What is God saying to you and me?  It’s time to grow up and become more mature.

We are not to remain ‘baby’ Christians.  We are to take responsibility and mature as God’s child.

We are not to remain in Kindergarten either.  We are to go on to elementary then middle school and high school.  Actually we are not to remain even there…but grow and mature in our faith by obeying God’s words – step by step – day by day!

What are some of the foundational beliefs we have as newborn babies in Jesus Christ?
(NASB) Hebrews 6:1-3 “THEREFORE LEAVING the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
2 of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.
3 And this we will do, if God permits.”

Did you notice the elementary teachings of newborn babies in Christ?
*Need to repent of actions that lead to death without faith in Jesus.  (When we receive Christ as our Savior…we repent of our sins, our dead works do not lead us to Jesus.)

*We establish our faith in God…we believe what He tells us about Jesus in the Bible.

*Know that there is physical resurrection from the dead – Christ is physically raised and we will be too.

*Know that there is eternal judgment for every person!  Either before the throne of Jesus – for all followers of Christ OR at the throne of God and condemned for unbelief.  Our choices in this life do affect our eternity.

Leave these elementary teachings of God and go on in His school of maturing us.

We are to discern good and evil, God says so.
(NASB) Hebrews 5:14 “But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.”

We are to discern, to understand and recognize good and evil.  We are to use judgment in this life and mature in righteousness that comes through faith in Jesus.

(NASB) Philippians 1:9-11 “And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,
10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;
11 having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.”

We are to “…press on to maturity…”