Welcome back to the show.

I'm Roberto Torres-Cedillo, and I'm here

with Gordon for another round of Q&A.

Gordon, according to the Mayo Clinic,

about 10% to 20% of knownpregnancies end in miscarriage,

and this causes a lot ofheartache for women and families.

So, what happens to babieswho die in the womb?

What does the Bible say about that?

- Well, this is a personal story for me.

I have an elder brotherwho didn't make it.

He had gone far enough that my father

had actually picked out a name for him,

so James Gordon Roberts, and miscarried.

And I hope one day that I'm gonna be able

to see him in heaven, becauseif he had come full term,

I wouldn't have been born.

So miscarriage is very close to me,

and this is something that, I mean,

my parents didn't tellme when I was young,

but I think by age 10, they let me know.

And it was in the context of,"God specifically chose you,"

which, for a good chunk of my life,

I didn't (laughs) receive.

But it's one of thosegreat mysteries, why?

So from a theological standpoint,

God says that He knows us in the womb.

The scripture is quite clear on that.

So the fact that He knows us means

that there's a consciousness there,

there's a soul, there's an eternity there.

God can't know the inanimate.

He knows about it, but that knowledge,

that verb, means thatthere's a two-way street.

There's something happeningthere that is eternal.

The Bible also says that His angels,

the angels for the young ones,

are constantly beforeHim in the throne room.

So that means they're communicating

about every detail in your life

to the King of Kings,to the Creator of All.

So, the good news is thatif you die in the womb,

you've never had a chance to sin,

(laughs) so you will bewith God for all eternity,

which is a really wonderful thing.

- Yeah, yeah.

Now, for the parents and the people

that are going through that, of course,

your parents must have gone through grief

and the stages of that process.

How was that? How did Godhelp them through that?

- Well, I like to joke with my parents

that I'm their favorite.

(Roberto and Gordon chuckle)

Having another child that quickly

definitely took the sting,but does it ever go away?

And the answer is no.

You're always going to remember.

But what else comes alongwhere you see that God

is working all things together for good,

that His plans and purposes,

even though we may not understand them,

you know, the Old Testament verse

Deuteronomy 29:29, "Thesecret things belong to God,

but what He has revealed belongs to us

and our children forever."

So what has He revealedand what can we find

from His revelation thatwill bring encouragement?

And I think the number one thing

is the secure knowledge thatHe knows them in the womb,

so from an eternal perspective,it's gonna work out.

In the here and now, we've gotsome grief to walk through,

particularly for coupleswhere infertility,

there isn't a secondchild that comes along.

The power to give lifeis such a great power,

and God wants to give that.

He gave it to Sarah.He gave it to Rebecca.

He wants to givefertility to His children.