Are You Childlike or Childish?
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The Lord calls us to have a childlike faith--but not a childish spirit. In this episode, R.C. Sproul explains how our confidence in God and trust in His Word relate to our growth in Christian maturity.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bible does call us to be like children. |
| 0:05.2 | But, dear friends, there is a very, very important difference between being childlike and |
| 0:16.3 | being childish. |
| 0:21.4 | We find people who have a built-in allergy to serious and sober and diligent study of the |
| 0:28.1 | world of God. |
| 0:30.3 | And the excuse is given continuously, I don't need to study seriously the word of God because |
| 0:38.6 | I want to preserve a childlike spirit, a childlike faith. |
| 0:44.0 | I want to keep it simple. |
| 0:48.6 | That is not an expression of Christian maturity. |
| 0:55.4 | The word is the misunderstanding come in. |
| 0:59.6 | The Bible does call us to be like children. |
| 1:05.8 | We must become as children if we are to enter into the kingdom of God. |
| 1:10.2 | You remember when the disciples had their dispute as to who was the greatest in the kingdom |
| 1:14.8 | of God? |
| 1:15.8 | And who is going to sit on the right hand and who is going to sit on the left hand? |
| 1:18.8 | And Jesus astounded them by taking a little child and setting the child in the midst |
| 1:22.8 | and said, unless you become as this child, you won't even enter the kingdom of God. |
| 1:30.2 | And we are called again and again to this childlike spirit. |
| 1:34.9 | But dear friends, there is a very, very important difference between being childlike and being |
| 1:43.2 | childish. |
| 1:47.8 | The Holy Spirit is not childish. |
| 1:55.1 | To be childlike means that at certain points we are called to resemble children, just |
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