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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Biblical Foundation for Life in the Womb 0:09 Well, we welcome you to chapter 31 of the book we're walking through reversed from culturally woke to biblically awake. This topic is this chapter is0:21 abortion. Is abortion mentioned in the Bible? It sure is. Psalm 1 39 verses 13 through 16. Powerful0:33 passages about when God formed us in the womb. How about Jeremiah chapter 1 verses 4 and 5? God knew him in the womb. Jeremiah. How0:45 about Genesis 25? Speaking of the womb again. And this is 22 through 20 23. And in Psalm 22,0:57 again, speaking about the mother's womb and life in the womb. And then how about when John the Baptist first met Jesus? They were both in a womb at1:09 that time. That was Luke chapter 1 verse 44. John was so excited he leaped in the womb, literally, of his of his mother, being in front1:21 of his cousin who would be the savior of the world. Let's be blunt. There's nowhere in the Bible it speaks of life in the womb as an embryo that's going to become1:33 a human being in the second or the third trimester. That does not exist. In fact, scripture attaches even greater life to a newborn.1:46 It it talks about in Exodus chapter 21. If someone's fighting and kills a pregnant woman, you extract a higher price from an individual for what they have done. And even in court1:58 cases across America, if there's a car wreck and they're suing the, car company or maybe the tire manufacturer or something, There's a lawsuit. If2:10 that woman was pregnant, they don't they they're they're now filing charges for they refer to a baby who has been killed in those kind of situations. But what's happening2:21 is a global genocide. 73000000 people are killed each year. That's a staggering number of 2 per2:33 second. In the United States, 3 per minute are being killed. 1 time, there was a consideration. I was living in at that time in the Dallas Fort Worth area.2:45 We lived in Tarrant County, Fort Worth area. And our board of supervisors were considering making 1 of the county hospitals, have have abortion. We went to a hearing. My daughter, who was adopted,2:58 age 12, gave a speech. And she ended with that classic line, I may have been an unwanted pregnancy, but I'm a very wanted child. Some have suggested there's up to3:10 2000000 couples across America at any 1 point that are trying to adopt children. I don't know what the number is actually now, but it has been certainly that high, we've been told, in the past. What happens3:22 in the womb? Let's talk about what gets conceived in that moment. 18 days after conception, the baby's heart this is on page 2 48. You have the book. The baby's heart begins to beat with his own3:33 blood. 28 days, we're not even a full month. 28 days from conception, the baby has eyes and ears. At 42 days, the baby has brain waves. At 103:45 weeks, babies can feel pain and even have developed tiny fingernails. Babies have been born, have survived at only the 12 week mark. I honestly3:57 thought many, many years ago when that movie came out, The Silent Screen, when they first discovered, and you could see the flinching and the grimacing and pain of 1 in the womb in an abortion.4:09 Sonograms came along. I I honestly thought that would so impact the conscience of America that abortions would be ruled out, But it is not. And we're inviting God's judgment4:21 on our nation. Every year, we continue to kill babies in the womb. In the state where I live, there was a man running for governor, and he was taking a a weak position on abortion.4:34 He was he was not willing to say he was for abortion, but he said, well, abortion he was back and forth. And he was in effect, he was supporting it by his position. And so I4:45 asked him to come meet with me, which he did. And I says, have you ever watched an abortion? He said, well, no. I said, well, you seem to be supporting 1. He said, well, you know I said, okay. Let me show you what4:57 you're supporting. And I had a computer set up to play an actual abortion. Now, why will they never show an actual abortion on television? Have you ever seen 1?5:09 On on on mainstream television? No. Why will they not? Because if Americans saw how the trauma of this, the goriness of it, They wouldn't tolerate that,5:21 but they don't show it. They'll never show that kind of thing. If you're 1 who's weak on this topic and you're not adamantly pro life and in opposition to abortion, I dare you and challenge you. Go to a computer5:33 and watch the killing of a baby, an abortion, and then tell me what you think about it at that particular point. I'll tell you a story. A story about a 14 year old5:45 girl. She was in a small town, a very very small town population, you know, less than 1000. And she was invited by 2 high school seniors to go see5:57 a movie on 1 occasion in a town number of miles away. She was so happy to have the recognition. 2 high school senior boys. She's only a freshman. She's 14. She consented. But she went with6:09 them, and they didn't take her to the movie. They took her to a secluded spot, and they raped her. She became pregnant. She went to a doctor. Her mother said6:21 to her on the way there, what, who did this to you? She says, what difference does it make anyway now? And that was the extent of their conversation about she had the baby. It was a difficult6:33 pregnancy. They had to put her in a hospital 50 miles from her home. There wasn't a dad present there. So she spent over 3 months flat on her back in6:45 a hospital. That little 14 year old girl made a decision to adopt that baby out. Reason I know the story is my wife and I adopted that little baby. Our firstborn6:57 was adopted, who was conceived as a result of a gang rape. I am so proud of that birth mother. She's much older now. A lot of years have passed.7:09 I, talked to her as much as a week ago before this taping, and I said thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You are a hero to me. I am so grateful.7:21 You gave us our wonderful daughter. That daughter grew up, became pastor of a wonderful man. He became he became the wife of wonderful man. He became a pastor of a7:33 megachurch. The close of this story is my daughter, however, did get cancer, and she just recently passed away before this taping. 1 of the most painful,7:46 seasons of my life ever. But I will forever be grateful to that young girl at 14 who made the most difficult decision. And she7:58 blessed my life for that little girl, that little daughter that was born to her that we adopted. We had her for almost 48 years8:09 and she was wonderful. The reason I tell you this story is next time you say, well, I'm opposed to abortion except in the8:21 case of rape. Stop yourself. There are organizations across America of people who were8:33 almost to be aborted or could have been because they were conceived by rape. But their birth mother wisely saved their lives8:45 from being aborted. And they thank God that they have life right now. I thank God for that birth mother in her courage, in her pain. What8:57 could be more painful than being raped? And in this case, by 2 men. But she chose to make the right decision. Just because evil had done been9:09 done to her, she didn't pass that evil on to somebody else. She saved the life of her little baby. And that little baby became my little baby and my9:21 wife, my late wife. My wife passed away 12 years of cancer. But we had glorious time with that precious child. So don't make the case that you're in9:33 favor of pro life except in the case of rape. Just because some horrible act has been done, don't turn around and support another horrible9:44 act to be done as well. Life is precious. Moving us from culturally woke to biblically awake.Prayer for the Unborn 9:57 Now let us pray. Father, thank you for you created our innermost being. You knit us together in our mother's womb, and we praise you because we10:09 are fearfully and wonderfully made. Thank you that you consecrated us before we were born and appointed us into your kingdom. You have plans for10:21 us before we are even born in this life. You care for us from the beginning to the end of our days. Forgive us for10:33 killing our unborn. Deliver us from the spirit of death, and restore us to life in families in Jesus' name. Protect the most vulnerable of10:45 us all, Lord, the unborn. And we bind and rebuke the spirit of death, the spirit of even human sacrifice, the demonic entity that10:56 would destroy the life of our next generations. Thank you for preserving us in Jesus' name, God. Amen.11:07 We hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for watching. Hey. Don't forget to check out this discussion questions that are attached. Have a fun time studying, and we will see you in the next chapter.In this video 0:00 Biblical Foundation for Life in the Womb9:57 Prayer for the Unborn11:09 Abortion Statistics and Adoption Hope13:03 Fetal Development and the Horror of Abortion
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