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Young Hearts and
Special Needs
I once heard a preacher say
that because of I Peter 3:20
all the babies in Noah's flood went to Hell: What does the Bible say
about this? The most common answer
given by Bible literalists is the story of David’s baby that died. II Sam. 12:15-23 – David
had sinned with Bathsheba, and Nathan the prophet is confronting the king
for his adultery and the murder which followed.
The wages of sin is death / The soul that sinneth, it shall die God struck the baby w/ an
illness where we pick up our passage [read]. This is a special
illustration that little ones are safe until they are old enough to be
saved. And it’s special to
people like my wife and I who have lost a little one. But the Bible has much more
to say on this subject than this classic answer.
“Impute” = to assign,
place, pin on, put on the account of.
BABIES ARE NOT
ACCOUNTABLE BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW. II Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness;
but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but
that all should come to repentance. Thank God for the truth of
imputation. For God imputes
righteousness to us at salvation.
Then thru a lifelong sanctification process He imparts more
righteousness. But what He
imputed was already enough for heaven! Thank God He doesn’t impute
sin upon these little ones until they have knowledge of good and evil. James 4:17
Therefore to him
that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
The same goes for a baby
that dies in infancy or any boy or girl that died before they come to place
in their life that they had knowledge between good and evil. The Lord
doesn't charge sin to those of us who are saved, do you think He'd charge it
to a baby? We need only to keep our
kids in church, and living it at home, and they will be privileged to come
to that knowledge at a good age for them.
What age will that be?
Different for each one.
Having them under the gospel and teaching them right at home can speed
things up...not that we should try to push it too quickly.
Truth is, they also have to come to the knowledge of evil and sin,
not just the knowledge of the truth.
And they will naturally come to understand right and wrong whether
they are in church or not. Every
day millions of children reach the 'age of accountability' and most of them
don't know how to be saved. We
must reach them! And for those who ask, what
if God takes them just after they come to that knowledge?
If He did that it wouldn't be fair and right and the verse says:
[Some material
gleaned from Pastor Tommy H. Heffner Sr.]
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