Godly People Love Human Life
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Good Morning, its good to see everyone this morning, let me begin y saying how grateful I am to everyone who reached out to me and extended their condolences for my family with the loss of my grandmother.
It has been a rough week but also a joyful week as we have spent time remembering her. I was able to be by her side and that meant a great deal to me, so thank you for caring enough to send a text or even call.
On a lighter note I recieved a message this week about how I messed up last week in my sermon. This lady messaged me and told me I messed up on the sermon last week, and I said why is that? She told me that I lied to her daughter I said how did I lie to your daughter?
She said when they got home she asked their daughter to clean their room and the daughter said you heard that preacher he said the most important thing was to love God a clean house doesnt matter.
LOL
I’d like to refine that, you show God you love Him by obeying Him and He said honor your mamma and daddy so you better clean up lol.
Lets get started turn in your Bibles with me this morning to and in just a moment we will read at verse 13.
46 years ago in 1973 the Supreme court of the United States ruled in Roe verses Wade that a woman has the right to abort her unborn child. Since that day, around 40 million unborn babies have been killed via legal abortion. Over 2,000 unborn babies are killed everyday by abortion in america.
Does the Bible have anything to say as it pertains to abortion? The answer is yes. Now listen I know there are children in the room this is a difficult sunbject I am not going to be overly graphic so dont fear that.
But were in a series of messages called the church needs Godly people. Were talking based on a text out of where the Psalmist cried out
Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases!
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
the Billy Grahams seem to be gone, the Godly men and women seem to be dying off. The faithful seem to be dissapearing in America, so what do we need to do? We need to replace those people by becoming Godly people.
What are Godly people like?
Well you can give alot of different answers to that, but Godly people love God and godly people love to pray, this morning GODLY PEOPLE LOVE HUMAN LIFE.
Psalm 139:13-
For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your 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.
Let’s just walk through this and have a little talk. The first thing I would like to say to you about Godly people loving human life is this
God created the Universe and the Earth.
God created the Universe and the Earth.
We believe the Bible, we believe every word of the Bible. We believe the very first verse of the Bible.
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
How many of you believe that?
We believe that the one and only Soverign God the god and Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ created everything and even the universe. We believe God spoke and everything came into existence. We believe that God created everything from absolutely nothing.
I heard one preacher say:
“He took nothing, made it everything, hung it onto nothing and told it to stay there”
We do not believe that the universe is the result of big bang, unless you believe like I do that God spoke and bang it happened. Instead we believe the Bible that god created the universe from atoms to solar systems. The Bible clearly states throughout the word of God that God created everything. We read in
Nehemiah 9
You alone are the Lord;
You have made heaven,
The heaven of heavens, with all their host,
The earth and everything on it,
The seas and all that is in them,
And You preserve them all.
The host of heaven worships You.
The prophet Isaiah said this:
Thus says God the Lord,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
Who gives breath to the people on it,
And spirit to those who walk on it:
When the apostle Paul was preaching to the most intelligent men of his day in Athens Greece, there on Mars Hill at a place called the Areopegus there he said these words
God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.
and then the writer of Hebrews said this:
By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
This is the foundation for believing in the sanctity of human life. God created the universe and the Earth. The second thing I want to point out this morning is not only that god created the Heavens and the Earth.
God Created Life
God Created Life
After God created the universe god created life. Life did not mysteriously evolve from no life. Organic life did not mysteriously evolve from inorganic life. This is the biggest stretch that anyone can believe.
To believe that there was this mass of goo and then out of that became organic life. They tell us that we have to have faith, how can a living cell come from a rock?
I’ve looked at the suggestions and they are not something you wanna put your faith in. Its always “well its over billions of years” Thats all wrong. god is the author of all life.
Let me give you an illustration of evolution.
What would you say if I told you that AMy and I were out walking anf we came up on a vacant lot covered with building materials. Wood and brick all stacked in bundles as someone prepared to build a house, and then as we were walking there was a massive explosion and when we looked back the house was built and ready to live in?
You’d think I was nuts wouldn’t you?
Yet this is what Evolutionists believe.
First He created plant life
Genesis 1:11-12
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the third day.
First came plant life then came animal life.
Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:20-22
Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 1:20-
Animal life and human life are different, mankind did not evolve from lower forms of animal life. Man is not a species of animal. Animals are inferior to mankind.
Life did not randomly happen by chance, no life has one author Almighty God. All life comes from God all life is found in God. God created life.
God Created Human Life.
God Created Human Life.
While all life is significant not all life is equally significant. human life is more important than all plant life and all animal life. The apex of life is Human life. We were made in the image and likeness of God and animals were not.
In we see the first 6 days of creation but in chapter 2 we see something else, We see God focusing on the 6th day of creation. On day 6 God created the first man and the first woman.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”
So God created man in His own image;
He created him in the image of God;
He created them male and female.
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.” God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This food will be for you, for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth—everything having the breath of life in it. I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.
