Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth says something basic yet profound. People are extremely valuable.

Listen, you may love your pet, but I'm telling you your pet is nothing compared to you.

God has a unique affection for human beings, for men, for women, for his creation, that is different

than the way he feels or thinks about any other created thing.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Swalkamoo, author of Surrender for May 28,

2018.

Thank you. surrender for May 28th 2018. Human life is extremely valuable. Why? Nancy DeMoss-Waglmuth is about to share with us the

biblical basis for the sanctity of human life.

She's teaching through the True Woman Manifesto in several series this year. As we come to

this statement in the manifesto about the value of life, we're going to begin with a poetic sermon

written in 1927 by James Weldon Johnson. Singer Wintley Phipps recites part of the poem.

Up from the bed of the river God scooped the clay and by the bank of the river he kneeled him down and

there's a great God Almighty who lit the sun and fixed it in the sky, who flung the stars to the most far corner of the night, who rounded the earth in the middle of his hand.

This great God like a mammy bending over her baby kneeled down in the dust,iling over a lump of clay till he shaped it in his own image then into it he blew the breath of life

and man became a living soul.

Amen.

Amen.

Well, we've just heard a creative rendering of one of the most poignant and important scenes in the whole Bible.

And that scene, the creation, is the foundation.

It's the starting place for the next affirmation in the True Woman Manifesto. Let me read that

affirmation, and then we want to spend a couple of days breaking this one apart and pondering its

meaning. Here's what it says.

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