A Biblical Mandate Concerning Abortion

A Biblical Mandate Concerning Abortion

Introduction

January 22, — Roe Vs. Wade

Number of People that have lost their lives due to Abortion in the US since 1973?

Is it possible for one to publicly support abortion but privately oppose it?

Movie: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (I believe it is on Netflix)

R.C. Sproul: The church has neglected its duty to inform the public about abortion.

John Piper calls pastors that do not preach against abortion ! 

Piper: The law of our land is not only immoral but also ! 

The Guttmacher Institute: percent of women getting abortions identify as Catholic or . 

Eliminating abortion begins with eliminating it in the ! 

Francis Schaeffer: In the flesh, we can stress purity without love or love without purity but not both at the same time. To do that we must look moment by moment to the and the Holy Spirit. Without that, a stress on purity is legalism, and stress on love is compromise. 

The question for the Christian shouldn’t be: Is abortion right or wrong? The right question is: Does God ? 

RELIGION

James 1:27: Religion that is our and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affection, and to keep one’s self unstained from the world.

Orphans and widows: of those in severe distress. 

Jeremiah 22:3: Thus says the LORD:  Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

The survival of orphans and widows often of God’s people. 

Piper: Since God commands believers to care for children whose parents have been killed, He would also have us care for children whose . 

RESCUE

Proverbs 24:11-12: Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, ‘Behold, we did not know this,’ does not he who weights the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?

Show: Manhunt: Deadly Games

: A violent Killing or the Killing of a great number of people 

Lila Rose “ is Violence” 

FEARING GOD

Exodus 1:15ff: Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, when you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstone, and if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.  But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.

The Hebrew women understood that God created life therefore we do not . 

NEIGHBOR

Psalm 82:3-4: Vindicate the weak and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and destitute. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

Why don’t Christians come to the active defense of the unborn? Could it be that our definition of and we error on what it means to love our neighbor? 

Luke 10

This story beautifully illustrates who the victim’s was and also what it means to show in those circumstances. 

SACRIFICE

Leviticus 20:1-5: The Lord spoke to Moses saying, Say to the people of Israel, ‘Anyone of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death…I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanitary unclean and profane my holy name.  And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes t to that man when he gives one if his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, then I will set my face abasing that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him from whoring after Molech.

Those that to the killing of the innocent are in the same category as those who “whore” after Molech. 

BALANCE 

It is easy for Christians to become indignant over the (or generally the sin of others) but it is difficult to become angry and upset over our . 

Christian shouldn’t be defined by Christian . 

should drive Christian zeal. 

“There is a filled with
  Drawn from Immanuel’s ;
And sinners, plunged beneath that ,
  Lose their guilty stains:
  Lose all their guilty stains,
  Lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
  Lose all their guilty stains.” ~ William Cowper