1 00:00:00,250 --> 00:00:02,630 Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:03,150 --> 00:00:04,770 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:04,770 --> 00:00:06,710 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:06,710 --> 00:00:09,490 Christian faith, and powerful sermons from modern preachers, 5 00:00:09,630 --> 00:00:09,750 too. 6 00:00:10,470 --> 00:00:12,670 This week we have John MacArthur with his 7 00:00:12,670 --> 00:00:15,410 message, Abortion and the Campaign for Immorality. 8 00:00:18,030 --> 00:00:20,150 What a privilege and joy it is to 9 00:00:20,150 --> 00:00:21,990 worship the Lord here at this church. 10 00:00:22,710 --> 00:00:24,410 Christian and I miss it when we're not 11 00:00:24,410 --> 00:00:26,390 here, there's no place like this. 12 00:00:27,030 --> 00:00:29,990 Our hearts are full to overflowing to be 13 00:00:29,990 --> 00:00:33,150 back with you and celebrating the greatness of 14 00:00:33,150 --> 00:00:35,810 our God and the glory of Christ with 15 00:00:35,810 --> 00:00:36,110 you. 16 00:00:36,650 --> 00:00:37,510 What a blessing. 17 00:00:38,790 --> 00:00:41,410 While we were gone the last couple of 18 00:00:41,410 --> 00:00:45,910 weeks, we were exposed to the two conventions 19 00:00:45,910 --> 00:00:48,290 that were held, the Republican National Convention and 20 00:00:48,290 --> 00:00:49,790 the Democratic National Convention. 21 00:00:50,610 --> 00:00:54,270 And I know that politics is the topic 22 00:00:54,270 --> 00:00:57,730 among many people today, and I suppose that's 23 00:00:57,730 --> 00:01:01,930 natural since it is such a huge part 24 00:01:01,930 --> 00:01:03,090 of media exposure. 25 00:01:03,489 --> 00:01:05,350 And as you know, I'm not one to 26 00:01:05,350 --> 00:01:07,910 talk about politics as such. 27 00:01:08,970 --> 00:01:13,930 But I was essentially amazed that one of 28 00:01:13,930 --> 00:01:16,110 the historic parties here in the United States 29 00:01:16,830 --> 00:01:21,090 adopted the sins of Romans 1 as their 30 00:01:21,090 --> 00:01:21,650 platform. 31 00:01:22,810 --> 00:01:25,310 This is a new day in our country. 32 00:01:25,690 --> 00:01:29,150 Parties which used to differ on economics now 33 00:01:29,150 --> 00:01:33,150 differ dramatically on issues that invade the realm 34 00:01:33,150 --> 00:01:35,570 of God's law and morality. 35 00:01:37,310 --> 00:01:40,030 And an ideal situation, their platform would mean 36 00:01:40,030 --> 00:01:42,110 that the government passes out condoms so people 37 00:01:42,110 --> 00:01:43,430 can fornicate at will. 38 00:01:43,430 --> 00:01:45,450 For those who happen to get pregnant in 39 00:01:45,450 --> 00:01:48,170 the process, the platform advocates that you kill 40 00:01:48,170 --> 00:01:49,530 the baby at the will of the mother, 41 00:01:50,090 --> 00:01:51,730 up and including the ninth month. 42 00:01:52,870 --> 00:01:57,330 At the same time, it advocates homosexual marriage 43 00:01:57,330 --> 00:02:00,650 which is an oxymoron, an utter impossibility and 44 00:02:00,650 --> 00:02:03,390 a gross violation of the law of God. 45 00:02:03,390 --> 00:02:06,810 And then, to add to that, the murder 46 00:02:06,810 --> 00:02:10,790 of abortion and then a platform originally leaving 47 00:02:10,790 --> 00:02:11,710 God out. 48 00:02:13,190 --> 00:02:14,510 All of that's Romans 1. 49 00:02:14,810 --> 00:02:17,830 Romans 1 says God will judge, God has 50 00:02:17,830 --> 00:02:22,410 judged throughout human history nations that experience sexual 51 00:02:22,410 --> 00:02:22,850 freedom. 52 00:02:23,610 --> 00:02:26,210 Romans chapter 1 lays that out clearly. 53 00:02:26,370 --> 00:02:27,990 The wrath of God is revealed from heaven 54 00:02:27,990 --> 00:02:33,030 against those who advocate sexual freedom, sexual conduct 55 00:02:33,030 --> 00:02:33,810 outside of marriage. 56 00:02:34,450 --> 00:02:37,170 And that's an indication of the demise of 57 00:02:37,170 --> 00:02:37,570 a nation. 58 00:02:38,430 --> 00:02:41,210 And then Romans 1 also says that God 59 00:02:41,210 --> 00:02:45,990 will judge those nations that advocate homosexual behavior, 60 00:02:46,630 --> 00:02:49,670 men with men, women with women doing what 61 00:02:49,670 --> 00:02:50,550 is unnatural. 62 00:02:51,330 --> 00:02:54,750 They are also haters of God, haters of 63 00:02:54,750 --> 00:02:55,170 God. 64 00:02:56,430 --> 00:03:00,830 Leaving God out, advocating abortion, advocating homosexuality, advocating 65 00:03:00,830 --> 00:03:05,450 free sexual conduct and government-provided condoms so 66 00:03:05,450 --> 00:03:07,430 that everybody can do what they want, that 67 00:03:07,430 --> 00:03:10,110 is literally creating a platform out of what 68 00:03:10,110 --> 00:03:10,910 God hates. 69 00:03:12,510 --> 00:03:15,030 This is not about politics, although there are 70 00:03:15,030 --> 00:03:16,150 things we could talk about. 71 00:03:17,470 --> 00:03:19,010 You're not voting for a pastor. 72 00:03:20,150 --> 00:03:21,990 You're not voting for a spiritual leader. 73 00:03:23,150 --> 00:03:25,550 You're voting for someone who has some sense 74 00:03:25,550 --> 00:03:26,130 of morality. 75 00:03:26,570 --> 00:03:28,310 Since the Bible says that the role of 76 00:03:28,310 --> 00:03:31,830 government is to punish evildoers and protect the 77 00:03:31,830 --> 00:03:34,790 good, you better have somebody in power who 78 00:03:34,790 --> 00:03:36,870 understands what is good and what is evil. 79 00:03:38,110 --> 00:03:42,250 And if you think homosexuality, abortion, sexual freedom, 80 00:03:42,430 --> 00:03:44,650 hating God are not evil, then you better 81 00:03:44,650 --> 00:03:46,090 go back and check your Bible again. 82 00:03:46,830 --> 00:03:49,090 How can people with that kind of agenda 83 00:03:49,090 --> 00:03:52,070 protect those who do good and punish those 84 00:03:52,070 --> 00:03:52,650 who do evil? 85 00:03:53,370 --> 00:03:56,910 That's Romans 13's definition of the role of 86 00:03:56,910 --> 00:03:57,290 government. 87 00:03:58,990 --> 00:04:01,390 We could talk about foreign policy, should we 88 00:04:01,390 --> 00:04:06,790 protect as many defenseless people from evil aggressors 89 00:04:06,790 --> 00:04:07,810 as possible? 90 00:04:07,850 --> 00:04:09,710 We could talk about economics, is it right 91 00:04:09,710 --> 00:04:12,910 to get into irreparable debt? 92 00:04:13,710 --> 00:04:14,910 Is that responsibility? 93 00:04:15,709 --> 00:04:17,010 We could talk about that. 94 00:04:17,130 --> 00:04:18,850 We could talk about the economics of if 95 00:04:18,850 --> 00:04:20,329 you don't work, you don't eat, which is 96 00:04:20,329 --> 00:04:21,150 what the Bible says. 97 00:04:21,570 --> 00:04:24,370 But those things are not what concern me. 98 00:04:25,410 --> 00:04:28,050 I've seen something happen in these conventions that 99 00:04:28,050 --> 00:04:32,170 is just stunning, the adaptation of a Romans 100 00:04:32,170 --> 00:04:37,470 1 platform, sexual freedom, homosexuality on an equal 101 00:04:37,470 --> 00:04:42,790 level with marriage, the murder of infants, and 102 00:04:42,790 --> 00:04:43,730 the elimination of God. 103 00:04:43,730 --> 00:04:45,050 And, by the way, I didn't like it 104 00:04:45,050 --> 00:04:46,670 any better when they put God back in 105 00:04:46,670 --> 00:04:47,830 because that's blasphemy. 106 00:04:48,330 --> 00:04:51,530 To connect God with that agenda is a 107 00:04:51,530 --> 00:04:51,910 horror. 108 00:04:53,430 --> 00:04:54,470 It's a horror. 109 00:04:56,420 --> 00:04:58,290 It's taking His name in vain. 110 00:05:00,190 --> 00:05:01,510 In fact, I don't think God should be 111 00:05:01,510 --> 00:05:02,290 in either agenda. 112 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,640 But when you have an advocacy of support 113 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:14,300 for the slaughter of infants and homosexuality and 114 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:17,360 complete sexual freedom, you have a formula for 115 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:18,200 divine judgment. 116 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,120 If we have any sense of justice, if 117 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,520 we have any sense of righteousness, if we 118 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,900 want to make a little bit of a 119 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:29,740 voice heard about what is right and about 120 00:05:29,740 --> 00:05:31,900 the role of government being to punish evildoers 121 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:34,600 and protect the people who do right, then 122 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:35,420 we better step up. 123 00:05:36,220 --> 00:05:38,660 I'm not sure what God has in the 124 00:05:38,660 --> 00:05:40,100 future, but I do know we can take 125 00:05:40,100 --> 00:05:42,780 His side and give Him honor. 126 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:45,900 To me it is ironic that those who 127 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:47,900 pride themselves on defending the rights of the 128 00:05:47,900 --> 00:05:51,580 weak murder them in the womb when they 129 00:05:51,580 --> 00:05:52,440 are the most weak. 130 00:05:53,620 --> 00:05:55,400 What kind of hypocrisy is that? 131 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:01,000 Self-congratulating pseudo-humanitarians advocate a deadly force 132 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,460 of violence unleashed against infants that makes the 133 00:06:04,460 --> 00:06:07,100 Nazi holocaust look mild by comparison. 134 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:12,080 In our world, we're slaughtering between 50 and 135 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,180 60 million babies a year. 136 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:18,780 In the United States, on record, it's 1 137 00:06:18,780 --> 00:06:20,440 .5 million abortions a year. 138 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:23,480 Every third baby conceived is murdered in the 139 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:29,780 womb, 4,000 a day, plus 170 an 140 00:06:29,780 --> 00:06:30,060 hour. 141 00:06:30,380 --> 00:06:34,840 Planned Parenthood alone kills one every 95 seconds. 