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Now enjoy this message. 
So we've been talking about milk

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and meat, haven't we? 
The milk and meat of the word. 

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And last week we talked about 
the fact that every child who 

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has a good, good father wants 
them to grow properly. 

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We solidified last week that 
last Wednesday that we can see 

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clearly through Scripture that 
God expects His children to 

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grow. 
He expects his children to go 

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from, we've proved through 
Scripture from what the 

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Scripture calls babes or infants
that only desire the sincere 

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milk of the word. 
And then we saw that he expects 

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and and realizes that when we 
used to think like a child. 

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Now it's time that we are to 
grow up and think like a man, 

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right? 
And put away what childish 

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things say. 
Put away childish things. 

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Hallelujah. 
So we saw that we go from 

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infants to children and then 
lets us know that He expects us,

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each and every one of us, to 
grow into maturity, right? 

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To grow into a mature man, right
and we are talking about growing

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spiritually and he relates that 
to how we can grow in the 

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natural as a, a, a baby being 
born into the earth, right And 

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when we get born again into the 
Kingdom of God, we are all 

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spiritual. 
What babies that have to grow. 

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And that's what's so wonderful 
about our father who is good is 

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he's going to make sure that his
children have everything they 

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need to grow properly in the 
Kingdom of God and and not be 

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dysfunctional in any way, not be
dysfunctional in any way because

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God came to give us life and 
life more abundantly. 

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He came to get rid of all 
dysfunction or abnormal 

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moralities in this world that we
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state with a tyrannical ruler 
who is named Satan, who was the 

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father of us all because of sin.
We've all what? 

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Fallen short of the glory of 
God, right? 

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We've all sinned and fallen 
short of the glory of God, every

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single one of us. 
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Hallelujah, thanks be to our 
good, good Father that He sent 

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his Son to redeem man, to put us
back in a place that we no 

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longer have to live in a 
dysfunctional way, right? 

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Or an abnormal way. 
And so he wants us all to grow 

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healthy, strong, and be able to 
spiritually see us be able to 

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reign in that. 
What we've been talking about 

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this year, having a reigning 
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And if we're going to have a 
reigning spirit, then we have to

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realize we must be in a position
to grow spiritually if we're 

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going to reign in this life. 
Because I know many babies, I 

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know many believers that do not 
reign in this life over their 

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circumstances, over their 
situations, over the trials, and

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all the different things that 
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They are not overcoming. 
They're letting these things 

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rule over them when we were 
created to rule over it and have

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dominion over the things that 
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Amen. 
Because our Father is such a 

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good Father that He did not 
leave us here, helpless and 

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barely able to get along and 
just make it by the skin of our 

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teeth into heaven. 
He didn't leave us. 

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Our Father is not that type of 
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He is a wonderful father. 
He's a good father. 

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And he has actually said he's 
chosen gladly to give us the 

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Kingdom and every promise 
belongs to us as an inheritance 

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for us to walk into this life, 
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going to see when this thing is 
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He didn't want us just barely 
making it through life, beat 

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down, broke, looking like busted
and disgusted like everybody 

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else. 
Marriage is falling apart like 

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everybody else, teenagers going 
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Come on. 
He did not want us as his 

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children to have to live like 
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He wanted us to have a good 
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That's why it's called the good 
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Amen. 
And so there's some goodness of 

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God that He wants us to tap 
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Amen. 
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It's going to take us realizing,
you know what? 

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I am still acting like a baby 
about this situation, or I'm 

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still acting like a child about 
this situation. 

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And I need to actually, what did
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Look around to your neighbor and
say what? 

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Grow up. 
Grow up. 

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We need to actually grow up and 
deal with some things that God 

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wants us to deal with so that we
can just overcome and have and 

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enjoy this life, Amen. 
And enjoy living the good life, 

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the Kingdom life, Amen. 
And so we saw out of Ephesians, 

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I gave you tons of scriptures 
last week, but I do want to 

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reiterate this Scripture, 
Ephesians chapter 4, which was 

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our main scripture, 11 through 
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And he gave some as apostles, 
prophets, evangelists, some as 

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pastors, teachers for the 
equipping of the Saints, for the

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work of service. 
And we said, how do I know if a 

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believer is still immature or a 
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The first indication is they 
don't serve the body because if 

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you've actually are being 
equipped, then you will what 

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serve. 
That's why you're being equipped

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as a St. for the work of 
service, not just so that when 

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you die you get to go to heaven.
It's for you to do the work of 

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service that He has for each and
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earth until He returns. 
Amen. 

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And and so he says it's for the 
equipping of the Saints, for the

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working, for the work of service
to the building up of the body 

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of Christ. 
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you're still not equipped or 
that you're still in a baby or 

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childish manner is that you're 
not thinking about the body of 

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Christ at all. 
You are only thinking of me, 

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myself and I and us four and no 
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Come on. 
But he says that when I get 

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equipped as a St., I'm going to 
serve and I'm going to be 

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recognizing that I have to 
facilitate helping build up the 

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body of Christ, to build up the 
body of Christ until we all 

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attain to the unity of faith and
the knowledge of the Son of God 

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to a what a mature man say, I am
a mature man to the measure of 

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the stature which which belongs 
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And we said this, that God is 
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When you take your children to 
the pediatrician, they have a 

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measuring chart, don't they? 
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this child is actually 
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growing properly according to 
the percentiles of children in 

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their age group. 
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God does have a measuring stick.
He is measuring. 

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Actually Pastor had mentioned 
the Scripture last or this past 

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Sunday out of I'm not sure, but 
he talked about you know, so and

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so he has been weighed and in 
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Is that Daniel? 
He's been weighed and measured 

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and found wanting. 
So God is weighing some things 

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and is measuring some things. 
And we take weight as babies 

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too, because that is how you 
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if they're getting enough food 
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You know, I've known children 
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small, they're like, you need to
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not gaining enough. 
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And that's an indication of 
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So we know that God is in the 
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And he said and I and I've seen 
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lackey, you're lackey, Amen. 
So he is in the measuring 

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business. 
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are growing properly and is 
keeping account where we as 

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believers ought to be, in his, 
in his charts, in his charts, to

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the measure of the stature which
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Christ. 
As a result, this is what 

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happens if we will allow 
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measured. 
Come on, it says. 

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As a result of these things, we 
will no longer be what children 

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will no longer be children 
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carried about by every wind of 
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That means, listen, we're not 
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there through the trials of 
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We're not going to be good one 
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next. 
We're not going to be on this 

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turmoil of our emotions and our 
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the next. 
Oh, you come to church on 

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Sunday? 
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around, you're in the Molly 
Grubs about a situation. 

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Whatever. 
You're being tossed back and 

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forth from 1 extreme to the next
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But he listen, he says, tossed 
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carried about by every wind of 
doctrine. 

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That means you're getting 
carried away by what feels good.

