Hebrews 5:12-14
There's no excuse for a serious Christian to settle for milk instead of meat. "IN fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food (meat) is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil”
Mature Christians should be teachers (they lead by example). Teachers must be equipped to handle the word of truth (do they, can they, comprehend the true depth of what Jesus did for everyone)? As well, they must have knowledge and spiritual insight, which comes only through the reading and study of God's Word—plus constant prayer! Mature believers (meat eaters) are sensitive to the Spirit's leading. They understand the difference between right and wrong, important and inconsequential, good and evil.
Ray writes in The Lake of Fire - Part XI
http://bible-truths.com/lake11.html Can boys become men on their mother's milk? Neither can men become spiritually mature on things of childhood. Paul said when he was a child, he thought and acted as a child, but when he became a man, he said he put away childish things. The Christian Church today refuses to put away childish things. Here is the purpose for the Law of Moses in the Church:
"Wherefore the law was [it was not past tense for Paul because he had matured] our schoolmaster [Gk: tutor or guardian] to BRING US UNTO CHRIST, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come [faith HAS now come] we are NO LONGER under a schoolmaster [the law of Moses]" (Gal. 3:24-25).
How is it that all the educated theologians with all their PhD’s can't understand this simple analogy. The law—the law of Moses, was our "schoolmaster." It WAS, it isn't any more. Why not? Because mature adults are no longer children. We have all had a schoolmaster in our youth. We were under them, subject to them, disciplined by them, taught by them. I am now 62 years old. Am I still under my grade school teachers? Of course not. Do I, however, try to remember the things I learned from my teacher? Why yes, of course. But as a man I am now subject to higher authorities. A person will never acquire a college degree if he never gets out of grade school.
As we grow as Christians we are weaned off of milk and onto meat, we go from being students to teachers.
Seeking to do God's will always,
Doug