Solid Food and Spiritual Maturity

January 1, 2017
Sermon
Lesson 15
Hebrews 5:11-14

Solid Food and Spiritual Maturity

Main Idea: If we truly are the children of God, we will be growing in Christ!

• Signs of the immature (not growing)

 Being spiritually imperceptive (“dull of hearing”) (11)

 Spiritually “regressing” (11)

 Should be able to teach, but cannot (12)

 Need to be re-learning the basics of the Gospel (12a)

 Having a diet of milk (elementary teaching) (12b)

 Being unskilled in the word of righteousness (13)

• Signs of the mature (growing)

 Having a diet of solid food (14)

 Having our maturity train our capacity for discernment (14)

 Having the capacity to distinguish good and evil (14)

Applications

Am I progressing in my Christian maturity, or am I regressing?

Am I in a cycle of growth—
becoming more mature and being more able to distinguish between good and evil?