All right, if you go ahead and open your Bibles to the book of Job, chapter 12, Job chapter 12. And this is, I'm just gonna throw it out there right now. It's a different message tonight. It's not a message I would ever preach at a conference. It's not a message that people would swing from the chandeliers and say amen and run around the auditorium. It's probably not a message you're going to say, well, I'd like to hear that again next week. But I'll tell you this, it's a message that the day's gonna come, perhaps, most likely, that you'll say, what did he say about that subject? Because it has the potential to save a life and the potential to save a soul that may end up going to hell. if you would make the wrong decision in this area. And if you got the sheet, I think you know what we're talking about tonight. Just one verse tonight, and again, not this dynamic thing, but I'm hoping it's gonna help you. I got a lot of stories that I'm gonna mention tonight. I don't even know if I'm gonna mention half of them, but we'll see what happens. Job chapter 12, we all there? All right, notice verse 10. Well, let's go to verse nine. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? Now notice verse 10. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing. Amen. And the breath of all mankind. Amen. I want you to stop there. I want us to pause and think about that for a moment. Notice, it's talking about God here. Right. In whose hand, whose hand? God, is the soul of every living thing. and the breath of all mankind. All right, let's pray together. Father, we thank you for your goodness, and I pray you'd bless the message tonight. I need a fresh filling of thy spirit. Lord, you know my heart, you know the things that I have in front of me that I want to say, and so please help me to say only the things that are pleasing to thee. Please give us understanding in this very, very important subject, not only in our own personal lives, but also really in the state of Delaware and what's going on here as well. So please guide and direct, remove any distractions from this room and from our minds tonight. And may we have understanding about this truth. Thank you for loving us. Please bless the message in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Let me get my water. When I was a junior in high school, I took a class or I had a class actually my junior and senior year called political and legal education. Everybody ever hear of a class like that? It's called PLE class. And it was a class on the government. And it was a class that basically taught, amongst other things, It taught us how a bill became a law, and that whole process, and the parliamentary procedure, and all of that. And it was pretty, pretty interesting how a bill was introduced by a sponsor, and then it went into committees, and it had debate, and then through the House, and then the Senate, and then the joint before it was voted on and passed into law. And it talked about how they did amendments, and all of that. It was very, very interesting. Well, each year, high school students that had that type of class throughout the state of New Jersey, this was a really big deal. I'm talking thousands of students would gather at what was then Stockton State College. I forget what it's called now, but it was Stockton. And we would have, I experienced this my junior year in high school and my senior year, we would have what they called Model Congress, okay? And it was a two-day event, which we really liked it. This high school is going away for overnight. Anyway, but we did learn some things. But it was a two-day event where what the students would do is before they came together for that, they would write bills. And the administration would pick bills, pick them out, that they thought would make good debates, debatable bills. And then those bills that they picked out would go through the whole process and would all be in committees and all that. Very, very interesting. And so we would understand Congress, hence model Congress. Now I remember that it was at this time, again it was 1980 I guess it would be, when I did this, somewhere in that, 79, 80, that I first came across this word I never heard before. It was the word euthanasia. Okay, I never heard that, and I saw it in this model Congress again and again, and many of the students from different schools at that time, what's that, 40 plus years ago, many of them wrote bills that the preamble said, a bill to legalize euthanasia. Now, I didn't know what that was. I thought it had something to do with young people being allowed to travel to China or something. You'll get that later. But anyway. But what was interesting was that those bills, all of those bills that were presented to legalize euthanasia in 1980, none of them were ever picked. They never picked those to go through the process because the general consensus in America at that time was nobody would ever think of killing someone who's terminally ill. I mean, that's off the wall. Who would do that? We thought when we read it, and I saw it, and we all looked at it, we