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12 By now you should be teachers. Instead, you
need someone to teach you again the first things you need to know from God’s
Word. You still need milk instead of solid food. 13 Anyone who lives on milk cannot understand the
teaching about being right with God. He is a baby. - Hebrews 5: 12-13 NIV
The milk of the
Word is necessary for growth, it would not be possible to renew our minds
without it and with unrenewed minds we would not be able to know the will of
God and not knowing the will of God will result in us making unwise decisions which more often than not translate into sorry, miserable and defeated lives.
It is no wonder
that the Apostle Peter encourages new believers to desire the pure
unadulterated milk of the Word so they may grow (1 Peter 2:2). Milk represents the foundational teachings of our
faith, the basics, as it were. We are to grow and go on to solid food and not
be like the Hebrew believers who at the time they should have been teachers
they still needed – not wanted – milk.
Anyone who still
lives on milk doesn't understand the doctrine or teaching about righteousness;
now if we read the Hebrews 5, the
entire chapter we will quickly see that Jesus is our High Priest after the
order of Melchizedek, the King of Salem. Since the word Salem is a variation of
Shalom it is interpreted as Peace, it follows that the title King of Salem is
King of Peace. Jesus is called the Prince of Peace and has given us His Peace,
not as the world gives, His is the true peace that passes all understanding. He
is the King of Peace.
The name Melchizedek
means - King of Righteousness, isn't that interesting? The Holy Spirit is
highlighting these two titles of Christ (King of Peace and King of
Righteousness) to us for a reason. Christ is both our Peace and our
Righteousness. As our Peace, He has broken down that wall of separation that
kept us away from Himself and has made us one in Him. As our Righteousness, He
took all our sin that separated us from God on His body on the cross and in
exchange gave us His righteousness.
We receive His gift
of Peace and Righteousness by faith as we believe in Him and what He has done
to reconcile us to Himself. So when we understand that we are considered
righteous before God, not because of what we do but rather because of what
Jesus (Our High Priest, Our King of Peace and King of Righteousness) has done,
then we are well on our way to maturity in our walk with the Lord.
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The Holy Spirit in
Hebrews desired to tell them a lot more about Jesus as Melchizedek but was
limited by their dullness of hearing. What causes dullness of hearing? Jesus
often said, "pay attention to what you hear". Let us hearken to what
the Holy Spirit is saying to us not limit what He can do in, for and through
us. Let us not forget we are in His Kingdom which is Righteousness, Peace and
Joy in the Holy Spirit. Blessings!
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