#1,250 - An End to Abortion (Genesis 9:5–6)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 9 January 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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God, we pray that abortion would come to an end.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net.
0:05.0	Genesis chapter 9 verses 5 and 6.
0:09.2	And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning. From every beast I will require a reckoning.
0:13.6	From every beast I will require it and from man.
0:17.0	From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
0:22.0	Whoever sheds the blood of man, whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made
0:28.7	man in his own image. So this is God speaking to Noah and his sons after he's delivered
0:37.7	them through the flood. He's telling them to be fruitful, multiply, fill the
0:42.2	earth.
0:42.6	It's actually what happens right after,
0:45.0	what I just read in Genesis chapter 9, verse 7.
0:48.4	But here in these two verses,
0:51.8	God emphasizes the value of a person's life as every single person is made in the
1:01.9	image of God.
1:04.0	And so for one man, woman to take another man or woman's life,
1:11.0	God says, I will require a reckoning for that.
1:15.4	God is saying that to take a human life
1:19.2	is to invite serious sober accountability before God from his fellow man I will
1:27.4	require a reckoning for the life of man. So this is a clear foundation. Obviously for the commandment that God will give in
1:38.1	Exodus chapter 20 saying do not murder and what God is doing is saying that he sets up human
1:48.7	representatives to punish people who murder someone else.
1:57.0	To murder a person is to murder what is most like God in his image.
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