Only pure true reformed Soteriology can account for the fact that fallen children,

who die with no spiritual merit, can be welcomed by a holy God into eternal glory.

Only reformed theology can allow for that because only the purest theology believes that salvation

is all by grace.

Welcome to Grace To You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. A parent knows that

sinking feeling when you've lost track of your child even for a moment, and there's nothing

better, more comforting than finding out your child is safe. But is that sense of assurance

and comfort available to parents who've lost a child to death? How confident can they be that

their child is safe and secure? Consider that today on Grace To You as John MacArthur begins a

series titled, What Happens to Babies Who Die? Well, John, even though it's been more than a year

since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision, which for nearly 50 years

made abortion a federally protected right. Still, abortion is legal in many states and throughout

the world, and of course, babies also die from many causes other than abortion. Does the Bible

speak to the issue of what happens to the lives of those little ones who are lost?

Well, I think the Bible does say enough for us to know the answer to the question. Although

there's not a Bible verse that says when babies die, they go to heaven. You can deduce that from

what the Scripture does contain. And I remember facing that, I think, for the first time in a public

way, I was actually at a legal near conference. I remember that. And the question was asked,

what happens to babies that die? And they went across the panel and no one had a definitive answer.

And I thought, well, the reform theology might not have a conviction about this if there are that

many possibilities. And so I dove into the subject and out of that came a series of sermons

on what happens to babies who die. And I think this is a great, great series. And there are so

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