R368 The Sanctity if Human Life

Life is power in the word life and there's power in the word of God today will hear from the powerful teaching of Dr. Don Wilton. We had to Psalm 139 for today's message on the sanctity of human life. Dr. Don Wilton open the word together. No were open to connect with you as well online@gwonline.org and now Dr. Don Wilton. Kindly take a copy of God's word this morning and turn with me. Psalm 139.

You will need your Bibles. As always, as we come together in God's house this morning we going to be looking at several passages of Scripture that I want us to begin with Psalm 139 the sanctity of human life. Let's read together, from verse 13, for you created my inmost being you and me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are wonderful.

I know that full will my frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place when I was woven together in the depths of the earth your eyes saw my unformed body all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Join me as we pray together how father this is such a very special moment.

It's special.

First of all because of your presence. We know that you hear Lord Jesus, but it's special also because of all the folks who worship with us by way of television people in their homes in nursing homes, raced homes, people in motel rooms on the road traveling and arresting the weary bodies man and woman who work in order to retain the wonderful society that we can live in the peace that we can enjoy policeman law enforcement officers father. There are people right now in workplaces that simply serve mankind, doctors and nurses. Those who attend this in right here in this beautiful century on Main Street and we were reminded of how grand it is to know that you will my bosses wife to smoke that there is nothing our father within our hearts that we have done that is beyond your forgiveness that you love us so tenderly and so wonderfully father just speak to us today. There are people here dear people, listening and watching and worshiping in places that we have no idea whose hearts are heavy like carrying burdens.

Lord, let them release those burdens to you today, may we lift high the name of Jesus, may we be hidden behind the cross might your sweet spirit move across this place. In Jesus name, amen. We live in a very unfortunate day of my age. In many ways. There's a lot we can be thankful for and I know that we all agree to that but circumstances. In today's day and age have closed so much of what we know to be right to become distorted and hidden.

Politics is the name of the game and when it comes to issues like the sanctity of human life. So many of the things that we read about in so many of the things that we say and so many of the things that we do all made with the ballot box in mind were either too afraid that the electorate is not going to return us because we ran opposed to an issue that society seemingly supports all.

Perhaps we are afraid to make and to take a stand on certain issues that God's sake before I roundly condemned any person who resorts to any form of violent activity in order to try and justify a spiritual stance in my opinion it nullifies what they are doing. The sad part is that today that when it comes down big issues is tender is the sanctity of human life. There is so much rhetoric there is such a great debate that there are people who become lost in the crossfire. There all people today watching us by way of television who are so very special. We want you to know how much we love you today. We want you to know that there is nothing that is beyond God's grace and his forgiveness. The sad part about what is happening in America today is the people that have become lost. The hurting Hawks and even here today. Upstairs and downstairs. They're all women, in particular, and many men whose hearts have been broken and have been seriously impacted because of the issue of human life.

I want to suggest to us this morning that we do two things.

First of all that together we look at the facts.

We cut the rhetoric can we forget about the politics. Let's just for a moment forget about Democrats and Republicans. This just forget about running for office. And what's popular and what's more popular investors lay aside all things that have so easily saved us and encompassed us and held us captive and let's all ask ourselves what of the facts. According to God's word.

Let's look at God's word. Let's say we already nation on the go, let's go back to Outlook's let's get back to Bethel.

Let's get back to the place of Jacob's commitment. Let's get back to the unsearchable riches of God in Christ Jesus, and we going to discover something so loveless, so incredible that God tells us that there is a new tomorrow. There is a new day that you and I can be free from these burdens that we carry young lady you can be set free to the you can be set free to the no matter what you've gone through no matter what prison sale you have found yourself captive for so many years.

Let's look at the facts and then in the second place. Let's all ask ourselves a question if this is what the Bible tells us what can we do about what can I do the Bible tell me that they something that I can practically respond to you today. What is my response as a Christian person to what God teaches about the sanctity of human life. So what all the fax number one life is God and God is life. That's the first and most fundamental fact that we have to begin with. In God's word Genesis 1 and this one in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. In verse 27 of the same chapter God created man in his own image. I'm not preaching about devolution of the but it always puzzles me that people say that we came from apes and monkeys and yet the Bible says that we were created in the image of God. And if that be true. That means that God was a knife or monkey. The Bible says in verse 27 that he created man in his own image. He told us we were special in Colossians chapter 1 verse 16 for by him were all things created. There is no exclusionary policy or principal as far as God's word is concern, and in Isaiah 64 and recite one of my favorite passages. But now the Lord you are our father. We are the clay and view all the Potter and all of us.

