Page 6 - Christ in You - The Hope of Glory

A Wider View

believe much of the current tendency of the saints to get caught up in false moves of God,
Itheir inability to discern truth from error, the tendency toward low living, and an absence
of honor and dignity in their character and activities is the result of having too narrow a
view of the work of God. Most Christians spend very little time seeking to understand the
mysteries of God. Few have comprehended the grand scope of God’s work with mankind.
Most Christians look very narrowly at the present moment, its needs and activities. Many
are consumed with daily concerns, and this chokes them and makes them unfruitful.

Luke 10:41-42
“Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing
is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from
her."

Matthew 13:22
“And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears
the word, and the worry of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word,
and it becomes unfruitful.”

Being consumed with paying bills, feeding a family, working a job, raising children,
pursuing secular education, spending manifold hours in leisure and entertainment, and
attending the meetings of their church, a majority of Christians find that the spiritual seed
sown in their life becomes unfruitful, choked out as if by a multitude of weeds. These
Christians rarely, if ever, spend time before God seeking to discern things that are not
delivered to them from ministers and Bible teachers who stand in their pulpits, or whom
they observe on television.
Nearly all Biblical teaching being proclaimed in this hour is at an elementary level.
Few Christians have gone beyond the spiritual equivalent of learning their letters and
numbers and the names of colors. Most are still in kindergarten. All Christians must start
out at a basic level, but it is not the desire of the Father that we remain perpetually focused
upon elementary matters. There is a time when the sons and daughters of God are to move
on to deeper things. Consider for a moment how much focus in the church is currently upon
those things that the apostle Paul described as “elementary teaching.”

Hebrews 6:1-3
Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to
maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of
faith toward God, of instruction about washings, and laying on of
hands, and the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this
we shall do, if God permits.

What are elementary teachings about the Christ? I dare to suggest that there is
probably nothing you have heard from a minister in any present day church that Paul would
not define in this way. Many ministers repeat teachings endlessly that focus upon sin,
repentance, salvation through the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, faith, judgment