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Welcome!. Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones. Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 P M. Romans 15:9
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Welcome! Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM
Romans 15:9 "For this reason I will confess to You among the Gentiles, and sing to Your name."
Morality issues of Life: Abortion: Termination of pregnancy Euthanasia & End of Life choices
God Looks at Human Life "Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man's brother I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.”Genesis 9:5-6
God Looks at Human Life Genesis 4:11, Exodus 20:13 Thou Shalt Not Murder Romans 13:9, James 2:11 "Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man's brother I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.”Genesis 9:5-6
Is Abortion Murder? Defining Murder: “In the image of God He made man” When is a human “made” in the image of God?
Unborn Children When is Human Life “made in the image of God”? Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?Job 31:15
Unborn Children When is Human Life “made in the image of God”? Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?Job 31:15
Unborn Children When is Human Life “made in the image of God”? Thus says the LORD who made you and formed you from the womb Isaiah 44:2
Unborn Children When is Human Life “made in the image of God”? “……The LORD has called Me from the womb; From the matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name”Isaiah 49:1
Unborn Children When is Human Life “made in the image of God”? "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;”Jeremiah 1:5
Unborn Children When is Human Life “made in the image of God”? God “forms” man within the womb Man is “in the image” from the womb
Unborn Children When does a body have a soul? His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish. Psalm 146:4
Unborn Children When does a body have a soul? And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni Genesis 35:18
Unborn Children When does a body have a soul? Death is when the Soul and Spirit depart Life is when the Soul and Spirit arrive When life begins, a soul is present
Is Abortion a Sin According to the Bible: Murder is taking life with a soul We have a soul when we are alive Abortion sheds human blood
Abortion and Early Christianity “You shall not murder a child by abortion.“ (Didache 100AD)
Abortion & Early Christianity “You shall not murder a child by abortion.“ (Didache 100AD)
Abortion & Early Christianity “You shall not kill either the fetus by abortion or the new born" (Letter of Barnabas, 125AD)
Abortion & Early Christianity "We say that women who induce abortions are murderers, and will have to give account of it to God." (Athenagoras 150 AD)
Abortion & Early Christianity "...we are not permitted, since murder has been prohibited to us once and for all, even to destroy ...the fetus in the womb (Tertullian 180AD)
Worldly Morality: It is not a human life Estimation of life by: Age Gender Contribution Communication Intelligence
Worldly Morality: It is not a human life “Should I not pity Nineveh….” Jonah 4:11 "Behold, all souls are Mine….” Ezekiel 18:4 “God so loved the world…..” John 3:16
Worldly Morality: It is your body, your choice Selfishness Hedonism (worship pleasure)
Worldly Morality: It is your body, your choice Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Abortion is Immorality According to the Bible: Abortion is Murder Many are deceived today Only worldly justifications for abortion
From Immoral to Moral Hearing the Word of God Romans 10:17 Believing the Divinity of God Mark 16:16 Confession of Jesus Christ Romans 10:9 Repentance of Immorality Acts 2:38 Baptism to Change Morality Acts 22:16