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Every time they lose a tooth they want three dollars. So, I’ve
got a jar of teeth and I’m getting poor. Some people say, “Have
the faith of a little child.”
Ephesians 4:14&15, “As a result, we are no longer to be
children, tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by
every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in
deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to
grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ...”
Jesus said to become like a little child but don’t believe like a
little child. A little child is carried about by every wind of
doctrine. We have to be like a child but we can’t believe like
children.

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 a
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.” 1Corinthian 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?