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Speaker 1: Thanks for watching and being here and listening and hanging

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Speaker 1: You email me Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. Make

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Speaker 1: Hey Granger, my name is Garrett. I'm currently a junior

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Speaker 1: to do, Garrett, Garret, appreciate the email. Brother, And I

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Speaker 1: Get it, so let me refresh for myself. Started dating

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Speaker 1: First question up on round two is subject line unborn

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Speaker 1: children in Heaven. Granger. Today is the second anniversary of

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Speaker 1: my grandfather dying from COVID. That's not the top of

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Speaker 1: this question. It just made me think about two children

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Speaker 1: that were never born that my wife and I had

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Speaker 1: before the two of us ended up with what hang on,

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Speaker 1: let me read that again. It made me think about

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Speaker 1: two children that were never born that my wife and

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Speaker 1: I had before the two we did end up with.

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Speaker 1: Got it. They were both lost early after conception. I'm

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Speaker 1: a Catholic, so life in those doctrines says that life

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Speaker 1: starts at conception, and baptism serves to take away original sin.

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Speaker 1: I'm one year deep into audio reading the Bible, the

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Speaker 1: first time I've ever done so, completely due to Chad

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Speaker 1: and you, I haven't had the answer in there yet

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Speaker 1: starting into year two of that. Is it possible that

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Speaker 1: these children made it into heaven based on the Bible?

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Speaker 1: Could they have surrendered Jesus? I think you meant could

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Speaker 1: they have surrendered to Jesus after only a week in

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Speaker 1: the womb? Thanks Kevin from Valley Park, Missouri. Deep question.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Kevin, Thanks for asking. I'm sorry for losing

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Speaker 1: your grandfather and your two miscarriages. Let me let me

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Speaker 1: dissect this thing here. What you're saying is you're saying

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Speaker 1: audio and you haven't heard the answer in there yet.

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Speaker 1: You're referring to the answer of does life start at conception?

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Speaker 1: And baptism serves to take away original sin? This is

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Speaker 1: a Catholic doctrine. You're looking in the Bible to see

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Speaker 1: if you can confirm that. I believe that's your question.

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Speaker 1: I believe that's what you're laying out here and what

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Speaker 1: you're doing too without saying it. You are just kind

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Speaker 1: of drying it. You're walking through the unknowns of grief

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Speaker 1: and loss, and you're you're kind of as you're walking through,

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Speaker 1: you're thinking, well, did these babies end up in heaven?

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Speaker 1: Maybe my grandfather is he in heaven? Am I going

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Speaker 1: to heaven? And so you're you go okay, And I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna search through the doctrines in my mind of the

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Speaker 1: Catholic Church and then you read and you okay, I

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Speaker 1: think that's what this doctrine teaches, and then you go.

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Speaker 1: But Granger says that we should trust the Bible alone

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Speaker 1: for anything according to God's words. So I'm gonna read

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Speaker 1: the Bible, and I'm not really into reading it, so

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna listen to it and I'm gonna make my

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Speaker 1: way through it, and then I haven't found it yet.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna write this question to Granger and see

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Speaker 1: if I can just get it straight out of his mouth.

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Speaker 1: And what this is is a process of the grief itself.

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Speaker 1: So it's good. It's great. I love that you're asking questions.

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Speaker 1: I love that you're wrestling with this like burning when

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Speaker 1: he's on here, He's always says we need to wrestle.

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Speaker 1: That's what the word Israel means, to wrestle with God. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's an ancient idea that we need to wrestle with

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Speaker 1: some of these ideas. Now, I believe that we find

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Speaker 1: our answers in the Word of God revealed in the Bible.

