While our culture often places value on people based on their usefulness to us,

scripture teaches that we are valuable because each of us is made in God's image.

As Christians, this means that we should view children and

those with special needs differently than the world. However, because scripture

also teaches that we are born in sin and stand guilty before God.

Many Christians are still left wondering what happens after death to infants,

young children, and those with special needs.

Do they go to heaven?

Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast,

the latest sermons from teacher, author, and pastor

David Platt delivered weekly.

And as always, you can find thousands of more free gospel-centered resources at our website radical dot net and in today's

message from colossians chapter one David Platt points us to the character of

God and the truths of scripture in order to find hope for these difficult questions.

We can trust in the one who always does what is good and just.

So here's David with a sermon titled Jesus, Children, and Special Needs from

Colossians chapter one.

Well if you have a Bible and I hope you are somebody around you does

you can look on with or you can pull one out from in between the seats.

I invite you to open with me to Colosians Chapter 1, not Philippians Chapter 4.

So if you look on the back of the bulletin you may have received when you came in you'll see Philippians 4 and a page full of notes on Jesus and anxiety

That was the plan for our time together today until a matter of hours ago when we came to

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