Life Is Sacred (Part 2 of 2)

Most of us have never so when we read the sixth commandment, we assume, well at least I managed to keep that one. But today on Truth for Life. Alistair Begg shows us the many ways we actually commit what he calls hidden murder were in Exodus chapter 20 verse 13 we needed to be able to articulate your agnostic friend that we are not simply about crusades for certain slogans and ideas, but the reason that we uphold the sixth commandment. And the sanctity of human life, is because unlike you, then we believe that there was a moment in time a millisecond in which a creator God who has always existed made creation and as a result of that he established in the creation of man, morality, a sense of right and wrong dignity as having been made in his image personality as distinct from the rest and intrinsic value because of who he we then need to go on as they will say the world that we get in the predicament in which we find ourselves then we will move from Genesis chapter 1 and chapter 2 into Genesis chapter 3 and we will show how the fall of man leaves men and women today in a world not the way that God created another way that the world that God intended by the world and the way in which man has spoiled now if this is too philosophical for us this morning. This is a philosophical theology or theological philosophy. I want you to know that I'm looking forward this afternoon to talking to some fourth and fifth grade children here in the church and the kind of questions that have asked me I'm supposed to answer all these questions between four 3530 and 630 are questions like who created God who created God. How was why was God never born. Did God really die. Does God love Satan. When Jesus died in Jesus is God, why did everything go crazy and out of control.

So for those of you who want a Christian experience that can be reduced to seven little slogans to make you happy. Five verses that you learned carry on your way, but I'm about to tell you that the kids in your house asking more sensible questions and many of us are even thinking about and they are tomorrow.

There are children there on the forefront of these issues.

Now the authority matter the hostility matter in the sanctity matter. Let's come to the issue, then of the sanctity of life, the sanctity of life is underpinned by this view of the world by the fact that God is Creator that he is personally involved that man is hostile to that truth, but it doesn't alter the fact of the sanctity of life, human life is sacred, says the Bible.

First, because it is God's gift and secondly because man bears God's image. Can we do this in Genesis 1 and Genesis 9 human life is the most precious and sacred thing in all the world and to end it, or to directed sending is God's prerogative alone so we honor God by respecting his image in each other, which means consistently preserving and furthering the welfare of one another, especially as it relates to life. Well then how is this commandment broken. Let me suggest four ways in which the commandment is broken.

Number one, it is broken by homicide. Consider how little regard there is for human personhood. When daily in each of our cities.

Fannin women are blown away, drugged out, dragged out drown destroyed simply as a matter of core the meaningless absurdity of life without God leads to the tragic destruction of human existence.

Once you break the link between a personal creator God and his creation. Once you dismantle the first 11 chapters of Genesis. You are left with the most unbelievable implication that so homicide review. Secondly, suicide reveals the breaking of the six commandment, the act of willfully causing one's own death. The suicide and making himself the object of murder still remains the subject off suicide event defends against community and that we don't have the right to deprive others of us is not trying to say that that's just true. We don't have the right to deprive our families of us or our friends of ours that is not our right suicide offends against human dignity because if you think it out. If sin is to do what we please. To decide the purpose of our lives without rendering account to anyone else, then suicide is the ultimate realization of that dream because in suicide more than any other I we defiantly say I am the master of my own destiny is the ultimate expression of freedom from one perspective, selfishness, on the other futility of the end of the line where it is uncomfortable. How do people process information that is a mind that is hostile to that is in Romans 87 mind. The mind is hostile to the authority of God and re-objects the authority of God and rejects the notion of God partially created that he is interested in is the Asian and every one of us reacts to say in this glass and disappoints us to see a man so abjectly suffering that he blows his own life into oblivion. We agree with that.

We agree with the problem of a lack of care we agree with what they can with the issue of emptiness and loneliness and a sense of alienation, but the answer of the Christian is not here where the mask the answer.