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Speaker 1: So I think you're doing a great thing. I think

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Speaker 1: you're seeking and I think you will find. Now let's

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Speaker 1: dive into the question does life begin at conception? According

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Speaker 1: to the Bible? And we get a lot of our

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Speaker 1: ideas about conception through the Psalms. So I would I

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Speaker 1: the Psalms. Walk through and see what David says about

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Speaker 1: being knitted in the womb, and you will see You'll

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Speaker 1: see other instances. You know what's you know what's amazing

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Speaker 1: Right now is twenty twenty three, And you could say

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Speaker 1: that you could go to Google. I do this all

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Speaker 1: the time. In the old days, they had what's called

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Speaker 1: a concord and it was like in the back of

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Speaker 1: comes up in the Bible itself. So you want to

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Speaker 1: look up say holy. I want to look up the

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Speaker 1: word holy, Where does that occur in the Bible? And

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Speaker 1: the concordance will tell you where it happens. Well, now

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Speaker 1: I wonder where where where it talks about an embryo

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Speaker 1: or a baby in the womb in the Bible. Wonder

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Speaker 1: where it talks about baby in the womb. So go

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Speaker 1: to Google and you type in baby in the womb scripture.

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Speaker 1: That's what I would type if I was just thinking

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Speaker 1: about this, and it's going to come up, and there's

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Speaker 1: going to be several websites. I think bible hub dot

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Speaker 1: can't remember all of them, but usually the ones at

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Speaker 1: it'll it's it's not rocket science. It's just going to

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Speaker 1: tell you. It's not giving you opinion. It's just telling

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Speaker 1: you here's where these this subject is. And here's the

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Speaker 1: top twenty places in the Bible where it talks about

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Speaker 1: the baby in a womb. Right, and then you just

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Speaker 1: go click there and see what it says for yourself.

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Speaker 1: It's right there. You don't need an opinion years ago.

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Speaker 1: Here it is. And back to my point, you're going

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Speaker 1: to find a lot of these these ideas of the

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Speaker 1: womb are really solidified in the Psalms one hundred and twenty,

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Speaker 1: So I can't remember specifically off the top of my head.

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Speaker 1: But here's here is the whole point of what I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to say. Does life start at concept? At conception?

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Speaker 1: We have nothing in the Bible that would tell us

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Speaker 1: otherwise than that. We know that that babies are predestined,

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Speaker 1: that babies are known before the womb, They're known before

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Speaker 1: they were We know that. So does does life start

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Speaker 1: at the conception? Right? I'm talking sperm and egg. The

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Speaker 1: all we know is that the Bible says that God

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Speaker 1: knew us before that, so the spark the soul enter

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Speaker 1: in that exact moment. We have no evidence other than

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Speaker 1: to think that, right, nothing, and so it would be

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Speaker 1: very dangerous to think other than that if God knew

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Speaker 1: us before that, Right, does that make sense? Okay? Like

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Speaker 1: the word conception does not exist in the Bible because

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Speaker 1: that's just a modern word. That's something we like to

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Speaker 1: throw it around, conception. But the Bible is going to

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Speaker 1: tell us that God knew us before that. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: long way to say, yes, yes, that we have every

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Speaker 1: reason to think. And the reason even I'm even hesitating

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Speaker 1: is because we could say, you could make an argument

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Speaker 1: that a miscarriage didn't have a soul yet. But that

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Speaker 1: is not biblical. You could make you could possibly make

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Speaker 1: so it doesn't say that it is or it isn't.

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Speaker 1: But we have every piece of evidence to think that

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Speaker 1: We better be very careful if we start to think

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Speaker 1: that a soul could enter a embryo, that a soul

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Speaker 1: can enter the embryo after a certain time after conception.

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Speaker 1: Could God do that? God could do anything? Could God

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Speaker 1: make this vessel this tint and then later a week

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Speaker 1: later throw the spark in it, or a monthly throw

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Speaker 1: a spark in it. It's dangerous to say that, but

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Speaker 1: could he? Yes? But I ain't betting on that. I'm

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Speaker 1: not taking that to the bank. I'm not making I'm understanding.

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Speaker 1: I'm not standing in court making an argument for that.

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Speaker 1: Is this any of this making sense? The second thing

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Speaker 1: and tell you why I even said that. Okay, it

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Speaker 1: would it wouldn't be fair if I didn't tell you

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Speaker 1: the real reason why I did all that gibberish. When

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Speaker 1: that he had no brain activity, and Amber was worried

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Speaker 1: about letting go of him. I lifted up his eyelids

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Speaker 1: and I saw no soul. So I'll never forget that.

