Hebrews ~ Everything Starts with Jesus: We Have the Meats - Audio
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We're continuing our series in Hebrews, everything starts with Jesus today. I got to warn you today, the author of Hebrews is a little bit upset. He's upset with us and it's going to be okay. It's going to turn to a challenge, but he is going to give us a little bit of a pat. Let's read it and let's pick it apart together. We have so much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food. Anyone who lives on milk being still an infant is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. Well, first we need to know what he's talking about there. He's like, we have much to say about this, and he's actually going to say more about it in chapter seven. But if you remember a couple of weeks ago we had a text and I said, just ignore this bit for now. It was about the order of Melchizedek. If you remember that it's where we're like, what the heck was that, order of Melchizedek? I said, hey, the author is going to explain more later, but right now just kind of set that to the side. It's obscure, it's weird, and we'll deal with it later. Well, the reason the author of Hebrews is upset right now is because he knows that his audience doesn't know what the order of Melchizedek is either. He is upset with them because he thinks they should. He thinks that this should be obvious to anyone who's studied the scriptures. But then the reason they don't, why don't they understand this? Why don't we understand this? I mean, I don't know. Does anyone here know what the order of Melchizedek is? Oh, okay, Griffin's got it. All right, but the rest of us are like, oh, he's like, why don't you know about this? Well, it's because, at least for the hearers of the author of Hebrews, letter, it's because they no longer try to understand. That's the NIV softening, the Greek there. The Greek is actually your sluggish,
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Growing up in Christ. Don't stay a baby drinking only milk.