๐Ÿ‘‘ Children And Grown-ups ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿฅฉ

The Lord Jesus said to a religious leader of His day: โ€œExcept a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of Godโ€ (John 3:3). All true Christians have been born again by the Spirit of God (Titus 3:5). They are therefore the children of God (Rom. 8:16).

Children are a joy in any normal household, but it is a tragedy when a child remains a child, physically, mentally or both. It is a tragedy too, that so many Christians, truly born again, remain spiritual babes โ€” they do not grow. They know that Christ died for their sins but have made no progress in grace or in the knowledge of the Word. To such Paul wrote:

โ€œAnd I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual [men], but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for hitherto ye were not able to bear [digest] it, neither yet now are ye ableโ€ (I Cor. 3:1,2).

Thus those who, spiritually undeveloped, were able to digest only the milk, or the simple things, of the Scriptures, were called โ€œcarnalโ€ and โ€œbabes,โ€ in contrast to those โ€œspiritualโ€ believers who had grown in grace and were able to assimilate the deeper, richer truths of the Word of God.

This is not a compliment to those who constantly boast that they are satisfied with โ€œthe simple things,โ€ and fail to study Godโ€™s Word, as II Tim. 2:15 commands. To such Paul writes, by divine inspiration:

โ€œFor when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you againโ€ฆ and are become such as have need of milkโ€ฆ For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the Word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But strong meat [solid food] belongeth to them that are of full ageโ€ฆโ€ (Heb. 5:12-14). source

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