Paul writes: \u2018You have become dull of hearing\u2026 by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles\u2026 you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk\u2026 is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.\u2019<\/i> (Hebrews 5:11\u201314 NASB) <\/p>\n
The key word in this passage is time.<\/i> The people to whom these words were written had a learning disability: \u2018You have become dull of hearing,\u2019<\/i> meaning you are slow to learn. By the time you ought to be entering university, you\u2019ve got to go back to primary school and learn your alphabet all over again. By the time you should be communicating the truth as teachers, you need to have someone communicate the truth to you. <\/p>\n
Note the phrase \u2018solid food is for the mature\u2019.<\/i> Who are the mature? You\u2019re mature if you\u2019ve trained yourself through constant<\/i> use of Scripture. The mark of spiritual maturity isn\u2019t how much you learn<\/i>, it\u2019s how much you put into practice.<\/i> In the spiritual realm the opposite of ignorance isn\u2019t knowledge, but obedience. Obeying the Scriptures is the key to spiritual maturity. In the long term, you retain about 10 per cent of what you hear, 50 per cent of what you see, and 90 per cent of what you do. So: \u2018Don\u2019t just listen to God\u2019s word\u2026 do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves\u2026 if you do what it says\u2026 God will bless you for doing it.\u2019<\/i> (James 1:22\u201325 NLT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paul writes: \u2018You have become dull of hearing\u2026 by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles\u2026 you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk\u2026 is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}