Amen.
All right, we're there in chapter three of Genesis.
We're gonna spend a little bit of time there,
not too much, and then we'll start going through this.
I have actually what I would consider, in my opinion,
a very simple message today,
but there's two reasons I'm preaching it.
Number one, it was triggered by a personal event.
But even if it wasn't triggered now, it would have been triggered eventually because this
is something that happens commonly.
It's not that big of a deal.
It's just part of life.
But also, in my intent as I started last year to do an overview of the Bible of big things
or big events, also it's good to also cover just what we would consider, sometimes we
basic doctrines of the Baptist belief, right?
We believe in the Bible and there's things that just stand out.
And the title of the sermon this morning is All Babies Go to Heaven.
All babies go to heaven and this, you know, this could happen regularly. This is something that
You know, unfortunately life women do miscarry, you know
We fortunate had the fortune of not not that we know of
We've never had a miscarriage in our marriage
But I can relate to something like that in the sense that when we were when Mary Sarah was pregnant with our youngest child
we actually thought that she did miscarry and we went through the morning process for a couple
of days there until the doctors verified that that wasn't the case. So it is something that happens
and it is a sad thing but you know the question that the people have asked and I mean I remember
as as young as I can go back but as far as I can remember just when I had started to have memory
this is a question that pops up people ask do babies go to heaven or what happens to babies
the ability to, you know, know good and evil and all that stuff, but the Bible is very clear on this subject, even though it doesn't
explicitly say that other than in the book of Samuel with the David and we will touch on that.
There's just so much in the Bible that gives us indication that this is true, right?
And even we start and this is why I started the book of Genesis. If we were there, we just focus on chapter,
I mean on verse 2 of chapter 3, it says, and the woman said unto the serpent,
we may eat of the fruit of the tree of the garden because you know the devil's tempting her right
and he's like hey eat this this fruit and she responds we can eat of the fruit uh here it says
but the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God had said you shall not eat it
now to show you touch it lest he die and the serpent sent unto the woman you shall not
surely die for God does know that in the day that you eat thereof then your eyes shall be open and
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and to a tree to be desired to
Make one why she took the fruit thereof and did eat gave also into her husband with her
And he did eat and the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked
And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons and the reason I focused on this part is because
You think about it and go down to verse 21, but I'm going to cover some of these points
are actually in here, you know, what was the treatise she ate of, the one that gave her
knowledge of good and evil, right, before that there was no need for salvation because
there was no knowledge of good and evil, and what it tells me on a side note just really
quick is this knowledge is too much for us, right, if God wanted us to have this knowledge,
he would have given it to us from the very beginning.
You know, in the fall, what was the fall is the fact that we learned good and evil, and
so with that comes that responsibility, and you know, it's a responsibility that we're
going to fall short all the time.
You know, it's not to rehash that point too long, because we are, if you're a good independent
Baptist, you just know for all to have sin.
I mean, that's literally one of the major tenets of being saved is the fact that we
know we're sinners, and then we know that there's nothing that we can do ever to get
I mean to God other than through Jesus Christ. It's not of works right the Bible tells us but go down to verse 21
But oh actually verse 7 the other thing that really stands out
It says in the eyes of both of them were opened so they ate and what was the first thing they noticed and
They both knew that they were naked, right?
And so there's obviously something to be said about that, you know
How do we know because we now have the knowledge of good and evil before that they were just walking around in the presence of the Lord
Completely innocent, you know, not knowing these things and of course we see through here in chapter 3
I'm not this is not a sermon on chapter 3, but God kind of calls them out. Everybody blames everybody, you know
Nobody takes responsibility for their own actions. There's a whole other sermon right there in itself
But in verse 21 says unto Adam also it says why did the Lord make coats of skin and cloth them?
Why did he why did he clothe them because they knew they were naked and of course?
We know this is one of the first pictures of the shedding of blood
For the fact that now they have this knowledge of what good and evil right and the Lord God said behold the man has become as one of us
So God he's talking in the Trinity. He says hey man has become as one of us now
so the devil
Lied but didn't lie, you know, he he but he also sprinkled some truth in there
Now they didn't become as one of us as gods
But they now have the knowledge that God had except that they don't have
the entire wisdom of eternity with them, right?
Us, we don't understand completely good and evil.
As a matter of fact, one of the biggest challenges
in the world is that people are constantly questioning
why bad things happen, why good things happen,
why certain things happen a certain way, one way,
or another way.
We just don't understand, right?
And that's why the question of why do babies go to heaven
or what happens to good people,
uh, you know, why do bad things happen to good people? Which is, that's a whole other thing.
You hear these like big theological questions. And really they're not that big, uh, to, they're
not that difficult. The challenge is most people don't spend any time in the Word of God. God has
made it very clear that his ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not our thoughts. I mean,
some of the things in life are just too big for us to understand. We just don't, don't have that,
that, uh, the ability to have that knowledge.
Right and so here in verse 22 says and the Lord God said behold the man has become as one of us to know
Good and evil and now let's put that lest he put forth his hand and take also the tree of life and
Eat and live forever
Therefore, the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from
whence he was taken.
So he drove out the man and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubim and a
flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life.
So now the danger was that if they were to take of the tree of life, they'd be stuck
in this state forever.
