LET THERE BE LIFE

Exodus 20:13 is very simple, just four words:
"YOU SHALL NOT MURDER."
Probably your urge to murder doesn't happen very often, except when you're on the highway. So not a whole lot of you need this message -- you think.
- By the time the average child has hit 6th grade they have already witnessed over 8,000 murders on television.
- They have watched over 100,000 acts of violence on television.
- We live in a violent society. Every 22 minutes in somebody is stabbed, shot or beaten or strangled to death.
- More kids die from violence than they do from illness.

More kids are killed by suicide that by traffic. People say, "It's my life and I have a right to live it and to take it." God says, "No, you don't. I gave you your life and only I have the right to take it away."

The facts of abortion in America are shocking and we’re catching up fast:
- 26% of all pregnancies now end in abortion, one out of four;
- 30 million have been killed through abortion, that's more than all of the wars put together.
- Every year between 400-500 aborted babies live after they are aborted – they continue to live!
- 97% of abortions are not because of rape or incest or not because the life of the mother is threatened, which would be a legitimate issue, but simply because the mother said it's inconvenient. "I chose not to have it because it's not in my lifestyle at this time."

JESUS SAID THAT ANGER IS AT THE HEART OF THIS COMMANDMENT:
MATT 5:22 WHEN WE ARE ANGRY WITH ANOTHER WE ARE SAYING, ”YOU ARE MY PROBLEM. IF YOU WERE NOT HERE I WOULDN’T HAVE THIS PROBLEM.
JESUS SAYS THIS IS MURDER BEGUN. WHO HAS NOT BEEN GUILTY OF BREAKING THIS COMMANDMENT?

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