WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:15.279 Well, today we're going to answer a question that is so, so talked about, so much asked by many, many people. 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:18.239 In fact, all of us. 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:28.480 And uh we're gonna be looking today at a multi uh at multiple scriptures, so there's not just one to turn to. 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:38.479 But I want to start out by saying what I'm about to preach on today, and by the way, we got a lot of people already have been texting me yesterday. 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:49.920 I was a little late on my word for the week because I was doing some work, and uh, but uh they already excited, they've already been texting me saying, I can't wait to hear this message. 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:54.399 I've been I I lost a child, uh, I had a miscarriage. 00:00:54.640 --> 00:01:02.320 Uh I've even had people ask me that that have had abortions, what happens to my child? 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:29.120 So I am going to do my best to answer those questions, but let me go on record saying uh a lot of these answers are just as much as intuitiveness from personal experience and questions that I and Susan answered, because basically we have five children. 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:31.120 You say five children? 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:32.000 Yes. 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:41.120 I've got a son and two daughters here, but I also have two children in heaven. 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:52.000 We have a stillborn, what was five months, twenty-one weeks, that was born, and I had the privilege of holding that little boy. 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:54.000 It looked just like me. 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:56.959 Big nose, everything. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:59.280 It was scary, it really was. 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:08.719 And the joy of me being able to even say that in a joyful way is I'm gonna get to be with my little boy. 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:10.960 I'm gonna see my little boy. 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:34.479 So what I'm preaching and teaching today is not just from the scriptures that God's given to me and Susan over the years, but it's a through a lot of counseling with people that are uh stillborns uh like ours, but also uh I dealt with a uh little, what do they call it, crib death. 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:37.360 I can remember dealing with one of those. 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:48.719 Uh and a lot of counseling sessions with with people that had had, sadly to say, abortions. 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:55.840 And then they've gotten saved and saying, oh my God, what's what what about my baby? 00:02:56.159 --> 00:03:03.919 So, with all that said, I'm gonna give you the best answers I can give you that God gave me peace about. 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:15.599 But let me go on record saying I cannot say that these are verbatim what God says, the word I can, and in the reference to what I believe. 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:26.319 But God, I know, is a just God, and whatever he's done in the way he has done it, to God be the glory, and it's great. 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:27.680 Can I get an amen? 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:36.000 So, with that said, there is nothing more agonizing than the death of a child. 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:44.960 Someone has said that the death of a child is like putting a period before the sentence is ever finished. 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:46.319 I thought about that. 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:47.199 That's true. 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:48.800 That really is true. 00:03:49.039 --> 00:04:02.960 If the loss of a child is not enough within itself to break your heart and it's grievous, I mean, to a point you can't hardly stand it, then comes the question of the child's eternal destiny. 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.319 So what happens to this child? 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:11.759 Well, in this message this morning, I want us, if you got your outline, does everyone have an outline? 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:12.560 Okay. 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:14.240 Everyone have one? 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:17.439 Because this is gonna be very important. 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:18.800 It's gonna help you. 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:24.000 You're gonna keep this so you can share it with other friends that you know that have lost children. 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:25.279 It'll be a blessing. 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:26.079 I promise you. 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:26.879 I promise you. 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:36.319 But we're gonna look at four reasons for believing that all infants and small children, when they die, go straight to heaven. 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:38.240 Straight to heaven. 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:42.959 Reason number one, the character of God. 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:45.199 Put it down in number one. 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:47.040 The character of God. 00:04:47.600 --> 00:05:03.120 The first reason we know that we can have peace is because of the character of God when our child dies is because he says, are you ready for this in Romans 8:15? 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:06.079 He says that he's our father. 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:10.720 He says that he's our Abba Father. 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:13.600 And that word Abba means daddy. 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:15.120 Can I get an amen? 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:24.879 So that is an initial clue as to how he regards the helpless and innocent among us. 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:26.480 No doubt about it. 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:39.680 The Bible tells us in listen to Psalms 86, verse 15, that God is compassionate, he's gracious, he's long-suffering and abundant in mercy and truth. 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:40.720 Why? 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:45.120 And then listen to what he says also in Psalms 149, verse 9. 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:52.000 He is also good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works. 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:56.319 That's including the creation of his children. 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:57.279 Amen. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:06.800 So these traits alone, these traits alone of God tell us how he would never judge anyone unjustly. 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:08.480 Never, never. 