Title: God's Warning / Hebrews 5:12-14
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Subject: God's Warning
Main text: <Hebrews 5:12-14>
Unlike animals, people live by listening to the voice of their conscience. However, those who believe in Jesus hear not only the voice of their conscience, but also the voice of God. Conscience differs from time to time and from race to race, so what is a sin in one country may not be a sin in another. But the voice of God is never different. There is the unchanging voice of God at any time and anywhere.
To perfect and mature the saints is also Jesus' Great Commission. As Jesus ascended into heaven, he commanded us to make disciples (Matthew 28:19-20). To make disciples, go and evangelize, baptize, and teach. Teaching does not end with precept and admonition. is to keep it. This requires training. In fact, preaching to a crowd is not possible with this training. After the sermon, it is not possible to check them one by one. Thousands of people followed Jesus. But Jesus put more weight on the twelve disciples. He called them separately and explained in detail what he had said in parables. In this way, Jesus used the small group training method. Today, Jesus' method is proving to be the most educationally effective. We need to find the essence of a healthy and active church in small groups like families.
“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples” (John 8:31). To abide in the word means to hear it, obey it, and put it into practice. If he only hears the word of God and has no experience, he is still at the level of a child (Hebrews 5:13). We do not know how many unfortunate believers are unable to get out of their religious life without access to God's hand, grace, and power because they do not experience the Word of Righteousness. Experiencing the Word is not proportional to reading the Word a lot. It is experienced when we obey and practice the Word.
"Solid plants belong to mature ones, so we use our perception, so we will be tested" (Hebrews 5:14). God wants us to be children and fill us with many things. Blessings have been prepared for you. But it's really sad if their children don't have a vessel ready. So, God gives us the refinement to prepare the vessel. He does not hesitate to test in the wilderness. Because there is a risk of not receiving God's blessing as a blessing. God taught the Israelites through the trials in the wilderness that man does not live by bread alone, but by the word that proceeds only from the mouth of God. He humbled them completely through the wild wilderness. He made us know that we cannot live without God's grace. We must have a confession that we depend only on God, not on our academic background, our background, or what we have. ]
If you have a habit of worshiping and serving only, please change it. Please follow priorities. perfecting the saints, and then doing the work of service. Invest time in training and growing. Why is it difficult to serve? Why are you tired? Because they are immature, because they are young, it is difficult and difficult to serve because they are young. If you have not received the new family class, please accept it humbly. Various floors are gathered in the attic. Go in, open your heart with humility, and abide in the work of learning and conviction. Come into discipleship and get trained. You should be a teacher, but I hope that those who are still there will hear the groaning of God. May your life be devoted to learning and being convinced. I pray in the name of the Lord that we may become true disciples of Christ who accomplish God's will, expand God's kingdom, and change the world.
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