said, man, that's inhumane. Well, fast forward. Fast forward to today. And I kind of did the math, and I figured it out that right now in the state of Delaware, there is a bill, and it's been for years, but the present bill, Bill HB 140, is the End of Life Options Act. So they cleaned up the wording a little bit, but I thought, you know, when I did the math, the age, that's about the same people that were trying to push that through in the 80s. Now here they are in the state legislation, and they're doing it here. Think about it, and they have been pushing this for quite some time 2015, by the way, it has a potential of being passed. It's highly likely it's going to pass. I'll get into that here in a little bit. 2015, it was introduced by Paul Baumbach, Bill HB 150, a bill to legalize euthanasia. It didn't move forward. 2017, introduced again as HB 160. Let's try it again. End of Life Options Act, the bill goes to the full house after referral by committee, but it does not advance, shot down. 2019, HB 140 is introduced, heard in committee, but the sponsor, for whatever reason, pulled the bill. 2020, the Democrats did something. They found a left-leaning DC-based polling company that stated that 72% of Delawareans, according to their poll, wanted euthanasia to pass. They wanted to have end-of-life legislation. And the liberals since 2020 have been going full force pushing this bill ever since. Now to make a long story short, this bill, HB 140, has been reintroduced for 2025 for the agenda for this year and it has overwhelming support. Now our previous governor said that he would veto it but he's not there anymore. It's a new governor and he's already said he's going to sign it. Welcome to Delaware. What the bill does is this, it seeks to legalize assisted suicide. Listen closely. It would allow any physician or nurse practitioner in the state of Delaware to prescribe lethal drugs in response to a request from a Delaware residence with no family involvement, no mental assessment of the patient, no validation of the request from an outsider, anyone that has a prognosis less than six months to live with the sole intent of causing death when taken by the patient. In other words, assisted suicide. They allow them to do this. That's what they're saying. HB 140 would also, in this same bill, would also provide broad immunity from civil malpractice and criminal liability as well as prohibiting medical and nursing boards and medical organizations such as hospitals from disciplining physicians and nurse practitioners who exercise the power given to them. In other words, you can't prosecute them. They have kind of immunity, if you will. This is crazy. Now, many have referred to this, I'm just going to go ahead and say this, this evil deed as mercy killing, or as medical aid in dying, or a patient's, quote, hence the title of the lesson, right to die. You know, I heard something interesting, I was coming back from the North with Brother Ornshaw's funeral, And I heard this ad. Now, this is great for tonight's message. But the ad was talking about HB 140 being against it. And they were saying that what is interesting is that Delaware just abolished the death penalty in 2024 and has put restrictions on euthanizing pets in animal shelters. But now they're trying to euthanize people. Have we lost our minds? I mean, what is going on here? Now, you may be here tonight and you may be thinking, well, preacher, what's wrong with it, really? I mean, isn't that compassion with people? Don't we not want people to suffer? I mean, what's wrong with someone or a loved one chooses to end another person's life? Well if that's how you think, I'm just going to come out full guns loaded against you right here and say this. When did you become God? Maybe we should pray in your name instead of in Jesus' name. And so tonight I'd like to ask us, what does the Bible say? What are some Bible principles about this subject? And how should a Bible-believing Christian view this matter? It's not really as cut and dry as you might think. In some areas it is, but others it's not. So we're going to look at this, the right to die. Really? A right to die? to die. Notice number one, we're gonna get right into the message, would you write this down, the meaning and history of euthanasia. Now since the last half of the 20th century, we have witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of headlines focusing on euthanasia or what they call the right to die. Now that word euthanasia, and like I said the first time I heard it, euthanasia, what in the world is that? It literally means good death. Good death. The word does not appear in the Bible. Well, who would have guessed? Nor does the idea of doing that appear in scripture. There is no beatitude of someone who's trying to live like the Lord Jesus Christ that says a blessed is a man who puts another man out of his misery. Oh, that's not in the Bible. Now, as far back in America as 1968, a Harvard Medical School committee states that an irreversible coma, they considered that the same as death. Here's what I'm trying to say. In 1968, this committee deemed this idea that if someone is in an irreversible coma, we might as well just say they're dead. They're dead. They're brain dead, or however you want to say it. In 1974, the Society for the Right to Die was founded in America. In 1976, many of you remember this. I do. You remember the story about Karen Quinlan, right? Karen Ann Quinlan. 