Do You Hear What These Children Are Saying?

Ironic, isn’t it? Irony is an outcome that is the opposite of what you might expect. Wewouldn’t expect a little child to teach a preacher of God’s Word a lesson about such a basicmatter of faith—and yet, that’s exactly what happened! My niece was a good example of whatJesus means when He spoke about us having absolute trust in Him and receiving the kingdomof God “like a little child” (Luke 18:17). In fact, incidents like this have happened many othertimes in the lives of pastors, teachers, and parents. It even happened in the incident we arelooking at in our sermon text for this Palm Sunday. Today we will be considering the irony inthe question Jesus’ enemies asked: Do you hear what these children are saying?