WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:22.640 Let's be seated, gang. This is too much fun. It couldn't be church. 00:22.640 --> 00:29.080 We're continuing today on that other tangent. There will be probably five more sermons like 00:29.080 --> 00:35.440 this about what's troubling the world and what can we do about it. And sometimes these are 00:35.440 --> 00:41.120 debatable things and arguable things and things that the church needs to be involved in. I have 00:41.120 --> 00:46.480 some material that's very, very rich. One is out here. If you want a sign for any of the material, 00:46.480 --> 00:53.640 this is about the subject of abortion. God formed in our mother's wombs. And I would like to share 00:53.640 --> 00:59.060 that with you. I'm going to go very fast today. I have to use a lot of scriptures. I think everything 00:59.060 --> 01:03.980 is the scriptures and I'll make a point of that. It's not a matter of culture. It's not a matter 01:03.980 --> 01:09.140 of just how you feel about things. But what does the Bible say about it? And the Bible says a lot 01:09.140 --> 01:16.180 about this subject. I want to leave it with you. Pat has a short one about the idea of tolerance. 01:16.180 --> 01:22.540 What will you do? And the one I have out there, and it's a long one. The reason is don't ask for it 01:22.540 --> 01:27.260 if you don't want to read it because it's a lot of information and a lot of scriptures which are 01:27.300 --> 01:32.540 there. So I'd just like to say that the sermon title would be God formed in our mother's wombs. 01:32.540 --> 01:38.820 And that's from Job 31, verse 15. Now, if you wish to write these down, there are some wonderful 01:38.820 --> 01:43.540 scriptures. There are two or three. I think you must write down and that you must remember. It's so 01:43.540 --> 01:50.180 important as you talk with people and try to persuade the world to go a better way, a biblical 01:50.180 --> 01:56.260 way, and I think God's way. First of all, what is the Bible's claim to an unborn child? What does 01:56.260 --> 02:01.780 the Bible really say about an unborn child? Well, let's turn to Jeremiah 31, verse 3, when he says, 02:01.780 --> 02:11.460 I have loved you with an eternal love. This is why in loving kindness I have created you. Have you 02:11.460 --> 02:17.260 ever had a long-legged teeny bopper say to you, Mother, I wish you had never brought me into this 02:17.260 --> 02:22.580 world. And you probably, you could do a double take and say, I know what you mean. And you know, 02:22.620 --> 02:27.820 that's kind of a sad relationship for people to have with one another, isn't it? And my last, you 02:27.820 --> 02:33.860 know, the opportunity to compete in this world, this day of tears for all of its problems and all of 02:33.860 --> 02:40.420 its weaknesses and all of its sins. It is an opportunity to enter into the kingdom of God and 02:40.420 --> 02:46.660 abide with Jesus Christ at the Father's right hand for eternity. And so it's a blessing. And God 02:46.700 --> 02:53.140 looked upon birth and the child in the womb as something extraordinarily important. I know that 02:53.140 --> 02:58.540 you know this, but not everyone does. And you need to share that with them. The second scripture is 02:58.540 --> 03:06.100 Jeremiah 1, 4 and 5. And it says this, before I formed you in the womb of your mother, I knew you. 03:06.100 --> 03:15.420 Before you were born, I set you apart. You know, God saw even an ugly little okie, a possibility in 03:15.780 --> 03:22.140 me and in you. You're beautiful. You're young. And I just think he sees in you some grand scheme, 03:22.140 --> 03:28.060 some ideas, some important thing that you will become the instrument of carrying out in his word. 03:28.060 --> 03:35.180 And that will lead to eternal life. You see, being born again and being able to believe the Bible 03:35.180 --> 03:42.060 and to obey the Bible. And then I see in Galatians 1, 15, as Paul recounts his life, notice what he 03:42.100 --> 03:50.700 says. But when he had set me apart, even before I was born, you see, there was a plan for this tiny 03:50.700 --> 03:56.340 little creature in the mother's womb. It had been set aside as part of the ages, the consummate 03:56.340 --> 04:04.140 plan of God Almighty. And just think how important that is. And then I would think of Psalms 139, 04:04.140 --> 04:11.260 13 through 16. Matter of fact, go to 17. It doesn't matter. But what a powerful argument for being 04:11.260 --> 04:20.500 God formed in our