Born to recognise

From the book

THE HIGHLY EDUCATED THE RICH AND POWERFUL
Whither are they bound?
by DR JOHN SCLIM
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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 their
parents.
This is a true story. A beautiful baby was born to a married couple. It was a
baby that every young, married couple would be proud to have. Not long after
the baby was born, the mother left home with the baby. When the boy was about
four years old, he was found by social workers to be suffering from severe
physical abuse. The father only came to know about his little boy when he read
the report about him in the newspaper. His heart was broken to know how much
hiss onha ds ufferedf rom t hea buse.Th ec hil
dha dbe enp utinac hil
dr en’s
welfare home by the authorities, and the father went to see him. He brought
some toys for his little boy. He looked at his son, and saw that he was rather thin
and 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 hold
the little boy in his arms, and told him he was his father. But the boy would not
let him hold him in his arms; instead he turned away from him. There were tears
int heb oy ’se yes.Heha ds uffereds omuc hpa ina nda nguis
ht hathewo u l
dno t
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 his
father, 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 forgotten
him. Instead he had been thinking of his son all the time. He never thought his
son would become a victim of child abuse. The father wanted to hold the boy in
his arms but the son repulsed him. It was sad that the boy who recognised his
father when he was a baby now recognised him no more (you will know, in this
chapter, that unborn babies as well as the newborn have the ability to recognise
their parents). The father had become a total stranger to the boy.
The little boy could not recognise his father because he had been separated
from him for a long time, and we see a similar situation here  people do not
know their Maker and that they are His offspring because they have been
separated from Him for so long a time so much so that their Maker has become a
total stranger to them. And this Maker is God. When the father told the little boy
that 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. It
seems God has become very repulsive to them. If only they were children, they
wou ldn’ tbeli ket ha
t.Childrena reneve rp utoffwhe ns ome onetellsthe ma bout
the Lord Jesus Christ and of His love for them  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 like
those 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
knowHi ma ndg ot oHe a ven.The ydo n’tkn owt ha tGo dg i
ve sthe mt he irbein g.
TheBi ble,Hi sWor d,s ays:“ Fori nHi m wel i
ve ,an dmove ,a n dha v eo urbe ing
… wea r
et heoffspringofGo d.
”( Ac t
s1 7 .
28, 29)Si ncetheya ret heof fsp r
ing of
God, why do people not accept Him or acknowledge Him as God their Maker?
They have lost the ability to recognise Him  that ability they had when they
were 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 the
world do not know they are suffering from a kind of abuse that hinders them
from knowi ngGod.The ya rel iket hedr unkwh os a ys:“ The yha ves t
ri
cken
[str
uc k]me ,… a ndIwa sn ots ick[ hurt];the yha vebe aten me, and I felt [knew]
itn ot
.”( Prove r
bs2 3.35)The ydono tk no wt hatt heirr iches,h ighere d uca
tio
n,
and so many other things are actually abusing their souls and causing them not
to know this true and loving God. These things have struck them, and they do
notk nowt heirs o ulis“ woun ded,s
icka
nds ore.”The sethi ngsarebe ati
n gthem
mercilessly, and they know it not. The book shows how these things have
hindered 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 mother
before 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 is
conceived. As sound travels easily through the wall of the womb, the baby can
heara lls ortsofs o un dsc omingf r
om ou tside.He c a
nh ea rh ismot he r
’s
heartbeat, her breathing sound, and sounds coming from her digestive tract and
other internal organs. He can recognise sounds that are repeated quite often, and,
mos tofa l
l,hec a
nr e co gnisehismot her’svoic e.Hebe come sf ami li
a rwi tht he
way she speaks. He can sense, from the tone of her voice, whether his mother is
angry, happy or sad. He can hear his mother speaking to him as she tries to feel
him by moving her hands over her abdomen.
He can also hear sounds or voices from the world outside. An example of the
baby ’sa bilit
yt or espon dtoaha p
pyhuma nvo i
c ei sme nt
ione din the Bible by
Dr Luke, himself a physician. When Mary heard that her relative Elisabeth was
sixmont hspr egnant,s heimme diat
elywe nttos eehe ra tthelatter’sh ome .She
greetedEl isabethjoy f ully
,“ anditca met opa s s,tha twhe nEl i
sab ethhe ardt he
salutationofMa ry,theba beleapedinh erwomb. ”El isabethfe l
tthemove me nt
oftheba byinhe rwomb,a ndtoldMa ry“ t
heba bel eape dinmywombf orj oy”
(Luke 1.41,44  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
respond to the emotions of his mother, and to other external stimuli.
Itisi nterestin
gt ono tethatDrLu kec al
lstheba byi nEl izabeth’swomba s
“ba be”( translatedf rom t heGr eekbrephos, meaning an unborn child), and not
foetus or fetus, which is the Latin name given by the medical community to an
unborn human who is more than eight weeks after conception (no matter what
scientists say, the unborn human is no less human after conception). Foetus
means offs pri
n g,an doffspr i
ngme anss ome o ne’
sc hild,ac cord i
ngt oad ict
iona ry
(and we wonder why they would still want to kill the offspring in abortion). In
the French Bible, babe is equivalent to the French enfant, from which comes our
Eng lishwor d“ infant.”
Although the baby in the womb is bombarded by sounds all the time, there is
one familiar sound that the baby takes especial note, and that is the voice of his
mother. The baby can, surprisingly, distinguish her voice from the myriad
sounds and voices. In the womb, he hears her voice whenever his mother speaks
anda lsoh isfather’svoi c ewhe nhei ss pe akingt ohe r,ort ohi m( youknow,
somef a therwo ul
dl o oka th i
swi f
e ’
sa bd ome ntos pe akt ot heba by).Theba by
forms a memory of their voices in this way.

