![]() Are human beings valuable? They were much more Egyptian and Canaanite than they were God’s people. They had imbibed deeply from the well of how the Egyptians and surrounding cultures viewed the world, what made us valuable. We know from other places in the Bible that the Hebrew people, God’s people had taken Egyptian gods as their gods. So Genesis is given by Moses, it’s the first kind of recorded revelation of God after he takes his people out from under 400 years of Egyptian captivity, slavery, and oppression. If you have a Pew Bible, it’s probably page one. So if you have your Bible, if you would turn with me to Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:26. So I hope the Holy Spirit will guide each of us as we look at our text today and then apply it. But let’s not just be people who believe right things, let’s be people who do right things. I have these convictions, but I want to put feet to them.” And so that might look like care net, it might look like helping a mom who’s struggling in your neighborhood or in your church. And perhaps some of you will say, “I need to do something. And I’m thankful for faithful friends who are willing to have those conversations with me. It was sermons and people reasoning with me about this issue that led to me changing my mind about this in part over the years. Perhaps today some of you will come to change your mind about something. And so we don’t want to selectively look at certain things that may make us uncomfortable or not. God’s word speaks to the full range of issues we encounter in life. ![]() So I understand this can be difficult, but we can’t difficult topics. I do want us to reason from the scriptures, from God’s word to a robust conception of what the value of every single human life is, every single person. And my goal here today is not to heap condemnation on anyone, it’s not to judge anyone. Maybe you’ve had one, maybe you’ve encouraged someone to, maybe you’ve participated in one, maybe you have wanted one, a whole range of people. What is our source of authority and knowledge about what is right and what is wrong about who we are? And so those are some questions that hopefully we will reason from the scriptures with today and wrestle with, like how should Christians think about abortion? What do the scriptures have to say? Now, in a room this size, it’s likely that there are several people who have some experience with abortion. So it leads to somewhat awkward conversations where we might say, “Well, this is wrong,” and someone says, “it’s legal.” And we have to be able to work through, okay, so some things are illegal and wrong and some things are illegal and right, and how do we know what’s true? It’s an evil that we don’t even necessarily have a category or a word for, and it’s interesting because it’s legal. And so we’re dealing with something of epic proportions even beyond that. To put that in perspective, the Holocaust saw six million people lose their lives, have them taken from them. And since then, over 60 million children have been aborted just in the United States, over a billion worldwide. And that case and cases that have followed have basically led to abortion on demand for any reason being acceptable or at least legal in our country. You might think, “Why today? What makes this Sunday in January that day?” Well, in 1973 on January 22nd, the Supreme Court of the United States decided the case Roe v. But on this day specifically, we want to reflect on the innate worth and dignity of all unborn persons too.Īnd this isn’t just an arbitrary day. Today is what’s been set aside as national sanctity of human life Sunday where we reflect on the innate worth and dignity of every single person from conception to natural death and every stage in between. (Note: this transcript was created automatically and may contain some errors)
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