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You know all the doctrines that 
are telling you, You know just 

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whatever, OK? 
And the trickery of men, the 

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craftiness and the deceitful 
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But speaking the truth in love, 
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Grow up in all aspects, All 
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We are to grow up into not just 
bits and pieces of what we want 

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from God, but all of God we are 
to grow up into. 

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That's everything, all of who He
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He wants us to walk in that and 
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Amen. 
So all aspects unto him who is 

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the head, even Christ, from whom
the whole body being fitted and 

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held together by every joint, 
supplies according to the power 

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working in each individual part 
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body for the building itself up 
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This is another little side 
nugget that if you are not 

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growing, you're affecting 
someone else's growth. 

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Whether you want to believe it 
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The scripture says it if you're 
not growing and maturing and 

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bringing a supply to the body of
Christ, you are hindering the 

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body of right. 
Every individual part causes the

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growth. 
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It's not just our part to cause 
the growth. 

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It's every individual bringing a
joint supply that help causes 

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the growth of the body. 
So you have a responsibility to 

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grow for someone else. 
Hallelujah. 

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So we started with that 
scripture and we realize we 

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talked about many, many, many 
other scriptures that prove that

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He expects His children to grow 
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Amen. 
But there's one that I did not 

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touch base with that I want to 
start with tonight. 

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And that is not only does he 
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can see that Jesus grew and he's
our what our example. 

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Jesus had to grow and mature 
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man in the earth. 
He had to grow. 

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And if he had to grow, then what
thinks makes us think that we 

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are not going to be held 
accountable to grow spiritually?

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He had to grow. 
Look at it says in let me start 

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in Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 5, 
which we read a few of these 

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scriptures last week out of 
Hebrews chapter 5. 

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But I want to read it in full 
contact in verse eight through 

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14 since we're here. 
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Although he was a son, he 
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things which he suffered. 
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this word perfect is a Greek 
word that entails maturity. 

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Remember, we said a perfect man,
a mature man, And having been 

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made perfect, he became to all 
those who obey him the source of

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eternal salvation, being 
designated by God as a high 

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priest according to the order of
Michelzadek. 

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Concerning him we have much to 
say. 

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It was hard to explain. 
Since you have become dull of 

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hearing. 
We're going to come back to that

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in a minute, for though by this 
time you ought to be teachers, 

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you have need again for someone 
to teach you the elementary 

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principles or the oracles of 
God, and you have come to need 

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milk and not solid food. 
For everyone who partakes only 

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in milk is not accustomed to the
word of righteousness, for he is

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an infant. 
That word accustom also means 

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unskillful. 
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He wants us to be skilled. 
He wants us to be skilled. 

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And I believe he's raising up 
the mature church in these last 

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days that he's coming back for 
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Skillful, so they weren't 
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righteousness, for he is an 
infant. 

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But solid food is for the 
mature, who because of practice 

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have their senses trained to 
discern evil. 

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But here we see that Jesus, the 
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So he had to learn some things 
while he was in the earth. 

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And isn't that the very thing 
that that God said to Adam, if 

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you will obey my my word? 
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that Jesus had to learn 
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Father while walking on the 
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Jesus grew one translation set 
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the maturing of a man. 
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this wisdom. 
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that he the Bible says, and in 
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that when he opened up the 
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out who he was. 
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had to discover who he was as 
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and growing and following right 
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He was discovering all along as 
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read, Oh, the spirit of the Lord
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And then he said, and now it is 
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to discover himself, he had to 
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in statue, he had to grow in. 
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everything, all the divine 
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to speak. 
The seed, the divine seed, His 

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nature is implanted within your 
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Your spirit man has changed. 
Everything that God has for you 

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We have to then discover 
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just like a child. 
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born, they have to discover, oh,
this is Mama. 

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Oh, this is Dada. 
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themselves. 
They don't know when they're 

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family. 
They have to discover, they have

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Once we born, get born again, 
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have to begin to discover it. 
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everything about the Kingdom, 
everything about this new family

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that we were just birthed into, 
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Right, and we have to grow and 
we have to mature and one way 

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that we will do that is by 
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Is it that what we begin to 
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Well, most parents should be 
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their children how to obey, 
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Not after the 4th time, but the 
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That's my rule, right? 
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I want them to obey. 
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heavenly Father when he begins 
to reveal things to us and speak

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to us from his word. 
He wants us to learn obedience 

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just like Jesus had to learn 
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And you know what it said here 
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obedient in some suffering. 
Do you know, growing and 

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maturing is always painful. 
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children, when they grow, they 
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pains, right? 
So to mature and to grow 

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spiritually, there's going to be
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obey him in that we're not going
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hurt us. 
It may cause us some suffering 

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to actually have to give 
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in and mature and go further in 
my spiritual growth where he may

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be calling you to do, you know, 
Kingdom Institute. 

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That is a huge commitment. 
You know what, when he called us

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to go to Rhema, that's a huge 
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There was some pain in that. 
It wasn't easy, right? 

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We had to give up everything we 
had to sell everything we had to

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leave and go to another state, 
you know, to be able to submit 

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ourselves, to be able to grow in
what it was he was wanting us to

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grow into. 
And guess if we would not have 

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done that, where would we be? 
We would not be seeing all the 

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fruit of our obedience or our 
growth in doing and maturing and

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AT and and putting down the 
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So it was in that obeying and in
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was painful, you know, you grew 
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You matured in that and that's 
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happened with Jesus. 
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and verse eight. 
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appearance as a man, He humbled 
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the point of death, even the 
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Obedience is always going to be 
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Obedience. 
That is just the bottom line, 

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obeying what the Word is saying,
obeying what God is saying to 

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you. 
And when you obey those simple 

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little things, you begin to 
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You begin to start maturing, you
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But how many of us have stunted 
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What? 
We become start. 

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You don't. 
You don't just stun it and stay 

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there. 
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You begin to start backsliding. 
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God. 
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Always advancing. 
It's a constant, perpetual place

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of Him wanting to challenge you,
to grow you, to get you to 

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another place. 
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Because we are to go from faith 
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He didn't say just stay right 
where you at and rest in this 

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glory. 
He said there's some new glory 

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for you if you'll be willing and
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There's some more glory. 
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Hallelujah. 
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grow because we see that Jesus 
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was that God had called him to 
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earth. 
Now I want to say this, I have 

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six points on 6 things you must 
do for for growth and maturing 

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in the Kingdom of God. 
There are six must. 

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There's many other must, but 
these are the most important six

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things you must do if you're 
going to grow and begin to start

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maturing in the Kingdom of God. 
I'm going to give you the six 

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points. 
I'm not going to go through all 

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the scriptures tonight, but 
we're going to lay that out 

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because we're going to have 
another Wednesday night. 

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So the six points are #1 you 
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or a student of the Word, which 
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A true disciple is someone, a 
student of the Word or a pupil 

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of the Word, a studier of the 
Word. 

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You cannot grow spiritually 
outside of the Word of God. 

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You personally, even with coming
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you do not pick up the word and 
read it for yourself during the 

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week, you will not grow 
properly. 

