Act your age and not your shoe size!

 

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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Act your age and not your shoe size… My sister used to say that to me when I was younger… but at the time my shoe size was actually larger than my age… well now what? 

 

1 Cor. 3:1 -4

3 Dear brothers and sisters,[a] when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people.[b] I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ. 2 I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready, 3 for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world? 4 When one of you says, “I am a follower of Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting just like people of the world?

You never sin once you are a Xn… uhm no.

You were never a Xn in the first place if you sin…uhm no again.

You can in fact be a Christian and sin… not just sin, but live a life of sin even after your accept Christ. You are filled with his spirit, but no longer controlled by his spirit! This is called being a baby.

 

But here is what I want you to Notice about this… there’s something here… if someone is not spiritual or controlled by the spirit you can’t really talk to them, you cannot connect with them because they are not on your level. There are certain things that they will not have register because they are controlled by the flesh. Paul said “when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ”

Now this can sound like I am pushing the emperors new clothes line, but the truth is I have many times found myself in a group of Christians and even ecumenical pastors and there is not much I can really say to the group because they are not spirit filled… and in fact are quite Babyish in their faith… I know I know it sounds like I am posturing and bragging- I’m not- its just the honest truth. And in the same way I have a few pastors that walk much deeper than I do and probably see me as a little underdeveloped in my faith… and could talk over my head spiritually speaking… I get it and I am pushing into grow beyond that… thats the point of this right? Not to stick with milk, and not to go from milk to meat, but to go from milk, to pudding, to bread, to fruits and vegetables and ultimately to meat.

 

I also find it interesting that they are not talking about worldly things… They are arguing about Christian things… but its still wrong because its in the flesh… its still babyish. Paul nails it on the head with verse four… you are acting just like people of the world. May our prayer today simply be- quit acting like the world… quit acting like babies…. start allowing the Holy Spirit to control you and act like a grown up.