mother's womb. Therefore, do not rent us under the womb. Don't send alkali. Don't 04:20.500 --> 04:25.700 send forceps. Don't send those things into the mother's room for it's a sanctified place in the 04:25.700 --> 04:34.380 mother's womb. And I love that, don't you? You've created me in most being. You knit me together 04:34.980 --> 04:42.300 in my mother's womb. And you know, one of those things, I believe it's verse 17, he says, he says, 04:42.300 --> 04:49.460 truly, I'm fearfully and I'm wondrously made. And you know, if you've had children and you look at 04:49.460 --> 04:56.340 that little tiny one in your arm there, and you can see how exquisite, how perfect, how God like 04:56.340 --> 05:03.780 the creature is, this tiny little thing that God formed within your womb. What a wonderful attribute 05:03.860 --> 05:09.860 God has given us. Now, we talk about two laws, two very important laws. First of all, in biology, 05:09.860 --> 05:14.820 every one of you who knows something about biology know there's a consummate law and it is the law 05:14.820 --> 05:22.300 of self-preservation. It puts a numero uno first, see, and we always are first, ourself. But there is 05:22.300 --> 05:29.020 a better law and a competing law. And that is the law of symbiosis. I promise to just use one big 05:29.060 --> 05:35.100 word, and that's the word for today, symbiosis, that two different creatures can live together to a 05:35.100 --> 05:42.300 mutual advantage. Actually, it's the church in action, isn't it? We see that in Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 05:42.300 --> 05:47.580 12 and Ephesians 4, how the hand has to do with the eye and how the feet carry the message of the 05:47.580 --> 05:53.820 mouth and how we all are part the cells. The individuals are part of the whole body and he 05:53.820 --> 06:01.980 calls the church the body. See how intricate and perfect it is, it really is. And we see that as a 06:01.980 --> 06:07.300 mother's love. And you see it manifested so many times that a mother has laid down her life for her 06:07.300 --> 06:12.500 child. I don't know that men are that good at it, but you know that mothers certainly are and have 06:12.500 --> 06:17.260 in the past demonstrated that. Every one of you knows of the little bird with a crippled wing like 06:17.260 --> 06:22.540 this and she's heading out way and the old fox is going after her instead of after the nest. But 06:22.700 --> 06:28.220 birds were designed to fly and they're safer there and she's jeopardizing her life that she might 06:28.220 --> 06:34.540 preserve the nest, her babies, her young ones, you see. And there are many examples of that. You 06:34.540 --> 06:39.740 know the algae and the lichen is a symbiosis, a relationship of two different things and they 06:39.740 --> 06:44.860 both prosper. Human kinds have never learned about that. Hey, here is the ultimate. How about the 06:44.860 --> 06:52.500 cells? If you were a god, would you have designed things this way? Hey guys, you cells, let's get 06:52.500 --> 06:59.540 together and let's all be kidneys. Man, I wouldn't do that, would you? But you see symbiosis says, 06:59.540 --> 07:05.300 you know, if the whole creature is to exist, we got to have the kidneys, don't we? We got to have, 07:05.300 --> 07:12.820 Paul says, the uncommonly parts, the unseemly parts in order that the external physiognomy might be 07:12.820 --> 07:18.660 more appropriately attributed to and praised, see. But we all like the higher things, the blessed 07:18.660 --> 07:24.100 things. But that's part of God's rules. The mother lays down her life. She sacrifices for her 07:24.100 --> 07:29.940 children. And in that case, we have to be careful of what's done with the womb. It's so important. 07:30.580 --> 07:40.180 No man, no woman has ever in their lifetime created life in the laboratory. No Russian, no 07:40.180 --> 07:47.540 American, no body since time began has ever created life in the laboratory or any other way. 07:48.820 --> 07:53.220 Man, if you believe in Frankenstein, I got a bridge out here, I'd like to sell you. 07:53.220 --> 07:59.700 No one has ever created life in this veil of tears. Men and women don't even do that. They take the 07:59.700 --> 08:05.940 life God has given them and then united in God's gracious way, bring forth life. But it's really 08:05.940 --> 08:11.780 at the sanction of God Almighty, isn't it? You are God formed in your mama's womb. I believe that 08:11.860 --> 08:18.020 with all of my heart. It is important to remember