Go On To Maturity

Let’s go on to maturity! Jesus Christ wants all of His disciples to go on to maturity. He calls and matures ministers through the Holy Spirit Who then works with them to make mature disciples who, in the unity of faith, can do the work of the ministry. The devil has sent his ministers to lead professing Christians astray and to prevent their growth to maturity.

Maturity Means Learning to Discern by Truth
Disciples must learn how to discern the false from the real, and then, forgetting the false and carnal ministers, they must find and join with true ministers. Great (and unnecessary) devilish storms are not far ahead unless the Church everywhere is restored, England and the United States included. A simple way of explaining restoration is that "it is a full return to the Lord, His Word rightly divided, His kingdom and righteousness, and His biblical way of doing all things."

Maturity Includes Milk and Meat
The restored Church will be in true unity of faith and will be saying the same things—truth and only truth. The restored Church will have only mature, godly ministers. Ministers who are called but not yet mature will be equipped properly and trained to maturity. All disciples, young and old, will be trained in all the milk doctrines (Heb. 5:12 through 6:2) shortly after conversion. They will then be trained in the meat of the Word and, before long, will be teaching others truth and only truth.

Maturity Recognizes "True Fire" and "Wild Fire"
Presently, most members of the Church are so weak in their study of the Word of truth that their spiritual senses are not trained to discern the real from the false or the good from the evil. Because of this, many cannot tell the difference in a mature minister of God and one who is of the devil disguised as a minister of righteousness. They don't know the difference in the "true fire" of God and the "wild fire" of the devil. The results in the lives of people touched by wild fire may look positive and good to the untrained eye. Even seemingly good works may abound from those touched by wild fire, but deep down a fire of devastation is smoldering and waiting to break out at an opportune time to do more of the devil's work.

Maturity Means Realizing Costly Grace
The message of "cheap grace" has poisoned the minds of those who do not have trained and mature senses. Therefore, they make excuses for their own conduct and actions and for the conduct and actions of others, including those of false and carnal ministers. They end up calling good evil and evil good; they defend the false and carnal and sometimes ignore or even attack the real.

Maturity Means Learning to Recognize Deception
Recognizing that a particular minister or group of ministers is false and/or carnal does not guarantee that one is mature in the Word of truth. The devil works both ends and the middle of things. He deceives some professing Christians to the extent that they accept the false and carnal as being of and from God. He infiltrates the minds of other professing Christians who actually recognize some false and carnal ministers by causing them to go beyond and/or short of truth. For example, in their fervor to expose false and carnal ministers and their teachings, they actually renounce some things that are true. They do not understand that carnal ministers and even false ministers are sometimes ministering some truth. That is one of the main reasons that they are so deceptive. A minister of the devil in a Christian church or setting is not going to act, at least openly, the same way a minister of the devil acts in a satanic or occult church. He or she is not going to say the same things, at least openly, as the devil's ministers in an openly occult or satanic church.

Maturity Means Being Prepared for Judgment
All are going to be judged by the Word of God. It is time to become a real student of the Word. Lay aside all private traditions, interpretations and preferences and yield to truth and only truth. The time is short! Start now and go on to maturity!