Jeremiah 01:05 The Sanctity of Life – audio

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(Abortion Sermons presented in 2005,  2006,  2008,  2012,  2013)

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Text: Jeremiah 1:5

Introduction

A. For forty years we have lived with the silent, and sometimes not so silent, holocaust in our midst as the lives of 55 million innocent and unborn children have been killed, plucked from their journey to enter this world.

1. Who were they? Who would they have become?

2. The unmarried graduate student who gave birth to hi-tech guru and co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, may well have aborted this child had her pregnancy occurred in 1973 rather than 1955.

3. This past week former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, recovering victim of a crazed gunman, visited, along with her husband Mark Kelly, Newtown, Connecticut, site of the latest horrible shooting incident.

4. In their public remarks, they expressed concern that our society has become “desensitized to acts of violence.”

a. Appropriate words, I think, that certainly should be considered in the broadest possible sense in our effort to grasp our willingness to tolerate, even nurture, the open and flourishing presence of evil in our society.

b. It takes a deadening of the soul to permit this, a state of being “desensitized.”

c. We know it because when those senses are awakened, our indifference and willingness to tolerate evil is pushed back.

d. When William Wilberforce fought to abolish the slave trade in England, he moved a boatload of the elite into proximity of a slave ship to smell the stench. Their senses were awakened and a major step forward was achieved to end the horror.

e. Reformed slave trader John Newton composed “

,” with the unforgettable line “Was blind but now I see.”

5. If there is good news, it is that, slowly, America seems to be coming to its senses regarding destruction of unborn children.

a. A Time Magazine cover story announced “40 years ago abortion-rights activists won an epic victory with Roe v Wade: They’ve been losing ever since.”

b. But in noting that ultrasound has reduced the willingness of Americans to tolerate abortion, author of the story Kate Pickert misses the key point when she writes, “Thanks to prenatal ultrasound, Americans now understand what a fetus look like and that babies born as early as 24 weeks can now survive.”

6. Ultrasound is sensitizing a desensitized American public that has been willing to tolerate this horror over these forty years.

a. Wars are not won overnight. Victory is achieved battle by battle.

b. Wilberforce did not stop slavery, but he stopped the slave trade.

c. Lincoln’s first aspiration was not total abolition of slavery in America, but making it illegal in new entrants to the Union.

7. A battle before us now, as the American soul awakens to the evil of abortion, is to end the waste of US taxpayer funds, which now provide almost half the budget of the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.

B. The very basic fundamentals of human life begins with Genesis

1. We are a part of God’s eternal plan – Ephesians 2:10

2. Notice what God told Jeremiah – Jeremiah 1:5

Body

I. OUR PRESENT DAY HOLOCAUST

A. On September 11, 2001 over 3500 lives were extinguished do the bombing of the world trade towers in New York. In that crowd of people there were potential doctors, scientists, preachers, future leaders whose lives were taken due to evil terrorists.

B. What did not make the headlines on September 12, 2001, the very next day, was the 4000 lives that were extinguished by what is called pro-choice. It happen again on September 13, 14, 15 etc. Each day since 1973 approximately 4000 unborn babies are aborted each day, 28,000 each week, 112,000 each month, 1,460,000 each year.

1. One September 11, 2001 Terrorist killed over 3500 people, and the outcry for justice was heard around the world.

2. But, 4000 unborn babies are being taken every day, and I see no weeping, no anger, and no outcry for justice.

3. The penalty for killing an unborn eagle in this country is a fine of up to $5000 and up to five years in prison. But, the killing of an unborn baby is not considered a crime at all, as long as the mother approves.

4. One in four women have had an abortion and one in ten women in a church have an abortion.

5. AMERICAN WAR CASUALTIES

– REVOLUTIONARY WAR 25,324

– CIVIL WAR 498,332

– WORLD WAR II 407,316

– KOREAN WAR 54,246

– VIETNAM WAR 56,655

– GULF WAR 293

– WAR ON THE UNBORN 31,000,000 since abortion was legalize in 1973.
Over 6 times the number of casualties in all the wars combined.

C. Psalm 139:13-16 – For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 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.

1. Within 21 days the baby’s backbone, spinal cord, and nervous system are forming and a small heart is present and beating.

2. At one month arms and legs are present. There is a head with rudimentary eyes, ears, mouth, and brain. The digestive system has begun. The baby is still only one-fourth of an inch long, but he is ten thousand times larger than when he began.

3. At 2 months the baby is fully formed. He reacts to stimuli such as tickling. He will try to grasp a tiny instrument with his tiny hand. He “swims” or moves about in the amniotic fluid. He has fingerprints.

4. By the end of the 3rd month, as one observer notes, “he can kick his legs, turn his feet, curl and fan his toes, makes a fist, move his thumb, bend his wrist, turn his head, squint, frown, open his mouth,” swallow, and breathe.

a. The lack of value for life today is the result of godlessness. Many of our universities and schools have taught our young people that human beings are nothing more than highly organized, animated slime.

b. Our children are taught that they are cosmic accidents, nothing more than time + chance + matter. Our society has rejected the belief that HUMANS HAVE INTRINSIC DIGNITY BECAUSE THEY ARE CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD

1. The Psalmist tells us – Psalm 127:3 – Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord.

2. Did you know that you are God’s crowning creation?

3. Did you know that you’re the greatest thing that God every created

4. You Were Created in God’s Image.

5. Do you know why you’re so valuable to God? Because you look just like Him!

6. Genesis 1:27 – So God created man in His own image.

7. Don’t you ever convince yourself that your worthless. Don’t you ever buy into the lie that no one loves you.

8. You:
– are not an accident.
– were not mass-produced.
– are not an assembly-line product.

9. You were:
– deliberately planned.
– specifically gifted.
– lovingly positioned on this earth by the Master Craftsman.

10. Psalm 100:3 – Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

II. ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

A. Story – “It Matters to This One”

A young man was walking along the seashore. Far ahead of him, he saw a another man walking towards him. He paused every few steps, stooped down, throwing something into the sea.

The young man hurried forward, his feet awkward in the sand, as he tried to catch up with the man. As he came closer, he saw that it was an old man, and the reason that he would stop every step or two was to pick up a starfish and fling it into the ocean. It was only then that the young man noticed the thousands of starfish that littered the beach for miles, stranded there by the tide.

The young man rather was rather curious. What the old man was doing seemed so pointless, and he couldn’t wait to catch up with him to tell him so. The young man came near the older man.

“Why are you doing this?” he gasped. “You can’t save all of these starfish! It’s useless! What does it matter?”

The old man paused for a moment, looking down at the crusty starfish he’d just picked up. He turned it over slowly, then answered. “It matters to this one,”

III. TWO POSSIBLE OPTIONS ACCEPTABLE TO GOD FOR AN UNWANTED PREGNANCY:

A. Raise and Love the Child.

B. Adoption.

C. Neither one is a good option, but they are the only answers to a bad situation.

D. ABORTION IS MURDER (A sin to correct a sin!!!)

Conclusion

1. The good news is that you can have forgiveness.

2. The good news is you can have help from brothers and sisters in Christ

3. God loves you. Do you love God?

4. Jesus says if you love me keep my commandments – John 14:15