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LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 49
Hebrews 5:1-14 - Part 2
Hebrews chapter 5 verse 10. Hebrews 1:3b
It was finished. Now let’s begin with verse 10.
"Called of God an high priest (not after the order of Aaron but) after the order of Melchizedek." Who, remember, was the high priest of the Most High God, which was the definition of God concerning the non-Jewish world. Hebrews 5:11
What is Paul referring to? Now verse 12, why were they dull of hearing? Large churches or small. How many of your fellow-church people have a hunger for the Word of God? Most professing believers have no hunger for the Word of God. They’re dull of hearing. Hebrews 5:12
You should be sharing it with people but instead, Paul says,) you have need that one teach you again which are the first principles of the oracles of God." So right there between the lines what is the process that God hopes to see happen? That after you’ve been taught, you share it with others. Hey, if you’ve studied, and if you’ve done your homework, the Lord will give you what it takes to share. Well, that’s what Paul is dealing with. But these people weren’t ready. Plain old basic math. There’s no use trying to learn algebra unless you know the principles of mathematics.
People have to know the basics. Get people an understanding of Who God is, and how it all came about. How did sin enter? You cannot pass on the principles of the Word of God." Hebrews 5:12b
milk,…"
Goodness sakes, who starts out on milk? Babies! Alright now, Paul, the tremendous apostle that he was, had problems teaching people, too. The Corinthian Church was the congregation with the most problems. I Corinthians 3:1
"And I brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, (or fleshly) even as unto (what?) babes (or babies) in Christ." Now they were believers and they had been believers for quite some time but they were still in their infancy so far as spiritual things were concerned. Now verse 2:
"I have fed you with milk,…" He understood when they were new believers fresh out of paganism that they needed the milk of the Word and so that’s what he gave them. I Corinthians 3:2
Alright, now verse 3, what was their problem?
"For ye are yet carnal:…" I Corinthians 3:3
So Paul had to deal with problems in that Church because they weren’t growing. I Peter 2:2
"As new born babes, (see the illustration? desire the sincere milk of the word,…"
People are hungry for the Word. I had a young man call just last night, and he watches the program in the morning, tapes it, watches it again when he gets home at night. So it’s possible to learn a lot in a short time if you’re hungry.
We as believers, we start out as newborn babes desiring the sincere milk of the Word. The principles, as Paul said in Hebrews, of the Word of God, the very foundations, the basics. That you grow. Now babies don’t stay on milk. Alright verse 3.
Peter 2:3
"If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is (what?) So back to chapter 5. Now then, let’s move on to verse 13 of Hebrews chapter 5.
Hebrews 5:13a
"For every one that useth milk…"
They’re still on maybe Christ’s earthly ministry, at least let’s hope maybe they’ve gotten that far. Most people don’t even know what I’m talking about, and Paul enlightens us on that subject.
They’ve never gotten off the milk bottle. They’ve never gotten any further than Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Then Paul goes on to say here in Hebrews:
Hebrews 5:13
"For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe." They’re babes!" And even in believers, they may have been saved for years and years but they’ve never gotten beyond the baby stage spiritually and so Paul is admonishing them. Hebrews 5:14
"But strong meat (this adult food, see?) Well, after the rudiments of salvation and we’re babes in Christ, we begin to study the Word, and we begin to understand some of the basics. The Holy Spirit is the One Who opens up an understanding of the Scriptures. Come back to I Corinthians 2 and verse 10. Now I think we have to simply pray and ask God, "Give me understanding. Teach me. I Corinthians 2:10
"But God hath revealed them (that is, the things that are only for believers to understand) unto us by his (what?) Spirit: for the Spirit (the Holy Spirit) searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." Alright then come all the way down to verse 13,
I Corinthians 2:13
"Which things also we speak, (Paul says) not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, (see? comparing spiritual with spiritual."
This is why I use as many Scriptures as I possibly can because we have to understand that the Word of God dovetails. Everything fits and we compare Scripture with Scripture. And then verse 14. I Corinthians 2:14
"But the natural (the unregenerated, the unsaved) man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: (why?)

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