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Warnings Against Spiritual Immaturity Hebrews 5:11- 14
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Feb 19, 2025
In our last 3 sessions, we looked at the supremacy of Jesus’ priesthood over the levitical priesthood. We focused on three specific functions of the former priests under Aaron’s order - ordination, compassion and sacrifices offered- and concluded that in all 3, Jesus far exceeded the levites because His priestly origin is after the order of Melchizedek. The writer wants to now go into details about this mysterious Melchizedek but before he does that, he issues a series of warning to his hearers who have become indifferent to the things of God. Today we’ll be looking at Hebrews 5:11-14 and discuss these warnings in more details.
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hello good morning this is taiva
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types.com
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and welcome back to our study of the
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book of hebrews today we're going to end
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chapter 5
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and the title of our study is warnings
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against spiritual
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e-maturity and let me get into the
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introduction and then we're going to
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talk about why is this so important so
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in our last three sessions
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we looked at the supremacy of jesus
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priesthood over
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the priesthood of the levite
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the leviticus priesthood and we focused
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on three specific functions of the
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former priest under errands on order we
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talked about the ordination we talk
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about sympathy or compassion and we
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talked about sacrifices offered and
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we've concluded that in all three
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categories jesus far exceeded the
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levites because his priestly origin is
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after the order of melchizedek and we
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talked about melchizedek a little bit
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now if you look at chapter five the
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writer wanted to give more details about
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melchizedek he's like a mysterious
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figure in the old testament he appears
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in the old testament twice
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so he wanted to talk about it more
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because this is where jesus derives his
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uh uh ordination from so and but before
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he does that he issues a strong warning
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to his heroes because they've become so
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indifferent to the things of god so
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and this is what we want to talk about
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today spiritually maturity there is
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nothing fun about being spiritually
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immature god does not find pleasure
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in uh remaining at the child level when
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it comes to the things of god so today
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we're going to look at hebrews 5 verse
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11 to 14 and we're going to discuss
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these warnings in details so i'm going
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to read the scripture first and then
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we're going to try to unpack what it
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means for us today because the warnings
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are not just for the people that were
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reading at the time is also for us today
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so
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let's get into the scripture
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so let's see uh what the scripture says
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here
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let me get into uh
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i had it in the esv i have it on the
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nivea so i'm going to switch out to the
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esv and then we're going to read that
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all right so i apologize for that
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that was my fault so let's get to it
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so the scripture says about this
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we have much to say
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and it is hard to explain
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since you have become dull of hearing
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for though by this time you ought to be
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teachers you need someone to teach you
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again the basic principles of the
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oracles of god
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you need milk not solid food for
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everyone who lives on milk is unskilled
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in the world of righteousness since he
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is a child
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but solid food is for the mature for
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those who have their powers of
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discernment trained
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by constant practice to distinguish good
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from
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evil and that's all the scripture we're
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going to read today now this is the word
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of god and i will invite you to go back
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and read the entire chapter actually the
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whole book of hebrews is incredible so
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i'll encourage you to do that
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so now let's run unpack all this here
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so in verse 1 verse 11 we read on the
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following about this
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we have much to say
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and it is hard to explain since you've
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become dull of hearing
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now the question we must ask ourselves
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is about what
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and uh
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that what is melchizedek because the
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writer has just talked about melchizedek
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so he says i want to tell you more about
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melchizedek but i can't tell you just
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yet because
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you've become dull of hearing and the
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things that i'm about to say to you are
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hard to explain
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so he's saying listen
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i have much more to tell you about jesus
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and his priestly origin that is derived
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from the order of melchizedek
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but i am reluctant to do so because some
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of the some of the details about
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melchizedek
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require a certain level of um
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knowledge and understanding
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and all your cerebral attention okay
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what he's saying unfortunately
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i have to say this to you you've become
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dull of hearing and the expression doll
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of hearing uh carries with uh the
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following baggage a slow to think or
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understand stupid
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lacking in interest
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lacking in perception or the ability to
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respond to being like almost insensitive
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basically it is the state of
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being pretty much apathetic towards on
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the things of god and we saw in chapter
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three
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how the people of israel they were not
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interested in cultivating or intimacy
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with god and we're going to go to exodus
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20 and 18 to 21 because it summarizes
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the people's heart and attitude because
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listen to what exodus 2 20 18 to 21
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tells us when the people saw the thunder
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and lightning and heard the trumpet and
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saw the mountain in smoke they trembled
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with fear they stayed at a distance and
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said to moses speaks to us yourself and
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we will listen but do not have god speak
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to us or we will die and moses say to
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the people do not be afraid
