Eat This

Hebrews 2:1-4 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

We must attend to the feeding of our souls.

Romans 14:1-5 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

We can only offer spiritual food, we cannot force them to eat it. He is weak because he has not eaten but the appetite for spiritual food is the purview of God, not man. Encourage them to eat, do not force feed them. It will turn bitter in their mouth.

Job 21:25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

His Word should be like honey on your lips.

Song of Solomon 4:11 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Newborn

1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

I left off yesterday asking you to think about what entering into the Kingdom of God would look like. As newborns you need to be fed and this brings up one of the more important aspects of living in the world and the Kingdom at the same time. In both the world and the Kingdom, you have appetites. Appetites do not dissolve just because you are born again.

Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

God provides the sustenance for Kingdom living and makes provisions to be our satisfaction.

Ecclesiastes 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

Yet your body still has an appetite for worldly things.

Romans 13:13-14 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Galatians 5:16-17 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

You must receive spiritual sustenance in order to be able to walk in the spirit. If your diet is the things of the world, you have neglected the feeding of your soul.

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