Summary: God’s Solutions for Today’s Problems #6<br> Our passage from the Word of God today is Romans 15:13. It reads, “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.”<br> Our quote for today is from Rick Warren. He said, “What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.”<br> Our problem today is “The Problem of Abortion in Your Life” (part 6) from the book, “The Guide to Biblical Counseling” by Dr. Tim Clinton and Dr. Ron Hawkins:<br> Today, we want to share with you some Biblical Insights on dealing with abortion:<br> Exodus 21:22 says: “If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.”<br> This verse shows God’s protection of the most defenseless people on the planet — children in the womb. Even causing a premature but otherwise healthy birth was a punishable offense. God is the champion of life and has always protected women, children, and the weakest members of society.<br> Psalm 139:16 says: “Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.”<br> God knows each person from the moment of conception. His eyes see the unformed body in the mother’s womb. Many claim that a child in the womb is no more than a mass of tissue, but the Bible makes it clear that God sees the tiny embryo as a new life with a future already prepared. To abort a child is to end a human life unjustly.<br> A baby’s heart begins to beat around twenty-two days after conception.<br> The highest percentages of reported abortions were for women unmarried (82 percent), white (55 percent), and aged less than twenty-five years (52 percent).<br> Jeremiah 1:5 says: “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”<br> God is well acquainted with every individual from the time each person is conceived. He has plans for each one. God knows everything, so He knows that some young lives will end all too soon.<br> Matthew 2:16 says: “Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.”<br> Although the arguments over abortion almost always use the language of agonizing choices between two lives, the practice of abortion almost always comes down to the choice between a life and convenience or between a life and other plans or between a life and a lifestyle.<br> The thinking that makes an unborn child disposable doesn’t have to change much before people consider the elimination of unwanted living children.<br> The defenders of the “right of choice” believe they can make any choice they want and that a choice is right because they made it. Choice may be a human right, but every choice isn’t a right one.<br> There is an absolute standard in the character and revelation of God. All choices we make will be measured against this standard and we will be accountable for them.<br> Focus on heaven and God’s care of the child for eternity. Second Samuel 12:22-23 says: “And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead,