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god has come to test you
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so that the fear of god will be with you
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to keep you from sinning
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the people remained at a distance while
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moses approached the thick
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darkness where god was now you see they
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remained at a distance they were not
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interested
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in having an intimate relationship with
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god
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and that's what happened when you're a
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child and you want to remain at the
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stage of an infant
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that distance is there like moses saw
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the darkness moses saw everything the
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people saw but moses went because moses
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had an intimate relationship with god
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and this is how we grow you're not
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intimate with god you're not going to
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grow in your christian work
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and this is the warning uh we have we
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are being issued here in the book of um
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hebrews in chapter five so the people
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had a very shallow view of god because
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they didn't draw near the god
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so the writer makes the same observation
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about the people he's talking to
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because he's saying you've become dull
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of hearing you've become insensitive
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insensitive to the things of god okay he
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no longer stirred their heart and that
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can happen to all of us
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and because we say that faith comes by
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hearing and hearing by the word of god
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so
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in an assembly let's say you go to
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church on any given sunday
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two people can be hearing the same
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message okay
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and two those two people can have
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different responses
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one may be driven to repentance
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adoration and worship
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and the other may just be so bored and
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completely indifferent to to the things
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of god and this is pretty much a result
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of being dull of hearing
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because it's like that has come to its
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speak in the sense that you no longer
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care about the things of god because
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they don't stir your heart anymore and
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that's what paul is saying to the people
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here i say paul
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i i'm not trying to say that paul wrote
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hebrews but i for some reason i just say
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that anyway
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the writer is saying that it's hard to
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explain these things to you about
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melchizedek because you've become dull
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of hearing because you've drifted away
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from the word of god if you look in
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chapter 2 he said do not drift away from
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the word of god because what happens is
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when we hear the word of god and we
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don't pay attention
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slowly but surely we begin to drift away
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and that distance
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gets
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uh wider and wider and wider the gap
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gets wider and wider you see with the
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people of israel they say to moses you
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go speak to god and you tell us what he
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says and we will do what he said
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they didn't want to get to know god they
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didn't want to create an intimacy they
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didn't want that intimacy with god they
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just wanted someone to tell them
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something and then they were satisfied
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with it and that happens today in our
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churches
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some people have a tendency to say i'm
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no pastor
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that's for pastors no
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all of us as believers are supposed to
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know the things of god we are supposed
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to be
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wanting to know god more we are supposed
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to grow in an intimate relationship with
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god okay it's not just a pastor and some
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people are satisfied with second-hand uh
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preaching or second-hand
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listening of the word of god which is
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basically
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you pastor you read the word of god and
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interpret it for me i don't want to get
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to know god by reading his word and a
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lot of people do that you're comfortable
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with going to to church on sunday every
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sunday you just listen to the word of
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god and then you go home and do whatever
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you've done you want to do from monday
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through saturday you don't open the word
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of god you don't get to know god
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yourself that is this is not pleasing to
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god he wants us to grow in our knowledge
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okay and jesus himself he gives us a
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strong warning
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about this condition in the parable of
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the soils we will look at that next week
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but today i just want to say there is
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nothing
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fun about being a passive believer
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that is not pleasing to god
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because you become dull of hearing in
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the sense that
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the word of god no longer stirs your
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heart and that's a dangerous place to be
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and the writer is issuing a warning
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about it he's saying listen the reason
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why you're not interested in like
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doctrines and stuff like that it's not
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because you're a simple christian or
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whatever you just want to be you because
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some people say this all the time
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i just love jesus i'm not interested in
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doctrines i don't want to know doctrines
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because doctrines divide
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that's a statement of someone that's
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lazy
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because if you are truly
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truly truly willing and seeking to know
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god those things will also be appealing
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to you because you want to know more
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about his doctrines you want to know
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more about what place is god there's
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nothing fun about being at the level of
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a baby
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after being a christian for several
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years and we're gonna see that as we
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read verse 12 and 13 so let's go to the
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next uh verses
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listen to what he says in verse 12 and
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13
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for though by this time you ought to be
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teachers you need someone to teach you
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again
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the basic principles of the oracles of