So it must tell us something about even our existence, right?
I mean, obviously we look at it differently because, you know, I've been on this earth
45 years and I keep thinking, man, if you've never even lived a day on the earth, well,
I feel like I'm fortunate at least I've lived 45 years, right?
But in God's eyes.
Everything's a vapor.
You know, I've done that analogy where even if you took my life or your life or maybe,
you know, I can think of people in my generation, some of you might not know, but like remember
George Burns was only like a few days away from being a hundred years old, right?
When he passed away, he was 99.
But in the grand scheme of eternity, if you divide 99 into, you know, eternity or into
You don't even get it's in right. It's just so small. It's smaller than small than small and small like it's nothing
All right, so when a baby dies
In the grand scheme of god's eternity
It's almost the equivalent of our hundred year life
Right, we we just look at it from a different perspective now
I did I know I didn't maybe I'm being a little facetious
But I really want to drive this point home as a way of introduction sir turn over to Psalm 139
But I did want to give you the definition of what a baby is right a baby is just an infant or very young child a new born
the youngest member of a family.
So in our family, Daniela's our baby, right?
It's also just a human fetus.
And by the way, that fetus is just a fancy word
for a baby, right?
Like it's a medical term, Latin,
but it just means baby.
I know people like to use that to confuse people,
but it's not that difficult.
You know, if it's in the womb
or if it's out of the womb, it's a baby, right?
And the other thing just really quick
is I wanna point out as you turn us home, 139,
This seems like a very basic sermon and in a way it is, but I think it's important to preach
sermons like this also to just have some reassurance because when people go through a tough time,
they want to know that there's actually answers for this stuff. And it's not just a Google search
because if you do a Google search, by the way, I did and I didn't want to spend any time on it,
but you know who's the only ones that are 100% like on this topic that they believe that babies
Not Calvinists
Not Catholics
Not more. You know, there's all these false religions. They have some weird beliefs about what happens to babies
But the Bible, you know why you know why we as Baptists don't have a weird belief of what happens to babies because we read our Bibles
That's it. The Bible is very clear that you know, God's not you know, God is the loving God
But I know some people argue. Well, yeah, but God also is gonna have bad things happen, you know
God is a loving God, but he's also a just God right and that would be too long of a sermon to cover that topic
But we're gonna I'm gonna try to do it justice
Because the Bible also tells us to preach in season and out of season and so this is an in-season sermon for us personally
You know, we just know someone near to us that lost a baby that was expecting. They were really excited about it
But it's also an out of season because it might not apply to you today
But you know what? It's something that happens frequent enough that it's gonna happen to you at some point in your life
You know and so this is just a good place to either point to them or just learn these scriptures and just give them that reassurance
In right there in Psalm 139 Psalm 139 is one of my favorite songs. It's just such a reassuring song as a matter of fact for
for some time when I was a young man, when I first saved, I read this song on a regular,
I mean almost on a daily basis. Song 139 verse 14 says, I will praise thee, for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made, marvelous, I like works. And I want to, I want to start putting the theme
here together. Who made any of the babies in the womb?
God did the devil and the evil that exists out there in the world has nothing to do with a baby in the womb
The only reason that babies in the womb
Under good circumstance or bastard under any circumstances the world wants to look at is because God allowed it
God is the one the author of life, right?
It says I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvelous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right
Well, my substance was not hit from thee when I was made in secret
curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth that and I did see my
substance yet being unperfect and in that book all my members were written and
so the you know that's a like I said like there's so much to cover but in the
book he's talking about the book of life all his members were written right
which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them how
precious also are thy thoughts unto me oh God how great is the sum of them so
a few seconds or a hundred years, God has precious thoughts towards us and towards those
that are His children, right?
And then you don't have to turn there.
You can turn over to Luke 6, but in Ecclesiastes 11 verse 5, the Bible says, as thou knowest
not what is the way of the Spirit.
This is the Solomon, and he's saying in Ecclesiastes 11, 5, he says, as thou knowest not the way
The bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child
Even so thou know it's not the works of God who maketh all
And the reason I want to make that emphasis there's a couple of sub themes
I guess that as I'm preaching this is because we don't know why God allows certain things to happen
We think we do and we can look to scripture to try to explain some stuff
There's things that I can without a doubt explain to you
You know, whenever I go, so many people are like, oh, you know, I like, are you a hundred
percent sure you're going to heaven?
And they're like, I don't know, do you know, you know, when people get a little bit aggressive
and I'm like, absolutely, I know.
know 100% without a shadow of a doubt that I'm going to heaven because the Bible tells me so I can take you to
Scripture that shows you that it says that you may know like I know these things to be true because the Bible tells me
So but then there's other things that I can speculate on or the Bible kind of gives me some indication
I'm not a hundred percent. I don't know how the bones grow in the womb
I mean, to me, it's still kind of like this very, when I sit down and just have these
weird, like these thoughts to myself about life and things like that, I can't, I look
at my children, I'm looking at all three of them, and my wife carried them in the womb
for nine months.
And now they're these grown children and then eat me out of house and home, you know, they're
always hungry.
They're always like, you know, wanting more of everything.
And at one point they were just a clump of cells, right?