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Speaker 1: I looked in his eyes and it was just nothingness.

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Speaker 1: was no soul in that functioning body. He had the

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Speaker 1: there in that vessel. So that got me thinking. I

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Speaker 1: told Amber, I said, he's not their babe. God has

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Speaker 1: taken him from this tent. Although it's functioning although his

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Speaker 1: heart is beating. God has taken him. He is no

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Speaker 1: me thinking. God decides when the soul goes in. God

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Speaker 1: decides when the soul goes out. So if a baby

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Speaker 1: the evidence of the Bible leads to. If it happens

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Speaker 1: a little bit later, it's possible because I know it death.

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Speaker 1: He could pull it out before the tenth's done, before

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Speaker 1: that vessel is done breathing and heart beating, God could

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Speaker 1: pull it out. I saw that. Now I'll back up

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Speaker 1: and say that's why I say it's dangerous to think

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Speaker 1: Because we don't know when that is, we have to

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Speaker 1: always assume it happens right at the moment of conception

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Speaker 1: because we can't be wrong about that, so we always

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Speaker 1: have to assume. Okay, that was a long, long explanation.

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Speaker 1: second part's important to you. Say, from the Catholic perspective,

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Speaker 1: baptism serves to take away original sin. That's an incorrect doctrine.

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Speaker 1: And I would encourage you, I could take another twenty

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Speaker 1: minutes and go into that. I would encourage you to

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Speaker 1: really dive into that yourself. Okay, because it's Jesus, the

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Speaker 1: once and for all sacrifice that he made on the cross.

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Speaker 1: That is what credits us righteousness. It doesn't take away

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Speaker 1: our sin, it blots it out. It makes us white

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Speaker 1: as snow. God looks upon his son in that moment

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Speaker 1: and sees the perfection of Jesus from the once and

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Speaker 1: for all sacrifice. When we trust in him. That's what

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Speaker 1: happened on the cross. It's done. Baptism. Personal baptism is

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Speaker 1: an outward expression of that. It's very important. It's probably

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Speaker 1: the number one most important work that you can do

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Speaker 1: after salvation. The number one thing you could do as

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Speaker 1: a result of your gratitude of your salvation is get

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Speaker 1: baptized in front of everyone and give your testimony because

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Speaker 1: of it. But it does not change, it does not

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Speaker 1: remove the original sin from you. That atonement happens on

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Speaker 1: the cross, and it is a once and for all sacrifice.

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Speaker 1: Catholics will believe that every time you take communion you

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Speaker 1: are once again sacrificing the lamb again, and that is

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Speaker 1: wrong doctrine. It's a once and for all sacrifice. And

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Speaker 1: Jesus said Teedlesti, it is finished, It's done, It's paid

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Speaker 1: in full. Okay. Last thing I want to get into

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Speaker 1: is your last question. Is it possible that these children

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Speaker 1: made it into heaven based on the Bible? Your question

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Speaker 1: is the last question is what a miscarried baby, or

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Speaker 1: a baby in general before the age of reckoning surrender

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Speaker 1: to Jesus. Because you're going, okay, in order to get

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Speaker 1: to heaven, you got a surrender to Jesus. Is that

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Speaker 1: possible that a baby could do that? Well, I would

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Speaker 1: go this is this is like this, this question just

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Speaker 1: puts me out, just hangs me out there, doesn't it right?

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Speaker 1: This just puts me as a big target. Every part

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Speaker 1: of your question puts me at a target. And I

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Speaker 1: will gladly embrace it based on the Bible, not in

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Speaker 1: my own opinion. This is a this this could really

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Speaker 1: rile some people up. When I'm about to say Jesus

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Speaker 1: says that no one will enter the kingdom unless they

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Speaker 1: are born again. Okay, so I understand that the surrender

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Speaker 1: to Jesus, professing with your mouth, that needs to happen

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Speaker 1: with an adult, someone that understands that. I get it.