Newborn babies can recognise their mother

Af t
e rhei sbor n,thef irstthingt heba bywi llli
ket ohe a
rishi smot her’svo i
c e.If
the mother speaks to the baby immediately after giving birth, the baby will, with
ease, recognise the familiar voice of his mother. Hearing her voice reassures him
that his mother is still with him. Her voice is a comfort to him. But he may
become confused or feel insecure if he hears the voice of a stranger speaking to
him all the time, instead of the familiar voice of his mother. This can happen if
the baby is separated from his mother after birth for a long time, or is given
away. He will have to get used to the voice of the new carer, and accept the
carer as his mother. If he were to meet his birth mother many years later, he
would not be able to recognise her nor remember her voice
 In the womb, the baby is surrounded by amniotic fluid. He knows the taste
and smell of the fluid, for he has swallowed it at times. After he is born and
plac edo nhe rmot her’sbo som,t heba byc a nst
ra i
ghta wa yre cognisehi smot her’s
voice, as well as her smell, especially the smell emanating from her breast. Her
breast has secreted a substance that tastes and smells like her amniotic fluid. As
theba bys uckso nh erbr east
,hega zesa thi
smot he r’sf ace. Mother and child
quickly bond with each other, and it is a joy to behold the bond taking place.
Scientists to this day still marvel at this wonderful interaction between the
mother and her baby.
When a baby is placed, immediately after birth, on his moth er ’
sbo s om,he
will soon manoeuvre himself towards one of her breasts. The baby is propelled
by the smell coming from the breast, and when he has found the target, he
begi nst os uc ko nhe rbr e ast
.Hewi lltur nhishe adt ol ooka thi smot he r’sf ace
and listen to her voice. He knows the familiar voice (when he was in the womb),
but now he wants to associate that voice with her face.
As he sucks on her breast, he gazes at her face. It is the face he loves to look.
He may even reach to touch the face with his tiny hand. The mother gazes
lovingly at her baby and the baby at her mother. If an object is held in front of
theba by’sf ace,theb abyma yl ooka ttheo bj
ectbu ton lyf orab ri
efmome nta nd
then return to look at her face. Her face is more important to him than the object.