142 00:06:36,780 --> 00:06:41,960 The Physicians Association of Planned Parenthood released this 143 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,240 statement, quote, Abortion is a treatment for unwanted 144 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,340 pregnancy, the second sexually transmitted disease. 145 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,920 Pregnancy is a sexually transmitted disease. 146 00:06:55,500 --> 00:06:57,220 Our nation and others are murdering a whole 147 00:06:57,220 --> 00:07:01,020 generation of humans in mass infanticide that was 148 00:07:01,020 --> 00:07:03,920 legalized in January of 1973 by the Roe 149 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:04,360 v. 150 00:07:04,540 --> 00:07:10,340 Wade decision made by an unrighteous group of 151 00:07:10,340 --> 00:07:11,440 people on the Supreme Court. 152 00:07:12,660 --> 00:07:15,400 Now 43 percent of all women have an 153 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,200 abortion and 47 percent of abortions are repeats. 154 00:07:21,030 --> 00:07:23,240 It's legal to do to a child what 155 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,200 you might be arrested for doing to a 156 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,200 cat, or a dog, or certainly an eagle. 157 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,300 In fact, Massachusetts made it illegal to award 158 00:07:33,300 --> 00:07:36,620 a goldfish as a prize at a fair. 159 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:41,140 And the document from the Massachusetts law said 160 00:07:41,140 --> 00:07:43,020 that this is to protect the tendency to 161 00:07:43,020 --> 00:07:46,360 dull humanitarian feelings and corrupt the morals of 162 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:47,480 those who abuse them. 163 00:07:49,100 --> 00:07:52,760 A law to prevent the abuse of goldfish. 164 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,640 In Asia, the trauma over abortion, just for 165 00:07:57,640 --> 00:07:59,240 an illustration, you could pick any place in 166 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,360 the world, but the trauma in Asia over 167 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,320 the tens of millions of abortions that are 168 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:05,480 done there, and as you would know, China 169 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,680 is a major leader in abortions. 170 00:08:09,100 --> 00:08:10,840 They're the only nation probably in the world 171 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:12,460 that has a more liberal approach to that 172 00:08:12,460 --> 00:08:16,200 than America does, has unleashed upon the Asian 173 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:20,420 women a horror of guilt and suffering from 174 00:08:20,420 --> 00:08:21,260 having abortions. 175 00:08:21,260 --> 00:08:24,360 And so there have been temples erected, built 176 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,260 literally in Asia with the express purpose of 177 00:08:27,260 --> 00:08:28,820 memorializing water babies. 178 00:08:28,940 --> 00:08:32,299 They're Buddhist temples and the person who feels 179 00:08:32,299 --> 00:08:35,820 some need to memorialize the baby that they 180 00:08:35,820 --> 00:08:39,880 aborted can go to these temples and they 181 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,380 can purchase for a large sum of money 182 00:08:42,380 --> 00:08:46,740 a small little Buddha as a memorial for 183 00:08:46,740 --> 00:08:48,460 the aborted child and that Buddha will be 184 00:08:48,460 --> 00:08:50,180 put on display there and there are temples 185 00:08:50,180 --> 00:08:52,320 that have, for example, ten thousand of these 186 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:56,740 little Buddhas on display on the grounds, becomes 187 00:08:56,740 --> 00:08:58,680 a commercial attraction where people come and take 188 00:08:58,680 --> 00:08:59,700 photographs of them. 189 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:03,840 It costs many hundreds of dollars to get 190 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,160 the supposed relief that comes from purchasing your 191 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:06,640 little Buddha. 192 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,520 And then additionally, you can buy a prayer, 193 00:09:09,620 --> 00:09:11,320 the last price as I saw, you can 194 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,920 buy a prayer for about $120 and they 195 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,720 will pray for your water baby. 196 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,620 And then if you have additional abortions, it's 197 00:09:20,620 --> 00:09:22,680 only $40 each additional abortion. 198 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,660 So the Buddhists have figured out a way 199 00:09:25,660 --> 00:09:28,860 to make money even after the abortion on 200 00:09:28,860 --> 00:09:31,700 the guilt and the sadness of people. 201 00:09:32,620 --> 00:09:34,500 Suicide rate among people who have had an 202 00:09:34,500 --> 00:09:37,460 abortion goes up between 400 and 800 percent. 203 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,940 Many studies starting in 1957, there have been 204 00:09:41,940 --> 00:09:44,880 about 30-some studies on the effect of 205 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:47,520 having had an abortion on breast cancer. 206 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,040 It greatly raises the risk, 27 out of 207 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:53,080 about 35 studies indicate there's a significant increase 208 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,940 in breast cancer risk for someone who has 209 00:09:55,940 --> 00:09:59,200 an abortion because it's such a terrible interruption 210 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:00,460 of the normal cycle. 211 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,860 Say nothing of depression, withdrawal, guilt, shame, alcohol 212 00:10:05,860 --> 00:10:08,060 dependency, et cetera, et cetera. 213 00:10:08,060 --> 00:10:12,620 How did we ever get here where we 214 00:10:12,620 --> 00:10:16,420 just massacre infants in the safest place, in 215 00:10:16,420 --> 00:10:18,160 the womb, where we literally go in there 216 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:19,520 and kill them? 217 00:10:20,020 --> 00:10:21,900 How did we get to this place? 218 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,540 Well, you just have to go back and 219 00:10:24,540 --> 00:10:26,880 understand that Satan is a murderer from the 220 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:27,620 beginning, right? 221 00:10:28,380 --> 00:10:29,200 This is satanic. 222 00:10:29,820 --> 00:10:31,380 This is a satanic thing. 223 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:34,900 He is the father of lies and he's 224 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:35,800 the father of murder. 225 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,000 He is the first murderer. 226 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:39,720 He would have murdered God if he could 227 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,780 have, deicide in heaven, and he was thrown 228 00:10:42,780 --> 00:10:43,080 out. 229 00:10:44,220 --> 00:10:45,640 And when he came down to earth, he 230 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,260 moved Cain to kill Abel and unleashed on 231 00:10:48,260 --> 00:10:51,220 the world the whole array of murders that 232 00:10:51,220 --> 00:10:55,340 has characterized human existence, goes on relentlessly in 233 00:10:55,340 --> 00:10:58,940 everything from slaughtering little infants in the safest 234 00:10:58,940 --> 00:11:01,880 place in the womb to massacring people the 235 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:03,260 way we're seeing it around the world and 236 00:11:03,260 --> 00:11:05,100 in the Middle East even now, and everything 237 00:11:05,100 --> 00:11:05,660 in between. 238 00:11:07,340 --> 00:11:09,220 Satan particularly goes after babies. 239 00:11:09,460 --> 00:11:10,620 He did in Moses' day. 240 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:11,720 He did in Jesus' day. 241 00:11:13,620 --> 00:11:15,780 He wanted to kill all the young children 242 00:11:15,780 --> 00:11:17,600 in Egypt because of the fear that a 243 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:18,360 deliverer would come. 244 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:20,480 He wanted to kill all of the two 245 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,940 -year-old and under babies in and around 246 00:11:22,940 --> 00:11:25,700 Jerusalem for fear that the king was coming. 247 00:11:26,340 --> 00:11:27,240 Satan is a murderer. 248 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,500 Remember, all of this is reflective of satanic 249 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:35,260 hatred of the purposes of God and the 250 00:11:35,260 --> 00:11:37,060 life that God creates. 251 00:11:37,620 --> 00:11:39,160 Any religion, I don't care what it is, 252 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,200 that has as its objective and goal the 253 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,020 killing of anybody is out of hell. 254 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:46,100 That's satanic. 255 00:11:47,740 --> 00:11:49,380 If you go back into philosophy, go back 256 00:11:49,380 --> 00:11:52,040 into Greek philosophy, ancient Greek philosophy, Plato and 257 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:54,960 Aristotle recommended family growth limitation by abortion. 