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Sound Faith / “EXCEPT YE BECOME AS LITTLE CHILDREN” Listen to song in description after you finish the message
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Question 4
The speaker says “converted” implies being “completely flipped over,” because we are not naturally humble and childlike; where do you see “unconverted” instincts still operating in your spirituality—especially the impulse to be the judge, the expert, or the self-protector?
Another way to ask: If being “converted” means being turned upside down, where do you still act like the judge, the expert, or the self-protector in your faith?
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Based on the speaker’s teaching, “unconverted” instincts show up whenever we refuse childlike humility—acting like we don’t need a Father, trying to determine good and evil ourselves, and positioning ourselves as self-sufficient protectors or experts rather than dependent followers.

Support from Transcript:
  • He highlights “converted” as implying a total change: “we need a change… completely flipped over,” because “naturally, we’re not in this state.”
  • Jesus defines the needed change as humility: “Whoso therefore shall humble himself as this little child.”
  • Humility is described as stopping attempts “to try to be God… and know everything and be able to determine good and evil like we tried to do at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.”
  • Childlikeness includes admitting limits: “We don’t have it figured out. We cannot protect ourselves… provide for ourselves… order our lives.”
  • Jeremiah 10:23 supports this: “It is not in man that walks to direct his steps.”
  • Isaiah 50’s satire portrays self-rule: lighting darkness with our own “sparks,” ending in “sorrow.”
Discussion Follow-ups Where do you most resist being “directed”—in moral decisions, relationships, or future planning? What would repentance look like if your instinct is to be the “expert” rather than the child?
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