that. Ephesians 1, 4 and 5 says, 08:18.020 --> 08:24.660 he has chosen us before the foundation of the world. There was something I'm supposed to do, 08:24.660 --> 08:29.860 something you're supposed to do, and he has chosen you when he was designing a grand scheme for the 08:29.860 --> 08:36.900 universe. And Jesus, his architect, creates from nothing something that's very exquisite and something 08:36.900 --> 08:42.740 very orderly and very beautiful. You read Romans 1, 20, if you want to find out about that part. 08:42.740 --> 08:49.540 And listen to this, this is in a way a curse. Look at Hosea 9 verses 11. You read through parts of 08:49.540 --> 08:56.820 that, but then also especially verse 14, as we hear this. God's people had broken his laws, 08:57.700 --> 09:02.660 where they want to do that. About every time they did anything in life, they seemed to want to break 09:02.660 --> 09:08.420 God's laws and rules. And society today doesn't give two hoots about God's laws. Only the born 09:08.420 --> 09:13.620 again, only the bloodbought really care about what God has to say. That's what makes life relevant. 09:13.620 --> 09:20.740 It's what does God have to say in the long run of things. And he uses this unusual phrase, 09:22.100 --> 09:31.060 no birth, no pregnancy, no conception. Even if they do rear children, I will 09:31.060 --> 09:39.620 bereave them of all they have of everyone. He says, Hosea 9, 11 verse 14, you break my laws 09:40.260 --> 09:44.740 and you're going to have trouble. Hasn't that always been the case? Look at the great nations who 09:44.740 --> 09:50.660 rose, who may be even known of God and then who turned away from God. And what do you know about 09:50.660 --> 09:57.220 them? Look at the great kingdoms that have gone and risen to the sky. And then we don't even know 09:57.220 --> 10:03.380 the names of one of their kings. We don't even know basically where the city was. And maybe only 10:03.380 --> 10:09.540 jackals inhabit what was once one of the greatest cities and countries on the face of the entire 10:09.540 --> 10:15.540 earth. Because when you leave God, you condemn your nation as well as your own life. I think that's 10:15.540 --> 10:23.140 so important. Actually, King James uses that word for no conception, meaning a miscarrying womb. 10:23.380 --> 10:29.300 And you know, if the womb doesn't prosper, there'll be no life. If the womb doesn't prosper, there 10:29.300 --> 10:37.220 can be no life. Be careful of the, it's a holy place. I really believe that. Ecclesiastes 11, 5 says, 10:37.220 --> 10:42.340 as you do not know the path of the wind or how the body is formed in the mama's womb, 10:42.340 --> 10:51.700 so you cannot understand the work of God and the maker of all things. Who made all things? 10:52.660 --> 10:59.540 God, Jesus Christ is chief architect. I think that's important to remember. Even those things 10:59.540 --> 11:05.860 that are brought forth from the womb have been made in the image of God. May we not say then with 11:06.820 --> 11:14.980 criticism, the Bible states inequivocally that God alone is the author of life. And sum it up 11:15.140 --> 11:24.020 with Job. Job 33 verse 18 said this, the spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the almighty 11:24.020 --> 11:31.620 hath given me life. So who made us? The spirit of God and the Numa, the breath of life was brought 11:31.620 --> 11:36.260 forth not by a spank on the bottom, because that's the way we enter into the welcome into the life, 11:36.260 --> 11:44.740 little guy, right on the derriere and life begins. And from then on in it's some scary thing, isn't 11:45.460 --> 11:50.740 it? But it wasn't the spank on the bottom, though by the way that could be used to great advantage 11:50.740 --> 11:58.100 up until 35 or 39 or maybe 48. That needs a little bit more doing in this veil of tears. You 11:58.100 --> 12:08.100 believe me, that's God's way. And I like that, don't you? I believe that he is the maker of all things. 12:08.420 --> 12:17.220 Isaiah 44 verse 24 says, this is what the Lord says, your Redeemer who formed you in the womb. 12:17.780 --> 12:21.620 That's just as clear as a bell. I can just see you learn at theologians with the collars on 12:21.620 --> 12:26.020 backwards. Well, that doesn't really what that says. It doesn't mean that. But you know, 12:26.740 --> 12:34.580 what does he say? Who formed you in your mother's womb? And look at Ecclesiastes. He's the maker 12:34.580 --> 12:41.940 of all things. We have said that and we have repeated it. You know, the Bible is the origin 12:42.660 --> 12:49.540 of our belief that life is precious and begins in the womb. The fetus is part of our humanness. 