Which by the way, aren't we all a clump of cells? Like do we stop being a clump of cells?
We're just more, you know, sophisticated clump of cells, right?
If you were to take a sample of my blood, guess what you're gonna find? A clump of cells, right?
So, that's a silly argument in itself.
But, so as a way of introduction, you know, this is a question that has been asked throughout the centuries.
and philosophers and theologians have tried to answer it and you know I went
down that rabbit trail for like five minutes I was like I'm done with this
this is stupid like you know Pete it's pretty clear in the Bible what the Bible
says about these subjects right but the first point I have for you and I have
three really simple points this might actually be maybe one of my shortest
sermons in a long time I say that only to probably end up be one of my longest
sermons so I don't know
You know, whatever you guys think, let me know at the end of the thing, but the first
thing is that a baby has no knowledge of good and evil.
Whether they're in the womb or they're out of the womb, you know, the reason that we
know babies go to heaven is because they have no knowledge of good and evil, right?
Your kids don't like a one year old or a baby in the womb.
You know, when the baby, let's just use the baby in the womb first of all, because that's
what I'm preaching about.
The baby in the womb, when my wife was pregnant with our second child, Enrique, I mean, she
struggled.
She had a hard burn, she was moody, and a lot of it had to do with our son.
Like it wasn't her like, you know, if she ate certain foods just made her feel queasy and all that stuff
He wasn't doing that because he had knowledge of evil. Like he it wasn't premeditated
Suffering like he wasn't in the womb like oh you ate watermelon now. I'm gonna make you suffer
Let me just you know, it wasn't like that, right?
And so it's silly to think that babies would go anywhere else
They don't have this knowledge and then I mean if you're talking about just infants
You know every infant and every child has a different stage, but for the most part, let's just talk about babies
Then you know when you give a baby food, let's say a one-year-old and you put it on the plate
and it knocks it down nine times out of 10
that baby is knocking it down
just cause they're just learning to use their,
they're not doing it to hurt mama
or make her life more difficult or do these things.
Now, if my 80 year old does that, something's up, right?
I'm gonna be like, what's going on?
What are you thinking?
Cause she obviously knows what she's doing.
But go there to Luke six and in verse 43 of the Bible says,
for a good tree bringeth forth
Bringeth not forth corrupt fruit, neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit,
for every tree is known by his own fruits, for of the thorns men do not gather figs,
nor of bramble, bush, gather they grapes, a good man out of the good treasure of his
heart bringeth forth that which is good, and an evil man out of evil treasure of his heart
bringeth forth that which is evil, for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh."
Right, I mean we can't just in the womb. They're just in the womb
You know the hardest thing that a baby has to do in the womb is just grow and even that God's taking care of it
Right the Bible says we don't even know how the bones in the baby grow
If you go over to Roman 7 but in Isaiah 7 the Bible says in verse 14 says therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign
Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a son. This is speaking of Jesus and she'll call his name in Manuel
butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.
So even Jesus had to come to the age of what?
It's a very popular term among pastors, the age of accountability, right?
Even Jesus had to come to the term of like, to know to refuse the evil.
It's a choose the good why are kids so susceptible to being abducted?
Why do we have to protect them from strangers because kids are innocent, right?
Hey kid, you want a candy and they don't look beyond the fact that this guy is evil
And he's luring them in to sequester them, right?
Isn't that what they taught us in public school?
Like don't talk to strangers don't take candy from anybody because why because kids are you know?
They're not thinking how to discern from good and evil. They're not thinking all this guy looks creepy
And there's a white band and all these, right?
We are the ones that pick that up.
But the kids is like, oh, candy, let's go.
Right?
I mean, I told my wife, I was like,
I'm gonna enjoy my kids and my oldest one
and she's getting to, she's starting to make the transition.
But you know what's one of my favorite stages of kids
is the fact that daddy can entertain him with anything.
Because they don't know how to discern good from evil. They don't even know how to discern good comedy from bad comedy
I mean, I'm the funniest guy in the house when kids are around, right?
Then they get older and then all of a sudden that you know, my daughter's like daddy, that's not funny anymore
You know, that's not funny anymore. Oh all of a sudden she's the expert on comedy daddy's funny
Just so you know, I mean, I just want to make that clear
But in verse 16 this of Isaiah says for the for the before the child should know
to refuse the evil and choose the good,
the land of Dao of Horus shall be forsaken of both of her kings.
So even Jesus had to go through that process.
That's why Jesus is such a great...
Example of God's power right because in the Old Testament we just see
Appearances of Jesus but in the New Testament he came forth as a child
He had to be yet to grow he had to learn how to refuse and discern the good from the evil go over to Roman 7 and
Then in verse 14 it says for we know that the law is spiritual in Roman 7 verse 14
It says for we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal sold under sin
For that which I do, I allow not for what I would, that I do not, but what I hate that I do.
If then I do that which I would not, I can send unto the law that it is good.
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing, for to will is present with me,
but how to perform that which is good, I find not."
For the good that I would that I would I do not but the evil which I would not that I do now if I do that I
Would not it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law
That when I would do good evil is present with me for I delight in the law of God after the inward ban
but I see another law in my members
warring against the law of my mind
and bringing me into captivity
to the law of sin, which is in my members.