The question is here meet the Christ, the one who is tight for the feelings of our infirmities. The one who is the answer to the deepest longings of our lives. The one who endured in order that we might discover life I get suicide in the distraction of life is is on the ascendancy that this is not going to go away and borrow revival in our country.

This will get worse, the American Hospital Association says 70% of the 6000 deaths in hospitals every day are a result of some decision such as halting or withholding of treatment. And some doctors say they routinely give their dying patients the means to take their own lives.

Only after determining a patient is just depressed or in need of new medicine.

Dr. John Flexner of Vanderbilt medical school professor who teaches death, dying and bereavement courses teaches death, dying and bereavement courses says if I terminal patient wants to die.

There is a way in hell quotes I say I'm giving you this prescription medicine and the sleeping pill, and for God sake don't ever take them together and never take too many on them because that would kill you.

So the person walks out the door as soon as the will of the West fancy comes across the computer screen of their mind having been provided by the doctor who teaches death, dying and bereavement courses. They slipped one of the pills the rest of the medication and then what happens they stand before the bar of God's judgment seat.

They don't believe they believe that they go to oblivion. It is appointed man to man once to die, and after this comes nothing seat that's their worldview so they are consistent with their worldview. I don't like it here. I'm unhappy here, nobody cares for me.

Here there is no purpose in my existence. There is no fear in my going. Therefore, final X understand why I belabored the first point because until we understand these things and engage our neighbors and our friends in that kind of dialogue will continue to live with their rhetoric, which is foolish and devastating. Now we need to say I need to say this before I move on and draw this to a close. Some of you are sitting out there saying well you know I remember some years ago when I sat with my loved one in the hospital and it became clear to all of us that there was no possibility of there being any restoration in this individual's life. We were guided by a caring physician who said that as long as we kept that gadgetry up there all that technical medical wizardry. Although we were doing was prolonging the experience of dying we were certainly not extending the reality and sanctity of life, the physician said that if we were to withdraw the extraordinary means that we would allow nature to take its course. And that's what you did and that's right physicians all down through the years have done that and that his death with dignity is not a euphemism for euthanasia. Thirdly, abortion breaks the six commandment the raging debate over the beginning of life should not be viewed as a matter of scientific or technical judgment. That's the first thing you need to say it is a moral issue. The reason that our godless friends are so concerned to say that a teaches is not a human being in any realistic sense is because they are still unprepared to say that it is wrong to murder children. Believe me, the day will come when they will decide it is okay to murder children and on that day the debate will be over about when human life begins because people will be honest enough to say we don't care we know it's a child we don't want their child and we are in control of things.

There is no authority over us.

There is no God who reigns there is no personal creator. We were born without reason we prolong our lives by chance and we dying oblivion. Sartre therefore to be consistent within the framework on this worldview, there is no reason the world why we are not going to take these intervention. The fact is you and I know today that from any realistic objective perspective, we have to conclude that the fetus in the womb is from the moment of conception a human being in the process of arriving the fighter for several months that fetus cannot survive outside the womb does not affect its right to the same protection which other human beings. Merit in which it will itself immediately married as soon as it slipped from the womb Dr. Sharon Lejeune, the professor of genetics at the University of Ren� Descartes in Paris. The guy who discovered the genetic basis for down syndrome says life is a very very long history. Each individual has a very neat beginning and that beginning is the moment of conception, despite the fact that we are apparently wiser, better educated, and free. No previous generation has ever been as guilty of a wholesale rejection of the six commandment is ours. Finally, six commandment is broken by hidden murder by hidden murder.

Turn to Matthew chapter 5 and with this we conclude some of us feel such a rising tide of moral indignation about the things that we've been studying that were about to go out and go crazy were already applying this commandment to everyone else except us. Jesus knew that would happen. That's why, in the sermon on the Mount Matthew five verse 21 he said you have heard that it was said to the people long ago do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment. So the lesson I do some delay on you. Anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Anyone who says to his brother right car is answerable to the Sanhedrin, but anyone who says you fool will be in danger of the fire of hell cutie saying there saying you think because you managed to walk away from it in terms of any physical involvement. Your clear is that you are filthy adulterers in your mind and you stand in face of judgment.