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:18.160 Such as children who don't have the ability to understand the gospel, he is not gonna judge them unjustly or anyone else. 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:31.360 Now, such as some people say that that judgment is the same with people who have not heard the gospel, but I got to clarify that. 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:32.800 That's not true. 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:34.560 And here's why. 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:44.560 Because in Romans chapter 1, listen to what it says, verse 20, his invisible attributes are clearly seen. 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:46.959 Now watch, here's the two words. 00:06:47.279 --> 00:07:03.600 Being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power, hey, and Godhead, so that they are, that means adults with understanding, hey, are without excuse. 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:07.040 We're without excuse. 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:21.439 And also the whole chapter, you may want to write it down, chapter 19 in Psalms tells us that the evidence of God in nature surrounds us and holds all men accountable. 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:30.720 But babies are different, they cannot understand language, reason, or hey, even the evidence in nature. 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:32.399 They can't understand that. 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:37.120 Interestingly, when the people of Israel, what man, I found this. 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:38.399 I said, oh, this is good. 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:47.279 Hey, when the people of Israel were held accountable for not trusting God, remember for when they were supposed to enter into the promised land and they didn't? 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:48.959 Okay. 00:07:49.519 --> 00:08:00.959 Well, in Deuteronomy chapter 1, verse 39, it's interesting because we we see when Israel was held accountable for not trusting God to give them victory into the promised land. 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:02.319 Listen what it says. 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:05.680 Their children were not held accountable. 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:08.000 The adults were, but not the children. 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:15.439 Listen, moreover, you, he says, moreover, your little ones, that's a key word, and we'll look at that more in this message. 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:28.720 He says, your little ones and your children who today have no knowledge of good and evil, that's important, they shall go in there. 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:33.679 To them I will give the promised land, and they shall possess it. 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:39.200 The adults were penitalized for their unbelief. 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:42.639 But the children were not. 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:46.240 Now let me give you another example. 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:50.480 Another example is in Jonah chapter 4. 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:53.039 I love to preach that Jonah. 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:55.840 What happens when you get on the wrong boat? 00:08:56.799 --> 00:08:59.919 Well, you get to have a free ride on free willy. 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:03.440 But that's a message for another time. 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:10.080 That used to be one of my favorite messages to the teenager youth camps. 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:27.600 But in Nineveh, God's, hey, as wicked as Nineveh was, and God was bringing the prophet and the preacher to come and bring revival to the country. 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:30.080 And you remember Jonah, he didn't want to do it. 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:34.639 In fact, he didn't want, he he he actually just said, God, well, I don't want to go preach to him. 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:36.240 Why don't you just kill him? 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:39.440 But you know why he didn't? 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:41.759 You know why he didn't bring harsh judgment? 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:50.960 Because there was 120,000 people in Nineveh that did not understand from right to wrong. 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:53.360 That's what verse 11 says. 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:58.080 And I think that means children, or people that could not understand. 00:09:58.480 --> 00:09:59.679 Listen to what he says. 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:01.360 This is powerful. 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:04.639 He, in fact, he says, who could not discern? 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:14.960 He said there was a large number of people, 120,000, I think children, that could not discern between the right hand and the left. 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:20.639 God's justice accounts for those not able to believe. 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:30.639 He wasn't gonna bring judgment because he knew there was 120,000 people there that needed to come to the accountability of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:32.879 Amen? 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:35.840 Man, that's good. 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.120 Now, with that said, in Ezekiel, listen to this. 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:41.440 I tell you we're gonna do a lot of scriptures. 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:47.039 Ezekiel 16, 20, God refers to children. 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:49.039 Now, watch this, as his. 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:59.120 And in Jeremiah 2, 34 and Jeremiah 19, 4, listen to this, he refers to them as innocence. 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:00.639 Wow. 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:04.639 Yes, children are born into sin just like everyone else. 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:06.879 Now let me get this straight. 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:12.000 Behold, I'm formed in iniquity, David said, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:14.240 We're all born with a sin nature. 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:15.600 You understand that? 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:29.519 But what we've got to realize, and I really believe this, children are born into sin just like everyone else, but their sins are not willful and premeditated. 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:39.519 Thus, he calls them innocents until they get to the age where they understand right from wrong. 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:40.960 You with me? 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:44.879 That's important, folks. 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:48.000 That right and wrong as we go through this message. 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:50.159 Just hang with those words. 