Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

If you're a Christian, God's plan is for you to never grow up, because maturity in the faith

means having a childlike faith.

Today, we're going to continue through Paul's sermon series in the Gospel of Mark,

and in this message, Paul examines why Jesus invited the little children to come to him,

and why the disciples were wrong in denying them.

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Now here's Paul with this message from the Gospel of Mark.

Maybe a way to begin this evening is to ask you the question, who do you think you are?

What is the stuff that you tell you about you?

You're in that constant conversation with yourself and the things that you say to you about you are very, very important. They're

formative of the way you live. They're formative of the way you think. They're formative of

what you desire. Who do you think you are? I don't know if you've thought about this,

but if you're a God's child, you have been chosen to never grow up.

Oh, I don't mean God doesn't want you to mature physically in terms of your thought and even spiritually, but God has chosen you to be a child.

My experience of being a father is that my children didn't always enjoy being children.

My children wanted to be the adults in charge often.

When I'm doing parenting conferences, I often say to parents that there are moments when you need to have this conversation with your child.

You're trying to be the daddy of daddy. And when you're trying to be the daddy

of daddy, you don't have a daddy. You need to be comfortable with being a child. Are you comfortable

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