12:50.180 --> 12:54.420 And listen to Luke 1 verse 26. Actually, it goes through verse 44. But remember, 12:55.380 --> 13:00.020 Mary and her cousin, Elizabeth, they talked to one another. And when they met, 13:00.740 --> 13:06.260 the baby leaped in Elizabeth's womb. And there was a recognition 13:07.060 --> 13:12.820 that here was the Lord of life, Jesus Christ. You see, there was a personality there. There was 13:12.820 --> 13:19.620 a spark there. There was an emanation to have terminated then. That precious thing in the womb 13:19.620 --> 13:25.300 would have been to kill God and not on the cross and not according to an appointed time. 13:25.300 --> 13:33.780 What a sad thing that it might have been done. I think that six month old fetus of John 13:34.340 --> 13:40.660 was a very important testimony. This is what makes us human and what it is. The learned 13:40.660 --> 13:46.180 Supreme Court has decreed that until a baby is born, it may be aborted. And you know, 10 seconds 13:46.180 --> 13:54.580 after it's born, it's illegal to kill it, but you can stab it to death as it leaves its mother's 13:54.580 --> 14:00.740 womb. And that's legal. And you know, are you really convinced that there's a technical difference 14:00.740 --> 14:08.820 in that 10 seconds difference? And one is legit according to man and one is illegitimate according 14:08.820 --> 14:15.220 to God. You can decide about that. You know, a guy up at the college, I tend to run into college 14:15.220 --> 14:22.900 people a lot since I'm up there. And they said, Al, you're a smart guy. Can you really believe 14:22.900 --> 14:29.140 that abortion is killing? And you wouldn't really call it murder, would you? You're too smart for 14:29.140 --> 14:36.100 that. I said, John, if I was that smart, I'd have to say if you kill something, it was murder, 14:36.100 --> 14:44.180 especially if it was done for hatred or inconvenience. I'm smart. I can see that. I'm not too bright, 14:44.180 --> 14:51.940 but I know that much. And you know what? It's hard to morally justify murder. It's not an easy thing 14:51.940 --> 14:57.300 to do. And we don't want to do that. We can't justify it. So give them the word murder every 14:57.300 --> 15:03.460 time you get the chance. Is that gross on your part? No, it's just simply logical, isn't it? 15:03.460 --> 15:10.100 You're killing something alive. God formed in the mother's womb. And so listen to Zachariah 2-8, 15:10.100 --> 15:17.540 for he touches you. He touches you. He who touches you touches the apple of my eye. God is speaking. 15:18.340 --> 15:25.860 When you kill that something precious, you're killing the apple of God's eye. I don't want to 15:25.860 --> 15:32.660 do that. That's a dangerous thing to do and a scary thing to do. And it leaves us all with a trauma. 15:34.180 --> 15:40.100 It especially leaves the young woman with a terrible trauma because it doesn't seem right, 15:40.100 --> 15:45.780 and it really isn't. What is man that thou art mindful of him or the son of man 15:46.500 --> 15:51.620 that you have crowned him with honor and with glory? I think we are crowned with the Holy Spirit, 15:51.620 --> 15:57.540 the ability to will, to intellect. That by the way is Psalms 8, 4, and 5, and it's quoted many times 15:57.540 --> 16:03.620 in the Bible, isn't it? At least three times that I know of. What is man that are mindful of him 16:03.620 --> 16:08.420 or the son of man that you should visit him? For you've crowned him with honor and with glory. 16:08.420 --> 16:14.580 And when I look at it, I have been made in the image of God. I have been, and you have been, 16:14.580 --> 16:20.020 and therefore take care of this beautiful thing that we call a human being, whether it's very 16:20.020 --> 16:25.380 young or whether it's very old. And now we're getting rid of old folks because, well, it's not 16:25.380 --> 16:31.780 a quality of life that we would like. And Hitler did the same thing. It's just a matter of practice. 16:31.780 --> 16:38.180 It's a matter of history. It at least bothered to look into it. And I think one thing we could say, 16:38.260 --> 16:42.980 when is the fetus human? Well, certainly at the moment of conception 16:42.980 --> 16:47.460 and no later than any eight days. And there's a reason for that. There's a good biological reason. 