258 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:59,140 If you go back into ancient Western civilization, 259 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,260 you'll find that abortion was to conceal illicit 260 00:12:02,260 --> 00:12:04,420 sex so that you could be free to 261 00:12:04,420 --> 00:12:07,280 do whatever you wanted to do and nobody 262 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:09,980 would know you would abort the life. 263 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:12,900 Rich women, I read, didn't want to have 264 00:12:12,900 --> 00:12:14,740 to give their wealth to lower class children. 265 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:16,600 They just wanted to have sex with lower 266 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:17,300 class men. 267 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,140 And so when children were conceived, they would 268 00:12:21,140 --> 00:12:22,080 kill them. 269 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,300 There are some indications that they did it 270 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:27,620 to preserve their supposed sex appeal. 271 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:29,800 One writer says not to trouble the womb 272 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:30,980 with bouncing babies. 273 00:12:32,340 --> 00:12:35,580 These methods are very, very ancient that were 274 00:12:35,580 --> 00:12:39,540 used, sometimes come under the title pessaries, a 275 00:12:39,540 --> 00:12:42,580 technical word, which simply means they had learned 276 00:12:42,580 --> 00:12:44,680 that they could inject into a woman, right 277 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:46,540 into the womb they could inject something that 278 00:12:46,540 --> 00:12:47,400 killed the child. 279 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:50,400 By trial and error, they came up with 280 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:51,460 that through the birth canal. 281 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,060 They also found that there were poisons that 282 00:12:54,060 --> 00:12:55,920 could be taken orally that would kill the 283 00:12:55,920 --> 00:13:00,160 child, mixtures that they had discerned would be 284 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,200 fatal to unborn infants. 285 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:05,120 I could describe how they worked, but that 286 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:06,800 wouldn't be purposeful or helpful. 287 00:13:07,940 --> 00:13:11,280 The pagan cultures accepted this. 288 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,420 The Jews rejected it. 289 00:13:14,740 --> 00:13:17,040 And interestingly enough, the Jews rejected it for 290 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:17,560 two reasons. 291 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:19,580 They rejected it because every life was created 292 00:13:19,580 --> 00:13:21,380 by God and therefore to take a life 293 00:13:21,380 --> 00:13:22,920 was to strike a blow against God. 294 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,660 And therefore to violate the first commandment, to 295 00:13:26,660 --> 00:13:27,740 love the Lord your God with all your 296 00:13:27,740 --> 00:13:29,460 heart, soul, mind and strength, you don't violate 297 00:13:29,460 --> 00:13:29,840 God. 298 00:13:30,100 --> 00:13:32,760 The second reason they were against abortion was 299 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:34,900 because of the second law, love your neighbor 300 00:13:34,900 --> 00:13:35,580 as yourself. 301 00:13:35,820 --> 00:13:38,760 And they understood that when life begins, that 302 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:40,060 then becomes your neighbor. 303 00:13:40,060 --> 00:13:44,220 And no one is more a neighbor than 304 00:13:44,220 --> 00:13:45,400 an infant in a mother's womb. 305 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,300 If that's not that mother's neighbor, then there 306 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:50,540 is no such thing as a neighbor. 307 00:13:51,700 --> 00:13:54,520 So based upon loving God and honoring God 308 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:58,240 and loving and caring for your neighbor, they 309 00:13:58,240 --> 00:13:58,880 rejected it. 310 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,100 And, of course, they rejected it because in 311 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:03,160 Exodus chapter 20 it says, Thou shalt not 312 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,740 murder and that's how they saw it. 313 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,200 The early church followed in that same stand. 314 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,820 Christianity has always been against murder of any 315 00:14:11,820 --> 00:14:16,320 kind, especially against the murder of an unprotected 316 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:18,020 infant in a womb. 317 00:14:19,060 --> 00:14:21,960 The Didache codification of early Christian writing said, 318 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:23,980 You shall not murder a child by abortion. 319 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:25,660 That's how explicit it was. 320 00:14:26,780 --> 00:14:28,940 You shall not murder a child by abortion. 321 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:33,220 The Didache saw the way of death as 322 00:14:33,220 --> 00:14:37,540 full of cursing, murder, adulteries, murders of children 323 00:14:37,540 --> 00:14:44,560 and abortion...abortion. The church has always said abortion 324 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:47,680 brings the judgment of God because it is 325 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:48,280 murder. 326 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,000 The Reformation didn't change that. 327 00:14:51,740 --> 00:14:55,480 Abortion has always been seen as violence, slaughter, 328 00:14:56,100 --> 00:14:58,580 and it brings divine judgment. 329 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,220 The Jews who were against abortion fell into 330 00:15:03,220 --> 00:15:06,480 idolatry, as you know, and began to take 331 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:10,380 their born children and incinerate them on an 332 00:15:10,380 --> 00:15:15,100 altar to Molech, burning them as human sacrifices. 333 00:15:16,180 --> 00:15:17,540 That was the kind of sin that led 334 00:15:17,540 --> 00:15:21,620 to their destruction, their death, their judgment, and 335 00:15:21,620 --> 00:15:24,760 their captivity, brought their nation to an end. 336 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,680 It isn't new and the church's stance isn't 337 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:31,940 new and the Word of God is very 338 00:15:31,940 --> 00:15:32,400 clear. 339 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:38,220 But it's amazing in a so-called Judeo 340 00:15:38,220 --> 00:15:42,360 -Christian environment, which has been the kind of 341 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,680 world view that America has been born in, 342 00:15:45,220 --> 00:15:47,020 that we have reached the point that we 343 00:15:47,020 --> 00:15:50,020 have where one of the two political parties 344 00:15:50,020 --> 00:15:54,680 in this country includes slaughtering innocent infants in 345 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:56,720 the womb as a part of its platform 346 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:57,920 which it advocates. 347 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:00,480 Why? 348 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:03,900 The reasons they would give you are these. 349 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:05,300 It's a matter of freedom. 350 00:16:05,420 --> 00:16:07,060 A woman has a right over her own 351 00:16:07,060 --> 00:16:07,360 body. 352 00:16:08,380 --> 00:16:09,300 That's not her body. 353 00:16:10,660 --> 00:16:12,000 That's somebody else's body. 354 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:14,320 That's not her body. 355 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,080 Oh, women shouldn't be victimized by men. 356 00:16:19,620 --> 00:16:21,760 You're not a victim if you lie down 357 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:22,180 with a man. 358 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,780 Well the child may have some genetic defect 359 00:16:26,780 --> 00:16:27,780 or some issue. 360 00:16:27,780 --> 00:16:29,740 Look, we all are defective. 361 00:16:30,060 --> 00:16:31,540 It's only a question of degree. 362 00:16:33,220 --> 00:16:35,320 We have to do some eugenic abortions. 363 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:40,740 Eliminate birth defective children because of cost, trouble. 364 00:16:42,580 --> 00:16:44,700 Women need total reproductive freedom. 365 00:16:44,900 --> 00:16:47,280 One writer says women must have abortion as 366 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:51,260 a backup to contraceptive failure, murder as a 367 00:16:51,260 --> 00:16:51,540 backup. 368 00:16:52,940 --> 00:16:54,740 And by the way, in a perfect world, 369 00:16:55,340 --> 00:16:58,820 this would all be paid for by you...by 370 00:16:58,820 --> 00:17:01,000 you, your tax money. 371 00:17:02,340 --> 00:17:04,040 And it's good to do this because it 372 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:05,880 kind of controls population, they say. 373 00:17:06,140 --> 00:17:07,240 Well, you know all those things. 374 00:17:08,619 --> 00:17:11,800 1973, it was January 22 when this horrendous 375 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,800 decision came out of a...out of a court 376 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,920 that certainly should have known better. 377 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:23,900 Fourteenth Amendment, Constitution says, no person shall be 378 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:24,980 deprived of life. 379 00:17:26,420 --> 00:17:29,760 No person shall be deprived of life without 380 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:30,820 due process of law. 381 00:17:31,060 --> 00:17:33,140 What's the due process for an infant in 382 00:17:33,140 --> 00:17:33,460 the womb? 383 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:35,880 Legalized murder. 