We must learn at some point in our Christian experience that we have to apply ourselves to certain

spiritual fundamentals if we are going to be mature, Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Maybe you can relate to this scenario.

You get up in the morning determined to obey God, or at least to do better than yesterday.

But no matter how hard you try, you face the same

old frustrations, temptations, defeats. What's missing? What do you need in order to grow spiritually?

Find out today, as John MacArthur shows you a practical path to spiritual maturity.

Well, Christmas is behind us, and a new year is just a few

days away, and to help you gear up for the new year, I can't think of a better series than the

one we're beginning today called A Practical Path to Spiritual Maturity. That's exactly what all of us

need as we look ahead, a plan that can help us

grow spiritually in 2026. John had much to say about what that path to spiritual maturity looks

like in a believer's life. Here's one example. I simply stated the scripture says grow in grace.

Growing grace in the knowledge of Christ.

That is a command.

Or to look at it on a negative side, be no more children tossed to and fro and cared about by every wind of doctrine.

Or to borrow from the language of the Apostle John, you know, you don't want to be a spiritual child who merely knows the father or even a spiritual young man who sound in doctrine.

You want to be a spiritual father who knows him who is from the beginning.

You have a deep knowledge of God.

We all need to be growing.

And spiritual growth, while it is the work of the Holy Spirit, calls on all the faculties of the believer to make a plan, to practically

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