<html><head></head><body><div><div><div><div><br></div>Mark 9;36&amp;37<div><br></div><div><b>36. &nbsp;And he took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them,</b></div><div><b>37. &nbsp;“Whoever receives one such child in my name; receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>To ‘receive a child in Jesus’ name’, means to welcome that child as if he were Jesus himself. &nbsp;Just as Jesus also said, <i>“Truly, I say to you, as you did it unto the least of these my brethren, you did it unto me.”&nbsp;</i></div><div><span>(Matthew 25;40)</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Both children, the sick, the infirmed, and the impoverished, are placed in our midst by God as opportunities for us&nbsp;to care for them, both for their physical as well as their spiritual needs.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Our sinful, selfish natures would rather care for just ourselves and those who care for us, but Jesus said,</span></div><div><span><i>“You have heard it said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ &nbsp;But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven;</i></span></div><div><span><i>For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. &nbsp;For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? &nbsp;Do not even the tax collectors do the same? &nbsp;And if you salute only your brethren, what more are you doing than others? &nbsp;Do not even the Gentiles do the same? &nbsp;You, therefore, must be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect.” &nbsp;</i>(Matthew 5;43-48)</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Loving one another, is the new Commandment Jesus has given us.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>To do so, ‘to be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect’ is possible, but only in so far as we are in Christ and He is in us. &nbsp;This is what walking by the Spirit and living by faith means. &nbsp;</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>We are members of Christ’s Body, the Church. &nbsp;We are the Bride of Christ, made one with Him, in order that the love of God be made known in this world. &nbsp;</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Our faith must not simply be that Jesus has died to forgive our sins, so that when we die we can go the heaven. &nbsp;Our faith is first to put to death the deeds of the body, by the Holy Spirit, then it is to believe we have been cleansed so that Jesus may live in us and through us, by the Holy Spirit. &nbsp;All this we can do by faith.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Prayer: &nbsp;Merciful Father, bless us to walk by the Spirit, believing Christ dwells in us. &nbsp;Bless us especially to receive the little ones. &nbsp;Teaching them the Word of Life. &nbsp;Grant that all this be done in the power&nbsp;of Your Love which you have poured into our hearts, (Romans 5;5). &nbsp;In Jesus we pray, Amen.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Love,</span></div><div><span>Dad/Baba/Eric</span></div><div><span>Grandpa Pickle Pastor</span></div><div><span>“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word. &nbsp;God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”</span></div><div><br><br><div><a href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&amp;c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&amp;af_sub1=Acquisition&amp;af_sub2=Global_YMktg&amp;af_sub3=&amp;af_sub4=100000604&amp;af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>


Mark 9;36&37
36.  And he took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them,37.  “Whoever receives one such child in my name; receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”
To ‘receive a child in Jesus’ name’, means to welcome that child as if he were Jesus himself.  Just as Jesus also said, “Truly, I say to you, as you did it unto the least of these my brethren, you did it unto me.” (Matthew 25;40)
Both children, the sick, the infirmed, and the impoverished, are placed in our midst by God as opportunities for us to care for them, both for their physical as well as their spiritual needs.
Our sinful, selfish natures would rather care for just ourselves and those who care for us, but Jesus said,“You have heard it said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’  But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven;For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.  For if you love those who love you, what reward have you?  Do not even the tax collectors do the same?  And if you salute only your brethren, what more are you doing than others?  Do not even the Gentiles do the same?  You, therefore, must be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect.”  (Matthew 5;43-48)
Loving one another, is the new Commandment Jesus has given us.
To do so, ‘to be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect’ is possible, but only in so far as we are in Christ and He is in us.  This is what walking by the Spirit and living by faith means.  
We are members of Christ’s Body, the Church.  We are the Bride of Christ, made one with Him, in order that the love of God be made known in this world.  
Our faith must not simply be that Jesus has died to forgive our sins, so that when we die we can go the heaven.  Our faith is first to put to death the deeds of the body, by the Holy Spirit, then it is to believe we have been cleansed so that Jesus may live in us and through us, by the Holy Spirit.  All this we can do by faith.
Prayer:  Merciful Father, bless us to walk by the Spirit, believing Christ dwells in us.  Bless us especially to receive the little ones.  Teaching them the Word of Life.  Grant that all this be done in the power of Your Love which you have poured into our hearts, (Romans 5;5).  In Jesus we pray, Amen.
Love,Dad/Baba/EricGrandpa Pickle Pastor“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word.  God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”

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