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1
Some people never grow up!
  • In both the physical and spiritual realm we must
    grow or die.

2
Some people never grow up!
  • In both the physical and spiritual realm we must
    grow or die.
  • In the spiritual realm we must put off old
    characteristics and put on new.

3
Some people never grow up!
  • In both the physical and spiritual realm we must
    grow or die.
  • In the spiritual realm we must put off old
    characteristics and put on new.
  • This is why Christians must posses a great
    humility so that God can mold and lead us in His
    ways. (Eph 414-15).

4
Some people never grow up!
  • (Ephesians 414-15 NKJV) that we should no
    longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried
    about with every wind of doctrine, by the
    trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of
    deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth
    in love, may grow up in all things into Him who
    is the head Christ

5
Some people never grow up!
  • While immaturity will exist for a while in life,
    there must come a time when we put those things
    away. (1 Cor 1311)

6
Some people never grow up!
  • (1 Corinthians 1311 NKJV) When I was a child, I
    spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I
    thought as a child but when I became a man, I
    put away childish things.

7
Some people never grow up!
  • This change does not come by accident and it does
    not come without effort.

8
Some people never grow up!
  • This change does not come by accident and it does
    not come without effort.
  • Our lack of maturity will limit what we can
    learn. (Heb 511-14 1 Cor 26)

9
Some people never grow up!
  • (1 Corinthians 26 NKJV) However, we speak
    wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the
    wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this
    age, who are coming to nothing.

10
Some people never grow up!
  • (Hebrews 511-14 NKJV) of whom we have much to
    say, and hard to explain, since you have become
    dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you
    ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach
    you again the first principles of the oracles of
    God and you have come to need milk and not solid
    food.

11
Some people never grow up!
  • 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is
    unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is
    a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who
    are of full age, that is, those who by reason of
    use have their senses exercised to discern both
    good and evil.

12
Some people never grow up!
  • The path to maturity however will involve time,
    effort and suffering. (Jas 12-4)

13
Some people never grow up!
  • (James 12-4 NKJV) My brethren, count it all joy
    when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing
    that the testing of your faith produces patience.
    4 But let patience have its perfect work, that
    you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

14
Some people never grow up!
  • The impatient quitter will never mature.

15
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • (Matthew 182-5 NKJV) Then Jesus called a little
    child to Him, set him in the midst of them, 3
    and said, Assuredly, I say to you, unless you
    are converted and become as little children, you
    will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. 4
    Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little
    child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

16
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • 5 Whoever receives one little child like this
    in My name receives Me.

17
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • Simple Faith and Trust

18
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • Simple Faith and Trust
  • Children will believe what they are told and will
    trust their parents to the fullest. (Ex. Hard
    times come, no worry Dad will take care of me.)

19
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • Simple Faith and Trust
  • Children will believe what they are told and will
    trust their parents to the fullest. (Ex. Hard
    times come, no worry Dad will take care of
    me.)
  • What worries will disappear when we have a mature
    faith in God? (Isa 122 Prov 35-6 1 Pet
    312-14)

20
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • (Proverbs 35-6 NKJV) Trust in the LORD with all
    your heart, And lean not on your own
    understanding 6 In all your ways acknowledge
    Him, And He shall direct your paths.

21
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • (Isaiah 122 NKJV) Behold, God is my salvation,
    I will trust and not be afraid For YAH, the
    LORD, is my strength and song He also has become
    my salvation.

22
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • (1 Peter 312-14 NKJV) For the eyes of the LORD
    are on the righteous, And His ears are open to
    their prayers But the face of the LORD is
    against those who do evil. 13 And who is he
    who will harm you if you become followers of what
    is good? 14 But even if you should suffer for
    righteousness sake, you are blessed. And do not
    be

23
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • A Tender Heart towards others

24
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • A Tender Heart towards others
  • Children are very compassionate, tenderhearted
    and quick to display sympathy.

25
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • A Tender Heart towards others
  • Children are very compassionate, tenderhearted
    and quick to display sympathy.
  • We must never loose this willingness to share the
    hurts of others. (Rom 1215 Eph 432)

26
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • (Romans 1215 NKJV) Rejoice with those who
    rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

27
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • (Ephesians 432 NKJV) And be kind to one
    another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
    just as God in Christ forgave you.

