IF ITS NOT A BABY, YOU ARE NOT PREGNANT

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IF ITS NOT A BABY, YOU ARE NOT PREGNANT!

• What Does God Say About Life?
• Is Abortion Biblically Okay?
• When Did Your Life Begin?

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GENESIS 127

• So God created man in his own image, in the image
  of God created he him male and female created he
  them.

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EXODUS 2013

• Thou shalt not kill!

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EXODUS 2122,23

• If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so
  that her fruit depart from her, and yet no
  mischief follow he shall be surely punished,
  according as the womans husband will lay upon
  him and he shall pay as the judges determine.
  And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give
  life for life.

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PSALM 13913-16

• For thou hast possessed my reins (formed my
  inward parts, NASB created my inmost being,
  NIV) thou hast covered me (knit me together,
  NIV didst weave me, NASB) in my mothers womb. I
  will praise thee for I am fearfully and
  wonderfully made marvelous are thy works and
  that my soul knoweth right

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PSALM 13913-16

• well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I
  was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the
  lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my
  substance, yet being unperfect and in thy book
  all my members were written, which in continuance
  were fashioned, when as yet there was none of
  them.

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PROVERBS 2411,12

• If thou forebear to deliver them that are drawn
  unto death, and those that are ready to be slain
  If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not doth not
  he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he
  that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and
  shall not he render to every man according to his
  works?

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JEREMIAH 14,5

• Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
  Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee
  and before thou camest forth out of the womb I
  sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet
  unto the nations.

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PROVERBS 318,9

• Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all
  such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy
  mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of
  the poor and needy. (KJV)
• Open your mouth for the dumb, for the rights of
  all the unfortunate. Open your mouth, judge
  righteously, and defend the rights of the
  afflicted and needy. (NAS)

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ISAIAH 4424,25

• Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that
  formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that
  maketh all things that stretcheth forth the
  heavens alone that spreadeth abroad the earth by
  myself That frustrateth the tokens of liars, and
  maketh diviners mad that turneth wise men
  backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish.

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ISAIAH 491

• Listen, O isles, unto me and hearken, ye people,
  from far The Lord hath called me from the womb
  from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention
  of my name.

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JOB 334

• The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of
  the Almighty hath given me life.

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LUKE 115

• For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord,
  and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink
  and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even
  from his mothers womb. (referring to John the
  Baptist)

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GALATIANS 115

• But when it pleased God, who separated me from my
  mothers womb, and called me by His grace, to
  reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him
  among the heathen. (referring to the
  apostle Paul)

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1 THESSALONIANS 211,12

• As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and
  charged every one of you, as a father doth his
  children, that ye would walk worthy of God, who
  hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

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MORAL RELATIVISM

• The idea that I have my truth and you have your
  truth reigns in western culture.
• Abortion advocates claim that a woman has a
  right to control her own body and abort unwanted
  tissue. This is one aspect of MORAL RELATIVISM.
• Another aspect of MORAL RELATIVISM is
  homosexuality. But what does the Bible say.

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MORAL RELATIVISM HOMOSEXUAL ITY IS AN
ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE

• WHAT DOES THE GOD OF THE BIBLE SAY?
• Genesis 1313, Homosexuality is sin and
  wickedness!
• Genesis 1820, Homosexuality is grievous sin!
• Genesis 197, Homosexuality is wicked!

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Leviticus 1822, Homosexuality is an
abomination.

• Deuteronomy 2317-18, Homosexuality is an
  abomination to the Lord of Hosts.
• 1 Kings 1424, Homosexuality(sodomy) is an
  abomination.
• Romans 124, Homosexuality dishonors your own
  body.
• Romans126, Lesbianism is a vile affection.

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Lesbianism ...is against nature.

• Romans 127, Homosexuality is unseemly
• Romans 128, Homosexuality is the fruit of a
  reprobate mind.
• 1 Cor. 69, Effeminate (male prostitutes NIV)
  and abusers of them- selves with mankind
  (homosexuals NAS) shall not inherit the kingdom
  of God

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2 CORINTHIANS 63

• Giving no offense in any thing, that the ministry
  be not blamed (discredited, NASB) But in all
  things approving ourselves as the ministers of
  God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necess-
  ities, in distresses, in stripes, in
  imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in
  watchings, in fastings...

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PHILIPPIANS 127

• Only let your conversation be as it becometh the
  gospel of Christ that whether I come and see you
  or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs,
  that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind
  striving together for the faith of the gospel.

