Many of you may know who Stacy Abrams is. Honestly, I wish I didn't know who she was, but anyway.....
Stacy Abrams is an African American female running for governor of Georgia. She lost the bid for governor of Georgia in 2018 and never conceded the election. She has claimed until just recently that she was robbed and that she was the actual winner of the election and rightful governor. Of course now she has changed her tune and says she never claimed to be the winner.
Of course she lies so much she doesn't know the truth. that's true for all politicians, especially democrats. If you didn't know, just a couple of months ago, SCOTUS ruled in favor of states rights for abortion laws. In a majority decision, they ruled that it was up to the individual states as to whether or not abortions could be allowed. In effect, it struck down Roe v Wade.
Since then, the left, women's rights activists, and all the crazies have come out in full force to protest that women's rights have been taken away. Democrat politicians like Stacy Abrams are using abortion rights as campaign material to foster votes.
Just the other day in an interview with MSNBC, that abortion restrictions are at the root of voters' concerns about inflation. Abrams's comment came after MSNBC's Mike Barnicle asked how she would alleviate Georgia voters' concerns about inflation, noting that abortion "nowhere reaches the level of interest of voters" as the increased cost of living.
"Let's be clear. Having children is why you're worried about your price for gas. It's why you’re concerned about how much food costs," Abrams responded. "For women, this is not a reductive issue. You can't divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child."
Did you get that? She said that women should be allowed to have abortions because of inflation. Being forced to have a baby would be too expensive in this time of great inflation.
Last month, she falsely claimed that a heartbeat heard at six weeks is "a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman's body."
I've often wondered why the things that are coming out of most politicians mouth's today make no sense whatsoever. Why is it that the solutions that are given to problems make no logical sense? Why is it that people truly believe that killing babies to save money is ok? Why is it that there are people out there who truly believe that a man can be a woman and vice versa?
The truth is that people who think contrary to the scripture, people who believe things that are in violation of God's word are lost. According to the scripture they are reprobates. It is a result of a reprobate mind.
The phrase “reprobate mind” is found in Romans 1:28 in reference to those whom God has rejected as godless and wicked. They “suppress the truth by their wickedness,” and it is upon these people that the wrath of God rests (Romans 1:18).
Paul describes two men named Jannes and Jambres as those who “resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith" (2 Timothy 3:8). Here the reprobation is regarding the resistance to the truth because of corrupt minds. In Titus, Paul also refers to those whose works are reprobate: “They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate” (Titus 1:16). Therefore, the reprobate mind is one that is corrupt and worthless.
As we can see in the verses above, people who are classified as having a reprobate mind have some knowledge of God and perhaps know of His commandments. However, they live impure lives and have very little desire to please God. Those who have reprobate minds live corrupt and selfish lives. Sin is justified and acceptable to them. The reprobates are those whom God has rejected and has left to their own devices.
If you take a careful look at Romans 1 you will find that this is true of homosexuals, fornicators, idolators.....listen to the scripture.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
That last part just included a group of people who put their stamp of approval on those who are wicked. You might say, I'm not a homosexual, but I see nothing wrong with it. Guess what, you are included in Romans 1. You might say, I'm not a transgender, but we should allow people to have sex change operations if they want them, you know......they need to live happy lives and all....guess what, you are included in Romans 1.
If you put your stamp of approval on ungodliness, wickedness, homosexuality, abortion, the transgender lifestyle, or anything that is contrary to the scripture, you are included in Romans 1.
This is important to understand. The scripture makes no distinction between the doctor who performs an abortion, the woman who consents to it, the politicians who created the laws, or the judge who enforces them. All are guilty.
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What does the Bible have to say about the killing of babies? What does God say? We need to consider the biblical witness because the Bible is God's Word and the authoritative source for all questions of morality. That should be the case for every believer. Now, if a person does not believe the Bible to be authoritative, then that is a whole other podcast for another time. I consider the bible to be inspired by God, inerrant, and infallible. It is God's Word to man.
While the word abortion is not in the Bible, it would be ignorant and intellectually dishonest to say that the Bible doesn't speak to the foundational issue in the same way it would be naive and dishonest to say the Bible does not speak to transgenderism. These words aren't mentioned in scripture, but God deals with them.
Scripture makes it clear that the cornerstone of the biblical witness against abortion is the sanctity of human life. People possess innate worth because God created humans in His own image.
Let's build a case against abortion.
1. We are created in the image of God
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the livestock, and 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. Genesis 1:26-27
We do not have time to dive into the implications of all of this passage, but if we take this verse, we have the case for the sanctity of all human life, we have the case against homosexuality, transgenderism, the case against animal rights. Sorry PETA, God gave us dominion or rule over all the animals.
