Secrets from Beyond The Grave

praying in unknown tongue, and Paul wrote, "If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays" (1 Cor. 14:14). Since the Holy Spirit is a spirit, and He enters the human temple and dwells in the holy of holies of the human spirit, then John obviously had a soul and spirit at six months. He could not have been "filled from his mother's womb" if he were only a piece of solid tissue developing into a person. These passages would eliminate the next theory completely. The third theory that is believed by some politicians who accept partial birth abortion is that the soul and spirit are not in the infant until after the umbilical cord is severed and the infant breathes on his or her own outside of the womb. The supposition is that the baby only breathes on its own outside of the womb. This notion gives a person the "freedom" to abort a child up until the time of birth, as the eternal soul and spirit are not in the body before birth. I cannot accept this at all, either from a scriptural or medical point of view. Recently a member of Planned Parenthood resigned after seeing an MRI of an actual abortion being performed. It was noted that the infant actually appeared to be attempting to protect itself from the intrusion of the outside force.5 Little ones can be seen moving, jumping, sucking their thumbs, and doing other human activities in the womb. Under the Law of Moses there were penalties for harming the unborn in the mother's womb: If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. --Exodus 21:22-25 There are ample Scripture references to prove that the eternal soul and spirit are a part of the development of the child in the womb of its mother. Thus, if an infant dies in the womb or shortly after birth, the eternal spirit returns to the Lord, and we will one day join that spirit in heaven! Those Who Have Lost a Young Child Those who have lost an infant or a young child often wonder whether the soul and spirit will remain in an infant or childlike state in heaven, or if the soul-spirit of the infant grows to a certain age appearance and remains at that size for eternity. Scripture is silent on this particular aspect of infants' and children's soul-spirit. I have, however, gleaned from the unique experiences of very godly men and women. In an interview on our Manna-fest telecast in 2006, a ninety-year-old minister of the gospel related a most marvelous story that occurred to his wife. The minister, Theo Carter, and his wife, Thelma, had a nine-year-old son, Charles Edward Carter. It was on Halloween day in 1947 that the lad was playing in the street in front of the home in Kentucky, shooting off fireworks. The lad accidentally ran in front of a truck and was killed. Of course, the sadness was overwhelming, but this strong Christian family believed that their son, who loved Jesus, was in the presence of the Lord. It was forty-three years later in 1990 that Thelma had heart surgery in Louisville, Kentucky. During the surgery, Thelma suddenly passed away. Instead of being taken to the recovery room, she was covered with a sheet and wheeled toward the hospital morgue. Doctors