SERMON 150   ABORTION

    If you have studied biological science at a university, you know that a new human life begins at conception.   Conception is the beginning of a new human being, a new person,  who lives in the womb of the mother.    This is the scientific fact.   To deny this fact is unscientific, which shows either ignorance or dishonesty.  The baby inside the womb grows.  The heart begins beating on the 18th day.  At 3 1/2 weeks the baby has the beginning of eyes, spinal cord, nervous system, thyroid gland, lungs, stomach, kidneys and intestines.  Tiny buds of arms are forming.  Yes, life begins at conception.  The life of a person begins at conception.  To kill this baby is murder, a sin against almighty God.
    Each person is made in the imgage of God.   We read about the creation of man in:
    Genesis 1:26:  Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to our 
    likeness; . . . Genesis 1:26.
God is  spirit.  The spirit of each person is from God, as stated in Ecclesiastes 12:7  in the Bible, which is the word of God.  God is the Father of our spirits.   Hebrews 12:9.                                  A human baby in his mother’s womb is body, soul and spirit, an independant living human being.  Listen to what God said in:
    Genesis 9:6:  “Whoever sheds man’s blood,
    By man his blood shall be shed;  For in the image of God He made man.  Gen. 9:6.
Yes,  each baby is in the image of God and is precious.  Abortion is murder.
    We read about Jacob and Esau in their mother Rebekah’s womb in
    Genesis 25:22:  But the children struggled together within her; . . .  Genesis 25:22.
Any woman who has had a child in her womb knows that children in the womb are  seperate, independant,  living, human beings.
    When God gave His law to Israel through Moses, the ten commandments were a part of the law.  Listen to what God commanded in:
    Exodus 20:13:  “You shall not murder.  Exodus 20:13.                                    2
This commandment is in the New Covenant in Romans 13:8-10.
Murder of a child in his mother’s womb is a sin against almighty God.
    The law also commanded concerning the child in the womb in:
    Exodus 21:22:  “If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth
    prematurely, yet no lasting harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly
    as the woman’s husband imposes on him;  and he shall pay as the judges 
    determine.  But if any lasting harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for 
    eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound,
    stripe for stripe.  Exodus 21:22-24.
Killing a child in the womb required life for life, the death penalty under the law.
    God works in creation and forming of children in their mothers’ wombs.  David said to God in :
    Psalm 139:43:  For you have formed my inward parts;
    You have covered me in my mother’s womb.
    I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
    My bones were not hidden from You, When I was made in secret,  
    And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
    Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
    And in Your book they all were written,
    The days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.  Psalm 139:13-16.
    We need to read also what God said to Jeremiah:
    Jeremiah 1:5:  “Before I formed you in the womb I knew  you;
    Before you were born I sanctified you;
    And I ordained you a prophet to the nations.  Jeremiah 1:5.

Yes, God knows each child in each mother’s womb.  To kill the child in the mother’s  womb is murder, a sin against God.  God knows.  There is a Day of Judgment  coming.  
    When Mary was told that she would bear  Jesus, Mary went to visit Elizabeth the mother of John the baptist.  Listen to:
    Luke 1:41:  And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the 
    babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.  Luke 1:41.
Have you understood, that a child in the womb is a baby, a live human being.   John leaped for joy in the womb of his mother Elizabeth when Mary greeted her.
    You need to know  that God hates “Hands that shed innocent blood.”  Listen to:
    Proverbs 6:16,17:  These six things the LORD hates, 
    Yes, seven are an abomination to Him:
    A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood.  Proverbs 6:16,17.
The murder of children in their mothers wombs is the shedding of innocent blood.
God hates the shedding of innocent blood.  God hates abortion.   Those people who teach and advise abortion are guilty.  Judges and law makers who allow abortion are guilty before God.  The mother who seeks an abortion is guilty.  The doctors and others who perform abortions are guilty of murder.   It is written in:
    Deuteronomy 30:19:  “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you,
    that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing;  therefore
    choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the
    LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him,
    for He is your life and the length of your days, . . . Deuternonmy 30:19,20.
Will you choose life or will you choose death?  Will you love God and obey Him?
    2 Corinthians 5:10:  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ,
    that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what  he 
    has done, whether good or bad.  2 Cor. 5:10.                                                                 Now is the time to prepare for the coming Day of Judgment.                                    
   There is good news for you.  You can have the forgiveness of your sins.   Jesus Messiah died for  our sins according to the Scriptures.  He was buried.  He rose the third day according to the Scriptures.  The wages of sin is death, but God sent Jesus the Messiah to be a propitiation by His blood being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ.  You can be reconciled to God.  Listen to:
    2 Corinthians 5:21:   For He (God) made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that
    we might become the righteousness of God in Him.  2 Cor. 5:21.
Yes, Messiah Jesus  was made an offering for our sins.  Isaiah 53:10.  
Your guilt can be taken away in Messiah Jesus.  We are told in Romans 3:23-25 that  this free gift is  through faith in Jesus the Messiah.  Will you believe in Jesus Messiah the Son of God?  Will you turn away from sin and turn to God, repenting.  Will you confess that Jesus is Messiah, the Son of God? Then you can be baptized, immersed into Messiah,  buried under the water into death to sin.  Listen to:
    Romans 6:3,4:  Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ
    Jesus  were baptized into His death?  Therefore we were buried with Him through
    baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the 
    Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.  Romans 6:3,4.
Yes, you can be freed from sin and raised up out of the water to walk in newness of life.
Will you be baptized, immersed into Christ?  Will you be buried with Him so that you can be raised up to a new life in Messiah Jesus?  Listen to Acts 2:38: 
    . . . Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
    for the forgiveness of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  Acts 2:38.
    ‘And now why are you waiting?  Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins,
    calling on the name of the Lord.’  Acts 22:16.
Then you can live a new life, serving Messiah Jesus faithfully, and the heavenly New Jerusalem will be your eternal Home.  Amen.