Suicide

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Suicide

• A Permanent Solution
• To A Temporary Problem

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What is suicide?

• Homicide, genocide, suicide, infanticide,
  herbicide, pesticide, etc.
• Suicide self and kill

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Why suicide?

• Intense pain or suffering (Job 31ff)
• Enormous remorse or grief (Mt. 274-5)
• Extreme despair or fear (Acts 1628)
• Depression, loneliness, many any other causes

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Why suicide?

• It is common
• It is often glamorized
• Music, media, movies
• Movie stars
• Movements suicide bombers assisted suicide
  (euthanasia)

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OT Bible Examples

• Abimelech (Judges 951-55)
• King Saul armorbearer (1 Sam. 314-6)
• Ahithophel (2 Sam. 1723)
• Zimri (1 Kings 1618)

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NT Bible Examples

• Judas Iscariot (Mt. 274-5 Acts 118)
• Jesus Christ (Jn. 1018 1513)?
• The cross was not an act of suicide, but of love
• Jesus was/is God
• Jesus offered/gave himself as a vicarious
  sacrifice, he did not take his life (Jn. 1513
  Rom. 57 1 Jn. 316)

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Suicide Prevention

• Serve Christ and others, not self (Acts 1628ff)
• Killing (murder) others and self is wrong
  (Gen. 96 Ex. 2013 Rom. 139)
• The sanctity of human is most sacred to God we
  are stewards of the life that God has given us
  (Eccl. 127 Zech. 121 Heb. 129)

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Suicide Prevention

• God will not fail us, even in difficult times
  (Heb. 135)
• Death does not end it all
  (Mt. 1028 Lk. 1619ff)
• Our life and body belong to God
  (Rom. 121 147-8 1 Cor. 619-20)

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Suicide Prevention

• Revenge and selfishness are both condemned
  (Rom. 1217ff 2 Tim. 32)
• There is more to life than the material
  (Lk. 1215ff 2 Cor. 416-18)
• Patient endurance is needed trials make us
  stronger (Rom. 53-5 818 Jas. 12-4
  1 Pet. 15-7)

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Suicide Prevention

• Turn to God for help (Psa. 2710 Phil. 46
  1 Pet. 57)
• Turn to fellow-Christians for help (Gal. 62)
• Remove guilt the right way (Acts 1628ff)
• Only God has a right to give life and take life
  (Gen. 5019)