"Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence."
In today's quote, Jesus made it very clear that children are to be an important part of Christianity.
The innocence of children is representative of the justified innocence of those whom have be born again through faith in the divine, virgin born, life, death, burial, resurrection and ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ.
As Paul said in Romans 6:4; "Therefore we are buried with him by *baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." That "newness of life" carries with it the same un-defiled innocence as that of a child.
*NOTE: The term baptism, as it is applied in this passage, has nothing to do with being immersed into or sprinkled with water. In this application, the term baptism, simply defined, means 'immersion' by faith, nothing else.
In today's plain English and in essence, what Paul said in the above passage would be; Therefore we are buried with him by faith in His death, burial and resurrection, so we also, like Christ, will be raised from the dead by the power of the Father to walk in newness of life.~
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