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Speaker 1: I get it. That's the result. But see once again,

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Speaker 1: that's the result of the transformation of the rebirth. The

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Speaker 1: professing with your mouth is surrendering to Jesus. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: come because of God's work. God does it. God does

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Speaker 1: that first as a response of us being reborn, and

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Speaker 1: God injures Us, and God says, God says, you are mine,

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Speaker 1: you were chosen, you were you are my adopted son.

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Speaker 1: You have inherited the kingdom. As a response to that,

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Speaker 1: we say, I surrender my life to Jesus, I profess

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Speaker 1: with my mouth. I put my trust in you, I repent,

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Speaker 1: I turn away from my sins. Right, that's the response.

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Speaker 1: But what happens is the very beginning boom. God comes

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Speaker 1: in and God makes it happen. Jesus said, just like

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Speaker 1: the wind, you don't know where it's coming from, you

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Speaker 1: don't know where it's going. This is all in John three,

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Speaker 1: when Jesus is talking to Nicodemus, right, and so no

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Speaker 1: one enters the kingdom unless they're born again. Just take that,

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Speaker 1: Just use that. Don't think about the response. Don't think

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Speaker 1: about the baptism, don't think about the surrender, don't think

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Speaker 1: about the professing and the faith. Don't think about repentance.

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Speaker 1: That that happens as a result of the work of God.

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Speaker 1: First in the rebirth. So can a baby be reborn? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Can a baby in the womb, a miscarried baby be reborn? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Can an old man on his deathbed with dying of

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Speaker 1: cancer be reborn? Absolutely? Can anyone be reborn? Absolutely? It's

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Speaker 1: up to God, not us. So the answer to your

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Speaker 1: question is it possible that these children made it into

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Speaker 1: Heaven based on the Bible? Absolutely? Now your last question

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Speaker 1: is could they have surrendered to Jesus in only a

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Speaker 1: few weeks in the womb. That's kind of like that's

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Speaker 1: where it gets blurry. I don't know, it doesn't make

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Speaker 1: any sense, like baby can't think, but God could choose.

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Speaker 1: God can go your mine, you are mine. That's what

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Speaker 1: he says in an instant, that baby is reborn. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is when people get mad at me because it's

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Speaker 1: not up to me. God could also say he's not mine.

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Speaker 1: Don't know, but I think you could pray about this.

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Speaker 1: I think you'd say, God, I think about these babies

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Speaker 1: that were unborn. Save those babies, Take those babies, choose

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Speaker 1: those babies, adopt those babies, Bring those babies into your kingdom.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a good prayer from a good dad.

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Speaker 1: I do. This is what's crazy. Let me think about

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Speaker 1: something crazy here with you. I think about this all

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Speaker 1: the time and I talk talk about it with Amber.

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Speaker 1: If we could pray for the future, which we do. God,

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Speaker 1: keep them safe, God bless them, God bring them, God

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Speaker 1: secure their identity, Draw them to you. That's all futuristic prayers, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: if God exists outside of time, why can't you pray backwards? Also, God,

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Speaker 1: save my grandpa. I hope my grandpa was reborn. God

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Speaker 1: did these two babies that we lost a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago back in Covid. I pray that you. I

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Speaker 1: pray that you took them with you. I pray that

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Speaker 1: they were reborn. I pray for their little souls. I

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Speaker 1: pray that you took them according to your will and

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Speaker 1: whatever you do, God, I trust, but I pray you

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Speaker 1: took them. I think that's a solid prayer. There's nothing

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Speaker 1: in there that says you can't pray backwards or forwards

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Speaker 1: or presently all of it according to his will. Because

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Speaker 1: what if he took those babies to heaven because of

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Speaker 1: the prayer that dad prayed years after? Interesting? Right, that's

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Speaker 1: an interesting thought. Did I just use the whole back

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Speaker 1: half of this on one question I think I might have? Well?

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Speaker 1: I love you guys, and I appreciate to tuning in.

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Speaker 1: And whether you love me or you hate me, I'm

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Speaker 1: just I'm just grateful that you're with me. I'll see

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Speaker 1: you next Monday. Ye. Thanks for joining me on the

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