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Accompanying envy are feelings of resentment, grudges, bitterness and conflict. It has in it the idea of gossip and backbiting. The removal of hindering vices must be followed by active efforts to promote spiritual growth.
Peter says that just like newborn babies need milk, believers need the Word of God. This should be our desire no matter how old we are in the Lord. This is not what Peter has reference too. He is merely talking about the desire believers should have for it.
But, the Bible does make it clear that there comes a time when we graduate from milk to meat. Indeed, even now you are not yet able. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. This is a command for believers to strongly desire or crave something. We have this same type of longing in other areas of our life, we also need to have it for the Bible.
This same word is used several times in Scripture. Peter commands believers to desire the Word of God. The one who desires it will read it, study it, meditate on it and spend a lot of time in it. The believer who desires the Word, will not neglect the Word of God. Without a steady intake of the Word, believers will not grow. True growth is something which is done by the Holy Spirit.
He takes the Word that we feed upon and empowers it in our lives to bring about growth and maturity. As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Messiah, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
What does spiritual growth consist of? How can we measure to see if we are growing spiritually? According to his theory the consciousness is released into the universe after death, and the soul can then find a new host after the original one dies. We are born, time passes and we die. So time must exist, right? Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Max Tegmark said: The only reason I feel like I have a past is that my brain contains memories.
This basically boils down to The Law of Attraction.
Thought power is the key to creating your reality. Everything you perceive in the physical world has its origin in the invisible, inner world of your thoughts and beliefs. By controlling your thoughts, you will be able to attract the things in life you actually want. Masaru Emoto performed a series of experiments observing the physical effect of words, prayers, music and environment on the crystalline structure of water. Emoto hired photographers to take pictures of water after being exposed to the different variables and subsequently frozen so that they would form crystalline structures.
The results were nothing short of remarkable. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, "Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone? The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding; If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures; Then you will discern the fear of the LORD And discover the knowledge of God.
My son, let them not vanish from your sight; Keep sound wisdom and discretion,. The mind of the prudent acquires knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours? God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice, read more. And I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings who were before you has possessed nor those who will come after you.
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For they are ever mine. I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, Because I have observed Your precepts. From Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way. But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God. Jesus said to them, "Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God?
Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore. Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was known in all the surrounding nations.
He also spoke 3, proverbs, and his songs were 1, He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish. Men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom. Also Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni tutored the king's sons. But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
For over twenty-nine years, Pastor Ray A. Lee has ministered the word of God. In the Pastorate since , he was elevated to the office of district. Spiritual Truths and Insights by Ray A. Lee Sr, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.
And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet see or understand? Do you have a hardened heart? And do you not remember, when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up? Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, "God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to You. And He was stating the matter plainly. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. And He said to them, "O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?