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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 of days.
That’s the child that Jesus had. They are too young to have a
disposition. They are too young to have faith. They are too young
to be humble. They are too young to be naïve. They are too young
to behave. When Jesus said that we must be like children, He wasn’t
talking about a disposition. He was talking about a condition, a
condition of a newborn babe and its helplessness; total dependence.
The indispensable condition of redemptive living is helpless
dependence. Do you see that powerful illustration?

On one side you have the disciples asking, “How can we be great?”
On the other side you have an infant of days; helpless dependence.
That’s the indispensable condition. What is the indispensable
disposition that we must have? Now I’d like to share what that is.