Title: Jesus and Children (2014. 5. 4)
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Date: 2014. 5. 4
Word: Matthew 19:13-15
Title: Jesus and Children
1. The Childhood of Jesus
When we look at our children, we think of ourselves as we were decades ago.
In that sense, children are our mirrors. We look for our past in the appearance of those children.
2. Ordained children
People in Jesus' day often took their little children to the rabbis and elders so that they could be blessed through the customary method of laying their hands on them.
However, this ordination was originally a symbolic act and was mainly performed when the head of a family bestowed privileges and blessings on his descendants when a child was born, when he left the road, or when death was imminent. It was.
It is a blessing for parents to have their children receive the laying on of hands by the elders in the church.
3. Disciples scolding children
In fact, it is true that children are annoying. However, if you neglect it because it is annoying, there is no promise for the future.
Because children are a treasure, a hope, and a future for the family, society and the country.
The disciples who rebuked those who brought children did not have pure heavenly hearts, but complex thoughts.
The disciples must have thought, first of all, that adults should be healed and blessed by Jesus.
For the disciples, the top priority was adults (males), followed by children. That's the old custom.
The idea that Jesus should be more known and famous by adults!!!!
By no means are children of the belief that children are treasures, not troublesome beings.
thinking.
◆ There are people who say this is the three conditions for a good parent.
① Parents who plant Christ
② Be absolutely fair and clear (don't show favoritism)
③ Be friends (If you are strict without intimacy, you will actually hurt your character)
4. The kingdom of heaven belongs to such
Children are like heaven. Because the kingdom of heaven belongs to those who are like little children. Rather than a literal meaning, the character of a child is the character of a citizen of God.
In other words, a person who completely trusts in God just as a nursing baby depends on its mother's arms,
Those who have a pure and honest heart like a child's heart are worthy of the kingdom of God. Anyone who wants to enter the kingdom Jesus introduces must be pure and innocent like a child in heart and faith, and must be able to obey the word of the Lord.
We pray that our little children will grow up well in the Garden of Faith, and that the hope of the country will overflow because of these children, and that our families will be filled with the future.