Babies or Men?

Hebrews: “Babies or Men?”

Pastor: Mason Neltner

January 14, 2024, Hebrews 5:11-14 ESV

Hebrews 6:9

Babies are . Men are . (Hebrews 5:11)

Revelation 3:15-19

“The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.… Unlike their spiritual ancestors, modern evangelicals have not pursued comprehensive thinking under God or sought a mind shaped to its furthest reaches by Christian perspective.” Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

Babies must be . Men themselves so they can others. (Hebrews 5:11-12)

Milk: “Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.” Hebrews 6:1–2

“It is very pleasant to see the infant in the house. What joy there is in its tender cry. But suppose that our children were always to remain infants; that would be no happiness to the parent. If you had a son twenty years of age who still needed to be carried, who required still to hang upon the nurse’s breast, would you not consider it one of the most serious of calamities?” Charles Spurgeon, Strong Meat

1 Timothy 5:8 and Titus 2:1-8

Babies live on . Men live on . (Hebrews 5:12-13)

Proverbs 25:2

Solid Food: God’s divine attributes, Historical theology and church history, creeds and confessions, the Trinity including monarchism, the eternal generation of the Son, the eternal procession of the Spirit, and the hypostatic union, the Filioque, the doctrines of grace, Arminianism and Calvinism, election and predestination, the paradox of the sovereignty of God and the culpability of man, the differing views on baptism and communion for children, eschatology!

“Some diversion is doubtless lawful; but for Christians to spend so much of their time, so many long evenings, in no other conversation than that which tends to divert and amuse, if nothing worse, is a sinful way of spending time, and tends to poverty of soul at least, if not to outward poverty.” Jonathan Edwards, The Importance and Advantage of a Thorough Knowledge of Divine Truth

Babies are . Men are . (Hebrews 5:13-14)

1 Timothy 4:7-8, 1 Timothy 4:12, Ephesians 4:13-14

“I do ask my Lord often this one mercy, not only to make this Church, as it is, the largest Church in Christendom, but to be pleased to make us also strong men. Oh! if I can have in this Church a body of strong men and women, who know what they have received and hold it fast, and grow in grace, who shall have their eyes lit up with enthusiasm because their hearts are burning with a divine fervour, why, there is nothing impossible to you! You shall make the Church tell upon its age; you shall move London, which is the heart of the world, until it shall send out deep heart-throbs that shall reach throughout the universe. ” Charles Spurgeon, Strong Meat