Innate abilities of babies

To the researchers, babies seem to have been programmed or wired to help them
recognise their mother after they are born. It is as though they carry a tiny
computer chip with instructions telling them who and what their mother is, and
they respond appropriately to show that they know their own mother. The
researchers believe the babies have innate abilities to help them survive and
bond to their parents.
You do not need to teach newborn babies how to recognise their mother,
theykn ow how t od os oa lrea dy.Themot herd oe sn’tne edt ot el
lt heba by,
“Look,ba by,Ia my ourmot he r.
”I ti sinte
rest
ingt ono tethataba bywhoi s
adopted at or soon after birth will still remember his birth mother and her voice.
And not to hear it after he is born can be disconcerting to the baby. He may
look sad, cry in rage or despair. An adopted baby thus has to be taught to accept
his adoptive mother. He has to get accustomed to the voice of his new mother.
Idon’ tthinky ouc anremember lying in the bosom of your mother when you
we reaba by .Af te
ry ou we reb orna ndp uto ny ourmot he r
’sb osom,y ou
stra ightawa yr ecognis edy ou rmot he r
’ss me l
la n
dv oic
e .Itwa sap l
eas ant
sensation for you, which was somewhat similar to what you experienced, in your
mot her’swomb,dur ingt hel asts e
ve ralwe eksbe forey ouwe rebor n.Doc tors
will tell you that full-term infants very seldom cry during the first one and the
half hours of life when they have skin-to-skin contact with their mother, as they
lie in her bosom or arms. The smell and voice of their mother comfort them. But
when they are separated from their mother immediately after birth and put in a
cradle nearby, wrapped all round, they cry for more or less forty seconds
intermittently for one and the half hours.
Scientists wonder how babies can have such innate abilities. These abilities
c anno tc omea boutb yc hanc e.Ifso,h ow doy oue xp
l ai
nt heba bi es’ab i
lit
yt o
kn ow,a ftert he yarebor na ndpl ac
e do nt hei
rmot her’sb osom,t hewa yt ot he
mothe r’sbr east,a l
lon t heirown,wi t
houtbe i
ng c oaxe do rgu ided byt he
mot her?How doy oue x plaint h
eba bi
e s’abil
itytoi de ntif
yorr e cogniset he i
r
mother after they are born even though they have not seen their mother from the
womb? How do you explain the ability of one-day-old babies to reach and touch
the irmot he r’sf ac
ewi tht heirtinyha ndwi t
houtb ei
ngt o l
dt od os o?An dhowi s
it crying newborn babies being left alone in their cradles will become quiet the
mome ntt he yhe arth es ou ndoft he
irmot her’
svoice and will turn their head to
look at her, but will not respond in a similar manner to the voice of a stranger?
How do they come to have these abilities? Can these abilities come to them by
c hanc e?Wedo n’tb elieves o.Somes cient
ist
sa ndd oc t
o r
sb elieve that these
abilities have been put in the babies by God their Maker.
Another ability young children have is their ability to acknowledge their
mot
herbyc
all
inghe
r“Mot
her
.”Youdi
dtha
ttha
twhe
nyouf
ir
sta
tte
mpt
edt
o
speak. The wonderful thing is that children of all races, in their first attempt to
s
pea
k,wou
ldc
allt
hei
rmot
her“
Ma”or“
Mama
”(t
hef
ir
sts
yll
abl
eisus
ual
ly
“
ma”ors
ome
thi
ngc
los
etoi
tina
nyl
ang
uageord
ial
ect
),a
ndt
hisi
sdo
ne
instinctively, that is, without their having to think or be taught, How did they
come to have this instinctive utterance? And why Ma is their first syllable? The
answer is simple: God their Maker has put this ability in them.

I
fyoua
reac
hil
dno
w…
If the Lord Jesus Christ appears today and walks on earth, the children will
recognise Him straightaway. They will want to come to Him and look at His
wonderful face and hear His loving voice.
You may be an atheist, an agnostic, a Gnostic, a freethinker, a religious or
non-religious person, a university student, a scholar, a philosopher, a scientific
person, an engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, a businessman, or an ordinary person
working hard to survive in this harsh world. You may be a politician, a
communist, a ruler, or a highborn. Whatever persuasion, creed, dogma, or belief
you may have, if you were a little child now and see the Lord Jesus Christ
coming towards you, I am sure you would be glad to see Him. You would want
Him to hold you in His loving arms.
Children will recognise the voice of the Lord Jesus when He calls them. This
is true  the day is coming when all the children of the world will hear His
voice  s
eeCha
pte
rThr
ee:“
Thee
ven
ttha
tsh
ock
sthewho
lewor
ld.
”Now I
will show you that all children have the ability to recognise God their Maker,
and this ability, sad to say, can degenerate to a state where God is recognised no
more.
Thec hil
dr en’ sMake r
You have a mother (if not, how did you come into the world?), and you
remember her. But where did your mother get the life for you to be conceived
and developed into a baby and then be born? It was God Who gave you life.
You started from a single cell (the cell is a basic functional and structural unit of
life),for me da sar esultoft heu ni
o nofy ourmot h er’
se gg( ov um)a ndy our
fathe r
’sge rmc ell (spermatozoon, or, simply, sperm cell). The cell then divided
into two cells, and two cells into four, and so on and so forth, in an orderly
fashion, to form the body that you had as a baby. It is interesting to ask where a
cell gets the ability to divide and multiply. They will not be able to do so if there
is no life in them. Scientists marvel at this, and have tried to create life but
failed. Imagine if scientists can create life, they will create all sorts of creatures,
perhaps monsters too. They can never create life  this prerogative belongs
only to the Maker of the Universe, because He is Life. The Gospel of John says:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. The Same was in the beginning with God. All things were made
by Him [or received being through Him]; and without Him was not any
thing made that has been made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of
men. (John 1.1-4)

