TOPS AND ROE

TOPS AND ROE

I. TWO EVENTS IN CULTURE

1. TOPS

Payton Gendron – 18year old –

Drove hours to zip code with highest black concentration

Killed 10 and wounded 13

Racist… Murderer

Racist Hatred is just Like Murder

Matthew 5:21-23

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and

whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ 22  But I say to you that

whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the

judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the

council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.

2. Roe v. Wade

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization is a pending U.S. Supreme

Court case about the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi state law that bans

most abortion operations after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy

If federal mandate is struck down it returns to the States

II. GOD’S VALUE OF LIFE

1. It’s fearful and wonderful

Psalm 139:13-16

For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will

praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works,

And that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I

was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16

Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all

were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.

Fearfully – yr’ (ya reah) reverence, frightening, afraid

Wonderfully – pl’ (pay la mi daliph) – separate, distinct, surpassing, extraordinary

2. The image and likeness of God is stamped on it

Gen 1:26-28

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…

1 Thess. 5:23

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your

whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord

Jesus Christ.

spirit – pneuma (pen ev ma) – Holy spirit, wind, spirit

soul – psuche (psu kay) – life, inner self, mind, thoughts, feelings

body – sōma (so máh) – body, corpse

3. Crowned with Glory and Honor

Psalm 8:4

What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?

5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned

him with glory and honor. 6 You have made him to have dominion over the works

of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet

Glory kābod – weight, divine Presence, reputation, importance

Honor – hādār – ornament, adorning, decoration, splendor, majesty

4. He Forbids the Killing of Innocent Human Beings

III. SHEEDING OF INNOCENT BLOOD

1. Life is in the Blood

Lev 17:11

“For the life of the flesh is in the blood…”

Gen 9:4-6

But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5  Surely for your lifeblood

I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast, I will require it, and

from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the

life of man. 6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in

the image of God He made man.

2. Innocent Blood must not be shed

Exo. 23:7

Keep yourself far from a false matter; do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I

will not justify the wicked.

Deut. 27:25

‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person.’ “And all the

people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Prov 9:16-17

These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: 17 A

proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood

Psalm 106:35, 37-38

But they mingled with the Gentiles And learned their works; 37 They even

sacrificed their sons And their daughters to demons, 38 And shed innocent blood,

The blood of their sons and daughters

Psalm 106:38

And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they

sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.

The heart and major blood vessels begin to develop earlier—by about day

16. The heart begins to pump fluid through blood vessels by day 20, and

the first red blood cells appear the next day. Blood vessels continue to

develop in the embryo and placenta.

IV. GOD’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE UNBORN

1. The unborn are people

Jer 1:5

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified

you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”

Luke 1:15

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor

strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s

womb.

Ex. He (personal Pronoun)

Luke 1:41,44

And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe

leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit… 44  For indeed,

as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my

womb for joy.

Exo 21:22

“If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely,

yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman’s

husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine

V. BOTH ISSUES HAVE RACISM AT THEIR ROOT

1. Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood founder’s Margaret Sanger was an avowed White

Eugenicist. She started abortion clinics in Black communities and openly said that

she wanted to exterminate the Jewish and Black race. Margaret Sanger said,

“We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro

population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it

ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

Ex. Caught on tape admitting racist tendencies against minorities.

2. Peyton Gendron

White Supremacists

All Democrats are not in favor of Abortion…

All Republicans ae not rase batting haters…