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god
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you need milk not solid food for
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everyone who lives on milk is unskilled
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in the world of righteousness since he
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is a child
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so now he's going to give the reasons
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why he made the previous statement about
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his readers being
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thought of hearing he's saying based on
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verse 12
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we can make
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the following inferences
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these readers were probably
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like
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not recent convert they had been saved
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for several years
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okay they weren't just new congress
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because paul says here again i said paul
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the writer says here
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uh
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which is funny he says by this time you
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ought to be teachers by this time you
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ought to be teachers which means he's
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not addressing
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people i just got saved like maybe one
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month ago or two months ago or even six
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months ago he's talking about people
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that have been in the church for many
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many years so it's not recent converts
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okay but unfortunately
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they never grew in their salvation they
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remained at the stage of an infant in
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christ and then when the writer says you
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ought to be teachers we need to know
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what he means like what's the
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implication of being a teacher
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now this evening everybody has to teach
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a sunday school that's not what he's
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trying to say here okay
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what he's saying is like at this point
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in your life in your christian life you
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have to become almost a seasoned
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believer okay able able to instruct and
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help like new converts okay that's what
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he's trying to communicate here but that
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wasn't the case
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the word teacher here means one was
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fitted to teach
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one experienced in the things of god so
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he's basically telling his people listen
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you guys at this time you have to be
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like you ought to be seasoned believers
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experiencing the things of god okay but
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that's not the case with you you're
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still at the stage of an infant
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okay
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but those uh he was talking to
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they were not even acquainted with the
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basic principles of the oracles of god
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okay and then we're going to talk about
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those basic principles he makes a
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mention of them in hebrews 6 verse 1 to
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2. i'm going to briefly mention those
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but our next week we're going to talk
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more deeply about those things because
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if you go to hebrews 6 verse 1 to 2
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listen to what the writer says
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therefore
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let us move beyond the elementary
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teachings about christ
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and be taken forward to maturity not
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laying again the foundation of
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repentance from acts that lead to death
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and of faith in god instruction about
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cleansing rights the laying on of reigns
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the resurrection of the dead and eternal
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judgment so according to the writer
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those are the foundational uh pieces
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about knowing about jesus these are like
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every believer at that point should know
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about all these things every seasoned
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believer should know about all these
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basic principles of the oracles of god
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he's saying at this time you should know
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this by now but you need me again to
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teach you these things because you've
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never grown in your salvation
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and that's because
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they never matured and they were still
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inexperienced and they were still
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ignorant and due to
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their lack of practice okay practice in
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the sense that they they weren't
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acquainted they didn't get into the word
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of god they didn't really for themselves
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they didn't get to know god
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if you look at stephen the first martyr
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st stephen was uh he was serving table a
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deacon but when he was talking to his
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opponent
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he gave them the whole history of the
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jewish nation from abraham all the way
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to where they were because he was
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acquainted with the with the word of god
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he was someone that was invested
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and stephen wasn't a pastor stephen
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wasn't one of the elders in there he was
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a deacon but see how much he knew and it
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wasn't knowledge to show off to be
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puffed up he knew because he was being
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transformed by those things and this is
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why when he called out his opponent they
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wanted to kill him because they knew
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that he was talking the things that he
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was saying were true
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okay and paul makes the same observation
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about the corinthian church if you go to
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first corinthians 3 verse 1 to 4 listen
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to what paul says here
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brothers and sisters i could not address
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you as people who live by the spirit but
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as people who are still worldly mere
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infants in christ i gave you milk
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not solid food for you were not ready
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for it indeed you are still not ready
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you are still worldly for since there is
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jealousy and quarreling among you are
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you not worldly are you not acting like
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mere humans for when one says i follow
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paul and another awful apollos are you
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know mere human beings so basically paul
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is making a similar observation
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uh in first corinthians three verse one
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through four people were still acting
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crazy in the church they were fighting
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over like
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pretty silly stuff and he's saying
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you're still acting like an infant in
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christ you haven't grown in your
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salvation this is why you still need
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milk because you need to know that these
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things are not fitting
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for a person that has been a seasoned
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believer
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and this is the same thing that we read
