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Abortion
Introduction:
1. It is our God-given obligation to speak up for those whose voices cannot be
heard.
2. The problem arises when we try to deal with those who have little or no
respect for the Bible.
3. Therefore, I am going to this morning establish that abortion is wrong
without the use of the Bible.
4. At the end of the lesson, I will give some Bible verses which teach that
abortion is sinful.
Body:
I. Moral value existed before the first human being.
True or False.
1. If moral value existed before the first human being, then a being (God) had
to exist to give the moral value.
2. If moral value did not exist before the first human being, then moral value
is the product of the human mind.
3. This means a nation can do what the majority of the people deem right.
4. Therefore, the Germans would have been right in putting to death six million
Jews. If not, why not?
5. So, if a society declares that a group of human beings in a given locale does
not deserve to live, then they ought to be put to death.
6. America has decided that little babies in the womb do not deserve to live.
Therefore, moms and dads “have the right” to terminate the life of a human
being.
7. With this philosophy that moral value is the product of the human mind,
society could just as well decide that old people should and must be put to
death.
II. Life has to come from life.
1. The laws of science say that spontaneous generation is false.
2. The law of biogenesis says that life always brings forth life. This being
true, life had to come from God. We are made in His image. Therefore, only God
has the right to give life or to take it.
3. The laws of thermodynamics state that matter cannot be eternal. Therefore,
someone had to put life here.
III. The scientific view.
1. I want to make an argument that is "ungetoverable".
2. Here is the logical argument:
Major Premise: If a fetus possesses the properties which are essential to being
a human being, then a fetus is a human being.
Minor Premise: A fetus does possess the properties which are essential to being
a human being.
Conclusion: Therefore, a fetus is a human being.
3. When the sperm and egg come together, there is conception. In the genetic
pool of this conceived life is everything needful for being human. The color of
skin, eyes, hair, etc. is predetermined by the genetic codes (DNA) spelled out
in this conception.
4. Human life is a continuum:
A. At conception life begins.
B. 18-25 days: Heart begins to beat.
C. 6 weeks: Baby begins to move; brain waves are already present and can be
recorded on an electroencephalogram.
D. 7 weeks: If baby’s lip is tickled, he will pull away.
E. 8 weeks: Grabs, swims freely, electrocardiogram can be used to record heart
impulses.
F. 10 weeks : At this stage the baby is so perfectly formed that he even has
fingertips.
G. 12 weeks: Breathes (fluid), sucks thumb, swallows, tastes, cries, sleeps, and
wakes; all organ systems functioning, including mental.
H. Beyond 12 weeks: Nothing new is formed; the baby begins to grow rapidly.
I. Birth: Exits from the womb; breathes air and takes food by mouth.
IV. Arguments by those trying to promote abortion.
1. It is the woman’s body.
A. We know it is not the woman’s body because sometimes the little baby is a
male.
B. The mother and baby have different:
1) Bodies.
2) Heart beats.
3) Brain waves.
4) Sometimes different type blood.
5) Systems (Circulatory, digestive, respiratory, etc.).
2. It is not human.
A. The law of excluded middle says a thing cannot be both true and false at the
same time.
B. It further states that everything is either human or non-human.
C. If that which is in the mother’s womb is non-human, then it will be non-human
upon birth.
D. What magic process takes place that causes a non-human thing to become a
human being simply by changing locations -- from the womb to birth.
E. We further state that non-human things will continue to be non-human.
3. They claim abortion should be allowed in the case of rape or incest.
A. Two wrongs do not make a right.
B. Many people want little babies.
C. Very few are impregnated by means of rape. According to Planned Parenthood
statistics, just 7 percent of all abortions were motivated by the “hard cases.”
These are: the mother’s health(3 percent); when the baby has a possible health
problem (3 percent); or when the pregnancy results from rape or incest (1
percent).
D. Incest is terrible. However, it is still murder to abort the child.
4. They claim that abortion should be allowed if the mother’s health is
endangered.
A. We agree if it is a case where the mother is pregnant in the tubes. The baby
is going to die anyway. Nature usually takes care of these cases.
B. If it is a case where they do not believe the mother can handle it
emotionally, then this would be murder.
5. They claim that every child should be a wanted child.
V. Abortion is murder.
1. Once we have established the fact that the little one in the womb is a human
being, then we take the next step to affirm that the taking of that little human
life is murder.
2. Thus we argue:
Major Premise: If it is the case that the fruit of the womb of a human mother is
in like fashion a human, then to destroy the fruit of the womb is to destroy a
human life, thus murder.
Minor Premise: It is the case that the fruit of the womb of a human mother is in
like fashion a human.
Conclusion: Therefore, to destroy the fruit of the womb is to destroy a human
life, thus murder.
3. We ask again, if the baby is not a human in the womb, what property does it
acquire after birth that makes him a human???
4. Is a prematurely born baby a human? What makes it human?
5. Is a prematurely aborted baby a human??? What makes it non-human -- as they
declare?
VI. Scriptures to ponder.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over
the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the
earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him;
male and female He created them.
“Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of
God He made man. And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Bring forth
abundantly in the earth And multiply in it.”
For You formed my inward parts; You 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 frame was 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.
“And now the Lord says, Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring
Jacob back to Him, So that Israel is gathered to Him (For I shall be glorious in
the eyes of the Lord, And My God shall be My strength)
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified
you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
“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.”
“And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling
cloths, lying in a manger.”
“These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A
proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood”
Conclusion:
1. May God help us to fight for the lives of little innocent babies.
2. May God help us to fight for the souls of the lost.
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