20-year-old woman who went to a coma after consuming Valium with alcohol while on a crash diet. In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court upheld the New Jersey Supreme Court to allow them to pull the plug on her. By the way, that went back and forth for some time, and when they did, she lived for another nine years. In 1990, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, that's the guy you see on your sheet here, see his picture there? He claimed his first of 137 victims when he assisted in the administration of a lethal dosage of drugs to a 54-year-old Janet Adkins. What's interesting about her was her own doctor said that she had at least 10 years to live. But she still wanted to die. She said she didn't want to be a burden to her family. And so he assisted her in 1990 to die. He killed her. Let's just go ahead and say it for what it is. In 1998, eight years later, he was tried and convicted of murder. He spent about eight years in prison. But if you'd look him up today, you know what he's labeled as today? He's labeled as a champion of a person's right to die. That's how they see this man. He's a champion. He's a martyr for the faith. That's how they look at it. Moving forward in 2001, the Netherlands legalized euthanasia. In 2002, Belgium legalized euthanasia. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Michael Schiavo, how many remember the Terry Schiavo case, right? That's pretty popular. Matter of fact, David Gibbs III, he defended that situation. The court allowed Michael Schiavo to cut off his wife's, Terry's feeding tube. to stop feeding her. No drink, no water, nothing. She had been dependent on the tube since suffering a heart stoppage 15 years earlier. Though she did have brain damage, she was not dying. She could breathe on her own. and she exhibited many signs of being aware of her environment. She would respond to people, but the courts allowed Shivo to starve his wife to death. In my opinion, he got tired, just from the story that I read. Her feeding tube was removed on March 18th, 2005, and she died on March 31st. No kidding! She wasn't eating, she had nothing. I could give you a story here, it's a little bit long, but about a woman who was told that she needed to go home because her father had suffered an illness and they thought was dying. He was in bad shape, he suffered from a severe heart problem, failing kidneys and a damaged liver. And so she got a call to come to, I believe it was Florida, because dad was dying. And she says, from the first moments of arriving at the hospital, Right when she got there, a nurse pulled her aside and said that she should sign a do not resuscitate order. That's what she was telling him, you need to do this. If his heart stops, she said, it would be cruel and painful to try and resuscitate him in his condition. I told her in no uncertain terms I would not sign that order. The nurse also approached my sister with the same intensity, wanting her to sign the order. I soon discovered that a family friend had been cornered in the hallway and told she would persuade a family member, and told she should persuade a family member to sign the order. Here, medical is saying that to her. I'll never forget how my father looked up at me with worried eyes as he told me he had been approached numerous times by the staff to sign the order. My father was released several days later to be with his family. He was expected by the medical staff to die at any moment, but they were wrong. He began recovering. His kidney function doubled, his liver returned to a healthy state, and his heart grew strong enough to have a pacemaker implanted that gave him a new lease on life. Because we were firm in our belief that life is precious, that medical professionals should not withhold basic procedures that can save lives, Dad had the opportunity to live. My father was a physician for nearly 45 years. During his practice he watched in disbelief as medicine began to change, listen closely don't be lost here, to change from a healing art that focused on the good of the patient to a science that works for the good of society. I originally shared this story about my dad several years ago, but it is incredibly relevant to what is happening today. The euthanasia movement has infiltrated the medical community for many years, and with the new government-run healthcare program that is killing freedom and insurance and care choices, it is certain that the elderly and very ill will be the primary victims of medical care rationing. Powerful article, very powerful. Today in 2025, fast forward again, in 40 states, praise the Lord, euthanasia is illegal. But in 10 states plus DC, euthanasia is legal. But while the world gets farther