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Why did we not fulfill the calling?

In April 1990 I gave my live to Jesus Christ and he became my savior. I was told to study the Bible, pray, go to church and to have fellowship with other Christians. I did all those things and even went to cell meetings. I was taught quite a lot of things about Gods word but some of it, I just did not understand. This caused a lot of confusion, I didn’t know whether I was Auther or Mather. The result was that I made a lot of mistakes as a young Christian and got badly hurt. I even backslided a few times because of this but deep inside me I had a hunger that could not be quenched. Luckily I kept on searching for the truth and I prayed that the Holy Spirit would guide me and bring me to that. I was led to a Pastor and he laid the foundations of the basic truths of God’s word in my live. I will forever be thankful to Him for being obedient to God.

This is also scriptural. We read in (1Peter 2:2).

Like new born babies you should crave (thirst for earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto complete salvation, (Amplified).

Through this scripture the Lord showed me, that as a new born baby we first got to drink milk before we can take any thing more solid into your system. A baby first learns to crawl before it can walk. You cannot become a computer expert before you haven’t first learned the basics of the computer. As knew born babies we first need the basics (the foundation) the milk of the word before we can grow up to maturity.

“Concerning this we have much to say which is hard to explain since you have become dull in your [spiritual] hearing and sluggish [even slothful in achieving spiritual insight]
12. For even though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very first principles of Gods word. You have come to need milk not solid food.
13. For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will and purpose, thought, and action) for he is a mere infant [not able to talk yet]!
14. but solid food is for full-grown men, for whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between

what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law. (Amplified) Hebrews 5:11-14
This is a serious warning from God and can cause very bad repercussions. It can lead to a malfunction in the body. A baby can’t digest solid foods like meat and raw vegetables. The baby’s health will be impaired, because his system can not absorb it. This baby will grow up to be an adult with a weak indigestion and if that isn’t functioning properly we can have a lot of complications.
We have grown up a lot of weak babies in the church and we have brought ourselves under the judgement of God. We teach babies a mixture of solid foods and milk. When a Christian comes into the Kingdom they are not ready for solid food yet. They first need the basics of God’s word so they can grow to maturity and then they can digest the more solid teachings and understand them.
We read in (James 3:1).

Not many [of you] should become teachers (self-constituted censors and reprovers of others), my brethren, for you know that we [teachers] will be judged by a higher standard and with greater severity [than other people; thus we assume the greater accountability and the more condemnation].

We are also subject to what we teach and do not say that we have arrived yet. But we asked you to seek for truth with us so that the bride of Christ can come forth.
In conclusion we want to say that this in the problem all over and we need to rectify this before the Second Coming of Jesus.

And this good news of the kingdom will be (the Gospel) preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations and then will come the end. (Matt 24: 14 (Amp).

Author: Munro van der Merwe.

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