Oh, wretched man that I am,
who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
I thank God through Jesus Christ the Lord.
So then with my mind, I myself serve the law of God,
but with the flesh, the law of sin.
Like I said, it's a really basic doctrine, but it's really important and actually it re-emphasizes all the other things that we believe, right?
I mean no child is going through like the struggle that we all go through. Who doesn't go through the struggle?
We Roman 7 is like one of the greatest chapters to remind you that we all suffer like Paul suffer, right?
I mean March 1st came and I told myself I was like so worse because I was like I'm gonna start doing this
I'm gonna you know start doing that and then I started feeling just ill
and now I'm warring with myself. Do I overcome it? Do I just do this or do I just like give up?
Right? This is a constant battle and it's not March 1st, March 2nd and 3rd and 4th and 5th
all the way through the end of March and then April and to the end of my life. You know what I'm
going to be warring with? The law in my flesh and the law in my spirit. But a baby, especially when
I mean, it's not something like they don't have that discernment as a matter of fact
I remember way before I was ever safe
I'm so glad you know that there's so many good things that my dad and my mom taught me, but I remember my dad
He's always been very
Like a deep thinker. My dad's one of the smartest persons you'll ever meet. I wish I could only
Amount to like some of the knowledge he like he literally he reads every day. He's been doing this as I was a child
I don't know that I've ever seen him miss a day of reading but I remember when I was about maybe 15
He's like look son
I'm pretty sure he was giving me this because I had said something stupid or I probably was trying to teach him something that I you know
When you're a teenager, you know everything so I'm pretty sure it was one of those things that triggered this conversation
But he's like he's like you've only been on earth for like seven years
It really threw me off. It was probably 15 or 16 because it was he used that term. I was like
He's like, look, the first eight years of your life, you're just, you're just like meandering
around, just like your brain is just subconsciously picking stuff up.
You don't even know of your own existence.
It's you're like about eight.
Now, you know, this is him from a medical perspective giving you, but really the fact
is, how many of you can start to remember how far can you go back when you started to
actually think about the deep things of life?
I definitely didn't do it at three or four.
I can't remember that far, but when I turned like 10 or 11, I started thinking of the things
of God.
Maybe younger, I had some instances where I wanted to know more, but it wasn't until
you got older that you really started to really think like, who is the person that I'm going
to become?
Who is the person that I'm going to evolve into?
Definitely not as a baby, right?
You don't have deep.
What was the last time you had a deep conversation with your one-year-old?
You know, I have a two year old and the deepest conversation is like, you know
Are you gonna learn to use the potty or not, you know, like that's the that's the depth of our conversation
Right, we just got her pull-ups. You know, so now it's the conversation of like pull up pull down
Well, you know, I mean, it's like it's deep. This is like deep things
Like that's what I prepared them for the the preaching this morning
But those are the things that we need to keep in mind is right?
This is a question that is asked in our entire lives
which is interesting that this question would continue to persist seeing that the Bible is so
clear on the subject, right? And the reason is because people always want to attack the things
of God. The second thing is that a baby has no knowledge of good and evil. Now turn your
Bibles over to Romans 8. Romans 8. Now the third thing is not everyone is a child of God, but babies
Because that's one of the the misconceptions that people walk around is all we're all children of God know we're not
But babies are you know now I'm gonna show you this from the Bible the Bible says there in John 1
You're in Romans 8 but in John 1 and verse 11 it says he came unto his own and his own received him not
But as many as receive them
To them gave you power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name
But I love this verse right here because it really emphasizes the point on Megan says which we're born not of blood
Nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God before we can even choose
God right as our savior before we can even say I want to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. We were still born of God
Right because it started in the womb. That's why God so loved the world, right because everybody has that opportunity
Everybody and their mama has that opportunity. This is not a salvation message, but just as a reminder these verses re-emphasize the fact that
life is from God the devil and
The the demons and the people that would want to destroy that they have nothing to do with the fact that you're here because of God
You know what those people that hate God
They're here because of God and there's nothing I can do about it
You know the people that that maybe are lost and they don't know they're here because of God
You're not here because of some random, you know clump of cell. I mean, uh, what is it a lava rock and?
And it turned into like it got electrical, you know
Struck by electricity and then somehow decided to become a human and then became a toad, you know
There's so many evolution things right? No, you're here because God
Allowed you to be here. God wanted you to be here. You're here because of God go over to Romans 8
Right go to Romans 8 says for as many as are led by the Spirit in verse 14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God
They are the sons of God for you have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear
You have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba father the Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit
That we are the children of God and if children then heirs heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ
If so be that we suffer with him
that we may also be glorified together, for I reckon that the sufferings of this present
time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us for the
earnest expectation of the creature, Wadeth, for the manifestation of the sons of God.
The sons of God are those that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, or those that haven't had
A losing your salvation scenario because if that was the case then Adam and Eve would have lost that right when they took
Of the tree of he they already had life right it wasn't that was the plan they messed up the plan
So the plan became now. Well, what do we need to do to get someone saved?
Right. There's those are two different completely different things go over to first John
Go over to first John
And the point I'm trying to make here, I tied two points together because I had two points that just kind of felt like they were overlapping.
But I'm building up, you know, we are, there are sons of God and then there's sons of Belial.