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You will become abnormal. 
Now we talking dysfunctional. 

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OK, so you must be a person that
realizes this is my daily bread 

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and I must partake of it every 
day, right? 

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So that I can continue to grow 
spiritually and be nourished 

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properly. 
OK, so you must be a pupil or a 

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student or a studier of the word
#2 I'm going to give you all six

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points. 
You must sit up underneath the 

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fivefold ministry. 
You are not going to grow and 

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mature the way that God intended
for you to grow and mature. 

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If you are not submitted up 
underneath A5 fold ministry 

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gift. 
It's not going to happen, right?

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And all of these gifts are 
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within the church. 
I'm not talking about calling on

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profit. 
So and so that has no church 

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come on anyway. 
So we must be people that 

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realize the need for us to be up
underneath and to be submitted 

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in and up underneath the 
fivefold ministry functioning 

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through the church, OK, 
functioning through not these 

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fly by the seat of their pants. 
People that walk in and say I'm 

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prophetess, so and so goodbye, 
right? 

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And they don't even go to a 
church. 

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Give me a break. 
All right, You must be trained 

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in righteousness. 
Remember, we're talking about 

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milk and meat, and we're going 
to get into the training and 

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righteousness a little later on.
Next week we're going to talk 

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about training and 
righteousness, what that 

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entails, and training in the 
elementary principles or the 

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milk of the word. 
OK, this is coming next week. 

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But here we see that you must be
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You will not grow properly if 
all you are getting is the milk 

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of the Word. 
You will remain a baby for the 

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rest of your life, period. 
If you are not being challenged 

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by the word of God. 
If you are not being convicted 

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by the word of God, you are in 
baby state churches where 

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there's no conviction. 
That is not a church. 

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That's infant feeding only. 
That's not going to step on your

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toes. 
Come on and talk about sin, 

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period. 
That's baby stuff. 

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And we want to get beyond that 
into some righteousness, OK? 

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We need to be trained in 
righteousness. 

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We must be planted in the House 
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Those that are planted in the 
House of the Lord will always be

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flourishing and growing always. 
There will. 

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Always be growth as long as you 
are living until he returns. 

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Those that are planted in the 
House of the Lord. 

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Now that's if you are actually 
being a doer of the word that 

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you're planted in. 
OK. 

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Side note now, OK, then the next
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5. 
You must serve and employ your 

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gift to the body. 
You will not grow properly if 

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you're never giving of yourself 
in service. 

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You. 
Become a selfish little child. 

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Have you ever seen them? 
They don't want to share their 

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toys. 
They don't want nobody sitting 

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in their seat in the sanctuary. 
Don't you know I've been sitting

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there for 30 years? 
Come on, they're being selfish. 

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Share a little bit. 
Let somebody else sit in your 

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seat, move around just to have 
fun. 

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Let's play musical chairs since 
you want to act like a child, 

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right? 
Come on. 

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So we're not going to grow 
properly and mature properly if 

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we never use our gifts to serve 
the body of Christ, period. 

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You're not. 
You're going to be a selfish 

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individual that's in it for just
you. 

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You're in it to win it for you. 
OK, so the next thing we see is 

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you must have the fear of the 
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The fear of the Lord. 
So these are 6 must that we must

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have if we're going to continue 
to grow spiritually and mature 

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past childhood and go on into 
maturity and grow as a child of 

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God and as the Father wants us 
to actually grow and we will not

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be able to do that outside of 
the word of God. 

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So that's what I want to talk 
about tonight is we must be 

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students or disciples of the 
word of God. 

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Matthew 2819 says, Go therefore 
and make disciples of all 

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nations, baptizing them in the 
name of the Father, the Son, and

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the Holy Spirit. 
And this is where we see that 

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word disciple, which is student 
of the Word or a pupil of the 

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Word. 
OK, we are here not to just make

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converts. 
Or not. 

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To just produce infants that are
give that have just been given 

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birth into the Kingdom, we have 
a responsibility to grow them up

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and mature them. 
All of us, not just the pastors,

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all of us have a responsibility 
to help grow these new infants 

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up and mature them and help them
see, you know, how the Kingdom 

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life is for them to walk into 
some things. 

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You should be in a place that 
somebody ought to see your life 

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and look at you and say, well, 
how did how did you overcome 

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this with the Word? 
And you should be able to tell 

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them, but you're not going to do
that if you yourself are not a 

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student of the Word, if you 
yourself are not growing 

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spiritually. 
OK. 

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And you know, I looked back in 
the Old Testament in 

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Deuteronomy, this is how 
important it is that we 

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recognize here in Deuteronomy 
chapter six, one through 9, he 

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began to talk to the children of
Israel about some things. 

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Remember this. 
And he said, these are the 

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commands, the decrees, and the 
regulations that the Lord your 

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God commanded me to teach you. 
You see that to teach you there 

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was some things that the 
children of Israel needed to be 

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taught. 
And he goes on to say, you must 

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obey them in the land you are 
about to enter and occupy. 

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So if we are going to occupy, 
which is what the Scripture 

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tells us to do, occupy until I 
come, if we are going to occupy 

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as Kingdom citizens in the 
earth, all that the land, all 

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the territory, all the purpose 
and the plans that God has for 

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our life, we are going to have 
to realize that we are pupils. 

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We need to be taught and we must
obey them. 

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And it says, and you and your 
what children, it's not just for

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00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,560
you. 
We have a responsibility that we

453
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:46,040
are teaching our children even 
properly how to live in the 

454
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:51,000
Kingdom of God and quit being so
such a hypocrite in our own 

455
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:56,199
family's lives and actually live
according to the word of God. 

456
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,840
And so he says, listen, you, 
your children and your 

457
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,080
grandchildren, I'm in that place
now. 

458
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:08,680
I'm teaching my grandchildren 
how to serve the Lord right. 

459
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,840
I'm teaching them the word and 
great grandchildren, OK, You 

460
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:22,440
must fear the Lord your God. 
You must fear the Lord your God 

461
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:28,440
as long as you live. 
There are some Christians that 

462
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:35,520
no longer fear the Lord. 
He says you're the fear, the 

463
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:41,200
Lord, as long as you live. 
OK, And we're going to get into 

464
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:45,760
that later on. 
But if you obey all His decrees 

465
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:50,800
and His commands, you will enjoy
a long life. 

466
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,560
You see that you'll enjoy a long
life. 

467
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:57,520
If you actually obey His 
decrees, which is His word, His 

468
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:03,400
commandments, His word, you'll 
live a long life and enjoy it. 

469
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:08,640
Listen closely, Israel, and be 
careful to what obey. 

470
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:13,480
Then all will go well with you, 
and you will have many children 

471
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,920
in the land, flowing with milk 
and honey, just as the Lord, the

472
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,200
God of your ancestors, promise 
you. 

473
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:26,000
Listen, O Israel, the Lord is 
our God, the Lord alone, and you

474
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,120
must love the Lord here. 
Listen. 

