Introduction:

1st warning about neglecting the gospel Drifting from Word Heb 2:1-4
2nd warning was about them hardening their hearts to it Doubting the Word Heb 3:7-19
3rd warning concerns spiritual maturity Dull of Hearing the Word Heb 5:11-6:12

I. Signs of __________________

A. Unable to _________________ Spiritual Things
Hebrews 5:11 (NASB) 11 Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
John 16:12 (NASB) 12 “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

B. Unable to be _______________

Hebrews 5:12 (NASB) 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

Deuteronomy 11:18-21 (NASB) 18 “You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. 19 “You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up. 20 “You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth.

C. Unable to ___________ Others
Hebrews 5:12 (NASB) 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

D. Unable to ______ ____________ ___________

Hebrews 5:12 (NASB) 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

1 Corinthians 3:1-3 (NASB) 1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, 3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?

E. Unable to _________in _________ Conduct

Hebrews 5:13 (NASB) 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.

II. Signs of ______________
Sp. mature compares himself with Jesus, not others. Good point does not have a “I have arrived” mindset. Desires to be made in image of God. – George Turner

A. Able to _______ ___________ ____________

Hebrews 5:14 (NASB) 14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

B. Able to _________ in _________ Conduct

Hebrews 5:13 (NASB) 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.

C. Able to _____________ Spiritually

Hebrews 5:14 (NASB) 14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

“Sow a thought and you reap an action;
Sow an act and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit and you reap a character,
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.” – Unknown
John 7:17 (NASB) 17 “If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself.

D. Able To ____________ Good and Evil

Hebrews 5:14 (NASB) 14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

Genesis 2:17 (NASB) 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”

Isaiah 7:14-16 (NASB) 14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel. 15 “He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good. 16 “For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.

1 Timothy 4:7-8 (NASB) 7 But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness; 8 for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

Conclusion:

Isaiah 11:2 (HCSB) 2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him— a Spirit of wisdom and understanding, a Spirit of counsel and strength, a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.

Ezekiel 37:4-6 (NASB) 4 Again He said to me, “Prophesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.’ 5 “Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. 6 ‘I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the LORD.'”

John 6:63 (NASB) 63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.