But in order to come to heaven, you got to have what? The mind of a child, right?
And in 1 John 3 verse 1, the Bible says,
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God, therefore the world knoweth us not.
Because it knew him not and I think this is interesting because one of the things we never know
The world's never gonna know is all those babies that are lost to the moon, right?
But God knows them
Right, I mean we can imagine
Someone who maybe had a miscarriage what they can imagine and they can play that game of like what would have been if that child came
But they'll never know but God knows right?
Beloved now are we the sons of God that it thought yet appear that we shall be but we know that when he shall appear
We shall be like him for we shall be see him as he is and every man that had this hoping him purified himself
Even as he is pure
Whosoever committed sin transgresses also the law for sin is the transgression of the law
And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins and in him is no sin. Whosoever abideth in sin
In him, I'm sorry there it is whosoever abideth in him sineth not
whosoever sineth hath not seen him, neither hath known him."
And so this is in the theme of the emphasis I'm saying, right, do all babies go to heaven?
Well, they're biting with God because God created them, right?
It's not until that knowledge of good and evil that you decide to either reject
or believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
It says,
little children, let no man deceive you, he that doeth righteousness is righteous,
even as he is righteous.
He that committed sin is of the devil, for the devil sineth from the beginning.
For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested.
that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin,
for a seed remained within him and he cannot sin because he is born of God.
In this, the children of God are manifested and the children of the devil,
whosoever does not doeth not righteousness is not of God,
neither he that loveth not his brother.
We know, first John, these are deep, right?
These are the meat of the word.
But here we see a couple of concepts that said,
whosoever is born of God does not commit sin.
Now, what is that really teaching and is this I guess is a good time to just go over some of these things when we're in the spirit
We don't commit sin
We're not capable of sin the unfortunate part is as adults is that we're not always in the spirit, right?
Like I think for fact, I'm in the spirit when I'm out soul winning
So that's why you know if you want to know how to get in the spirit and you don't know how to do it
We'll just go soul winning because when you're out soul winning you're so focused on doing the work of the Lord
You're in the spirit
The challenge is that you can get distracted really easy anyways because you're still in the flesh.
But a baby or someone who's not at the age of accountability,
you know, they're not committing sin.
They're just in the spirit.
And then the other thing I love this is verse 7 says,
little children, what does God refer to us as?
His little children, right?
Because we now have graduated when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ to a simpler, pure mind.
Now do we activate that mind all the time? No, that's why you refer to those as little children too because what did children do?
They they're not always listening to to the things that we need to talk about right go over to Matthew 18
Go to Matthew 18 and let me just
Kind of build that point right there Matthew 18 and verse 1 the Bible says
And the same time came the disciples unto Jesus saying,
Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
And Jesus called a little child unto him,
and said him in the midst of them,
and he said, Verily I say unto you,
except ye can be converted,
and become as little children,
ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself
as this little child,
the same as the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,
and who shall receive one such little child
in my name receive with me.
But who shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me it would better for him that a millstone or hand about
Hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea
So we need to have the mind of a tile
Right and what do we refer to a baby of the womb or a baby newborn or anything? They're children
Right, and why do we say the mind of a child because children are innocent?
Like I used that example earlier. You can also use it for the positive, right?
Children are really easy to lead to the Lord because children when they start believing in God, they're not sitting there going well
You know, what do the philosophers say about God?
You know, no child. I've never sat with a child. I'd be like, well, I think therefore God exists
And because I don't think therefore God doesn't exist stupid stuff that we learn in college like no child is doing that
You know, they just believe in God
Right be and the reason is because
They understand that there's bigger things at work
It's not until we get a little full of ourselves that we think was we somehow
Influenced the things that happened in our life like God has nothing to do with the fact of where we're headed in our life
We just we control everything right?
It's arrogant and believe that but go over to first Kings go over to first Kings
We're gonna be in the Old Testament for a little bit. I'm just gonna give you three chapters
I mean a three references and like I said, it's probably
We're almost here towards the end. I'm kind of amazed
So, amen to that.
But in 1 Kings 21, verse 7, 1 Kings 21, verse 7, we see the introduction of what?
The sons of Bilio says, and Jezebel, his wife, said unto him, does not govern the kingdom
of Israel.
You know, Ahab comes back because he talked to Naboth and he wants his land and he throws
a tantrum like a little baby because Naboth said no to him.
And Jessabelle's like, hey, I'm going to take care of this thing.
She says, arise and eat and bread and let that hard be merry.
I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite.
So she wrote letters in Abraham's name and sealed them with a seal and sent the letters
unto the elders, unto the nobles that were in his city dwelling in Naboth.
And she wrote in the letter saying, Proclaim it fast and set Naboth on high among the people.
I said, two men, sons of Belial before him, to bear witness against him.
Saying now did his blaspheme God and the king and then carry him out and stone him that he may die
And the men of the city and the elders and nobles were who were the inhabitants of the city
Did is just about had sent out to them as is written in the letters
Which she had sent out to him and just for the sake of time
Basically, what do they do they end up killing Naboth on the testimony of these two sons of the devil
Right, but the Bible is very clear that when God gives life
Who do we belong to God? So something had to happen in these individuals lives that they now said no our father is a devil
Right and it has nothing to do with their birth
It has to do with the fact that they came to the knowledge of good and evil and what did they choose evil?