16:47.460 --> 16:55.140 God doesn't abort from time to time in the minstrel cycle. He doesn't abort a living creature 16:55.140 --> 17:01.300 in that sense of the word. And so, hey, this may influence your thoughts about a lot of things 17:01.300 --> 17:07.140 that are being voted on today, at least do it in an intelligent way and at least judge it 17:07.700 --> 17:12.500 from what the Bible might comment. The womb is used many times in the Old Testament, 17:12.500 --> 17:18.420 and it's derived from the Hebrew word, rekkam, meaning compassion. And here we see the compassion 17:18.420 --> 17:23.380 for the living tissue of the mother's womb to that which is unfolded within it. And you know, 17:23.380 --> 17:27.540 there's several symbols, aren't they? This is the good one, the fallopian tubes. This is the 17:27.540 --> 17:32.500 mother's womb. This is the golem, the sac, and the little baby is contained there. Now, there is 17:32.580 --> 17:38.820 an evil use of this. You know, this is another evil use, but it's kind of interesting, isn't it? 17:38.820 --> 17:45.300 It's an imitation of that which is good. And doesn't Satan always imitate good things? 17:45.300 --> 17:51.140 Always makes it evil. You know, this is a satanic or devilish symbol, isn't it? But it ought not 17:51.140 --> 17:56.980 to be. The womb should never be touched with symbolism. That's satanic, but only holy and only 17:57.060 --> 18:04.580 pure. We read in Psalms 139, verse 13 to 17, but especially in that 17, 18:04.580 --> 18:12.100 my substance was not hidden from thee when I was made in secret. And where are we made in secret 18:12.100 --> 18:21.220 at our mother's womb? When does God give us a soul? Very early on. And it does not occur 18:22.180 --> 18:30.020 10 seconds after birth. It occurs from conception on. I think that's a powerful sermon, all of us, 18:30.020 --> 18:36.260 how to realize. And then remembering Galatians 3.27, for as many of you as were baptized into Christ 18:36.260 --> 18:42.100 have put him on, because in the symbol of the womb is the word indual, actually in biblical 18:42.100 --> 18:47.300 word, put him on. You ever been cold and clammy and mama slips up behind you and slips a big old 18:47.300 --> 18:53.300 blanket around you? That's indual. See, as many of you were baptized into Christ, had been warmed 18:53.300 --> 19:00.500 by his robes, had been enfolded. Literally, it's golem enfolded. And we can't have life 19:01.460 --> 19:06.820 without being enfolded. And that gives a new feeling and a new appreciation of baptism, 19:06.820 --> 19:13.940 doesn't it? Ah, you've put him on. You've been enfolded as a fetus in its mother's womb. You are 19:14.020 --> 19:22.340 now protected and sanctified by the bag of waters and the magnificent surface which isolates the 19:22.340 --> 19:30.340 baby from all shock and harm until about nine months. Well, my substance was not hid from you 19:30.340 --> 19:38.100 when I was made in secret. You know, there's a great lesson to be made in the past. Many of us 19:38.100 --> 19:47.700 here remember World War II and the ugliness. Of course, I tell you, goodness, abortion's been 19:47.700 --> 19:55.060 around since the days of Babylon. They actually find brass scallops which were used for scraping the 19:55.060 --> 20:06.020 womb. But we have made a great art of it. We have made a tragedy of killing things in the womb. 20:06.980 --> 20:15.140 And I think when we break that rule called thou shalt not kill, we bring on the judgment which 20:15.140 --> 20:21.620 he said would come to all nations and to all people. And you know, when the gates are down 20:21.620 --> 20:28.500 and in a short time one death wrongfully committed and tolerated becomes numberless death wrongfully 20:28.500 --> 20:33.860 tolerated. And this is the law of the Roman Circus, isn't it? Calvin Miller said this, 20:34.820 --> 20:40.260 it's strange that Spartacus forgot to tell his brothers in rebellion that they should all be 20:40.260 --> 20:47.700 crucified if they failed. And when there are too many crosses, there are none. A drop of blood is 20:47.700 --> 20:56.740 ghastly. A sea of blood is accepted. We weep above a single dying beast, but we whistle past the 20:56.740 --> 21:05.140 slaughterhouse and see so much blood shed becomes, if you will, unimportant. And if I say maybe the 21:05.140 --> 21:10.100 judgment that has to do with killing small children of vaccinations, you just think of the great 21:10.980 --> 21:19.380 ideas of China, the largest country on the face of the earth, 1.2 billion people. And you