384 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:39,780 The court ignored the reality of life beginning 385 00:17:39,780 --> 00:17:41,740 at conception, which is when life begins. 386 00:17:43,140 --> 00:17:45,040 And at that point, you have a person. 387 00:17:46,860 --> 00:17:50,520 Criminals in our history have been prosecuted successfully 388 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:54,900 for killing unborn children in an attack on 389 00:17:54,900 --> 00:17:55,880 a pregnant woman. 390 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,860 A person can be prosecuted even today for 391 00:17:59,860 --> 00:18:02,020 killing an unborn infant in the womb of 392 00:18:02,020 --> 00:18:04,000 a mother, but a mother can't be prosecuted 393 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:04,940 for killing that infant. 394 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,660 There is an interesting statement that sort of 395 00:18:08,660 --> 00:18:10,380 sums up what I want you to understand, 396 00:18:10,380 --> 00:18:14,720 Jerome Lejeune, Professor of Fundamental Genetics in Paris, 397 00:18:15,420 --> 00:18:17,020 because I think it's important for you to 398 00:18:17,020 --> 00:18:17,780 have this information. 399 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,180 Let me quote him, and he's not writing 400 00:18:20,180 --> 00:18:21,700 as a Christian, he's writing as a scientist 401 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:22,980 in the area of genetics. 402 00:18:23,580 --> 00:18:25,400 He says, life has a very long history, 403 00:18:25,540 --> 00:18:27,640 but each individual has a very neat beginning, 404 00:18:27,860 --> 00:18:29,120 the moment of its conception. 405 00:18:29,980 --> 00:18:32,180 The material link is the molecular thread of 406 00:18:32,180 --> 00:18:32,600 DNA. 407 00:18:32,860 --> 00:18:35,680 In each reproductive cell, this ribbon roughly one 408 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,140 meter long is cut into pieces, 23 or 409 00:18:38,140 --> 00:18:38,800 chromosomes. 410 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,440 As soon as the 23 paternally derived chromosomes 411 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,540 are united through fertilization to the 23 maternal 412 00:18:45,540 --> 00:18:49,340 ones, the full genetic meeting necessary to express 413 00:18:49,340 --> 00:18:51,800 all the inborn qualities of the new individual 414 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:55,100 is gathered and personal constitution takes place. 415 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:57,440 At two months of age, the human being 416 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,480 is less than one thumb length from the 417 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:00,240 head to the rump. 418 00:19:00,860 --> 00:19:02,540 He would fit at ease in a nutshell, 419 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,460 but everything is there, hands, feet, head, organs, 420 00:19:06,980 --> 00:19:07,460 brain. 421 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,000 In the fourth week, there is consciousness. 422 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:13,740 All are in place. 423 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:15,680 His heart has been beating for a month. 424 00:19:15,780 --> 00:19:18,380 By the second month, his fingerprints can be 425 00:19:18,380 --> 00:19:18,760 detected. 426 00:19:18,940 --> 00:19:21,900 His heart is beating 150 to 170 beats 427 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:22,260 a minute. 428 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,760 To accept the fact, he writes, that after 429 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,400 fertilization has taken place, a new human being 430 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:28,980 has come into being, is no longer a 431 00:19:28,980 --> 00:19:30,980 matter of taste or opinion, end quote. 432 00:19:32,340 --> 00:19:33,280 It's a person. 433 00:19:34,820 --> 00:19:36,080 So there's the scene. 434 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:36,180 It's a person. 435 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,940 So the bottom line is, you have persons 436 00:19:38,940 --> 00:19:39,660 being murdered. 437 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,300 And now that's something you can vote for 438 00:19:44,300 --> 00:19:46,740 because you want to be a part of 439 00:19:46,740 --> 00:19:46,960 that. 440 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:49,560 What does the Bible say about this? 441 00:19:49,580 --> 00:19:50,600 I want to just give you a handful 442 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,300 of things to think about, just some principles 443 00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:53,340 in the little time we have. 444 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,220 Number one, conception is an act of God. 445 00:19:56,300 --> 00:19:57,820 Conception is an act of God. 446 00:19:59,540 --> 00:20:01,860 God creates personally every life. 447 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,500 Psalm 127.3, Behold, children are a gift 448 00:20:05,500 --> 00:20:06,100 from the Lord. 449 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,040 Children are a gift from the Lord. 450 00:20:08,540 --> 00:20:09,120 From the Lord. 451 00:20:09,220 --> 00:20:11,000 How more simply could it be said? 452 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,680 Children are a gift from the Lord. 453 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:16,360 To look at that negatively and some passages 454 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:19,020 along that line, Genesis 20, the Lord had 455 00:20:19,020 --> 00:20:22,080 completely closed all the wombs of the house 456 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,040 of Abimelech. 457 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,420 The Lord can close a womb so none 458 00:20:26,420 --> 00:20:27,100 can be born. 459 00:20:27,100 --> 00:20:29,740 But we find the same kind of thing 460 00:20:29,740 --> 00:20:32,520 in Genesis 16.2, Sarah said to Abraham, 461 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:34,780 the Lord has restrained me from bearing. 462 00:20:36,420 --> 00:20:38,500 Or 1 Samuel 1 with regard to Hannah, 463 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,180 the Lord had shut up her womb, and 464 00:20:41,180 --> 00:20:42,700 it says it two times in that chapter. 465 00:20:43,140 --> 00:20:45,260 So on the negative side, the Lord closes 466 00:20:45,260 --> 00:20:47,000 the womb and children aren't conceived. 467 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,900 On the positive side, Genesis 17 says in 468 00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:53,280 verse 16, God said to Abraham, I will 469 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,320 bless her, I will give you a son 470 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,840 also from her, and she shall be the 471 00:20:58,840 --> 00:20:59,980 mother of nations. 472 00:21:00,620 --> 00:21:03,000 The Lord who closed Sarah's womb in His 473 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,020 time opened it. 474 00:21:04,340 --> 00:21:07,000 Genesis 21.2, Sarah conceived and bore Abraham 475 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,760 a son in his old age at the 476 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,820 set time of which the Lord had spoken 477 00:21:10,820 --> 00:21:11,280 to him. 478 00:21:11,580 --> 00:21:14,560 The Lord made the promise, set the time, 479 00:21:15,060 --> 00:21:15,780 opened the womb. 480 00:21:17,420 --> 00:21:20,500 Genesis 25.21, Isaac entreated the Lord for 481 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:22,840 his wife because she was barren, and the 482 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:24,820 Lord was entreated by him and Rebekah, his 483 00:21:24,820 --> 00:21:25,800 wife, conceived. 484 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,740 She conceived because the Lord allowed her to 485 00:21:28,740 --> 00:21:29,060 conceive. 486 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:31,220 The Lord created life in her. 487 00:21:31,780 --> 00:21:33,620 First Samuel 1 goes back to the story 488 00:21:33,620 --> 00:21:35,600 of Hannah and Samuel. 489 00:21:35,980 --> 00:21:38,640 The Lord remembered her, therefore it came to 490 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,660 pass after she had conceived that she bore 491 00:21:40,660 --> 00:21:42,780 a son and called his name Samuel, saying, 492 00:21:42,900 --> 00:21:46,120 Because I have asked him of the Lord. 493 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:48,360 She asked the Lord and the Lord answered 494 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:49,380 and gave her a child. 495 00:21:49,900 --> 00:21:52,880 In Ruth chapter 4 verse 13, Boaz took 496 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,940 Ruth, she was his wife, and when he 497 00:21:54,940 --> 00:21:57,520 went in unto her, the Lord gave her 498 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,340 conception and she bore a son. 499 00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:02,060 The Lord gave her conception. 500 00:22:02,140 --> 00:22:05,400 I mean, the Bible speaks about every conception 501 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:06,840 as a work of the Lord. 502 00:22:07,180 --> 00:22:09,220 Back to Psalm 127.3, children are a 503 00:22:09,220 --> 00:22:10,540 gift from the Lord. 504 00:22:10,660 --> 00:22:11,940 Conception is an act of God. 505 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,400 Let me...let me take you a little further 506 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,440 than the Old Testament, go to the seventeenth 507 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,660 chapter of Acts and let's take a look 508 00:22:19,660 --> 00:22:23,220 at a very powerful set of statements by 509 00:22:23,220 --> 00:22:26,320 the Apostle Paul to the philosophers in Athens. 