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New Testament "Meat"" is : Deeper Theology.
Paul told a immature group of somewhat carnal believers that he had to keep giving them "milk" because they could not deal with "Meat".
"Meat" : in the NT context regarding Satan, is...>"Doctrines of Devils". Which is also Theology, or Religious ideology,... Cult Theology.
This is all "dark light", the opposite of God's Light.
Here we go...
IN the NT....You have "milk", and you have "meat"...as these are 2 central ideas regarding >Spiritual Light<.
When you obey God and "study to show yourself approved "...You are not just reading the bible... You are encountering the light of Revelation, as Jesus who is in you, who is Himself the Light, reveals it to your born again Spirit, (Spirit man).
If you are born again for a month, you are to get all the "milk of the word" you can...the basics, the spiritual and theological and doctrinal fundamentals, from PAUL's Epistles.
Be sure of that.
As you get them, as you study..... God sees this effort, and gives you more ability to understand them more deeply, and that is "revelation".
If you study the NT a lot, then you have encountered this verse....>"and Jesus opened the scriptures to them". Luke 24:45.
That is God who is Jesus THE Word, revealing His own word.
LIGHT<> is truth, meat, milk.....wisdom.......its all that are the Spiritual Things, related to the Kingdom of God.
The Bible is Spiritual Light.
So, to get the "Light of revelation", is to have this Light revealed in you, as your spiritual eyes of understanding being = OPENED.
"and Jesus Opened the verses"..
He does this now, inside you, because He is in you (if you are born again, and not just water baptized)......"Christ IN YOU< the hope of Glory".
But you have to Study, or you have to listen to a anointed Teacher, who can reveal Light to you.
= Paul says to build your theology and your spirituality on GRACE, not on "Meat".
And "meat"... is referring to doctrines, and man's teaching, commentaries, and so forth.
See, you only dig into that, AFTER you are filled with the Light of the Revelation of God's Grace. Hebrews 13:9
And if you don't, you will be deceived, as Satan has more deceivers doing the devil's work, then God has Teachers, and Preachers, doing God's work.
Believe it.
You can Believe that about 100% of what is achieved in the Kingdom of God, that manifests as "God's work" on earth, is done by about 2% of the Christians.
The other 90% go to Church, then go to lunch, then go back to sleep in the Light.
The other's just stay asleep or build more fake churches across the Globe.
2% is a mighty number when God is in it.
Now here is a big problem....
The majority of people on a forum or in Church, who are confused, became so because their bible is their COMMENTARIES.
They are lost in them, and are deceived by them.
That is MEAT, and you can't go there until you are grounded in God's Grace, and filled with the full understanding of God's Grace, = as who you are, "in Christ".
If you haven't, then you can't discern the commentaries correctly.
Thats a fact.
Listen...
Commentaries are "Meat"., and we are not to build our faith and our theology on these......we are to do what Hebrews 13:9 says, instead.
We are to build our theology, our faith, and our spiritually, by being FUNDAMENTALLY GROUNDED, in GOD's GRACE, as our deepest deepest Theology and Belief system.
Salvation is "Grace THrough Faith", and Right Believing is : Faith AS Grace.
The correct understanding of Grace....is = "MADE RIGHTEOUS".
Its that, Saint.
Understanding Hebrews 13:9, means to come into the full understanding of God's Grace as:
= God has made you as Righteous as He is, and you are kept so forever, by the Blood Atonement, which is The Blood of Jesus....that is God's Blood.
This is "the Gift of Righteousness", .. this is "made Righteous"...this is : Salvation.
God has MADE YOU AS RIGHTEOUS, As He is, ....and you are kept so forever, by the Blood Atonement...The Blood of Jesus, that is God's Blood.
Saint, there is Power in the Blood of Jesus that exists as :
1.) redemption
2.) righteousness
3.) sanctification
4.) justification
5.) and eternal LIFE.
That's GOD's Grace. That is your "gift of SALVATiON" and your "gift of Righteousness".
And until a born again believer SEEs GOD's GRACE CORRECTLY, they are not going to rest in it, and that is why they believe they can lose their Salvation, and that is why they continue to sin and confess and live this way, and can't stop.