MILK AND MEAT = FOOD FOR EVERYONE

You know church, I believe God is moving us to another level.  The intensity of the messages God has given us to share with you over the past two weeks is almost overwhelming to me.  God in his love for you is pouring out of his Word and Spirit,  words of life to you and for me.  I sense we are moving from the milk of the Word that causes us to grow.  We are now moving to the meat of the Word which will cause us to be strong and victorious in him, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.  Welcome everyone to your 24/7, week long, online church service.  Let us say clearly, everyone is welcome in this place. 

To those of you new to the faith, the milk of the Word is still good for you.  But, to those of you who are now strong in Christ by the renewing of your mind, God is ready to feed you the prime spiritual meat of the Word that will strengthen you for service in God’s kingdom.  As you all know by now this ministry always backs up what we say by giving you evidence based on the Bible, which is the Word of God, don’t we?  Please turn with me to I Peter 2:1-2 and let’s read it together.

“Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As new born babies, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.”

Do you get that, my friends?  What God’s Word is talking about is repentance and a sincere desire to serve and love him.  Setting aside all these things (talking about sin) and receiving Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.  He tells all of you who are learning God’s way that he will be gentle with you.  The Holy Spirit will guide you as you read the Bible.  As you receive the milk of the Word you will begin to grow stronger, and stronger spiritually.

The important thing is this – when you are ready the Holy Spirit will guide you in the Bible to the spiritual meat of the Word.  This Word will prepare you to face and overcome every obstacle of life and help you to be the witness for God that he desires you to be.  Yes, my friends, there is quite a journey ahead just for you.  Hebrews 5:14 explains further what we are talking about here.  I want you to listen and meditate upon this.

“But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil."

Let’s talk about this a little bit.  When the Bible says those who are of a full age, it is not talking about being a senior citizen.  It is in fact, talking about those who are solid in the faith and mature in the Lord.  This only comes by the renewing of your mind according to the Word of God.  A person who is ready for spiritual meat is someone who is walking after the Spirit and not, let me repeat this – NOT after the flesh.

If your faith is truly in Jesus and what he did on that cross for you and not on the things of this earth, you are ready for the spiritual meat that God is prepared to provide for you.  When this online church first started over two years ago, we began by preaching the milk of the Word to you.  But as time has gone on, we have provided more and more spiritual food, layer by layer.  Milk to meat to help you grow strong in the Lord.   We promise to always provide milk for the babes in Christ and meat for the strong and mature ones because of their faith in Jesus Christ.  In other words, this online church is here by the grace of God to minister to everyone.  That is the reason we always say that everyone is welcome in this place.

Many of you who have been with us for a while have been growing strong in the Lord.  God sees you have been renewing your mind by reading or listening to the anointed messages we give, but mostly because you are reading and meditating on God’s Word.  I believe that is the reason God is giving this ministry the awesome responsibility of feeding you spiritual meat at this time.  Renewing of the mind is not just some fancy phrase I picked out to impress you.  No, my friends, renewing of the mind is a Bible instruction.  Please turn with me to Romans 12:1-2.  The apostle Paul is talking to us all here, folks – babes and the mature alike.  And this is what it states:

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.  And be not conformed to this world:  But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.”

You see, folks, this is good advice and instruction for everyone.  God is telling us whatever we do for him is just our reasonable service.  The serious point here is by renewing our mind to the Word of God, we will be able to walk in all his ways.  As we first scoot, then crawl, finally stranding straight and walking tall in the Word of God, we will prove to others it can be done.

I just can never forget telling a friend of mine, who did not know God, that I was going to serve Jesus as Lord of my life.  I planned on turning away from the ways of the world and back to God.  This friend said “I am going to watching you, Bob.  If you can make it, maybe I can.”  That, my friends, is why God wants to feed us spiritual meat.  Because he loved the world so much, he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16).  What an important meal we will be partaking of.  Don’t forget to say a blessing over the meal.

God Bless You,
Bro. Bob