475
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,560
He's given us all kinds of 
instructions. 

476
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,720
You must love the Lord with all 
of your heart. 

477
00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:35,440
Isn't that in the New Testament 
too? 

478
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,640
And with all your soul and with 
all your strength. 

479
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,600
And listen to what He says. 
And you must commit yourself 

480
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:46,200
wholeheartedly to these commands
that I am giving you today. 

481
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,280
Repeat them again and again to 
your children. 

482
00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:56,040
Repeat them again and again to 
your children. 

483
00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:59,880
Talk about them when you are at 
home and when you are on the 

484
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:03,240
road and when you're going to 
bed and when you're getting up. 

485
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:07,240
Tie them to your hands and wear 
them on your foreheads as 

486
00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:10,640
reminders. 
Write them on the doorpost of 

487
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:16,920
your house and on your gates. 
So he. 

488
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:21,160
Lets us know there it we should 
take seriously. 

489
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,680
The. 
Word or the decree or the right,

490
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,200
the commands, which is we know 
His written word, we should take

491
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:36,120
it seriously. 
We should be, as Joshua 18 says,

492
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,840
study this book of instruction 
continually. 

493
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:45,640
Meditate on it day and night, so
that you will be sure to obey 

494
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,360
everything written in it. 
Only then will you prosper and 

495
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:56,280
succeed in all you do. 
He lets us know. 

496
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,040
Listen, we are going to have to 
be people that meditate on this 

497
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,360
word day and night. 
We are going to have to be 

498
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,080
people that quote it coming in 
and going out, putting it on our

499
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:10,040
in our house, teaching it to our
children, quoting it, talking 

500
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,920
about it, confessing, doing all 
those things. 

501
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:18,320
We're going to have to step up 
in this arena as believers for 

502
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:22,640
us to continue to grow and 
mature into what it is that he 

503
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,560
needs for us to do outside of 
the word of God. 

504
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:31,040
We are not going to grow. 
We're not going to grow, OK, and

505
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:32,880
we're not going to be able to 
pass it down. 

506
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,760
Because if you don't put 
importance in the word, your 

507
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,720
children sure are not going to 
put the importance towards the 

508
00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:41,920
word. 
If you put more importance on 

509
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,480
their sports, on their 
education, on all these other 

510
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,200
things and you don't remind 
them, hey, you need to be 

511
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:54,760
getting in the word. 
Come on, you need to be 

512
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,360
meditating in the word day and 
night. 

513
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:02,560
We have a responsibility, Amen, 
to not just do it ourselves, but

514
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,200
to be examples to teach our 
children and our grandchildren, 

515
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:11,520
Amen, Hallelujah. 
And we know that the reason we 

516
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:17,200
must do this in Romans chapter 
12 and two, it says this do not 

517
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:22,240
be conformed to this world any 
longer with its superficial 

518
00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:26,240
values and customs reading out 
the amplified, but be 

519
00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:30,920
transformed, progressively 
changed as you mature 

520
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,400
spiritually. 
This is regular amplified. 

521
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,800
They have an amplified classic 
and now they have just 

522
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,840
amplified. 
This is just the regular 

523
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,880
amplified, not the classic. 
But I love the way it said that 

524
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:48,800
as you mature spiritually and 
it's continual, we don't just, 

525
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,200
we're going to see, we don't 
just mature and say, oh, we've 

526
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,200
been in the church 40 years. 
Guess what? 

527
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,040
I'm a mature believer. 
Not if you haven't obeyed. 

528
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:05,320
Don't be deceived. 
I don't care how long you've 

529
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,040
been sitting in the church. 
You can have disobedience in 

530
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:09,720
your heart. 
You can have a fence in your 

531
00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:12,160
heart. 
You can have things that God has

532
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,520
told you to do and you haven't 
done a one of them. 

533
00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:20,960
And you've not matured past 
those things, period, period. 

534
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:25,240
That's just the bottom line. 
You cannot negate the word of 

535
00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:29,320
God and what He says that we 
must do to be able to grow. 

536
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,760
So as you mature spiritually by 
the what? 

537
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:37,320
Renewing of your mind, focusing 
on godly values, ethical 

538
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,800
attitudes, so that you would 
prove yourselves what the will 

539
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:46,480
of God is, that which is good 
and acceptable and perfect in 

540
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:52,720
the plan, in His plan and 
purpose for you and His plan and

541
00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:56,880
His purpose for you. 
This is something we must do. 

542
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,000
We must get into the Word of 
God. 

543
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,280
We must allow the Word of God to
renew our mind so that we will 

544
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:08,880
then be able to prove what it is
that He needs for us to do, what

545
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:13,240
His will is for our life, what 
His plans are for our life, what

546
00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:17,280
His purposes are for our life. 
And outside of that, we're not 

547
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,520
going to grow properly. 
I mean, I've met Christians now 

548
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:26,960
for 33 years and been in the 
church and say, I have no idea 

549
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,120
what I'm supposed to be doing 
for the Lord. 

550
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,520
You know what that tells me? 
They have not matured, they have

551
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,880
not grown, They've actually not 
sought the Lord and been in His 

552
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:42,480
word day and night, because you 
cannot seek and you cannot not 

553
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:52,840
knock, and you cannot not ask 
and He don't answer, period. 

554
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:58,080
You can't say that the Scripture
doesn't work. 

555
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,920
Know. 
Something you're doing is not 

556
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:06,960
working. 
God always works when we're in 

557
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:12,120
line with His Word, when we're 
in alignment with His Word. 

558
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:20,200
And so the Word must be our go 
to everyday to to continue to. 

559
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,960
Grow and. 
Mature spiritually, because we 

560
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:30,680
read in Hebrews earlier that 
what let me go to that Scripture

561
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:36,840
down in verse 12, Hebrews 5 and 
verse 12, it says, though by 

562
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,000
this time you ought to be 
teachers. 

563
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,120
So there was his measuring 
stick. 

564
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,360
You should have been spiritually
mature. 

565
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,600
You ought to be a teacher of the
word by now being able to 

566
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,160
reproduce. 
As a. 

567
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,280
Disciple. 
But what did he say? 

568
00:42:55,680 --> 00:43:00,760
It said that you should be 
teachers, but you have need 

569
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:06,080
again for someone to teach you 
the elementary principles of the

570
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:12,000
oracles of God, because you have
come to need milk again and not 

571
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,480
solid food. 
For. 

572
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:21,080
Everyone who only partakes of 
milk is not skillful or 

573
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:25,840
accustomed to the word of 
righteousness and he is an 

574
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,960
infant. 
But solid food is for the 

575
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:33,080
mature. 
Who because of what practice? 

576
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:41,280
Nobody wants someone sitting on 
the bench that never practices 

577
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,200
that you going to put in the 
game. 

578
00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:49,040
At the. 
Last minute to try to win that 

579
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:54,080
next whatever touchdown or home 
run. 