28
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • Adults can be very cruel when the heart becomes
    hard.

29
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • Maturity is unselfishness -- responding to the
    needs of others, often at the expense of one's
    own desires or wishes.

30
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • A Willingness to Quickly Forgive

31
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • A Willingness to Quickly Forgive
  • Children will often fuss, fight and threat and
    then 30 minutes later play as if nothing happened!

32
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • A Willingness to Quickly Forgive
  • Children will often fuss, fight and threat and
    then 30 minutes later play as if nothing
    happened!
  • Forgiveness is basic to genuine Christianity.
    (Col 313 Matt 612)

33
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • (Matthew 612 NKJV) And forgive us our debts, As
    we forgive our debtors.

34
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • (Colossians 313 NKJV) bearing with one another,
    and forgiving one another, if anyone has a
    complaint against another even as Christ forgave
    you, so you also must do.

35
Childish Traits We Should Retain (Mt 182-5)
  • Some hard hearted adults play the game of the
    Pharisee, they say they forgive while harboring
    grudges and bitterness all the while.

36
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Tattling and Gossip.

37
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Tattling and Gossip.
  • Children are quick to want justice. Sometimes
    however stories are told to get them into good
    standing with others.

38
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Tattling and Gossip.
  • Children are quick to want justice. Sometimes
    however stories are told to get them into good
    standing with others.
  • Adults often try to hurt another in the
    background by whispers to selected people.
    (Psa 415-7 Prov 1627-28 Lam 359-64)

39
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (Psalms 415-7 NKJV) My enemies speak evil of
    me When will he die, and his name perish? 6
    And if he comes to see me, he speaks lies His
    heart gathers iniquity to itself When he goes
    out, he tells it. 7 All who hate me whisper
    together against me Against me they devise my
    hurt.

40
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (Proverbs 1627-28 NKJV) An ungodly man digs up
    evil, And it is on his lips like a burning fire.
    28 A perverse man sows strife, And a whisperer
    separates the best of friends.

41
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (Lamentations 359-64 NKJV) O LORD, You have
    seen how I am wronged Judge my case. 60 You
    have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes
    against me. 61 You have heard their reproach, O
    LORD, All their schemes against me, 62 The lips
    of my enemies And their whispering against me all
    the day.

42
Childish Things to Put Away
  • 63 Look at their sitting down and their rising
    up I am their taunting song. 64 Repay them, O
    LORD, According to the work of their hands.

43
Childish Things to Put Away
  • A mature faith will teach us the harm of gossip.
    (1 Tim 513)

44
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (1 Timothy 513 NKJV) And besides they learn to
    be idle, wandering about from house to house, and
    not only idle but also gossips and busybodies,
    saying things which they ought not.

45
Childish Things to Put Away
  • A mature faith will teach us how to end gossip.
    We must have an openness to correct an problems.
    Rather than roasting our brethren around the
    kitchen table, we will move quickly to end any
    bitterness.

46
Childish Things to Put Away
  • A Desire to be the Center of Attention - Pride.

47
Childish Things to Put Away
  • A Desire to be the Center of Attention - Pride.
  • While children need a certain degree of
    attention, when they expect to be the focus of
    all it can create a brat. If attention is not
    achieved by bragging and cutting-up, then he may
    try to start a fight.

48
Childish Things to Put Away
  • When adults demand attention they are falling
    into one of the most serious sins --- pride. (Gal
    63-4 Rom 123)

49
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (Romans 123 NKJV) For I say, through the grace
    given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to
    think of himself more highly than he ought to
    think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to
    each one a measure of faith.

50
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (Galatians 63-4 NKJV) For if anyone thinks
    himself to be something, when he is nothing, he
    deceives himself. 4 But let each one examine
    his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in
    himself alone, and not in another.

51
Childish Things to Put Away
  • A mature faith will be humble because hid focus
    is upon God. He only wants the praise of God. (1
    Pet 56 2 Cor 1018)

52
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (2 Corinthians 1018 NKJV) For not he who
    commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord
    commends.