You think because you have not been guilty of any of these things may I see impressing there will be some who are here this morning and you have been guilty of this. You have faced the issue of abortion. I want to say this to you.

God is merciful in relation to that is, he is in relationship to everything else. And especially if your perspective was a worldview that was so warm before you came to faith in Christ. God understands that to so I don't want you lot under any man-made burden of your own past.

Don't allow the devil to Remington around in your own areas of sin that is already been forgiven. If it is not been forgiven, then let's talk and let's pray. But some of us are so proud of the fact that we will. We never did that. We never considered suicide and I never shot anybody.

I never bang anyone over the head well. So why did he ever had a murderous thought. Did you ever drive away from a business meeting saddling to kill that sucker did you ever see you know what III wish he would drop off the side of a cliff. You know what that guy is a total empty head. That's what Rocco means empty head nincompoop dog brain.

Anyone who says to his brother. You are an empty headed, nobody answers to the Sanhedrin is guilty of judgment, and anyone who calls into question the morality and the character of an individual by seeing you fool, namely you moral moron will be in danger of the fires of hell.

So just because I shared someone's bladder and shed someone's blood.

I'm not innocent.

My heart is known murder. I've harbored thoughts through his file is a murder contemptuous anger as I will bed fellows animosity and malice and hostility in our old favorite gossip whereby we kill people all the time from great distances. We spread the new out of the same mouth as Jim says, comes the blessing of God and the cursing of our neighbors every time I gossip what I'm saying is this person something or said something that I'm incapable of and so I put them down, and I elevate myself and I face the fire of hell. And as hard as it is for eyes conservative evangelicals to understand and accept this in the economy of God. Nobody will go to a deeper hell as a result of a thing had an abortion, then, will the person who called his brother a moral moron or an empty headed dog brain idiot that he wish would die. Sin is sin and we have our little evangelical cozy ones.

None better than gossip whereby we maligned and we criticize and we disfigure and we desecrate we diminish the relevance and status and stature of our friends and our brothers and our sisters and even our family. Jesus said hey smart guys hey Pharisees, when you finish your talk on suicide, abortion and homicide. Remember Matthew 521.

If you want to play that game. He says by dealing down one another in the realm of God and harmful words than your is guilty fired, concluding comment, those of us who are trying so hard to be good and studying these 10 Commandments must be just about out of our brains by now. Right. Those of us who are somehow continued to believe that we are able to conform to God's righteous demands we been thinking this I didn't do well on the first, second, not so good third pack for Miranda's for my mother. I never called her sex I'm in deep trouble now. Okay, so some of us are sitting here is like were sitting on night I drag candy nail about 7 inches long and this idea of making ourselves satisfactory to God is an impossible dream. These commands make us squirm in our seats and what they do is they say I'm not even a try this anymore. I hate to stop. I messed up so bad I'm not even going to try and make myself acceptable and pleasing to God. And that's the end of the line but listen those costs who have given up on the idea of using these demand as a means of making ourselves acceptable to God as a means of achieving our right standing before God. We now recognize that it is the ministry of the Holy Spirit within our lives to conform us to the will of God, so that in obeying these commands. We are not seeking peace with in but we are finding pleasure in there's all the difference in the world.

Although we feel.

Although we will never conform to the law perfectly in heart and mind in action.

The new life that God has secured for us, and given to us in Christ will enable is not only to tell our neighbors about this transformation, but sure neighbors. The transformation this law is not a ladder which we claim to forgiveness but it is a matter in which we see ourselves in need of a Savior.

Have you ever come to Christ turned over your life to him, Savior and Lord and King. You may today is pray made a grace mercy and peace that comes from father-son rest upon and remain with each one. Today, and for evermore quickly finding out how it impossible for any of us to keep one of God's 10 Commandments.

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