Sanctity of Life Sunday

THE WOMB IS A WORKSHOP

JANUARY 16 2022

PSALM 139:1-18

PASTOR PHIL WARD

SERMON OUTLINE

NOTES

I. THIS IS OUR GOD (PSALM 139:1-12)

A. Our God is all-knowing (Psalm 139:1-6)

1. God knows everything about us when it comes to our physical lives

(Psalm 139:2-5)

2. God knows everything about us when it comes to,our non-physical lives (Psalm 139: 2-5)

3. God created us in His image (Genesis 1:26-27 and God also became one of us (John 1:14; Hebrews 2:14-15; John 2:24-25)

B. Our God is ever-present at all times (Psalm 139:7-12)

1. God fills heaven and earth (Psalm 139:7-10; Jeremiah 23:23-24)

2. God is present even when we think He doesn't see (Psalm 139:11-12;Job 34:21-22)

3. God exposes us all through His word (Hebrews 4:12-13)

II. WE ARE GOD'S WORKMANSHIP (PSALM 139:13-16)

A. We are known by God before we knew Him (Psalm 139:13, 15-16)

1. Through natural processes, God forms us (Psalm 139:13-14: Ecclesiastes 11:5)

2. Human beings are substances who experience development (Psalm 139:16)

B. We (every human being) are a wonderful work of God with intensive value and worth created with thoughtful intentionality (Psalm 139:14; 17-18; Romans 11:33-36)

III. IMPLICATIONS WE CAN DRAW

A. A moral-ethic implication: immorality is rooted in human dignitym(Genesis 9:6)

B. A social-ethical implication: social and economic injustice is rooted inhuman dignity (Proverbs 14:31; 22:2)

C. A relational-moral implication : how we speak of and to others s rootedmin human dignity (James 3:9-10)

D. A bioethical implication: elective abortion that kills a human being isrooted in human dignity (Psalm 139:13-16)

E. Jesus came to renew us in His likeness (Ephesians 4:17-24) as a newworkmanship in Christ (Ephesians 2:8-10), so that we might promote the grace of God to others (Matthew 25:31-40)