Mercy - Part 1

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Mercy Part 1 Sermon Guide

Main text: Psalm 139:13-16

Texts you can read/reference in your group at your discretion: 

  • Genesis 1:27 (Created in the image of God)

  • Isaiah 44:24 (The Lord forms you in the womb)

  • Exodus 21 (Rights given to the preborn in the mosaic law)

  • Judges 13 (Samson referred to as a boy in his mother’s womb)

  • Jeremiah 1 (“You knit me together in my mother’s womb”)

  • Luke 1 (John the Baptist in the womb)

  • Ruth 4 (The Lord gave ruth conception)


Discuss the takeaways:

  • God intricately forms the people he has made

  • God intentionally predestines the people he has made

    • How do we respond?

      • Choose life for your child

      • Begin to pray

      • Start to speak up

      • Choose to vote

      • Consider your ministry


Questions for greater discussion

  • Have any of you been affected by abortion or the concepts discussed Sunday? If so, please share.

  • How is it that individuals who are physically or mentally disabled are fearfully and wonderfully made?

  • What are some ways we see Satanic agendas around us to steal, kill and destroy those made in the image of God? (John 10:10)

  • How does the Gospel apply to those who have lost children? What about those who have intentionally snuffed out the life of a child in the womb?

  • What are some practical ways you can speak up and advocate for the preborn around you?

  • How can you not just vote pro-life but live pro life?

  • Where is it proper to have conversation and dialogue about the horror of abortion in our culture?

Pray together and close it out!

Bryson Jackson