Sermon Tone Analysis

The Sanctity of Life

Psalms 139:13-18

Introduction:

Psalm 139 has both head and heart.

It is strongly theological, dealing with such important doctrines as God’s omniscience (it is probably the weightiest part of the Bible for discussing God’s omniscience), omnipresence, and omnipotence; but it is also wonderfully personal, because it speaks of these attributes of God in ways that impact the psalmist and ourselves.

Note-the word “know”

Although Psalm 139 deals with some of the highest and most important of all theological concepts, the omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence of God, it nevertheless has two practical aims that become clear at its close (vv.

19–24).

First, the writer wants to separate himself from all who deliberately practice evil.

Second, he wants God to search him out thoroughly and purge him of anything that might be offensive to God so that he might walk in the way everlasting.

It is hard to think of any more practical reasons for theology than those.

We are dealing with a most serious subject- the killing of the unborn.

Example: New York state just signed legislation that makes it legal to kill a baby up to the point of birth.

They call it abortion, God calls it murder!!

Our society/culture has pulled many Bible Believing Christians into a trap…the trap is one that has been set for the last 49+ years….Abortion is wrong(they say) except in the case of rape, incest, or health of the mother…

Sad truth is that Christians have bought into this lie!!!

Everett Koop, M.D., formerly the Surgeon General, states that during his 35-plus years of practicing medicine, “Never once did a case come across my practice where abortion was necessary to save a mother’s life.”

Abortion is a horrible thing.

Since 1973 over 70 million babies have been put to death in America alone.

That is more than TEN times the number of Jews that Adolf Hitler killed in his concentration camps.

For every two babies born in America, another baby dies in an abortion.

That is 1.4 MILLION every year, 4,000 every day, one baby every 20 SECONDS!

Every year in America, over 700,000 abortions are performed AFTER nine weeks into the pregnancy.

What is wrong with this country?

In Psalm 139 we note that God knows the person before they are even created in the womb of the mother.

All life is precious and important to God; after all He is the One that sent His own Son to die so that we may live!

The word sanctity carries with it the thought of that which is sacred to God.

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The sanctity of all human life.