All right, good morning, everybody. Turn that down a little bit, please. And thank you. All right, so a little bit more down a little bit more. So yes, this morning, we're in a topic or a statement of fate of abortion. It says, we believe that human life begins at conception, and that the unborn child is a living human being. Abortion constitutes the unjustified, unexcused taking of an unborn human life. Abortion is murder. We reject any teaching that abortions of pregnancies due to rape, incest, birth defects, gender selection, birth or population control, or mental well-being of the mother are acceptable. Amen? Not that they are acceptable, but it says we reject that that is acceptable. That was a long drawn out sentence, so I thought I'd clarify that. Amen. But yes, as the pastor said, our statement of faith is based on the word of God. Amen. Because before we get started, we have to understand that it's not our opinions that we base things on, or we should anyways. Amen. It's not our thoughts. It's not how we feel. It's thus saith the Lord. Amen. And us being Christians, we should fall in line with thus saith the Lord. Amen. The rest of the world, having a creator of all things without him was not created. should also fall in line with, thus saith the Lord, amen? And as we look at things today, I want you to keep that in mind that we are to conform to the word of God, amen? Not let our opinions, our thoughts, our, what we think, contort our life into what, how we should be and what we think it should be like and so forth, amen? But let's go ahead and get started on this. Go with me to Proverbs chapter six, So where we're going to begin at today, Proverbs chapter 6. Just going to try to make some groundwork here. I don't know. I'll be all right. Proverbs chapter six, verse number 16. These six things doth the Lord hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him, a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. Amen? and a heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that's swift to running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. And I mean, of course, these are six things that the Lord does hate, but I really want to emphasize verse number 17 here. It says, a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. Amen. How much more innocent can we think than a child, right? Or even how about an unborn child at that, right? In God's view, that child is alive, amen? And as it says here, these things that the Lord hate, hands that shed innocent blood. In Leviticus chapter 17, I'm gonna try to turn there real quick. Leviticus chapter 17, verse number 11 if you follow me. says for the life of the flesh is in the blood amen you guys think about this this infant that we're talking about here and the the innocence and the shedding of blood and uh the life is in the blood and i mean it changes all the time like when it is appropriate to have an abortion right when it's acceptable when the deadlock is and i mean they can even have abortions up until I mean, as far as I know, even after the baby is born, it seems like nowadays, but I mean, even until the time that they have and they can have abortion still, right? But think about a baby's heartbeat. Like, that's life, obviously, right? It's a heartbeat. But why is that heart beating? Life, yeah, but what's the purpose of the heart? What does it do? Pumps blood, right? And here in our text, it says, for life of the flesh is in the blood. Amen? So that's life, right? And these six things that the Lord hate, yea, seven, and that's hands that shed innocent blood. Amen? It's an abomination to the Lord. But the point of this is that the life is in the blood. Amen? So if there is life, If it has blood, then it has life, amen? And if you take that life, I mean, the Bible says that your life shall be given pretty much, right? Amen? Go with me to Psalm chapter 139. We're gonna look at God's views on life before the womb or before birth. Yes, Psalm 139. But yes, and it's important here because I mean, I understand that there's different circumstances for abortions and things just like there's certain different circumstances for all sin that has happened. And I mean, the point of this is not to shame anybody who. accepts abortion or shaming. Oh, I mean, if you accept abortion, it is meant to shame you and correct you because this is the word of God that we're teaching. But anybody that has had abortions or thought about it or anything, I mean, it's like any other sin. I mean, we can't change it, but we can get that right with God, amen? And that's what the point of this is. It's not to bad mouth people. It's not to shame anybody. It's to share with people the word of God, amen, and what his views are on it. And actually, let me, since I'm solemn, let me go to Proverbs again real quick, because I had this thought also. Proverbs chapter 16, or 6, I'm going to go there by myself real quick. Proverbs chapter 6, it says, these six things that the Lord hate, the A7 are abomination unto him, a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift to the running of mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and that soweth discord among brethren. Hey man, think about verse 19. Where does this thought of abortion potentially come from, right? Who's the one that sows discord among the brethren, right? Who is the one that bears false witness and speak of lies? Who is the father of lies, amen? You guys see what I'm saying? Like where these thoughts come from? It's not of God that you should take that life because God's the one that gives that life, amen? And that's where we're gonna be getting