All the work of your hand. What a wonderful picture. I can just see the Potter sitting down at the park's wheel. Can you not making us fearfully and wonderfully in his presence, molding us from the very conception into what God has made us to be today with intricate detail. God is life and life is God. It means that he creates us, but it also means that he alone is responsible for life and put it despite Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Bible is very clear about euthanasia and about man's right to take life in first Samuel chapter 2 verse six brings days and makes a live brings down to the grave and the Lord rises up, listen to Deuteronomy chapter 30 in verse 19 I have saved before you life and therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live creates us. God is responsible for both life and death. The fact that on that basis. He direct excessive. God is life and life is God. God direct us. He doesn't just leave us to wander around. He he shows us he instructs us. He says to us, follow me from me. Oh baby, he not only directors but he warns us, God tells us that there are consequences when we do not follow his precepts and his principles and I am is chapter 1 and verse 13. The most horrific passage and I will not turn away its punishment.

Talking about the ammonites because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead.

I happen to be one of those pastas who believe that these passages are a direct reference to abortion.

I will not turn away punishment because they are guilty of ripping open the women with child in Matthew chapter 18 and verse 10 and I absolutely love this. I have parents come to me from time to time. Stillborn babies and babies that were not born at all lost three miscarriages. Dave said to me, what is happened to my unborn baby and I know because of what the Bible teaches that that baby that child. That person is transported into the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, that when the rapture of the church occurs, my friends, that the unborn baby in the womb of a non-Christian mother is going to be taken from her present listen to what Matthew 1810 tells us never despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that they have big guardian angels in heaven who all these people.

These guardian angels. They continually on the face of my heavenly father. What an incredible thing to think that life is God and God is life good look at the second fact, life is God's people that we read in Psalm 139 that we were fearfully made and wonderfully made. I believe my friend is that the fearful part about making is a reference to the artistic endeavor of the creation of God in the human being if we were to bring a physician get to this platform this morning who was an expert in physiology, he or she would agree that even the very tip of your little finger is so fearfully made. It is made with such intricate design that I don't believe the average human mind like mine could really comprehend the intricacy of God's handiwork. The Potter, who molds the clay and who makes us what we all, but we are not any fearfully made which refers to the intricate design of God's image upon the lives of men and women and boys and goes, but I believe the wonderfully made is a reference to the final product. All people are wonderfully muddy. Just look at us. We rolled different all this way and that plan out their plan up this way but I tell you friends when you look at the world today. Life is God's people we call the very climactic expression of the very best that God has to do man is the mountaintop of God's creation.

Listen to what Job chapter 10 and verses eight through 12 tells us your hands shaped me and made me will you now turn and destroy me. Remember that you molded me like clay will you now turn me to dust again. Do not pull me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese close me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews you gave me life and showed me kindness and annual Providence you watch over my spirit and the psalmist tells us in Psalm 139 that this begins right there at the moment of conception when frame is hidden from public consumption. And when I'm laying in the secret place. What an incredible fool to think that God would sit down and he would make me he would design me.

What a powerful thought to know that God has intricately cared about us from the very beginning. I pray that you know that our ministry here is not just in this moment, but an opportunity to spend time on a daily basis with God's word is critical to us.

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The Encouraging Word is a viewer and listener supported ministry for listening today. Now back to today's great teaching with Dr. Don Wilton on the sanctity of human life. Always remember my grandmother's notwithstanding my mother-in-law my own mother and my wife to whom it lifting seems to be an off it might be dying out. I don't know. I don't see it all that often, but it's a remarkable thing to behold how a lady can take away a little thread and she can get instruments and sit down and gather the sinews that eventually constructed in such a way that they make a beautiful Josie Orris swept Aurora code for a jacket or a blanket or Aragua some kind of wonderful wonderful commodity. What an incredible, often God does just that he knit sesame so those are sinews together and he creates us he creates us he fashions us in and he designs us off.

He's own image. What an incredible privilege to think could would make you and me in his image. Well, life is God in life is God's people, but we must understand dear friend that life begins at conception.

Listen to the word of God. In chapter 31 verse 15 did not he who made me in the womb like them. Did not the same one for must both within our mothers. We talked about how God forms us in Isaiah 64 in verse eight that believe all the clay in God is the Potter and Meehan Croft us.

Just think about the process whereby you have not come to be where we all day.

One conception when the sperm meets the air life begins.

Week one wind this thing called the fetus. This unborn child attaches itself to the wall of the womb. Think about two weeks after conception, how this fetus stops the mother's main street.

Now that it's a three week point the heart is beginning to beat.

Never forget the birth of my own children.

