======================================================================== UNSPIRITUAL INFANTS by Alan Martin ======================================================================== Summary: This sermon from 1 Corinthians chapter 3 emphasizes the need to mature in faith and love, moving away from selfishness and division. It challenges believers to disown themselves, take up their cross, and follow Christ by loving and serving others sacrificially, even in the face of difficulties and suffering. The message highlights the importance of dwelling in the love of God, rooting oneself in love, and growing into spiritual maturity through endurance and character development. Duration: 45:19 Topics: "Spiritual Maturity", "Sacrificial Love" Scripture References: 1 Corinthians 3:1, Matthew 16:24, 1 John 3:18, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Philippians 3:10, James 1:2, Ephesians 3:17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This sermon from 1 Corinthians chapter 3 emphasizes the need to mature in faith and love, moving away from selfishness and division. It challenges believers to disown themselves, take up their cross, and follow Christ by loving and serving others sacrificially, even in the face of difficulties and suffering. The message highlights the importance of dwelling in the love of God, rooting oneself in love, and growing into spiritual maturity through endurance and character development. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you have your Bibles, turn to 1st Corinthians. You know, when you're not here to see something, you hear about it. You get a report. Someone tells you something that's happened. That's kind of where this letter is from the Apostle Paul. Someone had told him some things were going on. And he wrote this letter to the church in response to the things that were going on. And when I heard the different report to the things were going on while I was gone, it made me think of this. So that's just, you're just going to catch me on the fresh today. These are my thoughts. In 1st Corinthians chapter 3. Let's start here in chapter 3. 1st Corinthians chapter 3. Now, I don't want you to get nervous. I just feel this is so appropriate. But hang with me, okay? Just hang with me. I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to unspiritual. This is fleshly or carnal. The idea is non-spiritual. I couldn't address you as spiritual, but non- spiritual. As to mere infants in Christ. Your version may say babes in Christ. Here's what the idea is. It's a child who has not been taught and trained. And what have they not been taught and trained in? They have not been taught and trained in the ways of the Spirit. They've not been taught and trained in the ways of the love of Christ. They're untrained and they're untaught. They're believers. Paul's writing to believers. They're church members. He's reading this letter in church. But you can be a church member and you can be a believer and still be unspiritual. Non-spiritual, fleshly. Then he goes on to say, I gave milk to you to drink, not solid food, for you are not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you're still not able. So there is such a thing as being in a spiritual condition that you can't handle solid food. I kind of wonder what that meant. What does spiritual milk look like? Well, you know that milk is what you give to the babies, to children. They can't handle solid food. They'll choke on it. You know what I think the milk he's talking about is? I think the milk, the only thing they could handle is, Jesus loves you. Jesus loves you. Jesus just thinks you're wonderful. It's all about you. Jesus loves you. You know what I don't think they could handle? How they're supposed to love others. The hard people. The difficult people. Where it takes some suffering and some guts and some pain to keep in relationships. But he's going to comfort them because you know children are wonderful, aren't they? But they are so selfish. If they're hungry, they cry. They got a dirty diaper, they cry. If they're bored, they cry. Play with me. It's all, for children, what is it all about? It's all about me. It's all about me. And you give children their little milk. And you comfort their little bottoms and you hug them and they're wonderful. We love them. But they don't help very many people. No, it takes an adult to serve someone else and to be a blessing to someone else. But the Corinthians just weren't there. They were, they needed some help. And then he says to him, verse 3, you're still unspiritual. For since there is, and he uses two things, jealousy and strife. The Greek word is, they're simmering. Something's simmering. You know something simmers right before it boils over, doesn't it? And you know where we simmer? We simmer on the inside in our thoughts about other people. Where you got the simmering going on and then you got this strife. You know what strife, the word for strife is eros in the Greek. It means this, readiness to fight. You're simmering and you're sitting there, you're ready to fight. You're ready to take your side. You're ready to state your case. You're ready to put some other in their place. You're ready. You're simmering and you're ready. Unspiritual. You know what that, you know what he says that's like? That's, you're just acting like men. That's what men do. Men sit