Lesson from meeting on 1-20-2017
FROM MILK TO MEAT
FROM MILK TO MEAT
Hebrews 5:11-14
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to
be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers,
ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles
of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in
the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of
full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to
discern both good and evil.
Paul is speaking to the
Hebrew people. These Jewish Christians
were very immature.
Some of them should have
been teaching others. Instead they still needed someone to teach them.
Paul was saying, you
still need milk, not solid food. They
were reluctant to move beyond old traditions and doctrines.
If you are still living
on milk you will never experience what is right for you. You are still
spiritual babes in Christ.
Strong meat belongs to
Christians who are mature in the Word of God.
Too many times
Christians won’t pay attention and are dull of hearing (the word).
Romans 10: 17 says:
faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
When Jesus made, the
statement come to him as a little child, he certainly wasn’t speaking of milk
fed adults.
The devil is having a
hay day with milk fed adults through your lack of knowledge.
1
Thessalonians 5: 5-6 5 Ye are all the
children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of
darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as
do others; but let us watch and be sober
Once you accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, the Holy
Spirit comes and dwells in your spirit.
At that time, you become the children of the light.
Notice it stated Children… when you made Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Lord of your life, a new spirit was born in you.
This baby spirit has no knowledge, same as a natural born baby.
You and I know that the natural baby doesn’t know the
things of the world and cannot protect itself.
This new born natural baby needs parental support, training, feeding and protection from this evil and unsettled world.
You can’t produce a new born baby and expect it to have knowledge like a grown person.
The only thing a newborn knows is to cry when it is
hungry and cry when it is in pain.
Your new born spirit is a baby same as a natural born baby. It too needs parental knowledge and training. Otherwise it will suffer the consequences of being unlearned and untrained same as a natural born baby.
If the natural newborn isn’t trained in the way it should grow it will have a disastrous life. It must be fed and nurtured so it can grow up to be strong and wise.
It is the same way with the spirit child; it will also
have undeveloped wisdom and not have the necessary biblical skills it
needs if you do not feed it the word.
Both babies have to be fed, nourished and have parental training to be used for life’s purposes and Gods purpose.
If you never spoke to your new born it could never speak itself, because it never heard the words to learn to speak.
If you never speak Gods word to your newborn spirit
child it too will never develop in the word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
by the word of God.
It takes words to train both children. Words develop them for the world they must face each and every day.
They will need common language and spiritual language for the development of both natural and spiritual children.
You need to think about what you are feeding your spiritual child. Are you ignoring your inner spiritual child or are you feeding it the word of God, your spiritual child needs more than just one meal a week? Life is not about just having a one-time meal.
Your spiritual child needs to be fed often, just as you would feed a natural child.
Proverbs
4:20-23 20 My son, attend to my words;
incline thine ear unto my sayings.21 Let them not depart
from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.22 For
they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.23 Keep
thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
My son… we are his children. He says, listen to
what I am saying, open your ears to my words, and don’t lose sight of them.
Keep them deep within your heart, because your heart
is this spirit child. The word is life to those who find it, and health to the
physical body or inner child.
Both children win when the word of God is applied to their daily lives.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die
to get there. If you do not feed your natural baby it will die, if you don’t
feed your spiritual baby it too will die.
You need Gods word daily to feed your inner spiritual child. If you don’t feed your inner spiritual child it will never mature in the word of God.
No
one with common since would take their natural child to Disneyland and turn it loose
and walk away without giving that child the proper training.
We must not turn our spiritual child out to the things
of this world without the proper training.
What are we feeding our spiritual child today?
The word to the spirit child is like food or medicine to the natural child. If your natural child was sick you would take it to the doctor to get it healed.
If your spirit child is sick from lack of knowledge, just feed it the word… it will get well.
Taking care of both children is a daily thing, but it
is something that is necessary to overcome the world, the flesh and the devil.
Paul is
speaking to the Hebrew people. These Jewish Christians were very immature.
Some of them
should have been teaching others. Instead they still needed someone to teach
them.
They were
reluctant to move beyond the age-old traditions and established doctrines
commitment to Christ moves people out of their comfort zones.
Don’t be
afraid to step out in faith and speak to people about your Christianity. Ask
the Lord for wisdom and knowledge to increase in you.
In order to
grow from infant Christians to mature Christians we must learn discernment.
Discernment means to see or understand the difference; Or to make a distinction
between good and evil.
Romans
12:2 And be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is
that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
We must let God transform us into a new person by changing the way we
think. We as natural beings cannot transform our thinking for any length of
time, only the word and discerning of the word by the Holy Spirit supernaturally
will transform and redirect our minds.
If we don’t redirect our minds, we will eventually get weak in our faith,
Jesus came down with faith, we have a measure of faith but our faith has to be
developed. That is why we need to renew our minds daily, with the word of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given
unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly
than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to
every man the measure of faith.
There are
different levels of faith.
Mathew
14:31 31 And immediately
Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of
little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
This is little faith.
Mark 4:40 40 And
he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
Romans 4:20 20 He staggered not at the
promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
He had strong faith which is a growing faith.
This goes right back to if our minds are not fed with the word, our faith
will go dormant. This measure of faith that we started out with is like a dead
battery, if it is not charged with the word, it will stay dormant.
The anointed word is the charger for dead faith.
Romans 10:17 17 So
then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Faith comes by hearing the word of God.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst
of thine heart.
22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to
all their flesh.
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence;
for out of it are the issues of life.
Make sure
your desires keep you in the right direction. We need to desire what the Lord has for us in our lives. Keep your mind on the things of Christ Jesus.
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