580
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:59,360
And that person has it never, 
not one time practice, but 

581
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,240
they've been faithfully sitting 
on that bench. 

582
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,880
They ain't going to get up there
and hit me a home run. 

583
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,360
And So what this scripture is 
letting us know is I don't care 

584
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:20,800
how long you've been sitting in 
the church or how long you have 

585
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:26,480
actually grown and matured, if 
you don't continue practicing, 

586
00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:34,360
you will lose it. 
Use it or lose it. 

587
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:40,360
You will lose it. 
We don't just rest comfortably 

588
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:45,960
and coast on into heaven. 
We. 

589
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,840
Don't we? 
Don't. 

590
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:55,160
He's always expecting of us in a
maturing process. 

591
00:44:55,360 --> 00:45:00,400
Until Jesus returns, we should 
be maturing, we should be 

592
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,800
developing, we should be 
growing, we should be teachable.

593
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:09,280
We should realize there's still 
more I can do for the Kingdom of

594
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:14,760
God. 
Not retire and sit. 

595
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,880
And what happens to most people 
that retire and sit in front of 

596
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,160
the TV all day long? 
They lose it. 

597
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:27,360
Everything, all mobility, 
everything, because they're not 

598
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:32,240
using what they have, they're 
not practicing. 

599
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:37,080
They're not practicing. 
So we must be people that in our

600
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:42,040
are in a continual place of 
practicing, right? 

601
00:45:42,240 --> 00:45:46,280
So that we can continue to 
mature and grow and develop 

602
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,520
properly. 
But look what it says here. 

603
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:54,160
Who, who, because of practice, 
they have trained their senses 

604
00:45:54,160 --> 00:46:00,520
to discern good and evil. 
I mean, there's so much today in

605
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:05,240
our society that Christians are 
involved in and I'm like my, my,

606
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:11,080
my, I don't even know what they 
are in what planet they they are

607
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:17,240
in a milk comatose in that those
babies, they just get finished 

608
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:24,480
drinking their milk and they 
are, what is that called? 

609
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:31,280
A milk, what milk coma? 
There's other things I think 

610
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:35,920
they've called it. 
But anyway, milk drunk, that's 

611
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:37,440
it. 
That's what I'm talking about. 

612
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:43,000
They are milk drunk and that's 
what they're acting like. 

613
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,760
They're. 
Intoxicated by all the garbage 

614
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,600
and the things that are 
happening, and they cannot even 

615
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:54,360
discern good and evil. 
What's good and what's evil? 

616
00:46:55,320 --> 00:47:00,280
That's a baby, that's an infant,
that's someone who has not 

617
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,920
matured in the word of God to 
realize there's some righteous 

618
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:08,440
living. 
They're drunk on the milk and 

619
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,800
they're going to remain in baby 
and infant stage. 

620
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:16,640
And you know those you don't 
ever want to see children not 

621
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:22,640
grow properly and are abnormal 
and still have to wear diapers 

622
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,200
at 20 years old and you've seen 
them. 

623
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,600
It's a sad state, but just think
of that spiritually. 

624
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:33,080
They're. 
Deformed. 

625
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:35,520
It's. 
Abnormal. 

626
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,360
And it's not right. 
And that is not how our Heavenly

627
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:44,520
Father raises and grows and 
produces His citizens. 

628
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,840
It's not. 
It's not. 

629
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:56,800
So here we see that we can see 
the difference between and. 

630
00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:01,480
We said this. 
The word right will always 

631
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:08,800
process formula milk. 
It processes the milk formula, 

632
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:17,400
but then it will also give you 
solid meat, right? 

633
00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:21,120
You're going to be, the word is 
going to be milk for you for a 

634
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,640
season, but then there's going 
to be some meat that's going to 

635
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:29,640
start jumping off the page that 
he knows in that time that you 

636
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:33,840
have need of it and you're able 
to bear it, he said. 

637
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:37,520
I'm not going to give you 
anything that you cannot bear 

638
00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:42,960
because he actually knows where 
you are spiritually and what you

639
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,560
need to get you to the next 
place of growth. 

640
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,800
Because he knows when you need 
the milk, but he knows when 

641
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:54,120
you're ready to start chewing on
some solid food. 

642
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:59,720
And it's not going to be too 
hard for you to bear because 

643
00:48:59,720 --> 00:49:03,920
he's measuring you. 
He knows your measurements, he 

644
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:08,040
knows where you're at, he knows 
you're ready to start partaking 

645
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,640
of some meat. 
So he'll start putting those 

646
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:12,680
little Nuggets of meat out 
there. 

647
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:18,120
Those little chicken Nuggets. 
All babies love chicken Nuggets,

648
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:21,040
right? 
Starts putting out them little 

649
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,880
Nuggets for you. 
Start. 

650
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:27,400
Chewing on for you to start 
growing and maturing. 

651
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:33,520
OK, so the word is, is great by 
the Holy Spirit being able to 

652
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:38,000
bring that illumination and that
revelation of the milk and the 

653
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,960
word or the meat for you. 
Now we said last week, what was 

654
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,000
milk? 
Milk is fundamentals. 

655
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,720
Milk is what we see Hebrews 
calls elementary principles. 

656
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:53,640
OK, it's elementary. 
It's it's foundational. 

657
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:59,080
It's, you know, it is the 
beginnings or the basics of 

658
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,920
every baby's life, right? 
And we're talking about 

659
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:07,720
spiritually as well, all the 
fundamentals that babies need to

660
00:50:07,720 --> 00:50:10,120
get. 
And do, you know, when we see 

661
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:14,320
many babes get born again, if 
they do not remain in the 

662
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:21,400
church, they will crumble and 
they do not form, right? 

663
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,480
They don't have a solid 
foundation, right? 

664
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:29,840
Especially ones that go from 
this church and that church and 

665
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,640
this church and that church and 
that church. 

666
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:37,120
And they never get submitted or 
what we call and like to call 

667
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:45,240
planted because that tree we 
know or that plant cannot 

668
00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:50,520
produce or grow properly if it's
kid continuing to be plucked up 

669
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,680
and put into other places of 
soil. 

670
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:57,680
But our. 
Heavenly Father, that's why He 

671
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:01,240
says He places us in the body 
where it pleases Him. 

672
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:06,440
He knows exactly what we need as
His children and where we need 

673
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:12,440
to be in the body of Christ so 
that we get fed a well balanced 

674
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:15,600
meal. 
Amen. 

675
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:19,440
And so you see it all the time 
and you see these people that 

676
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:22,600
never even go to a church but 
say they're Christians, watch 

677
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:24,840
their little television 
programs, have their little 

678
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:29,800
Bible studies, do all these 
things, they will not grow 

679
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,000
properly. 
It's not how. 

680
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,920
God designed it. 
I don't care what they say to 

681
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:38,640
you. 
I don't care it's not what 

682
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,200
Scripture says. 
You're not going to grow and 

683
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,720
mature properly the way that God
intended for His children to 

684
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:52,320
grow outside of being planted in
the House of the Lord, because 

685
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,600
every child has a family that 
they belong to. 

