Beloved of heaven,
The Beginning of Faith comprises biblical teachings that can be embraced
or understood during the early years of the Christian faith and was designed to
give believers a foundation for The
Building Of Faith that leads to The
End Of Faith (1Pet. 1:9)!
Just like the Manna in the Old Testament was
meant to be consumed within a day lest corruption sets into it, so also the
initial Faith Meals would be overtaken with corruption or carnality if we tarry
with it beyond the time frame calibrated by God and this has produced spiritual
casualties in the Church.
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The
same God who provided for Elisha’s need though ravens by the brook Cherith was
the same God who later halted that operation and ministered unto him via the
widow of Zarephath. 1Kings 17:4/9
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The
same God that initiated a beginner course called The Milk of The Word
(1Cor. 3:2) which every new/young believer can relate with is the same God that
ordained a process whereby every believer would be weaned from such Milky
Form of Faith unto a Meaty/Spiritual Form of Faith (1Cor
3:1/Heb. 5:14) needed to bring about the Full Formation of Christ In The
Soul. This is the transition from Faith Towards God unto The
Faith of The Son which part 1 to 27 of this series attempts to pay homage
to this understanding.
So, in Part 1 of this series, I tried to explain the
fact that Salvation is meant to be An Ongoing Process and not An
Event because believers are meant to gradually graduate from the elementary
doctrines of Christ stated in Heb. 6:1-2 where the ingredients of the
milky aspect of Faith is communicated. This is where we find Faith
Towards God, the aspect of faith gave birth to The
Prosperity/Healing Message. This is also the terrain that gave birth to the Doctrine
of Baptisms that later founded The Baptist Church. This is where Repentance
From Dead Works that raise the so called ‘Holiness Message’ was born. These
were The Apostles Doctrine, the Activities of The Apostles in
The Early Part of the Book of Acts where the glory of the milk could be
found’.
Heb. 6:1-2 Therefore leaving the ELEMENTARY
principles of the doctrine (i.e. TEACHINGS) of Christ, let us go on unto
perfection/spiritual maturity; not laying again the foundation of REPENTANCE
FROM DEAD WORKS, and of FAITH TOWARD GOD, of the DOCTRINE OF
BAPTISMS……
(i.e. Summarily put, THE
ELEMENTARY TEACHING OF CHRIST CANNOT BRING THE SAINTS UNTO PERFECTION/MATURITY)
So we
can see from Hebrew 6:1-2 that the beginner course of faith is what Apostle
Paul described as the Milk of The Word in 1 Corinthians 3:2 because new
or young believers/nations who have been previously weakened by the course of
the world ((Isa. 14:12/Eph.2:2) can
embrace and use it. It contains promises that addresses our day-day
natural/carnal needs. It is a vital FOUNDATION but not the BUILDING that
should enable a believer complete the course of faith!
1 Cor. 3:2
I have fed you with milk (i.e. as aspect/form of faith), and not with
meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
We
all need a foundation that we would build on, therefore this popular
aspect of faith which is juicy and ‘result-oriented’ is designed as a
base for a higher faith called THE FAITH OF THE SON. This is the faith
that brought all Christians to Christ BUT It Can Neither Enable A Believer
To Discern And Overcome The World Nor Bring A Believer Into The Love Of The
Father, which The Likes of The Son and His Apostles Partook of! 1Jn. 2:15
The ‘disciple-making and weaning-process’ of
Jn. 8:31-32 can either take years or decades depending on a lot of factors.
Summarily put, it’s the only legal ground by which Christ through the holy
spirit can administer truth to a believer. So truth is not what a young
believer can handle as many suppose.
What many believers and ministers today call ‘Truth’
is actually only an Introduction To Truth. The corporate church is yet
to fulfill Jn. 8:31 and therefore such can’t come into Jn.8:32.
So the crux of Christ’s declaration in Jn. 8:31-32
which gave birth to this article is that ‘embracing the weaning process from
the initial Faith Meals is the only way to qualify to receive answers to
Pilate’s question of ‘What is Truth’ (Jn.
18:38) and it’s the only
avenue whereby God can administer The Knowledge of Truth (1Tim. 2:4) and
gradually grant an Entrance Into The Kingdom to a believer (2Pet.1:11). Knowledge
of Truth has to do with the costly art of engraving the Laws of the Spirit of
Life in our hearts and mind (Rom.8:2/Heb.
8:10)
The
privileges and blessings of The Milk of The Word, which begins the Faith
journey as we can see in the book of Acts and in the church today, has given
birth to prophesies, baptisms, healing and brought about many laudable
outward/physical/carnal exploits and breakthroughs in various facets of our
natural life but the emergence of the glorious church is at the mercy of
purely spiritual meals that tends towards The End of The Faith, THE
SALVATION OF THE SOUL - 1Pet.1:9. You can’t claim it, you can only RECEIVE
IT after walking worthy of the instructions documented in the epistles! When
Peter, James and John exhausted the light governing the initial Faith
Towards God teachings, they had to give a right hands of fellowship to
Apostle Paul who then taught them FAITH OF THE SON (Gal.
2:9/2:20). Then and only then could they access
and Accurately Interpret Revelations Of Truth and become qualified to
write epistles to the Churches, glory!
Like Joshua and the children of Israel once did
in Deu. 2:3, ‘The Blessed Church of Christ’ has so far tarried and
encompassed around the mountain of initial ‘Proofs-Oriented Faith’ born
by the elementary principles of the teachings of Christ (Heb. 6:1-2). The
Church (Believers) need to be weaned from such ‘Milky Meals’ of the gospel unto
the ‘Meaty Meals’ that are capable of making the Soul Spiritual or ‘Christlike’,
for then would we press into Sonship, endure a catalogue of chastening, become
epistles that our generation would read and also bear the Peaceable Fruit of
Righteousness unto the father - (Heb. 12:11)
Bless You!
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