Joshua 1:8, Psalm 1:1-3, Mathew 4:4
All through the bible,
we see instructions for us to study the word of God, to meditate on it and
allow it from the bases for how we live our lives. The truth is knowledge is
the easiest way to grow not only this but it also the most important.
While every other thing
like prayer, evangelism, etc, are important, no other aspect of Christian
devotion has more impact on your growth than your knowledge of the word of God
because it informs every other aspect.
A.
DESIRE THE WORD 1st Peter 2:2
As believers, we ought
to have an insatiable craving for the pure spiritual milk of the word. More
than anything we must constantly want to have the word around us. You see, we
would never understand all that we have received in Christ if we don’t study
the word because that is where we find the information.
The phrase as newborn
babies does not necessarily mean that Peter`s readers were new believers; they
may have been saved for several years. But young or old in the faith, we should
thirst for the word just as infants cry for milk. We get some idea of the
thirst of the health baby by the impatient, aggressive, determined way he sucks
and swallows. That`s how our appetite for God`s word should be.
By the pure milk of the
word, a believer grows up spiritually. The ultimate goal toward which all
spiritual growth in this life is moving
is conformity to the image of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In Christ is the
revelation of both the father and the believer.
Hebrews 1:1-3
This shows us that if
you are looking for an understanding of the father, you must look to Christ. He
is God`s express image, he is literally God`s character, his image, he is the
expression of the father.
Also, we must
understand that everything that the believer is, can be captured in two word: “IN CHRIST”.
Roman 8:1,2nd Corinthians 5:17, Galatians
3:28
In all these verses and
even more, believers are referred to as “In Christ” because that`s who we are.
Notice the interesting statement made by Jesus in John 5:39
So Jesus said the
scriptures testify of him and we`ve established that to see father we look to
Jesus, now Jesus himself says that the scriptures testify of him , therefore,
the only way to properly understand all you are in Christ is to learn properly
about Christ and this can only be achieved by studying the scriptures.
B.
SCALE OF MATURITY, Hebrew 5:12-14
The writer reminds the
Hebrews that they had been receiving instruction long enough now so that they
should be teaching others. But the tragedy was that they still needed someone
to teach them the ABCs of the word of God.
You ought to be teachers. God`s order is that every believer should mature to
the point where he can teach others. Each one teaching another! While it is
true that certain ones have a teaching grace, it is also true that every
believer should engage in some teaching ministry. It was never God`s intention
that this work should be limited to a few.
You have come to need milk and not solid food. A child who never advances from milk to solids is
impaired and never develops completely. There is a form of stunted growth in
the spiritual lives as well, you must always desire to learn more, to
understand more and to progress in knowledge. Believers who stay on a milk diet
are unskillful in the word of righteousness. They are hearers of the word but
not doers. They lose what they do not use, and remain in a state of perpetual
infancy. They keep forgetting and need to be reminded of the basics tie and
again.
They do not have a keen
sense of discernment in spiritual matters and are “tossed to and fro and
carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the
cunning of deceitful plotting” (Eph
4:14)
Solid spiritual food is for the full-grown, for
those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and
evil. By obeying the light
they receive from God`s word, these people are able to form spiritual judgments
and save themselves from moral and doctrine dangers.
Good and evil here does
not refer to life situations but to
doctrine. So the proof that a person is grown spiritually is that such a one
can tell proper doctrine from wrong one.
Bible study is
important because it helps you advanced in your maturity as a believer.
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