The Sanctity of Life

The New King James Version Psalm 139

For You formed my inward parts;

You covered me in my mother’s womb.

14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Marvelous are Your works,

And that my soul knows very well.

15 My frame was not hidden from You,

When I was made in secret,

And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

16 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.

The New King James Version Chapter 20

13 “You shall not murder.

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Talk about Tebow

During a speech at the March for Life on Friday, Tebow shared the deeply personal account of his mother's decision to refuse to abort him, despite the significant health risks associated with the pregnancy. After struggling to conceive, Tebow said his mother was told her son was a "tumor" that needed to be removed.

"All the doctors said, 'You need to have an abortion. You need to get rid of him. You need to get rid of him,'" Tebow said. "But she decided that she was gonna trust God [and keep the baby], even when the doctors said it could, it might cost her her life."

Tebow described having survived despite difficult circumstances. His mother's placenta was not attached at the time of his birth, limiting the nourishment Tebow could receive from his mother. The doctor who delivered him described Tebow's survival as "the greatest miracle [he had] ever seen," Tebow said.

"I’m so grateful my mom gave me a chance at life," Tebow concluded.

God’s Word is clear: “you shall not murder”

The world will agree with this, until we get to the matter of abortion. The arguement: A fetus is not a human life.

Fetus Etymology. The word fetus (plural fetuses or feti) is related to the Latin fētus ("offspring", "bringing forth", "hatching of young")

So, what you’re really saying when you say that a fetus is not a human life, is that a baby human isn’t a human. Because it’s a baby.

What does God’s Word say?

The world doesn’t define truth, God does.

Mankind, along will all creation, was formed by God.

Not just us as individuals, but all of mankind.

The New King James Version Chapter 2

And 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 being.

The word formed here in the Hebrew means to form, fashion, create. It’s not a random throwing together of something. It’s not describing an evolutionary process. God intentionally and creatively formed Adam in His own image.

If I stood here, and I had every part that you need to make an iphone, and I just threw it on the ground and said “Applesauce,” would the result be an iphone? Of course not. I would have a scattered pile of junk. You could leave it there for a billion years and you still wouldn’t have an iphone. An iphone is a complicated, intricately designed piece of technology, and it was very carefully and put together.

God is our creator, and He makes the rules. God’s World. God’s rules.

those who believe in evolutionary process do not even have legitimate basis for any kind of moral complaint. We are all just descendants of fish. Bags of protoplasm interacting with other bags of protoplasm.

By knowing that God is our creator, we know that He is who He says he is, and His truth is the only Truth. His righteousness and His law reign supreme.

Just as He breathed life into Adam, He breathes new life into us when we believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Bible makes it clear, that we were formed by God. He is the one who established this earth, the one who established humanity, the who gave us life, and then gave us new life in Christ. But what about babies? What about an embryo? Sure Adam was formed and we believe that, but he was formed as a grown man. After that, aren’t we all just results of reproduction? If that’s the case, when do we become human beings?

We are all formed by God.

This is a psalm about the omniscience and omnipotence of our God. He sees all and knows all and His hand is on and in all things. As the psalmist (David) starts the 3rd stanza, he begins writing about how involved God is in our individual creation stories.

The New King James Version Psalm 139

For You formed my inward parts;

You covered me in my mother’s womb.

14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Marvelous are Your works,

And that my soul knows very well.

15 My frame was not hidden from You,

When I was made in secret,

And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

16 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.

17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!

How great is the sum of them!

18 If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;

When I awake, I am still with You.

The Person of the Creator

God is our creator

Yahweh, Jehovah Jireh, the God of the universe, the sustainer of all things and the author of our salvation, carefully created each of us.

The first 2 stanzas of this poem magnify the bigness of God, which makes his personal involvement in our creation, even more amazing

The personal Touch

The same word for “formed” in the Hebrew that is used to describe God creating the earth, and creating Adam and Eve, is used to describe the way he creates each of us.

God didn’t create the earth, then adam and eve, and then leave the rest to reproduction and let nature take its course. He is personally and completely involved in our individual creation just as much as he was in the creation of the world, and of adam and eve.

We can just look around at nature and see the care that God put into creating it. This is the same care and attention he put into creating each and every person who has ever been conceived.

The Person Created

The word “frame” in verse 15 literally refers to his bone structure, his body.

“Wrought” means “knit together” (complex piece of art)

“lowest parts of the earth” is a metaphor here, and it refers to a place unseen, the hiddenness of the womb.

One of the reasons people today will say that an unborn baby isn’t a person, is simply because they don’t really see it. However, we can look at a baby even at the earliest stages, thanks to todays, technology, even when they are the size of a quarter. God is at work even when we can’t see Him working in our lives everyday, and it’s no different with a baby in the womb.

The Plan Establish

2 Meanings to Verse 16

Our lives are already planned and mapped out by God at conception and even before conception

Our pre-birth, embryonic members and formation are planned and mapped out by God at conception and even before conception.

To abort a baby is to end a life that God has already woven together and planned out to the end.

So, we know that according to Scripture, abortion is murder. Why? Because it is made clear that we are personally and perfectly created in the image of God, and that this process begins even before conception.