and protecting all innocent human life. Register to join us on the call here.
St.
Lucie Taxpayers Against Planned Parenthood Funding is recruiting fed-up
local taxpayers. On Thursday September 8, 2011, the group will picket
the Children’s Services Council Taxing Authority (CSC) meeting at 7:30
a.m. The CSC meeting starts at 8:15 am. The CSC has been funding Planned
Parenthood (PP) with local tax dollars for many years including
$500,000 last fiscal year. Altogether, PP, the largest provider of
abortions in the U.S. has benefited from more than $3 million in local
St. Lucie tax dollars. Every year, a portion of St. Lucie residents’
property taxes go to the CSC. The little-known taxing authority can be
located on residents’ property tax bill.
PP contends that tax
dollars are not used directly to fund abortions. However, tax funded
programs include graphic sex education youth programs that do not oppose
abortion. Additionally, PP staff members have salaries subsidized by
taxpayers while they are free to advocate abortion. The abortion giant
already receives more than $300 million nationally in tax dollars.
Similar programs in Martin County were discontinued after taxpayer
watchdogs showed red-faced council members that funded programs could
not be substantiated or were already duplicated by other government
agencies.
This
year PP has come under increasing scrutiny from taxpayers across the
country as they have been widely implicated for assisting teenage girls
in subverting parental notification laws, covering up statutory rape,
accepting donations specifically to abort black babies and covering up
child sex trafficking.
After the picket, organizers from St. Lucie
Taxpayers Against Planned Parenthood Funding are asking taxpayers to go
into the meeting and address the CSC during public forum, and
respectfully asking them to cease funding of PP with tax dollars. Each
member of the public is allowed to speak for several minutes.
Please
consider speaking. It’s easy to speak for 3 minutes – you can read what
you have written to the board members. Learn what to say at: What Would You Say To Someone Who Gives Your Tax Dollars To Planned Parenthood? Also see the Stop Planned Parenthood website http://www.stopp.org/article.php?id=5252 and the Expose PP site, http://exposeplannedparenthood.net/ - Go to “Get the Facts” section.
The
CSC office is located at 546 NW University Blvd, Suite 201, Port St.
Lucie, FL 34986 across from the entrance to Tradition Field. (View a map here.) E-mails opposing the PP funding can be sent to the CSC’s Executive Director, Sean Boyle at sboyle@cscslc.org. STOP Your Local St. Lucie Tax Dollars From Going To Planned Parenthood.
Why We Must End Abortion NOW
Training Our Children to Obey God Where We Have Failed to Do So?
Why We Must End Abortion NOW
Training Our Children to Obey God Where We Have Failed to Do So? No parent wants to admit to their children that they have made mistakes in the past, yet that is exactly what God asks parents in general and fathers in particular in Psalm 78. In the 60s, we saw the rise of the sexual revolution in America, and the promiscuity has gotten progressively worse since that time. It is time that we turn back to God and look at His principles and His precepts. Here in Psalm 78:1-8, we read,
"Give ear, O my people, to my law; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children; That the generation to come might know them, The children who would be born, That they may arise and declare them to their children, That they may set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments; And may not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not set its heart aright, And whose spirit was not faithful to God." (Psalms 78:1-8 NKJV)
Now go back and consider which generation was that God originally instructed to train their children in obedience to the law of God. They were the very generation that refused to go into the promise land, that would not believe the promises of God, that would not believe that God would deliver them, that didn't believe that God was strong enough to give them the land. These were the people God was talking about. They needed to train their children to obey God where they had failed God. And we are definitely living in such a time today where we need parents that are willing to admit that they were wrong. Parents that are willing to look at the precepts God has given us, His instruction book, and to realize that I have failed. I have made mistakes. We need parents who are humble enough to admit that, and to be willing to train our children in obedience to the Lord.
Biblical World View - 2 Timothy 2:15 – “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
Prayer - Nehemiah 1.
The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the citadel, that Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. And they said to me, "The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire." So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven. And I said: "I pray, LORD God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe Your commandments, "please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both my father's house and I have sinned. "We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses. "Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations; 'but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for My name.' "Now these are Your servants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power, and by Your strong hand. "O Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." For I was the king's cupbearer. (Nehemiah 1:1-11 NKJV)
Disciple the Nations - Matthew 28:18-20 – “And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’ Amen.”
