{"id":2989,"date":"1998-08-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-08-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conferenciaswp.carpa.com\/en\/conferencias\/the-growth-of-children\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T03:18:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T03:18:04","slug":"the-growth-of-children","status":"publish","type":"conferencias","link":"https:\/\/conferenciaswp.carpa.com\/en\/conferencias\/the-growth-of-children","title":{"rendered":"The growth of children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, cubs of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, of the King of kings and Lord of lords. May the blessings of Jesus Christ our Savior, our older brother, be upon all of you and upon me too; and may we all soon receive the new body, young and eternal, representing 18 to 21 years of age, to live with Christ for all eternity. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There was a very special child who came to Earth two thousand years ago, who is the example of all children. And which child is that? The child Jesus. Jesus went through that stage of a child, as you are going through now.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And look, when He was born, He was presented to God on the eighth day to do according to the Law of Moses. It says in chapter 2, verses 36 and on [Luke]:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there was one <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>(that is, in the temple)<\/span><\/span><\/span> Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>(Which child was she talking about? Of the child Jesus)<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTHE GROWTH OF CHILDREN.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The growth of children is very important. Therefore, children, you are in a very important stage of your lives, where the Word you hear reaches your soul and materializes (there it becomes flesh, in your soul) to bear much fruit, much fruit of God; like the child Jesus, who <\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201cgrew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mary taught the Word, the Bible, to the child Jesus, and with that Word being taught the child Jesus was strengthened; because the Word of God strengthens us, because it is spiritual food for our soul.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Just as food: beans, tortillas, and all those things that children like very much here in the Mexican Republic, it strengthens them physically: they are strong to live, to go to school, to help their parents, mom and dad; likewise, the spiritual food, which is the Word of God, strengthens the soul and spirit of children, and young people and adults as well.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Because \u201cman shall not live by bread alone,\u201d Jesus said and also the prophet Moses, \u201cman shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.1<\/sup><\/a>\u201d And the prophets of God are the mouth of God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Every Word that comes from the prophets of God, anointed by the Spirit of God, is spiritual food for our soul; and it strengthens our soul and our spirit to walk forward in life and grow spiritually healthy, serving God and thus obtaining the knowledge of His Program relevant to the time we have are given to live in.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And thus children are also filled with wisdom, because they obtain the wisdom of God, of the Word of God and His Program relevant to the time they are living; and they also obtain the knowledge of all the biblical history and what God did through all these past times, and how He sent prophets and how He spoke through the prophets, and how He called His people and how He delivered His people and how He blessed His people, and how there were many children in the midst of the Hebrew people in all times.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And there are always more children than adults. Because in a house there are usually 2 adults: the father and the mother, and there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and sometimes even 9 and 12 children; in other words, there are more children than adults.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And that is why children have to be instructed. It says: \u201cInstruct the child in his career, and even if he is (what?) old (that is, adult) he will not depart from it.\u201d (Proverbs, chapter 22, verse 6). He will not depart from the way of God, he will not depart from the Word of God, he will not depart from the God creator of the Heavens and the Earth; and he will serve Him all the days of his life, even when he reaches youthhood and even when he reaches adulthood; and even when he is old, with a cane, he knows that the God creator of the Heavens and the Earth is his God; because He is the only God; and He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which in the Old Testament was called the Angel of the Lord or Lord, and how is He called in the New Testament? Lord Jesus Christ. He is the same in the Old Testament and in the New Testament.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, children need to grow, not only physically, but spiritually as well; and they need to be strengthened there in the soul and spirit, and that is with the Word of God, which is the spiritual food for the soul, to grow strong, spiritually healthy, loving God and serving Him with all our soul, with all our mind, with all our being, with all our strength, with all our spirit; and thus always walk in the path of God, pleasing Him in everything.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

