Who are 'the little children' Jesus talks about?

[mjrhealth]

Something to do with

Mat_23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

 

[amadeus]

Amen ! That seems to be the main problem within fellowships.......ANY mention of the reality of Christ as The Resurrected Son of Man / Son of God, and they all seem to run for the hills.. they feel safer following what they see as God's words written in stone, than the Word, which according to the Bible they claim to follow says, "The Word is ALIVE and powerful, even to the dividing of the soul and the spirit......The soul being the intellect/emotion/understanding of mankind in the world...

Where I attend much of the leadership [ministers] have long been working to allow the Holy Spirit to operate freely, but they also have too often [as I see it] missed the way. Probably every new assembly and every new denomination before it was even called a denomination has tried to do this, but then someone comes disrupting or apparently acting out of order and then new rules or methods are established to control the situation. Does God really need this kind of help? Is He really so powerless? Some people act as if He is and the result is to cast God out of the program.

But, even with this discussion, again I am derailing the thread. If you wish further discussion on it, I am starting another thread regarding man's programs hindering God called: Do Man's Programs too often displace God and His plan?

 

[pia]

Probably every new assembly and every new denomination before it was even called a

Hello.....What do you mean derail ? About God's children? But isn't that exactly what the people going to various churches every week, whatever denomination, are? Or at least they have been told they are, ot they think they are ?
What is a child of God? Jn 1 : 12,13.....As many as received Him, to THEM He gave the right to become the children of God, to those who BELIEVE IN HIS NAME (the truth that His name represents the actual Son of God upon the earth as a human)........13) who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, not of the will of man, but of God...... So a child is simply a believer, IN CHRIST
Now to 2 cor 5 : 17,18........Therefore, if anyone is IN Christ, he IS a new creation ( a whole new race of beings on the earth, other scriptures tells the truth of this ); old things have passed away, behold ALL things HAVE become new......18) NOW ( emphasis on NOW ), all things are of God, who HAS reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given US the ministry of reconciliation. ( To offer that same reconciliation, to others, with complete immunity, as we see in verse 21 )
2 cor 5:21.......For He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to BE sin for us, that we might BECOME the righteousness of God IN HIM......We should all really look into what the full picture is, of what He is offering us.... There are many references to this New Creation we have become. It's worth the effort to find the scriptures about it..... Pia, a child of God Praise His Holy Name forever more !!!!!

 

[amadeus]

@pia

I copied your post #43 on this thread and pasted it as #4 on my new thread Do Man's Programs too often displace God and His plan?

 

[pia]

@pia

I copied your post #43 on this thread and pasted it as #4 on my new thread Do Man's Programs too often displace God and His plan?

O.K. that's fine...I will have a look at your thread.....The Title makes me want to see it too, as I truly believe that we do resist and even prevent God at times, unknowingly perhaps, but also unwilling to truly seek.