Deal Faithfully in regard to Physical Intimacy. - 1 Timothy 5:12 - “[Rebuke] elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.”
Establish Justice - Amos 5:15 – “Hate evil, love good; establish justice in the gate. It may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
Job 31:1 – “I have made a covenant with my eyes; Why then should I look upon a young woman?”
Defend the Poor and Fatherless - Psalm 82:1-4 – “God stands in the congregation of the mighty ... How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked? Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy; free them from the hand of the wicked.”
Rescue Those Staggering to the Slaughter - Proverbs 31:8&9 – “Open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause of all who are appointed to die. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”
Proverbs 24:11-12 “Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, ‘But we knew nothing about this,’ Does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?” (NIV)
A Watchman on the wall - Ezekiel 33:1-11
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them: 'When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their watchman, 'when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people, 'then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head. 'He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will save his life. 'But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.' "So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me. "When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you shall surely die!' and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. "Nevertheless if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul. "Therefore you, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: 'Thus you say, "If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how can we then live?"' "Say to them: 'As I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?' (Ezekiel 33:1-11 NKJV)
Warn that God punishes nations for the sin of child sacrifice - 2 Kings 21:1-16.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a wooden image, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My name." And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger. He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; "and I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers-only if they are careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them." But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel. And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying, "Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations (he has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols), "therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle. 'And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 'So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become victims of plunder to all their enemies, 'because they have done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.'" Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD. (2 Kings 21:1-16 NKJV)
Pastor Bryan Longworth serves as the associate pastor at Covenant Tabernacle in Port St. Lucie, FL, as the director of Personhood FL, a prolife organization working to pass the Florida Personhood Amendment that will end abortion in FL, and as the director of SOHL, Sanctity of Human Life of the Treasure Coast. Longworth is a Wall Builders new Black Robe Regiment Pastor and a Family Research Council Watchmen on the Wall Pastor. Longworth continues to be involved in the pro-life movement and in calling the church and our nation to repentance. The church and America needs revival and reformation like never before. The blood of over 55 million children cries from the ground for vengeance, and God will avenge! God send us a true move of God lest we perish in our iniquity!
Covenant Tabernacle World Outreach Center in Port Saint Lucie Florida is a nondenominational, charismatic reformed church that believes the Pentecostal gifts of the Holy Spirit are available to believers today. We believe God has called us to worship, proclaim His word, and Disciple the nations in obedience to His commandments.
Vibrant Worship
At Covenant Tabernacle, we believe in worshipping God "with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." (Mark 12:30 - NKJV) As a part of our worship, we blow the Shofar as blown in ancient Jewish worship.
Powerful, Bible based Preaching
We believe that the word of God is true (2 Samuel 7:28) and that "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Timothy 3:16-17 NKJV) We encourage all believers to develop a Biblical Worldview that shapes our view on not only our personal life but also our family, friends, loved ones, church, and civil government.
Discipleship
We believe in following Christ's Great Commission to "'go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.' Amen." (Matthew 28:19-20 NKJV) As such, we believe in discipling individuals, families, communities, cities, states, and nations in obedience to God's word.
Sermon, Why We Must End Abortion NOW, Training our Children to Obey God where we have failed to obey Him. ProLife, Pro Life, Pro-Life, preborn, unborn, Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, Abstinence, Revival, Reformation, Great Awakening, Repentance, Restoration. Pastor Bryan Longworth, Covenant Tabernacle Worship Service. Prolife, pro-life, abortion, Repentance, Revival, Reformation, A True Move of God. Join us as we worship the King of King and Lord of Lords and call the church and our city, state, and nation to repent before a holy God. For information about Covenant Tabernacle, Port St. Lucie, visit Covenant Tabernacle's website http://www.CovenantTabernacle.com.
No parent wants to admit to their children that they have made mistakes in the past, yet that is exactly what God asks parents in general and fathers in particular in Psalm 78.The 60s saw the rise of the sexual revolution in America, and the promiscuity has gotten progressively worse since that time. It is time that we turn back to God and look at His principles and His precepts. Here in Psalm 78:1-8, we read,
Sermon, Why We Must End Abortion NOW, Training Our Children to Obey God Where We Have Failed to Do So? Pastor Bryan Longworth, Covenant Tabernacle, Personhood
WHY WE MUST END ABORTION NOW -- I AM MY BROTHER’S KEEPER
Sermon, Why We Must End Abortion NOW, And Who is My Neighbor? Am I my brother's keeper? What responsibilities do I have to my brother? Aside from the obvious responsibility to not harm my brother, I have the responsibility to Deal Faithfully in regard to Physical Intimacy, to Wait Until Marriage and Bring Up Children Only in Marriage, to Defend My Brother from physical danger.
