Sermon Tone Analysis

The Status - I have some new heroes.

The newest additions to that list are…

Justice Samuel Alito

Justice Clarence Thomas

Justices Neil Gorsuch

Justice Brett Kavanaugh

Justice Amy Coney Barrett

Chief Justice John Roberts

This week we watched the Supreme Court shoot down the rule of a horribly decided ruling of Roe V. Wade.

Which in essence took away the rights of the states to decide on all things abortion, and pushed them to the Federal level.

The Affects - according to By Brian Clowes, PhD | January 26, 2022

The statistic is sobering: As of February 2021, there have been over 62 million legal surgical and medical abortions in the United States.

The worst year was 1990 with 1,608,600 abortions; since then, the number of abortions has declined almost every year to the current level of just under 900,000 annually, partly due to never-ending pro-life efforts and partly due to the “ripple effect” of having fewer young women who are aborting.

This phenomenon is itself a reflection of the sad fact that there are fewer young women because many of their would-have-been mothers were themselves aborted 20 to 25 years ago.

Abortionists have killed a number of children more than the combined populations of eighteen states: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Washington.

and Wyoming.

A map of the US with all of these states blacked out is a real attention-grabber.

This gives an audience some idea of the colossal magnitude of the abortion disaster.

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In reality, most abortions are performed for reasons that have nothing to do with either the mother’s or the baby’s health.

An article in the journal BMC Women’s Healthdiscusses research conducted with respondents who were asked about reasons why they had abortions.

Forty percent said they were not financially prepared.

Thirty-six percent said they had the abortion because the timing was bad, they were not ready, or the pregnancy was unplanned.

Twenty-nine percent said they wanted to focus on other children.

Twenty percent said they wanted to focus on career or school.

Only 12% said they were concerned about their health or the baby’s health—and that included reasons such as drug addiction, alcohol use, tobacco use, or the use of medications.

Further, the reports that just 1% of women who have an abortion have it because they became pregnant as a result of rape, and fewer than 0.5% have an abortion because of incest.

Recent data from the CDC shows similar results.

Thus, we see that abortion has become nothing more than a social eraser for embarrassing situations, since 85.7 % of all abortions are performed on unmarried women.

https://www.hli.org/resources/statistics-on-abortion/

The History

one article on the study of ancient forms of abortion point out that there were methods as far back as Egypt and grew from each generation...

Greece notably had a plan for abortion.

Abortions were generally performed by midwives rather than doctors.

Hippocrates recommended three categories of abortion methods:

[We are not benefited by the consideration of such methods.]

An accumulative approach was said to guarantee the desired result.

The first category was supposed to weaken the embryo, the second to open the womb and the third to stimulate the expulsion of the embryo.

Sadly the author seemingly undecided on the morality of such practices does make a telling statement.

“The attitude of the Romans was similar to that of the Greeks: succession was desirable so long as it guaranteed the inheritance and care in old age.”

https://muvs.org/en/topics/termination-of-pregnancy/abortion-in-antiquity-en/

Text: Luke 20.22-26

A trick for Jesus.

Should we pay our taxes?

This is not just a statement of taxes this was a test to see if they could accuse Jesus of dissenting the authority of Rome.

The end game was to take Jesus to the magistrates and hold him responsible for public calls of tyranny against the government.

Make no mistake about this this question was always bigger than money it was how did Jesus view the authority of Rome in the life of those that follow Jesus.

Jesus too cunning for such foolishness pushes this back to its proper context.

Whose image is on the coin? - Ceasar than let him have what he has rights too.

Then Jesus goes further and then why would he.

Render unto God the thing that are Gods’.

What is Jesus discussing here.

He is speaking of something that bears his image.

Something that resembles him.

Man is in the image of God

Likeness of God

Life is about God

Children are a gift from the Lord

Leah

Rachel

Hannah

Sarah

Creation

All was made by him and for him.

What about Rape

I am totally against such a wicked deviance I would support capital punishment for that as well as murder.

I have no ambiguity about that.

What I am not for is capital punishment for the child in your womb.

He did not commit the crime so putting to death the baby makes no sense what so ever.

What about deformity

Well I think that the argument could be made that all of us are deformed the question is to what degree.

Secondly,

Because life may be more difficult doesn’t mean the life has lost its value.

You will hear a lot of people in the next few weeks argue that suffering is the reason to murder the child.

This of all things reminds us that we as a nation are not better than the those that worshipped Moloch.

The problem with this logic is that a mother’s career, comfort, and happiness are the ultimate good.

American’s have for 50 years worshiped at the altar of convience.

And My children’s generation will look at abortion with the same disgust and slavery and the holocaust.

Gospel points to life

The role of the government

Remember caesar.

He does have a job according to God.

The government is supposed to be standing up for good and fighting against wrong.

In the months ahead we will listen to states taking one side or another on this issue.

Which is where we want this conversation.

But let us never forget our answer is not resting on the child Ours is an issue of theology.

What God calls right is right and what God calls evil is evil.

So we will stand on the side of God getting what is properly HIS - Life.