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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 away from the Lord. He
translates this as “infant of days”. A mother gave Jesus an
infant of days.

Just before I came to this conference, the Lord gave me my
fourth great grandchild. I haven’t seen him yet. He’s an infant