Right that you know nowhere in the Bible do you find references as a matter of fact the sons of Belios only mentioned a couple of times in the Bible
But you may you see tons of references to the sons of God to the children of God to people like that go over to
Go over to second Samuel second Samuel. I think that's where we're closing go over to second Samuel
Yeah, go over to second Samuel, but in first Samuel 212 says now the sons of
Eli were sons of Belial they knew not the Lord I
Like that as I'm driving this point home because who are they the sons of well first are the sons of Eli
in the flesh, but spiritually they gave themselves up to become the sons of what? Belial.
You know, that's what we call the reprobate. Like there's people that have just given,
you know, rejected Christ so much that he's given them up and he gave them over to reprobate.
My right? And why were they the sons of Belial? Because they knew not the Lord. They rejected
the Lord. Well, no baby, no child before the age of accountability has ever rejected the Lord
because they wouldn't even know how to do that.
Judges 1922 says now as they were making their hearts merry behold the men of the city certain sons of Belial
Be set the house round about and beat the door as spake of the master of the house
The old man saying bring forth the men that came into that house that we may know him
So I mean these are just wicked people. They've made a choice in their life to reject the Lord Jesus Christ
And then the last point I have for you today is
Sometimes babies dying is a form of protection
Sometimes. I'm not saying every time. Like I said, I don't have all the answers when I'm preaching this because this is actually beyond my
understanding, I don't even understand how the bones are formed in the womb, the Bible says, let alone why God chooses to
allow
babies in the womb to be either, you know, just die out of like a miscarriage, or
all the murder that we've done, you know, throughout the last whatever 40, 50 years,
Actually, longer than that, when we're murdering through abortion and all that stuff.
These are things that are beyond me, but some of it is clear from the Bible that sometimes
that it is for the protection of those children, you know, because the one thing that we can
know for sure is if a baby never sees the light of day, you know what they're seeing?
The light of Christ, which is way better than the light of day.
Let me just tell you that.
The Bible says that God doesn't even know darkness.
You know, when we go to heaven, there's not going to be a need for the sun,
S-U-N, because we all have the need for who?
The S-O-N. Jesus Christ.
You know, when we go to heaven, it's going to be like Alaska,
where the sun never goes down, right?
Except it's not going to be cold or frigid, it's just going to be great all the time.
There's never going to be any darkness because in him is no darkness at all
So there are things that that God does that we just we don't understand enough
And by the way the situation that I'm that I'm describing here that triggered this
I don't know that that's necessarily case. I just I just think sometimes it's part of life
Right. I don't know all the answers by the way. I'm really just kind of being a little bit
I guess you would say more frank or vulnerable in the sense that I'm not trying to give you like a definitive other than all babies go to heaven
Why certain things happen the way they do, you know, the Bible can give us some direction on some things
But not everything in the Bible is clear to us because we just don't have that knowledge
That's why God said man now they have the knowledge of good and evil. Let's kick them out of the garden before they eat the tree of life
Because you know what they can't handle the truth. Remember that that movie, you know
Jack Nicholas is known for that famous line. You can't handle the truth. We just can't handle the truth all the time
It's the fact
Even as Christians sometimes we get a little bit
You know, that's why Christianity is the way it is right because the Bible says hey
You have to do certain things like hey the sodomites are bad people and Christians are like no, no
I don't want to offend them
Because it's too much to handle sometimes or hey you shouldn't you people say oh you should speak about false religions
And the Bible is like, you know, you need to call them out. You need to mark them
And you need to do these things or that things or, you know, the world's just constantly trying to like make things comfortable for themselves.
Because the truth is, the knowledge of good and evil is uncomfortable.
Right? Speaking on things that are life and death are uncomfortable sometimes.
But it's necessary. But anyways...
So baby's dying as a form of protection, but just as a recap, you know the question is always this question is going to continue to be
Asked which is weird again. I'm just going to reemphasize that it shouldn't even be asked because the Bible is pretty clear on that
Right a baby has no knowledge or children have no knowledge of good and evil
And not every child is
I mean not everyone is a child of God, but babies are
It's evident
I mean, that's why everybody loves babies.
Even evil people love babies, right?
I mean, even like the mafia and narco-trafikantes, I mean, most of them, unless they get really
bad, what do they have a rule?
Women and children, not involved, especially the babies.
Don't do that to the babies, right?
But you're there in 2 Samuel, but in Matthew 26, 24, the Bible says, the son of man Goeth,
It had been good for that man if it had not if he had not been born. This is Jesus speaking of who Judas look
It would actually been better for Judas did not have been born
The Bible says because if he would not have been born like if he would have just died in the womb
What but Judas grew to be a man grew to hate Jesus Christ so much so that he sold him out for 30 pieces of silver
And then hung himself only to be in hell for the last 2000 and some odd years
You know, it's it's it's better sometimes that people will not be born
You say that's kind of a bold statement. I'm just telling you what the Bible says
I don't I'm not telling you who who would have been better for to be born or not
I believe that if you're here, there's a there's a good chance that you need to just get saved
And we need to make you a better Christian. That's that's my thought on it, right?