at on here is regardless of the circumstance on how this child is born or conceived or made, God is the one that gives life. Amen. He's the one that grants life and gives it a spirit and a soul and later turns into flesh and so forth. We can't have life without God, amen? We can't just make children, because there's all time, people that want to have kids, they can't have kids. We see over and over in the Bible where God makes women barren because of certain reasons, right? We see it consistently that God is the one that gives life, and you can't have life without God, amen? Psalm 139, if you're still there, I need to find it real quick. Psalm 139, verse number 14. It'll start at 11, actually. If I say, surely the darkness shall, or no, yeah. It was starting at 11, I guess. If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as a day of darkness, and the light are both alike to thee. For thou hast possessed my reins. Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are thy works. and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet, being unperfect in thy book, all my members were written, which the countenance were fashioned. when as yet there was none of them. Amen. Man, my brain just went like 15 different places here. All right. Number 13, all right. For thou hast possessed my reins. Amen. That means that God is in control of your life. Amen. Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. Amen. That's God protecting that life in the mother's womb. It says, I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Amen. Who made them? says marvelous are thy works amen he didn't say marvelous are my mom and dad's works right marvelous are thy works oh lord amen and that my soul knoweth right well my substance was not hid from thee when i was made in secret amen before they even knew they was pregnant god knew that that baby was going to have life amen before their family knew that they was pregnant that god knew that that person was going to have life hey i mean david here of course but it says My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of earth. Thine eyes did see my substance. Amen? That's when you're a sperm floating around, right? You've seen my substance. There wasn't even no form to him yet. There was a substance about him, right? He says, thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect, and in thy book, all my members were written. Amen? This book that was written before the foundations of the world, amen? There's names written down in this book. Your days are numbered in this book, amen? God knows how long you're gonna live. God knows what you're gonna look like. He knows how you're gonna live your life, amen? He knows if you're gonna accept him or reject him. He knows what he has planned for your life, amen? And I say plan for your life, whether you're saved or not, because we see over and over God using horrible people throughout the Bible, right? I mean, you think about how he used the, what was it? Not Nebuchadnezzar, who was the Chaldeans? Was it Nebuchadnezzar? But he used wicked people of Babylon to bring Israel into captivity, right? Not that he blessed Babylon and them, but he used the wickedness that they were doing to bring his people back to him. You see what I'm saying? So, I mean, whether good or bad or however this life is, God knew what it was going to be, right? He says, 16. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect in thy book, all my members were written. Right? Your members, your hands, your feet, your arms, your legs. He knew what you was going to look like. He knew how long you was going to live. He knew everything about your life. He said, which encountenance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. Right? Before you knew, before you seen, God knew. Amen? Go meet Isaiah 44. And again, what we're looking at here is God's view before the womb. or God's view of life before the womb. He views life before you're born. Isaiah 44, verse 24. Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer. Amen, who's talking here? God, right? Thus saith the Lord, right? And he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things. Amen. And that includes that baby that's in the womb, right? That includes that conception that took place. It may not have happened under godly circumstances. It may not have been two people that were married together and so forth and had this picture perfect picket fence life planned out. But He God makes all things right and stretch forth the heavens alone and spread it the broad the earth by myself Amen, this is thus sayeth the Lord that Redeemer and he that formed thee From the womb the Lord maketh all things right? Why would he put those two in the same sentence? Form thee in the womb and I make all things Amen. Yeah, it took a mother and a father to conceive that baby, but God gives that baby life. Amen Go Jeremiah, chapter one. Next book over, Isaiah, Jeremiah, chapter one, verse number five. Before I formed thee, he's talking to Jeremiah, before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations, amen? Before right before he was born. God had a plan for him. Amen. God knew that he was going to use these people use Jeremiah to reach Israel, right? Amen. Jeremiah 20. I mean, there's not a whole lot of preaching needs to happen here is we're just God's Word, you know, Jeremiah chapter 20 verse 15. Curse be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, a man child is born under thee, making him very glad, or, hold on. Yeah, look, we need more context here. Yeah, 14. Curse be the day wherein I was born. Let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, a