Christians Must Stand for Life Body and Soul

Christians Must Stand for Life Body and Soul Samuel L. Abbate MD

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2 Corinthians 7:10 Two Kinds of Sorrow For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.

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Psalm 103:12 Nacham As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Romans 8:1 Nacham Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 1 Nacham 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Embryology: One of the Greatest Proofs For the Existence of God

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God and the Creation of Man 1. God Created Man: General Involvement 2. God Creates Man: Specific Involvement 3. God Knows Our Lives in Advance 4. God s Care for Us Beyond the Womb 5. We are Responsible to Act

Genesis 1:26 27 Imago Dei: Basis for Dignity of Mankind 26 Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; 27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

God said, Let there be v. 3 Light v. 6 an expanse between the waters vv. 9 10 dry land vegetation v. 14. lights in the heavens v. 24 living creatures

Genesis 2 Unique Process of Man s Creation 7 Then YEHOVAH God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Colossians 1 Yeshua Involved in Out Creation 16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

Job 33:4 Spirit and Father are Both Involved. The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty [El Shaddai] gives me life.

Proverbs 20 Specialized Organs Created not Evolved 12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, YEHOVAH has made both of them.

Ecclesiastes 11:5 God s Creative Powers: Beyond Our Comprehension Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.

Psalm 139:13 16 God is involved in forming each of us. 13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother s womb. 14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.

Psalm 139:13 16 15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; 16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.

Job:10:8, 10 11 God is involved in forming each of us. (2) 8 Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, 10 Did You not 11 Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?

Psalm 119:73 Our response to God forming us. Your hands made me and fashioned me; Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.

Job 31:13 15 Equality Before Our Creator. 13 If I have despised the claim of my male or female slaves when they filed a complaint against me, 14 What then could I do when God arises? And when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him? 15 Did not He who made me in the womb make him, And the same one fashion us in the womb?

Isaiah 44:24 Creator Man and Universe. Thus says YEHOVAH, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, I, YEHOVAH, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself And spreading out the earth all alone,

Psalm 139:16 David 16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.

Psalm 22:9 10 David 2 9 Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb; You made me trust when upon my mother s breasts. 10 Upon You I was cast from birth; You have been my God from my mother s womb.

Jeremiah 1:5 Jeremiah Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.

Isaiah 49:1 Isaiah Listen to Me, O islands, And pay attention, you peoples from afar. YEHOVAH called Me from the womb; From the body of My mother He named Me.

Isaiah 49:5 Isaiah 2 And now says, YEHOVAH who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel might be gathered to Him (For I am honored in the sight of YEHOVAH, and My God is My strength)

Luke 1:5 19 John the Baptist 13 Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your petition has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will give him the name John... 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother s womb.

Luke1:5 19 John the Baptist 16 And he will turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God. 17 It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, TO TURN THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS BACK TO THE CHILDREN, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

Matthew 1:18 25 Jesus: Gabriel to Joseph 20 Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.

Matthew 1:18 25 Jesus: Gabriel to Joseph 22 Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet: 23 BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which translated means, GOD WITH US.

Luke 1:26 38 Jesus: Gabriel to Mary 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; 33 and His kingdom will have no end.

Galatians 1:15 16 Paul 15 But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother s womb and called me through His grace, was pleased 16 to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles,

Ephesians 2:10 Every Believer For we are God s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Job 10:12 Our Creation the First of His Loving Actions You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.

Psalm 138:8 Our Creation the First of His Loving Actions (2) YEHOVAH will accomplish what concerns me; [Ephesians 2:10] Your lovingkindness, O YEHOVAH, is everlasting; Do not forsake the works of Your hands. [Philippians 4:19]

Isaiah 46:3 4 God Created Us and Will Watch Over Us 3 Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, You who have been borne by Me from birth And have been carried from the womb; 4 Even to your old age I will be the same, And even to your graying years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you.

Psalm 71:4 6 God Created Us and Will Watch Over Us 4 Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, Out of the grasp of the wrongdoer and ruthless man, 5 For You are my hope; O Lord YEHOVAH, You are my confidence from my youth.

Psalm 71:4 6 God Created Us and Will Watch Over Us 6 By You I have been sustained from my birth; You are He who took me [brought me] from my mother s womb; My praise is continually of You.

Isaiah 44:2 Creation and Ongoing Care. Thus says YEHOVAH who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you, Do not fear, O Jacob My servant; And you Jeshurun [Israel] whom I have chosen

Proverbs 24:11 12 We Will Not be Blameless 11 Deliver those who are being taken away to death, and those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back. 12 If you say, See, we did not know this, Does He not consider it who weighs the hearts? And does He not know it who keeps your soul? And will He not render to man according to his work?

Exodus 21:22 25 Unborn Life = Adult Life 22 If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.

Exodus 21:22 25 23 But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. Unborn Life = Adult Life

Proverbs 6:16 19 Unborn Life = Innocent Blood 16 There are six things which YEHOVAH hates Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: 17 Haughty eyes, alying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that run rapidly to evil, 19 A false witness who utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.

2 Kings 17:16 20 Israel s Sin Included Child Sacrifice 17 Then they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of YEHOVAH, provoking Him. 18 So YEHOVAH was very angry with Israel and removed them from His sight; none was left except the tribe of Judah.

Jeremiah 32:35 Judah s Sin Included Child Sacrifice 35 They built the high places of Baal that are in the valley of Ben hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I had not commanded them nor had it entered My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

Jeremiah 7:31 Judah s Sin Included Child Sacrifice (2) 31 They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire,

Child Sacrifice Ancient Child Sacrifice: 2 Kings 17:16 20 Judah s Sin of Child Sacrifice: Jeremiah 32:35 Jeremiah 7:31 False gods: Baal, Molech, Topheth

Ezekiel 3:16 21 Watchmen on the Wall 17 Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me. 18 When I say to the wicked, You will surely die, and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 3:16 21 Watchmen on the Wall 19 Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself.

Ezekiel 3:16 21 Watchmen on the Wall 20 Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 3:16 21 Watchmen on the Wall 21 However, if you have warned the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; and you have delivered yourself.

Ezekiel 33:11 God Longs for Repentance 11 Say to them, As I live! declares YEHOVAH GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 33:17 21 Men Dare to Call God Unrighteous 17 Yet your fellow citizens say, The way of YEHOVAH is not right, when it is their own way that is not right.

Ezekiel 33:17 21 Men Dare to Call God Unrighteous 17 Yet your fellow citizens say, The way of YEHOVAH is not right, when it is their own way that is not right. 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it.

Ezekiel 33:17 21 Men Dare to Call God Unrighteous 19 But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness, he will live by them. 20 Yet you say, The way of YEHOVAH is not right. O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.

Job 40:8 Men Dare to Call God Unrighteous Will you really annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me that you may be justified?