TheLor dJ es
usChri
stwa
stheWord,a
ndtheWordwasGod.And“
the
Word became f
les
h,”a
nddwel
tamongmenfu
llofgr
acea
ndtr
uth,a
ndt
hey
beheld His glory. The children saw Him and marvelled too at their Maker.

Children can recognise their Maker

Now since God has put in the babies the ability to recognise their own mother,
surely He must have also put in them the ability to recognise Him as God their
Maker. When the Lord Jesus Christ was on earth, the children recognised Him,
but the adults could not. We will see how the children could recognise Him.

The voice that children can recognise

We already know that unborn babies can recognise easily the voice of their
mother even though they do not know what their mothers look like. The same
canbes a idwi t
hGod ’spe oplea ndc hildrenwhowi llallr ecog ni
sethev oiceof
the Lord Jesus Christ at His Coming even though they have not seen His face
before.
For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven [= the sky] with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first: Then we who are alive [in Christ] and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and
so shall we ever be with the Lord.
(1 Thessalonians 4.16,17)

The“ shout”i sas ho utofc omma ndoras i

g naltoHi sown,a ndt heme a ning
of thev oiceoft hea rcha ngel“ seemst obet ha tthev oiceoft heLor dJ e
suswi l
l
beoft hecharac t
e rofana rchang el
icsho ut”.Whe nHec ome s
,thea d ult
swhod o
not know Him will not hear His voice. Even if they were to hear His voice, they
would not be able to recognise the voice as that belonging to the Lord Jesus
Christ. They are not His sheep, because they do not belong to Him. The Lord
Jesu sChristsay s:“Buty ebe l
ieven ot,be caus ey ea r
enotofMys hee p,asIs aid
unto you. My sheep hear My voice, and I k now t hem,a ndt he yf oll
ow Me .
”
(John 10.26,27) You know, sheep recognise only the voice of their shepherd. If
you stand there and call them, they will not come to you, let alone look at you.
But when their shepherd calls them, they will look at their shepherd and follow
him.I tshallbeag l
ori
o usda ywhe nwewh oa reHi sshe ephe ar“ thevo iceofmy
Be l
ov ed”!Ify oua r
eno tHi sshe ep,youwi llno the arHisv oi ceatHi sComi ng.
The face children love to behold
We have already mentioned that babies love to look at faces, especially the face
of their mother. They have learnt to associate her face with her voice. And there
is one face all babies and children love to behold  that is the face of the Lord
Jesus Christ; they will never grow tired of looking at His wonderful face. When
He was on earth, children flocked to see Him. If they came with their parents,
they would ask their parents to let them approach Him. They would like to have
a closer look at His face. To them, His face was the most lovely of all faces, but
tot hea du l
ts,“ Heha t
hn of orm norc ome l
iness;a ndwhe nwes halls eeHi m,
therei sn obe autyt h atwes houldd es ireHim, ”Is aiah5 3.2.Thea du lt
swe res o
different from the children: they could not see what the children could see in the
Lord Jesus Christ.
When He was on earth, the children loved to behold His face. What about
children who have died? Although their bodies are on earth, their spirits are in
Heaven. Do you know what are they doing up there? Playing? No, it is far more
interesting than playing. They are beholding the face of God, that is, the face of
the Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven now. When He was on earth, the Lord Jesus
Chr istto l
dt hepe op le:“Ta kehe edt haty ede spi
seno toneoft heselitt
leone s;for
I say unto you, That in Heaven their angels do always behold the face of My
Fa t
he rWhoi sinHe aven.”(Ma tthew1 8.
10)
Thewor d“ ange ls”he reha sa no therme anin g,a ndc annotr efe
rt oa nge l
ic
beings, but the spirits of the children who have died. As angels always have
work to do for God, why should they be continually beholding the face of God?
An example is given in the Bible to show that angels can refer to the spirits of
departed people. After the apostle Peter was miraculously freed from the prison
by an angle of God, he went to a home and knocked on the door. A girl came to
op eni t
. “Andwhe ns hek newPe t
er '
sv o i
ce,sheo pe nedno tt
heg at
ef orgl adne ss
,
but ran in, and told those who gathered there for prayers, how Peter stood before
theg at
e .Andt he ys a i
du nt
ohe r,“ Thoua rtma d. ”Bu tshe constantly affirmed
thati twa se vens o.The ns aidt hey ,“ Itish isa ngel.”Bu tPe terc on ti
nue d
knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were
astonished. (Acts 12.13-16) So the people in the home thought Peter was already
dead andt hathi ss p i
ritor‘ ghos t
’( the ysaidh isa n ge
l)ha dc omeba c
kt os ee
them.

