Receiving Children in the Name of Jesus: The Least of Us is Great in God’s Eyes

Luke 9:46-50

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• Who is the greatest in the eyes of God?
• Look at a child next to Jesus for an example of greatness.
• Receiving a child in the name of Jesus makes the least of us great.
• Demons are cast out in the name of Jesus.

Who is the greatest in the eyes of God? The way we judge greatness is how we view one another. If we judge greatness by the amount of money and possessions a person has then the poor are despised. If we judge greatness by the power a person has, then the weak and powerless are despised. If we judge greatness by the size of a person’s IQ and education, then the simple and uneducated are despised. The Apostles were having that discussion, “Then a dispute arose among them as to which of them would be greatest.” Luke 9:46.

Look at a child next to Jesus for an example of greatness. While the Apostles were deciding who the big chief would be among them, Jesus sat a child beside Him, “And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a little child and set him by Him…” Luke 9:47 Greatness is not about the amount of money and possessions, nor about power and authority, nor about IQ and educational achievements.

Greatness has nothing to do with being successful within the social network of those who live by the image and mark of the beast. With their power over physiology, they endow a person with authority, uncanny knowledge, heightened intuition, amazing skills, and everything necessary to be a worldly success. Those who are rejected by them are the least by their materialistic standards, but the least will be great in the eyes of God. The great ones are the children who set beside Jesus Christ.

Receiving a child in the name of Jesus makes the least of us great. Those who govern and live by the image and mark of the beast, the great ones by their own standards, do not receive children in the name of Jesus Christ. They receive children in the name of the thing that has power over their physiology, and the children have unnatural responses that make them a sensation to everyone around them. They receive their children in the name of the image of the beast which lives and speaks through them. Because they refuse to receive children in the name of Jesus, they are refusing to receive Jesus Christ Himself, and to refuse Jesus is to refuse God who sent Him.

We are all created to have a relationship with God through Jesus, but nowadays children are programmed to live by the thing which forms what they do, feel, and think, “All who dwell on the earth will worship it, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:8. As followers of Jesus Christ, we do not live on the broad way of mainstream society, we live on the narrow way among the least of society.

Jesus says the least among us will be great, we are those who receive children in His name, we receive Him, and we receive His Father, “…and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me. For he who is least among you all will be great.” Luke 9:48

Demons are cast out in the name of Jesus. At the same time that children are not received in the name of Jesus, evil spirits begin to make their home in cities around the world, which eventually collapses the global government of the beast, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!” Revelation 18:2. Demons possess this world due to polluting the Holy Spirit, ignoring the need for Jesus Christ, and blaspheming God.

The Apostle John was concerned that some were using the name of Jesus to cast out demons, so he stopped them from doing it. He thought that only those within his group should be allowed to do that. “Now John answered and said, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow with us.” Luke 9:49 Anytime that demons can be cast out in the name of Jesus, it should continue. “But Jesus said to him, “Do not forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.” Luke 9:50

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11