510 00:22:27,780 --> 00:22:30,420 As he's on the Areopagus on Mars Hill, 511 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:34,120 talking to the philosophers there, he identifies the 512 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:36,380 fact that they have this sort of idol 513 00:22:36,380 --> 00:22:38,380 there to the unknown God, just to cover 514 00:22:38,380 --> 00:22:40,100 all their bases in case there's any God 515 00:22:40,100 --> 00:22:41,280 left out, they don't want Him to be 516 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,560 angry, so they give Him a space even 517 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:44,640 though they don't know His name. 518 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:47,680 So Paul uses that and says, let me 519 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,180 tell you about the God you don't know 520 00:22:49,180 --> 00:22:51,820 who just happens to be the only God. 521 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,020 And then he begins to describe God, starting 522 00:22:55,020 --> 00:22:56,940 in verse 24, and this is how he 523 00:22:56,940 --> 00:22:59,640 describes Him, the God who made the world 524 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:00,900 and all things in it. 525 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:01,460 Stop there. 526 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:03,660 The God who made the world and all 527 00:23:03,660 --> 00:23:05,800 things in it, He is the Creator God. 528 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,080 That comes from Psalm 146, 5 and 6, 529 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:11,580 God who made heaven and the earth, the 530 00:23:11,580 --> 00:23:14,160 sea and all that is in them. 531 00:23:14,900 --> 00:23:19,620 Zechariah 12, 1, God who forms the spirit 532 00:23:19,620 --> 00:23:21,520 of man within Him. 533 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:24,280 Everything that is, God made. 534 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,080 John 1, everything was made by Him and 535 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:28,560 without Him was not anything made that was 536 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:28,920 made. 537 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,680 God is the Creator and God continues to 538 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:32,740 be the Creator. 539 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:37,960 He is seen as the Creator and the 540 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:38,280 ruler. 541 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,460 He is Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't 542 00:23:41,460 --> 00:23:43,120 dwell in temples made with hands. 543 00:23:43,220 --> 00:23:44,760 He's not like your idols. 544 00:23:46,140 --> 00:23:48,040 And then this, He's not served by human 545 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,840 hands as though He needed anything since He 546 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,800 Himself gives to all life and breath. 547 00:23:56,660 --> 00:24:00,980 To all who live, God has given life. 548 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:02,400 That's the statement. 549 00:24:03,050 --> 00:24:08,580 He is the source of life to everyone 550 00:24:08,580 --> 00:24:10,180 who lives. 551 00:24:10,580 --> 00:24:13,140 He is the Creator of everything, nothing is 552 00:24:13,140 --> 00:24:16,140 in existence that He didn't create and everything 553 00:24:16,140 --> 00:24:18,780 that is in existence is in existence because 554 00:24:18,780 --> 00:24:19,500 He made it. 555 00:24:20,140 --> 00:24:23,940 We live because He gave us life. 556 00:24:25,140 --> 00:24:29,020 In Psalm 104, verse 30, you send forth 557 00:24:29,020 --> 00:24:31,480 your spirit, they are created. 558 00:24:32,300 --> 00:24:35,880 You send forth your spirit, they are created. 559 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,640 And by the way, in Psalm 104, that 560 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:46,020 includes everything that has life, plants, animals, humans, 561 00:24:46,620 --> 00:24:49,520 all the creation of God. 562 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:53,000 Romans 11 in that great doxology, everything is 563 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,260 by Him and for Him. 564 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,660 So we see then that He gives life 565 00:24:58,660 --> 00:25:01,040 to all, life and breath. 566 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:05,420 Verse 26, He made from one, that is 567 00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:07,560 from Adam, He started with Adam and took 568 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,560 Eve out of Adam and everything came from 569 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:09,820 there. 570 00:25:09,980 --> 00:25:13,700 He made from one every nation of mankind 571 00:25:13,700 --> 00:25:15,900 to live on all the face of the 572 00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:18,000 earth, having determined their appointed times and the 573 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,160 boundaries of their inhabitation. 574 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,560 Now in verse 25, He made every individual 575 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:23,440 thing that lives. 576 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,840 In verse 26, He governs the collection of 577 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:29,520 all that He has made. 578 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:35,460 Verse 28, in Him we live and move 579 00:25:35,460 --> 00:25:36,800 and exist. 580 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,800 And even some of your own poets, namely 581 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:46,760 Epimenides and Eratus, said of God, He is 582 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:51,500 our Father, we are also His children, being 583 00:25:51,500 --> 00:25:53,080 then the children of God. 584 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:56,080 Every individual is talking to Greek philosophers, unbelievers, 585 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,020 you're children of God in the sense that 586 00:25:58,020 --> 00:26:00,340 God created you, God made you. 587 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,820 Now this is not a distant activity on 588 00:26:04,820 --> 00:26:05,380 God's part. 589 00:26:05,940 --> 00:26:07,460 And I'll show you that by taking you 590 00:26:07,460 --> 00:26:09,940 back to Psalm 139 which I read earlier. 591 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,700 Go with me back to 139 quickly for 592 00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:14,560 the sake of time. 593 00:26:15,740 --> 00:26:18,700 And I want you to understand some very 594 00:26:18,700 --> 00:26:20,960 clear statements here. 595 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,740 In the opening six verses, as we read, 596 00:26:25,260 --> 00:26:27,360 the psalmist talks about the omniscience of God, 597 00:26:27,420 --> 00:26:28,140 He knows everything. 598 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,540 This is a level of knowledge that the 599 00:26:30,540 --> 00:26:32,160 psalmist can't understand, neither can we. 600 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,920 And then in verses 7 to 12, he 601 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,640 talks about the omnipresence of God, He made 602 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,340 everything, He knows everything, He is everywhere all 603 00:26:41,340 --> 00:26:41,860 the time. 604 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,180 You can't be out of His presence ever. 605 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,060 And then in verse 13, he moves to 606 00:26:48,060 --> 00:26:50,740 where that all really began in a personal 607 00:26:50,740 --> 00:26:51,220 sense. 608 00:26:51,220 --> 00:26:54,820 Verse 13 says, "'For You formed my inward 609 00:26:54,820 --> 00:27:00,880 parts, You wove me in my mother's womb.'" 610 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,120 Just take that first statement, You formed my 611 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:05,600 inward parts. 612 00:27:05,660 --> 00:27:07,000 Literally in Hebrew, my kidneys. 613 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,120 You formed my kidneys, which was a term 614 00:27:10,120 --> 00:27:13,180 that was used to refer to the complex 615 00:27:13,180 --> 00:27:16,400 of organs that made up the human anatomy, 616 00:27:16,580 --> 00:27:18,380 or inside the human body. 617 00:27:18,380 --> 00:27:23,100 Literally, You, God, formed my inward parts. 618 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,420 You wove me in my mother's womb. 619 00:27:26,220 --> 00:27:28,600 The DNA strips that are woven together, You 620 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:29,660 wove them together. 621 00:27:30,020 --> 00:27:34,160 You wove together the complex genetic plan that 622 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:35,380 produced me. 623 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:36,980 You were the weaver. 624 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,600 Verse 14, "'I will give thanks to You, 625 00:27:40,660 --> 00:27:44,020 for I am fearfully.'" That literally means awesomely, 626 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,220 nareoth , a Hebrew word, meaning a high 627 00:27:48,220 --> 00:27:49,740 level of reverential awe. 628 00:27:50,020 --> 00:27:52,040 It's a staggering thing to think of what 629 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,380 You have done in fearfully and wonderfully making 630 00:27:55,380 --> 00:27:55,660 me. 631 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,380 Wonderful are Your works, my soul knows it 632 00:27:57,380 --> 00:27:59,200 very well, I know that You made me. 633 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,520 And then he gets even more technical, "'My 634 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,140 frame was not hidden from You when I 635 00:28:04,140 --> 00:28:05,120 was made in secret. 