God Desires Mature Christians

Date
May 18, 2022
Speaker
C. William Roberts, Pastor
Topic
Prayer, Spiritual Growth

Hebrews 5:13-14 (KJV)

¹³For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
¹⁴But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Hebrews 5:13 (AMP)

¹³For everyone who lives on milk is [doctrinally inexperienced and] unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a spiritual infant.

John 6:63 (KJV)

⁶³It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Hebrews 5:14 (AMP)

¹⁴But solid food is for the [spiritually] mature, whose senses are trained by practice to distinguish between what is morally good and what is evil.

Galatians 4:11 (KJV)

¹¹I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

1 Peter 5:8-9 (KJV)

⁸Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
⁹Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

2 Peter 1:5-6 (KJV)

⁵And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
⁶And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

2 Peter 1:9 (KJV)

⁹But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

2 Peter 1:10-11 (KJV)

¹⁰Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
¹¹For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 5:11 (KJV)

¹¹Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

Hebrews 6:12 (KJV)

¹²That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

1 John 5:3 (KJV)

³For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Luke 9:23 (KJV)

²³And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

1 Corinthians 2:6-7 (KJV)

⁶Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
⁷But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

Philippians 3:12-13 (KJV)

¹²Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
¹³Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Hebrews 5:13-14 (KJV)

Ephesians 5:18 (KJV)

¹⁸And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Revelation 3:15-17 (KJV)

¹⁵I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
¹⁶So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
¹⁷Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Revelation 3:19 (KJV)

¹⁹As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Philippians 4:13 (KJV)

¹³I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Ephesians 5:15 (KJV)

¹⁵See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Colossians 3:17 (KJV)

¹⁷And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Philippians 1:9-11 (KJV)

⁹And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
¹⁰That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
¹¹Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

1 Peter 2:2 (KJV)

²As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

Hebrews 6:1-3 (KJV)

1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
²Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
³And this will we do, if God permit.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 (KJV)

³For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
⁴And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Galatians 4:16 (KJV)

¹⁶Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Jeremiah 15:16 (KJV)

¹⁶Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.

Daniel 3:12 (KJV)

¹²There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

Daniel 3:16 (KJV)

¹⁶Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

Daniel 3:18 (KJV)

¹⁸But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

Daniel 3:28 (KJV)

²⁸Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Hebrews 6:1 (KJV)

¹ Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

Hebrews 6:9-12 (KJV)

⁹But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
¹⁰For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
¹¹And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
¹²That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

2 Peter 1:9 (KJV)

⁹But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

Hebrews 10:32 (KJV)

³²But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

1 Corinthians 11:30 (KJV)

³⁰For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

Hebrews 3:12-13 (KJV)

¹²Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
¹³But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

James 2:19 (KJV)

¹⁹Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

Luke 24:32 (KJV)

³²And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

Hebrews 6:9-10 (KJV)

Hebrews 6:12 (KJV)

¹²That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.