If a child's mind is not fed properly, he will forever retain a child's mind. Even if he lives to be seventy, he will think as a child all the days of his life.
If a child's mind is fed the knowledge of the world, he will think in the knowledge of the world.
But if a child's mind is fed from the Word of the Lord, he will learn to think in the knowledge of God and will become a spiritual adult in the way and knowledge of Christ.
If, however, a child's mind is fed only the milk of God's Word, and never the meat, he will forever retain his child-like mind even if he lives to be seventy.
For this reason, many adults sit on church pews with the minds of young children. They are there for the milk because their shepherds (ministers, pastors, priests) have never taught them the meat of God's Word.
Therefore, they are unequipped to handle prophecies because prophecies are meat for believers. They are unequipped to handle the meaning of Bible numbers because Bible numbers is meat. They are unequipped to handle things future, or information about the last days, or Antichrist, or any other serious matter that is written in the Word of the Lord because they are still feeding on milk. They are still living on simple addition instead of graduating to advanced mathematics. They are still writing simple sentences instead of paragraphs and pages. They make great plans and preparations for the return of Santa Claus when they should be anticipating the return of Christ. Consequently, they still view Christ as no more than a baby in a manger under a Christmas tree.
Factually, the Devil knows that Christ is real and that Santa is a fake. The Devil also knows that the Bible is real. In fact, the Devil can quote the whole Bible faster than any person can quote one verse!
So then, why is the Bible not important to some believers? Have their shepherds not taught them that they can participate in personal Bible study without having a note from their parents?
Thus it appears that some believers are more interested in sweeping their chimneys for the return of Santa Claus than in preparing their hearts and minds for the return of Christ!
"Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if so be that have tasted that the Lord is gracious." (1st Peter 2: 1-3)
"And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?" (1st Corinthians 3: 1-3)
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." (1st Corinthians 13: 11)
If a child's mind is fed the knowledge of the world, he will think in the knowledge of the world.
But if a child's mind is fed from the Word of the Lord, he will learn to think in the knowledge of God and will become a spiritual adult in the way and knowledge of Christ.
If, however, a child's mind is fed only the milk of God's Word, and never the meat, he will forever retain his child-like mind even if he lives to be seventy.
For this reason, many adults sit on church pews with the minds of young children. They are there for the milk because their shepherds (ministers, pastors, priests) have never taught them the meat of God's Word.
Therefore, they are unequipped to handle prophecies because prophecies are meat for believers. They are unequipped to handle the meaning of Bible numbers because Bible numbers is meat. They are unequipped to handle things future, or information about the last days, or Antichrist, or any other serious matter that is written in the Word of the Lord because they are still feeding on milk. They are still living on simple addition instead of graduating to advanced mathematics. They are still writing simple sentences instead of paragraphs and pages. They make great plans and preparations for the return of Santa Claus when they should be anticipating the return of Christ. Consequently, they still view Christ as no more than a baby in a manger under a Christmas tree.
Factually, the Devil knows that Christ is real and that Santa is a fake. The Devil also knows that the Bible is real. In fact, the Devil can quote the whole Bible faster than any person can quote one verse!
So then, why is the Bible not important to some believers? Have their shepherds not taught them that they can participate in personal Bible study without having a note from their parents?
Thus it appears that some believers are more interested in sweeping their chimneys for the return of Santa Claus than in preparing their hearts and minds for the return of Christ!
"Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if so be that have tasted that the Lord is gracious." (1st Peter 2: 1-3)
"And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?" (1st Corinthians 3: 1-3)
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." (1st Corinthians 13: 11)
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