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:59.679 So God is compassionate and merciful and does not judge children who lack the ability themselves to judge. 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:01.759 To judge themselves. 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:02.799 Does that make sense? 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:03.600 Are you with me? 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:04.320 Come on. 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:15.279 So, number one, why I believe children, when they die, go straight to heaven. 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:22.080 If they've not reached the age of accountability, and we're gonna deal with that, it's because of the character of God. 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:23.279 Say that with me. 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:25.039 The character of God. 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:28.080 God loves children. 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:35.840 Number two, the conditions for salvation. 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:38.480 Well, this is this is good. 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:50.000 Small children don't have the ability to understand that an affirmative response to the gospel is necessary. 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:53.919 In fact, they've got to understand the gospel. 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:59.200 Well, I said a prayer, or I I got baptized. 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:02.960 No, they've got to understand what it means to be saved. 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:08.320 Now, you don't have to be 20 to understand that. 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:11.759 You don't even have to be 12 to understand that, but we're going to get there. 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:13.360 I don't want to get ahead of myself. 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:20.480 But what they have to understand is what Paul told the Philippian jailer. 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:25.360 And what did Paul tell the Philippian jailer in Acts 16? 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:26.799 Remember what he said? 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:35.200 First of all, the doors, the angels had busted the doors open, and the jailer thought, oh my goodness, all the prisoners are gone. 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:46.639 So he drew his sword to kill himself because he knew that he would be beheaded by his commander for allowing the prisoners to escape. 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:57.600 So he drew his sword to commit suicide, and all of a sudden Paul, hey, and Silas were in the same cell, but Paul hollowed out, don't kill yourself, we're here. 00:13:57.919 --> 00:13:59.519 Nobody's gone. 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:03.279 And what did he do? 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.080 He ran to the cells and saw them all there. 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:08.000 And what did he say? 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:12.960 Because it's undoubtedly this is a great picture of Paul had been, and Silas had been witnessing to him. 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:15.759 Because immediately when he saw that, you know what he did? 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:19.600 He said, Paul, what must I do to be saved? 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:20.320 Wow. 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:21.120 Amen. 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:23.279 Glory to God. 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:31.600 And then Paul said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy household. 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:33.919 Wow. 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:35.120 Wow. 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:38.799 Hey dads, you get saved, your whole house will follow you. 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:40.080 Amen. 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:43.840 You're the leader. 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:51.200 So, in Galatians 5, 19 and 21, now this is important. 00:14:52.159 --> 00:15:08.960 Because when people make childhood decisions without understanding, and then they grow older, and if they live like I'm about to read in these things, then ladies and gentlemen, they just made a decision. 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.919 They didn't make a change. 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:13.440 Okay? 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:17.200 And here's what it says in Galatians 5 19. 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:19.200 Powerful. 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:26.799 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and here's what they are: adultery. 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:29.120 That's living. 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:47.360 Hey, out of a relationship of marriage, fornication, that's having sex before marriage, uncleanness, lascivociousness, that's a big word that just means covetousness and all kind of stuff. 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:52.879 Just it's it's loaded with a lot of junk. 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:54.399 Let me put it that way. 00:15:54.720 --> 00:16:20.639 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, arguments, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, fighting, and such like of the which I tell you before, as I've also told you in time past, they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:26.399 Folks, you cannot say you're saved and live like the devil. 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:55.120 And the problem in America today is, according to all Barner statistics and all church history, folks and researchers, is the problem with the witness of the church today is that we have a whole lot of people and churches saying that they're saved and they're standing for the Lord, but they're living no differently than the world and the things and the characteristics that I just read to you. 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:08.880 In Revelation, chapter 21, verse 8 has a similar but shorter list. 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:13.039 The point is that you cannot go to heaven if you choose to live this way. 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:16.079 You cannot go to heaven in your sin. 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:28.160 As Ezekiel 18, 20 says, listen, the soul who sins shall die, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:31.519 Wow, that's pretty plain, folks. 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:37.599 The problem is children don't understand this. 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:42.880 Until the children get to the point they understand that. 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:47.920 They're under the grace of God, the mercy of God, the justice of God. 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:51.279 Listen to what John MacArthur said. 00:17:52.240 --> 00:18:02.079 Little children have no record of unbelief or evil works, and therefore there is no basis for their deserving an eternity apart from God. 