And when he had said these words, he wept, and the multitude bare record of it, and he took their little children, one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the Father for them.
Everything Christ does is individualized. It is personal for each of us as he ministers to us one by one. He never sees people as groups. The ninety and nine are each individually numbered, and he knows every name. He did not atone for the world as a mass but for each individual son and daughter of God in the world. He did not suffer for a mountain of sins but for each particular sin of each particular sinner. He will greet us and welcome us home not as a crowd in a parade but personally, singularly, one by one. That is how he knows us, and that is how he saves us
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