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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
The way I read it, all of the "super apostles" will cloak themselves in all kinds of pretense. WL had been in the word for 80 years, he was the closest coworker of WN, he is the "MOTA". Then by contrast anyone who stands up to this one will be patronized like a little child. For example, when I talked with Ed Marks privately during a love feast I was told by the elders "how dare you talk to him". Ed and I are essentially the same age, came into the church the same year, and knew each other for years.
So whenever you stand up to false apostle it will be "the little child" versus "the great apostle". Hence the Lord says "whoever receives one such child in my name receives Me".
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Right.
Going back to the Lord’s charge in Matthew 18 that you first cited:
“Truly I say to you, if you are not converted and become as the little children, you shall never enter into the kingdom of the heavens. Therefore whoever will humble himself as this little child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of the heavens. And whoever shall receive one such little child in My name, receives Me.”
I found that I needed to be converted.
In 2015 I saw a video of Minuru Chin (“blended brother”) telling young adoring local church saints gathered around him that they could some day be like him, and something in me cringed. Instead of desiring to be conformed into the image of Christ, a humble servant, local church saints have the leading brothers put on a pedestal. And, the goal of their Christian life is to be like them. What a replacement of King Jesus!