I mean, honestly, I
People people say oh, we need to pray for our leadership. My prayer for the leadership is that they would come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ
Instead of like saying the stupid things that they say and doing the spectacles that they're doing
I mean, we're like a soap like a soap
Sorry, it's cuz I'm thinking novellas in Spanish, but what is it a soap drama or soap soap opera?
Yeah, like, you know all of a sudden, you know yesterday or the day before
Trump and and and the other guy the the the cross dresser from Ukraine
Got up there and they got in a little match in front of everybody
like
Whatever
But the reason that I want him to come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ is I don't get up and do stupid thing
I literally heard it this morning. There's a I guess because the Pope is dying
Which by the way the Pope should died a long time ago and just go to hell like that's my thought on the whole thing
Right, but JD. I didn't know JD mass was a Catholic and he gets up there and he's like, oh well my you know
I just want you to know that I believe that the current Pope has the best interest of Christianity in mind
You know, and the Holy Father where we're gonna pray for him that he come
You know what I pray the JD masses come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ
If he's here and God has a purpose for you. I hope he fulfills his godly purpose
Unfortunately, some people reject Christ and they're probably never gonna fulfill it, right?
But let's go to second Samuel. This is the most famous. That's why I want to close it out
This is the most famous set of scripture that people take you to at least Baptist will take you to when
Someone asked do babies go to heaven and it's super clear
There's nothing unclear about this scripture right here in 2nd Samuel 12 in verse 13
So what happened David committed a grievous sin?
He killed Bathsheba's husband. He committed adultery like I mean this is like I mean you talk about drama
This is bad
Right like he conspires and she ends up getting pregnant
That's and then they have the child and David sent him to Nathan.
So Nathan comes to him to call him out and he gives him this parable and he's like, who's
this guy who stole all the sheep?
We need to kill him.
And Nathan's like, that person is you.
And I love David respond here.
He says, and David sent it to Nathan.
I have sinned against the Lord.
And Nathan said unto David, the Lord has also put away thy sin thou shall not die.
By this deed thou has given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the child
That is born unto the show surely die
So the Lord gives us some indication of why the child is dying because David has given the occasion to the enemies
To blaspheme the Lord
So you know what the Lord's just like it. I'm not gonna leave this child here as a reminder to the people of why they need a blaspheme the Lord
So in this one he gives is that's what I'm saying. Sometimes the Bible gives a super clear indication. Sometimes it does it
It says and Nathan departed unto his house and the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bear unto David
And it was very sick and David therefore be sought
God for the child and see David didn't know it was gonna happen
In the sense that David is just trusting the Lord
Even though the Lord gave him a clear indication, you know what David said was like if there's hope I'm gonna pray for it
And we need to have that attitude in life anyways, because even if it's clear, we just
still need to pray our way out of things, right?
And accept the consequences of God, his chastisement, the things of life, but we need to pray ourselves
out of it anyways.
Like David could have just had the attitude, Oh, well, my baby's going to die.
I'm just going to live on, go on living life.
No, David prayed that the child be saved, even though he directly heard from God that
the child was going to die.
That's why he's the man after God's own heart, right?
He says David therefore we sought God for the child and David fasted and went in and lay all night
Upon the earth and the elders of this house arose and went to him to raise him up from the earth
But he would not neither did he bread with them and they came to pass on the seventh day that the child died
And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead for they said behold while the child was yet alive
We spake unto him and he would not harken unto our voice
How will the how will he then vex himself if we tell him that the child is dead?
In other words, we're afraid that he's gonna go into a deeper hole. We're gonna get more depressed. It's gonna get worse
But when David saw that the servants whispered David perceived that the child was dead
Therefore David said unto this the sir in his servants is the child dead and they said he is dead
then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his apparel and came
into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he came in his own house and when he had required,
they said bread before him and he did eat. Then his servants, his servants unto him
Then said his servants unto him what thing is it is this that thou has done thou did his fast and weep for the child
Well, I was yet alive when it was alive
But when the child was dead thou did did his rise and he bred and he said while the child was yet alive
I fasted and wept for I said who can tell
Whether God will be gracious to me that the child may live. I mean I wish we could just there's so much in here
It's just so great right who can tell?
Like that's how strong David's faith was. He's like even though the Lord has told me that he's gonna take the child
I also know that the Lord is gracious
Man, that is faith, right? I mean that he should give you chills like this is one of the greatest sets of scripture right here
And the other thing we need to learn also is that when we're facing eminent death
It's not bad tomorrow, but when should we mourn the people or when should we pray for them while they're still yet here?
Once the child moved on what did David do? He just got back to work
You know when when when Saul was removed from being anointed Samuel mourn for him and God's like how long will thou mourn for Saul?
Let's get back to work. Right if people are gonna lose like I'm not I hope I'm not coming off like a jerk
But if you lose a child you need to take the time to mourn the child
You need to take the time to be with your family, but it needs to be quick
You need to get back to the service of the Lord because life is short
Right. I mean a couple back in like 2009
I have a my dad has a doctor friend and we grew up as children. We knew their their their kids and
One of the kids that I grew up with he's a little bit younger than I was he passed away
He crashed and he passed away. He was only like 23. I was 29. So he's like six years younger than me
And, you know, I mean, obviously nobody wants to lose a child.
