Introduction
The messages that we have been addressing from the book of Revelation concerning “End Times Prophecy” I will be focusing on a current topic, yet still staying on the current.
This is “Sanctity of Life Sunday” and in the light of the events in Washington D. C. on January 17, 2013 which pushed the efforts to allow women who have had abortions to speak out has hit a brick wall.
The message this morning “Number One Killer in the US” is just one more sign that we are living in the End Times.
Our society’s truth about abortion is continuing to be silenced. The latest statistics show that one I three women in the U. S. will have an abortion in her lifetime.
Abortion has become a fact of life. Only 29% of Americans believe that Roe vs. Wade should be overturned.
There is a big push to have gun control and remove this right from the American people, because of the safety of our children.
However there is a far greater danger to our children than guns because abortion and it is the number one killer in the United States:
Here are some statistics from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 2011:
• Murder by firearms: 10,828
• Drug Abuse 25,500
• Suicide: 29,350
• Auto Accidents: 32,367
• AIDS: 54,000
• Pneumonia/Flu: 63,729
• Medical Errors 195,000
• Tobacco 529,000
• Cancer: 571,950
• Heart Disease: 734,000
• Abortion: 1,212,400
It is perhaps most widely debated issue in our society today.
On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 7-2 decision in Roe vs. Wade that legalized abortion.
Since the Roe vs. Wade decision 1973 to 2011 54,559,625 babies have been aborted.
But what does God say about this?
Read Exodus 20:13 "You shall not murder.
The Bible tells us that in End Times, peoples’ hearts will wax cold.
Doctors before they begin practice say the Hippocratic Oath, a solemn promise made by physicians upon entering their profession.
What do the doctors say about abortion?
Listen to this: "I will give no deadly drug to any, though it is asked of me, nor will I counsel such, and especially I will not aid a woman to procure abortion."
Do you know where that statement came from?
It comes from Hippocrates the Greek physician who lived 400 years before Christ. World Magazine, p.30 1/22/2000
Pro-abortionists demand that abortion is a right and a woman should have enough control over her own body.
She should be allowed to choose whether to have or not to have an abortion.
In a society so seemingly concerned with individual rights, that would appear to be a valid statement.
After all, we spend millions of dollars each year to protect the rights of animals.
There are even laws that protect the eggs of some animals placed on the endangered species list, but there are no laws to protect the rights of the unborn child.
Some have suggested the Bible does not specifically address the matter of “Sanctity of Life” or the abortion issue.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Bible is overflowing in its teaching regarding the “Sanctity of Life” and the obvious conclusion is that the reckless destruction of life at any stage, either born or unborn, is a grave ill.
“Thou shalt not kill” surely applies to the unborn baby as well at to the developing child or mature adult.
Since the Roe vs. Wade decision over 54 million babies have been slain in what should be the most protected place on earth-the mother’s womb.
The Word of God addresses this and tells us that in the End Times people will be blinded to the truth.
So if you would please join me as we stand and read from God’s Written Word. Turn with me to Revelation 3:15-17
Scripture
15I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: Revelation 3:15-17 (KJV)
Prayer
1. The Lord’s Description Of This Time We Live In
According to verse 17, they thought they had it all. He looks at them and tells them they have nothing!
They were proud of their achievements. Jesus calls them “wretched”, which means “troubled”; and “miserable”, which means “to be pitied”.
They were proud of their wealth. Jesus tells them they are actually “poor”. This word means, “destitute and reduced to begging.”
They were proud of their vision of themselves. Jesus tells them that they are “blind”. They cannot see themselves as they really are.
Someone said, “There is no one so blind as he who will not see.”
They were proud of their fashions and fine clothing. Jesus tells them that they are “naked”.
They are totally exposed and revealed for what they really are.
Blind and naked is our society today, therefore they have no respect for life.
They do not know the truth because the truth is not in them.
They have been taught that they come from nothing to the ewooa and guee, to the zoo, to you.
They do not realize that, the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7 (KJV)
2. When does Life Begin?
The fact is that human life began with Adam when God shaped man in His own image and breathed into him the breath of life.
This life is transmitted from generation to generation in an unbroken chain that links
Since Adam and Eve every child that has ever been conceived, it was in the mother’s womb.
According to God, life begins at conception.
Because God says in; Jeremiah 1:5a "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you;”
Actually according to God, life begins before conception!
3. Is the Unborn Child a Person?
Look at what Psalm 139: 13-16 says; “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb.
14I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
15My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.”
Notice how often the psalmist refers to himself in his unborn condition with the personal pronoun “me” or “I”.
In this short passage, the psalmist uses the personal pronoun ten times.
Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the psalmist openly declares his personhood.
Even while yet in his mother’s womb and affirmed the sanctity of life of the unborn.
These passages plainly indicate that in the mother’s womb God creates a new individual even as He created Adam in the beginning.
Consider the marvelous occasion when Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth, several months pregnant with John the Baptist.
When the good news of the Messiah’s coming was declared, the Bible says: “The babe leaped in her womb...” Luke 1:41, 44.
Luke further declares that John was “filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb” Luke 1:15.
The Holy Ghost only fills people, not tissue or cells.
The Greek word for baby is (âñåöïò) brephos.
It is the same word used here in this passage for the unborn baby in Elizabeth’s womb.
The Thayer Greek Lexicon defines brephos as “embryo, fetus, newborn child, young child or nursing child.”
In the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision of 1973, the US Supreme Court concluded that the unborn child was not really human nor a person therefore was not protected by the right to life assured “persons” by the US Constitution.
The Supreme Court concluded that the unborn fetus was merely a part of the mother’s body, not a separate human individual. (This is suggestive of the Dred Scott decision in which the Supreme Court concluded the black slaves were not really persons and therefore had no rights under the constitution.)
Obviously, this reasoning flies in the face of the plain biblical teaching of the humanity and personhood of the unborn child.
It is interesting to note that most often, when someone is planning to terminate the life of the unborn, and destroy this miracle of God’s creation, they refer to the unborn as the “fetus” or the “embryo.”
By contrast, when they plan to keep the child and cherish it, it is always known as “my baby” or “my child.”
Did you ever hear anyone say, “I’m going to have a little fetus?”
Did you ever hear an abortionist say, “We’re going to kill the little baby?”
Our respect for the unborn seems to be strangely affected by the circumstances and twisted and misused words to explain away the real truth.
7. What can Christians Do?
What should a Christian do to curb this wholesale slaughter of the innocent unborn?
1. The Christian should preach, teach, and proclaim the
sacredness and sanctity of all human life, both born and
unborn.
2. Support the efforts of those seeking a constitutional
amendment to prohibit abortion.
3. Counsel with Godly compassion to the unwed mother. Help
her to see that “adoption, not abortion” is a better
alternative.
4. Minister with compassion to those who have participated
in an abortion pointing them to the grace and forgiveness
of a loving God and a Savior who is ready to receive with
forgiveness a repentant sinner.
5. Align yourself up with God’s Word and not the Worlds.
Pray for a lost and dying world, that the truth may be revealed to them.
Conclusion/ Invitation
Let us pray earnestly and anxiously for God’s direction as we seek to affect in every way we can the serious issue of abortion on demand and to preserve the sanctity of life for all persons.
Let us all search our hearts and see if there be any thought or idea which does not align up with the Word of God.
We all need to turn to God for our redemption drawth nigh.
Let us pray earnestly and anxiously for God’s direction as we seek to affect in every way we can the serious issue of abortion on demand and to preserve the sanctity of life for all persons.