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:03.920 Well, that's good, isn't it? 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:11.440 They are graciously and sovereignly saved by God as part of the anointing work of Jesus Christ. 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:22.960 Before a child knows how to choose between good and evil, he or she is protected from judgment for sin by the blood of the Lamb of the living God. 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:33.680 If one cannot reasonably accept or reject the payment for sin made by Christ, that person is accepted by God. 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:47.200 In the Bible, listen to this: infants, little children, and others who cannot believe or neither told to believe are not expected to do so. 00:18:49.440 --> 00:19:03.920 Since the condition for salvation is accepting the gospel, the inability to do so speaks, hey, one, the judgment for not having done so, no one they can be under judgment for they don't understand. 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:08.000 Doesn't that make sense? 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:11.920 Which brings me to the third point. 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:28.400 The condition of salvation basically is this that a child understands, let me put it as simply as I can, that a child understands right from wrong, and they want to do right, not wrong. 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:33.279 Now they're getting ready for salvation. 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:39.920 Because they're gonna need help to do right instead of wrong. 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:41.119 Can I get an amen? 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:44.559 And it's called the Holy Spirit. 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:45.759 Can I get an amen? 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:46.480 Isn't that good? 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:50.319 But that is the easiest way to explain it. 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:59.920 When a child gets to the point where he's ready, and that's what the scriptures we've been reading, when they know the difference between right and wrong, that's one thing. 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:05.039 By the way, when you're living in sin, you know what I've learned over 40, almost 45 years? 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:07.119 I've been in ministry a long time, honey. 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:08.480 Do you know what I've learned? 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:16.880 Even people, hey, hey, that aren't saved, living in sin, all those things I just read to you, you know, they know it's wrong. 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:21.279 But they choose to keep doing it. 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:29.680 So when a child gets to the point where he knows the difference between right and wrong, that's one thing. 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:36.000 But when he's ready for salvation, it's that the child is ready and wants to do right and not wrong. 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:38.079 Woo! That's good, preacher. 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:41.119 God just gave me that. 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:42.799 That wasn't in my notes. 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:51.119 But it makes simple because I've dealt with children for 40 plus years, leading them the Lord, making sure. 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:53.359 That's why, parents, let me help you. 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:56.480 Don't be in a hurry to try to get your kids saved. 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.640 Let the Lord do the Holy Spirit through the Holy Spirit do the work. 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:02.640 But I'm gonna tell you how you to do it. 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:04.720 I mean, you've got to be a discerning parent. 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:05.839 Can I get an amen? 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:14.480 Man, this is good stuff, folks. 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:19.200 So, the character of God is one reason we know. 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:22.319 Number one, the child goes straight to heaven. 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:25.039 Two, the conditions for salvation. 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:29.119 We know the child goes right to heaven. 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:33.039 And then number three, the compassion of the Savior. 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:34.880 Well, this is good. 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:36.319 This is really good. 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:48.640 And uh Jesus' love, Jesus' love for the little children, it seems on more than just one occasion in the gospels. 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:53.440 Indeed, the references to Jesus' interaction with children are also included. 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:54.720 Are you ready for this? 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:56.559 The adjective little. 00:21:58.640 --> 00:21:59.759 Now that word is. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:01.200 Pideon. 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:02.960 Pideon, the Greek word. 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:04.000 And you know what it means? 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:07.680 It means infants and little children. 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:14.319 It's talking about those children that have not reached the age of accountability. 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:17.279 So that's exciting to me. 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:21.200 And in fact, do you remember in Matthew? 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:22.319 This is a good one. 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:23.759 Matthew 18. 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:27.200 In fact, it's in all the gospels. 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:34.640 Luke, it's also in, I'm sorry, Matthew 19, but Luke 18, and then it's in Mark 10. 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:41.440 But listen to what it says right here in Matthew 19, 13 through 14. 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:47.519 Then were they brought unto him little children. 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:50.000 The Greek wordion. 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:00.000 Uh-oh. 00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:10.079 In other words, the disciples did not, well, I don't whether they thought that Jesus wouldn't want to be bothered. 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:11.200 I don't think that at all. 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:12.559 I don't think they thought that. 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:18.960 But they thought, because they didn't want to be bothered with the little children, that Jesus didn't need to be bothered. 