only have 21:19.380 --> 21:24.980 one child and believe you, me, they will see that you have one child. Of course, unless you're a 21:24.980 --> 21:33.620 privileged member of the Hanchos and what have you, or you think of France, a great and powerful 21:33.620 --> 21:37.460 nation that conquered the world at one time doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Matter of fact, there 21:37.460 --> 21:44.100 not much help at anything. I can think of, unless it's perfume or something effeminate at any rate. 21:45.860 --> 21:52.500 What happened to mama's love? Sometimes you know, there is a difference there. I heard a lovely 21:52.500 --> 21:58.580 woman all dressed up very professional. She had more degrees than I had. And she said, well, you know, 21:59.380 --> 22:04.420 I can't think of a worse thing than to have a grumpy bunch of old men legislate what happens 22:04.420 --> 22:09.940 to my body. And that sounds very intellectual and very modern and very cool, doesn't it? 22:10.820 --> 22:16.100 But I tell you what, there's a little problem there, isn't it? It's still illegal to commit 22:16.100 --> 22:22.900 suicide. And if that's part of her body, she's killing part of her body. And you know what, 22:22.900 --> 22:28.260 killing things is still breaking God's law and it still is murder. Call it murder, real folks. 22:28.820 --> 22:38.500 It's at least, it sets a clear example for all. Listen to Isaiah 43.1. But now this is what the 22:38.500 --> 22:46.100 Lord says. Now I like that, don't you? He who created you, oh Jacob, he who formed you, oh Israel, 22:46.100 --> 22:56.420 fear not for I have redeemed you. I have called you by my name. You are mine. I can just remember 22:57.060 --> 23:01.860 when one of those first little fat babies came to my house, she's sitting here in the second row. 23:02.340 --> 23:08.020 And how I just wanted to hold her up and say, she's mine, man, or an even symbol of the lion, 23:08.020 --> 23:14.980 remember? He held that little funny fat cub up to the whole animal kingdom. And he was looking 23:14.980 --> 23:21.300 around, but he was saying this is mine. But you know, God is claiming you, you are mine. 23:22.420 --> 23:25.780 Doesn't that just make the hair out of the back of your neck? You know, I don't know what he had in 23:25.860 --> 23:32.100 mind for a big, ugly guy from Oklahoma, not too bright with a big mouth on him. But there must 23:32.100 --> 23:37.940 be some pertinent, even liked me. And he even benefited me and he even provided a redemption 23:37.940 --> 23:43.860 for me and for you two who are pretty and who are young and who are talented and intellectual. 23:43.860 --> 23:51.860 You're something else, what a group. I don't know. It just seems so logical to me. Notice the possessing 23:51.860 --> 23:57.780 loving concern of God to the life he created. To lovingly care for children is a God-like 23:57.780 --> 24:03.780 attribute. It was seen in Hannah of old in 1 Samuel 1, 10 and 11. Remember what she did? 24:04.500 --> 24:08.900 She didn't have a son, but she said, God, give me a son and I'll give him back to you. For there, 24:08.900 --> 24:16.100 she says, I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life. And here's this little boy going 24:16.100 --> 24:22.580 off with a little bag and I could just see I would cry trying to give Jesse away. I don't know 24:22.580 --> 24:27.460 whether I could do it. And that was the old man raising him in that stuffy old temple, you know. 24:27.460 --> 24:33.620 But he was given to God and did that great man prosper. Indeed, he did and so did Hannah. 24:34.260 --> 24:39.060 They're just on loan. See how precious they are. If you just realize they're on loan, you fold them, 24:39.060 --> 24:46.180 you develop and you swat them, you adjure them, you warn them and you bring them up a tall, 24:46.180 --> 24:51.220 precious human being that says, Mom and Papa, I'm so glad I came to your house. 24:52.100 --> 24:56.660 And you know, they, you have generally said that and you have heard that I know many times. 24:58.340 --> 25:04.820 You know, she was miserable in not being a mother. They thought she was drunken covering her. 25:05.780 --> 25:12.100 Her sorrow, she was weeping in godly sorrow and God answered, you see. And then look at the 25:12.100 --> 25:19.220 New Testament comment in 2nd Timothy 1 verse 5. I have been reminded of your sincere faith, 25:19.220 --> 25:25.940 which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice. And I am persuaded that now 25:25.940 --> 25:33.460 lives also in you. Isn't that something? Grandmother, grandmother, that is something, isn't it? 25:33.780 --> 25:41.780 You know, I was just thinking about the, the ministry of the jail and we have a lot of that. 25:43.380 --> 25:50.740 And I was preaching in the jail to five women and it had been a slow day and we thought, 25:52.660 --> 26:01.060 you know, let's talk about our children. And of course, everyone was weeping in 15 seconds. 