man-child is born unto thee, making him very glad. And let that man be as his cities, which the Lord overthrew and repented not. And let him hear the cry of the morning and the shouting of the noontide, because he slew me not from the womb, or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorry. Yeah, that's the lazy people's verse right there Wherefore came I out of the womb to see labor, right? But but the thing here is it there there's life in the womb amen cuz he says Because he slew me not from the womb, right? Why would he have to kill him if he wasn't alive, right? He says or that my mother might have been my grave, right? Which means there's life in the womb if there's gonna be a grave in the womb. Amen. I Jeremiah 20 no word there. Sorry. Let's go back to Job Yep, Job good old Job Job chapter 3 a Lot of verses for this Job chapter 3 Verse number, no, hold on. Oh, I'm in Esther. I was like, there is no 16. No, I was in Esther by accident. Job chapter three, verse number 16 says, or as in hidden untimely birth, I had not been as infants, which never saw light. Amen. Never seeing light, never being born, but there's life. Amen. Because there's blood. Because there's a heartbeat. Amen? Luke chapter one. Y'all gonna get good at Bible today. Luke chapter one. Verse number 44. There's 80 verses in that chapter. Luke chapter one, verse number 44. Says, for lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. Amen? And I mean, I'm not a mother or anything, but I've seen plenty of mothers pregnant. Amen? And there is definitely a relationship between a mother and a child, right? I mean, I remember even me, like, this is like, not a vision or nothing. It's really weird. I had a dream when Cordy was pregnant. Before we knew that he was going to be a boy, I had a dream that he was a boy. And that was cool because he was a boy. But like I said, there's nothing to that or anything, but there's a relationship there, right? And you think about like the mother intuition and things, that's because they're connected with that child and such. But the thing is, is that there's life there, right? As it says here in verse number 44, as soon as thy voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ear, the babe leaped for joy in the womb, or leaped in my womb for joy. Psalm 51, back to Psalms. Psalm 51, verse number five. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Amen, this is kind of where I was at earlier. I mean, shapen in iniquity, right? That means that they probably weren't married, amen? Or that could have been another wrongful situation, right? But at the end of the day, it's God that gives life. Amen? And just like, and this is David speaking here, right? Did God use David? Amen? Right? So as far as like what is planned for this life that people want to get rid of, One, this is God's life, amen? Because God gave that child life, right? But you have no clue what God wants to do with that child, amen? Think about if David was never born. Amen? Who else would have been born if David wasn't born? Thank you. Jesus wouldn't have been born, right? Or I mean, God would have worked that out some other way. But you think about that, how critical the life of David is, and I mean, just slaying a Goliath and leading Israel. And I mean, it's just conquering nations and things in the name of God and all that David did. But it didn't come from a perfect marriage, right? It could have been from some other horrible situation. I mean, and I'm just going back and forth between David's actual parents relationship and what some scenarios that can happen. You see what I'm saying? But that's where the iniquity comes in. It says, Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and so forth. Verse nine, hide thy face from my sin, then blot out mine iniquities. Create the clean heart, O God, renew the right spirit within me. All right. but the point is that there's there's life in the womb amen and regardless if it's conceived correctly or incorrectly there's still life in the womb and God's the one to give that life and God has a plan for that life regardless what it's going to be like we see as I was speaking about the Babylonian the thing that God using them or God even using Satan I mean the thing about Satan is a lot of people think that It's God and it's Satan, like Satan's his own God, but he's not, amen? Satan can't do nothing without God's approval, amen? And so for the good versus evil, it's really just God, and if this one's gonna do evil, God can still use that evil for good, amen? Psalm number, or no, Galatians, go to Galatians. That'd be a good one. Galatians chapter one. It's important to understand that we're not in control, right? As much as we want to be in control in life as we know it, we think it's our life, right? But it's God's life. And once we get saved, we actually understand that because our heart comes knit with God's heart and his will. But that's not the case for most. Galatians 1, 15. Sure. Says, but when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace. Amen. That's God having a plan for Paul. Amen. As soon as he was born here, or I mean before as we've seen in Jeremiah and Isaiah, or actually that might be what we're going to Isaiah here, actually. All right. Go back to Job now. He's like, man, you could have really put all these together. Yes, I could have. We come up. Start. Oh yeah. Well, I mean our statement of faith is, but there's a lot of verses this night on the statement of faith too. Like I don't think this one is joke 31. Verse number 15. Did not he that made me in the womb make him, and did not