Genesis 1:26-
Notice He created us in His image, notice He created us male and female. He made males to be males and females to be females. He did not create males to be females, He did not create females to be males.
Gender is determined at conception not by human choice.
shows us the 6 days of creation but chapter 2 zooms in on Gods most precious creation of all. Mankind.
Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there He placed the man He had formed.
The first man Adam did not evolve from a monkey, or a lower form of life. Instead He was created by God from the dust of the ground. God breathed the breath of life into Adam.
Adam the first man became a living soul. Notice Adam was not a body with a soul, Adam was a soul with a body. God puts the emphasis on the spiritual not the physical. No wonder Jesus would say in
For what can a man give in return for his soul?
Then after He had made the first man god made the first woman
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.” So the Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man no helper was found as his complement. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place. Then the Lord God made the rib He had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. And the man said:
This one, at last, is bone of my bone
and flesh of my flesh;
this one will be called “woman,”
for she was taken from man.
Genesis 2:18-
Then one of the most important verses in all of the Bible concerning marriage.
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Both the man and his wife were naked, yet felt no shame.
This clears up all the confusion that we have in the 21st century concerning same sex attraction and marriage. It shows that Gods intentions for sexuality in marriage.
SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER
NOT MOTHER AND MOTHER NOT FATHER AND FATHER
and shall cleve to HIs wife, and they shall become one flesh.
So there are some people who said Jesus never spoke about homosexuality, oh yes He did. He quoted when He was talking in
“Haven’t you read,” He replied, “that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female,” and He also said:
“For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh?
Matthew 19:4-
Jesus spoke against homosexual marriage when He spoke in favor of traditional marriage between one man and one woman. Homosexual marriage Biblically speaking is a contradiciton of terms.
Gods who created marriage in the first place, decided that marriage was only to be between one man and one woman PERIOD END OF STORY.
No polygomy, no twisted form that people call marriage today but heterosexual marriage.
This is reiterated
These are the family records of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God; He created them male and female. When they were created, He blessed them and called them man.
Genesis 5:1-
God created man and woman.
Human Life is Special
Human Life is Special
Evolution teaches that humans are various species of animals that have evolved over time. Many if not most evolutionist teach that all animals are equally significant including humans.
The Bible does not affirm that in fact the Bible says otherwise, He says that mankind is to rule over all the animals. That mankind is not a type of animal.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”
god created men over any kind of animal life.
Look at the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?
Youve never seen a sparrow sitting on a John deer tractor. They dont plant they dont harvest or store food in barns.
ARENT YOU FAR MORE VALUABLE TO HI THAN THEY ARe?
YOU ARE MORE VALUABLE THAN ANIMALS
Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father’s consent.
But even the hairs of your head have all been counted. So don’t be afraid therefore; you are worth more than many sparrows.
But He said to them, “What man among you, if he had a sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, wouldn’t take hold of it and lift it out? A man is worth far more than a sheep, so it is lawful to do what is good on the Sabbath.”
Folks human lives even unborn human lives are more important than animal life. ITs amazing to me that it is illegal to destor the egg of a bald eagle but it is legal to kill an unborn human being.
MAy God help us, human life is special.
God Creates Human Life in the Womb.
God Creates Human Life in the Womb.
God creates life in the womb
Human life begins supernaturally
If you go back to
For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
Psalm 139:13
As I have held each of my 4 children and we have looked at their little perfectly chiseled bodies, their fingers and their noses, their eyes. No one can convince me, that that is not the result of a supernatural God.
That is not billions of years of evolution, I was not holding an accident, I was holding a beautiful work of art. A supernaturally work of art.
YOU FORMED ME, YOU WOVE ME
I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE
He is trying to show with every word He knows that when babies are in the womb God is at work forming them, molding them shaping them.
Human life does not only begin supernaturally
Human life begins in secret
My bones were not hidden from You
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.
Psalm 139:15
You know if every day 2,000 children are aborted in America, and nothing is done about it. But you know if 2,000 children were taken to the golden gate bridge and they were thrown off that bridge to die, it wouldnt take long for their to be an all out war to stop that.
I submit to you that something just like that has been taking place for 46 years in America everyday. Over 2,000 being slaughterd and because its in secret theres no fuss.
God help us.
Human life begins in secret
- Human life is sacred
Your eyes saw me when I was formless;
all my days were written in Your book and planned
before a single one of them began.
Every single day of your life has been planned, in God mind. IN our mind there is a choice to it. How do you make sense of that I cant because I am not God, all I can tell you is they are good friends and I leave them alone.
God knows everything from the beginning, God created all things from the beginning God formed our days even before we had had one day on Earth.
so God creates life in the womb
supernaturally
sacredly
secretly
Life begins at conception
Life begins at conception
If you ask someone today when does life begin they will hem and haw noone knows, I beg to differ God knows. THe Bible continually says that life begins at conception.