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in verses 12 and 13 there is nothing fun
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about being spiritually immature god is
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not pleased with with it okay now there
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is nothing wrong with being a baby in
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christ because as a matter of fact we
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all start from that baby stage okay baby
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is not born in all of a sudden he knows
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how to walk talk and do everything now
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there's growing stages
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but those people that the scripture is
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talking about here they have been
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seasoned okay
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and the exhortation we received from
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first peter 2 verse 1 to 2 about this i
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want to read that to you this is what
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first peter says here
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therefore
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read yourself of all malice and all
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deceit hypocrisy envy and slander of
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every kind every kind like newborn
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babies crave
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spiritual pure milk so that by it you
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may grow up in your salvation in the
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beginning of your salvation
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you crave those basic principles the
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milk okay this is the basic principle
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you want to know about god you want to
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know about
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what it means to be saved and then as
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you grow you grow deeper and deeper you
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sin less
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because at that stage you want to know
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about god okay so there's no so there's
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no excuse for remaining at the stage of
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a baby after several years of being a
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convert there's nothing great about
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being a christian for 20 years and still
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not knowing the basic principles of the
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oracles of god and this is what the
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scripture tells us i actually want to go
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to second peter 2 verse
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chapter 1 verse 3 to 15
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because if you want to avoid this
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condition there's a remedy for it listen
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to what peter says
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in second period 1
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verse 3 to 15. listen
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his divine power has given us everything
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we need
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for a godly life through our knowledge
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of him who called us by his own glory
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and goodness
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through these he has given us his very
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great and precious promises so that
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through them you may participate in the
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divine nature having escaped the
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corruption in the world caused by evil
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desires
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for this very reason make every effort
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to add to your faith goodness and to
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goodness knowledge and to knowledge
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self-control and to self-control
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perseverance
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and to perseverance godliness and to
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godliness mutual affection into mutual
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affection love for if you possess these
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qualities in increasing measure they
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will keep you from being
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ineffective and unproductive in your
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knowledge of our lord jesus christ but
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whoever does not have them is
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nearsighted and blind forgetting that
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they've been claimed from their past
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sins
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therefore my brothers and sisters make
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every effort to confirm your calling and
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election for if you do these things
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you will never stumble and you receive a
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rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of
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our lord and savior jesus christ so i
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will always remind you of these things
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even though you know them and are firmly
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established in the truth you now have
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i think it is right to refresh your
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memory as long as i live in the tent of
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his body
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because i know that i will soon put it
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aside as our lord jesus christ has made
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it clear to me
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and i will make every effort to see that
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after my departure you will always be
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able to remember these things so you can
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see that even peter agrees with this
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verse he's saying there's nothing
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great about being spiritually immature
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because we are we are taught to grow in
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our salvation to add to faith goodness
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and to goodness self-control and to
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self-control knowledge and wisdom all
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these things are elements of a christian
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that is growing we have to grow in our
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salvation
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let's say you see a baby
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that was born maybe in 19 let's say you
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you you
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your one of your family member has a
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baby and then after two years
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or three four five years that baby
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is still
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not talking
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i mean obviously there's things that get
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that happen but it's not normal okay so
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in the same sense as a christian there
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is nothing normal about being a baby and
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remain in the babies that you have to
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grow in your salvation you have to know
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uh god more and that knowledge transform
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you the knowledge not for you to get
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puffed up or the knowledge is so that
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the more you know god the more you are
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transforming the more you are being
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transformed in the image of the son
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jesus christ so that's the whole um
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point
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well listen to what he says in verse 14
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but solid food is for the mature for
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those who have their powers of
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discernment trained by constant practice
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to distinguish good from evil now listen
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to what the writer says in verse 14
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he contrasts spiritual milk to spiritual
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solid food
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the milk is for the immature the
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unlearned and those who that are still
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at the stage of an infant
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but solid food in the spiritual sense is
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for those who are growing in their
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salvation
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and the writer shows us shows why they
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are allowed to feed on solid food
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because they have their powers of
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discernment trained by constant practice
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to distinguish good from evil see powers
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of discernment means the faculty of the
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mind to perceive and to understand okay
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to judge
