R1640 The Heart of a Child

There really is a difference between being childlike child it will discover some of God's Encouraging Word self. This is the word Bible-based teaching of Dr. Don Wilton work together be shortened from our website as well EW online.org tewonline.org Molnar's message Dr. Don Wilton got a fantastic passage.

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I want you to open your Bibles to Matthew chapter 18 Matthew chapter 18, you've got to see this for yourself before I read to you what happened. I'd like to just sit tight will for you. Much like you just seen a video I want you to see what happens so you will very quickly understand Jesus was there. So Jesus had this whole crowd of people around him and he was teaching them. He was teaching them about what it means to belong to God to Jesus and he was teaching them deep truths and one of the disciples which means one of the Christian people. You got you got to get that this is like this is not a person who didn't know Jesus. One. One of the followers of Jesus came up to Jesus and Satan lost Jesus a question I think actually that question is incredible, and he basically said Jesus, help us to understand who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

What does God have to say about greatness and I'm telling you he was asking my question in your question and we can understand that because we all see ourselves in terms of accomplishment done. We all want our children ourselves to succeed you have to teach your kids to succeed, strive harder to push for more goals to do better.

We believe that but when it comes to spiritual matters. These people, these Christians want to know how does greatness or accomplishment into our having a relationship with Jesus and we battle with that is what we do not just be honest with each other what we do and we can understand this week there's at least one of your least I hope you are looking inside right now. Would you know Doc, you're up there preaching your pasta you left you traveled across the world. You did this you did that your preaching.

Therefore, you are great. Therefore, God obviously must like you all a lot and must've accepted you and boy when it comes to the kingdom of God.

You, you know most of you know that Dr. Billy Graham was a member of our church for many years. That was one of the greatest privilege and many of you know that I've just written a book called Saturdays with Billy and I sat at this man's feet for 25 years so I don't mind telling you, you know this. I remember that first time in 1993 when he called me and I drove up to Montreat and I was taken up in this convoy of cars with antennas on their rooms and through all the security and I got up to this house up on the mountains in Montreat and I'm continuing that door open and out the door step. Dr. Billy Graham and Mrs. Ruth Graham, would you think less of me if if I told you I'm turning my heart. I was looking at like great Army I was off skid today me what was I doing I mean this was Dr. Billy Graham guys and if you lost me to trying to find Dr. Graham I tell you I'm gonna say to you got mad and then for the next 25 years.

I sold that as I was there the presidents prime minister's famous athletes. There was times when I wanted to call across the ground. Then go up to this believably famous person because I knew if I could come back, chop, impress Cory if I had the signature or the autograph of some of these athletes. I never even talked about the they all hung around wanted to be with the great Billy Graham. Everybody wants to know about this man. He was so bright.

$91 you not tell everybody number one thing that Dr. Billy Graham. He had the heart of a child. Now I don't say that in those words I talk about he's on believable humility you can't talk call correct my mind. I'm so far from it myself. This man who was so great, beginning with me if you'd been any time with me and Dr. Billy Graham. I promise no question you would've thought I was the important person that how stupid is that you can rolloff it is just lack is that the most ridiculous if you didn't know any difference and you walk into that room and you saw Don Wilton and Dr. Billy Graham, you would've said boy. The real stop sitting there the important dude.

The man who's got it all. Mr. greatest Don Wilton. Everything was backwards. He was so humble and I held his hand all the way to heaven stood with him in the rotunda of the capital of the United States of America in front of presidents and congressmen, Supreme Court justices, and I'm tired of this man.

Everybody wanted to be around this man. What was it, so here's Jesus and a Christian person comes up to Jesus and says so. Jesus, who's the greatest. Surely you gonna say Billy Graham. Jesus did he grab hold of a child. He brought that child right into the middle of the and when he did sit, I want all of you to understand something and I want you to see your selves through the heart of a child because what happens to us were born and we grow up in our homes. We go places we do things in our hearts change we become big people we get hurt. Some of you have been really hurt.

