When an infant dies, he or she is elected to eternal salvation and eternal glory.

So dear one, if you have a little one that dies, count not your human loss, count your eternal gain.

Count not that child is having lost, but having you.

Welcome to Grace To You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

A little life is precious.

It's understandable that parents, even non-Christians, would want to believe their baby girl or boy who died went straight to heaven.

But does the Bible back that up?

Does God take all babies to heaven even though they haven't trusted Christ for salvation?

Or does He only take some babies?

If you've lost a child, or if you know someone who has, make sure you stay here as John MacArthur shows you from Scripture.

What happens to babies who die?

That's the study John continues today on Grace To You, and here's John now with the lesson.

This matter of death that exists in the world is obviously a massive force that operates in the realm of the little ones.

And we need to understand what it indicates, what it means.

Life begins at conception, that is clear in Scripture.

This is what the Bible teaches without question.

So any death from the point of conception on is the death of a person, and persons have eternal souls.

Millions, perhaps billions, of such souls have died throughout history.

Millions continue to die today.

In fact, cumulatively in the modern era, billions.

One report I read in a book called Empty Arms says that up to 25% of all human conceptions do not complete the 20th week of pregnancy.

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