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Summary
Themes
Key Points
- 1.God’s Word is as essential to sustaining spiritual vitality as physical food is to maintaining natural life.
- 2.Faith acts as the transport that receives God's spiritual power and translates it into practical everyday reality.
- 3.Unbelief limits our capacity to receive from God and experience His power in our personal lives.
- 4.Believers must hunger for sound doctrine rather than seeking messages that merely satisfy itching ears.
- 5.True biblical preaching confronts bad dispositions, exposes hypocrisy, and convicts us of sin to bring real transformation.
- 6.A true spiritual father provides both instruction and protection out of love, whereas hireling teachers often exploit believers for self-aggrandizement.
- 7.Spiritual growth requires laying aside habits of malice, guile, envy, hypocrisy, and evil speaking.
- 8.Newborn believers must crave the pure milk of the Word to grow into spiritual authority, boldness, and maturity.
- 9.Personal growth requires taking responsibility for our choices and actions rather than putting blame on preachers or others.
Sermon Moments
“As essential as food is to your natural life, so essential is the word to your spiritual life.”
“There are many foods that are good to you but not good for you. And there are many teachings that are good to you but not good for you.”
“You don't eat everybody's cookbook, so why should you eat everybody's teaching?”
“Faith takes it from the spirit into the intellect, into the practical.”
“A father that teaches is more sensitive to your needs than an individual who comes into your life later... I'm a father, not just a teacher.”
“If you don't have any haters, you're not that gifted, because the more gifted you are, the more haters you're going to have.”
“You can't be saved for as many years as you claim you've been saved and still claim to be a newborn.”
“When you have been born into the Spirit of God, the first thing that your soul desires is the Word of God.”
This Week
Remember This
Just as the physical body cannot survive without natural food, our spiritual life requires daily nourishment from the pure, unadulterated Word of God to grow and mature.
A Challenge for You
It's time for us to grow up so we can handle our business, lead people to Christ, and be good examples! Give me the Word, feed me the Word, walk me in the Word!These are personal sermon notes shared to help you remember the message — not a replacement for Scripture, your church, or your pastors.
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