Onward Towards Spiritual Maturity
Pastor Mike Bates September 8, 2024
Hebrews 6:1–2 (NASB95)
• God wants us to mature in our faith. He does not want us to be

.
• God wants us to learn the

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of our faith and then move forward into more deeper things.
• We grow in our knowledge of God’s word not so that we can be

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but to learn more about God and to be more

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Him.
• God wants to protect us from false

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, beliefs or worldly wisdom. He wants us to know the

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of His word.
1 Corinthians 14:20 (NASB95)
• God wants us to

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up in our faith. He does not want us to stay

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in our knowledge and understanding of who He is.
• He does not want us to grow up in our knowledge of

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. He wants us to stay

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when it comes to evil.
• We need to know God’s

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so that we can handle all that the world and life throw at us.
Hebrews 5:12–14 (NASB95)

• Just like babies don’t stay on

forever they move on to solid food. We are not to stay on the

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of Christianity forever. We need to move on to

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food.
• God wants us to keep growing and changing and

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. God wants us to have

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not milk.
• If you stay on milk forever and don’t grow you will never get to know God on a

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more personal level.
• Being stuck where you are in your faith is a form of

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. Ask God to help you have the desire to

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in your faith.
• Having that mature faith and walk with the Lord allows to be able to

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God’s will from everything else.

Ephesians 4:11–14 (NASB95)

• Growing in our knowledge of God and His word helps

us together as one body.
• Maturing in our faith also helps us to continue to change and grow and make us like

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.
• Maturing in our faith also keeps us from being tossed around by trickery, craftiness and

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scheming.
• The word of God gives us a solid ground to stand on when we face many types of

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.
2 Peter 3:16–18 (NASB95), Colossians 1:9–12 (NASB95)

How do we please God?
• We need to have a

with Him.
• We need to

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His will.
• We need to

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His word and how to live it.
• We need to have

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and

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that only comes from God’s word.
• We need to

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fruit.
• We need to pray this prayer for

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.

Acts 17:10–12 (NASB95)

What can we learn from the Berean’s?
1. The Bereans

together to hear God’s word.
2. The Bereans were

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to receive God’s word.
3. The Bereans gathered together to

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God’s word together.
4. The Bereans took what was being taught to them and made sure that it

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up with what the scriptures said.
5. They did not take what was being taught as the truth until they could study the word for

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and make sure it is true.