Are we One nation under God or under Man?
A woman does have a right to choose; but what?-115a
1. The Moral Climate in our Country-The Problem
If you are a Bible-Believing Born-again Christian, you must believe what the Word says and not be afraid to speak the truth in love. You are not doing anyone any favor by hiding your light. We are quickly becoming a society that is barbaric. How unborn children are treated is more like Nazi Germany than the America of old.
If you are a young person and have bought into all this modern liberalism; I guarantee if you lived 50 years ago you would have been pro-life and anti-gay lifestyle. But when one group chants over and over “A woman has a right to choose” and most Christians don’t speak out enough it becomes the thinking of that group of people.
Remember this, what one generation tolerates and accepts, the next generation practices and promotes.
Proverbs 14:12 (ESV)
12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Isaiah 5:20-21 (ESV)
20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
2 Timothy 3:1-5 (ESV)
1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.
2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
2. Two-Hot-Bed Issues: A Woman’s Right to Choose and Same-Sex Marriages
First let’s talk about A Woman’s Right to Choose
· Why doesn’t unborn life count (OUT OF SIGHT-OUT OF MIND)
Original intent of Roe vs. Wade in January 1973 was that this was supposed to help 15000 to 20000 young teens/women who had been raped or a victim or incest. I did a study several years ago and found out that 95 per cent plus abortions are birth control after the fact.
· Does a Woman have a right to choose?
· Well what about a mother’s God-given duty to protect her child???
· WHEN YOU HARDEN YOUR HEART ALL YOU ARE LEFT WITH IS YOUR OPINIONS. Remember everyone has a right to their opinion but not everyone’s opinion is right.
· And just because it is legal doesn’t make it moral.
· One well-known Christian who protests Abortion said it this way. Abortion is not about women’s right in the way we think of it usually; it’s either trying to hide something; eliminate inconvenience or it’s just this attitude “I am gonna have sex and if I happen to get pregnant well too bad for the unborn child. Not they may not think exactly in those terms; but in general I agree with her.
· Let me also say this there is Great mercy available for those who have had abortions. God will forgive you if you ask him too.
· If you are pregnant and, in this situation, why not turn your difficult situation into a blessing for someone else. So many parents can’t have kids; what about adoption.
Psalm 139:13-16 (ESV)
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
· Man may have given woman a legal right to terminate (kill the unborn child)-But God surely hasn’t PERIOD!
· Knit me in my mother’s womb
· Fearfully and wonderfully made
· Made my inner most parts
· This is David talking about how God made us
· SO, THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION IS THIS: WHEN DOES LIFE START?
-It is obvious that life starts at conception (in the womb). If you are unsure about this take your birthday and subtract 280 days (the gestation period-how long the baby is in the mother’s womb) and then you get the conception date when life starts. To do anything else is to play God and out of sight and out of mind.
Now let’s talk about Same-Sex Marriages
LGBT-We should love and treat everyone with kindness. The church didn’t do this in the past. I’ve had friends that were gay. They were some of the nicest people I have ever known. We should love them but not endorse their lifestyle. Romans 1 is very clear on this. I am not homophobic. I love gay people and more than me God loves you much more than I ever could.
If your starting point is let’s just be kind to one another and you’re OK and I’m OK, you will come up with the wrong conclusion even as a Christian. Now I have already said we should love people-all people; but if God is against; not gays but a Gay lifestyle than we should be to. Do you believe and live by the Bible’s standards or by your opinions and society’s standards. You are not doing anyone any favors by hiding the truth from them. Speak the truth in love!
Romans 1:18-32 (ESV)
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32 Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Is there anywhere in the Bible where God says it’s OK to be gay. No there isn’t! Why is that? Are they born that way? No- They exchanged the truth for a lie. Last time I look up the word exchanged it was a verb and not a noun.
Genesis 2:18-25 (ESV)
18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
19 Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.
21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
22 And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
3. The Solution
· Do you adjust your beliefs to your experiences, or do you adjust your experience to your beliefs?
· If God’s Word says it; then it is the LAW
· Am I too PC???-Have I become so Politically Correct; so Nice; that my Words have no power because I have compromised my heart and mind???
*****Have you become ZOMBIFIED?
(Technique that Satan’s uses to brainwash people)
If you take something in and repeat it over and over and then believe it, you will become Zombified. And remember this again “WHAT ONE GENERATIONS TOLERATES THE NEXT ACCEPTS AND THE FOLLOWING PRACTICES.”
If you don’t God by the Word of God, you will automatically default to a lower moral code.
Everyone has an opinion but since did ones’ s opinion rise to the level of God’s Word
It is time to think outside our opinions and liberal ideas. To think outside the box. It’s time to go by what God’s Word says!!!