Haven't you somebody today listening to me. You got a serious hurt. No laughing matter, its ears, all of us go back to your childhood tell you this, somebody sitting here. Remember when you fell in love how fantastic it was something happen and nearly destroyed your heart you live with it as a teenager right here.

You may be looking at me right now member when you were eight, nine years of age and now you've 16, 17, something's gone down rock, you know, God knows that sees that he loves us, in that. So here's what he did.

This is fantastic. I want to read this to you.

You gotta see for yourself. Matthew chapter 18 verse one through five. At that time the disciples came to Jesus in Austin who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, he called a little child and had him stand among them. By the way just want to say to something here because I know there are some brilliant people when Jesus in the in many of these illustrations. One of them. He had a sit suffer the little children to come to me he was holding a baby and infant father why babies don't stand's want you to notice that he got. I don't know how old this child was and is no ice three years old four years old six years old. What the Bible says he called a little child and had that child stand among them, and then Jesus said this. Listen folks, I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me what what what did Jesus do want to put this on the table here so we can understand. First of all, he responded to a question that's my questions.

Your question who is it who who qualifies you know how we qualify whether we go to church will look at that person they give the most money will look at that person. They do this so that person they preach the most of that person sings the most that person is this, that person is that so, how do you suppose Jesus looks at this didn't say those things are not important. We do that because we love him. Not in order to be loved by him.

Children can't really do anything for us. They called like buy you a new motor car, they can't cook you a fantastic meal they can't give you some money to improve your bank account. Children can't give you out of the greatness but actually what they give you is far greater then any greatness they give us priceless stuff you can't put a Leica hanger $on it.

I give you a hot. So Jesus responded to this question who's the greatest.

How do you Lord. We need to know because we're where we are trying so jolly hard you. I mean, I've even got some buddies you know how to recite the Lord's prayer. I got frame you sings in the class. Lord I listen I got someone who does. This goes to church every Sunday, who's the greatest, so he responded to a question and he illustrated these question with a child know Jesus you bring a little child little boy little girl in here. The third thing he did was he applied this just as a matter of interest, and I encourage you to do this in your own private time. There is a lot more than what I'm saying just in a few minutes yet. This is powerful guys I I selected. I just selected all squad show because I had like 35 things out of this whole passage. Lord can't do this man I'll miss lunch. You know, just give me something here to get to so that he got for so I apologize to you but what what what did Jesus want us to see and to know when he brought this child number one. He wanted us to see his ultimate creation what she's ultimate creation that he made us brought us into this world in his image you want to see God's ultimate creation. Just look at trial. Beautiful may forgive the interruption will be back with the rest of today's message. Dr. Wilton just a moment, but hope is such a critical part of her life today and hope in him. If you haven't been to our website likely drop by and take a look at this month's remarkable resource called hope in him. It's available for you right now again on our website@twonline.org that's TW online.org where you can hear today's message again her shirt with a friend or sign up for the daily devotional Dr. Don Wilton that's online@twonline.org now back today's great teaching… See Vincent because of the sin of Adam God's creation first thing he wanted us to see when he tried to tell us what is right. As far as I want you to see the way I made. I want you to go back before you started getting bent out of shape by everything and this will. I had a 17-year-old. I'm just telling you now 17-year-old girl two weeks ago come and see me. 17 she sat. By the way, with her mother. If I told you she literally talked about what her life was when she was 10, 11, 12.

In this beautiful little girl running around just having the best time you can imagine between the age of 15 and 17 if I told you she got involved in some you wouldn't believe me in two years. Her life went from this beautiful, carefree, wonderful to just wait it down man just said nothing. You know nothing left to live for a ruined got this done. That got this course. I introduced her to Jesus. Jesus would've seemed to her which he did say to her unless you change like a part like a little child you go to offer your heart to Jesus.