686
00:51:55,720 --> 00:51:59,760
He does not have orphans, he 
said. 

687
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:04,200
He would actually never leave us
as an orphan. 

688
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:11,160
So we. 
All have a family of God that we

689
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:16,040
belong to and it's a necessary 
if we are going to grow properly

690
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:21,160
and be fed what we need to be 
planted in the House of the Lord

691
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:25,240
so that we're not being uprooted
all the time and never get to 

692
00:52:25,240 --> 00:52:31,800
get firm roots in the ground. 
Firm roots in the ground for a 

693
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:37,120
solid foundation. 
So we see here, let me tell you 

694
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:42,960
what the definition of. 
Solid. 

695
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:50,480
Meat was in the Greek, OK. 
It meant strong, stable, firm. 

696
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:55,080
So when you start eating the 
meat, this is what ought to be 

697
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:57,160
producing. 
Isn't that something? 

698
00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:00,640
When you eat meat, you're 
supposed to get stronger, right?

699
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:05,120
It's supposed to have everything
in it for your bones and all 

700
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,520
these things for you to develop 
properly. 

701
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:13,360
You know, and again, we have to 
realize that the meat of the 

702
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:21,240
word is there for us to become 
stable, to be stable. 

703
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:24,120
How many Christians do we see 
that are not stable? 

704
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:29,840
They're not stable. 
They're not stable people, OK. 

705
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:37,800
And so again, solid meat is 
strong, firm nourishment and 

706
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:42,680
brings stability to your life. 
What is the meat? 

707
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:47,800
Hever equates the meat to 
righteousness, right? 

708
00:53:48,720 --> 00:53:50,520
Let me tell you what 
righteousness is. 

709
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:54,160
We know that we have been made 
right through Christ. 

710
00:53:54,840 --> 00:54:00,280
OK, That's in our spirit. 
But then he tells us in the 

711
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:04,520
Scripture that we are to produce
fruits of righteousness. 

712
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:09,800
So we ought to be able to see 
the fruit of the righteousness 

713
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:13,720
that God has done on the inside 
of you in your spirit if we've 

714
00:54:13,720 --> 00:54:18,480
been made right with Christ. 
OK, then what does that mean? 

715
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:22,800
We ought to start seeing some 
fruits of righteousness in our 

716
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:24,720
life. 
Some. 

717
00:54:24,720 --> 00:54:28,840
Fruits of righteousness 
developed within our life and 

718
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:34,040
righteousness means the state of
him who is as ought to be the 

719
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,000
state of you. 
You are righteous, right, The 

720
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:41,320
righteousness of God in Christ. 
It means the condition has been 

721
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:44,320
acceptable to God. 
The doctrine concerning the way 

722
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:50,280
in which man is to attain 
rightness with God, say 

723
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:58,120
rightness with God, but not only
in rightness with God, it also 

724
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:02,800
begins to tell you about 
correctness of your thinking. 

725
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,680
So lots of Christians run 
around, oh, I'm, I'm the 

726
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:12,680
righteousness of God in Christ, 
yet we don't see any fruit being

727
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:15,840
produced that looks like 
righteousness in their life. 

728
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:19,240
And a lot of times it's because 
why they've not renewed their 

729
00:55:19,240 --> 00:55:24,040
mind to the righteousness that 
they are in Christ, which is why

730
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:29,160
we must be people that renew our
mind to the word of God, Amen. 

731
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:34,800
Because it's our mind. 
Was it Galatians that said we 

732
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:41,040
must be take the sincere milk of
the word or the engrafted Word 

733
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:44,960
of God to save our soul? 
Is that in Galatians? 

734
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:48,160
I believe it is. 
We are to take the engrafted 

735
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:51,440
Word of God which is able to 
save our soul. 

736
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:56,240
And we know here that our soul 
is what our mind, our will and 

737
00:55:56,240 --> 00:55:59,240
our emotions. 
Our spirit is born again. 

738
00:55:59,240 --> 00:56:01,560
It's right. 
The minute you get born again, 

739
00:56:01,720 --> 00:56:05,240
you are the righteousness of God
in Christ, right? 

740
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:08,680
But we have to get our mind 
renewed to the Word of God, 

741
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:12,640
which is our mind, our 
reasoning, our intellect, our 

742
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:18,360
will, and our emotions. 
We have to get our mind renewed 

743
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:22,840
or saved, the saving of the soul
realm. 

744
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:26,040
We have to do this. 
God did this. 

745
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:30,520
But it's our responsibility to 
get our head right, get our 

746
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:34,400
thinking right, to get our 
thinking and our beliefs in 

747
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,360
alignment with His word of 
righteousness. 

748
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:42,160
You see that? 
And then once we get our mind in

749
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:47,520
alignment with His Word and our 
spirit is alive unto Christ and 

750
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:51,920
already righteous, then we'll be
able to tell this flesh, you 

751
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:55,640
don't own me. 
These passions, these desires, 

752
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:59,720
these carnal things, these 
fleshly things that does not own

753
00:56:59,720 --> 00:57:05,320
me because my spirit and my or 
my spirit and my soul are two 

754
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:09,480
against one. 
But how many Christians we know 

755
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:13,120
that say they're born again, but
they let their flesh dominate 

756
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:15,240
them? 
That means they're sleeping 

757
00:57:15,240 --> 00:57:17,280
around. 
They still want to feel good. 

758
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,640
They think it's all right. 
They want to go partying, doing 

759
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:24,160
all those sensual things, all 
those things that the word of 

760
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,600
God says we ought not be doing. 
Because that's. 

761
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:31,600
Righteous living. 
You see what I'm? 

762
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:33,520
Saying. 
So. 

763
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:37,560
You can tell when somebody is 
still tapping into some carnal 

764
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:43,400
living or baby things is when we
don't see the righteousness or 

765
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:46,520
the fruit of it being produced 
within their life because 

766
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:51,120
they're still allowing some 
other realms to dominate them. 

767
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:58,560
OK. 
So here righteousness has to do 

768
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:03,320
with correctness of thinking, 
feeling and acting. 

769
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:09,880
You see that? 
So if we think right, our 

770
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:13,640
spirits already right, then our 
acting is going to get into 

771
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:17,040
alignment with our our thinking 
and our spirit. 

772
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,760
You see that? 
So righteousness is not just 

773
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:24,280
about Oh, I'm the righteousness 
of God in Christ. 

774
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:27,960
He wants our mind and alignment 
and right we wants us thinking 

775
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:31,120
right. 
He doesn't want us thinking I'll

776
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:35,440
against our neighbor. 
He doesn't want us thinking bad 

777
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:38,480
thoughts or lusting or whatever 
the case. 

778
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:40,920
He doesn't want us thinking that
way. 

779
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:46,040
He wants our mind thinking right
and in a righteous position, a 

780
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:53,320
holy position. 
See that and then our bodies 

781
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,120
will get into alignment. 
It it says it's food. 

