The Importance Of Milk In The Bible

(Isaiah 28:9). We must grow into spiritual maturity by eating the meat of God’s Word and leaving the milk behind. In fact, in many churches, you not only get the milk bottle, but in many cases, it is sour milk. Many Christians and even preachers are exposed to those who know better, as we see them drinking the milk, teaching the milk, and choking on the meat when it comes to “precept must be upon precept.” Our reasoning for this is that if they did apply all the scriptures in the entire Bible to their doctrines and daily lives, it may just expose something they do not want exposed. They reject this principle, the “key of knowledge,” meaning they do not use it, nor apply it!

“For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat”

Hebrews 5:12 KJV …show more content…
But the fact of the matter and the truth is, that many are stuck in spiritual childhood, or stuck in spiritual “Hollywood,” with their dog and pony shows. They reject “the first principles” (Hebrews 5:6), as Peter also acknowledged, “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation” (II Peter 1:20). It all leads back to Isaiah 28:9-13, the key to knowledge and understanding doctrine, these are the first principles when it come to “the oracles of God” (Hebrews 5:12). When you see preachers dropping the ball, ignoring this “key,” it is because they are still a babe in Christ, regardless of their