 Hey guys what's up it's Isaac and today we're going to be talking about the issue of abortion, what the biblical stance is on it, but first I just want to give a huge shout out to my patrons on Patreon. You guys are awesome, thank you for supporting me and this ministry on Patreon. If you want to help support this ministry monthly I head on over to patreon.com daily underscore disciple help support me what I do I appreciate it link in description now on to the video. So by me even making this video it's going to stir up a lot of emotion and a lot of people's minds for or against it's a very sensitive topic and it's very controversial in a sense but I don't think it should be even me as a 20 year old guy speaking in on this issue to some people that might seem very wrong or that shouldn't happen you know a lot of people hold the opinion that men can't speak up on the issue of abortion which honestly I think is really sad and it silences a lot of important discussion and debate that needs to happen around this issue so that's why I'm going to speak up today and really dig into some of the nitty gritty I can't answer every question or dig into every different facet of this issue we're going to have to do more videos on this topic in the future but I think it's important that we begin this conversation so whether you agree with my take on abortion or the Bible's stance on abortion I just encourage you to really see where our hearts are coming at we're not coming at this issue with the with some anger in our heart towards people that want to have abortions or anything like that but what we're coming at it is with this idea of love and wanting to love the people wanting to love children and wanting to love what God loves so in order to find out is abortion wrong we need some sort of sense of morality from a secular worldview morality is really plucked out of the individual and this idea that within each of us is a subjective morality that we all can find for ourselves I might think this is wrong and you might think that's right it's a subjective thing there's no objective standard of morality this idea of right and wrong but when we look at the Bible we actually realize wait God is actually the standard of morality God has not only given us his law but his law is actually a refraction of his character so he has given us that objective morality that that unchanging stance of right and wrong that we can look at and I think that's where we need to begin because if we're just gonna argue I think this you think that I think this you think that we're not gonna make up any ground we need to get to something where we can actually find a solid sense of morality and really decipher this topic based on that so the Bible is where we get that solid sense that objective sense of morality and so we can head on over to Psalm 139 verse 13 to 16 for you created me in my inmost being you knit me together in my mother's womb I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are wonderful I know well of that my frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place when I was woven together in the depths of the earth your eyes saw my unformed body all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be that first verse is very powerful this idea of God knitting us in our mother's womb God knew us from the time of conception he put worth on our life we are valuable to God we're not a clump of tissue no in fact we are his creation God create a special and unique from our mother we're not the same thing and one of the key arguments and we'll be going over some of these arguments of abortion is this idea that it's my body I can do what I want with my body and that's why there's so much hostility to men speaking up on this issue because it seems like to many people that when men men are telling women what they need to do with their body but the what we need to understand is actually this is not women's body this is something distinct this is something separate that God has created and we need to understand look hey we can look at the scientific proof and understanding that hey look this child has different DNA than its mother often it has a different blood type than its mother this is not the same as her mother and we what we can understand is actually as time goes on and science has been able to have the baby outside the mother's womb for a longer and longer time that this is a distinct valuable person that we ought to be loving and regard to something valuable that is worth protecting another argument is this idea that it depends on me it depends on the mother for life therefore the mother has the right to you know get rid of it if that's what she wants that's what's most convenient for her situation depending on someone is not a license to do away with that person look three-year-olds depend on their mothers to help them survive three year-olds can't survive on their own they need help the elderly person who is in hospital who needs help getting their medication who needs help going to the bathroom those people will not survive without help they depend on someone so depending the fact that somebody depends on you for life in a sense is not a justification or your right to take that person's life away another argument is that it will have a bad life maybe the mother's not in such a great financial situation or or whatever there's just a lot of you know tough stuff around that pregnancy and just this idea that look the baby's not gonna have a good life it's gonna be a lot it's gonna be really hard for the baby but actually something that I point out in my pro-life film which you can watch link in description the decision between a hard life and no life is an easy answer