and farther away from God, more about this later, the more they're going to embrace euthanasia. So the question is, what should our attitude be towards this? How do we deal with this? Now again, it is a complex issue, and every situation is unique, but there are some Bible principles I want to lay for us tonight, so if we get into that situation, we'll kind of know what to do, at least have an idea what to do. So we see number one, the meaning and history of euthanasia. Now I want to look at some of these principles. So number two, here's a principle. First one that you have to remember when dealing with euthanasia is this. Man is not God. You're not God. and neither am I. You know the prophet Isaiah made it clear that there's only one God. That's it, just one. Jehovah God, the God of the Bible, the one true and living God. He said it again and again to the children of Israel to remind them that the false gods are not true and you're not God, God is God. Isaiah 45, 5, I am the Lord and there is none else. There is no God beside me. I girded thee, though thou hast not known me, that they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none beside me. I am the Lord and there is none else. Isaiah 46, 9, remember the former things of old, for I am God and there is none else, I am God, there is none like me. There is only one person, capital P, who is omnipotent. who is omnipresent and who is omniscient. He knows the beginning from the end. He is the creator of all things and He is the sustainer of all things. And the one I'm talking about here is the one true and living God. Again, He is God, we're not. Listen, we don't know everything. Well, I've been around this, you don't know everything. Well, I've been down this road, you don't know everything. Everybody's an individual, and every case is different. You and I, we do not know how things are going to turn out, but He does. And what happens is, and should be His choice, not ours. He's God. Colossians 117, and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. That word consist has the idea of held together. Everything is held together by God, by the Lord Jesus Christ. He spoke everything into existence, and He holds everything together by His power and by His Word. Now two things to remember about this fact that man is not God. Letter A, write this down, God is the author of life and death. He is. He is. Job 12.10, there's our verse. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of all mankind. You see, the only one who has the ability to create life is God. The only one who sustains life, in essence, is God. The only one who has the right to take life is God because, back to the point, He's God. Acts 17, 28, for in Him we live and move and have our being. Matthew 10, 29, are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your father." He not only knows when every person passes and controls it, he knows when everything does. The sparrows, everything. Again, he is the author, he is, of life and of death. I thought that was a pretty interesting Picture there, if you haven't noticed it, look a little closely, the one who says he knows he's God, and he's saying, and the courts agree, the right to end Charlie Card's life. And it's coming from the British healthcare bureaucracy. And we're not far on their heels, by the way, of that type of thinking in America. That they're going to decide when it's the time to end someone's life, or not, this whole bureaucracy. So again, God is the author of life and death. Letter B, God's ways are not our ways. Well, I think it ought to be done like this. Well, so what? I mean, I'll just put that where I put everybody else's thoughts, not God's, you know. Romans 11.33, O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out. God doesn't do things the way we do. He doesn't do things for the same reasons we do things. We understand Him from His Word and He never violates His principles. I get that. But His ways aren't our ways. Well, I would do it this way. So, God wouldn't. Isaiah 55, 8, For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. God may bring someone to the brink of death and heal them. He may do that. He may bring someone to the brink of death and not heal them. And they'll die. Again, that's up to God. That's up to Him. He's the author of life and death. His ways aren't our ways. I remember what David was saying. David had the right attitude. Excuse me, in 2 Samuel 12, with regards to his dying baby, listen to what he says in chapter 12 and verse 22. He said, while the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept. For I said, listen to this, who can tell whether God will be gracious to me that the child may live? And so yes, he was praying the child lived. Yes, he was begging with God that the child lived, but it was up to God. And guess what? When God made his decision, David was fine with that. Because he understood God's the author of life and death, and God's ways are not our ways. You see, no one but God knows what he's going to do. But we know that whatever he does do, when he does it, it's always for