1. “The Call to Life” Pastor Joe Pursch Chinese Grace Bible Church Sanctity of Human Life Sunday Sunday, January 22, 2012

2. 01.22.20122 I. A Call to _______________ Confession

3. 01.22.20123 Psalm 127:3 (ESV) 3 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.

4. 01.22.20124 Psalm 139:13-16 (ESV) 13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

5. 01.22.20125 Psalm 139:13-16 (ESV) 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

6. 01.22.20126 Psalm 139:13-16 (ESV) 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

7. 01.22.20127 Psalm 139:13-16 (ESV) 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

8. 01.22.20128 Genesis 1:26 (ESV) 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

9. 01.22.20129 Jeremiah 1:4-5 (ESV) 4 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

10. 01.22.201210 Jeremiah 1:4-5 (ESV) 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

11. 01.22.201211 Luke 1:13-15 (ESV) 13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

12. 01.22.201212 Luke 1:13-15 (ESV) 14 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,

13. 01.22.201213 Luke 1:13-15 (ESV) 15 for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

14. 01.22.201214 Luke 1:35-37 (ESV) 35 And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.

15. 01.22.201215 Luke 1:35-37 (ESV) 36 And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

16. 01.22.201216 Luke 1:35-37 (ESV) 37 For nothing will be impossible with God.”

17. 01.22.201217 Luke 1:39-44 (ESV) 39 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah,

18. 01.22.201218 Luke 1:39-44 (ESV) 40 and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.

19. 01.22.201219 Luke 1:39-44 (ESV) 41 And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,

20. 01.22.201220 Luke 1:39-44 (ESV) 42 and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

21. 01.22.201221 Luke 1:39-44 (ESV) 43 And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

22. 01.22.201222 Luke 1:39-44 (ESV) 44 For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

23. 01.22.201223 I. A Call to _______________ A. The confession that every human being is a Divine ____________ Confession Creation

24. 01.22.201224 I. A Call to _______________ A. The confession that every human being is a Divine ____________ B. The confession that every human being is an Eternal ________ Confession Creation Soul

25. 01.22.201225 II.A Call to _______________Comfort

26. 01.22.201226 Matthew 9:12-13 (ESV) 12 But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

27. 01.22.201227 Matthew 9:12-13 (ESV) 13 Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

28. 01.22.201228 Romans 8:1 (ESV) 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

29. 01.22.201229 John 9:1-3 (ESV) 1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

30. 01.22.201230 John 9:1-3 (ESV) 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

31. 01.22.201231 John 9:1-3 (ESV) 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

32. 01.22.201232 1 Corinthians 15:48-53 (ESV) 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.

33. 01.22.201233 1 Corinthians 15:48-53 (ESV) 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

34. 01.22.201234 1 Corinthians 15:48-53 (ESV) 50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

35. 01.22.201235 1 Corinthians 15:48-53 (ESV) 51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

36. 01.22.201236 1 Corinthians 15:48-53 (ESV) 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

37. 01.22.201237 1 Corinthians 15:48-53 (ESV) 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

38. 01.22.201238 II.A Call to _______________ A. Christ offers comfort for the _____________ Heart Comfort Burdened

39. 01.22.201239 II.A Call to _______________ A. Christ offers comfort for the _____________ Heart B. Christ offers comfort for the __________ Heart Comfort Burdened Broken

40. 01.22.201240 III.A Call to _______________ Conviction

41. 01.22.201241 James 4:2, 7-8 (ESV) 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

42. 01.22.201242 James 4:2, 7-8 (ESV) 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

43. 01.22.201243 James 4:2, 7-8 (ESV) 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

44. 01.22.201244 Psalm 82:3-4 (ESV) 3 Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

45. 01.22.201245 Psalm 82:3-4 (ESV) 4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

46. 01.22.201246 Proverbs 24:11-12 (ESV) 11 Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

47. 01.22.201247 Proverbs 24:11-12 (ESV) 12 If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?

48. 01.22.201248 III.A Call to _______________ A. A conviction to stand against the ___________ Conviction World

49. 01.22.201249 III.A Call to _______________ A. A conviction to stand against the ___________ B. A conviction to stand for the _______ Conviction World Weak