Lessons From Jeremiah – Part 2 – Is Abortion Solely The Mother’s Choice? Series

LESSONS FROM JEREMIAH – PART 2 – IS ABORTION SOLELY THE MOTHER’S CHOICE?

PART 2 – Jeremiah 1:4-8

CHAPTER 1

{{Jeremiah 1:4-5 Now the word of the LORD came to me saying, “BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE WOMB I KNEW YOU, and before you were born I consecrated you. I have appointed you a PROPHET TO THE NATIONS.”}}

[A]. KNOWN BEFORE CONCEPTION

Is this fact or fantasy? The general idea of the world is that it is fantasy, for it is considered that the “thing” that is conceived has no connection at all with reality until born, especially in the first few months of pregnancy. That is why abortionists are so militant about termination because it is not considered that a conceived piece of matter in the uterus has any identity or form. In fact some think there is no need to call a foetus a human being until born. One argument from abortionists is that the foetus is legally human after birth and not before. The unborn child has no rights. It can’t speak out for itself. Governments give the unborn no dignified rights and therefore they are expendable.

In Psalm 31 when David said, “My times are in Your hands,” ({{Psalm 31:15 My times are in Your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.”}} ), he was more speaking of his immediate circumstances when he was being hunted like a wild animal by Saul and his enemies, but he know God was faithful to him. However David knew it went way beyond that for he also wrote this – {{Psalm 139:7-12 WHERE CAN I GO FROM YOUR SPIRIT OR WHERE CAN I FLEE FROM YOUR PRESENCE? If I ascend to heaven, You are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the dawn; If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, even there Your hand will lead me and Your right hand will lay hold of me. If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me and the light around me will be night,” even the darkness is not dark to You and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.}} Those verses teach that God’s presence is always with His own children. His Holy Spirit is with us in every circumstance and in every place. God’s presence in a special way has to be with the unborn child of God; indeed, every child, and God means that in what He told Jeremiah.

Because God is always with us, then it is also true that we were known to God even BEFORE conception. That is quite a revolutionary thought. Consider what David wrote here. {{Psalm 139:13-16 “You formed my inward parts. YOU WOVE ME IN MY MOTHER’S WOMB. I will give thanks to You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Your works and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. YOUR EYES HAVE SEEN MY UNFORMED SUBSTANCE and in Your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.}}

Each one of us who are Christians, was known and consecrated to God BEFORE conception. God knew you before conception and right through to the present. In my simple way of thinking, this leaves no room for abortion. Terms are used like “aborting the foetus”, “a termination”, “a termination of pregnancy” “the choice of the mother alone”, but never a term like “killing the early human being”. I asked a question at the start of this about abortion solely being the mother’s choice. The answer to that is that it is not the mother’s choice. It is no one’s choice except in exceptional medical circumstances, because abortion is not of God in any way. It belongs to the Molech thinking and their abortion clinics. No decision must be made because abortion is the murder of the defenceless unborn.

God is so clear on the matter that he has placed His involvement in conception many times in the bible, and very specifically in the cases of David and Jeremiah. You will note in verses 4 and 5 that God uses the pronoun “I” 4 times. He is closely involved. There is no way a Christian could ever support the principle or practice of abortion. It is NOT Christian and neither are you if you support abortion. In a passage in Job – {{Job 31:13-15 “If I have despised the claim of my male or female slaves when they filed a complaint against me, What then could I do when God arises, and when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him? “Did not HE WHO MADE ME IN THE WOMB make him, and THE SAME ONE FASHION US IN THE WOMB?”}} – we have the reminder that the work in the womb is God’s work. The created life in the womb is all of God, and therefore not of man to destroy, for in doing so, man shall be accountable.