636 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,540 You were making me and You framed me.'" 637 00:28:07,540 --> 00:28:08,000 What's that? 638 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,860 That's bones, muscles, sinews, ligaments, tendons, structure. 639 00:28:14,460 --> 00:28:16,800 You were aware of all of it when 640 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,720 I was made in secret and skillfully wrought 641 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:19,580 in the depths of the earth. 642 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,080 The depths of the earth is a euphemism 643 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,580 for the womb, the hidden place, the secret 644 00:28:24,580 --> 00:28:25,120 place. 645 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,140 Verse 16, "'Your eyes have seen my unformed 646 00:28:30,140 --> 00:28:34,980 substance.'" My unformed substance, what is that? 647 00:28:34,980 --> 00:28:38,120 That's a Hebrew word that means something rolled 648 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,480 together, something balled up before it unfolded. 649 00:28:42,220 --> 00:28:44,940 When it was just a genetic mass and 650 00:28:44,940 --> 00:28:47,320 it was just that embryo, it was just 651 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,460 that ball before it began to unfold, You 652 00:28:51,460 --> 00:28:55,960 framed it, You saw it, and You wrote 653 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:57,960 in Your book everything that was going to 654 00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,960 take place for my days before any of 655 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:00,960 them ever took place. 656 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:08,300 This is God personally, intimately involved in the 657 00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:14,360 very first stages of life, life yet unfolded. 658 00:29:15,260 --> 00:29:17,460 God is intimately involved. 659 00:29:18,940 --> 00:29:22,140 Can I tell you, God is not looking 660 00:29:22,140 --> 00:29:25,140 at us like a map with red dots 661 00:29:25,140 --> 00:29:26,280 wherever there's a person. 662 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:32,560 God sees deep into us and has known 663 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:37,680 us intimately from conception, from conception. 664 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,200 And that's why He says in verse 17, 665 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:43,620 "'How precious are such thoughts to Me.'" He 666 00:29:43,620 --> 00:29:45,720 says, "'You know so much about Me that 667 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,840 I can't even count all your thoughts about 668 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:48,040 Me. 669 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,200 They would outnumber the sand of the sea.'" 670 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,680 An amazing statement. 671 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,020 God knows intimately everything about you from the 672 00:29:55,020 --> 00:29:57,480 time of your conception because He made you 673 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,140 and He made every person ever conceived. 674 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:02,760 You're not an animal. 675 00:30:03,580 --> 00:30:05,180 You're not a biological accident. 676 00:30:06,740 --> 00:30:09,440 You're not tissue at some point and then 677 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:10,180 you become a person. 678 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,240 You're a creation of God by God who 679 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:18,240 weaves together the genetic code, who intimately sees 680 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:25,040 the unformed fetus and who guides the entire 681 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:25,640 process. 682 00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:28,400 You're not immortal. 683 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:30,800 No life is mortal. 684 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:31,780 May I say this quickly? 685 00:30:31,980 --> 00:30:34,080 Every life conceived is immortal. 686 00:30:34,940 --> 00:30:41,680 Every single child conceived lives forever, forever. 687 00:30:43,140 --> 00:30:46,080 Manoah is the father of Samson. 688 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:50,440 His wife in Judges 13.3 had a 689 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,400 visit from an angel and the angel said 690 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:57,400 to her, you're barren and you can't have 691 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,120 a child, but you will conceive and bear 692 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:01,540 a son. 693 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,120 And that son was Samson. 694 00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:08,780 People have children because God creates them in 695 00:31:08,780 --> 00:31:09,240 their womb. 696 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,940 It doesn't matter if you're married, if you're 697 00:31:13,940 --> 00:31:15,800 having sex with somebody you're not married to, 698 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,760 if you were raped, if it was incest, 699 00:31:21,180 --> 00:31:22,560 it doesn't change the creation of God. 700 00:31:24,140 --> 00:31:27,500 Still life is created by God. 701 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:30,140 Job understood this. 702 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,820 You go back into the most primitive time 703 00:31:32,820 --> 00:31:34,960 in history, that's the time of Job who 704 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,480 lives at the time of the patriarchs, and 705 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,220 he says in chapter 10, verse 8, your 706 00:31:39,220 --> 00:31:42,200 hands fashioned and made me altogether. 707 00:31:43,580 --> 00:31:45,340 He says, you made me like clay. 708 00:31:46,940 --> 00:31:48,920 You clothed me with skin and flesh. 709 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,720 Verse 11, you knit me with bones and 710 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:52,200 sinews. 711 00:31:52,820 --> 00:31:54,160 You granted me life. 712 00:31:54,860 --> 00:31:56,720 Your care preserved my spirit. 713 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:58,820 You kept me alive in the womb. 714 00:31:59,180 --> 00:32:00,860 You put me all together. 715 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,300 He says it again in chapter 31, verse 716 00:32:03,300 --> 00:32:03,640 15. 717 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,420 He says it again in chapter 33, verse 718 00:32:05,420 --> 00:32:05,740 4. 719 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,360 You can read such testimonies in Ecclesiastes and 720 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,260 Isaiah, and you do remember the words of 721 00:32:14,260 --> 00:32:17,320 Jeremiah, chapter 1, verse 5, I formed you 722 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,220 in the womb, but before I formed you 723 00:32:19,220 --> 00:32:20,920 in the womb, I knew you. 724 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,920 Wow, God says, I formed you in the 725 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:25,240 womb. 726 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,160 In the New Testament, in the gospel of 727 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,820 Matthew, in the gospel of Luke, we learn 728 00:32:30,820 --> 00:32:34,220 that the Holy Spirit created Christ in the 729 00:32:34,220 --> 00:32:36,300 womb of Mary without a human father. 730 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:39,560 When did Christ come into the world? 731 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,320 Did He come into the world in His 732 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:41,720 birth? 733 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,700 Did Jesus come into the world in Bethlehem? 734 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,860 No, Jesus came into the world in His 735 00:32:46,860 --> 00:32:50,060 conception...in His conception. 736 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,620 You say, well, what about a deformed baby? 737 00:32:53,620 --> 00:32:55,680 Are they a gift from the Lord? 738 00:32:56,660 --> 00:32:58,180 Yeah, well, as I said earlier, we're all 739 00:32:58,180 --> 00:32:59,800 deformed, it's only a question of degree. 740 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,240 But in...listen to Exodus 4, 11, the Lord 741 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,580 said to him, to Moses, who made man's 742 00:33:06,580 --> 00:33:06,900 mouth? 743 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,460 Who makes him mute or deaf or seeing 744 00:33:09,460 --> 00:33:10,120 or blind? 745 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,500 Is it not I, the Lord? 746 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,980 John chapter 9, Jesus actually said this man 747 00:33:16,980 --> 00:33:18,820 was born blind for the glory of God. 748 00:33:20,340 --> 00:33:22,260 People say, well, we can kill them if 749 00:33:22,260 --> 00:33:24,120 it was a rape, or we can kill 750 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,160 them if it was incest, or we can 751 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:27,400 kill them if they're defective. 