around and see things and experience difficulty with people and they start simmering. They get, and they start forming their opinions and they start staking out their place and they get ready to rumble. That's what they do. That's what men do. Non-spiritual men. That's what they do. He goes on, verse 4. For when one says, I am of Paul and another, I'm of Apollos. Are you not men? That's what men do. Men pick sides. Men say, I'm a Republican or they say, I'm a Democrat. You know what's wrong about those statements? You know what's wrong about saying, I am of Paul or I am of Apollos? You know what's wrong about that? It's I, not we. I want you to think about that. When you start thinking what you are as different from others, you're unspiritual. You're carnal. You've missed the whole point. It's not Paul or Apollos that I am, this is my position. We are a family. We are one in Christ. It's not about I and when we get into the language of they and them and those people, you've already missed. You've missed the way of the Spirit. It's not I, it's we. Our family. Our church. Our brothers. Our sisters. And Paul has to correct them. Apollos and Paul, they're not two. What are they? One waters and one plant. But you know what they are? They're one. They're on the same team. They're in the same family. They're serving the same God. But you know when you're not in the Spirit, you see two. You see two. The basic Greek word for two is dis. D-I. When you put D-I and vision together, you see two. What is it? D-vision. When you see D-vision, you know what you are? Unspiritual. God sent his Son to reconcile to himself all things and to sum up everything under heaven and earth under one head. One Lord. One faith. One baptism. One God and Father who is over all and in all and through all. And if you don't see that God desires to reconcile all things to himself and you're content to see two sides, you're missing, you're missing the whole purpose of his sending his Son to reconcile. It's an unspiritual reaction. And he says this, when you begin to see division and when you allow the simmering to go on on the inside towards someone, and I have heard reports that some are simmering towards others. Maybe it hasn't boiled over yet. Maybe it has. And when someone's ready to take their side, well, I know this because so and so told me this. Well, yeah, but so and so told me this and they're ready. You know, the devil's about to start his work and he's very good at it and he's already hindering it because that's in his purpose. If God's purpose is to reconcile all things to himself and if we're to be careful to preserve the unity, the oneness of the Spirit and the bond of peace, what do you think the devil wants to do? He wants to sow division. He wants us to see two and not one. He wants us to think in I and not we. And Paul goes on and says, listen, did you not know that you all, plural, are the temple of God and that God dwells in you all, again, the Greek plural. And then he says this, if anyone causes a decay in the temple of God, God will destroy that one. I want you to take that clear. That's what your version may say if anyone destroys. It's the Greek thyro. It's a hard word. It literally means to cause to begin to decay. And you know what causes decay in the body of Christ? When people start seeing division. When people start taking sides. When they start simmering up towards one another. And they're ready to take their position. And it's not we. It's I and my and me. But here's his answer to this. I'm going to, if you'll follow me there in 1st Corinthians 3, I'm going to jump down to verse 17. If any man causes decay in the temple of God, God will destroy him. The word destroy there means to loose away. God's going to loosen him away from something. And you know what God begins to loose away a person and give them over to when they begin to see division. God begins to loose him away from the very fountain of life, his love. And they begin to be cut away from that into some self-serving corrupt idea of what God is and what his love is. And they're already when you've been cut away from living in the love of God, the decay starts immediately. You may not notice it. You may not see it because there's trees that are dying on the inside before they ever fall over, aren't there? But if you're not dwelling in the love of God and you're seeing unity, the decay is already starting. It's already happening. And he goes on verse 18. Listen to this. Let no man deceive himself. If any among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish that he might become wise. Now what did, why did he make that statement? Because the person that was saying, I follow Paul. He thought he was wise for saying that he's comparing Paul and Apollos. He thought he was wise. Some of you think your doctrines you're standing on are so wise. And yet you still think in day and then, and we still seem to, and you still think you're wise. You think you're wise according to this age. Well, we need to stand for what's right. Those people are wrong. They got it wrong. You're wise. We just give you some very foolish advice. I would like to give you the same foolish advice that Paul gave the Corinthians. If you think you're wise, become a fool because God's wisdom is not our wisdom. His ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not our