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Welcome to this Nanosermon on babies, sorry, foetuses, in the womb. While you’re finding the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke in your Bible, I’ll tell you the story so far.
Six months ago, Elisabeth, the wife of a Jewish priest named Zachariah, became pregnant, with his child, I hasten to add. That child would become known as John the Baptist. And just last week, her young cousin Mary, or Miryam, to give her Hebrew name, became pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit with the Son of God, the Lord Jesus.
Babe leapt in Elizabeth’s womb
So we can now turn to Luke chapter one, and verse thirty-nine:
Luke 1:39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah; 40 And entered into the house of Zachariah, and saluted Elisabeth.
Luke 1:41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: 42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
Luke 1:43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
Luke 1:45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. (KJV)
Now this is astonishing. Not only Elisabeth, but first of all her baby, sorry, foetus, recognised a one-week-old embryonic Lord Jesus in Mary’s womb. Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. What spirit do we think John the Baptist was filled with? The same Holy Spirit, in the womb.
Abortionists play with language
Now, I’ve been messing around with language because you’ll know that when a woman goes for an abortion in today’s dysfunctional society, those selling her the abortion – you didn’t think the staff at Marie Stopes or British Pregnancy Advisory or Planned Parenthood are anything other than sales people, did you? – they’re in business to provide abortions. These empires might have charitable status but the bosses and staff don’t work for free.
Where was I? Oh, yes, they will tell her she has ‘products of conception’ or ‘a pregnancy’ or a ‘foetus’ in her uterus. Never a baby and never a womb. But if she attends the ante-natal clinic at the local hospital she’ll be told to stop smoking and cut down on alcohol ‘for baby’, not ’for foetus’.
Let’s do language. Foetus is a Latin word. It means ‘offspring’ or ‘young’, usually in the womb, but occasionally neo-natal. So it’s a poncy foreign word for baby and it’s used by those who want to obscure exactly what kind of being is growing deep inside the mother’s body. It’s a foetus, not a baby, you’ll be reassured to know.
John Baptist recognised embryonic Jesus
Suppose you referred to the contents of a box of matches by a Latin word like ‘igniens’, which means ‘fire lighter’ by the way. It’s an igniens in the box and it only becomes a match when you take it out? Sorry, guys, it’s the same inside as outside.
Doctor Luke in his chapter one uses the Greek word ‘brephos’ which means ‘infant’, either unborn or, once again, neo-natal, a young child. But a human being, that’s for sure. In the context of a human mother, it’s an unborn, or newly-born, human infant. So the King James translators rendered it correctly as ‘babe’, not ‘foetus’.
And you know, not one modern translation puts anything other than ‘baby’.
Take this away from this nanosermon. John the Baptist, as an unborn baby of twenty-six weeks’ gestation in Elisabeth’s womb recognised a one-week-old embryonic baby, the Lord Jesus, in the womb of Mary. I love that.
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