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"Sanctity of Human Life"
* Intro: How do you approach life? Pos or neg? Good mood or bad? Life or death?
- Life made up of choices
- Choice is not your choice, but God's
* Sanctity of life based on who God is
- 2 opposing worldviews: God not Creator v God is Creator
- God not Creator popular because it means we are not responsible to God
- Lord Creator not just of all living things and all of Creation as in Gen1:1, but also of living things today {Ps139:13-16}
- Lord's work is wonderful (v14)
- From embryo to end, God takes all the credit for life
- Ps139:16 answers question when life begins
* Sanctity of life explained by who we are
- Uniquely-created by God
- Made in likeness of God -- "likeness" = internal qualities
- Made in image of God -- "image" = external form
- Gen9:6 condemns murder because you are killing a creation made in His image
* Sanctity of Life demonstrated by what God does
- Lord chooses to give us life
- In Jer1:5, Lord expresses pre-knowledge of entirety of life
- In Job31:15, that pre-knowledge exists for all people, not just prophets
- Eph1:4: before all of Creation and Gen1:1, our lives chosen and known by God
- Lord chooses ending of life
- World focuses on "quality" of life rather than sanctity
- Lives deemed non-quality possibly exist for others' growth {John11}
- Death an enemy of God {1Cor15:26}
- Death in the Lord's chosen time, not ours {Ps139:16}
* So what?
- Life sacred and belongs to God
- Choice: live for God or self?
- What will you do with the precious gift of life given to you by God?