BEAUTIFUL BABY, ONLY 12 WEEKS IN THE WOMB…

A NICU nurse, who worked a long time at a Denominational Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina said, “When I first went to work in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, I helped to care for a baby this size until it died. Because it was too small and the lungs were too underdeveloped for the doctors to be able to do anything for it, we put it in an isolette and kept it warm and did all we could. We thought it slept, and didn’t seem uncomfortable and didn’t cry or grimace, it couldn’t breathe right and I think it died in less than half an hour. I then had the sad job of helping to get it ready for burial, and take it back to its grieving mother.”

“Our hospital had a special kit with a tiny hand-sewn dress, a ceramic footprint mold, a tiny little fleece-lined box like a bed, a sympathy card with a sweet poem about the baby’s early departure, etc. I’m sure that particular baby was a girl, because the little care package I used was pink. That was the difference in the doctors’ attitudes where I worked as opposed to the ones at a hospital across town. At the other hospital they would have treated it like a “fetus.” Where I worked, they treated it like a baby. I was so blessed to work in an environment like that.”

DOES THE PICTURE SHED ANY LIGHT ON ABORTION

Psa. 127:1-2 – God is truly the power in this universe.

Vs. 3 – children are a gift from God himself – HERITAGE = inheritance

Deut. 7:12, 13 – God is no less powerful today than in O.T. times

Gen. 4:1 – Eve understood where children come from

Psa. 50:7-12 – Everything belongs to the Lord – not man

1 Sam 2:3-5 – Hannah rejoiced with the little life God gave her

Vs. 6 – God is the source of all life

Ezek. 18:4 – God claims all souls

If God gives these lives, does he not give the children’s lives too?

I.    ABORTION IS WRONG

1. Gen. 9:5-6 – LONG BEFORE THE O.T. WAS GIVEN – WRONG TO TAKE LIFE
2. 2 Chr. 28:3 – unwanted children- have always plagued mankind
3. 2 Chr. 33:6 – they had a quaint expression to cover their murderous deed.
4. Rom 9:10-13 – SOME ARGUE THAT A CHILD IS NOT ALIVE UNTIL it IS BORN
5. Luke 1:36-42 – John the Baptist was-six months along when he responded
6. Vs. 44 – tells the cause of his leaping
7. Vss. 40-44 – – tells this was the -Holy Spirit speaking – not her opinion
8. Lev 17:11 – The Lord declares where a man’s life is
9. How soon does that little body get blood in it?
10. Ecc. 12:7 – God gives that little body a spirit
11. When a man takes that spirit from the body . . . destroying God’s work
12. Ex 21:22,23 – Accidental miscarriage – was punishable by a fine in O.T.
13. LEV. 20:1,2 – UNDER O.T. LAW IT WAS MURDER TO KILL AN UNWANTED CHILD
14. Vs. 3 – God counted this as defiling his sanctuary & profaning his name
15. Vs. 4,5 – It was a sin not to kill the one who destroyed his child
16. True – we are not under the Law of Moses today – however – we can see God’s judgment concerning getting rid of unwanted children

II. GOD COUNTS IT AN HONOR TO HAVE CHILDREN

1. PSA. 127:3 – GOD DOES NOT COUNT IT A CURSE TO HAVE CHILDREN
2. Psa. 107:41-43 – Wise men know children are a blessing from God
3. Who is it that teaches us to hate children?

Humanist Manifesto II, (1973) article 14 – “The world community must engage in cooperative planning concerning the use of rapidly depleting resources . . . and EXCESSIVE POPULATION GROWTH MUST BE CHECKED BY international concord.”

3. These are the same ones who press so hard for abortion

Humanist Manifesto II, Article 6 “In the area of sexuality, we believe that intolerant attitudes often cultivated by orthodox religions and puritanical cultures, unduly repress sexual conduct.” The authors affirm the “right to birth control, abortion, and divorce.”

4. Rom 1:24, 25 – We may not see these folks as our enemy¾but note what the humanists see

Humanist Manifest III, (1980), opening paragraph humanists see established religion as their chief enemy.”

5. 1 John 4:3 – The N.T. Christians were warned to watch for these people

“Regrettably, we are today faced with a variety of anti-secular trends: the reappearance of dogmatic authoritarian religions; fundamentalist, literalist, and doctrinaire Christianity.”

Article 9: We deplore the efforts by fundamentalists (especially in the United States) to invade the science classroom, requiring that creationist theory be taught to students and rewiring that it be included in biology textbooks.” Secular humanists consider this “a serious threat both to academic freedom and to the integrity of the educational process.”

The humanists decry “contemporary orthodox religion as “anti-science, anti-freedom, anti-human,” pointing out that secular humanism places trust in human intelligence rather than in divine guidance.”

·           Psa. 127:3-5 -Why would we not want to take our children to heaven?

Children are the only earthly possession we can take with us to heaven

If these false teachers can convince us not to have children, they have fewer enemies

That isn’t to say – they may be having as many kids as they can

The more abortions – the less people to share the wealth of natural resource

Is this anything but covetousness?

They claim, “We are not really taking a life if the child isn’t born”

Know John Baptist leaped for joy at 6 months!

Yet they know – if they did nothing – a life would surely come into world!

1 John 3:15 – murderers will not enter heaven

Whether I ask someone to murder for me or do it myself, I am a murderer

Many generations ago, people called it “Passing their children through the fire”

Jer. 32:35 – this action is so terrible it never entered God’s mind

They called it “Passing their child through the fire.”

Today we can call it “abortion”

The fact is – it is murder

So many ways of aborting a child – yes – so many ways of murder!

Eph. 6:4 – we are commanded to train our children – not kill them

1 Sam 2:6 – God is the one who gives life…

We have no business taking someone’s life away

·           Ezekiel 16:20-21¾God claims all children as his.

20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter? 21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

We may get to keep the children for a few years, but soon they leave home.

¬   We may call them ‘our children’ in the sense that they came through us, but whose are these children in truth?

-Beth Johnson

Chennai Teacher Training School

Women’s Studies

Muliebral Viewpoint

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