53
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (1 Peter 56 NKJV) Therefore humble yourselves
    under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt
    you in due time,

54
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to
    say "I was wrong." And when right, the mature
    person need not say, "I told you so.

55
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Malice and Envy.

56
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Malice and Envy.
  • Sometimes children will destroy the things of
    another. (Ex. Step on new shoes of another.)

57
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Malice and Envy.
  • Sometimes children will destroy the things of
    another. (Ex. Step on new shoes of another.)
  • Envy is a product of pride. It is so sad to see
    brethren try to destroy another because they
    think they can do it better. (Gal 526,15)

58
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (Galatians 515 NKJV) But if you bite and devour
    one another, beware lest you be consumed by one
    another!

59
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (Galatians 526 NKJV) Let us not become
    conceited, provoking one another, envying one
    another.

60
Childish Things to Put Away
  • In this atmosphere some will justify anything in
    their war to destroy another. Nothing will
    satisfy them short of destruction of another. Who
    ends up being destroyed? (Prov 1430 Matt 2718)

61
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (Proverbs 1430 NKJV) A sound heart is life to
    the body, But envy is rottenness to the bones.

62
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (Matthew 2718 NKJV) For he knew that they had
    handed Him over because of envy.

63
Childish Things to Put Away
  • A mature faith will keep ones heart clean from
    these sins of the heart. (Rom 1221)

64
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (Romans 1221 NKJV) Do not be overcome by evil,
    but overcome evil with good.

65
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Maturity is the ability to control anger and
    settle differences without violence or
    destruction.

66
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Instability.

67
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Instability.
  • Children are very changeable and inconsistent.
    They often run from responsibility and cannot
    finish a job. It is sad to see parents like this.

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Childish Things to Put Away
  • Instability.
  • Children are very changeable and inconsistent.
    They often run from responsibility and cannot
    finish a job. It is sad to see parents like this.
  • It is easy to zealous and active in the Lords
    work for a period of time, but a mature faith
    will be active for a lifetime. (1 Cor 1558)

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Childish Things to Put Away
  • (1 Corinthians 1558 NKJV) Therefore, my beloved
    brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always
    abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that
    your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

70
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Maturity is perseverance, the ability to sweat
    cut a project, or situation in spite of
    opposition and discouraging setbacks. (Heb
    1035-36)

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Childish Things to Put Away
  • (Hebrews 1035-36 NKJV) Therefore do not cast
    away your confidence, which has great reward.
    36 For you have need of endurance, so that
    after you have done the will of God, you may
    receive the promise

72
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Maturity is the ability to make a decision and
    stand by it. The immature spend their lives
    exploring endless possibilities, then nothing.

73
Childish Things to Put Away
  • We need a mature faith to deal with all areas of
    our lives, especially our homes.

74
Childish Things to Put Away
  • We need a mature faith to deal with all areas of
    our lives, especially our homes.
  • Maturity means dependability and keeping one's
    word.

75
Childish Things to Put Away
  • I'm going to be forty this month, but I
    approached thirty with more apprehension, I
    think, and the sense of time gone by. I've had
    more time to learn about myself, ten more years.
    I no longer fool myself, not easily anyway. I
    know when I'm making excuses and when I'm making
    choices, and the difference between the two.

76
Childish Things to Put Away
  • I no longer look into my mind expecting wisdom,
    or my mirror expecting perfection. That thing
    about growing old gracefully? I think now I just
    might be able to manage it. --- anonymous

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Childish Things to Put Away
  • Sullenness and hyper-sensitivity

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Childish Things to Put Away
  • Sullenness and hyper-sensitivity
  • Children are excellent pouters. Some adults are
    too.

79
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Sadly there are some who have more joy over an
    oversight than of the blessings of God. In time
    these complainers will live for their hurts.

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Childish Things to Put Away
  • Sadly there are some who have more joy over an
    oversight than of the blessings of God. In time
    these complainers will live for their hurts.
  • How many people have withdrawn and quit the
    service of the Lord over hurt feelings? Ex. So
    and So did not speak to me.

