Facts are facts part 3

 

An infant cannot understand what an adult can understand.  An infant cannot chew and swallow meat. He cannot receive sound, mature, "present truth" doctrine, unless the Holy Spirit reveals it to him. Young, brand new Christians today, can understand and digest more than the adults around them, if the Holy Spirit is the one feeding them. "And when they came that were hired about the 11th hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.  And when they had received it, they murmured against the good man of the house, saying, these last have worked but one hour, and you have made them equal to us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. But he answered one of them, and said, friend,  i do you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what i will with mine own? Is thine eye evil because i am good? So the last shall be first and the first last, for many be called but few chosen."

We must not begrudge the Holy Spirit if he quickly raises up the babies among us to maturity - " behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed." If God chooses to reap what He's sown in the same day, what is that to us? We should rejoice! We should never think evil of the Lord when He is doing good! We should never begrudge Him the anointing and understanding He gives to the young among us. We should never take the attitude of the Prodigal son's older brother. We should always esteem our brothers more highly than ourselves,  and rejoice to see them blessed. We should take the attitude Jesus took with his disciples "greater works than these shall you do." 

It is a proper and healthy and good stage in our lives to be babes in Christ but if the baby never matures into the adult God meant for him to become,  it is a tragedy.  God cannot marry babies! The Bride of Christ is mature, mature in her understanding of Him, mature in her walk with Him, her relationship with Him. Mature in her ability to give Him pleasure.  Maturity pleases Him! Babies will reject meat in favor of pablum. In their infantile understanding of God, they reject strong meat, present truth, not because it's false doctrine but because they do not understand it - and rejection of Truth comes with a heavy price for it reveals their hearts are not right with God. When Jesus said to them "follow Me" they chose instead to sit in a pew and follow a man. They reject meat as being not of God because they cannot see Christ- for the light that is in them is darkness.  They can stare a scripture right in the face and not see the truth of it. I've personally experienced this many times. In so many churches today we have babies teaching babies! When this happens- no one grows up! When the blind teach the blind, they all fall into the ditch of false doctrines.  This is a major reason why Satan tries so hard to keep true Apostles and Prophets from impacting the nurseries,  excuse me, churches in our present world. Apostles,  Prophets and Teachers, anointed and sent by God, will chew and digest strong meat, then regurgitate it in a form babies can swallow,  till the babies develop spiritual teeth and are able to see and chew mature truth on their own- without our help. The goal is not to make them constantly dependant on us for revelation, but to teach them to be totally relient on God for revelations.  We want them to walk daily in the Holy Spirit  - not in our own spirits.  We want their faith to grow till their experiences match the truth they've learned - not the other way around.  

Part 4 soon