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WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT THE UNBORN CHILD?

 

  • Conception is God's Gift:

            1.  Genesis 18:9-15
                God tells Abraham Sarah will have a son.

        2.  Genesis 21:1-2
                The Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as He promised.  And Sarah conceived,
                and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.

        3.  Genesis 25:21
                And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord granted his prayer,
                and Rebecca his wife conceived.

        4.  Genesis 25:23
                And the Lord said to Rebecca, "Two nations are in your womb, and     two peoples, born of you, shall
                be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the elder shall serve the younger."

        5.  Genesis 29:31--35
                The Lord causes Leah to conceive and bear four sons.

        6.  Genesis 30:22-23
                God opened Rachel's womb and she conceived and bore Joseph.

        7.  I Samuel 1-19-20
                 The Lord answers Hannah's prayer and gives her a son.

        8.  Galatians 1:15
                 But when He who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through His grace.

        9.  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 appointed you a prophet to the nations.

       10.  Luke 1:13
                 Birth of John the Baptist promised to "childless" couple;  "But the angel said to him, Zechariah, do
                 not be afraid, your prayer has been heard.  Your wife Elizabeth is to bear you a son and you must
                 name him John.  He will be your joy and delight and many will rejoice at his birth. . ."

       11.  Luke 1:26-38
                 The Annunciation - The Angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will bear the child, Jesus, before
                 she is ever pregnant.  Two of our most beautiful canticles, the Magnificat and the Benedictus are
                 glorifying these two annunciations, of John and Jesus.

  • God the Father is Creator of the Unborn:

            1.  Job 10:8-13
                 Job acknowledges God as Creator.

        2.  Job 31:15
                 Did not He who made me in the womb make him?  And did not one fashion us in the womb?

        3.  Psalm 139:13-16
                 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.

        4.  Ecclesiastes 11:5
                 As you do not know what is the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of her who
                 is with child, so you do not know the works of God who makes everything

        5.  Isaiah 44:2
                 Thus says the LORD who made you and formed you from the womb, who will help you . . .

        6.  Isaiah 44:24
                 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD,
                 Who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth
                 by Myself

  • The Spirit is in the Unborn and Responds to God.

             1.  Ecclesiastes 11:5
                 As you do not know what is the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of her
                 who is with child, so you do not know the works of God who makes everything.

         2.  Luke 1:15
                 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will
                also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

         3.  Luke 1:41
                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.

         4.  Luke 1:44
                For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my
                womb for joy.

  • WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT TAKING A LIFE?

              1.  Exodus 20:13
                You shall not murder.

         2.  Genesis 9:6
                Whoever sheds man's blood,  By man his blood shall be shed;  For in the image of God He made man.

         3.  Exodus 1:16-17
                and he said, "When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the
                birth stools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."  But
                the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the
                male children alive.

         4.  Exodus 21:22-25
                If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows,
                he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as
                the judges determine.  But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for
                tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

         5.  Amos 1:13-15
                "For three transgressions of the people of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment,
                Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead, That they might enlarge their territory.
                But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, And it shall devour its palaces,  Amid shouting in the day
                of battle, And a tempest in the day of the whirlwind. Their king shall go into captivity, He and his
                princes together,"  Says the LORD

  • WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT THE RESPONSIBILITY TO SAVE UNPROTECTED LIVES?

              1.  Proverbs 6:16-17
                       These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, A lying
                tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood,

         2.  Matthew 24:19
                But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days

         3.  Matthew 19:14
                But Jesus said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the
                kingdom of heaven.

         4.  Matthew 25:34-40
                Then the King will say to those on His right hand, "Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the
                kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:  for I was hungry and you gave Me
                food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and
                you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.  hen the
                righteous will answer Him, saying, "Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and
                give You drink?   When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?   Or
                when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?'   And the King will answer and say to
                them, "Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My  brethren,
                you did it to Me.

         5.  Deuteronomy 30:19
                I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death,
                blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;

  • IF SOCIETY SHOWS A TENDENCY TO CHOOSE DEATH, WHAT RESPONSIBILITY DOES THE CHURCH HAVE?  TO COMPROMISE?

              1.  Ezekiel 3:1-19  (Ezekiel the prophet as watchman)
                N    ow it came to pass at the end of seven days that the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,
                       "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from
                My mouth, and give them warning from Me: When I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and
                you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life,
                that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. Yet, if you
                warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor  from his wicked way, he shall die
                in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

          2.  John 10:9-16
                I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
                       The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may
                have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.  "I am the good shepherd. The good
                shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not
                own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the
                sheep and scatters them.  The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the
                sheep.  I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.  As the     Father
                   knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.  And other sheep I
                have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will
                be one flock and one shepherd.