But again, all of those issues we will tackle on another episode of the podcast.
Those who do not value human life are in rebellion against God rejecting what the Lord says about human life. Those who claim to be Christians and yet advocate these evils do so in contradiction to what it means to be a Christian, one who is a disciple, a follower Christ. Whether they admit it or not, they blaspheme and offend God by their disobedience to His commands clearly given in His revelation of Himself and His will in the Bible. They want to play God in deciding who lives and who dies based on their own reasoning instead of what the Lord has declared.
Abortion, euthanasia and genocide are just different names given to the willful taking of a human life, which by definition is murder. Each are blasphemy against God because they willfully destroy a creature made in God’s image. These are very serious sins that have brought God’s judgment upon individuals and societies in the past. One of the reasons God had the Canaanites annihilated was their practice of infanticide as part of their worship of Molech (Lev. 20:2; Deut. 12:31; 18:10-13)
Any conversation concerning human value must begin with this scripture in Genesis 1.
2. Life is valued from the womb
A detailed exegesis of Exodus 21:22–25 manifests that unborn children are also created in God’s image and that the unborn and adults are of equal value in God’s eyes.
If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that her child is born prematurely, yet there is no serious injury, then he shall be surely punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But if there is any serious injury, then you shall give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. Exodus 21: 22-25
We can see here the value of life in the womb.
Psalm 139:13–16 is a very significant passage of scripture when we talk about abortion because it shows that the biblical concept of personhood is present at conception.
13 You brought my inner parts into being;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise you, for You made me with fear and wonder;
marvelous are Your works,
and You know me completely.
15 My frame was not hidden from You
when I was made in secret,
and intricately put together in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw me unformed,
yet in Your book
all my days were written,
before any of them came into being.
Wow! This passage tells us that God's hand is upon the forming of a baby in the womb. Look science may explain in the physical realm how all of these sequential biological processes work with sperm and eggs and fertilization, but science doesn't tell us who? Someone testify! It's God. God's handiwork is all over the unborn child from conception.
The entire corpus of Scripture argues for the personhood and the incredible worth of unborn children.
What about Genesis 9:6 that explicitly connects the intrinsic worth of every individual to the image of God in which they are created. This verse reads, “‘Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.’
Whether a person wants to acknowledge it, God's hand is all over creation. Here are some quick examples.
Sarah – the wife of Abraham. In Genesis 16:1-2 Sarai tells Abram, “Now behold the Lord has prevented me from bearing children.” She understands that it is the Lord that opens or closes the womb. In Genesis 17:16 the Lord says, “I will bless her and indeed I will give you a son by her.”
Hannah – 1 Samuel 1:5 states, “. . . but the Lord had closed her womb.” In verse 11 Hannah prays that the Lord would give her a son. Verses 19-20 state, “And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her and it came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, ‘Because I have asked him from the Lord.”
The testimony of the Psalms.
Psalm 100:3, “Know that the LORD, Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.”
Psalm 127:3, “Behold, children are a gift of the LORD; The fruit of the womb is a reward.”
Jeremiah 1:4-5
“Now the Word of the Lord came to me saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; and before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Don't tell me that the bible has nothing to say about pregnancy, the value of human life and killing babies. It's all in there. I'll say it again, how can you read the scripture, claim to know Jesus Christ, and come away with it is ok to kill babies? You can't. You either have deny the bible, deny the teachings of God, or deny God Himself.
But the last piece of evidence is
3. The love of God for all humanity
The entirety of scripture is about God's love for all of humanity despite our sinful condition. The bible tells us that "God demonstrated his love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8
One of my favorite passages of scripture is John 3:17 which tells us that God did not send His son Jesus into the world to condemn the world but that the whole world through him might be saved. Talk about love for all humanity. Wouldn't a person think that would include the life that God formed in the womb? Of course it would. This is why abortion is sinful. And may God have mercy on us as a nation for the millions of babies we have murdered on the altar of convenience.
It is clear that God values life.....ALL life. This includes the unborn baby in the womb. If you have had an abortion, can I tell you something today? There is forgiveness in Jesus Christ. The Bible teaches us that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We do not have to walk around in guilt, shame, and condemnation. Jesus' sacrifice on the cross was substitutionary. He took all of our sin, and the wrath of God for breaking God's law and put it on Himself.
He who knew no sin.....
We can know and walk in forgiveness from any sin we commit. Experience it today by calling out to Him! Salvation is by grace through faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ! have you placed faith in Christ today? If not, you can
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