The Saviour children love to praise

Children will praise the Lord Jesus Christ without having to be prompted by
adult. Witness this wonderful scene, recounted in Matthew 21, Mark 11, Luke
19, and John 12. As the Lord Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem, the whole city was
sti
rreda n dtrembl ingwi the xcitement ,an dt heya ske d,“ Whoi sthi
s?”Doy ou
know how He came into Jerusalem? When a VIP (Very Important Person), say,
the President of a powerful country, visits a country, his motorcade will drive
through the streets complete with motorcycle outriders. The President himself
travels in a grand, prestige limousine, perhaps bullet-proofed. The streets are
decorated with lights and bunting, and the people lining both sides of the streets
watch the motorcade go by. But sometimes school children are used to welcome
the VIP, and they line the streets cheering and waving their little flags at the
President.
But how did the Lord Jesus Christ enter Jerusalem? Lo and behold, the
“Ki ngofk i
n gs”c ome sr iding,no tonar oyalc ha ri
ot,bu to naf oa lwi thi ts
mother as companion. Now this happened to fulfil what was spoken through the
pr ophetZe chari
a hmor et ha n50 0y ea r
sb ef
oreHewa sb orn :“ Te lly et he
daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an
as s
, andac ol
tthef oa lofa na ss.
”(Ze cha r
iah9.9)
Here is no grandeur. No pomp. No orchestration of welcome. There is
spontaneity  everybody in the city wants to see Him. Do you know how the
“foa lthecoltofa na ss”wa so bt
a i
ne dforHi mt or ideo n?Hedi dn othi r
et he
animal nor pay for it. He asked His disciples to go to a village and told them
theywoul ds traightawa y“ f
inda na sstied ,andac oltwi thh er: loose them, and
bring them to Me. And if any man say anything to you, you shall say, The
LORD ha t
hne edoft he m;a ndstraightwa yhewi lls en dt he m. ”How di dt he
Lord Jesus know that the ass and the colt were tied at that time even though He
was not there in the village? How did He know that the owner would let Him
use them? He is God, Who has knowledge of an event or situation even before it
happens. How wonderful is He!
Thepe oplewe r
ea ma zed,a n
da sked:“ Whoi st hi s?”Th ec r
o wdsr eplie
d:
“Thi sisJesust hePr op he tWhoi sf rom Na zarethi nGa lil
e e .
”Tot hea dult
s,He
was only a Prophet, but to the children, He was more than that  they
acknowledged His Deity. How do we know? See the next scene.
The Lord Jesus came to the temple of God, and healed the blind and the lame
people who came to Him in the outer part of the temple. No one else had ever
healed in the temple; this right belonged to Him only. The adults saw the
wonderful things He did. The children saw too and were amazed. They started
shouting and praising Him in the temple area. Mind you, the children here
include infants, as the Greek word in Matthew 21.15, tells us, and infants
norma llyc anno ts peak.( The wor d“ infant
”c ome sf r
om t he La t
in infans,
literally: speechless  Collins English Dictionary.) God must have opened the
mouths of the infants to praise the Lord Jesus Christ.
But when the chief priests and the teachers of the Law saw the wonderful
things He did and the children shouting in the temple area, they were indignant,
and would like to see all the children stop praising Him. They said to Him,
“He arestTh ouwh attheses ay? ”An dJ esu ssaithun t
ot he m,“ Yea ;havey ene ver
read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected (provided,
prepa r
edoro rdained)pr a i
se?”( Ma tthew 21. 15,1 6)Her e ferred the children as
“ba besands uc kli
ngs,”be causeHes awt hemi nt hec rowdpr a i
singHi m.Le tthe
parents take note  small children are spontaneous and plenty in their praise of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Because the children recognised Him as God, they praised
Him.

