The Precious Word of God, Message Three
The Bible—God’s Feeding
Day 3
II. Why do we eat?
A. To grow unto salvation
1 Peter 2:2–3 As newborn babes, long for the guileless milk of the word in order that by it you may grow unto salvation, If you have tasted that the Lord is good.
1 Corinthians 3:7b … God who causes the growth.
2 Peter 3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.
Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with. Afterward, read the following portion, either in your morning time or sometime later in the day. It has also been recorded for you to listen to if you like.
Reading portion:
GROWING UNTO SALVATION
BY DRINKING THE MILK OF THE WORD
First Peter 2:2 says, “As newborn babes, long for the guileless milk of the word in order that by it you may grow unto salvation.” For our physical growth we need to drink milk. Likewise, for our spiritual growth we need to drink the divine milk from the Word. Every morning we need to drink a cup of milk from the Word. If you will do this, you will see the blessing. You will be healthy and will be a tree of life growing. This tree will bear fruit, and all the fruit will nourish…your neighbors…or your classmates in your school. You will become the tree of life to all the people in your community. Today America needs this. America needs Christ to grow in the neighborhoods, in the schools, in the offices, and among the families and the in-laws.
We should not merely attend the church meetings; we need to grow so that we may be a tree of life to nourish today’s communities in America.…Peter says that if we drink the milk of the word, we will grow unto salvation. We should not think that we are fully saved and have no need of any further salvation. Such a concept is wrong. We still need to be saved every day, even every minute, from our temper, from our sorrows, and from our anxiety. We need to be saved from many things. I am a quick person. It is easy for me to lose my temper. When I was young, my temper was a trouble to me. But later on I learned that I can be saved, and I have been saved through the drinking of the milk of the word. Drinking the milk of the word causes us to grow unto salvation from our anger, our temper, our anxiety, our worry, our fear, and our trembling. Every day we need a daily salvation. We need today’s salvation in our daily walk.
(The Organic Union in God’s Relationship with Man, Chapter 4, pp. 55-56)
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