26:01.060 --> 26:05.380 Let's talk about our babies. Where are they today? And they didn't know, except one said, 26:05.940 --> 26:11.780 I got a grandma and she's taking care of my babies. That's a legitimate thing, isn't it? 26:12.580 --> 26:20.580 Women teach your, your little girls about that wonderful thing. How important that is. 26:21.140 --> 26:27.300 Oshwich, Turblinka, Buchenwald and Dachau were not just isolated horrors. They became the pattern 26:27.380 --> 26:34.100 of godless actions and a consciousness nation. This was the edge of a slippery precipice that 26:34.100 --> 26:41.140 only increased the descent into the maelstrom of horrors. And listen more. You know, Calvin Miller, 26:41.140 --> 26:48.580 if you haven't listened to Calvin Miller or wrote and written, you're missing out. You have a lacking 26:48.580 --> 26:52.980 life. Listen to what he says. I wish I could talk like this. I heard the ballad of a fool 26:53.540 --> 26:59.060 whose simple song made synonyms of life and death and cursed the right and called it wrong. And 26:59.060 --> 27:08.180 that's sometimes what we're doing. Remember, which is it? Pro-choice or pro-life? One's right, 27:08.180 --> 27:13.620 one's wrong. Come play along the precipice. Don't worry that the cliff is steep. The little flowers 27:13.620 --> 27:21.460 on the brink are daisies. Ah, but their roots run deep. And we're on a slippery slope hanging on to 27:21.460 --> 27:27.460 the stems of daisies is not safety. And when you don't have the word of God and you're not living 27:27.460 --> 27:36.740 by the word of God, that is a tremendously slippery slope and it just degenerates and degenerates 27:36.740 --> 27:45.220 and degenerates. Stick with God. It always works better. And eventually you see the elimination 27:45.300 --> 27:52.180 of the old folks. In Germany, I'd be at an age now where I might be considered inefficient 27:52.180 --> 28:01.460 for the state to support and racially inferior people. And finally abortions and all those 28:01.460 --> 28:06.740 things. John Powell in abortion, the silent Holocaust says, telling of a children's home 28:06.740 --> 28:11.860 for the retarded and handicapped that was run by Sister Rutilia in Germany at the time of the 28:11.860 --> 28:17.380 Holocaust. And they said they just came around in trucks and took all of the children and dumped 28:17.380 --> 28:22.180 them in there like sacks of wheat and took them to the killing centers. So it wasn't just the 28:22.180 --> 28:27.140 abortions of babies. It was the abortion of all those who were not ubermench, the superman. 28:29.540 --> 28:33.940 60 million people took on an entire world and almost pulled it off because they thought they 28:33.940 --> 28:40.980 were supermen and they were super swine. You see, we were scared to death of them for a while. 28:40.980 --> 28:47.940 This is part of a philosophy that says that life is not worth living under the right circumstance. 28:47.940 --> 28:52.500 And we have the right to select who lives and who does not. And that's what we're doing with 28:52.500 --> 28:58.340 abortion. We are deciding in advance. And what's happened is abortion has simply become a birth 28:58.340 --> 29:03.540 control method in America. That's all in the world there is. If you want to call down to the 29:03.540 --> 29:12.820 crisis center there and talk about that, the caring center, if you will, they assume about 29:12.820 --> 29:23.300 50 million babies have been aborted since January of 1973. 50 million? That's more than all that 29:23.300 --> 29:29.700 were killed in World War II. Far more. Because we reckon only 38 million in World War II. 29:29.940 --> 29:36.020 It's incredible, isn't it? You see, when there's too much blood, there's no blood at all. 29:37.380 --> 29:40.820 That makes sense, doesn't it? Doesn't make sense, but that's the way we think. 29:41.780 --> 29:49.940 And there is every life that's worth living in the jail there. Also, there was a little redheaded 29:50.660 --> 29:57.780 Irish girl. She was beautiful. I'd have to say she was stunning. She was weeping. She was uncontrollable. 