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TEXT: Deuteronomy 30:19-20
TOPIC: Choose Life
Pastor Bobby Earls, First Baptist Church – Icard, 1/13/2002
BIBLE SURVIVOR SERIES, Message 18
SLIDE 1
Please take your bibles and open to Deuteronomy chapter 30.
I am reading beginning at verse 19.
SLIDE 2
"This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.
Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him.
For the LORD is your life…" (Deuteronomy 30:19-20,NIV)
It’s been several years now since I have felt impressed to preach upon this subject.
Very few would question the sanctity of human life.
Life is a gift.
Life is special.
Biblically, life is sacred.
Life belongs to God.
It is His to give or to take.
Moses, nearly 120 years old, a life that spanned three generations, now stands to deliver his farewell sermon to the children of Israel.
In it he calls for heaven and earth to act as witnesses as God gives Israel the choice between life and death.
Then he says, “Now choose life, so that you and your children may live”.
In America today, life is a choice, so is death.
God still calls all of creation in this world and in the world to come, to stand as witnesses against us.
As all of creation looks on, God compels us to choose life.
Just why would the Creator ask such a thing?
For one thing, He has the right.
“It is He who made us and not we ourselves.”
We need to remember that God did, after all, create the very first human souls.
God made us.
He is the Father of all life.
SLIDE 3
I.
God Made Us in His Image.
II.
So God created man in His own image;
in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 1:27
SLIDE 4
II.
God Created Human Life and He Sustains It.
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
How precious are your thoughts about me, O God!
They are innumerable!
Psalm 139:15-17
SLIDE 5
III.
God Has a Plan for Each Life.
For we are God’s masterpiece.
He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Ephesians 2:10
He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live to please themselves.
Instead, they will live to please Christ, who died and was raised for them.
2 Corinthians 5:15
Again, every human life is precious and a gift from God.
Who are we to determine this one should live and this, somehow does not measure up to our standards, or because it is seen as an interruption in our own lives, this one, this life will die.
A college professor presented this challenging situation for his ethics class to consider.
"A man has syphilis and his wife has tuberculosis.
They have four children.
One has died; the other three have terminal illnesses.
The mother is pregnant again.
What do you recommend?"
The class voted to terminate the pregnancy.
The professor noted they had just killed Beethoven.
(HIS magazine, February 1984)
Ethel Waters, the great gospel singer, was born to a 13-year-old child who had been raped.
The world would have been robbed of the wonderful sacred music provided by each of these individuals if life had not been valued even under difficult circumstances.
SLIDE 6
When Does Life Begin?
SLIDE 7
Life Begins at Conception.
“I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb.
Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my spokesman to the world.”
Jeremiah 1:5-6
SLIDE 8
Get the Facts!!!
1.ABORTION IS MURDER, ...Thou shall not commit murder, Exodus 20:13
Now I need to warn you, the next four slides may not be suitable for some.
I try to be sensitive to the harshness and discomfort that images of this subject can sometimes present.
I assure you I would not put any image up that I regarded as obscene.
Yet we do need to see the obscene reality of what we have allowed in the name of freedom and choice.
Partial Birth Abortion is a hideous crime against human life.
It is a crime against the most innocent and defenseless of all human beings, the unborn baby.
SLIDE 9
Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps.
SLIDE 10
The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
SLIDE 11
The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head.
SLIDE 12
The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull.
The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.
SLIDE 13
The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted.
The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse.
The dead baby is then removed .
SLIDE 14
2.THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES, …Choose Life….
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