I know, you know, pastors talked about it publicly, so I'm not calling him out.
He's lost children.
And I love always looking, you know, this is why you want to look to good leadership,
the contrast.
To this day, this is 2009, so what's that?
At least 15 years, am I doing the math wrong, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 16 years, sorry.
16 years, and if you were to go to their house today, they still have a shrine to the child.
Like, they've never gotten over the fact that he's gone.
Nobody ever gets over a death, but you've got to move on and live life, right?
And that's what I love here.
But the only way you do that is when you have knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ,
because that's the thing that David stood out, right?
When you get here to verse 23 says,
Like, what's the point of doing all this fasting and mourning and everything like that?
He says, can I bring him back?
I love David's dad.
He's like, I'm not God.
I can't bring him back.
But I love these.
This is the verse that people love.
I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
And you know what?
Those are some of the most comforting words because people lose children not only in the
womb, but in life.
They're not going to come back to you, but you will go to them, right?
I mean, that's the hope that lives in us, right?
The hope that lives in us is that Jesus Christ died for our sins, and he has a plan that's
much bigger than anything we could ever imagine.
So to answer the question, and like I said, it's a basic doctrine, but the further we
get into life.
Like it's 2025. I think that some of this stuff actually needs to be preached because you run into the streets and people don't even know
The the basic tenets of the Bible, right?
The question has been asked and will continue to be asked for our entire lives a
Baby they have no knowledge of good and evil
Not everyone is a child of God, but you know what babies are
And babies that die sometimes, sometimes, and I say sometimes because I don't have all
the answers, it is a form of protection.
But to answer the question that I want to just get that out, because it happened, I
felt like this is a good time to preach it, is all babies do go to heaven, right?
But we still shouldn't promote the evilness of the world, right?
Like I'm not saying that just because all babies go to heaven and we should have Planned
Parenthood.
It's God's plan to be fruitful and multiply. We should want to see people have children. We should want to bring them to light
So there's a difference between mourning a child that
Life does happen and God has set those things up and people miss carriage, right? It just happens
Like I said, I don't understand everything God and maybe God's protecting that. Maybe it was just a lesson
Maybe it's just part of life. Maybe he just has a statistical method of doing these things. I don't know
But that doesn't mean that we need to play God and go around destroying children either because the Bible doesn't want us to preemptively
Going back to the point I was making, you know, why do people kill babies because they're premeditating
Their decision-making. They're like, I want to kill this baby so I can live this comfortable life
So that's how you know all babies go to heaven because no babies like yeah, no, I'm gonna just commit suicide in the womb
as a matter of fact
babies that die in the womb
Have they either get killed because of the world we live in or they die of natural things
It's not because they are like they're like, oh, I'm gonna take this umbilical cord and choke myself
Right. I was born with like a double, you know, what do they say that like, you know, your umbilical cord
I guarantee you first of all, I don't think I did it
I'm too young to remember. I was too young to remember a second of all. I know I didn't do it, right?
It's just part of life like when I was born. That's just that happens
I don't know why it happens or anything like that. I guarantee you I didn't do it. I know I did
But if I could go back
Guys, my witness, I did not wrap that umbilical cord around my neck.
Well, that's closer than a word of prayer.
I hope this was a helpful sermon.
Like I said, it's not super deep or anything like that, but it is a comforting sermon, you know,
and the reason we believe these things is because we believe the Bible.
I mean, I could have gone as far as the East is from the West.
I mean, there's just so much that we could have touched on.
Like I said, it's much deeper than that, but I just wanted to cover it,
move on and go on with life.
I didn't want to make a two, three-part series on it.
because you can drag it out, but you can also just make it really boring. But the Bible is very,
very clear on this subject. If you don't get it, then you're not reading your Bible, right?
Let's close it in order of prayer. Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today.
Thank you for your blessings, Lord. Thank you for the comforting fact that
all babies go to heaven, Lord. Because in this wicked and perverse world,
there's so much murder of the innocent. Sometimes we feel like there's no vindication.
Like the enemies winning at all costs, everywhere we turn, it looks like we're just up against
a wall of losing.
But when we open up the book, we see that there's victory everywhere.
And there's things that we're not even witnessing that you're doing.
There's things that are beyond our understanding of good and evil, of this knowledge that we
now carry with us until the day that we die.
completely submitting 1,100% of the time to you, Lord,
and not activating the flesh.
So Lord, thank you that we can comfort others
with your script, with your word,
that we can go to scriptures like, you know,
when David lost his child,
but we can also go to other scriptures
and just continually drive this point home.
Lord, I just pray that you be with all those here today.
If anybody's ever lost a child,
We know that they're going to mourn them for the rest of their lives, but give them comfort today
That these are things that sometimes are beyond our understanding
But that they will one day meet them and it's pretty cool to know that when you get to heaven somehow
You know the way you've established it you'll recognize those individuals
And so Lord, I just pray that as those who look forward to that day of meeting with those
loved ones that we've lost and the ones we've met and the ones we haven't, that we would
just continue to refocus, that we would clean up, that we would get ready, that we would
eat and be fed with the Word of God so we could go out there and lead others to Christ.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.