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Explore the concept of childlike humility in the teachings of Jesus and Paul. Discover how embracing humility leads to true greatness in the Kingdom of God.
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v3 “unless you turn & become like children you won’t even get in.”
1 Cor 13:11 “When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.” Is Paul contradicting Jesus?
Mark 9:35 “…If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
Kingdom Greatness is measured in: 1. Repentance - a kind of Humility 2. Service - a kind of Humility
Phil 2:3 “3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.”
CS Lewis “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
“I wish schools had all the funding they needed and the military had to have a cake sale for a new range of torpedoes.”
Treat Children with care! • Don’t corrupt the conscience of a child! • Don’t despise childhood! • They have Assigned Angels! • If you want to impress God… treat children well!
v7 “Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!”
Rom. 8:19-21 “19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration [vanity, futility, false religion], not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.”
Adam was free before the fall, but not as gloriously free as he is after The Resurrection!
“Free choice sets us on an unavoidable collision course in one direction or the other. We either draw closer to his mercy or to his wrath; we get to choose.”
1 Corinthians 2:9 “But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him””
v2 “2 And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them.”
GK Chesterton “Fairy tales say that apples are golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.”
