WWUTT 2048 Whoever Causes These Little Ones to Sin (Matthew 18:1-14)

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Jesus set a child before his disciples and said, unless you become like children you will never enter the kingdom of God.

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We must become like children and we must love God's children when we understand the text.

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This is when we understand the text studying God's word to reach all the riches of full assurance in Christ.

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Pastor Gabe Hughes. Thank you Becky. In our study of the Gospel of Matthew we're jumping into chapter 18 today as I kind of teased out yesterday and I'm gonna start off here reading the first 14 verses out of the

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Legacy Standard Bible. Hear the word of the Lord. At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

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And he called a child to himself and set him before them and said truly I say to you unless you are converted and become like children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

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Whoever therefore will humble himself as this child he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven and whoever receives one such child in my name receives me but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck and that he be drowned in the depth of the sea.

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Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks for it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come nevertheless woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes and if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble cut it off and throw it from you it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire and if your eye causes you to stumble tear it out and throw it from you it is better for you to enter life with one eye then having two eyes to be cast into the fiery hell.

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See that you do not despise one of these little ones for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of my father who is in heaven for the son of man has come to save that which was lost what do you think if any man has 100 sheep and one of them has gone astray does he not leave the 99 on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying and if it turns out that he finds it truly