OPENING PASSAGE Psalm 139.
As an image bearer of God, I realize that I am my brother's keeper.
Genesis 1:27 – "God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."
Am I my brother’s keeper? Genesis 4:1-10.
1. I Have a Responsibility to Deal Faithfully in regard to Physical Intimacy.
1 Timothy 5:12 - "[Rebuke] elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity."
Job 31:1 – "I have made a covenant with my eyes; Why then should I look upon a young woman"?
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 – "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God."
2. I Have a Responsibility to Wait Until Marriage and Bring Up Children Only in Marriage
Exodus 22:16-17 - "If a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall surely pay the bride-price for her to be his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the bride-price of virgins."
Malachi 2:15 - "But did He not make them one, Having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth."
3. I have a Responsibility to Defend My Brother.
Deuteronomy 22:23-24 – "If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humbled his neighbor’s wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you."
Deuteronomy 21:6-9 – "And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. Then they shall answer and say, 'Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it. Provide atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel.' And atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood. So you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD."
Proverbs 24:11-12 - "Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, ‘But we knew nothing about this,’ Does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?" (NIV)
Pastor Bryan Longworth serves as the associate pastor at Covenant Tabernacle in Port St. Lucie, FL, as the director of Personhood FL, a prolife organization working to pass the Florida Personhood Amendment that will end abortion in FL, and as the director of SOHL, Sanctity of Human Life of the Treasure Coast. Longworth continues to be involved in the pro-life movement and in calling the church and our nation to repentance. The church and America needs revival and reformation like never before. The blood of over 55 million children cries from the ground for vengeance, and God will avenge! God send us a true move of God lest we perish in our iniquity!
Sermon, Why We Must End Abortion NOW, And Who is My Neighbor? Am I my brother's keeper? What responsibilities do I have to my brother? Aside from the obvious responsibility to not harm my brother, I have the responsibility to Deal Faithfully in regard to Physical Intimacy, to Wait Until Marriage and Bring Up Children Only in Marriage, to Defend My Brother from physical danger. ProLife, Pro Life, Pro-Life, preborn, unborn, Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, Abstinence, Revival, Reformation, Great Awakening, Repentance, Restoration. Pastor Bryan Longworth, Covenant Tabernacle Worship Service. Prolife, pro-life, abortion, Repentance, Revival, Reformation, A True Move of God. Join us as we worship the King of King and Lord of Lords and call the church and our city, state, and nation to repent before a holy God. For information about Covenant Tabernacle, Port St. Lucie, visit Covenant Tabernacle's website http://www.covenanttabernacle.com/.
Covenant Tabernacle World Outreach Center in Port Saint Lucie Florida is a nondenominational, charismatic reformed church that believes the Pentecostal gifts of the Holy Spirit are available to believers today. We believe God has called us to worship, proclaim His word, and Disciple the nations in obedience to His commandments.
O Holy Night was written in 1847 by Placide Cappeau as a Christmas Poem at the request of his parish priest in Paris France. The poem was later put to music by Adolphe Adam. The year the Christmas Carol was written is significant as we shall see when we look at verse three.
1. O holy night, the stars are brightly shining, It is the night of the dear Savior’s birth; Long lay the world in sin and error pining, Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth. A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices, For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn;
Chorus Fall on your knees, Oh hear the angel voices! O night divine, O night when Christ was born! O night, O holy night, O night divine.
Romans 3:10-18
Romans 5:6-8 – “For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Isaiah 9:2-3 – “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined. You have multiplied the nation and increased its joy; they rejoice before You according to the joy of harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.”
Ephesians 2:8-10 – “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
2. Led by the light of faith serenely beaming With glowing hearts by His cradle we stand So led by light of a star sweetly gleaming Here come the wise men from Orient land The King of Kings lay thus in lowly manger In all our trials born to be our friend.
Chorus He knows our need, He guardeth us from danger Behold your King! Before Him lowly bend! Behold your King! Before Him lowly bend!
