You Should Be Growing Faster

Our author has expounded some preliminary information on priests and the priesthood of Jesus. But now, rather than plunging ahead with his explanation of who Melchizedek is and what Psalm 110 means when it declares that David's Lord is a priest in his order, the author pauses to warn his readers solemnly. He has been warning them throughout not to fall away, and one of his sternest warnings is coming right up. But his method of launching into that warning is to take a quick break from theological exposition and begin to discuss his readers' maturity or lack thereof. In other words, he suddenly gets personal. This isn't about intellectual enjoyment of knowing a lot about Jesus and Christian things. It's about you, whether you are able to take the teaching or not able to take it because you are morally immature. The writer declares that you need maturity, and then he defines what maturity looks like, because you need moral maturity to learn more about the priesthood of Christ.