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before God in the strength of their own relationship. There are adults to be equipped
and released into their callings. There are the aged and wise ones who can oversee
the saints and share from the storehouse of their experience of walking with God.

The "great commission", as it is often called, is not to birth babies. It is to make
disciples. It is to teach the saints the elementary principles of the Kingdom and then
take them beyond these things. The very next verse after the above commissioning
states:

Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe ALL that I commanded you...

Yahshua did not just teach that the saints had to be born again. This part of His
message is found in a few short verses in John chapter 3. He taught much more, so
that John declared:

John 21:25
And there are also many other things which Yahshua did, which if they
were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not
contain the books that would be written.

Yahshua taught the elementary principles, but he also fully revealed the Father (John
1:18). He revealed that a mature walk that is pleasing to the Father is one in which
a man is fully conformed to the image of God. God has never given up or been
diverted from His original intent declared in Genesis:

Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our
likeness..."

Yahshua revealed that man in God's image will live to do the will of the Father, and
only the Father’s will. He will do nothing of His own initiative. Six times in the gospel
of John we have Yahshua's words that "I never do anything of My own initiative. I
always do the will of the Father." Newborn saints know very little of this type of life.
It is the mature who have learned to discern good and evil and to separate the Spirit
from the soul (Hebrews 5:14, 4:12).

Paul told the Hebrew believers that he had many things he desired to speak to them,
but they could not receive them for they were yet as babes when they should have
been teachers. He wanted to speak many more things of Melchisedec and how this
king/priest stood as an example of Yahweh's design for the saints. He wanted to
declare things that only the mature can receive, but they were not able.