A Call to Maturity
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1 For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,
2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;
10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
What is Christian Maturity?
What is Christian Maturity?
Christian Maturity
++Is not about worry
27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
Christian Maturity
Is not about worry
++Is not about Fear
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
Christian Maturity
Is not about worry
Is not about Fear
++Is about Love
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
10 that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ,
11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
To have reverence for God is wisdom
The knowledge of God is to Love Him
Growth is not a destination
Growth is not a destination
Growth is
++Natural process
++Divine gift
How we grow is In the hands of God
How we grow is In the hands of God
6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.
Types of growth
++Plant growth
++Animal growth
++Natural Maturity
++Spiritual Maturity
Growing in Christ
Growing in Christ
Growing in Christ
Initiation
++Incubation
++Facilitation
Initiation
++The season
++The soil
++The seed
Incubation
++Preservation
++Protection
Facilitation
++Divine intervention
++Transformation
Growth is a natural process
Growth is a natural process
Things will grow all by themselves because from the beginning growth was place in all things by nature.
God has Called us to grow in Him
God has Called us to grow in Him
1 For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,
2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
He has called us
++To Encourage our heart
++To knit us together in love
35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
He has called us
To Encourage our heart
To knit us together in love
++To have full understanding of our connection to Him
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
He has called us
To Encourage our heart
To knit us together in love
To have full understanding of our connection to Him
++To know the mystery of God
11 And He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables,
6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
To answer the call
++We must receive Christ
27 John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
By receiving Him we have new life.
By receiving Him we have new life.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
To answer the call
We must receive Christ
++Hold on to our connection
6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
To answer the call
We must receive Christ
Hold on to our connection
++Honor the price He paid
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;
10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.