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Welcome!Sunday
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5:30 PM
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Serving Sunday AM Sunday PM WednesdayUsher Gerald van Fleet Gerald van Fleet Gerald van Fleet
Opening Prayer Anthony Ward Michael Hetzer
Opening/Head Ryan Sollars
CommunionCaleb WhiteSteven Root
Michael Hetzer
Rob Wade
Song Leader Chris Willis Barry Root Chris Willis
Announcement Curt Davis Rob Wade Ryan Sollars
Adult Class Anthony Ward
Invitation Curt Davis
Romans 15:9"For this reason I will confess to You among
the Gentiles, and sing to Your name."
Hymns Invitation
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Human Life and God
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"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
Genesis 4:11, Exodus 20:13
Thou Shalt Not MurderRomans 13:9, James 2:11
Is Abortion Murder?
Defining Murder: “In the image of God He made man”
When is a human “made” in the image of God?
Unborn ChildrenWhen 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 ChildrenWhen 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 ChildrenWhen 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 ChildrenWhen 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 ChildrenWhen is Human Life “made in the image of God”?"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;”
Jeremiah 1:5
Unborn ChildrenWhen is Human Life “made in the image of God”?
God “forms” man within the wombMan is “in the image” from the womb
Unborn ChildrenWhen 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 ChildrenWhen 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 ChildrenWhen does a body have a soul?Death is when the Soul and Spirit departLife is when the Soul and Spirit arriveWhen life begins, a soul is present
Is Abortion a SinAccording to the Bible:
Murder is taking life with a soulWe have a soul when we are aliveAbortion 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:
AgeGenderContributionCommunicationIntelligence
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 choiceOr 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 ImmoralityAccording to the Bible:
Abortion is Murder Many are deceived today
Only worldly justifications for abortion
From Immoral to MoralHearing the Word of God
Romans 10:17Believing the Divinity of God
Mark 16:16Confession of Jesus Christ
Romans 10:9Repentance of Immorality
Acts 2:38Baptism to Change Morality
Acts 22:16