his glory, and he's trying to work out good. All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. So we can rest in who he is, whatever he decides to do. So we see that man is not God. We saw the meaning and history of euthanasia, man is not God. Then number three, also this. Medical science isn't God either. Medical science is not God. Now, I'm grateful, let me just put a precursor here. I am grateful for the many medical advancements that we have. When I was young, I had asthma pretty bad in the 60s, and they didn't have hardly any treatments at that time. I went into the hospital for it, put me in an oxygen tent and did some things, and then they came out with this primatine mist, one of the first sprays they had to really let you breathe. I tell you what, if you've never had, you couldn't breathe, that's a tough place to be, especially as a kid. And so they came out with that, and I was, I was like, I haven't sinned. I mean, you're all, you can't breathe. You feel like you're going to die. You can't even lay on your back. You got to curl up in a ball. You got your mom rocking you all night because you can't breathe. And then here's this medicine that comes out. You take a spray. And within 30 seconds to a minute, your lungs open up. You're like, what in the world? That's awesome. Man, what a help that was. So what I'm saying is I'm glad we have medicine. And I praise the Lord for the countless blessings that have come through medical science. And I do, I believe that going to the doctor is generally, when needed, good. I believe that. If it's needed, it's generally good. And I believe that doctors and medicine can help us tremendously. But I said all that to say this, science is not Almighty God. It's not. Doctors do not know everything. Now, they're trying to help, I get it, and they're trying, they are, but they don't know everything. As a matter of fact, the more you're at it, of course, being in the ministry, you're in a lot of hospitals, you're in a lot of near-death experiences, you're in a lot of these conversations that sometimes people are only in once or twice in a lifetime. So you hear a lot of things, and you realize after hearing a lot that doctors don't know a whole lot. I mean, they know a lot, but there's a lot they don't know. And they're just trying to go by the symptoms and do the right thing. But there's a lot they don't. And they're not always right. They're not. You know, because of the marvelous advances that have been made in medicine, it's easy to forget how little man still really knows about the human body, especially about the brain. and even about the soul, you know, they can't even know anything about that, you know, that intangible soul. I mean, there are many times that doctors disagree in diagnosing someone or in the treatment to do. there's many times that they're wrong or there's times they can't cure something and they just say well we can't do anything and how many times though that have you and I seen God intervene and God miraculously heal someone and the doctors went well we have we don't know we don't know it just happened I mean It's a miracle, that's all we can say. Even doctors will say that. Because they understand. They're trying to do the right thing, but they don't know everything, and they can't do everything. And man, when God does intervene, it's incredible when that happens. We praise the Lord for it. There have been many cases where people have been diagnosed in what they call an irreversible coma. or they've been, quote, brain dead, or terminal, who regained consciousness and recovered their health. That has happened many times. Doesn't happen a lot, more so than not, but it does happen. Amen. I was reading the story of a wife of an independent Baptist evangelist named Tom Williams. You may know the story. His wife was said to have, quote, the worst case of spinal meningitis on record. She was hospitalized in a coma. Her husband visited her every day. Every day he would pray with her, pray for her, read the Bible to her. I'm dating myself for the story here. He would leave cassette tapes there for her to listen to, sermons and so forth. One of her friends had come in and given her a stuffed animal to keep her company and she had named the girl that brought it in, named the stuffed animal Rainbow, the sign of God's covenant with Noah after the flood. Well, guess what happened? A year later, I say it again, a year later, she emerged from that coma. She came out of it. And she looked at that stuffed animal and said, his name is Rainbow. It's amazing. That happens. It absolutely does. In March of 1988, 62-year-old Earl Lanning of Michigan awoke from a coma he had been in for 10 years. He had suffered a brain hemorrhage, was in a coma for 10 years, and came out of it. In 1989, 86-year-old stroke victim Carrie Coons awoke from a four and a half month, what they called was, she's in an irreversible vegetative state. And she came out of it. Four and a half months later, she began talking and eating on her own. And just prior to that, a judge gave permission for them to remove