782
00:58:56,120 --> 00:59:00,520
Righteousness is food for the 
mind and instruction or the 

783
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:05,160
faculty of the mind for 
perceiving, understanding and 

784
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:06,960
judging. 
Do you see that? 

785
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:12,080
And judging, as we said, they 
were not able to discern or 

786
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:15,040
judge properly between good and 
evil. 

787
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:17,480
You know what? 
I'm a believer. 

788
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,160
I ought to be fleeing the 
appearance of that. 

789
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:23,440
I am not going to be called 
alone with a man with his shirt 

790
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:26,440
off in his workplace in the 
office. 

791
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:34,960
I can properly discern I ought 
to be fleeing the appearance of 

792
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:37,440
evil. 
You see what I'm saying? 

793
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:42,680
Because I've trained myself in 
righteous living, I've gotten my

794
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:47,520
mind renewed to the Word of God 
and what He says is right and 

795
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:51,920
what He says is wrong. 
What He says is good and what He

796
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:55,040
says is evil. 
And I don't let the world tell 

797
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:59,040
me what is good is evil and what
is evil is good. 

798
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:05,320
Because I've matured and can 
read the word for myself and see

799
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:10,760
this don't align with scripture.
So I'm going to deserve properly

800
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:15,960
here to be in a position of 
righteousness because I'm 

801
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:19,320
maturing and I'm growing and 
realizing I got to cut that 

802
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:23,360
thing off or I got to cut that 
thing out because it's only 

803
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,560
leading me to death and 
destruction. 

804
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:28,640
And He's come to give me life 
and life more abundant. 

805
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:31,520
So I'm not going to partake of 
those things. 

806
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:35,880
That's going to lead me down a 
path of destruction because now 

807
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:42,080
I can properly discern, because 
I've practiced righteousness. 

808
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:46,840
I've allowed the Word of God to 
be put within me, and I've 

809
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:52,640
aligned it myself by obeying it.
So whatever He says is good. 

810
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:55,600
That's what I obey, and that's 
what I do. 

811
01:00:55,680 --> 01:01:02,320
Whatever He says is evil. 
That's what I shun, hate, 

812
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:07,880
actually, and abhor. 
The Scripture says abhor it. 

813
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:13,640
It's evil, so I don't put myself
in a position to be around it at

814
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:16,640
all because I'm properly 
discerning, because I've 

815
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:20,640
actually trained my senses, I've
actually practiced the word of 

816
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:24,920
God and practice righteousness 
by renewing my mind and getting 

817
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:28,080
myself in alignment of right 
living. 

818
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:31,160
This is righteousness. 
Amen. 

819
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:36,240
This is the meat of the word. 
This is solid food. 

820
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:40,600
When you begin to start 
recognizing this is right and 

821
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:43,320
this is wrong, isn't that what 
you teach your children? 

822
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:49,280
You should be? 
This is right and this is wrong.

823
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:53,200
It's that simple. 
And we're going to obey what is 

824
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:58,240
right and we're going to not 
obey the things that are wrong. 

825
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:04,080
And we're teaching our children 
it's not good for you to 

826
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:08,440
disobey. 
Isn't that what we are to teach 

827
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:11,080
our children? 
Don't disobey me. 

828
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:14,600
When I tell you this is what I 
want you to do, I expect you to 

829
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:17,040
do it. 
Why are you disobeying me? 

830
01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:20,400
Do you think the Father's any 
different? 

831
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:30,200
He says we being evil, know how 
to give good gifts to our 

832
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:33,240
children. 
How much more our Heavenly 

833
01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:35,280
Father who gives of us His 
Spirit. 

834
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,760
He's a he's a better father than
any of us. 

835
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,880
And he knows what our what our 
children need. 

836
01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:45,040
He knows what his children need.
He knows what we need. 

837
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:48,720
Amen. 
Hallelujah. 

838
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:52,600
Are you getting it? 
Hallelujah. 

839
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:57,960
So we want to be people that 
have practiced and trained 

840
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:03,680
ourselves in the Word of God, 
trained our senses so that we 

841
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:09,360
will discern good and evil. 
Now look at this last point, 

842
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:10,600
'cause we're running out of 
time. 

843
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:16,080
I look up here where it says 
that people have become in verse

844
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:20,600
11, it says concerning Him, we 
have much to say, but it's hard 

845
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:27,560
to explain because it's hard to 
explain since you have become 

846
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:32,280
dull of hearing, dull of 
hearing. 

847
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:38,440
So again, it doesn't matter how 
long we are sitting in church, 

848
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:41,960
we're hearing the word. 
We can become dull of hearing. 

849
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:45,160
I mean, we've even said that to 
our children. 

850
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:50,680
I mean, do you not hear me? 
You know, to where you as a 

851
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:53,520
parent's talking And it just 
sounds like what my husband 

852
01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:54,840
said. 
Charlie Brown won't, won't, 

853
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:58,040
won't, won't, won't, won't. 
They just are checked out as if 

854
01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:02,160
they are not even hearing a word
you're saying and there's no 

855
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:03,720
response. 
It's not allowed. 

856
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:09,480
Don't let my children or I 
didn't let my children not 

857
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,480
respond to me when I was 
speaking to them. 

858
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:16,760
If I'm. 
Speaking to you, there's going 

859
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:19,440
to be a response. 
You're not going to act like you

860
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:22,520
don't hear me and check out 
because I know you hear me. 

861
01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:25,000
Have you ever said I know you 
heard me? 

862
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:30,320
I know you hear me, but they're 
acting like they've become dull 

863
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:33,400
of hearing. 
Well, we as adults. 

864
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:36,400
Or as. 
Those that are growing and 

865
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:42,160
sitting, we can become dull of 
hearing, of hearing the word, 

866
01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:46,400
which we shouldn't be because 
faith comes from hearing and 

867
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:49,720
hearing from the word of God, 
right? 

868
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:52,920
Faith comes from hearing and 
hearing from the word of God. 

869
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:57,240
We ought to always have, and we 
say this in our preschool, a 

870
01:04:57,240 --> 01:05:00,200
listening ear. 
We're telling our preschoolers 

871
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:06,440
that have listening ears, we 
should have listening ears at 

872
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:09,280
all times. 
That means when the word of God 

873
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:13,640
is being spoken in any form, if 
you're reading it, if you're 

874
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:19,360
hearing it, whatever, you should
be in a place of saying speak to

875
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:22,680
me. 
So because I want to hear you. 

876
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:27,960
I don't want to become dull of 
hearing because if you become 

877
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:31,640
dull of hearing, he lets us know
the consequence of that. 

878
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:35,640
You're going to need to go back 
to some milk of the word again 

879
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:39,360
because you actually are not 
hearing anymore. 

880
01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:43,480
You've become dull of hearing. 
And one way you know that you 

881
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:48,120
are dull of hearing is when you 
are not doing what you know to 

882
01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:52,600
do, when you're not doing what 
you know to do. 