thoughts. And as high as the heaven is above the earth, so are his ways above our ways. And his foolishness is wiser than men's wisdom. So if you will bear with me, let me, let me, let me give you some of the most foolish advice you could ever hear. But it, but if you'll listen and you'll, you'll, you'll, you'll bear with me. I'll show you not only how, how to, to be saved from staying an infant, but it'll become clear the reason people stay an infant, untaught, untrained, immature, undeveloped. Well, follow with me. Let's look at this foolishness. Turn to Matthew chapter 16, Matthew chapter 16. And of course, this foolishness we're talking about is just foolishness in the eyes of the world. The world thinks it's foolish. Matthew 16, verse 24. Then Jesus said to his disciples, if anyone desires or wills, Greek word thelomite, if anyone desires or wills to come after me, let him disown himself, deny himself. Doesn't that sound wise to you? You want, you want to follow the Lord Jesus Christ? Here's my advice. Disown yourself, disown yourself, deny yourself, take up your cross and follow him. What do you say? How can that make sense? How can denying ourself remedy us from staying an infant forever? Remember, remember the common denominator in all infants? Me. You can take two babies about the same age, not even able to walk and sit them in the nursery and one will have something in their hand. And what's the other going to do? Grab. You have different types of babies. You have passive, passive and aggressive. The personalities are there already, right? They're young. If it's an aggressive personality and someone grabs it from him, he just grabs the hair, puts a big old teeth marks on the cheek. If it's more of the laid back kind of the weaker kind, they're more like they're shocked, this look of shock on their face and they might even start crying. But I mean, you start seeing it and you know, there's, there's that kind of different people in this church too. There are aggressive people and there are the passive people and they are both just as dangerous to the church if the Holy Spirit is not at work in their life. Don't think that just the aggressive people that are dangerous. No, no, no. The I'm so hurt is just as dangerous. They shouldn't do that to me. It's just as dangerous as the aggressive person. It's there. We need to learn to deny ourself, disown ourselves, take up our cross and follow me. And then Jesus says this, I want you to think about, I'm going to, I'm going to talk just a moment about what that cross is. What does it mean to take up the cross? I want to talk about that. I just spent some time thinking about that, asking God for understanding and I hope it will become very clear what that is today to us, or at least clearer. But this helps, this next statement helps put that in context. Verse 25, whoever wishes to save his life will lose it and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Now, what in the world is he talking about? What does it mean to lose your life? What does it mean to say? So he said, what he does say, if you're trying to save your life, you're going to lose it. Now, how do we try to save our lives? I want you to think with me. Do we use that term save you from, or I want to save you. We don't use that term. I want to save you the trouble. I want to save you the headache. I want to save you the bother. I want to save you the pain. So you know what's happening when a person is trying to save themselves, they're trying to avoid the pain. They want to avoid the trouble. They want to avoid the bother of people who are not easy to get along with. They want to save their life. They want their space. They want their comfort. They want to be treated with respect. They don't want to be, they don't have to deal with anybody who's hard. Uh-uh. They want to save themselves from the difficult and the painful and the hard and those things that make take power and strength. But if that's your approach, listen, I'll tell you right now, that's the guaranteed way to keep yourself an infant. And the only thing you can handle is how much God loves you. Oh, God loves you. God loves you. I'll give it to you every week. Here's again, let me spoon feed you. Oh, God loves you so much. Just the way you are. I don't want to deal with him. Uh-uh. I am tired of her. I'm going to save myself from that. I'm going to sit over here and they're going to sit over there. Okay. Save yourself. You'll never follow Christ. You'll stay an infant. I'm not going to say you won't be a believer. I'm not saying you're not going to heaven. God loves to give milk. There's plenty of it, but don't think you'll ever follow Christ. If you're going to follow Christ, you can't seek to save your life from difficulty. You can't seek to save your life from pain and suffering because that's why he said, let him take up his cross. Now, what, why did Jesus take up his cross? That's how we have to understand that. What did he bear on the cross? What did he bear? Someone tell me, what did he bear on the cross? Our sins. Oh, you mean Jesus is asking us to bear with the sins of others? Yes. That's exactly what he's asking us to bear. Grow up. He's asking you to take up your cross and be willing to suffer because love suffers long with people. Matter of fact, love bears all things. Love believes all things. Love hopes all