the feeding tube from her. Never had to happen because she came out of it. March of 1996, a former businessman who had been in a, quote, persistent vegetative state for seven years, he began all of a sudden after seven years communicating with hospital staff. He suffered from brain damage because of lack of oxygen to his brain that was cut off during a routine surgery. They thought his condition would never improve, and the British Health Authority considered petitioning the High Court to withhold food and fluids, but they dropped the plan when his wife said, no way, and she was fighting for his life. Thank God she did, because he came out of it. One more, in August of 2022, Pastor Ryan Marlow of Grace Baptist Church in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, was hospitalized with a bacterial infection that entered his brain. He had to go on life support. After nearly a month in the hospital, the doctors told his wife that he was clinically deceased. That's what they said. They even put the time of his death on his chart, and they were making arrangements for his organs to be donated. And his wife and church prayed, and guess what? He came out of it. He recovered. And in March of 2023, he was released from the hospital. My point is this, medical science is not perfect. And they certainly are not God. They're not God. Well, it looks bad. Okay, it looks bad. We have a great God. We have a God that can do anything. Let's pray and pray and wait on God. Maybe God just wants to show himself strong in this situation. And we're all worried about pulling plugs and taking out feeding tubes because it's inconveniencing us. God help us. Number four, write this down. Not only medical science is not God. Let's not forget this truth, number four, that man has an eternal soul. Right, amen. Genesis 2-7, and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Listen, I was going to go the route of evolution tonight and the age of the earth. I may do that a little later, but we're not animals. Right. Can I say that again? We are not animals. We are not on some evolutionary type thing where we evolve from a single cell to this and to this and this. And boom, here we are. The apes are our ancestors. No, they're not. We're not animals. By the way, if there were no God, if there were no life after death, if there were no eternity and we were soulless animals, then euthanasia would make sense. But we're not. So it doesn't. Ecclesiastes 12.7, then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, excuse me, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. When we leave this earth, listen to me, we are going into eternity, we live forever, and it's either heaven or hell based on what we do with Jesus Christ. That's not just an opinion, that is the truth from God's word. God declares it. And again, the fact that man's soul is eternal is critical to this euthanasia debate. Because we have to remember that all men are sinners, we get this, I think, I hope tonight, destined for hell, and those that die saved go to heaven, those that die lost go to hell, and once someone dies, their eternal destiny is sealed forever. There's no changing it. There's no debating. I mean, it would be foolish to take someone's life if there is a possibility that their eternal salvation is not settled. Foolish. Absolutely foolish. May very well be possible for a person in a coma to be saved. Well, they don't hear me. How do you know? Well, the doctor said it. Well, let's listen to the testimonies of people. Sarah Scanlon, she awoke from a 20-year, what they called, what they labeled a persistent vegetative state. In 2005, she came out of it, 20 years. And she testified that throughout her 20-year coma, she could see, she could hear, and understand what was going on around her. They thought she was just staring like this. She says, no, I heard, I saw, I understood what's going on. Imagine. We can lead someone to the Lord that understands. We can. You see, often what we see and what is are two very different things. God knows. And by the way, even for the saved, well, they're saved so we can just, you know, we can just get rid of them. What about the judgment seat of Christ? We should desire to leave this world right with God. I know our sins are forgiven, but rewards are in the brink here. Right with God and right with people. Not taking our own life, but allowing God to decide that. God has a plan. He loves me. He's going to be with me through the valley of the shadow of death. He's never leaving us nor forsaking us. What are we worried about? What are we worried about? Now, I'm not saying that there's never a time to stop extreme life-saving measures and allow a soul to depart because there's really nothing. I'm not talking about that. What I'm saying is that it's a very serious decision and should not be made based on temporal things, things that we think we see, physical suffering, financial considerations, or God forbid, convenience. Well, I've had enough of this. Listen, I know how it gets. I mean, when my dad had died, he had a heart attack, and he went