883
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:55,040
And that what I said to my kid, 
I know you heard me. 

884
01:05:55,160 --> 01:05:57,200
You know what I said you needed 
to do? 

885
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:03,320
Go do it right? 
So again, we have to position 

886
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:07,720
ourselves if we're going to 
continue to grow and mature, to 

887
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:11,000
be those that have listening 
ears and checking ourselves. 

888
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:14,040
Have I become dull of hearing 
what the Spirit is saying, what 

889
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:15,800
the Word of God is speaking to 
me about? 

890
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:19,280
Have I checked out and am I not 
doing what I know I should be 

891
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:23,720
doing in the Word? 
Because that's going to hinder 

892
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:29,040
us progressing and moving 
forward in our spiritual growth 

893
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:32,000
with the Lord actually not 
growing. 

894
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:34,040
Their dull of hearing means 
sluggish. 

895
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:39,800
Have you become sluggish? 
You're. 

896
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:42,440
Sluggish. 
You're barely wanting to read 

897
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:46,120
your word, you're barely want to
come to church, you're barely 

898
01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:49,160
wanting to do anything and serve
and all this stuff. 

899
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:53,160
Have you become sluggish? 
Have you become lazy? 

900
01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:57,760
This is what that word means. 
Dull of hearing, sluggish, lazy,

901
01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:01,760
stupid. 
Not me, the Greek. 

902
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:07,000
This is what it said. 
Dull and slothful. 

903
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:13,960
So slothful means you're not 
actually wanting to, you know, 

904
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:19,400
treasure or value what pastor 
said, you know, said Sunday or 

905
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:21,680
was it last Wednesday? 
You're not wanting to treasure 

906
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:27,200
or value the words that you're 
hearing, and you've become 

907
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:30,160
slothful in it. 
OK. 

908
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:34,080
And so again, we have to ask 
ourselves because we don't want 

909
01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:39,200
to fall into the trap to have to
need milk again for those. 

910
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:43,120
Everybody's in a different place
and that's what's so great about

911
01:07:43,120 --> 01:07:45,400
our Heavenly Father. 
He knows every one of our 

912
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:48,720
children and where we're at. 
That's why He has his measuring 

913
01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:53,800
stick. 
He knows where we're all at 

914
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:57,120
spiritually and what we all 
need. 

915
01:07:57,960 --> 01:07:59,800
And it that how it is with our 
children. 

916
01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:03,040
I had three children. 
I knew wherever I knew their 

917
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:06,000
personalities, I knew how they 
would respond. 

918
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:09,560
I knew how I knew. 
You know how this temperament 

919
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:11,880
was according to that 
temperament. 

920
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:16,359
All of those things. 
And the Heavenly Father, he 

921
01:08:16,359 --> 01:08:19,600
knows all of that about each and
every one of his children. 

922
01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:25,760
If he says I know every hair on 
their head, then He knows 

923
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:31,960
everything about us, where we're
at spiritually and what we need.

924
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:36,640
What we? 
Need. 

925
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:40,760
He knows if we're still still 
needing a little bit of milk 

926
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:43,960
with, you know, a little bit of 
meat. 

927
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:47,720
He still knows, if you know 
what, they still just need some 

928
01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:51,120
milk. 
They need milk, they need milk, 

929
01:08:51,120 --> 01:08:56,880
they need milk, they need meat. 
Because every time I'm speaking 

930
01:08:56,880 --> 01:09:00,080
forth, they're obeying. 
Every time I'm speaking forth, 

931
01:09:00,319 --> 01:09:03,920
dare doing, every time a 
challenge comes, they're lining 

932
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:05,760
themselves up with the word of 
God. 

933
01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:08,319
They're producing the fruit of 
righteousness. 

934
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:12,520
They're practicing this thing. 
They've trained their senses to 

935
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:15,200
this thing. 
So you know what, right now 

936
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:18,600
there's people receiving meat 
from what I'm saying, even 

937
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:21,840
though it's the same message. 
And right now there's people 

938
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:27,080
receiving milk even though it's 
the same word. 

939
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,920
Because our Heavenly Father 
knows where each and every one 

940
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:36,680
of us are at spiritually and how
to feed us what we need from the

941
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:44,080
same meal, what we need from the
same meal. 

942
01:09:45,399 --> 01:09:48,399
You know, every one of your 
children eat differently, 

943
01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:54,200
meaning some may eat the whole 
entire plate and some may pick a

944
01:09:54,200 --> 01:09:56,760
little bit and a little bite and
that's about it. 

945
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:05,480
But He knows how to feed us and 
what we need to be able to grow 

946
01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:11,240
properly and mature and be in 
the place that God needs us to 

947
01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:17,520
be in our growth and our 
development along our journey in

948
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:21,120
this walk in Christ. 
Amen. 

949
01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:24,240
He knows where we all need to be
and where we should be. 

950
01:10:24,480 --> 01:10:28,880
He knows where we are lacking. 
He is just like He said. 

951
01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:36,520
He is judging and weighing and 
measuring exactly where we are 

952
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:40,960
at. 
And we need to recognize that so

953
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:46,880
that we don't just sit back and 
think we're cool and we're just 

954
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:49,280
coasting along and everything's 
good. 

955
01:10:50,760 --> 01:10:53,800
Is it? 
Are we overcoming in life? 

956
01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:56,720
Are we producing the fruits of 
righteousness? 

957
01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:59,400
Are we doing what the Word says 
to do? 

958
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:03,960
We have to evaluate ourselves 
according to the Word of God, 

959
01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:08,000
not what other people in other 
churches are doing and not what 

960
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:11,880
this person is doing or that 
person is doing, but what does 

961
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:17,320
His Word say we should be doing?
And that's what I measure my 

962
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:22,360
life to, period. 
I don't compare it to what this 

963
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:24,920
people are doing or what they're
doing. 

964
01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:28,360
I'm measuring my life according 
to the Word of God. 

965
01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:31,200
I am going to stand before a 
holy God. 

966
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:35,640
He is going to judge me and me 
alone by myself, not with my 

967
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:39,440
husband, not with my children. 
He's going to be judging me. 

968
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:44,000
He's going to be looking at me. 
He's going to be asking me, did 

969
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:48,120
you do the things that I said 
for you to do according to the 

970
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:51,720
Word of God? 
Amen. 

971
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:55,720
I don't care what that church is
doing. 

972
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:58,080
I don't care what this pastor's 
doing. 

973
01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:04,560
But what I'm going to do is I'm 
going to discern for myself by 

974
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:10,880
the Word of God how to navigate 
what righteousness is, what 

975
01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:16,120
holiness is, what His Word says 
I should be looking like as a 

976
01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:19,920
child of God, and is that being 
produced in my life? 

977
01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:23,040
Amen. 
Hallelujah, Let's pray. 

978
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:29,360
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979
01:12:29,480 --> 01:12:32,840
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01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:39,320
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