Isaiah 49:7 -- "...Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel; snd He has chosen You."
Psalm 138:4 – “All the kings of the earth shall praise You, O LORD…”
1 Timothy 6:15 – “…He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords…”
Hebrews 2:17-18 – “Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.”
Psalm 95:6 – “Oh come, let us worship and bow down;Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.”
3. Truly He taught us to love one another His law is love and His gospel is peace Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother, And in His name all oppression shall cease. Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we, Let all within us praise His holy name.
Chorus Christ is the Lord, O praise His name forever! His pow'r and glory evermore proclaim! His pow'r and glory evermore proclaim!
When the Christmas Carol was written slavery was universally practiced. The carol was banned in French Churches but was adopted by the abolitionists in the United States. Today we look back on slavery with disdain. One day we will look back on abortion as we now look back on slavery. No one today would say I wouldn’t personally own a slave but I wouldn’t stop someone else from owning one, yet pro abortion and pro-choice advocates and politicians make this very argument when they say I wouldn’t personally have an abortion but I wouldn’t stop anyone else from having one. When we talk about abortion, we’re talking about killing preborn baby girls and boys and wounding their mothers. We must pray and work until all human life is protected and oppression ceases!
Matthew 22:37-40 – “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Romans 10:15 – “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
Exodus 21 – In Biblical slavery, the slave voluntarily chose to be a slave, personally benefited monetarily from the slavery, and would serve no more than six years, unless he loved his master and voluntarily chose to serve his master for life.
Psalm 98:4 – “Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth; break forth in song, rejoice, and sing praises.”
Luke 2:11 – “For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”
Jude 24-25 – “To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy -- to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.”
Pastor Bryan Longworth serves as the associate pastor at Covenant Tabernacle in Port St. Lucie, FL and the director of Personhood FL, a prolife organization working to pass the Florida Personhood Amendment that will end abortion in FL. Longworth continues to be involved in the pro-life movement and in calling the church and our nation to repentance. The church and America needs revival and reformation like never before. The blood of over 55 million children cries from the ground for vengeance, and God will avenge! God send us a true move of God lest we perish in our iniquity!
The Missionary to the PreBorn - Personhood FL Tour had a tremendous day today. The day started in a Hispanic neighborhood on a street in front of an abortion mill and the Hialeah Senior High School where 3,000 students drove past large signs of born, preborn, and aborted babies. The missionaries were able to distribute 2,000 pieces of literature to students, pedestrians, and stopped cars. Some even signed the Personhood FL constitutional petition right on the street! The missionaries also went into the abortion mill, passed out prolife literature, and urged the women to choose life for their children! The missionaries literally passed out every piece of literature they had prepared!
The next stop was in an African American community located near the North Miami Pregnancy Help Medical Clinic, a prolife pregnancy center that I was able to tour in October with Dr Johnny Hunter and Dr O'Niel Dozier. A representative from the center came out and thanked the missionaries for coming out to stand for life in a neighborhood where Planned Parenthood targets black babies for abortion. The missionaries had reloaded their supply of material and were able to pass out more literature.
The next stop was supposed to be at the 163rd St Mall, but we changed the intersection yesterday. As with the other stops, God's providence prevailed. It so happened that traffic leading to the 163rd St mall was blocked off for blocks in all directions due to a strange bag left at a bank. The missionaries meanwhile were busy holding signs, passing out literature, and meeting friends and foe at another busy intersection in an upscale area of North Miami.
Tomorrow, the Personhood Tour will be in Ft Lauderdale, West Palm, and Port St Lucie. Wednesday, the tour will be in Orlando and Daytona Beach before ending in Jacksonville Thursday. If you live near any of these cities, consider joining us. (Click here for times and inter sec tions in each city.) If not, please join Personhood FL in your city to stop abortion. Let’s make history by ending abortion in Florida!
A few post abortive women have contacted me with concerns over the signs. Please know that the signs do include pictures of born and preborn children as well as aborted babies. We don't mean to condemn anyone. We want post abortive women to know that full confession leads to full forgiveness in Jesus Christ. Jesus loves you, and we love you. The signs are not meant to condemn anyone for past actions. Rather our message is simply: If abortion is so horrible that we can’t stand to look at pictures of the mutilated babies, should we really tolerate it? I say no! It’s time to end abortion and protect women and children from the horrors of abortion.
