Continuing with the thought of 1Corinthians 2 verse 6 which states this from the ESV, "Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away." This area covers allot of ground and some including myself may not what is revealed in the following because it covers areas like, those devoted to utter destruction, spiritual immaturity, spiritual maturity, the larger life, and spiritual growth some of these we may have looked at before. But that being the cast here we go.
Devoted Things, devoted to utter destruction,
Deuteronomy 7:16, 17-26 "You will consume all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you. Your eye will not pity them, neither will you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
"If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?' you will not be afraid of them but you shall remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt, the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So will the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed. You will not be in dread of them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome GOD. The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you. But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed. And He will give their kings into your hand, and you will make their name perish from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. The carved images of their gods you will burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God. And you will not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You will utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction."
Deuteronomy 13:12-18 "If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to dwell there, that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known, then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you, you will surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. You will gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It will be a heap forever. It will not be built again. None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as He swore to your fathers, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God."
Joshua 6:15-21 "On the seventh day they rose early, at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times. And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for the LORD has given you the city. And the city and all that is within it will be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it. But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the LORD; they will go into the treasury of the LORD." So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city. Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword."
Joshua 7:1 "But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel."
Joshua 7:10-15 "The LORD said to Joshua, "Get up! Why have you fallen on your face? Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings. Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you. Get up! Consecrate the people and say, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the LORD, God of Israel, "There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you." In the morning therefore you will be brought near by your tribes. And the tribe that the LORD takes by lot will come near by clans. And the clan that the LORD takes will come near by households. And the household that the LORD takes will come near man by man. And he who is taken with the devoted things will be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done an outrageous thing in Israel.'"
Isaiah 52:11-12 "Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the LORD. (Romans 12:1-2) For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard."
Spiritual Immaturity;
Inability to Receive Strong Doctrine,
1Corinthians 3:1-4; 14:20 "But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not being merely human?"
1Corinthians 14:20-25 "Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. In the Law it is written, "By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord (Isaiah 28:11f)." Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers. If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders [*verse 16 if you are blessed in the spirit, how will the one who fills the place of the ungifted, unversed in spirit say the "Amen"?] or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds? But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider [*] enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship GOD and declare that GOD is really among you."
Necessity of Faith,
Galatians 4:1-7 "I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary [sin, being part of the natural way of life] principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law [life's natural course], to redeem those who were under the [this way of natural life] law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, GOD sent the Spirit of His Son (Christ) into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God."
Continuance in the Primary Department,
Hebrews 5:9-10, 11-14 with 1Peter 2:2 "Being made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him (Deuteronomy 18:18-19), being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he remains a child. For solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil."
1Peter 2:1-3 "Put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the LORD is good."
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