*Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. Summary: How many young people did God use in the bible? Young children simply love, nothing added, and nothing taken away. Show Notes: • There is a simplicity and an openness in children • Many times our own children reveal how easy it is to love • Samuel was 4 years old when God spoke to him References: Psalms 139:13, 14  For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother ’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Mark 9:36, 37  He took a little child whom He placed among them. Taking the child in His arms, He said to them, Whoever welcomes one of these little children in My name welcomes Me; and whoever welcomes Me does not welcome Me but the one who sent Me. Matthew 18:3  Then He said, “I tell all of you with certainty, unless you change and become like little children, you will never get into the kingdom from Heaven. Romans 8:38, 39  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Matthew 7:1  “ Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Deuteronomy 6:5  You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. Quotes: • There is something of an openness that some people have, and some people don’t have • People listen from where they are at • God, make us all like little children • It is a simplicity and the openness that you can find the Lord in Take Away: It is the young people that remind us how to love with a purity, with nothing to complicate it. Father restore to us a pure heart towards you

Ron:

I tell you with certainty unless you change and become like little children you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. I am Ron your Host and on this podcast, we will discuss how we must become as a little child in our openness and our love towards God and one another.

Sandy

I think one of the truest words that we can hear is just the simplicity of a child saying, I love you. Cause there is nothing behind it. There’s no motivations behind it. There is no I got to look better than this person but it is the true just open love and open heart from one person to another that you feel from a kid. And that’s why Jesus loved the children because there was no falseness. What He’s looking for is that just that openness between us and we have gotten so civilized that people don’t know how to do that anymore. Just to be open with one another. There something in an openness that some people have and some people don’t have. And sometimes it is because of the hurts or the non-hurts that they have gone through or something to that effect. Jesus loved the little children because they didn’t have the problems that adults have.

Dale:

I think one of the things that speaks a thousand words is in experience. When my oldest daughter was four years old, she came riding around on her tricycle on the sidewalk and she crashed into the grass. She got up and she picked up her tricycle and she set it down and she said, dad am I a son of God? Here is a four-year-old child contemplating Sonship. Where did she get this stuff? Well, she was hanging around with a lot of people, she had to get a crook on her neck just to look up to see them. But she was listening. Four-year-old child was listening and she was listening with a mature ear because she was thinking about Sonship. My kids we didn’t have a television on our house for quite a while when we were in Iowa. And I’d be outside working or doing something. My wife would be doing. When we come in we’d hear the kids in the other room and what they had done, is we had stairs that went to the second floor. Those kids took turns; they had got their baby dolls wrapped them up, had them in one arm, they had one of their golden books in the other hand, had it opened up and they were singing songs. The words were not in those golden books, and then they would stop singing. The older daughter was down at the bottom of the steps and the two other girls were up the steps, and she would start to prophecy, she would start to pray, and then they would take turns. The older daughter would go up a step the other daughter would come down. They looked like they were playing church. They weren't playing church. They were walking out what they had heard. And to hear them speak; we made the mistake of peaking around the corner one two many times and they stopped. But we caught them doing it again. They saw what was going on around them. They wanted to be and felt like they were apart. God make us all like little children.

Sandy:

When I was six years old I lived in a household that was not Christian. And I had a neighbor down the street, she befriended me because she saw that I was really open, I guess. And I started going into her house and she had a picture on the wall and finally one day I asked her who that picture was? She said do you know who Jesus is? And we sat there and she told me about Jesus. And then she goes would you like Jesus in your heart? And me being a stupid little six-year-old who didn’t know any better said sure. In my simplicity and I remember one time I was in the backyard alone and there was a ladder there and I ran up to the top of the ladder and said I love you, God. You know and I was yelling it at the top of my lungs.

Yeah, it is something that is so real to me that it is a simplicity and the openness that you could find the Lord in, not anything else.

Dale:

As we talk about little children; how can a child speak a word with authority? And I think that there is no other age group that walks in a higher level of submission than a little child. And that submission is what creates authority. Because of that principle, I’ll tell you what a little child can take Paul Bunion and melt him down to size. There is a purity of motivation all’s they want to do is to please you. They’ve got something going on with God that somewhere we’ve missed placed. I don’t want to say lost because we haven’t lost it because God brings His little children to remind us. How do we walk before Him, we are all little children of God. The more mature you become the more childlike you become. To where basic principles of love. Basic principles of judge not lest you be judge. To where we have one commandment, you shall love the Lord your God. We know that one and it ends in and your neighbor as yourself. How many times have we gone up talking to a little kid and both are having a great time.

Ron

In today's podcast, we are all reminded that it is the young people that remind us how to love with a purity with nothing complicated. Father, restore to us a pure heart towards you and towards one another.