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Introduction
Last week we examined
The teaching delt with the subject of Divorce.
The pharisees were trying to get Jesus to say something that would turn the masses against him and possibly have him taken into custody like John the baptist.
Moses acknowledged divorce was taking place in but he never commanded it or permitted it.
He only acknowledged it.
Divorce had become a very common thing for most jews but only men were permitted to divorce their wives.
(two rabbi schools)
Jesus sets the record straight.
Divorce was never and is never God’s intention.
He invokes the very order of the beginning creation, He created them male and female.
They are to become literally one flesh.
They are no longer two but become one.
No man is to separate what God has joined to gether.
He tells them whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and if the wife divorces her husband and starts a new relationship has commited adultery.
(Pointing to the cavalier attitude and reasons for divorce)
Exception clause ( and )
They bring the children to Jesus
Please stand for the reading of God’s word
Jesus is ministering and the people started bring their children to Jesus that he might touch them.
A rabbinic blessing was common in the time of Jesus.
But Children weren’t normally the ones who recieved the blessing.
Normally older children (Issac and his sons, many other examples)
The disciples rebuke the people for bringing the children.
This is a strong rebuke the same word is used when the Lord rebukes demons.
The elitism and exclusion was still infecting the disciples and the Jewish society as a whole (Children)
verse 14 but when Jesus saw it, he was indignant (Speak on the word Indignant)
Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them for such belongs the kingdom of God.
Observations
The word used her for Children could mean infant all the way to about twelve.
The context indicates they were small, and in luke’s account of the event Jesus called the children to come to him.
These were prob between 2-12 year old children.
Jesus shows us again his compassion for people who the society did not have compassion for (Lepers, bleeding, sick, demon possessed) Jesus’s teaching and action were different than that of most society.
He says such belongs the kingdom of God.
This text has been used church history to justify infant baptism.
This would be a practice of Eisagesis which is reading into the text something that isn’t there rather than Exogesis which is expounding the truth from the text.
There is nothing here at all dealing with baptising Children.
The main point of this section is dealing with people becoming Disciples of Christ.
Becoming Children of God. ( believing and receiving to become)
Jesus here is telling us to not hinder children from coming to him.
The kingdom belongs to such as these.
(low of society, the rejected, the despised)
Unless you come like a child you cannot enter
Observations
Jesus is not saying you must be a child to become a christian.
He says whoever does not receive the Kingdom like a child, shall not enter it.
What are some qualities of a child?
dependent
Humble
simple
love
Again Jesus says unless we received the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it
(gift of Christmas morning or birthday)
Illustrations
verse 16 He took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them
(the amazement of what Jesus said and then what he did)
Compassion - the very picture of salvation
Conclusion
So what?
We are never to hinder anyone from coming to christ?
Have you or do you hinder folks from coming to Christ? what hinders you from coming
Jesus loves Children and has compassion for the low of society.
He has compassion for sinners
We are to receive the kingdom of God like a child, (salvation)
how did you receive Christ?
Why in this way.
You said, “All unholy, all unclean, I am nothing else but sin; but if I am saved, it will be grace, grace, grace.”
Why, when you and I stood up, black, and foul, and filthy, and yet dared to believe in Christ, we said, “If we are saved, we shall be prodigies of divine mercy, and we will sing of his love for ever.”
Well but, my dear friends, you must all receive Jesus Christ in that very way
lets pray
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