From Childish Things To Maturity ...

I Would Not Have YOU Ignorant......

Who here is a baby 👶🏾, or would be offended if I called you one?

1 Corinthians 3:1–3 CSB

1 For my part, brothers and sisters, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, since you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready, 3 because you are still worldly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not worldly and behaving like mere humans?

1 Corinthians 13:11 CSB

11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things.

1 Corinthians 14:20 CSB

20 Brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

Isaiah 28:9 CSB

9 Who is he trying to teach? Who is he trying to instruct? Infants just weaned from milk? Babies removed from the breast?

Edification/Build Up/Oikodome

Etymology

The act of building,

building up

metaph. edifying, edification

the act of one who promotes another's growth in Christian wisdom, piety, happiness, holiness a building (i.e. the thing built, edifice).

Scriptures

1 Corinthians 12:7 CSB

7 A manifestation of the Spirit is given to each person for the common good:

1 Corinthians 13:4–7 CSB

4 Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant, 5 is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not irritable, and does not keep a record of wrongs. 6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 14:5 CSB

5 I wish all of you spoke in tongues, but even more that you prophesied. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be built up.

1 Corinthians 14:12 CSB

12 So also you—since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in building up the church.

1 Corinthians 14:26 CSB

26 What then, brothers and sisters? Whenever you come together, each one has a hymn, a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Everything is to be done for building up.

Rules Of Tongues:

One at a time, 3 maximum. (1 Cor 14:27)

No women were permitted. (1 Cor 14:34)

None-believing Jew present.( 1 Cor 14:21-22)

No Confusion. (1 Cor 14:33)

Decently And order (1 Cor 14:40)

Adherence to the Apostle’s command.(1 Cor 14:37-38)

Discernment Is Maturity

Scriptures:

Hebrews 5:14 CSB

14 But solid food is for the mature—for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.

1 Corinthians 10:23–24 CSB

23 “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up. 24 No one is to seek his own good, but the good of the other person.

1 Corinthians 11:17–19 CSB

17 Now in giving this instruction I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse. 18 For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. 19 Indeed, it is necessary that there be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you.

Ephesians 4:11–12 CSB

11 And he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ,

Ephesians 4:29 NET

29 You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Romans 14:19 CSB

19 So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.

Romans 14:15–18 CSB

15 For if your brother or sister is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy, by what you eat, someone for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore, do not let your good be slandered, 17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 Whoever serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and receives human approval.

Romans 15:1–3 CSB

1 Now we who are strong have an obligation to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves. 2 Each one of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. 3 For even Christ did not please himself. On the contrary, as it is written, The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

Acts 20:32 CSB

32 “And now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

Acts 9:31 CSB

31 So the church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.