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Plain Talk for Teens
Lesson #15
Question: Why am I on earth?
Opening Discussion:
Q - What do you believe would be the greatest achievement you
could accomplish in your lifetime?
Q - Do you believe that your life and what you accomplish is the
only thing important about your time on earth?
What the Bible says:
Revelation 4
11 "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor
and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were
created and have their being."
Esther 4
14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance
for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your
father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?"
Jeremiah 1
5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were
born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the
nations."
Isaiah 43
7 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made."
God may have a specific task for you to perform in your lifetime
or there may be a specific function you are to perform. Even if
neither of these situations apply to you, it is clear that you
are here by design and for the purposes of God. You may not see those reasons now and may not even see them in your lifetime, but you are here for a reason and God will reveal it to you either in this life or the one to come.
Consider the following:
WOULD YOU CONSIDER ABORTION IF ?
Would you consider abortion in the following 4 situations?
Case #1. There's a preacher and wife who are very, very, poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she's pregnant with the 15th. They're living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty and the excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an abortion?
Case # 2. The father is sick with sniffles, the mother has TB. They have had 4 children. 1st is blind, 2nd died, 3rd is deaf and 4th has TB. She finds she's pregnant again. Given the extreme situation, would you consider recommending abortion?
Case # 3. A white man raped a 13 year old black girl and she became pregnant. If you were her parents, would you consider recommending abortion?
Case # 4. A teenage girl is pregnant. She's not married. Her fiancé is not the father of the baby, and he's very upset. Would you consider recommending abortion?
If you said yes. . . .
In Case # 1, you have just killed John Wesley.
One of the great evangelists in the 19th century.
In Case # 2, you have killed Beethoven.
In Case #3, you have killed Ethel Waters, the great black gospel singer.
In Case #4, you have just murdered Jesus.
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