for the child in the womb and that's not even considering the fact that even though we may see this is a good decision maybe we may see this as something compassionate done for the child we don't have the right to make that decision we don't have the right to take that life away according to God's biblical standard this idea in the Ten Commandments is commandment that says thou shall not murder we don't have the right to take somebody's life away just because we think it may be more compassionate according to our own subjective standard of morality we got to be looking at God's standard another situation people will point to is children conceived and incest or rape and I think this is something where Christians shouldn't you know back up on I think this is an area where we're really called to speak into this issue of abortion in regard to incest and rape because my heart and I think the Bible and I know the Bible's speaking on this issue is this idea of biblical justice and understanding that the person the perpetrator in this situation that man who who took advantage who abused that person should be the one under punishment under judgment not the child not the child because if we punish the child for the crimes of the father that's not biblical justice that's that's terrible and we can't forget the woman in this situation I think it's important to realize that even though there may be a temptation to say look you know what if this woman keeps this baby she's gonna be traumatized because of that past abuse that happens but we're really neglecting the fact that abortion is not does not leave you with a clean sheet right abortion has tremendous power of having tremendous guilt over this woman her entire life and I don't want that but we also need to be understanding and this is what I want to bring in a quote here from Matt Chandler we must not save abortion this is murder without saying to pregnant woman we will serve you if you're doing the former without the latter we aren't truly understanding the gospel and I totally agree with that because even in these difficult situations we can say yes that is murder but as Christians we ought to be saying hey look we don't want to just leave you in the state of trouble where you're at we want to serve you look we believe God created this life we believe that this life is worth keeping and is valuable but we also believe that your life is valuable and we want to serve you we want to love you you see it can be easy especially for me even to be looking at this issue and say hey look yeah this is a life yeah we we need to be calling this what it is it is murder and just leave it that but what we ought to be going is is going further than just merely our words and moving it into our actions that what what's work what we're called to do as Christians and you have to understand where my heart is coming and I think it can be easy to look at you know somebody like me who's talking about this issue and say oh look that guy's just hateful that guy just you know wants to suppress woman hey that guy you know that guy's just terrible and but I think it can be easy to look at a lot of people that are pro-life that way but just kind of understand where our hearts at look we see God creating each one of us is special and unique and worthy of love and worthy of care and I think this is an issue where we got to be speaking into this and that's why we are because we love the women and we love the children there's an outflowing of our love for people and I think of if we ever speak out of anger or hate or pride and if you've ever experienced that in your own life somebody speaking at you with with that kind of temperament I'm sorry but I also want to say look God has called us to speak the truth and love and if you have had an abortion I just want to let you know that God has offered forgiveness for your sin because we've all sinned we've all fallen short of the glory of God and God's forgiveness God's sacrifice on the cross the fact that he sent Jesus to live a perfect life a life that we could not live to die in the cross a death we deserve to die and rose again on the third day he can now forgive your crime he can now forgive your sin he can forgive my sin because he has made that sacrificial act because he has brought us close to his side he has justified us and now given us a new identity so there doesn't need to be any more guilt or shame based on what we've done in the past because God has taken that on himself so is abortion murder yes it is it's the murder of a child and what we need to be doing is speaking into this issue loving the babies loving the pregnant mothers speaking into this issue and acting on our love and I think the fact that we have been given so much mercy and grace by God that he has saved us that should be our outflowing of that should be love others and really point people to the redemption and forgiveness that can be found in the gospel if you want to go check out my pro-life short film you can do that it's link in description I mentioned it earlier it's about 10 minutes and I think you'll be moved by it and it kind of digs into a little more of the issues that I covered today you can leave a comment down below with your thoughts and give this video a like if you enjoyed it subscribe to the channel because I'm making new videos all the time Mondays and Thursdays you can also pick up my new book a letter to my father what your son wants to tell you but doesn't link in description it tells more about my story and really verbalizes the thing a lot of the things that young men don't say so I encourage you to check out this book pick it up link in description well guys that's it thanks for watching see you later