Title:- Humane Humanity?
Genesis 9:5,6 Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man's brother I will require the life of man. “Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.
In Germany between 1942 and 1943 as many as 20,000 people fell to this particular form of political execution used by the Nazis. Hitler considered it to be a most demeaning way to be dispatched. Indeed, more people were killed using this method in Germany than during it’s use in revolutionary France and interestingly, it was last used in Europe as recently as 1977!
The family whose name became associated with this instrument of death, (though it was not a new invention) begged the French government to change the name of the machine. When they refused to call the instrument of death something else, in great shame, the family changed their own name! The French Doctor who is attributed with its invention was in fact against capital punishment and instigated the design to more humanly dispatch the guilty and the condemned. Joseph Ignace Guillotin, was born today in 1738.
I have no wish to fuel the fires of the controversy of capital punishment. No, let the Word speak for itself. However, no matter which side of the argument you may be on, I do wish to encourage you today regarding the great encouragement contained in these particular Bible verses. At the very least we can say this; that God puts an enormous value on human life, on human blood. Friends, God’s most used colour in the painting of pictures is the colour red. Red gets our attention you see, for the colour red is a flying flag of danger and destruction, of devastation and death. David says God takes note of each tear that is shed and every one is kept in His bottle and so in light of that alone, I can tell you today that God takes note of every drop of blood that is shed as well! Each red drip, dropped unjustly into the hungry ground, cries loudly to its creator for justice and one day, it shall receive its desire for revenge and retribution as everyone gives an account for the mauling and marking of the image of the Maker.
You are the image of God! Don’t forget it. Honour one another for this at least, even, for this alone. For we all bear the ‘Imageo Deo’. Every single one of us. You shall not murder!Finally today, may I point out that many of our cities now have an abortion rate which is higher than the birth rate and the screaming, red blood prayers of the millions of unborn, cry out for vengeance against us. Do you honestly believe that God will not avenge such carnage such desecration of His image? The silence of the church against such genocide is a pox on our face of worship. The inactivity of the church against such mass murder makes us as complicit and as guilty as all the neighbours of Auschwitz. Think about that today.
You shall not murder.
Listen:- “What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground. Genesis 4:10-11
Pray:- Lord, give us clean hands, give us clean hearts, let us not lift our souls to another.
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