Suffer the children

When the children wanted to come to the Lord Jesus Christ to be blessed by
Hi
morbeh
eldi
nHi
sar
ms,t
hea
dul
tsdi
dno
tli
kei
t.I
nMa
rk’
sGos
pel
,iti
ssa
id
that His disciples rebuked those who brought the children to Him. But when the
Lor
dJe
suss
awi
t,Hewa
smuc
hdi
spl
eas
ed,a
nds
aidt
oth
em,“
Suf
fert
hel
it
tl
e
children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for of such is the Kingdom of
God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as
a little c
hil
d,h
esha
llno
tent
ert
her
ein.
”(Yous
ee,c
hil
dre
n,n
oma
tte
rwh
att
hey
are, or who they are, will enter the Kingdom of God, that is, Heaven.) He took
them up in His arms, put His hands upon them, and blessed them. (Mark 10.13-
16) The children knew that the Lord Jesus loved them. The adults were probably
jealous.
The
rewa
sal
it
tl
egi
rlwh
oha
dbe
ena
ske
dtor
epe
att
heve
rse
,“Suf
fert
he
l
it
tl
ech
ildr
ent
ocomeu
ntoMe
,”a
tame
eti
ng.Shes
toodo
nthepl
atf
orma
nd
be
gant
ore
cit
e.“
Suf
fer….
”Shef
eltfrightened and could not go on to the next
wor
d.The
nshebe
gana
gai
n,“
Suf
ferl
it
tl
e” again her fear overcame her, but
be
ingade
ter
mine
dli
tt
lec
hil
d,s
het
ri
edt
het
hir
dti
me,a
nds
aid,“
Suf
ferl
it
tl
e
c
hil
dre
n.”Whe
nsh
esa
wsoma
nyf
ace
slo
oki
nga
ther, she stopped. Finally, she
ma
deal
astg
rande
ffor
tands
aid,no
tex
act
lyt
heve
rse
,butt
hes
ewor
ds,“
Jes
us
wa
ntsu
sal
ltoc
omet
oHi
m;a
ndd
on'
tany
bodyt
ryt
ost
opu
s.”Thec
hil
dha
s
given a new and true version of Matthew 19.14.
Children are not capable of denying or rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ. We
have seen how the children responded when they saw the Lord Jesus Christ.
They cannot reject the Gospel either  God’
sGo
odNe
wsofs
alva
ti
onf
or
mankind. The adults may try their best to hinder the children from coming to
Him. They may teach them not to believe in Him, or tell them that He is not
God, etc. But the day will come when all the children of the world shall see Him
 nothing shall hinder them from going up to meet Him in the air  that
glorious day is coming soon. Then the adults will wail and mourn.

Animals know their Maker

Animals know their Maker, but not so man. Even though the animals know their
Maker, you can never find them performing religious duties or rites. Why not?
Because they do not have a spirit that man has. However, they are able to do
God’ sbi ddin g.The ywe r
eha ppyt os eet he i
rCr eat
or,theLo r
dJ e s
u sChr ist
,
when He was on earth. Take the following incident, for example. When He was
required to pay a temple tax (to which He was not subject), the temple tax
collectors, instead of approaching the Lord Jesus, approached Peter, one of His
disciples, and asked him to tell His Master that He needed to pay the temple tax.
Peter came to tell Him, but before Peter could open his mouth, the Lord Jesus
toldhi mt og ot ot hel akean dt hr
owou thi sfishingline.“ Ta keupt hef isht hat
first cometh up; and when thou hast opened its mouth, thou shalt find a piece of
mone y:thatt ake,a ndgi vetot hemf orMea ndt h e
e.”(Ma t
the w 17. 24– 27) The
fish that came to be caught by Peter must have come at His bidding, and it came
wi thapi eceofmone yi ni t
smout h.Ama zi ng,isn’tit
?Th eLor dJ esusChr is
ti s
God Incarnate (God Who came down from Heaven to Earth and took human
for m) ,and“ Allthin gswere made through Him; and without Him was not any
thin gma det hatwa sma de,”J o hn1.3.TheLor dJ esusCh rist,theCr eatoro ft he
Universe, had no money to pay the tax, but one of His creatures, a fish, provided
the means! How marvellous! How wonderful is the Lord Jesus Christ!