David had committed adultery with Bathsheba and had her husband killed. God sent the prophet Nathan to say “your the man that did it” David repented and His confession of repentance is what we read in
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.
Psalm 51
I recieved a sinful nature the moment I was conceived. Look at me only a human being can receive a sinful human nature. The OT prophet Isaiah said God was calling Him to be a prophet while He was still in his mothers womb.
Coastlands, listen to me;
distant peoples, pay attention.
The Lord called me before I was born.
He named me while I was in my mother’s womb.
Isaiah 49:5
And now, says the Lord,
who formed me from the womb to be His Servant,
to bring Jacob back to Him
so that Israel might be gathered to Him;
for I am honored in the sight of the Lord,
and my God is my strength—
I chose you before I formed you in the womb;
I set you apart before you were born.
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.
Same thing with JTB the last of the great OT prophets the greatest of the prophets.
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord
and will never drink wine or beer.
He will be filled with the Holy Spirit
while still in his mother’s womb.
God does not fill an it with the Holy Spirit He fills a person with the Holy Spirit.
How many times have you seen people call out to god in the Bible to give them a son or daughter, how many times when God judged a nation did He shut their wombs and not allow them to have any more children for a time?
Do you not see that God is over the womb?
Abortion is wrong. Even Tertullian back in the 1 century was arguing with the Romans that this was wrong. The womb is sacred. He was quoted as saying this.
He said I want every woman in this room who has had a baby, or who is carrying a baby right now to stand up and the mothers stood up, and He said I challenge one of you to tell me that what youve carried in your womb for 9 months was not a human being and not 1 of the hundreds of ladies could do it.
He won the debate.
Why?
Because He knew that Gods word teaches Life begins at conception. Now for the dark side of the sermon.
THE DEVIL HATES CHILDREN
You can see it when Pharoah had the Israelite children killed
Pharaoh then commanded all his people: “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”
Canaanites sacrificed children to their pagan gods. One of those pagan gods was called Molech in the valley of hinnom. which literally means, garbage dump. In Jerusalem there is a valley called the valley of hinnom which is literally where they would throw there trash away, the entire city, it was the grabage dump.
When Jesus described Hell he used a word that was a compound word He called it Gehenna which means that Hell is the garbage dump for lost souls, and in Gehenna the reason they had made it the garbage dump is because thats where they believed Molech was and they called out to him and beat the drums so loud, and they would heat up these statues and then sacrifice the babies to the false god molech, and they would beat the drums so loud that nobody could here the babies crying.
Do you know what God says about that?
And you shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
Later on there was baal a fertility god, same thing. Jeremiah said three times
“Because they have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocents
They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, something I have never commanded or mentioned; I never entertained the thought.
Romans when they wanted to discard an unwanted baby they gave the mother a drink to poison it.
King Herod
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the male children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.
Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:
A voice was heard in Ramah,
weeping, and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
and she refused to be consoled,
because they were no more.
Matthew 2:
Hitler and the Nazis
America
How can we be called a Christian nation when we allow this to happen? May our nation repent!
God Loves Children
God Loves Children
The world sees them as a burden God sees them as a blessing.
Behold, children are a gift of the Lord,
The fruit of the womb is a reward.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one’s youth.
Jesus, however, invited them: “Let the little children come to Me, and don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Do you understand what you have been given when you are given a child? What a precious gift?
So what can we do?
Ive thought and prayed alot about this:
We can pray
(for the poor young mother who has made a poor decision, and now is faced with a decision of whether to keep the baby or abort)
Pray that God would shut down abortion clinics and that the doctors would see the blood that is on their hands and be so convicted they would be unable to continue
Pray for politicians to see how this is wrong
We can start a ministry to young mothers here who need help and support so that they would not believe they are alone. we could provide care for them, we could be a resource right here in our community to help steer these young girls away from this decision.
We can join pro-life groups
We can write elected officials
We can vote, I never tell you to vote democrat or republican or independant. I never will but I will tell you this if you are a Christian NEVER vote for anyone who is prochoice. which actually means pro-abortion.
WE CAN ADOPT!
Deliver those who are being taken away to death,
And those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back.
If you say, “Surely we did not know this,”
Does not He who weighs the hearts consider it?
He who keeps your soul, does He not know it?
And will He not render to each man according to his deeds?
They tell us that years ago in Nazi Germany when the trains full of innocent people who were being carried away to a death sentence. As they would ride by the Christian churches, the Jews on those trains being carried away to death camps would yell out the windows HELP US HELP US THERE GOING TO KILL US!
The german Christian pastors would say to their congregations: SING A LITTLE LOUDER AND WE WILL DROWN OUT THEIR VOICES
Some of you might wanna sing a little louder and ignore this but this is not going away. This is the number one sin in America and God is not going to give us a whole lot longer.
CHOOSE LIFE
“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,
Deuteronomy
(Lets Pray)