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Some say that to be like a child is to be humble like a child. I had
six children. They are not humble. They are very proud. Every
achievement is on my refrigerator. A child is poster child for pride.
1 Corinthians 3:1, “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to
spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes to Christ.” You
must become like a child but don’t believe like that. You must be
like a child but don’t be humble like that.

Someone says, “Maybe it means to be simple and naïve.” 1
Corinthian 14:20, “Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet
in evil be babes, but in your thinking be mature.” Don’t be children
in your understanding. Be like a child but don’t believe like that and
don’t be humble like that and don’t be childish in your thinking.
What did he mean?

We’ve got to be childlike, so maybe we should behave like children.
Matthew 11:16&17, “But to what shall I compare this generation?
It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the
other children, and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did
not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’” He said to
not behave like them; they are always discontent. They are fickle.
One wants to play this game and the other wants to play that game.
Be like a child but don’t believe like a child and don’t be humble
like a child and don’t behave like a child. What does it mean to be
like a child?

I think the answer is in Luke 18:15, “And they were bringing even
their babies to Him so that He might touch them, but when the
disciples saw it, they began rebuking them.” They brought their
babies to Jesus.

I have a book that I enjoy by a man named Kenneth Wuest. He gets
into the Greek. I don’t know Greek, so I’m thankful for people that
can help. In this verse he translates it, “They brought their infants.”
Have you heard of B. B. Warfield? He was a great theologian who
taught at Princeton University in New Jersey before they turned