Too much info at each message

Simplify things

Do you want to follow the milk man or the meat man?

Meet the milkman

Committed to customer service

Can I warm your milk up for you?

Are your corn flakes still crisp?

Stay here as long as you like........

The Meat man

He's pumped

Like your local high school football coach

Spurring us on to train hard

Never letting us sit still

Always aware that the clock is ticking.....

Calling us to redeem the time.

Bring these two tongue in cheek images with you to the book of Hebrews

As the title suggests it is written to a Jewich church in the area of Israel, perhaps for a wider audience covering the area of Palestine

Probably second generation believers who have lost momentum

Perhaps slowed by some persecution since they started their own groups for worship

Some scholars have suggested that the reason Hebrews was written was to provide a discipleship manual for stalled believers who have lost their focus on Jesus.......

With these thoughts in mind

Let's learn a little more about the milk man

Can't absorb the truths available about Jesus, the Great High Priest, after the order of Melchizedek .......

Behind schedule

In review mode instead of lead mode

Need more milk - apparently still gumming the truths of God's Word

Rookies, young, new at this, inexpereinced.......still have the wrapper on after 5 years on the shelf......

or have forgotten everything because they never use it........

This is an attempt at motivation.....

waaa - he kicked me.........

that's all you got?

Where are you at?

You who are parents........

Submits to the growth process and is excited about growing in their faith

See it in Colossians 2:6-7

Is on a trajectory away from infancy to maturity
Which apparently includes teaching others in some way

Uses the Scriptures as their primary tool for processing life

2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness

Biblical counseling

Self Confrontation - After Easter

Trains regularly - constant use is a word that describes a habit

regular habit

the effects of the training have a lasting impact

training is word for spending time in the gymnasium

Can tell the difference between

good - excellent, healthy, useful, serviceable, something you put your hands on, with substance and usefulness- adds something to life that is helpful, like the right wrench

evil - actually word for something that has no life in it....dead, rotten.....

Stop what is destructive in your life

Start by replacing a need to repent with obedience and life

Put on/put off of Ephesians 4

(Illus. 4:17-24...........)

Faith - trust, belief in God rather than________?

Instruction about.....

baptism

laying on of hands

- Holy Spirit and prayer - Acts 8:18

- leadership 1 Tim 5:22, 2 Timothy 1:6

- healing Lk 4:40

Resurrection of the dead

Jesus rising form the dead

Our resurrection


Eternal judgment

there is a day....

quite unpopular concept nowadays

(Illus. Some resources.......see the pile on the table)

Lord today i would like to move forward in my walk with you....

So today I ask for the grace to stop........

And the strength to start.....