into a coma. He did. And we had to deal with this. And it wasn't easy. And I wasn't even a saved man. And he was in the hospital like that for days. And at first, we thought he was just going to pass. He didn't pass. And then the doctors were saying that, well, he's the same stuff we're hearing here. What do you want to do? And we had decided as a family that there was no brain activity. I'm not going to talk about the right or wrong of it, but this is what we decided at the time just to take him off the machines and see what happens. We thought he was going to pass in a second, but it kept going on and on and on. And then the hospital saying, well, what are you going to do with him? Because they're done with him. What are we gonna do with them? I'm gonna say, what are you gonna do with them? We don't know what to do, you know? And so now you gotta think, this is a drastic change in our lives, which should be. I'm gonna talk about that here in a minute. But my point is, it's a heavy thing we're talking about. It's a big deal. And you don't make the decision based on convenience. You do it based on conviction, which leads us to number five, and we're done. Number five, the mandate of God. I don't want you to write this down. It's down the bottom, so I'm going to work my way back up. But this is a very important statement. God's mandate is to care for our loved ones, not to kill our loved ones. We are to care, not kill. Here's a verse, Exodus 20 and verse 13. Thou shalt not kill. There's the answer. Thou shalt not kill. Euthanasia is murder. By the way, food, water, clothing, and shelter are not medical care. That's very important to make that distinction. Well, you're just going to let them go, so we're going to stop feeding them. That's inhumane. Would you do that with a baby? Well, they can't feed themselves, so oh well. You're on your own. No, normal humanity feeds, gives water, all those things, clothing and shelter. These are things we provide for everybody that we care about and we should provide them to those who need them as well. I don't believe we should ever cut off food to a person that's still alive. 1st Timothy 5a, but if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. You see, there's a frightful tendency in modern society to ignore basic care and basic responsibilities towards our loved ones. We just, you know why? Because of the last days. That's what we're in. Matthew 24, 12. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. We can deal with stuff for a little bit, but get us out of our comfort zone and we immediately want to say, I'm done with this. Be careful. We have a responsibility. We're quite our parents, by the way. Romans 1.31 says, without understanding, talking about unregenerate men, covenant breakers, without natural affection. Those that we should have natural care for and affection for in the last days, that's going to go by the wayside. 2 Timothy 3, this also in the last days, perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection. That's what it's going to be like in the last days. Listen, many of you here and myself, we've been in these nursing homes, and yeah, there's good ones and good people, but I tell you what, there's some not-so-good ones either, where people are neglected. God forbid if they're there by themselves and nobody visits them, what would happen? Nursing homes are filled with lonely people who have no loved one to take care of them. There are countless elderly parents in such homes whose children never visit them, even though they live in driving distance. I know there's sometimes a distance you can only do so much, but some that are right there never even go. It's sad. And this all feeds into this idea of let's just get rid of them. Pile on top of that the false notion of overpopulation and the baby boomers getting so old there's not enough to take care of them. Man, let's just get rid of these people. That's the idea. But it's sad. Delaware Right to Life wrote this, and I'm going to conclude with this here. They said protecting life in Delaware is not easy. In our blue state, death is presented as the answer, whether to a young pregnant woman's problems through abortion or an elderly frail person's fear of being a burden through assisted suicide. Taking a life, whether your own or someone else's, is never the answer. Amen. Never the answer. The biblical position is one of hope and true compassion for those who suffer. There's always a better way. It might not be the easy way, but it's the right way. Listen, we should stand against this bill, HB 140. If not for the care of other people, for the care of your own self. Because guess what? None of us are getting younger. And we, God forbid, might end up in a situation where this type of thing is going to affect us. God help us is right. Right to die? No. Let's just trust God. He knows what He's doing. Give them things they need to help through. I get all that. But cutting off food and water and taking them off because, well, we just don't want to do this anymore. God deliver us from that. It's wicked and it's evil.