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the faculty of the mind to perceive to
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understand and to make good judgment so
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a scripture tells us that the fear of
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the lord is the beginning of wisdom
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if you read if you go to phil on james 1
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verse 19 to 21 listen to why he says
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know this my beloved brothers let
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everyone be quick to hear hear what hear
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the word of god and slowly speak and
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slow to anger meaning instead of voicing
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your opinion
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against the word of god receive it with
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grace that's what james is telling us
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everyone should be what slow to speak
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and quick
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to listen and slow to anger
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for the anger of man does not produce
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the righteousness that god desires
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because
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when you hear the word of god and you
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begin to form your opinion say well i
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don't agree with it well that's just
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what the bible says i don't have to
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agree with it
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you are hardening your heart and you
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become you you slowly become dull of
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hearing because the more you hear it the
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less
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it changes your book the scripture tells
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us here
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everybody should be what quick to hear
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quick to hear when we hear the word of
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god and he slices you
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obey the word of god
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obey what you because
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the scripture tells us do not be
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listeners and deceive yourself but do
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what he says
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if you listen and he does nothing for
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you don't even listen because you're
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wasting your time
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if you're not going to listen and do
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what the scripture says then don't don't
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even bother listening to it
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because the scripture is meant to what
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to train around to righteousness that's
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the whole point
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okay
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so by constantly practicing the word of
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god
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it gives you the ability
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to make good judgment to distinguish
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good from evil
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that's why we read the word of god to be
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transformed so that we can think like
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god we begin to have our knowledge and
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our faculty of thinking changing and
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changed by the word of god
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that's why we practice the word of god
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because solid food is for the mature
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that's what the scriptures tell us for
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those who have their powers of
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discernment trained if you remain on the
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infant stage
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you're not gonna learn anything you're
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gonna continue to be there after years
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after years you keep on reading it it
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doesn't do anything for you because at
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that point you begin to just put your
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your bible on the side you don't even
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read it anymore because
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it means nothing for you you become dull
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of hearing and we you want to avoid that
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at all cost
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and this is what we are told here
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so this is why we have to have our parts
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of discernment trained by constant
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practice of to distinguish good from
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evil so we ought to be doers of the word
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of god not just hearers of it
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our sanctification must lead us to sin
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less
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and desire god more that's the whole
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point to sin less
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because we are being renewed in order to
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to look in every way like jesus christ
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so god is confirming us the image of his
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son so there is no place in the
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christian
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for immaturity there is no place for
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that
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so
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basically
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god
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as we see in hebrews chapter 5 verse 11
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to 14 does not delight
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in spiritual immaturity it does not
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please god because it shows that we are
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not interesting in the things of god it
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shows that when we stay at the baby
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stage after years of years of being a
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christian that's a bad sign for us
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because if you if you've been a
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christian for four or five years and you
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still uh um
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you're still at a baby stage and that
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babysitter could be characterized as
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what
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do you do you like the things of god do
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you get bored at church during the
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sermon how often do you read your bible
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and let the words you read like
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transform you and inform your daily
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decisions do you gloat over sins and are
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insensitive to sin around you are you
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insensitive to sin around you do you
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gloat over i mean do you hey how do you
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like the things of god i do get bored
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when you read your bible
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your answers to this question will
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pretty much give you a summary of where
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you stand before god if you're an infant
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in in need of milk or a mature believer
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in need of more solid food now again
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this is not an occasion for pride
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or for saying well i'm i'm i'm a mature
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christian now you can know scriptures
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all day but if they don't transform you
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you're still as bad as someone who does
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not know the scripture and still at the
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baby stage actually it's worse to know
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the scripture and to not be changed by
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it that's even worse than actually to
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not know the scripture okay but either
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one is bad because as believers
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the goal is to be transformed every day
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to be to be made new every day so that
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we look like jesus
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so there is no place for immaturity and
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and then in in chapter six we're going
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to see why on the right is telling us
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about being spiritually immature because
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that condition causes people
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to to shut themselves away from the
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grace of god and we are going to see
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that next week all right have a
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wonderful day and i'll see you next week
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thank you