by Dana G Smith
keywords: milk, meat, doctrine, Paul, Christian, America


Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Hebrews 6:1 ¶Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God permit.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

- Heb 5: 14-6:1-6



Let us go on, therefore, the Apostle Paul says, ‘unto perfection’. Here is a man, born of the Jews, of the Pharisee’s doctrine perfect, and born unto God through the Spirit in Christ. He was also rejected by many Jews as they saw what he did after he came back from the road to Damascus. He was a changed man. Paul said of himself, ‘keeping the law, blameless’, yet he also knew, he needed the ‘blood of Christ’ and being ‘born again’ to be complete in Christ. Here was someone called to the gentiles and spent his life building churches and spreading the gospel. He knew year after year of the troubles in the believers he had seen come to the Lord. He saw persecution, false teachers, and the grace of God. In all this, it was a race, a place where he was not to quit, but push onward.