Children in India (discrimination, sexual exploitation, child labor, etc...

The "Issue":


Children in India are being discriminated against, abused, sexually exploited, and forced into Marriage.
Statistics show that 40% percent of women enter into prostitution before the age of 18.

Who's to blame?

• Parents aren't being responsible. Having more children than can care for. selling own children?
• The government of India does not protect its children, if there is still child labor, and sex trafficking?
  
• Indirectly, the US is promoting child labor by purchasing from any companies that may be employing and abusing children?
• The wrong doers, are the people not getting involved? Proverbs 3:27 "Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it is in your power to act."
• The Enemy!
  

John 3:19 "This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil."

Conclusion:
We came to the conclusion Thursday, that the #1 cause of this issue is the darkness. Anywhere that the gospel is rarely ever seen, anywhere there is darkness, anywhere there aren't Christians who understand that Christ is the answer, there will be corruption and sin.


What does this mean for Us?

The best most of us can do is pray.

• Pray that the gospel makes it to the dark places of the world.
• Pray for the children left broken and fatherless.
• Pray for the widows and the orphans James 1:27 "...visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and keep oneself unspotted from the world."
  
• Pray for the Corrupt and Lost Rulers.
• Pray for the men and women on the battlefield.

We need to raise awareness!
We must remember that the early church was not a stagnant one!
The early church was a moving and outreaching one!
Deployment was their focus. And Christ known was their message!

Scripture that relates:

Psalm 127 (children)
"...sons are a heritage from the Lord, Children a reward from him. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man who's quiver is full of them..."

Jeremiah 22:3 (doing Justice)
"Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppresor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place."

Romans 12:15 (Caring about the Oppressed)
"Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.

Isaiah 1:17 (Doing Justice)
Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Mathew 18:2-5 (Children)
"He called a little child and had him stand among them...who ever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven...But if any one causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."