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B I G Numbers - Little Ones - Sanctity Of Life Sunday
Contributed by Jerry Shirley on Jan 19, 2006 (message contributor)
Summary: Staggering numbers of dead in natural disasters, but here’s another: 50 MILLION! That’s a really big number, and they are ALL little ones! Link included to formatted text, handout, and PowerPoint.
Big Numbers - Little Ones
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It has now been 40 years since Roe v. Wade. That’s a big number. We hear big numbers of dead like all those children in Connecticut, or Hurricane Sandy, or staggering events like 9/11, the 2004 tsunami, or the earthquake in Haiti a couple of years ago. 200,000 dead sounds like a lot and it is a lot. These are big numbers, and most of them are little ones, and God loves them and should we.
But here’s another number: 50 million. That’s approximately how many have died in America in the holocaust of the ages since 1973 when the Supreme Court made the decision to make abortion legal, placing our official stamp of approval as a nation upon the death of the innocent. That’s a really big number, and they are ALL little ones!
And just as surely as those precious little ones over the last 40 years awoke in heaven with Jesus, may the babies yet to come this year and in future years awake to the life here on earth God intended for them from the beginning of their life, which He placed in them at their conception! And much like Jesus led captivity captive and on the 3rd day burst out of the belly of the Earth, let us once again make a mother’s belly be a safe place where life thrives, and where temporary captivity gives way to a glorious appearing of another of God’s miracles!
This is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. I’m here to say that Haitian life is of immeasurable value to God, and should be to us as well. But as great as that tragedy is, the greatest one is right under our noses in our homeland, and is approved by the law of the land.
We need to pray. Our prayers are more powerful than politicians and judges. Just look at what happened in Massachusetts this week and tell me how that could happen apart from prayer! This present health bill if passed would kill more babies than ever before...so it must die as well!
O Lord we pray that this year the grave would be swallowed up in victory, and death would lose its sting!
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
We’re talking about babies w/ souls since the moment of conception…but more than that, babies who have developed physically, w/ beating hearts, digesting stomachs, open eyes, hearing ears…babies which since the advent of ultrasounds have been seen recoiling in pain, desperately trying to escape their killers! And if the way that the coroner determines a person is completely dead is by the absence of brain waves, shouldn’t the presence of brain waves prove life!?
In the news Thursday...
A Massachusetts woman charged in the deaths of her 9-year-old daughter and unborn son has been arraigned on murder and manslaughter charges. Authorities say Fang Chi-Xue of Quincy fatally stabbed her 9-year-old daughter in April and stabbed herself in the abdomen, killing her unborn baby.
Really? A murder charge for the child AND the "fetus"? Why should she be tried and not all the others who kill their babies?
…we are supposed to speak out, raise our voices, to protect the innocent!
Prov. 31:8-9
8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
The Bible says that God hates the shedding of innocent blood…
Abel’s blood cried out to God when Cain killed him.
Rev. says the blood of the Christian martyrs cries out to God, “How long, O Lord, before you return and take vengeance.”
The victim in an abortion ranks as the most innocent victim ever sentenced to death. Who will cry out for them?
If I approached you, put my hands on your neck and began to push w/ all my might on your throat, at least you could try to get away, at least you could try to cry out…who will cry out for the unborn?
The pro-abortion crowd yells and screams about freedom of choice. It’s my body…
Put it down in big letters: WHAT ABOUT THE BABY’S BODY?
I imagine an aborted baby in heaven asking God, how could she do that? After all, it MY BODY!
While you work tomorrow, 4,000 more innocent people will be submitted to capital punishment, although they will have no trial before they are executed. They have no attorney, and will not be granted the basic rights of even a prisoner of war. Not only will they not be treated humanely, not only will they not be afforded the basic anesthetics used by every veterinarian in the world, but they will die a torturous death, ripped apart by forceps and injected with toxins. 4,000 per day...that’s a big number, and they are all little ones!