How exciting it is the expectant couple when that heartbeat is food last six weeks, the brain waves are miserable and and this little child begins to move into his touch by eight weeks. There is I a heartbeat that is heard on ultrasonic the scope. The heart is been beating now for one month. This is by eight week more. Consider the fact that at this stage, an EKG can be done on this unborn baby brain waves immeasurable.

This little baby at eight weeks can feel playing sucks his or her thumb can cross objects that are placed into his hand.

At eight weeks even swims in the mother's embryonic food by 2 1/2 months.

The body is completely formed, even down to the minutest detail of the fingerprints. 2 1/2 months and by three months.

All systems go Lord's prayer waterworks and all we are told, beloved friends listen to me that from three months that fetus not only needs to grow in size and in maturity from three months old. These are the facts. There's a false fact that we must consider life is precious. I love to be around little children.

One of my favorite things to say the little children is your mom and dad ever told you that your precious we we love to do that life is so precious is children in our congregation all over the world.

You are precious frame.

Life is precious that people all over this this congregation. People all over the world all of you folks listening by way of television you precious. There's no other word for it.

Your precious according to God's word and we know that deep down in your heart you are hurting and we want you to know how much we we love you and how much we care for you because your precious that's a biblical fact is it's sad then if life is so precious that every third baby dies from abortion if life is so precious is that sad that 1.6 million babies are aborted every year, 4400 each day one baby every second dies.

How many have died since we began this worship service. If life is so precious isn't it sad since Roe V Wade that women can legally abort an unborn child at any time during the nine month pregnancy and without any reason given.

If life is so precious isn't it sad that almost 800,000 babies are bolted within just 10 days of conception, folks, this is a time when the heart is beating when brain waves are measured when the stomach deliver the kidneys and the brain functioning. When fingerprints are being formed, if life is so precious and the facts speak for themselves. And as its isn't it sad that by 18 weeks 64,000 American babies are aborted each year when all organs are complete and functioning. When this baby is breathing, swallowing, digesting, sleeping, dreaming, waking up is that sad that at that point all that baby needs the nourishment to grow. Isn't it sad if life is so precious that the average abortion procedure takes 5 to 10 minutes while the average weight for adoption takes to obtain use. These are the facts, but different today. The reason why we're here is because based upon these facts, we believe that God loves us beyond anything that we could comprehend this something that we can do about it. I want to share with you full responses this morning. You might want to write them down for responses that we can have. First of all, awesome God for his salvation. All of these going to be ashes so you can try and remember them a little easier. Awesome God for his salvation.

You might say to me this morning. Foster. I've gone through an abortion if only people knew how much I have whipped if you don't know Jesus frame. The first thing you gotta do is asking for his salvation. You see, God is life, and when you also gone for salvation, my friend. It means that you are coming to him and you're saying to him outside of you life is meaningless and I'm willing to repent of my sin and by faith trusting you and when you receive God's salvation, God will infiltrate your heart and begin to do for you what you and I cannot do for Sue sick, reclaim the source of life. If you know Jesus Christ in your carrying a burden to the paps you have an abortion You being a partner in something related to the sanctity of human life and perhaps for years and years you've carried this load. I want you to know my friends, you can re-claim the source of life, you can go back to Bethel you can go back to the place of Jacob's commitment.

You can go back to the place where you and bolted to the God of creation. You can go back to him and you can say to him, Lord, revive me and restore me. That's what it's all about that. This is the God of the Bible. He's the God of reconciliation and is the God of restoration I tell you what this god my friend. This God doesn't deal with volume loss in Atlanta, Georgia. This is not a God is going to go around whipping you from one aim of the earth to the other. This is the God of love and the God of forgiveness. This is the God who holds out these hand to you. This is the God who points you to the Lord Jesus Christ his only son, and he says this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased, and he has already said his blood for you.

The price has already been played. You can claim him for yourself. You can take them to you soon. Awesome God for salvation reclaim the source of life, but thirdly know that there are solutions available. There are solutions. This is not an eternal predicament that you found yourself in no sir, no ma'am that solution. First of all is to be found in God's forgiveness is what happens. The wonderful thing to think about when you give your life to Jesus. He does this for you. If you're a born-again believer and you've sinned he does this for you.

He says that if you confess your sin, he is faithful and just to forgive your sin and cleanse you from all unrighteousness.

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Why don't you pray this prayer with me right now. Dear God, I know that Iversen and I know that Jesus died for me on the cross day. I repent of my sins and by faith I receive you into my heart. In Jesus name, my friend. I would welcome you today into the family of God. This is exciting news. If you were praying along with Dr. multiple moments ago to give your life to Christ for the first time we dedicate your life. Dr. Wilson has wonderful resources. We want you to have absolutely free if you call us at 866899 word 866899673 these resources in your hands had earlier.

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