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TechnoratiThe following is an edited transcript of a message preached by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. for "Sanctity of Human Life Sunday" on January 18, 2009. Today's installment is the second in the six-part series.
In thinking through the implications of Jeremiah’s calling, we have gained a clear understanding that every single human being is made by God, formed by God within the womb.
Now, as we open to Psalm 139, we turn our attention from the prophet Jeremiah to King David. In Psalm 139, we have the most rigorous autobiography we can probably find anywhere in Scripture. David writes a Psalm about his own experience. He says:
O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thoughts from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all. You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it. (Verses 1-6)
Then, in verses 7-12, David speaks of the fact that he cannot get away from God. When David flees, he finds that wherever he goes, God is already there. God is not only omniscient and omnipotent, He is omnipresent.
But then, look at the magnificent message of verses 13-16:
For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.
We are surrounded by so much amazing technology. One of the most amazing of these is the ultrasound technology used in hospital maternity rooms. Now, doctors even utilize miniature, microscopic cameras that take us into the womb, allowing us to see what previous generations have never, ever seen. It is only within the last two hundred years of human history that human beings have even had a very accurate understanding of the development of the human baby within the womb. All this was hidden from view. Before the advent of modern surgery and modern medicine, the only way that anyone even had such a glimpse into the womb was because of some disaster or accident or injury. But now, we have sight to see what others have not seen. We can see the baby forming in the womb. We can see the baby even as these inward parts are knitted together. We can see form begin to come. We can see expression and personality in the womb. We can see a baby suck its thumb in the womb. We can see a baby grab its foot in the womb. We can see a baby smile and grimace in the womb. Only God saw that before, but we have been allowed a glimpse. And what we see is what God is doing.
Both from Jeremiah and now from David, we have a very clear understanding that every single human being is made by God. Every single baby is formed by God within the womb. The biblical world takes us to a place where most of our neighbors do not even think. They do not even understand what it would be to understand that every single human being is made individually by God – an act of God’s sovereign, perfect creation. This is an act that brings God glory as He creates a baby in the womb. So, the worldview of the Bible is so distant from a world in which abortion is thinkable. Continue »
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R. Albert Mohler, Jr. is president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. For more articles and resources by Dr. Mohler, and for information on The Albert Mohler Program, a daily national radio program broadcast on the Salem Radio Network, go to www.albertmohler.com. For information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to www.sbts.edu. Send feedback to mail@albertmohler.com. Original Source: www.albertmohler.com.
