CHILDREN & JESUS

 

1.      Jesus Was a Child!

  • “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder.” (Isaiah 9:6)

 

2.      Jesus Took Children in His Arms and Blessed Them!

  • “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them.”(Mark 10:14-16)

 

3.      Jesus Healed a Child of a Foreign Woman!

  • “O woman, great is your faith!  Be it done for you as you desire.” (Her daughter was healed instantly. Matthew 15:28)

 

4.      Jesus Cast a Demon Out of a Child!

  • “And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly.” (Matthew 17:18)

 

5.      Jesus Raised a Child From the Dead!

  • “Taking her by the hand he said to her, ‘Tabitha cumi’ which means, ‘Little girl, I say to you, arise.”(Immediately the girl got up. Mark 5:41-42)

 

6.      Jesus Used a Child’s Loaves and Fish to Feed Five Thousand People!

  • “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?  Jesus said, have the people sit down.”(Matthew 18:3-4)

 

7.      Jesus Said You Should Become Like a Child!

  • “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.  Whosever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”(Matthew 18:3-4)

 

8.      When Jesus Came, Children Cried “Hosanna!” to the Son of David!

  • “The chief priests and the scribes saw…the children crying out in the temple, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David!’”(Matthew 21:15)

 

9.      Jesus Predicted the Terrible Days When Fathers Would Give Their Children Up to Death!

  • “And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child.”(Mark 13:12)

 

10.  Jesus Said That If You Receive a Child in His Name, You Receive Him and the One Who Sent Him!

  • “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.” (Mark 9:37)

 

 

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