You see, it would be absolutely unchristian to talk about abortion as if the last word is death. We can talk about abortion because we are the people who know that the last word is life. We are the people who know that in the great story of what God is doing, there is a reckoning that is coming. There is no safety for anyone - abortionists, a woman who has an abortion, a doctor who participates in abortion, murderers, adulterers, liars, robbers, children who are disobedient to parents - you know the Bible’s catalog. We are all there, and we are all nailed.

But that isn’t the last word. The last word is that that sin was nailed to a Cross. And the last word is life because we know that history is hurtling towards an end, an end that includes a reckoning with no safety for those who do not know Jesus Christ as Savior. But for those who come to know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, we experience the forgiveness of sins.

The following is an edited transcript of a message preached by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. for “Sanctity of Human Life Sunday” on January 18, 2009. Today’s installment is the fifth in the six-part series.

We look back at the Third Reich and the German medical ethics that produced that and we ask how could it be that agents of medicine and doctors who are to be trained with the kind of even secular moral ethic of the Hippocratic Oath - how is that doctors could turn into the agents of death rather than the agents of life? It is because they buy into a worldview in which there is a gradation from life that is unworthy of life to life that is unworthy of life. Well, if you can do that in terms of Jews and in terms of gypsies and do that in terms of others - you can just declare that this is life unworthy of life, then you can certainly do it in stages of development, and that is certainly done in the United States.

Abortion makes sense to people who think that our existence is primarily about our rights - that we are human beings who stand on our own two feet, that we are autonomous human beings, that we are answerable to no one, that we are our own independent moral agents, and that we have the right to decide who will live and who will die.

The following is an edited transcript of a message preached by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. for “Sanctity of Human Life Sunday” on January 18, 2009. Today’s installment is the second in the six-part series.