See how important it is to receive the teaching of the Word, the children, in the time they are going through that stage of childhood.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There was a marriage, Manoah and his wife, who prayed to God, and God granted them a child (that is in Judges, chapter 13). And Manoah\u2019s wife was barren, and Manoah and his wife prayed unto God for a child; and the Angel of the Lord appeared unto Manoah\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And the Angel of the Lord is the same Jesus Christ in His theophanic body in the Old Testament; a man, an angel, but from another dimension (not from this earthly dimension), in a body from another dimension (not a body of flesh like our body).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now, he appeared to Manoah\u2019s wife and told her she was going to have a child, and then told her what she had to be careful of. Then she told her husband; and Manoah prayed to God so that God would send that Angel again, that Man, because Manoah wanted to talk to Him.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And God sent His Angel, the Angel of the Lord (which is the same God in His theophanic body); and He appeared again unto his wife, to Manoah\u2019s wife, the next day. And she went to seek her husband Manoah, for him to come and see the Angel and speak with the Angel; and when he came, the Angel was there, a man from another dimension.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And Manoah tells Him: \u201cAre you that man who spoke to my wife the other day?\u201d And the Angel said: \u201cYes, I am.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And he said: \u201cWhat will be done and how must the child be raised that you told my wife that she and I were going to have?\u201d And He said: \u201cThe woman (in other words, your wife) will take care of herself, she will keep everything that I told her; she will take care of herself\u2026\u201d Let\u2019s see here the story; chapter 13 of the book of Judges, verse 11 and on, it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The way of life of the child is very important, that is, of every child who comes from God to this planet Earth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c…and how shall we do unto him <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>(in other words, the child)<\/span><\/span><\/span>?<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the Lord <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>(that is, Manoah did not know He was the Angel of the Lord)<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It says \u201cwhich is hidden\u201d in other versions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But the angel of the Lord did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the Lord.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He wouldn\u2019t have even announced that they were having a child. That child, when he was born, what was his name? Samson. He was a very special child, a child promised by God, to be born on this Earth and to have a very important part in the Program of God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We also find that John the Baptist was a very special child, who came to fulfill a very important part of the Divine Program.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Also the child Jesus, a very special child, who came to fulfill a part of the Divine Program, and then die on Calvary\u2019s Cross, thus carrying our sins.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now each of you, children, are very special children, who have come to Earth to fulfill a divine purpose.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Know that there is a great blessing for all of you and you should be growing, not only physically, but spiritually; to be growing in the wisdom of God and knowledge of God and His Program, and to be growing, strengthened both physically (by eating) as well as spiritually (by eating spiritual food, by eating the Word of God, which is spiritual food for my soul and for the soul of each of you), and thus be filled with the grace of God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

May the grace of God always be upon all of you, who are growing spiritually and materially too, and growing in wisdom and knowledge of God and His Program. And, as Jesus said when He was 12 years old: \u201cIt is becoming to me to be in my Father\u2019s business.\u201d That is around Luke, chapter 2, verse 41 to 52, where they came to seek Jesus, who had stayed in the temple; and when they find Him\u2026 It says in chapter 2, verse 46 and on:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is because He was growing (how?) in wisdom and knowledge of God, and God\u2019s grace was upon Him.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>(Mary)<\/span><\/span><\/span> said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father\u2019s business?<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

See how you must grow: in wisdom and also in stature, and in grace with God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

May the grace of God be upon you, children; and thus you, children, be blessed; very special children living on this planet Earth in this end time, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. And always be in the business of our heavenly Father, in the business of the Lord Jesus Christ, working in His Work, because it is convenient for us to work in those businesses.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You see, children, if one of you goes to a factory or an office looking for work, they say to you: \u201cYou are too young. There is no work for children of that age here.\u201d But yet in the Kingdom of God, in the business of our heavenly Father, there is room for children to work, too.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You can all work in the business of our heavenly Father. He gives you the opportunity for you to work and carry the Message, and make known to other children \u2014and also to young people and adults\u2014 the Word of God relevant to our time, the Program of God for our time, and the blessings that God has for every person in this end time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So, children, onward working in the Kingdom of God; firstborn children of God, God\u2019s chosen children, children, cubs of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, which is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

God bless you, children, may God keep you and use you greatly in His Work; and soon may we all be changed and have the new, eternal, glorified and young body, from 18 to 21 years old, to go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and then to be in the Millennial Kingdom, and thus to live with Christ for all eternity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTHE GROWTH OF CHILDREN.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Did you see how every child should grow up? He must grow in wisdom and intelligence of the Program of God (wisdom of God, see?); and he must grow strengthened in his soul and spirit with the Word of God, knowing the Program of God and walking in the Program of God; and he must also grow physically. To grow physically, well, always eat, so that you also grow physically.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And serve Christ in His Program in your age, the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your understanding; and thus you will always be pleasing Jesus Christ and being instruments of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Because in the Kingdom of Christ, in the Kingdom of the Heavens, there is work even for children, because God does not want lazy people in His Kingdom. Therefore, He also gives the opportunity to children to work in His Work and to glorify God, and be used by God in that beautiful childhood stage in which you currently are at.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

May God bless you, children, cubs of the Lion of the tribe of Judah; and you, teachers of the children, may God bless you greatly; and use you greatly every day more and more. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and Amen.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTHE GROWTH OF CHILDREN.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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