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3 - Healthy Diet – MEAT – right hunger – eat right – mature church – adult
REVIEW
The NEED for Revival
· The LATENESS of the hour
· The DARKNESS of the world
· The WEAKNESS of the Church
Weakness Caused by
⁃ Injury
⁃ Hunger
Junk food
· tastes good - what I WANT - short term high, then crash, feel yucky
Comfort food
· feels good - tickle ears
Whole Foods
· IS good for you.
- what you NEED - sustained energy source - feel good
Whole Foods = Milk, Bread, Meat
Hebrews 5:11–14 (NLT)
11 There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen.
12 You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others.
Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word.
You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food.
13 For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right.
14 Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.
Milk is for Babies
1b –LIQUID Food = MILK = baby Church
MILK – spiritual babies
Milk is God’s Word = whole milk and wholesome, not referring to the jink food of the world
GOT MILK?
· Milk does not supply enough ENERGY to get you through the day
· BABY –
· Even babies must eat milk many times throughout the day
· Babies will put anything in their mouths – including toys, hands and feet
· IMMATURE appetite leads to IMMATURE food choices – sweets over substance
DAYCARE –
SERMONETTE –
· short attention span, so Church is reduced to an adult daycare center, telling stories, warming bottles and burping babies
· Church sermons reduced to an episode of “Blippi”
Result:
· The Result of a poor diet is WEAKNESS due to poor health
o Hangry
o Feel yucky
· Calories but still malnourished
· UN-DER developed
· UN-able to carry revival
· Unable to feed themselves – need a “ba-ba” from their mama
· Milk has to be just the right temperature – not too harsh of a sermon tone or other things that could be interpreted as a microaggressions
o Some churches label their sermons and ministry as “non-threatening”
· Some babies actually prefer man’s milk “formula” to whole milk – prefer its taste and texture (mouth feel) – just feels right…
· Spiritual babies are unable to digest “Real food” –
o Choke on correction, puke when rebuked,
o throw a hissy fit when told to grow up or take personal responsibility
· Result: Weak, Crying church
Perpetrators: pastors (milk man) or flock (babies)
Milk vs meat
· Pastors’ problem - not preaching (serving) the Word
· Churches problem, not eating, refusing, swiping, turn nose up.
Finicky, spoiled
1 Peter 2:2 (NLT)
2 Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation.
Cry out for this nourishment,
Basic Teachings are the milk of the word
Milk will make you hungry for BREAD
· Salvation Teachings will make you hungry for souls
· righteousness Teachings will make you hungry to live right
· judgment Teachings will make you hungry for the fear of God and wanting to please him
· eternal retribution teachings will make you hungry for witnessing
· Its ok to be a nursery church, just don’t stay there…
· Testimony of Baptist – Trinity AG
Hebrews 6, move on from elementary teachings…
Hebrews 6:1–3 (NLT)
1 So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again.
Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding.
Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God.
2 You don’t need further instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
3 And so, God willing, we will move forward to further understanding.
What the Bible considers as elementary teachings - the modern church tends to view as advanced topics.
BREAD
Problem: BREAD of the WORLD (only) vs Bread of the WORD
Matthew 4:4 (NLT)
4 But Jesus told him, “No!
The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
· Bread ALONE = human efforts apart from God
· Man’s desires apart from God’s Wisdom and direction, correction – even in the church!
o Doing what you want
o form of religion w/o power
Bread of the WORLD = “man-made”
Jesus denied the devil’s bread
Jesus multiplied man’s bread
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