“Let’s Grow” Hebrews 5:13 – 6:3 (AMP) “For everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he/she is a spiritual infant. But solid food is for the mature, whose senses are trained by practice to distinguish between what is morally good and what is evil. Therefore let us get past the elementary stage in the teachings about the Christ, advancing on to maturity and perfection and spiritual completeness, without laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith......

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On the eve of a new year, I encourage you to purpose to enter it as a newborn babe; not saddled with the mindset(s), habits, or attitudes of the past. Decide, declare, and decree not to be conformed to this world (i.e. it’s values, behavior, customs, religious traditions, etc.), but to …”be transformed by the renewing of your mind…” In the words of the Apostle Paul, “…whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report…meditate......

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Uttering the words, “It is finished”, as He hung on the cross, Jesus declared the fulfillment of His purpose on earth, the reconciliation of humankind to God the Creator/Father. One of the dynamic occurrences that resulted was that “…the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom…” signifying that a “…new and living way was opened for all believers into the very presence of God with no other sacrifice or priesthood except Christ‘s” (ref. Hebrews 9:1-8; 10:19-22). “For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law” (ref.......

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One of the “strongholds” faced by the today’s believer, in the maturation process, is thousands of years old: letting go of the obsolete; being released from that which is no longer obligatory, so as to enjoy/revel/live in the freedom and benefits of the ‘New Covenant’. The book of Hebrews was written to Jewish believers who, after having embraced Christianity, desire to reverse course in order to escape persecution from fellow Jews who had not been converted. In chapter 6 verse 1, the writer appeals to them to “go on to perfection”/maturity. The......

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