Summary
So we're going to actually start with Mark chapter 10 verse 24 B, where he says children and he's speaking to the adults now, the disciples, children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God and jump down to verse 26, where it says they were greatly astounded and said to one another, then who can be saved? But I imagine that as this man says, what must I do to inherit eternal life, I imagine that everyone around kind of perked up wanting to know what the magic formula is, what they needed to do in order to gain or obtain eternal life. Here we have parents, bringing these children, these things of little or no value and they were trying to waste Jesus precious time on them on the children. Jesus needed to spend his time doing important things and speaking with important people, people that mattered. It's very interesting that he says that these children receive the kingdom of God and that we, adults, are to receive the kingdom of God as a child. Because there is a Greek word that means received in the sense that it's something we seize and we claim and that is not the word that is being used here.
Video citations
- "Receive the Kingdom" 3-20-22 — We are going to remain in Mark chapter 10. So if you have your Bibles open, that's wonderful. It's page 40 in the New Testament of the Pue edition of the Bible. As people, we value a lot of…