YOU ARE NO ACCIDENT!

(SHARP): Thirty years ago this month the Roe vs. Wade case in the Supreme Court legalized abortion in all 50 states. Increasingly, over the last three decades, we have witnessed an insidious disregard for the sanctity of life at both ends of the human life cycle – the unborn and the elderly.

Point of View: The truth of God neutralizes both nagging fear and fallible philosophies by declaring you are no accident of man.

Action Step: Believe what the Bible says about you as a distinct and special creation.

Benefit: You will realize your value on Earth and be able to help others realize their value.  (NAU Matthew 22:39 "The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.')

Key Point 1: God had you in mind before your parents even met!

Subpoint 1.1: NAU Jeremiah 1:5a "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,

Subpoint 1.2: NAU Job 31:15 "Did not He who made me in the womb make him, And the same one fashion us in the womb?

Subpoint 1.3: NAU Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Key Point 2: God planned on you before you were born!

Subpoint 2.1: NAU Jeremiah 1:5b And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations." (Jeremiah the Prophet)

Subpoint 2.2: NAU Galatians 1:15 But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, was pleased 16a to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles (Paul the Apostle)

Subpoint 2.3: NAU Psalm 139:13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb. 14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.  15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;  16 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.

Key Point 3: God has beautiful plans for your future from now on!

Subpoint 3.1: NAU Jeremiah 29:11 'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Subpoint 3.2: NAU Ephesians 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love NAU Ephesians 1:5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,

Subpoint 3.3: NAU Ephesians 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),  6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,  7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Repeat Point of View and Action Step.

Benefit: Freed from the fear of pointlessness by knowing that God cares.