DAILY TRUTH - Growing In Spiritual Maturity
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In this episode, Pastor Joel Webin discusses the importance of spiritual maturity in the church, and how it is related to character, character and competency. He also discusses the myth that a Christian can come into spiritual maturity apart from their knowledge of the Word of God.
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Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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If we were to take all the qualifications for elders that we find in 1 Timothy 3, verses 1-7,
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and we were to sum them up in one concept, it would be spiritual maturity.
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The only thing that we could perhaps add to that is that he must not only be spiritually mature,
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if we were to say if there were two parts perhaps for leaders in the church of god we would say that
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there is character and there is competency character and competency now i believe that
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in some regard competency actually does flow from character that if a man or a woman is spiritually
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mature you do not come by spiritual maturity apart from deep real knowledge from the word
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have gone it's it's like what i say in the beginning of every single one of my sermons we
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don't love with our hearts that which we do not know with our minds so i just want to i want to
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burst that bubble i want to i want to completely just dismantle that myth that has grown so
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powerful in the evangelical church today that somehow christians could come into spiritual
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maturity apart from doctrine false so if someone truly is spiritually mature in terms of character
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they will at least in some degree have a measure of competency because you don't grow in character
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in sanctification apart from knowing god's word and we've got it we have to dismiss
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this, that myth that reigns so prevalent in the evangelical church today that, you know,
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well, you're theological, you're really good at loving God with your mind, and I'm really good
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at loving him with my heart. What does that mean? That's a Gnostic, heretical divorcing
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of the mind and the heart. That's not Christian. It's not Christian. It's not biblical.
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Love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and soul. That's not like, hey, there's four
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different, you know, paths to choose. You know, some will love them with their strength. Like,
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what does that even look like? Like, you don't know God with your mind and you don't love him
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with your affections, but you're just pushing, you know, lifting weights for the Jesus, like
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strength apart. It's a collective deal. It's a package deal. You're loving God, not with
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you choose which one of these soul or heart or strength or mind. No, you're loving God with
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all of your being all of your being so there is no love for god in these other realms if you will
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apart from the realm of the mind and so if we are to come into spiritual maturity in terms of
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character it is because we are coming to love god more with our minds and if we are loving god more
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with our minds understanding the truth and the depth of his word then we are by default consequently
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growing also not just in character, but in competency. All right, all right, all right.
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