Matthew 18 and 19

Jesus Defended Children       18:5-6

Jesus Desires Children         19:13-14

Jesus Taught Children            18:1-

Luke 2:41-52   Jesus grew in wisdom, stature and favour with God and man.

Jesus knows what it is to be a child.

A child needs to grow in wisdom- Mentally

A child needs to grow in stature- Physically, healthy, labor (not a couch potato tot)

A child needs to grow in favour with God – Spiritually, and with man – Socially

God called David as a bot to be a king./Davis became a man after God’s own heart

God called Daniel as a boy to be a testimony for him in a perverse world/Daniel purposed in his heart to obey God

God called Josiah as a boy to bring back his nation to God/Josiah did right in the sight oif the Lord

God called a little maid to witness for Him in adversity/She helped a foreign nation know God