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Childish Things to Put Away
  • A mature faith will make allowances for others
    and solve any problems of the heart quickly. (1
    Cor 134-6 Eph 426)

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Childish Things to Put Away
  • (1 Corinthians 134-6 NKJV) Love suffers long
    and is kind love does not envy love does not
    parade itself, is not puffed up 5 does not
    behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not
    provoked, thinks no evil 6 does not rejoice in
    iniquity, but rejoices in the truth

83
Childish Things to Put Away
  • (Ephesians 426 NKJV) Be angry, and do not
    sin do not let the sun go down on your wrath,

84
Childish Things to Put Away
  • Maturity is the capacity to face unpleasantness
    and frustration, discomfort and defeat,
    without complaint or collapse.

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How do we Reach Maturity?
  • By keeping God in view. (Matt 58 1 John 31-3)

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How do we Reach Maturity?
  • (Matthew 58 NKJV) Blessed are the pure in
    heart, For they shall see God.

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How do we Reach Maturity?
  • (1 John 31-3 NKJV) Behold what manner of love
    the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be
    called children of God! Therefore the world does
    not know us, because it did not know Him. 2
    Beloved, now we are children of God and it has
    not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we
    know that when He is revealed, we shall be like
    Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

88
How do we Reach Maturity?
  • 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him
    purifies himself, just as He is pure.

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How do we Reach Maturity?
  • To have unquestioning reliance upon a pastor or
    other spiritual leader can lead to embarrassment
    and even bitter disillusionment. I was reminded
    of this recently when I came across an
    interesting item about President Coolidge. Once
    he invited some friends from Vermont to dine at
    the White House.

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How do we Reach Maturity?
  • They were worried about their table manners, so
    they decided to do everything their host did.
    All went well until coffee was served. Coolidge
    poured his into the saucer. The guests did the
    same. The President added sugar and cream. So
    did the visitors. Then Coolidge leaned over and
    placed his saucer on the floor for the cat.

91
How do we Reach Maturity?
  • By never withdrawing or quitting. (Heb 1035-38)

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How do we Reach Maturity?
  • (Hebrews 1035-38 NKJV) Therefore do not cast
    away your confidence, which has great reward.
    36 For you have need of endurance, so that
    after you have done the will of God, you may
    receive the promise 37 For yet a little
    while, And He who is coming will come and will
    not tarry. 38 Now the just shall live by faith
    But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure
    in him.

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How do we Reach Maturity?
  • By learning from mistakes. (Jas 15)

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How do we Reach Maturity?
  • (James 15 NKJV) If any of you lacks wisdom, let
    him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and
    without reproach, and it will be given to him.

95
How do we Reach Maturity?
  • With the help of God we can continue to press on
    to heaven!

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How do we Reach Maturity?
  • With the help of God we can continue to press on
    to heaven!
  • We must watch our hearts and stay the course.
    (Phil 313-14)

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How do we Reach Maturity?
  • (Philippians 313-14 NKJV) Brethren, I do not
    count myself to have apprehended but one thing I
    do, forgetting those things which are behind and
    reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
    14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the
    upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

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How do we Reach Maturity?
  • You've heard, "Warning This show contains adult
    language. Viewer discretion advised." Adult
    language? Okay. Here goes! Character!
    Integrity! Commitment! Forgiveness! Sacrifice!
    Determination! Moral Values! That is grown up
    talk!

99
How do we Reach Maturity?
  • You've heard, "Warning This show contains adult
    language. Viewer discretion advised." Adult
    language? Okay. Here goes! Character!
    Integrity! Commitment! Forgiveness! Sacrifice!
    Determination! Moral Values! That is grown up
    talk!
  • Maturity will take time! Let us not despise those
    we deem as immature but help each to grow in
    their service to God.

100
How do we Reach Maturity?
  • High in the Alps is a monument raised in honor of
    a faithful guide who perished while ascending a
    peak to rescue a stranded tourist. Inscribed on
    that memorial stone are these words HE DIED
    CLIMBING. A maturing, growing Christian should
    have the same kind of attitude, right up to the
    end of life.

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How do we Reach Maturity?
  • John R. W. Stott once admitted the truth that
    many of us have felt but failed to confess "The
    thing I know will give me the deepest joy --
    namely, to be alone and unhurried in the presence
    of God, aware of His presence, my heart open to
    worship Him -- is often the thing I least want to
    do."
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