Milk or Meat Slides, 8/31/14

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Dear  brothers,  I  have  been  talking  to  you  as  though  you  were  s6ll  just  babies  in  the  Chris6an  life  who  are  not  following  the  Lord  but  your  own  desires;  I  cannot  talk  to  you  as  I  would  to  healthy  Chris6ans  who  are  filled  with  the  Spirit.  I  have  had  to  feed  you  with  milk  and  not  with  solid  food  because  you  couldn’t  digest  anything  stronger.  And  even  now  you  s6ll  have  to  be  fed  on  milk.  For  you  are  s6ll  only  baby  Chris6ans,  controlled  by  your  own  desires,  not  God’s.  When  you  are  jealous  of  one  another  and  divide  up  into  quarreling  groups,  doesn’t  that  prove  you  are  s6ll  babies,  wan6ng  your  own  way?  In  fact,  you  are  ac6ng  like  people  who  don’t  belong  to  the  Lord  at  all.    

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There  you  are,  quarreling  about  whether  I  am  greater  than  Apollos,  and  dividing  the  church.  Doesn’t  this  show  how  liKle  you  have  grown  in  the  Lord?  

Who  am  I,  and  who  is  Apollos,  that  we  should  be  the  cause  of  a  quarrel?  Why,  we’re  just  God’s  servants,  each  of  us  with  certain  special  abili6es,  and  with  our  help  you  believed.  My  work  was  to  plant  the  seed  in  your  hearts,  and  Apollos’  work  was  to  water  it,  but  it  was  God,  not  we,  who  made  the  garden  grow  in  your  hearts.    

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The  person  who  does  the  plan6ng  or  watering  isn’t  very  important,  but  God  is  important  because  he  is  the  one  who  makes  things  grow.    Apollos  and  I  are  working  as  a  team,  with  the  same  aim,  though  each  of  us  will  be  rewarded  for  his  own  hard  work.  We  are  only  God’s  coworkers.  You  are  God’s  garden,  not  ours;  you  are  God’s  building,  not  ours.  

1  Corinthians  3:1-­‐9  (TLB)  

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Paul’s  2  levels  of  Chris1an  living:  

1.  Some  believers  are  living  in  the  flesh...  in  the  carnal,    

2.  Some  are  living  in  the  spiritual.    

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1.   Babies  can’t  help  themselves,  and  babies  can’t  help  others.  

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Baby  Believers:  

•  They  don’t  know  how  to  feed  on  the  Spiritual  Word  

•  They  don’t  know  how  feed  themselves  •  They  choose  to  be  spoon-­‐fed,  if  they  choose  to  be  fed  at  all.  

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1.   Babies  can’t  help  themselves,  and  babies  can’t  help  others.  

2.   Babies  want  MILK  and  aren’t  ready  for  MEAT  &  solid  food.  

 

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CARNAL  is  a  form  of  the  La6n  word  describing  the  flesh,  (example:  carnivore  or  flesh-­‐eater)    

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CARNIVORE  

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1.   Babies  can’t  help  themselves,  and  babies  can’t  help  others.  

2.   Babies  want  MILK  and  aren’t  ready  for  MEAT  &  solid  food.  

3.   God  calls  us  to  leave  this  baby  state  and  be  like  Jesus.    

 

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