John 8:32,36 (ESV)
32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
If you are a Bible-Believing Born-again Christian, you must believe what the Word says and not be afraid to speak the truth in love. You are not doing anyone any favor by hiding your light. We are quickly becoming a society that is barbaric. How unborn children are treated is more like Nazi Germany than the America of old.
If you are a young person and have bought into all this modern liberalism; I guarantee if you lived 50 years ago you would have been pro-life and anti-gay lifestyle. But when one group chants over and over “A woman has a right to choose” and most Christians don’t speak out enough it becomes the thinking of that group of people.
Remember this, what one generation tolerates and accepts, the next generation practices and promotes.
Proverbs 14:12 (ESV)
12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Isaiah 5:20-21 (ESV)
20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
2 Timothy 3:1-5 (ESV)
1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.
2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
2. Two-Hot-Bed Issues: A Woman’s Right to Choose and Same-Sex Marriages
First let’s talk about A Woman’s Right to Choose
· Why doesn’t unborn life count (OUT OF SIGHT-OUT OF MIND)
Original intent of Roe vs. Wade in January 1973 was that this was supposed to help 15000 to 20000 young teens/women who had been raped or a victim or incest. I did a study several years ago and found out that 95 per cent plus abortions are birth control after the fact.
· Does a Woman have a right to choose?
· Well what about a mother’s God-given duty to protect her child???
· WHEN YOU HARDEN YOUR HEART ALL YOU ARE LEFT WITH IS YOUR OPINIONS. Remember everyone has a right to their opinion but not everyone’s opinion is right.
· And just because it is legal doesn’t make it moral.
· One well-known Christian who protests Abortion said it this way. Abortion is not about women’s right in the way we think of it usually; it’s either trying to hide something; eliminate inconvenience or it’s just this attitude “I am gonna have sex and if I happen to get pregnant well too bad for the unborn child. Not they may not think exactly in those terms; but in general I agree with her.
· Let me also say this there is Great mercy available for those who have had abortions. God will forgive you if you ask him too.
· If you are pregnant and, in this situation, why not turn your difficult situation into a blessing for someone else. So many parents can’t have kids; what about adoption.
Psalm 139:13-16 (ESV)
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
· Man may have given woman a legal right to terminate (kill the unborn child)-But God surely hasn’t PERIOD!
· Knit me in my mother’s womb
· Fearfully and wonderfully made
· Made my inner most parts
· This is David talking about how God made us
· SO, THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION IS THIS: WHEN DOES LIFE START?
-It is obvious that life starts at conception (in the womb). If you are unsure about this take your birthday and subtract 280 days (the gestation period-how long the baby is in the mother’s womb) and then you get the conception date when life starts. To do anything else is to play God and out of sight and out of mind.
Now let’s talk about Same-Sex Marriages
LGBT-We should love and treat everyone with kindness. The church didn’t do this in the past. I’ve had friends that were gay. They were some of the nicest people I have ever known. We should love them but not endorse their lifestyle. Romans 1 is very clear on this. I am not homophobic. I love gay people and more than me God loves you much more than I ever could.
If your starting point is let’s just be kind to one another and you’re OK and I’m OK, you will come up with the wrong conclusion even as a Christian. Now I have already said we should love people-all people; but if God is against; not gays but a Gay lifestyle than we should be to. Do you believe and live by the Bible’s standards or by your opinions and society’s standards. You are not doing anyone any favors by hiding the truth from them. Speak the truth in love!
Romans 1:18-32 (ESV)
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32 Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Is there anywhere in the Bible where God says it’s OK to be gay. No there isn’t! Why is that? Are they born that way? No- They exchanged the truth for a lie. Last time I look up the word exchanged it was a verb and not a noun.
Genesis 2:18-25 (ESV)
18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
19 Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.
21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
22 And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
3. The Solution
· Do you adjust your beliefs to your experiences, or do you adjust your experience to your beliefs?
· If God’s Word says it; then it is the LAW
· Am I too PC???-Have I become so Politically Correct; so Nice; that my Words have no power because I have compromised my heart and mind???
*****Have you become ZOMBIFIED?
(Technique that Satan’s uses to brainwash people)
If you take something in and repeat it over and over and then believe it, you will become Zombified. And remember this again “WHAT ONE GENERATIONS TOLERATES THE NEXT ACCEPTS AND THE FOLLOWING PRACTICES.”
If you don’t God by the Word of God, you will automatically default to a lower moral code.
Everyone has an opinion but since did ones’ s opinion rise to the level of God’s Word
It is time to think outside our opinions and liberal ideas. To think outside the box. It’s time to go by what God’s Word says!!!
John 8:32,36 (ESV)
32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.