752 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:27,740 Really? 753 00:33:29,420 --> 00:33:31,520 It doesn't change the fact that every creation 754 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,340 is a creation of God. 755 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,680 Abortion is an anti-God act. 756 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:40,700 No wonder they didn't want God in their 757 00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:41,180 platform. 758 00:33:42,980 --> 00:33:44,680 Second thing I want to mention to you, 759 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,600 every creation is an act of God. 760 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,520 And secondly, every person created is in the 761 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,320 image of God, in the image of God. 762 00:33:52,380 --> 00:33:53,960 James 3, 9 would be sufficient. 763 00:33:54,380 --> 00:33:56,420 Genesis 1, He made man in His own 764 00:33:56,420 --> 00:33:56,920 image. 765 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,520 But in James 3, 9, there's this statement 766 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,480 I think that gets maybe overlooked that essentially 767 00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:07,139 seals this issue. 768 00:34:08,020 --> 00:34:13,000 We bless the Lord and Father and we 769 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,960 curse men who have been made in the 770 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,639 likeness of God. 771 00:34:19,420 --> 00:34:19,940 Wow. 772 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,500 Better be careful how you treat men, people, 773 00:34:24,020 --> 00:34:28,020 because they're made in the likeness of God. 774 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:29,679 What does that mean? 775 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,420 Well there are incommunicable attributes that we don't 776 00:34:33,420 --> 00:34:39,219 have, like eternality, we haven't always existed, like 777 00:34:39,219 --> 00:34:41,900 omniscience, we don't know everything, omnipresence, we can't 778 00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:44,719 be everywhere, omnipotence, we don't have all power, 779 00:34:44,820 --> 00:34:46,980 immutability, we're not changeless. 780 00:34:47,139 --> 00:34:49,940 So there are incommunicable attributes, things that are 781 00:34:49,940 --> 00:34:51,300 true about the nature of God that we 782 00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:54,179 don't possess, but there are a whole realm 783 00:34:54,179 --> 00:34:56,440 of communicable attributes that have to do with 784 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,240 personhood, relationship. 785 00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:00,160 God is a trinity and the image of 786 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,920 God means we relate, we have the capability 787 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,700 of relationships and, of course, that's what makes 788 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:05,360 life life. 789 00:35:06,740 --> 00:35:08,620 We can love and we can hate and 790 00:35:08,620 --> 00:35:11,560 we can understand and we can feel and 791 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,240 we can think and we can choose and 792 00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:13,960 we can act. 793 00:35:16,110 --> 00:35:17,810 All of those things that are given to 794 00:35:17,810 --> 00:35:20,050 us are part of the image of God. 795 00:35:20,610 --> 00:35:22,470 Why capital punishment, Genesis 9.6? 796 00:35:22,510 --> 00:35:24,810 Why does the Bible advocate capital punishment? 797 00:35:24,970 --> 00:35:27,510 Because it says in Genesis 9.6, for 798 00:35:27,510 --> 00:35:29,950 He is made in the image of God. 799 00:35:29,950 --> 00:35:32,890 When you kill someone made in the image 800 00:35:32,890 --> 00:35:35,290 of God, Genesis 9.6 says, you lose 801 00:35:35,290 --> 00:35:35,770 your life. 802 00:35:37,550 --> 00:35:38,750 Capital punishment for murder. 803 00:35:39,190 --> 00:35:40,510 Jesus upheld that, by the way. 804 00:35:40,930 --> 00:35:43,090 In the New Testament when the Romans came 805 00:35:43,090 --> 00:35:45,650 to arrest Jesus, Peter grabbed his sword and 806 00:35:45,650 --> 00:35:47,770 he started to fight and Jesus said, put 807 00:35:47,770 --> 00:35:48,330 your sword away. 808 00:35:48,410 --> 00:35:49,790 If you live by the sword, you die 809 00:35:49,790 --> 00:35:50,350 by the sword. 810 00:35:50,670 --> 00:35:52,410 In other words, He affirmed capital punishment. 811 00:35:52,550 --> 00:35:54,370 If you take somebody's life, Peter, they have 812 00:35:54,370 --> 00:35:55,350 a right to take yours. 813 00:35:57,350 --> 00:35:57,750 Why? 814 00:35:57,750 --> 00:36:00,550 Because of the sacredness of life, you're killing 815 00:36:00,550 --> 00:36:03,870 a person in the image of God. 816 00:36:05,590 --> 00:36:06,790 You can look at that on the negative 817 00:36:06,790 --> 00:36:08,770 side if you look at Psalm 51.5 818 00:36:08,770 --> 00:36:10,390 where David says, In sin did my mother 819 00:36:10,390 --> 00:36:10,930 conceive me. 820 00:36:10,930 --> 00:36:12,330 What he means by that, it's not that 821 00:36:12,330 --> 00:36:14,930 he was illegitimate, but what he means by 822 00:36:14,930 --> 00:36:17,030 that is from the conception I was a 823 00:36:17,030 --> 00:36:17,210 sinner. 824 00:36:18,230 --> 00:36:19,910 And by the way, only a person can 825 00:36:19,910 --> 00:36:20,410 be a sinner. 826 00:36:21,570 --> 00:36:23,730 Only a person can be a sinner. 827 00:36:25,090 --> 00:36:26,450 That's personhood. 828 00:36:27,990 --> 00:36:29,850 No baby is a mistake. 829 00:36:30,010 --> 00:36:32,010 No baby is a sexual accident or a 830 00:36:32,010 --> 00:36:32,810 biological accident. 831 00:36:32,990 --> 00:36:35,510 No baby is a pile of tissue. 832 00:36:36,530 --> 00:36:39,410 And no baby is part of the mother's 833 00:36:39,410 --> 00:36:39,750 body. 834 00:36:40,590 --> 00:36:44,410 It is a person created by God. 835 00:36:45,850 --> 00:36:50,990 So every life is created by God and 836 00:36:50,990 --> 00:36:56,390 created in His image, to bear His image. 837 00:36:58,690 --> 00:37:01,570 Thirdly, every creation is the special object of 838 00:37:01,570 --> 00:37:02,350 God's loving care. 839 00:37:03,390 --> 00:37:05,870 Every creation is the special object of God's 840 00:37:05,870 --> 00:37:06,270 loving care. 841 00:37:06,350 --> 00:37:08,510 Why do you think that they're in there 842 00:37:08,510 --> 00:37:09,110 for nine months? 843 00:37:09,210 --> 00:37:10,310 Why do you think that they're in that 844 00:37:10,310 --> 00:37:12,510 protected place, the most, the safest, it should 845 00:37:12,510 --> 00:37:14,850 be the safest place on the planet, right? 846 00:37:16,070 --> 00:37:17,230 The womb of the mother. 847 00:37:20,990 --> 00:37:24,530 Imagine...imagine criminals invading the womb of the mother 848 00:37:24,530 --> 00:37:27,110 at the will of the mother to kill 849 00:37:27,110 --> 00:37:28,650 the creation of God. 850 00:37:30,350 --> 00:37:32,010 God doesn't even want you to mock the 851 00:37:32,010 --> 00:37:32,290 poor. 852 00:37:33,730 --> 00:37:36,090 God doesn't even want you to be indifferent 853 00:37:36,090 --> 00:37:37,570 toward the weak and the helpless. 854 00:37:37,890 --> 00:37:39,530 Well there are the weakest and the most 855 00:37:39,530 --> 00:37:39,890 helpless. 856 00:37:41,390 --> 00:37:43,750 And Jesus Himself said, "...Permit the little ones 857 00:37:43,750 --> 00:37:44,910 to come to Me and forbid them not, 858 00:37:45,010 --> 00:37:47,770 for theirs is the kingdom of God." 859 00:37:47,770 --> 00:37:49,350 And He gathered them into His arms, it 860 00:37:49,350 --> 00:37:51,530 says, and He blessed them. 861 00:37:52,970 --> 00:37:57,090 You know, back in Exodus chapter 21, there's 862 00:37:57,090 --> 00:37:59,550 a scenario there where you attack a woman 863 00:38:00,950 --> 00:38:03,450 and she's pregnant, it doesn't result in any 864 00:38:03,450 --> 00:38:05,130 harm to her or the child in the 865 00:38:05,130 --> 00:38:05,310 womb. 866 00:38:06,190 --> 00:38:07,070 No punishment. 867 00:38:09,090 --> 00:38:13,310 But, if harm comes to her or the 868 00:38:13,310 --> 00:38:16,990 infant, Exodus 21 says, it's the law of 869 00:38:16,990 --> 00:38:20,730 lextalionis , like for like, an eye for 870 00:38:20,730 --> 00:38:22,470 an eye, tooth for a tooth, a life 871 00:38:22,470 --> 00:38:23,190 for a life. 872 00:38:24,170 --> 00:38:26,570 So according to the law of Exodus, the 873 00:38:26,570 --> 00:38:29,170 killing of an infant was a murder, Exodus 874 00:38:29,170 --> 00:38:30,710 21, 22 to 25. 875 00:38:32,270 --> 00:38:35,270 That's the protected place and they're the special 876 00:38:35,270 --> 00:38:36,670 care of God. 877 00:38:38,050 --> 00:38:41,730 Why is it these people that are pro 878 00:38:41,730 --> 00:38:44,470 -abortion are so worried about what happens to 879 00:38:44,470 --> 00:38:47,130 the birds and the bugs and the animals? 880 00:38:48,650 --> 00:38:50,170 What a twisted compensation. 881 00:38:52,050 --> 00:38:54,090 So what the Scripture teaches us then is 882 00:38:54,090 --> 00:38:55,850 that conception is an act of God, each 883 00:38:55,850 --> 00:38:57,490 person is in the image of God, each 884 00:38:57,490 --> 00:38:59,290 person is the special care of God. 885 00:39:01,070 --> 00:39:03,230 Obviously, on the basis of all of this, 886 00:39:03,330 --> 00:39:09,210 we should treat them with compassion, great care. 887 00:39:09,870 --> 00:39:14,270 A fourth point, God condemns murderers. 888 00:39:15,110 --> 00:39:16,530 God condemns murderers. 889 00:39:16,730 --> 00:39:18,410 Condemnation of murderers is the will of God. 890 00:39:20,110 --> 00:39:23,790 Shall not murder, Genesis 9, 6, whoever sheds 891 00:39:23,790 --> 00:39:25,690 man's blood, by man shall his blood be 892 00:39:25,690 --> 00:39:27,330 shed for in the image of God made 893 00:39:27,330 --> 00:39:27,930 he man. 894 00:39:29,650 --> 00:39:31,530 You know, when Reuben and his brother sold 895 00:39:31,530 --> 00:39:33,610 Joseph into slavery in Genesis 42, as soon 896 00:39:33,610 --> 00:39:35,410 as he was gone, Reuben says this, now 897 00:39:35,410 --> 00:39:38,990 comes the reckoning for his blood. 