Man does not know His Maker

It is God Who made man, and had given him a wonderful body. The Bible tells
ust
hatt
heh
uma
nbo
dyi
s“f
ear
ful
lya
ndwon
der
ful
lyma
de.
”Eve
ndoc
tor
san
d
surgeons who do not believe in God realise that the human body is a wonderful
bo
dy.Ma
nyy
ear
sago,a
tanAc
ade
my’
sMe
eti
ng,s
cie
nti
st
swe
rea
ske
dthi
s
qu
est
ion:“
Wha
tsi
ngl
eal
ter
ati
onwo
uldy
ouma
kei
ntheh
uma
nbo
dy,
ify
ouha
d
the power, that would be particularly useful to man at this critical time in
hi
st
ory
?”Thes
cie
nti
st
sga
vet
hei
rfa
nci
fuls
ugge
sti
onsb
utn
onepr
opo
unde
d
anything that would interfere with the original. A Nobel Prize winner in
Me
dic
ines
aida
ttheme
eti
ng:“
Thema
inr
esul
tofmyr
ese
arc
h,s
tre
tchi
ngo
ver
more than five decades, is a deep admiration of the harmony and perfection of
nature. My inability to improve on nature only made my silent admiration
de
epe
r.”Sur
geo
nswhop
erf
ormc
ompl
ica
tedo
per
ati
onsma
rve
latt
hea
maz
ing
intricacies and complexities of the human body. A neurosurgeon will never fail
to have a sense of wonder and awe of the human brain.

Man’
sspi
rit
The Bible, in Psalm 139, tells us that God forms the inward part or inmost being
of the unborn baby, and this inmost being includes the spirit that is responsible
for t
hea
war
ene
ssofGod.Al
rea
dyt
hewor
d“ma
n”t
ell
sust
hat
,fori
tcome
s
f
rom t
heGr
eek“
ant
hro
pos
”(f
rom whi
chwege
tthewor
d“a
nthr
opo
logy
”,t
he
s
cie
nceofma
n),a
ndi
tme
ans“
hewhol
ooksu
pwa
rd”
.Tha
t’swhywhe
npe
opl
e
pray they look upwards to the sky because they often associate a Supreme Being
with the sky. Because of his spirit, man is inclined to engage in religious
activities, or show interest in mysticism and the supernatural. He feels he has to
do something to feed or satisfy his spirit. That is the reason why some people
t
hin
kthe
yfe
elbe
tte
raf
tert
heyha
vep
erf
orme
da‘
rel
igi
ous
’ac
ti
vit
y.The
ythi
nk
t
hatt
hei
rspi
ri
tha
sbe
en‘
tou
che
d.’Bu
tal
lthe
sebe
lie
fsa
nda
cti
vit
iesc
ann
eve
r
make his spirit alive to God, because, as long as he is not saved, his spirit is dead
in His sight.

Me n’ sidea soft heirMake r

For many centuries, men have their own ideas of God. They have made
representations of Him in many ways. For example, artists have depicted the
Lord Jesus Christ as a man with long hair. In 2001, some scientists and
researchers debunked that traditional image of Christ and showed that He had
short hair. How could He have long hair when the Bible, the Word of God,
clearlytellsust h is:“ Dot hn ote v enn atureitselfteac hy ou,t hat,ifaman have
longha i
r,i tisas hameunt oh im? ”( 1Cor int
hians11. 14)Ho wc ouldt
heLo rd
Jesus Christ go contrary to His Word? Impossible!
Not only have they misrepresented Him, but they have also misunderstood
and misconstrued Him. In His heart, the God and Lord Jesus Christ has the love
for them, but they have repulsed His love. They are like the little boy who
repulsed his father. So how are adults going to know their loving Maker? They
have to be like little children, and the next chapter will tell them how.