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Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the
belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I
sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
I believe that at the
moment of conception a never-dying soul is born.
Nine months later its body is born.
The soul was born before its parents could conceive of what they
had done, and long before they could consider preventing its body from
entering the world. Even if
their body dies their never dying soul does not!
And so, we are all
born with an identity given to us by our REAL Creator.
Today, we remember those we call the 'unborn.'
And let's be careful not to forget that the Sanctity of Life
should also apply to all of us whose bodies have been born as well!
[special needs / elderly / orphans / trafficked / imprisoned /
impoverished]
How awesome would it
be if someday in
America
abortion were both illegal and unthinkable!
I wish that in the future, Sanctity of Human Life Sunday would
seem as unnecessary as a Reality of Gravity Sunday.
It's a natural understanding:
The earth holds us to it.
And life is just as natural a realization, and GOD will hold us
to that!
Abortion is unnatural.
And we live in the last days in which the Bible says love will
wax cold and mankind will have unnatural affection.
This weighs heavily upon us.
Let's consider today the gravity of our situation!
The gravity of our
situation is this: As I’m
preaching there are babies warmly nestled in wombs nearby who won’t be
there tomorrow, as Planned Parenthood began performing the first
abortions in our town a few weeks ago. I’m reminded that there are
children, maybe even blocks from this pulpit, who’ll be slapped,
punched, and burned with cigarettes before nightfall. I’m reminded that
there are elderly men and women languishing away in loneliness, their
lives pronounced to be a waste.
But there is some good
news today. God is good, no
matter how bad mankind becomes.
And when I think about the fact that I serve a congregation that
is on board the right to life movement, and who believe in adoption, my
spirit leaps! [Sarah C. / Linda S.] I love to reflect on those who serve
at NLPC. And I love to see men and women who have aborted babies find
their sins forgiven, even this sin, and their consciences cleansed by
Christ.
We're a church.
We won't stop celebrating Christmas. We’ll always remember
Easter. But I hope and pray, please Lord, someday soon, that Sanctity of
Human Life Sunday is unnecessary.
[Russell Moore]
There's more good news
to come, but first, let's face the bad news...
In God’s eyes, Life is Sacred, but in America, Life is
Scared! [and now in Decatur]
Margaret Sanger
was a racist / wanted black children aborted / founded Planned
Parenthood. What a
reputation. What a mockery
of our community!
As of this
semester, a new form is being handed out to girls at school.
With a parent's signature, a pregnant girl can be escorted by a
school counselor for an abortion without a parent present for the
procedure. This has been the
case already in the past.
What's new now? A check box:
"Check here if you do not wish to be contacted"
Let me interpret for you - You can now forge your parent's
signature and check the box in order to get away with it!
Now, try to tell me that's for privacy reasons, rather than for
evil motive, hatched in the halls of hell!
These things make our
blood boil...as they should!
It's called righteous indignation, and Jesus showed it on behalf of
innocent blood, which cries out to God!
Have you ever seen an
apparently healthy driver pull into a parking space marked "Handicapped"
at the store? A feeling of indignation rises in your chest, doesn't it?
"They shouldn't take advantage that way!" you comment to your
companions.
Yet when someone is
pregnant with a child that the "experts" say may be less than perfect,
they are encouraged to eliminate it. Or when an elderly person has been
partially incapacitated by illness, some advocate facilitating their
demise.
Why is it that, in the
first instance at the store, being disabled engenders a desire to
protect, to defend, to stand up for; and in the other two, there's only
a desire to get rid of "the problem?" The unborn need a voice.
ill.--special needs
boy being abused
We must not overlook those who have challenges in this life.
I say this not only as
the preacher today, but as the father of a little autistic boy.
Jesus showed special concern for the lame, the blind, the woman
with the issue of blood, the lepers. In our day we mustn't forget.
Ill.--[how
many girls? What's normal?
We're ALL special needs!]
Some studies report
that as many as 90% of couples faced with an amniocentesis report of
probable Down's Syndrome will choose to abort. Yet, do you know anyone
with a Down's child that doesn't tell you that child is the light of
their life, an absolute joy, the most loving person they've ever known?
Our Lord placed great value on those whom society has shuffled
aside.
While on his knees,
the leper begged Jesus to make him clean. The Bible says in Mark 1:41
And Jesus,
moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith
unto him, I will; be thou clean.
He TOUCHED a person
with leprosy. An
undesirable. He took a risk
and did what no one else would do!
God has led that this
message be one of good news, and here it is:
Aborted babies go to
heaven! They do exist!
Their soul was born at conception and they received their
identity, and it is every bit as real as yours or mine!
Stillborn babies go to
heaven.
Miscarried babies go
to heaven.
Young children who die
go to heaven.
"Will my baby go to
heaven if it dies?" "Can my
mentally challenged youngster get saved?"
As a Pastor I get the first question a lot.
As the parent of a special needs child, I have asked the latter.
What does the Bible say on this subject?
I once heard a
preacher say that because of I
Peter 3:20 all the babies in Noah's flood went to Hell:
I Peter 3:20
...while the ark was a
preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
His reasoning was, because it said that just eight souls were saved,
all those babies went to Hell. Of course the phrase is referring to the
eight in the ark being saved by floating on top of the water, NOT soul
salvation. We don't actually know that all of Noah's family was born
again!
Ready for your blood
to boil again? The
Hyper-Calvinist believes that only the elect, including just the elected
babies go to Heaven, the non-elected babies burn forever in Hell. All
the "nuts" ain't in the "nut house".