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PHILIPPIANS 215,16a

• That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons
  of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked
  and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as
  lights in the world holding forth the word of
  life that I may rejoice in the day of Christ.

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COLOSSIANS 110

• That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all
  pleasing (to please him in all respects, NASB),
  being fruitful in every good work, and increasing
  in the knowledge of God.

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1 CORINTHIANS 1558

• Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast,
  unmovable, always abounding in the work of the
  Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is
  not in vain in the Lord.

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GALATIANS 69,10

• And let us not be weary in well doing for in due
  season we shall reap, if we faint not, as we have
  therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all
  men, especially to them who are of the household
  of faith.

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II CORINTHIANS 41,2

• Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we
  have received mercy, we faint not but have
  renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not
  walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of
  God deceitfully but by manifestation of the
  truth commending ourselves to every mans
  conscience in the sight of God.

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JOHN 76,7

• Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet
  come but your time is always ready. The world
  cannot hate you but me it hateth, because I
  testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

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2 CORINTHIANS 416-18

• For which cause we faint not but though our
  outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed
  day by day. For our light affliction, which is
  but for a moment, worketh for us a far more
  exceeding and eternal weight of glory While we
  look not at the things which are seen, but at the
  things which are not seen for the things which
  are seen are temporal but the things which are
  not seen are eternal.

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THE CASE OF ESTHER

• THE SITUATION
• King Ahasuarus (Xerxes) is hosting a banquet as a
  prelude to his invasion of Greece in about 483
  B.C.
• The king and his generals have had too much OH to
  drink. The king orders his beautiful wife,
  Vashti, to parade in front of his party. She
  refuses and is deposed.

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THE CASE OF ESTHER

• The king needs a new queen.
• Babylon is searched for a new queen.
• Esther, in the providence of the Lord, is chosen
  to be the new queen.
• THE ARCH- VILLAIN, Haman, appears
• Haman gets the king to sign a decree that all the
  Jewish people will be killed.

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THE CASE OF ESTHER

• Esther does not know that the Jewish people are
  under the decree of death.
• Mordecai, the cousin who raised Esther, sends
  word to Esther that her people are to be
  annihilated.
• Mordecai begs Esther to go in to the king and
  plead for the lives of her people.
• Esther 48

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ESTHERS FIRST RESPONSE

• All the Kings servants, and the people of the
  kings provinces, do know, that whosoever,
  whether man or woman, shall come unto the king
  into the inner court, who is not called, there is
  one law of his to put him to death, except such
  to whom the king shall hold out the golden
  sceptre, that he may live but I have not been
  called to come in unto the king these thirty
  days. Esther 411

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ESTHERS FIRST RESPONSE

• I LIKE MY LIFE STYLE AND MY PALACE LIVING
  THEREFORE I WILL NOT GO IN TO THE KING!
• I AM LIVING FOR THE BENEFIT OF MYSELF REGARDLESS
  OF WHAT HAPPENS TO MY PEOPLE!
• MORDECAI, I WONT GO IN TO THE KING TO SAVE MY
  PEOPLE!

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MORDECAIS REPLY

• Do not imagine that you in the kings palace can
  escape any more than all the Jews. For if you
  remain silent at this time, relief and
  deliverance will arise for the Jews from another
  place and you and your fathers house will
  perish. And who knows whether you have not
  attained royalty for such a time as this? 413,14
  NAS

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Oh Esther, please, please, youve got to do this
to save our people!

• This is not what Mordecai said!
• He said, Esther, lets get something straight.
  God is going to get his work done. Now He will
  either go through you or He will go around you,
  but He will get His work done. Esther, do you
  want to make God go around you or will you let
  Him work through you?

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ESTHERS 2nd RESPONSE

• I have decided to obey the call of my Lord on my
  life and to live for the benefit of others
  regardless of what happens to me!
• I am willing to sacrifice my palace lifestyle,
  indeed even my very life if need be, to live for
  the benefit of my people!

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ESTHERS 2nd RESPONSE

• Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in
  Susa, and fast for me do not eat or drink for
  three days, night or day I and my maidens also
  will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in
  to the king, which is not according to the law
  and if I perish, I perish. Esther 416
• WHAT WILL YOUR RESPONSE BE?

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WILL YOUR RESPONSE BE

• Whether I live or die, I exist for the glory of
  the Lord Jesus Christ!
• To obey God is more important than to save my own
  life!
• I obey Gods Word no matter what the cost, the
  circumstance or the consequence!

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WILL YOU JOIN THE LORD JESUS AND PRAY

• Oh, Heavenly Father, not my will, but thy will be
  done!