The problem is what are they doing with the milk?

The problem is, what are they doing with the milk of the word?

The milk of the word?

The milk of the kindness of God taste and see that the Lord is good.

1st Peter 2 says in dealing with this issue of milk like newborn babes desire the sincere

spiritual milk in the word that you may buy it grow up into salvation.

What is your grow up into salvation.

What is your relationship to the nourishing milk of the word? In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper looks at Hebrew 5 5, 11 to 14, to help us understand

the kind of relationship we need with the word in order to grow to maturity.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on September 29, 1996. Up until this point in the book of Hebrews the author has not stated the disease

or the problem that he's been dealing with.

You can hear it between the lines

over and over again

when he says things like chapter 2, verse 1,

pay close attention, chapter 3, verse 1,

1, Consider Jesus.

Chapter 3, verse 8, don't harden your hearts like Israel did in the wilderness.

Chapter 3, verse 12.

Take care, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief.

Chapter 4, verse 1.

Fear, lest you fail to enter into God's rest.

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