The morning text is is

Israel chapter 821 through 23.

If you are using Pugh Bible, the text is found on page 575 page 575. Page 575. Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of a harbor that we might humble

humble ourselves before our God to seek from him a safe journey for us, our little ones and all our

our positions.

For I was ashamed to request from the king troops and horsemen to protect us from the enemy on the way, because we have said to the king,

the hand of our guard is favorably disposed to all those who seek

him, but his power and his anger against all those who forsake him.

So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter,

and he listened to our entreaty. My purpose this morning is not to rehearse all of the pro-life arguments that we have developed in preaching and teaching and writing over the past seven or eight years.

Those are all available in the file cabinets and in the booklets. There are biblical reasons, there are

philosophical reasons, there are psychological reasons, there are medical scientific reasons,

there are legal reasons, We could multiply reasons that for most of us,

I would guess in this room, are very compelling reasons for taking up the cause of the unborn in this country.

But even though it's not my purpose to rehearse all of those, it is remarkable to me as I've come toward this Roe v. Wade anniversary every year and the sanctity of life Sunday and our focus on this.

How amazing it is that there are outcroppings of validation of old arguments in new ways.

And the reason I think that happens year after year that in our culture there are public,

wide open to analysis validations of pro-life argumentation is because the evil is so obvious. It is so obvious.

It lies on the table on the face of it and takes a tremendous amount of blindness

not to see it, I believe.

Let me give you an illustration of what I mean about the ever new validation of old pro-life arguments.

There's a great debate going on now in certain medical circles especially and ethical circles about the harvesting of organs like hearts, livers, from tiny handicapped infants, especially those born who are anencephallic.

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