898 00:39:39,890 --> 00:39:42,190 Remember when Cain killed Abel and the blood 899 00:39:42,190 --> 00:39:44,310 of Abel in the ground cried out to 900 00:39:44,310 --> 00:39:45,130 God for vengeance? 901 00:39:45,230 --> 00:39:46,810 You go through the Old Testament, you'll find 902 00:39:46,810 --> 00:39:51,690 Leviticus, Joshua, Samuel, Kings, Ezekiel, all kinds of 903 00:39:51,690 --> 00:39:54,890 comment about blood guiltiness, that the blood of 904 00:39:54,890 --> 00:39:58,750 those slaughtered cries out for vengeance from God. 905 00:40:00,090 --> 00:40:02,130 And that's the plight that this country's in. 906 00:40:03,750 --> 00:40:05,730 We're just another country like all the rest 907 00:40:05,730 --> 00:40:06,970 that have gone down this same path. 908 00:40:07,050 --> 00:40:09,530 This is blatant paganism at its most rank 909 00:40:09,530 --> 00:40:13,490 level, at its most base level, headed for 910 00:40:13,490 --> 00:40:15,250 judgment and a sea of blood for the 911 00:40:15,250 --> 00:40:18,090 murder of babies, along with all the other 912 00:40:18,090 --> 00:40:20,830 perversions that go with it. 913 00:40:22,170 --> 00:40:24,470 And I don't think that anything shows more 914 00:40:24,470 --> 00:40:27,650 clearly the moral collapse of a society than 915 00:40:27,650 --> 00:40:30,350 the mass murder of little ones in the 916 00:40:30,350 --> 00:40:31,130 wombs of mothers. 917 00:40:32,490 --> 00:40:35,130 It's so horrific, it's hard to even comprehend. 918 00:40:36,270 --> 00:40:38,590 A nation of murderers in the ground cries 919 00:40:38,590 --> 00:40:39,210 out to God. 920 00:40:39,210 --> 00:40:43,470 Well, by the way, the religious coalition for 921 00:40:43,470 --> 00:40:45,990 abortion is made up of the Church of 922 00:40:45,990 --> 00:40:49,150 the Brotherhood and Christian churches, Episcopal churches, Presbyterian 923 00:40:49,150 --> 00:40:52,090 churches, United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, 924 00:40:52,190 --> 00:40:57,010 United Presbyterian Church and the YWCA, etc. 925 00:40:58,390 --> 00:41:00,290 And the judgment of God awaits. 926 00:41:01,970 --> 00:41:03,930 I have two final comments and you need 927 00:41:03,930 --> 00:41:04,510 to hear them. 928 00:41:05,710 --> 00:41:08,090 This is my last point, number five, and 929 00:41:08,090 --> 00:41:11,430 then another comment, number five, overruling grace redeems 930 00:41:11,430 --> 00:41:12,250 murdered infants. 931 00:41:13,030 --> 00:41:13,750 Did you hear that? 932 00:41:14,170 --> 00:41:16,210 Please, come back if you've been somewhere else 933 00:41:16,210 --> 00:41:16,550 mentally. 934 00:41:18,850 --> 00:41:22,550 Overruling grace redeems murdered infants. 935 00:41:23,910 --> 00:41:26,130 That doesn't make it right any more than 936 00:41:26,130 --> 00:41:29,710 Judas would be honored for betraying Christ, even 937 00:41:29,710 --> 00:41:33,310 though Christ won our redemption through His death. 938 00:41:33,790 --> 00:41:36,890 Even though the Romans brought Him to a 939 00:41:36,890 --> 00:41:38,930 cross that redeemed us, and the Jews sent 940 00:41:38,930 --> 00:41:41,010 Him to a cross that saved us, they're 941 00:41:41,010 --> 00:41:42,290 not to be commended. 942 00:41:43,890 --> 00:41:47,050 It's overruling grace that overrules sin. 943 00:41:48,050 --> 00:41:50,750 Overruling grace redeems murdered infants. 944 00:41:51,090 --> 00:41:52,310 I want to show you that, and I 945 00:41:52,310 --> 00:41:53,650 have a book called Safe in the Arms 946 00:41:53,650 --> 00:41:54,090 of God. 947 00:41:54,150 --> 00:41:55,570 If you have questions about this issue, get 948 00:41:55,570 --> 00:41:56,910 the little book, Safe in the Arms of 949 00:41:56,910 --> 00:41:57,090 God. 950 00:41:57,090 --> 00:41:57,610 It's all there. 951 00:41:57,970 --> 00:41:59,550 But I just want you to listen to 952 00:41:59,550 --> 00:42:05,810 this, Psalm 22, the psalmist, "'Yet You are 953 00:42:05,810 --> 00:42:08,730 He who brought me forth from the womb. 954 00:42:09,090 --> 00:42:12,550 You made me trust when upon my mother's 955 00:42:12,550 --> 00:42:16,790 breasts, upon You I was cast from birth. 956 00:42:17,250 --> 00:42:21,370 You have been my God from my mother's 957 00:42:21,370 --> 00:42:22,690 womb.'" What a statement. 958 00:42:24,050 --> 00:42:28,970 The psalmist knows that he belonged to God 959 00:42:28,970 --> 00:42:30,370 when he was in the womb. 960 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:36,420 You have been my God from my mother's 961 00:42:36,420 --> 00:42:36,960 womb. 962 00:42:38,660 --> 00:42:42,140 That's why when David's baby died in 2 963 00:42:42,140 --> 00:42:44,420 Samuel 12, he said, "'He can't come to 964 00:42:44,420 --> 00:42:48,000 me, but I will go to Him.'" Overruling 965 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,000 grace redeems the little ones, takes them to 966 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:51,340 glory. 967 00:42:51,340 --> 00:42:54,400 And God in grace redeems those who have 968 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:58,280 been slaughtered, but holds the killers responsible for 969 00:42:58,280 --> 00:42:58,760 the crime. 970 00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:03,140 Final word, there is forgiveness for that sin. 971 00:43:04,580 --> 00:43:05,600 Like any sin. 972 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,620 You say, but it's so severe, it's murder. 973 00:43:09,860 --> 00:43:11,700 Jesus said this in the Sermon on the 974 00:43:11,700 --> 00:43:13,720 Mount, if you hate somebody, you're as bad 975 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:14,240 as a murderer. 976 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,040 Just so you don't feel self-righteous because 977 00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:20,360 you haven't killed any babies or anybody else. 978 00:43:21,180 --> 00:43:23,880 If you've hated anyone, you're a murderer in 979 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:24,260 your heart. 980 00:43:25,140 --> 00:43:26,400 Can murder be forgiven? 981 00:43:26,500 --> 00:43:27,440 Ask the Apostle Paul. 982 00:43:28,820 --> 00:43:32,320 He was a murderer and a blasphemer and 983 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:33,120 he found grace. 984 00:43:34,180 --> 00:43:39,520 There's forgiveness and restoration completely available in Christ. 985 00:43:40,900 --> 00:43:42,820 Our Father, we thank You that You have 986 00:43:42,820 --> 00:43:46,800 drawn us into this place today to worship 987 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:50,820 You and to exalt You and glorify Your 988 00:43:50,820 --> 00:43:51,120 name. 989 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,580 That's what we've endeavored to do even in 990 00:43:54,580 --> 00:43:57,900 this very difficult subject. 991 00:43:59,060 --> 00:44:03,260 We know that we can't sweep away the 992 00:44:03,260 --> 00:44:04,580 tsunami with our little broom. 993 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:10,160 We know that the tsunami is coming and 994 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,560 it's coming with divine power of destruction. 995 00:44:14,900 --> 00:44:16,500 But we can stand up for what is 996 00:44:16,500 --> 00:44:16,880 right. 997 00:44:17,940 --> 00:44:19,800 We can be a salt and light, a 998 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,240 righteous testimony in an unrighteous world. 999 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,880 Help us to do that and help us 1000 00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:28,540 to look at these people who advocate all 1001 00:44:28,540 --> 00:44:30,480 of this the way Jeremiah looked at his 1002 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:35,580 sinful people, with sadness, not with hatred. 1003 00:44:36,380 --> 00:44:37,820 We hate the evil. 1004 00:44:38,140 --> 00:44:39,960 We hate the wicked and what they do. 1005 00:44:41,140 --> 00:44:44,420 And yet we, like Jeremiah, wish that our 1006 00:44:44,420 --> 00:44:47,800 heads were fountains so that we would have 1007 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,400 no end to the repository of tears that 1008 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,520 we could weep for those who will fall 1009 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:55,120 under judgment. 1010 00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,780 And we pray, Lord, that You will lift 1011 00:44:58,780 --> 00:45:01,640 up Jesus Christ in this nation and all 1012 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:07,880 the false professors, the false people who claim 1013 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:11,400 to know You and Your Son would be 1014 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,720 exposed in their own hearts, first of all, 1015 00:45:13,780 --> 00:45:14,940 for their own eternal safety. 1016 00:45:16,340 --> 00:45:17,820 And that we might know what the true 1017 00:45:17,820 --> 00:45:20,320 gospel is and true love for Christ. 1018 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,860 We might know what truth is, what righteousness 1019 00:45:23,860 --> 00:45:24,380 is. 1020 00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,860 We don't have any right to ask for 1021 00:45:27,860 --> 00:45:29,980 anything for this country, for we have no 1022 00:45:29,980 --> 00:45:31,160 promises from You for that. 1023 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:33,600 But we do ask that there might be, 1024 00:45:33,740 --> 00:45:36,160 even in this dark, dark hour, a great 1025 00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,660 moving of the truth and the gospel to 1026 00:45:39,660 --> 00:45:42,720 save sinners before the judgment is final. 1027 00:45:43,940 --> 00:45:46,500 And make us shining lights in the midst 1028 00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:50,220 of the darkness and exalt Your Son, we 1029 00:45:50,220 --> 00:45:51,140 pray in His name.