Following Jesus in Humility
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. |
| 0:07.0 | Matthew 18, verse 3. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.0 | Following Jesus in humility was written by Matt Lucas and read by Wes Ward. |
| 0:23.4 | Matthew Chapter 18, verses 1 through 4. |
| 0:27.4 | At that time, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, |
| 0:32.1 | Who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? |
| 0:35.4 | He called a little child to him and placed the child among them. |
| 0:40.4 | And he said, truly, I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, |
| 0:47.5 | you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this |
| 0:53.4 | child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. |
| 0:59.5 | Following Jesus in Humility, written by Matt Lucas. |
| 1:05.1 | Near our home is a famous garden where we often take walks with a young boy our family cares for. His favorite area |
| 1:14.0 | is the children's garden, which has a small door large enough for him to run through, but small enough |
| 1:21.1 | to force me to crouch. He laughs as I drop to my knees and wiggle through the small opening |
| 1:27.2 | to chase him. |
| 1:28.8 | The small garden gate reminds me of Jesus' object lesson in Matthew 18, where he calls a little |
| 1:36.0 | child to his side to explain the type of person who will enter the kingdom of heaven. |
| 1:41.7 | It was a bold example, for, in Christ's day, to be a child was to be |
| 1:46.7 | inconsequential and overlooked. Unlike today, their opinions and desires didn't matter. Jesus uses |
| 1:54.8 | this description to highlight our human tendency to be noticed and seek power and influence. Of course, Jesus wasn't asking |
| 2:04.4 | his disciples to become children again, but rather pointing to the traits that mark those |
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