You've got to trust him. He wanted us to see his ultimate creation.

He also wanted us to feel his warm embrace his warm embrace. I can tell you what Jesus didn't do.

I'm just telling you this got Jesus didn't say pay by stand over there I'll guarantee you Jesus didn't do that I know what Jesus did and he showed us the tremendous love that he had for children right throughout Scripture new uses that even in Ephesians chapter 5 in verse one, when he sees be imitators like little children Jesus when he brought a little child. He wanted to see his warm embrace like we can't help ourselves unlock at you like that check moms and dads and arm just so confess to you man when I'm around children. I just melt on I'm gone down so that your arm so bad man. I can all be sitting walking into a restaurant and there's a family they would amaze this little girl sitting in her seat to do everything I cannot to just stop and go over and have a little talk with her.

Hey sweetheart how are you is a warm embrace. Jesus wants you who's the greatest it's those who have received with the heart of a child. The warmth of Jesus embrace. He loves you man don't run your hearts become hardened and Jesus got it.

He saw us he understood that the scars we have are so real it's not a figment of your imagination. Don't ever tell somebody just to get over it. You don't get over some things like that tell you abuse is a very real thing, folks, bullying is a very real thing unkindness a very real thing. I mean, you could go listing them down the road I'm I'm telling you because it's me, it's you it's us this summer.

You sitting here today your heart is beating so damaged man and Jesus gets it you hurting.

He says you go to become like a little child, there's 1/3 thing you want to see and I love this point he wanted us to see his his.

He wanted us to understand he's complete protection. When Jesus boarded child and onto this question. Look at my creation, look at my warm embrace. I want you to. I want you to really understand how complete my protection is why did Jesus bring a little child into this because he wanted to see you want us to understand he's complete protection. He protects us he embraces us many protective services. I got you man got to cam Voyager lost week all the great parents and leaders all guarantee. There was a second that those adults were not saying to all boys and goes kids we got there is not a one time that Corey turn on Sigmund. Why didn't you guys and softening you group of third-graders. There is a pond over they wanted to just go and have a little swim by yourself fourth-graders. Why don't you just go but wanted to wanted you fifth-grade is just gonna hang on that rope there and jump off at any point you want to watch a what doesn't get on a blog thing that launches you up to Mars and back and die and don't worry to put on lifejacket you know.

If you swim knots from you. Get over, you know, guys. We treat God block it. So here you are today you saying you know what I been subject to abuse insult, racism, antagonism are being bullied. Milan my marriage is broken up. I've gone through all the stuff I did so many scars and Jesus says you know what you are my creation.

I give you my warm embrace is a love you so much I want to know about you in the palm of my hand takes one more step here.

It is not close with this what he wants to see.

He wanted us to really realize his designated responsibility. You see all of us keep thinking it was about the child. I think what Jesus was telling everybody else standing around the see the child.

Your responsibility cannot tell you something that sounds funny, I've never made a child in my church who brought themselves to church.

So what do children do. What was he trying to tell those of us who have the responsibility children feel when we love them, you know that children feel your love children listen when we pray we moms and dads, grandparents, adults, children grow when we teach. That's responsibility. Children respond when we listen to them just telling you now guys develop the art of actually listening to children listen to them. Let them share talk guys watch me put your phone down. Did you hear me parents put it down. Looking at your child and let them tell you all about it. Listen, they will respond when you listen children follow when we lead we that's what Jesus wanted to say when instrument rated but I think he was the same children place when we place our children in worship. They go powerful message Dr. Don Wilton you hurting that he's been preaching from the pulpit and teaching now as he stepped in the studio. Open your heart what he wants to share next are you ready to give your heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ. Why didn't you pray this prayer with me right now. Dear God, I know that Iversen and I know that Jesus died for me on the cross today, I repent of my sin and by faith I receive you into my heart. In Jesus name, my friend.

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