Childlike Faith (Matthew #94)

Children are not entangled with the world

  • Deuteronomy 1:37-39 children who didn’t know good and evil are able to enter the inheritance.
  • Isaiah 28:7-9 They haven’t grown up on the milk of the word, they’ve grown up looking through a bottle. The priests are all drunks. They don’t desire the sincere milk of the word, instead they’re hungover, laying around in their own vomit, and there is nothing the LORD can teach them. The world has ensnared them.

God’s children are born by the word of God

  • 1 Peter 1:22-23 A soul becomes a child of God by making God His Father by accepting instruction from the Spirit of God.
  • Look at John 3:1-6

God’s children are led by the Spirit of God

  • John 10:4-5, 27
  • Romans 8:14 (compare with Romans 7:7-8 to see that Christianity cannot be a series of DO NOTs)

Devil’s children are led by their flesh

  • John 8:41-47 children led by their Father.

God’s children need their Father

  • Psalm 8:3 …out of the mouth of babes…
  • Jesus Christ quotes this in Matthew 21:15-16 to the religious leaders when he entered Jerusalem as the King.
  • 1 Corinthians 1:27-29…that no flesh should glory…