The news is full of horrid stories, but this story should've come with a warning. This crime is so awful that most courts would probably at least welcome life in prison, if not the death penalty.

The story read something like this:

A 46 year old man performed an abortion on a 19 year old girl. This wasn’t a doctor who was emotional detached from his patient; this was a father performing an abortion on his daughter with a box cutter.

The father didn't welcome his daughter's pregnancy, especially since she was carrying his child. He probably did the abortion himself because going to a clinic would've raised too many questions.

The father was probably happy that his operation was successful, until he realized that he couldn’t stop his daughter's bleeding. As a result the daughter lost too much blood and died.

Rape. Incest. Abortion. Murder x 2
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This story echoed in my mind, the sheer horror was hard to shake. Several hours later when I picked up my Bible and began reading Romans 5, it was still fresh.

Romans 5 says that Christ died for the ungodly. Did you catch that? Christ died for the ungodly, not the good but the ungodly. In fact Christ died for the ungodly even when the ungodly were in the midst of their sin. God demonstrated His love for a bunch of sinners by giving Christ's life in their place.

After reading that I put the Bible down and let my mind start chewing on that passage. I was really taken back by the fact that Christ died for the sinner while the sinner was still sinning. The sinners didn’t have to be cleaned up first to make them worthy of God's love or Christ's death.

It’s no surprise that while I was thinking about this passage my mind wandered back to the murder scene described in the news. Surely the father would be one man that wasn’t worthy of God's love and certainly not worthy of Christ's death.

I reread that passage looking for a loophole; I was kind of hoping that there would be a clause that wouldn’t allow a man like that to benefit from Christ's death. But I reread it and it was all inclusive. Christ died for all ungodly. No one was excluded.

I'm sure that you can make the connection. God loved the ungodly enough that He sent Christ to die in their place. So that means that God loved this murdering man enough to have Christ died for him.
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Now I've had a couple days to think about this, you on the other hand just had all this dumped on you. Take some time to think about this story and read Romans 5:6-12. Am I right, does this man qualify for God's love and Christ's death? If it's true, what does it mean to you?