the one that fashioned us in the womb? If I have withheld the, oh yeah, that's it basically. But there's a God's view of life in the womb. We got one more, Isaiah 49. And I'm sure there's a bunch more, but these are just ones that I picked out. Isaiah 49 and you know the thing is a lot of people that just like research I've done a lot of people that have abortions they didn't even know that he was pregnant until the second trimester. Isaiah 49, verse number one. Listen, O Isles unto men, hearken ye people, from afar the Lord hath called me from the womb. Amen. Just like Jeremiah, just like Paul. I mean, just like me, just like you, right? Amen. Amen, Travis. That's good stuff. God is good. Listen, O Isles, unto me, and hearken, ye people, from afar. The Lord hath called me from the wound, from the bowels of my mother, hath he made mention of my name. Amen. Before, I mean, that's probably the name that's written in the book of life, is the name that God gave us. It's probably not the name our parents gave us. Anyways, verse number two, it says, and he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword, and a shadow of his hand he hath, hid me, and had made me a polished shaft in his quiver, hath he hid me, and said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified." There's a whole lot there. His whole life is planned out before he is even born. just like mine, just like yours, just like anybody's, amen? He knew that he was going to be a servant. He knew that he was going to preach his word. He knew that he was going to glorify God, amen? In verse number two here, he says, he had made my mouth like a sharp sword, amen? He gave him a talent to preach. He gave him a talent to prophesy and to share the word of God. He says, In the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft. In his quiver hath he hid me." There's so much about God having the life already planned out. So much of the life already having a purpose. Amen? Not just to be an inconvenience to whoever it is, or to cause danger, or whatever the situation is. God has a plan for that life. Amen? And you think about the big thing everybody wants to throw out is rape. Well, what about rape, right? Somebody gets raped and they get pregnant, okay? And I mean, me being a man, obviously I can't fully speak on that, but God can. Amen? God can fully speak on that. And God says that He gave that child life, amen? And life is in the blood. And God hates those that shed innocent blood, right? Yeah, the child was shapen in iniquity and sin did his mother conceive him, amen? But God has a plan for that life, amen? God will use that life. God has something. That child could be a prophet. That child could be in the lineage to bring the Messiah, amen? That child can do great and marvelous things that we know not, amen? Yeah, it's going to take some heavy counseling, I'm sure. Yeah, it's going to take growing in faith and drawing closer to God and actually trying to find purpose in that. But God gave that child life and it's not up to us to take it. It's not up to us to figure out if it's an inconvenience or not. It's not up to us to get rid of it because we didn't give it. Amen. And that is a real hard pill to swallow. And I mean, I can't even be in the position. I mean, it's not possible. And of course, you're like, yeah, you're a man, so you could say that. But it's not me that's saying that. Everything that I just said builds the case for that. Amen? And I'm not trying to build a case. I'm just preaching the word of God and trying to help you understand why we believe that human life begins at conception. Amen? Because God gives that life. and that the unborn child is a living human being. Amen? Because it has blood, because this heart is beating. It says abortion constitutes an unjustified excuse of taking an unborn human life. Abortion is murder. Amen? We reject any teaching that abortions and pregnancies due to rape, incest, birth defects, gender selection, birth or population control, or mental well-being of a mother are acceptable. Right? We reject all those because We don't know what God wants to do with that child, amen? And even if we don't agree with what God wants to do with that child, right? I mean, this child could be a raging heathen and destroy the whole city, but God's going to use that raging heathen to destroy the whole city to bring others to Christ. You see what I'm saying? Like, God can use anybody, but if he gave that child life, he has a purpose for that life. Amen? All right, let's move on to the next point here. Let's look at the penalty of shedding innocent blood. Go with me to Psalm 106. But yeah, and as far as the statistics go for abortions due to rape, It's 50% of 5%, so 2.5% of all the abortions are from what people want to make the biggest deal about. Amen. Y'all are quiet. I'm the one up here talking. I mean, y'all got to. It's harder on this end because people hate this People don't want to talk about this. Amen, but I mean they'll say the Lord not me. That's a good thing. I'm just I'm just the voice box, right? Where am I going? Psalm? Yes Psalm 106 I get to talking just get to flipping and not get nowhere Psalm 106 verse number 37 Says, yea, they sanctified their sons and their daughters unto, or they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan. And the land was polluted with blood. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a-whoring with their own inventions. Right? Go to Joel, chapter three. Joel. It's a hard one to find. There it is. Like even in the songs, Joel Hoseo, Amos Obediah. Well, I mean, it just like, he breathes over it so quick. Joel chapter three, verse number 19. Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. Amen. Joel, J-O-E-L. Yes. Egypt shall be a desolation. Why? Because of violence against the children. Amen. And then we've seen in Psalm 106, I thought that held my place there, but it just talked about the desolation that comes from people killing their kids, right? Psalm 106, verse 37 says, we already went through it, but I'm there. It says, yea, they sacrifice their sons and their daughters unto devils, amen. Again, as we had talked about in the beginning in Proverbs 6, about, let me just go there and compare these real quick, that's pretty good. Proverbs 6, a false witness that speaketh lies, he that soweth discord among brethren. Hey man, just think about that relationship between the mother and child being the brethren. relationship there. The one that sows discord, right? The one that's saying you don't have time for this right now. This is going to ruin your career. This is going to be a big problem between you and your family. This is going to be a big problem with your friend. This child is going to be a big problem, right? You didn't even want this child, right? You didn't want this child. How are you going to love a child that you didn't want, right? You never even planned on having kids. And they sacrifice their sons and their daughters unto devils, right? Because that's the one that put the thought there, amen? And shed innocent blood. This says, the Lord hates those that shed innocent blood, right? In Proverbs. Even the blood of their sons and their daughters whom they sacrificed unto idols, them idols. That's them intentions with their life, right? The ones that the child interrupted, amen? The one that the inconvenience came in and now it intervened, right? But there's penalties to shedding innocent blood. I mean, we see whole nations that become desolate. We see people that become cursed from it. But go with me to 1 Corinthians here. We're gonna try to wrap this up real quick. 1 Corinthians chapter six. Again, God's the one that gives that life, amen? It's not up to us to decide whether that life is of value or not, right? Because that's when we think that we can kill it because it has no value, amen? Just like, I mean, you can even take that to the other end where people are in the hospital, right? Like, oh, just kill them, pull the plug, whatever, you know, so forth, but. 1 Corinthians chapter six, verse number 19. What? Know you not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, right? Of course, this is after you get saved. Your body becomes a temple of the Holy Ghost. It says, which is in you which ye have of God, and ye are not your own. But this verse applies to everybody. For ye are bought with a price. Amen? The price is Jews to shed blood on the cross. Amen? Because when he died, he died for the sins of the world. Amen? He didn't die just for to save people. Amen? He died for the lost people also. Amen? Every single one of us are bought with a price. None of us are our own. I don't care if you're lost or saved. Amen. You belong to God. Amen. He is your father whether you accept him or not. Amen. Of course, he's not your relationally your father, but he is your creator. Amen. He is God of the universe. He is your God. He is God of anything and everything you can think of because he is God. Amen. And so, We don't have the choice to take a life that he gave. Amen? We don't have the choice to do anything outside the word of God, honestly, because it's God's word, God's world, God's lives. I mean, who are we to say or do anything against it? Amen? It says, for you are bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. Amen? That's lost or saved. I mean, like I said, I know in verse 19, I mean, your body being a temple of the Holy Ghost, you don't get that until you're saved, amen, because that's the earnest of your inheritance, letting you know that you're saved, possessing the Holy Spirit, amen, that confirms with you that you're actually saved. But verse 20, you're bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. Amen, go back to Isaiah real quick, chapter 45, we'll end on this one. I don't remember what this verse was. I may have wanted to put that somewhere else. 45. Verse number nine. Woe unto them that striveth with his maker. Who's that talking about? Your dad? No, God, right? Woe unto him that striveth with his maker. That's God. Why is he your maker? Because he's the one that gives life, amen? Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say unto him that fashioned it, What makest thou, or thy work? He hath no hands. Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou, or to a woman? What hast thou brought forth? Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker. Ask me of things concerning my son and concerning the work of my hands, commanding me. I have made the earth and created man upon it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their hosts have I commanded. I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways. He shall build my city. He shall let go of my captives. And not for the price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts. Thus saith the Lord, the labor of Egypt, the merchandise of Ethiopia, the Sabians, men of stature shall come unto thee, and they shall be thine. They shall come after thee, and the chains they shall Yeah, and so forth. Amen. But the thing is that God gave the life, right? He is the maker. Amen? And then we also see here that God obviously has a plan for the life. Amen? And there's a purpose for the life, but at the end of the day, there's a life and we