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Born to recognise
From the book 
THE HIGHLYEDUCATED THE RICHAND POWERFULWhither are they bound?
by DR JOHN SCLIM
(For more information, visit the Books Page of http://comingworldevent.weebly.com)
The little boy who knew not his father
Children are able to acknowledge their parents as their father and mother.Sometimes something happens that can make children fail to recognise theirparents.This is a true story. A beautiful baby was born to a married couple. It was ababy that every young, married couple would be proud to have. Not long afterthe baby was born, the mother left home with the baby. When the boy was aboutfour years old, he was found by social workers to be suffering from severephysical abuse. The father only came to know about his little boy when he readthe report about him in the newspaper. His heart was broken to know how much
his son had suffered from the abuse. The child had been put in a children’s
welfare home by the authorities, and the father went to see him. He broughtsome toys for his little boy. He looked at his son, and saw that he was rather thinand undernourished. He also saw marks of physical abuse on his legs and arms.He looked at his face and saw the emotional scars. The father yearned to holdthe little boy in his arms, and told him he was his father. But the boy would notlet him hold him in his arms; instead he turned away from him. There were tears
in the boy’s eyes. He had suffered so much pain and anguish that he would not
trust another adult (obviously the mother had betrayed the trust of the boy in
 
her). He refused to accept the man as his father. He could not remember hisfather, nor recognise his voice since he was born a beautiful baby four years ago.Although the boy could not remember his father, the father had not forgottenhim. Instead he had been thinking of his son all the time. He never thought hisson would become a victim of child abuse. The father wanted to hold the boy inhis arms but the son repulsed him. It was sad that the boy who recognised hisfather when he was a baby now recognised him no more (you will know, in thischapter, that unborn babies as well as the newborn have the ability to recognisetheir parents). The father had become a total stranger to the boy.The little boy could not recognise his father because he had been separatedfrom him for a long time, and we see a similar situation here
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people do notknow their Maker and that they are His offspring because they have beenseparated from Him for so long a time so much so that their Maker has become atotal stranger to them. And this Maker is God. When the father told the little boythat he was his father, the boy would not believe it, and, instead repulsed him.We know some people are immediately put off by the mere mention of God. Itseems God has become very repulsive to them. If only they were children, they
wouldn’t be like that. Children are never put off when someone tells them about
the Lord Jesus Christ and of His love for them
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on the contrary they are,wonderfully, drawn to Him. O may they be like the little children!The little boy did not believe he had a father, and thought the father was likethose people who had abused him. The boy had misconceptions about his father.When we think of men, they too have misconceptions about God. They think God likes to send people to Hell. This is not true. Instead He desires all men to
know Him and go to Heaven. They don’t know that God gives them their being.The Bible, His Word, says: “For in Him we live, and move, and have our being… we are the offspring of God.” (Acts 17.28,29) Since they are the offspri
ng of God, why do people not accept Him or acknowledge Him as God their Maker?They have lost the ability to recognise Him
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that ability they had when theywere children (proofs of this ability in children are given in this chapter).The boy knew he was abused, but it is very sad that so many people in theworld do not know they are suffering from a kind of abuse that hinders them
from knowing God. They are like the drunk who says: “They have stricken[struck] me, … and I was not sick [hurt]; they have be
aten me, and I felt [knew]
it not.” (Proverbs 23.35) They do not know that their riches, higher education,
and so many other things are actually abusing their souls and causing them notto know this true and loving God. These things have struck them, and they do
 
not know their soul is “wounded, sick and sore.” These things are beating them
mercilessly, and they know it not. The book shows how these things havehindered many a person from knowing God and accepting His love for them.Now we will show you that babies have the ability to recognise their motherbefore and after they are born.
Unborn babies can recognise their parents
An unborn baby begins to hear sounds as early as 12 weeks after he isconceived. As sound travels easily through the wall of the womb, the baby can
hear all sorts of sounds coming from outside. He can hear his mother’s
heartbeat, her breathing sound, and sounds coming from her digestive tract andother internal organs. He can recognise sounds that are repeated quite often, and,
most of all, he can recognise his mother’s voice. He becomes familiar with the
way she speaks. He can sense, from the tone of her voice, whether his mother isangry, happy or sad. He can hear his mother speaking to him as she tries to feelhim by moving her hands over her abdomen.He can also hear sounds or voices from the world outside. An example of the
 baby’s ability to respond to a happy human voice is mentioned
in the Bible byDr Luke, himself a physician. When Mary heard that her relative Elisabeth was
six months pregnant, she immediately went to see her at the latter’s home. Shegreeted Elisabeth joyfully, “and it came to pass, that when Elisabeth heard the
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lutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb.” Elisabeth felt the movementof the baby in her womb, and told Mary “the babe leaped in my womb for joy”
(Luke 1.41,44
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the Gospel was written in the first century by Dr Luke).Hundreds of years later, research has shown this to be true: an unborn baby can
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