Baby Christians

      Baby Christians eat Pablum and Milk, they don't have Spiritual Teeth to chew Steak or even Potatoes. Of Course I speak of Spiritual Meat and Potatoes. There is nothing wrong with Spiritual Milk, it just won't put on the Spiritual Mind Muscle a Baby Christian needs to Grow. Grow we must. We need to Pray for Spiritual Understanding, we need to Read our Bibles and Devotionals, (reading a Devotional or Sunday School Lesson is good but it is not Substitute for Reading the Bible Daily). We need to attend "Good Preaching". Just Preaching won't do. We need Good Preaching, Good Bible Preaching. If you are stuck with a Namby-Pamby Preacher who is afraid to Present the Whole Gospel, find another Church. Finally we need to
Study to find ourselves approved. We need to attend Discipleship Training and Sunday School and attend conferences. If we don't do all these things we revert to Baby Christians.

      Many Baby Christians have been in your Church for 40, 50, 60 years. Many are Teaching Sunday School, playing in the band, singing in the Choir, or even Preaching a Sermon to you each Sunday. It may seen impossible that an 80 year old man can be a Baby Christian, but it is an every day reality. Paul was faced with the same problem in his day. 

1 Corinthians 3:1-2 (KJV) ¹  And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
²  I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. Hebrews 5:11-13 (KJV) 

¹¹  ...…......seeing ye are dull of hearing.
¹²  For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
¹³  For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

      Baby Christians underline their Sunday School lessons in their book, but the have to come back every Sunday for the same lesson. Time after time. It is very frustrating for a dedicated Teacher. Baby Christians sing in the Choir and they get the notes right but never hear the Words. Baby Christian Preachers even read the Words right out of the Bible from a Pulpit but the Words fly right over their head and never soak in.

      So how do you really know if you are a Mature Christian? One of the surest ways is knowing that you take every opportunity to Share the Gospel. Sadly some Christians, far too many, have never once shared the Gospel with any Lost Person whatsoever. Satan is not afraid of this kind of Christian. He is laughing at them. He will however take time to distract Baby Christians in their daily life with meaningless drivel and unproductive hobbies and activities to waste their time.
      Don't just ask a person if they go to Church, or if they are a Christian. It is too easy for them to mention a Church or a Denomination or tell you, "yes I was Baptized in 1974". That may sound like good information, but it won't tell you if they have a Personal Relationship with Jesus. "Do you Know Jesus as Your Personal Savior?", is the most decisive way to ask the Question.
       Mature Christian yearn to know the Bible and their Savior better. Psalm 42:1-2 (HCSB) ¹

 As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for You, God.
²  I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God?

      Finally a Mature Christian is willing to Forsake the Worldly things for Spiritual Truth and God's Will in their lives. For instance, in today's society, a Mature Christian has to Forsake and Disavow the Democrat and Socialist Parties. Both are as Anti-Christian as they can be. Democrats actually Boo God at their Conventions. They Support Murdering Babies in their Party Platform. They push normalizing homosexuality and recently even Pedophilia. They call for the legalization of Drugs. On and on, they support Outright Sin in one form or another. A True Christian cannot be associated with this form of debauchery. 

2 Corinthians 6:17 (KJV) ¹⁷  Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
      Don't settle for a Baby Portion. Go for the Big Platter of Meat and Potatoes. Milk of Kindness never hurts, but feed on Heavy Proteins and be ready to Witness for Christ!