Growing Up Spiritually : A Classic Message Series .
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How do i grow up,
What does it mean to grow up
How to know how I am doing ..
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8 Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men.”
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Note Perfect man
Perfect man : other translation use the word MATURITY says until we reach maturity .
Eph 4:
13 until we’re all moving rhythmically and easily with each other, efficient and graceful in response to God’s Son, fully mature adults, fully developed within and without, fully alive like Christ.
Read amplified .
Paul is saying growing up , or be a man spiritually , we hence forth not children , is focusing on growing up spiritually .
About reaching spiritual maturity , God want us to grow . their a sticking similarity between physical development and spiritual development , their are 3 stages in spiritual development which correlate with physical development .
They are babyhood , childhood and manhood. not a function of age is a function of growth in christ .
Se we study them closely , comparing natural develpment to spiritual , and somehwere we can locate our self and desire to trive more . is not a message to compare our self , but is a message to drive toward excellent , striving for more .
Baby hood
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Peter is decsribing christian as new born babes , not one is born a full grown naturally they born babes and then grow up so also is the thing of the spirit, you are not born a full grown christian , you are born a babe and then you grow up. as a church God is going to hold us accountable for spiritual babes born in our church .
We give to much expectation on people and we kill our baby , instead of supporting them and make sure they grow, we want them to perfect what took us years to perfect in one day . we need to support , follow up and make them grounded .
People are born baby , they need to grown and nature , they need to be birth , cary , followed , pray with.
We are a church we are responsible for babies , allowing them to grown and given an environment for NURTURING . Note he said if they Get the sincere MILK of the WORD they will grow , what make people grow is the sincere milk of the word.
Stages of Development in the babyhood stage.
Innocent: The first thing that attract you to a baby is innocent. People think you little innocent things, no one think of a bay as having a PAST because it doesn’t . if you are new born baby in christ you don’t have any past . God looks at you as innocent .
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
even though the characties is peculiar to baby , it is one charateries we should never out grow in your journey and work with God . Simple reason we fall into the condemnation of the devil and be defeated in spiritual battle . If you are in christ you are innocent . A new convert simple , maintain a teachable spirit , not a know it all attitude . those people no one can help even God .( No one can tell me anything about that verse ,I know all about it .) The biggest baby ever ...
We need to keep an open spirit , teachable spirit and innocent spirit towards God ( His word )and men.
2. Ignorant: A baby seems to think everything he pick up from the floor is intended for his mouth .
A new born put his hand in his month, find anything , screw , pins etc. Baby are know for ignorant , baby have died as as result .
Same thing is truth in the spirit . we need to be careful to what goes into our spiritual month . we need to be carefull about what we ready , some poisonous doctrine . which will rob them of their testimonies / spirituality and Growth..( A man said on face book you don’t need to fast to raise the dead … Not a complete truth .) God is doing a different things now are days , no folks God is not doing a different things now are days , they just left the fundamental truth of the word of God and follow false doctrine , their is no new revelation . Jesus is same yesterday today and forever and his word never change . Your understand can be better about a truth but does not change the truth . Feed on everything but but the truth , HIS WORD .. this one say , that one said ,.. what did word said .. Daddy freeze should not be your guide .. after all the talk do u notice he now freind with suleman. lol
13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
Eph
Somethings ,
If the revelation does not bring us to the Unity of Faith … The spirit of love never divided…Very Important .
The Sincere milk of the word makes your grow not human concepts , Care of both spiritual and circular book.
The spirit of love never divided .
When you start reading something that takes faith out of you instead of putting it in . You are what you eat . spiritual is truth. what you read .
3.irritability (moods, touchiness) : Easyly Spur : give an incentive or encouragement to . Easy Push and reactive . ( the quality of becoming annoyed very easily ).
2 Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother; Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Psalm
8 So the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned.
Growing up off the bottle . moving away from milk . every bottle and bed is given up , church are full of baby not full grown christian , you have to run after them , they will miss church so you could come and pet them. Always consumed with what people say and think about them .
We need to up spiritually and become help for other people.
The WORD is the milk , but if given to people they will grow.
Ealy frustrated , distracted , easly hurt and the only we way out is to feed on the sincere milk of the word and grow by it . Delay gratification is a sign that you are growing ..
14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
Spiritual Children. Eph church ..
7 Now the men were about twelve in all.
is not thanking about physical childhood
Xter is childhood stage of spiritual development .
Unsteadiness, Curiosity , Talkativeness ,
Unsteadiness: independable , you ask him to do sth and does the same opposite. You cannot depend on him . unrealiable , Spiritual children are the same way. Am with you .. But no way to be find . Can God trust with a task , from start to finished.