29:58.500 --> 30:06.100 And I got, they asked me, since usually as I'm an older fella, to counsel her because she had had an 30:06.100 --> 30:11.700 abortion and was having a traumatic experience. And I was able to help over several weeks. I finally 30:11.700 --> 30:20.420 got to meet the boyfriend. And he was a tall, handsome guy. He spoke well, dressed well. I don't 30:20.420 --> 30:26.900 know, he dressed well enough to be a bootlegger. I don't know. But he said, Mr. Allen, I really 30:26.900 --> 30:33.780 want to thank you for your help with so-and-so. He said, you know, women tend to get very emotional 30:33.780 --> 30:40.180 about these kind of things. Well, I said, well, murder is something you get impassioned about. 30:41.780 --> 30:49.060 Oh, and the conversation just ended right there. And I hope that she's gotten her heart and her 30:49.060 --> 30:56.180 mind straight. Because that's not the answer. No, there are a dozen other ways to take care of 30:56.180 --> 31:04.660 unwanted babies. God forbid that there should ever be an unwanted baby. Listen to this. Put a star 31:04.660 --> 31:10.980 by it. I'm running out of time. Proverbs 24, 11, and 12. Put a star by it, please. Proverbs 24, 11, 31:10.980 --> 31:19.300 and 12. Rescue those being led away to death. Hold back those staggering towards slaughter. 31:19.300 --> 31:26.820 If you say, but we knew nothing about this. Does not he who weighs the heart perceive that thing? 31:26.820 --> 31:33.860 Does not he who guards your life know about it? Will he not repay each person as he has 31:33.860 --> 31:39.140 done things about that? You know, the German people said, well, we didn't know about 31:39.940 --> 31:47.220 the Holocaust, the four to six million people burned to death. We didn't know about that. 31:47.220 --> 31:54.500 And you know that for years on in at Belsen, Treblinka, Buchenwald, Dachau, they they actually 31:54.500 --> 32:02.980 burned alive 180, not always alive, but often alive, 187,000 people in one day. And where the 32:02.980 --> 32:08.340 big concern was about railroad schedules, if they had had better transportation, they'd have killed 32:08.420 --> 32:15.860 200,000 and obliterated their existence on the earth and smoky ash. And the sky came down greasy 32:15.860 --> 32:26.980 black with human flesh, greasy black. And if you've ever smelled the fire on flesh, 32:27.620 --> 32:36.180 you know, that is an unmistakable smell. There is nothing like it. And maybe it's why God has 32:36.180 --> 32:43.860 chosen a picture of hell as fire may not be the only view he has of it, but certainly a part of it. 32:43.860 --> 32:50.260 Well, I liked the conclusion that I would make. And it says this, 32:52.580 --> 33:00.740 I saw, don't ask me why Hugh Hefner in some kind of program caught my eye, sounded pretty 33:00.740 --> 33:06.580 intellectual, and I don't know, they were having an award for somebody. But Hugh Hefner said, 33:07.460 --> 33:14.660 sang the song, thank heavens for little girls. It made me sick to my stomach. Hugh Hefner's view 33:14.660 --> 33:23.380 of womanhood is disgusting, disgusting. And you know, here he is so suave and everybody's saying, 33:23.380 --> 33:29.620 how cool Hugh Hefner is. And what a lifestyle he has, what a worthless lifestyle he has. And he 33:29.700 --> 33:36.740 has nothing when he stands before the judgment seat of God. What can I do about that? Well, pray 33:37.460 --> 33:41.300 for caring centers, pray for those who are having these problems. 33:41.940 --> 33:46.980 Pray daily, join a group, the caring center, crisis, pregnant center. That's as good as we have. Did 33:46.980 --> 33:51.940 you know out of 10 churches participating, this little church without even a sermon about it or 33:51.940 --> 33:56.420 anything, gave a fourth of the money that was given? And there were some giant churches that were 33:56.420 --> 34:00.980 involved there. They didn't get very involved. Study the literature, pick it up out there, 34:00.980 --> 34:06.580 sign up if you want some copies run off. Vote, agitate, defend, and speak out for pro-life 34:06.580 --> 34:12.420 decisions in our democratic process. Now listen, I will conclude with Deuteronomy 30, verse 19. 34:12.980 --> 34:23.060 Now choose life so that you and your children may live, and may I add in Al's comment, 34:23.060 --> 34:36.020 may live forever. Abortion is rarely an option, almost never an option. 34:36.020 --> 34:41.620 As we stand and sing our hymn of invitation.