Sanctity of Life Sunday

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1 Sanctity of Life Sunday

2 Roe v. Wade (1973) million abortions/yr. (>50 million) - 18% of abortions by Evangelicals -93 % are for social reasons

3 Wonder in the Womb

4 Psalm 139:13-15 For you formed my inward parts; You knitted me together in my mother's womb. I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are your works, my soul knows it very well.

5 Psalm 139:13-15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

6 Luke 1:39-44 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and shed entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb.

7 Luke 1:39-44 And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

8 Luke 1:39-44 For behold when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

9 1. The wonder in the Womb is God s doing!

10 Birth in the womb and death are only God s prerogative. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord (Job 1:21)

11 Birth is the knitting of God into His own image! Psalm 139: For you formed my inward parts; You knitted me together in my mother's womb. I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are your works, my soul knows it very well.

12 Birth is the knitting of God into His own image! Job 31:13-15 If I have despised the claim of my male or female slaves when they filed a complaint against me, what then could I do when God arises, and when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him? Did not He who made me in the womb make him, And the same one fashion us in the womb?

13 Genesis 1:27 In the beginning, God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 5:5 - Adam... fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

14 Genesis 9:6 - Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

15 James 3: With [our tongue] we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

16 Psalms 8:3 6 - When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands.

17 2. The wonder in the Womb is not a blob but a baby!

18 v And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. v For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

19 Sarah Marie Switzer at 23 weeks gestation

20 3. The wonder in the Womb is treated as a Person!

21 Verse 41 - When Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. Verse 44 Behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. Verses Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed...

22 Luke 1:14 15 the angel said, And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother s womb.

23 A person is able to experience joy! A person is able to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

24 4. The wonder in the Womb is the only thing in the universe which keeps on originating and lives forever!

25 5. The wonder in the Womb should move us to action!

26 Submit to God s Word and shape our thinking. Stir your heart. Pray earnestly for an awakening. Support alternatives to abortion. Use your democratic privileges. Spread the truth.

27 Wonder in the Womb