These are just some of my thoughts on the signs. For a more in depth analysis on this see my blog, or watch my sermon both titled Why We Show Pictures of PreBorn and Aborted Babies.
The Port St Lucie event is part of the Missionary to the PreBrorn Personhood FL Spring Break Tour which has already been to Panama City Beach, Tallahassee, Ocala, Tampa, Sarasota, Ft Myers, Naples and Miami and will cover Ft Lauderdale and West Palm prior to the PSL stop and then continues to Orlando, Daytona Beach, before ending in Jacksonville. The tour features two truth trucks with large signs of born, preborn, and aborted babies along with 45 prolifers with large signs. (Several of the cities on the west coast and central part of FL only had truth trucks due to excessive rain and high winds Thursday and Friday.) Participants will also pass out literature promoting the Personhood FL Constitutional Petition, which when enacted will end abortion in Florida and directly challenge Roe v Wade.
Why are we doing this? To remind post abortive women and men of their sins? No! To expose children to pictures they shouldn’t see? No! We’re doing this for the same reason William Wilberforce brought slave ships by the ships of English nobility. We’re doing this for the same reason that the world saw pictures of Nazi holocaust victims. If abortion is so horrible that we can’t stand to look at pictures of the mutilated babies, should we really tolerate it? You see, without the pictures, we can easily go about our ordinary business and forget that we allow 1,200,000 baby girls and boy per year in the US, 88,000 in Florida, and 1,000 in St Lucie County to be brutally murdered. Without the pictures, it’s easy to forget that we allow the shedding of the blood of more than 52,000,000 preborn children in America while we go to work, school, church, play, etc. Without the pictures, it’s easy to forget that the prosperity that we have enjoyed since abortion became legal has been earned by ignoring the precious children who were fearfully and wonderfully made in the secret places of their mother’s womb yet face the threat of death by abortion. (See Psalm 139.) How long can we expect God to withhold His judgment from America? How many more babies can we possibly kill before our land will vomit us forth as Canaan did to the Canaanites? How many more babies will we allow to be ripped limb from limb before we see “the great and dreadful day of the Lord” (Malachi 4:5) as Israel experienced because Manasseh, “filled Jerusalem from one end to another” with innocent blood. (2 Kings 2:16.)
For post abortive women and men, we have one message: full confession leads to full forgiveness and healing that can only come through Jesus Christ. And the children who see these pictures see clearly what should be done: stop the killing! Our message is clear: It’s time for abortion to end! We’ve waited 37 for incremental legislative approaches to stop abortion. 52,000,000 babies later, we realize that they have failed! True, we have made progress, but the killing continues. We’re here to say: Abortion will end in America, and we’re going to make history by ending abortion in Florida and protecting every innocent human life! Will you join us on the streets?
Matthew 10:26 – “Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.”
Matthew 5:14 – “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.” Ephesians 5:11-12 – “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.”
Join me in shining the light of Jesus Christ to expose sin, offer forgiveness to post-abortive women and men, and to protect innocent human life.
I invite you to listen to and watch my sermon, Why Do We Show Pictures of PreBorn and Aborted Babies? Afterward, listen to and watch other sermons that apply God's word says about Sin, Obeying God, the divinity of Jesus Christ, abortion, pro-life, taxes, homosexuality, homosexual marriage, government, mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, parents, reading, studying, and meditating on the Bible, prayer, and more.
Hello. I'm Pastor Bryan Longworth. I grew up in a Christian home in South Florida. At the age of 6, I accepted Christ as Savior. Growing up in a Christian home, I have always been pro-life, but like many, never did anything to save mothers and their preborn children from the horrors of abortion. That changed when Randall Terry founded Operation Rescue. In 1989, I participated in several rescues in New York, South Florida, and Washington D.C. I also co-founded Youth for America, a youth rescue group. In February, 1990, I became a full time missionary to the preborn. In December 1994, I answered the call of God on my life to preach the gospel. I continue to be involved in the pro-life movement and in calling the church and our nation to repentance. We need revival and reformation like never before. The blood of over 50 million children cries from the ground for vengeance, and God will avenge! God send us a true move of God lest we perish in our iniquity!
I have a dream that one day all innocent human life will be protected by love and by law in Florida. For this to happen, we need your help to make the case for life in every region, every county, every city, and every church. Indeed, we need every pastor in the state of Florida to present the prolife personhood petition to their church.