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:22.480 So they rebuked the parents and then notice what Jesus said. 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:23.519 Can I tell you something? 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:28.319 Before you start rebuking somebody for Jesus, you might but ask Jesus is okay. 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:32.319 Hello, you okay out there? 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:35.839 You don't need to speak for Jesus. 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:37.119 He does it quite well himself. 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:38.240 Can I get an Amen? 00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:41.759 So listen to what he says. 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:51.759 But Jesus said, suffer the little children and forbid them not to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. 00:23:52.799 --> 00:24:02.000 In fact, he goes on to say, if you as an adult can't come with the simple like faith of a child, you can't be saved. 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:06.240 That's pretty powerful, folks. 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:08.799 That's pretty powerful. 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:16.000 But perhaps the most meaningful reference, are you ready for this? 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:30.240 Is Matthew 18, 14, where Jesus says, listen, even so it is not the will of your father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:32.240 Woo! That settles it. 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:35.599 And settled it. 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:42.640 Little ones, the infants, the children that don't know the difference between right and wrong. 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:46.160 They're not gonna perish. 00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:48.720 Not one of them. 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:52.079 That's what Jesus said right there. 00:24:53.440 --> 00:25:00.640 Oh, it couldn't be more plain or clear from that verse that Jesus is not willing for little ones. 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:07.680 By the way, and when you look at the word little ones, it comes also in that passage of scripture. 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:13.200 It's mecross, micros from which we get our word micro. 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:20.799 In other words, not any of the smallest little children are gonna die and go to hell. 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:23.440 They're all gonna be in heaven. 00:25:28.240 --> 00:25:29.519 And that's good. 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:32.160 Now, I know what you're thinking. 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:35.920 Same questions I was thinking with my children. 00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:39.599 When Susan had her miscarriage and the stillborn. 00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:44.480 What about children lost through a miscarriage or abortions? 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:47.039 Good question. 00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:51.759 Let me tell you what I believe. 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:54.000 If we just believe what we looked at. 00:25:54.240 --> 00:26:02.319 I believe that those children of ours, the two that are in heaven, one's a little boy, the other one we do not know. 00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:05.920 And I really believe this. 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:13.839 I believe that this child of or those children of ours we've never met have been in heaven for decades. 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:21.759 And that we'll be united with my little boy and whether the other one was a him or her when we get there. 00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:23.039 I really believe that. 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:31.279 I believe the Bible right here is clear that life, now listen, and personhood begins at conception. 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:33.759 We believe that. 00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:45.039 In fact, if you believe the Bible, you've got to believe that because God says he knows us and he already knew you and who you were in your mother's womb. 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:47.920 Amen. 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:54.160 So once that conception's taken place, we've got a life. 00:26:55.119 --> 00:26:56.720 We got a little one. 00:26:58.400 --> 00:26:59.759 Can I get an amen? 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:12.720 And I'm telling you right now, God is gonna bring judgment on America if we don't change this abortion. 00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:13.920 It's gonna happen. 00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:17.039 And now we're getting to the point where it's barbaric. 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:27.039 When you can have a baby to be born and then be allowed to put that baby to death, folks, that's murder. 00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:34.720 And I know right now, probably if I say this again in six uh year, they'll come try to lock me up. 00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:36.720 Well, to let them lock me up. 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:41.200 I'm gonna preach the truth, and I'll be just like Paul and Silas. 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:42.960 I'll be preaching it in jail. 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:45.599 I'm not gonna change. 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:50.160 I'm not, I'm hey, hey, when I was young, I was too young to know better. 00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:52.400 Now I'm too old to change. 00:27:57.039 --> 00:27:57.680 Amen. 00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:01.440 People used to say, well, he's just that way right now. 00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:03.039 He's young, but he'll grow out of it. 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:09.440 I haven't grown out of it. 00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:10.960 In fact, I've gotten worse. 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:15.200 Now I'm so bullheaded, you're not gonna change me if you wanted to. 00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:20.720 Because I know the truth, and the truth should set you free. 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:25.359 I'm sticking with the book, I'm going with the book. 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:29.039 Therefore, I really believe. 00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:31.200 All women, are you ready? 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:45.279 Who have suffered either of these experiences, miscarriage, abortions, should expect to be reunited with their precious ones in heaven. 00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:49.440 Now, if they are saved. 00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:53.039 So now listen to me. 00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:54.240 Get excited. 00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:58.400 Here's a you say, well, Pastor, what do you are Pastor? 