Will My Child Be in Heaven? [Brochure]

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One of the greatest sorrows entering a home is the death of a child. Such an experience often causes the parents to ask solemn questions: "Is my child in heaven? Will I ever see my child again?"

The Bible leaves no doubt as to where the little ones are after death. King David gives us the most emphatic statement in the Old Testament as to the abode of children after they die. He said, when his own little son died, "I shall go to him but he shall not return to me" (2 Samuel 12:23). Nothing could be more comforting and assuring than these words which through him were inspired by God Himself.

For further teaching on the above questions, we could go to no one better than the Son of God Himself. Hear Him rebuke His own disciples when they would have driven the children away from Him. In Mark 10:14-1,5 He tells them, "Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not; for of such is the Kingdom of God." The Lord Jesus also unfolded His Father's heart when He said, "It is not the will of your Father which is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish (Matthew 18:14).

However, let us follow the words of the Lord Jesus as He enlarges upon the subject in Matthew 18:1-14 and see how heaven is portrayed as peopled with people like little children. In verse 2 our Lord takes up a little child and places him in the midst of His disciples saying, "Except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven."

First our Lord speaks of the humbleness of a little child. The first step in being converted to God is for one to humble one’s self and to take the place of a lost sinner, acknowledging before God to deserve nothing but judgment because of one’s personal sin and then to accept the sinner's Savior, the Lord Jesus, who died for that person upon the Cross.

The Lord Jesus said, "For I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance" (Matthew 9:13). God in His Word has said, "If any say I have sinned, and perverted that which was right … I have found a ransom" (Job 33:24, 27).

The next step in being converted to God is to acknowledge the fact that there is not one thing anybody can do to merit the salvation of God.

"Not of works lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:9). In this way one is like a little child. A little child is the most helpless of anything born. He depends on everything being done for him. This is one of the lessons each one has to learn if he or she is going to be converted and enter into the Kingdom of God. Each must individually take God's free gift of salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ alone. Salvation is the gift of God and cannot be obtained any other way (Romans 4:5).

In Psalm 127:3, we read, "Children are an heritage of the Lord." They belong to God by creation. They belong to God by redemption. It is interesting to notice that when our Lord, in Luke 19, was speaking to Zaccheus about salvation, He said, "The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which is lost." When He speaks of children in Matthew 18:11, He drops the word SEEK and simply says, "For the Son of man is come to SAVE that which is lost."

Children are sinners by nature but, although they do practice sin, God does not charge them with sin until they reach the years of responsibility, when He then holds them accountable for their own decisions. Until that time, the death of Christ and the blood that He shed on the Cross is their salvation. God has not told us in His Word how old a child may be when he or she may reach the age of responsibility, but God is a righteous and truly fair judge (Genesis 18:25).

In conclusion we can see God's requirements for salvation exemplified in a little child—humbleness, helplessness, and innocence.

Friend, don't rely on good works, church membership, tithing, etc., to merit salvation. God says, "Except ye be converted and become as little children." The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:7). If you haven't yet done so already, why not accept Him right now and be made fit now for heaven yourself, and be sure of it?

Dear parents, you may be sure of meeting that young child again in glory only if you have accepted his Savior as yours. The circle will then again be complete. Your tears will be wiped away. Joy will fill your heart in the glory above at being reunited with your little one.

W. G. McCartney (Revised Edition)

Around the throne of God in heaven
Will many children sing;
Children whose sins are all forgiven,
Will heavenly anthems bring,
Singing, "Glory, glory,
Glory be to God on high!"

What brings them to that world above,
That heaven so bright and fair,
Where all is peace, and joy, and love?
How came those children there?
Singing, "Glory, glory,
Glory be to God on high!"

Because the Saviour shed His blood
To wash away their sin;
Now washed in that most precious flood,
Behold them white and clean!
Singing, "Glory, glory,
Glory be to God on high!"