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Hebrews chapter 6 verse 1.

Therefore let us lead the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity.

I want us to think about that statement.

This exhortation to leave the elementary doctrine of Christ, like the basic doctrine of Christ, which obviously is critical and important, it's foundational

for the Christian life, understanding who Jesus is, what Jesus has done for us, the gospel,

like we never get over that. This is basic and foundational.

And in a sense we are always remembering and returning to this. But that's not

where we stop. We move on, we go on, Hebrew chapter 6 verse 1 says to maturity.

We grow up more and more and more in Christ.

You know, I think about something that a group I'm a part of and our church we were talking about the other night.

We were talking about how many people live the first year of the Christian life over and over and

over and over again,

never really move on from it.

Like there's just little going on to maturity.

We just come back to the same basic truths over and over and we never move beyond that.

We never take the time to go deeper than that, to grow in greater knowledge, deeper intimacy with Christ and greater obedience to Christ.

And many people live a Christian life for 20, 30 years, but the reality is it's year one over and over and over again

because we never push farther.

And I just want to ask you, like, is that you?

Are you stuck in a rut like that?

Maybe it's your one over and over again?

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