Good Shepherd - Church in Lake Wales, FL

“Last of all, as to one untimely born, the risen Lord also appeared to me.”

I don’t think I’ve ever tried to preach the gospel in the context of abortion before, but today is an appropriate day to do so for several reasons.

First of all, the word that Paul uses to describe himself in his first letter to the Corinthians this morning has been translated as ‘an untimely birth.’ This Greek word was used and can also be translated as a miscarriage, or a deliberate abortion. And according to Paul’s own testimony, he certainly understood that what happened to him on the road to Damascus was a deliberate, and in some sense, a violent and unnatural act of God, and not an accident or merely an internal, psychological event.