What does the Bible
really say about this?
The most common answer
given by Bible literalists is the story of David’s baby that died.
II Sam. 12:15-23 –
David had sinned with Bathsheba, and Nathan the prophet is confronting
the king for his adultery and the murder which followed.
The wages of sin is death / The soul that sinneth, it shall die
God struck the baby
with an illness and he died.
2 Samuel 12:23
But now he is dead,
wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him,
but he shall not return to me.
This is a special
illustration that little ones are safe until they are old enough to be
saved. And it’s special to
people like my wife and I who have lost a little one.
Most of all today, it
stands as a bright beacon of hope in the midst of the abortion
holocaust.
But the Bible has much
more to say on this subject than this classic answer.
Genesis
18:25 ...Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Yes, He will: Let’s look at some Scriptures that will shed some
light on this very important subject.
Genesis 2:17
...of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the
day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Deuteronomy 1:34-39 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and
was wroth, and sware, saying, Surely there shall not one of these men
of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give
unto your fathers, Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and
to him will I give the land that he hat trodden upon, and to his
children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD. Also the LORD was
angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
But Joshua the son of Nun, which stinted before thee, he shall go in
thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel
to inherit it. Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a
prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good
and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it,
and they shall possess it.
Children are safe
until they have a knowledge of good and evil, not just right and wrong.
You can teach a baby right and wrong, but you can't teach him good and
evil. This comes to different people at different ages.
Why do some babies
die?
Because of Adam's
sin, he died and we all came from Adam, then we will all die because we
all sin. Whatever happened to Adam's blood was passed on to his
descendants, that's all of us.
Romans 5:14
Nevertheless death
reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned (babies
and the mentally challenged) after the similitude of Adam's
transgression...
What about babies,
they don't sin?
Romans 5:19
For as by one man's
disobedience (Adam) many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one
(Jesus Christ) shall many be made righteous.
They were made
sinners because of Adam's sin.
How do you know
babies aren't in Hell then?
Romans 4:8
Blessed is the man to
whom the Lord will not impute sin.
“Impute” = to assign,
place, pin on, put on the account of.
Does the Bible say
there are sinners whose sin isn't charged to them?
Romans
4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is,
there is no transgression.
Romans 5:13 (For until the law sin was in
the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.)
You don't have to
worry about the delayed/retarded people, small children, and babies that
die in infancy and birth, The fact that that child is born dead in
trespasses and sins means absolutely nothing at all, because sin isn't
imputed to the child.
BABIES ARE NOT
ACCOUNTABLE BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW.
II Peter 3:9
The Lord is ... not
willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
If God is not willing for any to perish, and He isn't, then if
babies die and go to hell, God is responsible, because they had no
opportunity to be saved. In other words if a child dies because of
Adam's sin, which, by the way, they sometimes do...
Romans 5:12
Wherefore, as by one
man (ADAM) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
...then the child
died without knowingly committing a sin, therefore he can be saved
without an act of receiving Jesus Christ.
Romans 4:6
Even as David also
describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth
righteousness without works,
Thank God for the
truth of imputation. For God
imputes righteousness to us at salvation.
Then thru a lifelong sanctification process He imparts more
righteousness. But what He
imputed was already enough for heaven!
Thank God He doesn’t
impute sin upon these little ones until they have knowledge of good and
evil.
James 4:17
Therefore to
him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
The Lord doesn't charge sin
to a mentally challenged person, if it’s beyond their grasp.
However, salvation is simple…even a child…ESPECIALLY a child, can
understand and receive it!
The same goes for a
baby that dies in infancy or any boy or girl that died before they come
to place in their life that they had knowledge between good and evil.
The Lord doesn't charge sin to those of us who are saved -
do you think He'd charge it to a
baby? We need only to keep our
kids in church, and we must be living it at home, and in time they will
be privileged to come to that knowledge at a good age for them.
What age will that be?
Different for each one.
Having them under the gospel and teaching them right at home can
speed things up...not that we should try to push it too quickly.
Truth is, they also have to come to the knowledge of evil and
sin, not just the knowledge of the truth.
And they will naturally come to understand right and wrong
whether they are in church or not.
Every day millions of children reach the 'age of accountability'
and most of them don't know how to be saved.
We must reach them!
And for those who ask,
what if God takes them just after they come to that knowledge?
If He did that it wouldn't be fair and right and the verse says:
Genesis 18:25 ...Shall
not the Judge of all the earth do right?
You know He will!
Ill.--Max
Lucado tells in his book, The Applause of Heaven, about a sweater
that hangs in his closet. He says he seldom wears it -- it's too small,
the sleeves are too short, the shoulders too tight, some of the buttons
are missing, the thread is frazzled. Logically, he says, he should throw
out that sweater since he has no use for it and will never wear it
again. It simply takes up space in his closet.
That's what logic
says. But love, he reports, won't let him.
Why not? What's
unusual about that sweater? To start with, it has no label, no tag
telling you "Wash in cold water."
That's because it wasn't made in a factory, produced on an assembly line
as the product of a nameless employee earning a living. Rather, it was
the creation of a devoted mother expressing her love -- his
mother. That sweater is unique, one of a kind, irreplaceable. Each
strand was chosen with care, each thread selected with affection.
And so, even though
that sweater has lost all of its use, it has lost none of its value. It
is valuable not because of its function, but because of its MAKER. So is
each life.
[Some material
gleaned from Pastor Tommy H. Heffner Sr.]
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