Luk 18:17<\/span><\/p>\n Receive the kingdom of God as a little child<\/em><\/p>\n Receiving the kingdom of God as a little child<\/strong><\/p>\n To begin with, let me deal with THE SECRET THOUGHT OF THE DISCIPLES, expressed by their actions though not spoken in words. <\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> And, first, it is pretty clear that the disciples thought the children were too insignificant for the Lords time to be taken up by them. <\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> Again, I suppose that these grown-up apostles thought that the childrens minds were too trifling. Despise not children for trifling when the whole world is given to folly. <\/p>\n 3.<\/strong> Ay, say they, but if we should let the children come to Christ, and if He should bless them, they will soon forget it. No matter how loving His look and how spiritual His words, they will go back to their play, and their weak memories will preserve no trace of it at all. This objection we meet in the same manner as the others. Do not men forget? <\/p>\n 4.<\/strong> Perhaps, too, they thought that children had not sufficient capacity. <\/p>\n 5.<\/strong> To put the thought of the apostle into one or two words: they thought that the children must not come to Christ because they were not like themselves–they were not men and women. The child must not come to the Master because he is not like the man. How the blessed Saviour turns the tables and says, Say, not, the child may not come till he is like a man, but know that you cannot come till you are like him. It is no difficulty in the childs way that he is not like you; the difficulty is with you, that you are not like the child. Instead of the child needing to wait until he grows up and becomes a man, it is the man who must grow down and become like a child. <\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> Looking at it carefully, we observe, first, that He tells the disciples that the gospel sets up a kingdom. Was there ever a kingdom which had no children in it? How then could it grow? <\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> Next, our Lord tells us that the way of entering the kingdom is by receiving. Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. We do not enter into the kingdom of God by working out some deep problem and arriving at its solution; not by fetching something out of our selves, but by receiving a secret something into us. We come into the kingdom by the kingdoms coming into us: it receives us by our receiving it. Now, if this entrance into the kingdom depended upon something to be fetched out of the human mind by study and deep thought, then very few children could over enter it; but it depends upon something to be received, and therefore children may enter, <\/p>\n 3.<\/strong> The next thing in the text is that if we receive this kingdom, and so enter into it, we must receive it as children receive it. <\/p>\n Verily I say unto you<\/strong>,…., Christ takes an occasion from hence to teach his disciples humility, and guard them against pride and vanity:<\/p>\n whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God<\/strong>; the King Messiah, the doctrines of the Gospel, and the ordinances of it, even the whole Gospel dispensation;<\/p>\n as a little child<\/strong>; without prejudice, pride, ambition, and vanity, with meekness, and humility:<\/p>\n shall in no wise enter therein<\/strong>; a very unfit and improper person to be a professor of the Gospel; or to be admitted to Gospel ordinances: or be a member of a Gospel church; or be reckoned a subject of the Messiah’s kingdom, which is of a spiritual nature; and as he has not a meetness for, and a right unto the kingdom of glory, he shall never see it, and enjoy it.<\/p>\n As a little child <\/B> ( <\/SPAN><\/span>). Jesus makes the child the model for those who seek entrance into the kingdom of God, not the adult the model for the child. He does not say that the child is already in the kingdom without coming to him. Jesus has made the child’s world by understanding the child and opening the door for him. <\/P> <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n 1) “Verily I say unto you,” <\/strong>(amen lego humin) “Truly I tell you all,” as a church following fellowship, Luk 18:15<\/span>; Mat 18:1<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2) “Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God,” <\/strong>(hos an me deksetai ten basilelan tou theou) “Whoever does not receive (of his own accord) the kingdom of God,” humbly and voluntarily, Mat 18:3<\/span>.<\/p>\n 3) “As a little child shall in no wise enter therein.” <\/strong>(hos paidion ou me eiselthe eis auten) “Just as a child, by no means enters it,” trustfully, humbly, lovingly, Psa 131:2<\/span>; 1Pe 1:14<\/span>, or does not enter into it at all. One can neither be saved, baptized, nor enter into “the kingdom of God,” more precisely that administrative body of it, called “the kingdom of Heaven,” by Matthew, except he come humbly, voluntarily, and by his own choice, Mat 18:3-4<\/span>; Mar 10:15-16<\/span>.<\/p>\n 17<\/strong>. <\/strong> Receive the kingdom of God as a little child<\/em> It is plain that the little child <\/em> here specified must be a literal infant. And when it is asked in what respect is the converted adult to become as a little child, we must reply, just in that respect by which a child is a member of the kingdom of God. He must come back to that state of acceptance with Christ which he possessed before actual sin. See note on Mat 18:3<\/span>.<\/p>\n “Truly I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the Kingly Rule of God in the same way as a little child, he shall in no wise enter into it.”<\/p>\n And then He adds a solemn saying, as evidenced by its opening words, the solemn ‘truly I say to you’ which occur only seven times in Luke. And the point of His saying is that anyone who receives the Kingly Rule of God must do so in the ready and willing way in which a little child does. For there is no other way to receive it. These children would have no hang ups about obeying God, they would see it as the right thing to do (even though they might sometimes forget it on the spur of the moment). It is only adults (over elevens) whose hearts, like that of the rich young ruler in the next story and the Pharisee in the previous story, become hardened against obedience to Him.<\/p>\n Arguments about whether receiving the Kingly Rule of God refers to the present Kingly Rule, present in Jesus, or the future heavenly Kingly Rule are unnecessary. It is the whole concept of the responsiveness of hearts towards God that is in mind, and that includes both this world and the next.<\/p>\n 17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Ver. 17. See Trapp on “<\/em> Mat 19:14 “<\/em> <\/p>\n Luk 18:17<\/span> , as in Mar 10:15<\/span> . With this reflection Lk. ends, his interest being mainly in the didactic element, humility the door into the kingdom.<\/p>\n Verily. See note on Mat 5:18. <\/p>\n in no wise. Greek. ou me. App-105. <\/p>\n therein = into (App-104.) it. <\/p>\n Luk 18:17. , a little child) A , or little child, has already somewhat of the use of his reason, so as to be able to receive, (the kingdom of God); but the , an infant, expresses even a lower degree, which is suited to the touch of the Saviour, Luk 18:15-16. [The fellowship of the kingdom of heaven consists for the most part of little children.-V. g.]<\/p>\n Psa 131:1, Psa 131:2, Mar 10:15, 1Pe 1:14 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Mat 5:18 – verily Mat 5:20 – ye Mat 18:3 – and become Mat 19:14 – Suffer Joh 9:34 – and dost 1Co 3:18 – let<\/p>\n 18:17 {6} Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.<\/p>\n (6) Childlike innocence is an ornament of Christians.<\/p>\n Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. Luk 18:17 Receive the kingdom of God as a little child Receiving the kingdom of God as a little child I. 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II. <\/strong>Now we pass to our second head, namely, THE OPEN DECLARATION OF OUR LORD, wherein He sets forth His mind upon this matter, <\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>THE GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT given by our Lord in the text. (C. H.Spurgeon.<\/em>)<\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"