are not in control of that life, amen? Because that life, just as your life, just as the person wanting to have abortion, just as whatever is going on, say it was a rape situation, God, that life is God's life also, amen? Because he's the maker, and without it, without God, we can't have that life, right? So with abortion, what we have to come to the understanding of is, there's an ultimate question that has to be answered and that's who's in charge? Amen? Are we in charge or is God the creator of the universe and creator of all things without him was not anything made? God is obviously, right? And so how do we figure out what's right and what's wrong? by what God says. Amen. I mean, it's that simple. And I mean, yeah, there's things that we don't agree with things that we should think should be different. But this isn't our world. This is God's world. Amen. And this is God's life. Amen. Your life is God's life, right? We were bought with a price. We are not our own. Amen. Therefore glorify God. Amen. But yeah, so that's gonna wrap it up as far as the abortion topic goes. I mean, it doesn't matter what we say or what we think or how we feel, it's what God says. And every single life is a life because God grants life. Amen? And God hates the shedding of blood. God hates the shedding of innocent blood at that. But abortion is going to be the most innocent blood can be shed, right? Because that child, it never had any chance of anything. So, I mean, it's like obviously innocent, but. That's abortion. It's not our choice. Amen. If God gave that life, there's a purpose for that life, regardless how sticky the situation is, how bad the circumstance is. I mean, in studying for this, there was a lady that stood up at the end, and she gave a testimony. She was actually one that was a rape victim's child. She had talked about how life was hard with her mom for first few years. She remembers that her mom was real disconnected from her. She didn't really want much to do with her and so forth, but. that woman ended up loving that child, amen? And she was happy that her mom ended up loving her, but she remembers that, but now she's being used of God to be able to reach women that have that similar situation, amen? Because there is a purpose for that life, amen? I mean, like I say, even if this child grew up to be a horrible person, this lady grew up to be a great person, right? She grew up seeing that God can have a purpose in that, right, amen? And again, that statistic that everybody wants to use, I have it here somewhere. I took a screenshot of it. But it is 5% of rape victims, and 50% of that underwent abortions. So 2.5% of all these claims of, well, I mean, that's their whole case, right, is for 2% of all these situations, but the thing is, and even the complications thing, that's even less. It's a, what was it? Not the, like as far as the mother being in danger, that was like, it was a decimal almost. I don't remember. Anyways, I can't speak on that because I don't know enough about that, but I did research it. But what I'm saying is that as we read in Proverbs 6 and as we know about Satan, the one that plants these thoughts and these motives and intentions in your head and being the father of lies that tells you it's okay to kill this child, it's okay to take this life, it's okay because it's an inconvenience to you and you're not going to be able to live what you want. feeding into that pride of life that you have. Amen? That's just feeding into that sin nature that you already possess, but then at the end of the day, if you look at Job, for instance, Satan wasn't allowed to touch his life. Amen? He could harm him, he could take everything from him, but he couldn't touch his life. Amen? And that's why he uses you to do so. Amen. That's why he gives you these thoughts in your head that you could take this child's life. I can't take this child's life, but you can, right? And we have to be real careful in all of our decisions that we're led by the word of God for one, but then two, that we're actually teaching the word of God because that's why there's so much opinion and so much debate and so much thought on this topic is because God is out of the picture. Amen. Right. I'll try to make this quick, because we're over time. So, a couple statements, and then we will, are we still live? Okay, a couple statements, and then we'll cut the live feed, and we'll do just a little bit of discussion. It's gotta be real limited. So, because of time. So, first of all, you hear, my body, my choice? Wrong. Wrong. It's not your body. for two reasons. One, the baby's not you. It's an individual person. And two, the body that you have that is quote unquote yours isn't yours. It belongs to God. So you hear that often. You hear about women's reproductive health. What ought to be done for women's reproductive health is it ought to be celebrated. And in that sense, reproductive health, health means it does what it was designed to do, not changed to not follow through with what it was designed to do. But again, as Brother Travis said, we just have to go by what God says. And not only that, even from a humanist perspective, which we don't subscribe to, but even from a humanist perspective, it's wrong to take life. And then there's argument of what is constituted as life. And people argue, well, it's the heartbeat or it's the blood. We believe that life begins at conception. It's the moment that DNA is actually made a new person. And so that's when it's conception. It's when you have two becoming one new person. It doesn't matter if it's the morning after, it doesn't matter if it's the moment after.