Rewind: A Parent’s Hope

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Okay, round two. Name something that's not boring. Laundry? Ooh, a book club.

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ChumbaCasino .com Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we've been dealing with the question that was emailed in to us,

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Do children go to heaven? We have to address this pastorally as well.

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The passage in 2 Samuel chapter 12 and verse 23 that many hold to as a promise, that David is prophesying or claiming clearly that all children go to heaven, we've seen this week, is not valid.

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However, this is an issue that is very, very difficult for many parents.

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I, myself, has lost a child while still in the womb and did not get an opportunity to share in a relationship with that child.

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Does that hurt? Yes. Do I wish to see that child someday in heaven? Yes. But should

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I trust in a false promise? No. The worst thing

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I could do as a counselor is give a false hope and say that the Bible says something it does not say.

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Do I believe that all children go to heaven? I cannot say, because the scripture does not say clearly.

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There are passages that might imply that, and there's passages that would not. We are born with a sin nature, and therefore we would be found guilty before God, even as infants, when we act in selfish ways the first thing out of the womb.

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And yet the fact is that we desire to see our children in heaven who've passed away.

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Can we answer this definitively? No, we cannot, because scripture is not clear. But we still would have hope that we would see our children in heaven one day.

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That's our hope. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.

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Okay, round two. Name something that's not boring. Laundry? Ooh, a book club.

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