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Paul's Desire for People's Maturity, Part 1 (TMF:2605)

Friday, May 02, 2025
Peace to Live By: Paul's Desire for People's Maturity, Part 1 (TMF:2605) - Daniel Litton
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       Finishing up verse 28: ““Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ” (ESV). The ultimate goal is then twofold. First, to bring people into relationship with God. For the Jewish person, that’s back into relationship with God. For the Gentile person, that’s into relationship with the real God. And second, to make people mature who have believed. To make the Christians mature. How are folks to become mature? Paul says it is through wise teaching. Wise teaching. That’s what the pastor does. That’s what all the ministers and Bible teachers on the radio, or in the podcasts, do. There's no question about it, in our day and age, here in twenty-first century America, we have more Christian teaching available to us than any Christian population has ever had. It is wide and far. Though we know, that we can hear everything that there is, but at the end of the day we have to put what we hear into practice, right?