Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation: Causes and Antidotes

Have you grown lethargic, apathetic because your Christian not Christianity is dissolved into a sedentary kind of lifestyle? Look, God's word is the medicine that we need when we are not growing, and we need to take that medicine and don't delay. [01:27:13] (27 seconds)  #FeedOnTheWord

But none of those loves, legitimate loves, should be our preeminent love. Preeminent love must be Christ. Well, the church at Ephesus had left its first love and that stymies growth. What's the antidote? Verse five. [01:19:00] (20 seconds)  #ReturnToFirstLove

That should be the desire of every believer in Christ. I wanna grow in my I wanna grow in my ability to take in and process God's word so that I have understanding and wisdom and discernment that I can approve the things that are excellent. I can approve what is best and it will bring the greatest glory to god. [00:44:24] (29 seconds)  #GrowInWisdom

So the growth problem here in Revelation two in the church of Ephesus is that they have left the first love because something more compelling, something more interesting, something more desirable has come to occupy interest and attention and priorities. [01:17:28] (26 seconds)  #DistractedFromChrist

But what is that first love? What is that love that is to be preeminent? That love that is to be a priority? What is to be your first love as a Christian? What is to be my first love? Above all other loves, what's my preeminent love to be? Christ. [01:17:53] (25 seconds)  #ChristIsFirst

But as you well know, as you're a Christian, if you've been a believer in Christ for any length of time, as you well know, there are times in our lives where we feel, even if it's not reality, we feel that we're not growing. We feel like we're stuck. We we feel like there's there's a lack of fruit. We're not being fruitful in the Christian life. That it's like our our growth is stymied, and we may actually be right. We may be right. But why? What's hindering growth? [00:32:46] (35 seconds)  #SpirituallyStuck

Well, that may be a legitimate a legitimate question, and it needs a legitimate answer. But not necessarily are you unconverted. Now why do I say that? Because what Paul says here. Here is here is a lack of growth. Here are a bunch of babes in the church, but he still speaks of them as brethren. [00:59:18] (22 seconds)  #BabesInChrist

The first is that if all we can handle is baby food, we're not gonna grow. All we can handle is baby food. In chapter five verses 12 to 14 here in Hebrews, you have the growth problem that is laid out and I I would look at it from a variety of limitations. There is first of all, a limited ability. The writer says in verse 12 that you ought to be teachers. [00:37:02] (28 seconds)  #FromMilkToMeat