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Post by nightingale on Jun 27, 2006 19:47:02 GMT -5
Dear Brother Ben...I was re-reading your post on the "Pure Child"...Could you please explain what this means...I thought all little children, no matter what their parents are like are little lambs unto the Lord...
"I used to tell the worldly church girls in a youth group I taught once, when you are living in a trailer, have two or three kids (goats not lambs) up under your feet,"
I have just been around a lot of little children that I just want to take up into my arms and love them in-spite of their parents sinful life...Thank you for taking the time to clarify my questions...Love Sis Debbie
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Post by Brother Ben on Jun 27, 2006 22:39:18 GMT -5
To describe some children as goats instead of lambs is more of an indictment against the parents than the children themselves. Children who have not yet come to the age of accountability are "safe," not saved. However, if their parents are irresponsible, worldly, and wicked, their children can be quite wicked themselves.
Though the Lord loves the little worldlings, like a bus kid, they can be a very negative element in a neighborhood.
Pro 20:11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
2Ch 36:9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
The Lord wants us to be patient and loving to these little children so they will have a taste of real Christianity so that peradventure they might look back when they are older and remember the godly man, lady, or child that was a positive influence in their life, pointing them to the Cross of Calvary.
So, the job of raising pure children lay before us, and we should do it with zeal and vigor.
Bro. Ben
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