00:28:58.640 --> 00:29:05.039 Are you saying that I had an abortion or I had a miscarriage and they're in heaven? 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:07.519 Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. 00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:17.759 And are you telling me, you know, if I'm saved, I'm gonna get to be with my children in heaven? 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:20.240 That's exactly what I'm saying. 00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:21.519 Amen. 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:25.759 That's why you need to get saved if you're lost. 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:32.799 And get rid of the guilt you've had ever since you've had that abortion or the miscarriage. 00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:34.480 Get rid of the guilt. 00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:41.359 Satan's, hey, he's killing you with that guilt, and he ultimately wants to take you to hell. 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:46.720 Get rid of it. 00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:48.960 You mean he'll forgive me? 00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:49.839 Yes. 00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:51.839 I promise you. 00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:54.000 He'll forgive you. 00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:55.680 I promise you. 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:06.240 By the way, let me answer another question for you. 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:18.079 The same is true for children who, due to mental impairment, never develop fully to the point that they could understand and receive the gospel. 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:19.359 They're safe too. 00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:20.640 Can I get an amen? 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:23.359 They're going to heaven too, folks. 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:27.359 Why, because he's a just, compassionate, loving God. 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:33.680 That's good. 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:35.839 Take that, Satan. 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:38.319 Number three. 00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:40.720 Number four. 00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:42.880 Mm-mm. 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:50.240 The child of David. 00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:59.440 Not only the character of God, the condition for salvation, number two, three, the compassion of the Savior, but number four, the child of David. 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:03.440 In 2 Samuel 12, you got to read the story. 00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:13.920 We find the story of the child of King David that provides unbelieving, compelling evidence for the salvation of children. 00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:15.599 You remember David's story? 00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:34.079 He committed adultery with Bathsheba, became pregnant with David's child, and after the child was born, God sent the prophet Nathan to confront David over his sin of adultery and of having Bathsheba's husband, if you remember Uriah killed. 00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:40.559 He tried to cover his own sin up with Bathsheba's husband, brought him home. 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:47.680 He was one of the best captains in the army David had, and a great soldier, dedicated. 00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:58.480 And he he tried to get Uriah drunk, and then he said, Hey, you've been one of my faithful soldiers, so why don't you go on home and be with your wife tonight? 00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:01.759 What character Uriah had. 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:07.279 He said, How can I go home to be with my wife when my men are dying? 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:14.319 But anyway, he didn't cover it up. 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:18.160 God, hey, you hey, you can be sure your sins will find you out. 00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:19.200 Hello? 00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:20.079 Hello. 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:22.960 I've never gotten away with one. 00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:25.440 I've tried. 00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:28.160 My children never got away with one. 00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:34.079 They probably they finally said, Daddy, please quit praying that God reveals every sin. 00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:44.079 You can run, but you can't hide. 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:45.759 He's gonna get you. 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:46.720 You know why? 00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:48.079 He loves you. 00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:51.440 He chases the ones that he loves. 00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:52.079 Amen. 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:53.039 Hebrews 11. 00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:54.160 Now watch this. 00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:55.359 This is good. 00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:57.359 So anyway, he's confronted. 00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:58.799 So what does he do? 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:08.240 Bathsheba has the little baby, his boy, and he begins to fast. 00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:10.480 Well, excuse me. 00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:14.240 He's fasting and praying before she has the baby. 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:16.000 And I know what he's praying. 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:19.119 He's praying that probably that the baby will not die. 00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:22.799 He's asking for forgiveness for the sin that he's done, I'm sure. 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.200 I mean, that's what I would have done. 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:28.079 I know he would have I know he was doing that. 00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:30.079 And here's how I know he's doing that. 00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:33.359 He's praying, fasting for a week. 00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:36.079 All of a sudden the baby's born, born dead. 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:39.279 Then all of a sudden, what does he do? 00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:45.920 David gets up, he goes and washes himself, he cleans up, and then he goes and eats. 00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:48.960 And the servants are saying, What? 00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:51.759 Now I'm sure they didn't confront the king. 00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:53.359 But they're saying, What? 00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:54.880