things and love endures all things for others. And it means disowning yourself means this. I am going to love others in the way Jesus loved me. I'm going to suffer. I'm going to suffer the bother, the trouble, the pain, the irritation, the frustration, and I'm going to do so without simmering on the inside and being ready to take up some position. I'm going to endeavor to preserve the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. And you know what I'm going to find? I'm going to find the very life of God. I'm going to find a way out of a childish, self-centered life that keeps someone locked into the only thing they can ever handle is how much God loves me. The love of God, which is past his understanding, is a power too few people ever come to experience. The genuine love of God bears all things. The genuine love of God suffers long. It's kind. It doesn't envy. It doesn't boast. It's not proud. Keeps no record of wrong. Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. Greater love hath this than no man, than a man lay down his life. I'm not talking about laying on a beach chair on the Hawaiian beach. No, I was talking about lay down your desire for comfort. Lay down what you think you deserve. Lay down what you think you need to be happy every moment of the day. Lay down your childish self-centeredness like feed me, pamper me, comfort me, play with me. And learn and find and discover the very heart of God who sent his son into a sick and dying world to deal with a bunch of knuckleheads like every single one of us. If Jesus Christ had wanted to save himself, he didn't even need to come here. Why would he bother? He had angels. He and the Father were one. The angels would do everything he said. They worshiped him continually. They sing to him continually. Why did God send his son here? Jesus said, I didn't come to call the righteous. I came to call, who? Who? Are you afraid to say that? He came to call who? Sinners. And what does it mean to be sinning? Do you know what the word sin means? It means to miss the mark. Well, the mark is, God's mark is let's be kind and let's be loving and let's be good. Well, if you're missing that, you're probably not in a very good state. You're probably kind of rough around the edges. And God sent his son to save us, to save people like that. Us. And think about how completely contrary it is to the spirit of God for any of us to sit there with an attitude of, I don't care for that person. I, that person makes me uncomfortable. Well, I don't like this about them. Well, I don't like that about them. I'm done with that. I've had it. I'm finished. Oh, really? I am sure glad that is not how God felt when he looked at the world. You want to be near the heart of God? You want to experience the presence of God? Nothing is dearer to the heart of God than people. And when you get near the heart of God, you're going to hear it beating for people. You're going to hear it. And it's beating for the people he sent his son to say. And when that begins to course through your veins and you begin to realize how much God loves the world, not just you, you begin to live in love. And begin to experience the power of God and the ability to God to bear all things. Believe all things, hope all things, endure all things for all men. Even to the point where you learn even to delight in it. Isn't that what Paul learned? See the difficulty, what we try to save ourselves from. We try to save ourselves from those places that are tight. They're uncomfortable. We don't want to suffer. We don't want to suffer. Oh, we say we love the apostle Paul, right? I mean, who doesn't love the apostle Paul? We love his doctrines of grace. We love the fact that he wrote almost half the New Testament as far as the number of letters. But you know what Paul said? Paul said that every one of us should think like he did, right? That's what he said in Philippians chapter three, that everyone who's mature think like I do. And remember how Paul thought? He said, I want to know Christ. And remember what he added after that? Well, what did he follow that with? I want to know Christ. There's one good part of it. He also said, I want to know Christ and the fellowship of his sufferings. Do you want to know Jesus that way? Jesus suffered living amongst a bunch of knuckleheads like us. Jesus suffered from men in as sinners. Jesus suffered in dealing with men. Wouldn't it have been easier for him to just stay in heaven and kind of send some magical spiritual power down to the earth and just fix everybody and then come and say, here I am. No, he came to his own and his own did not receive him. He suffered abuse from the men. He came to say, including the time he stood there as the son of God and let them rip his back open with a cat and nine tails, mock him, spit in his face, hit him in the face, grab his beard hair and yank it out. And he sat there as a lamb suffering to redeem the very people who are mistreating him. And how many of us want to share in that? You're willing to suffer for the sake of saving others. That's following Jesus. That's taking up your cross daily. And that's disowning myself. That make is that we have feelings it. And I'll tell you, it's okay to feel like you don't want to be near somebody. That's feeling that's natural, but you don't want to act like mere men because mere men try to save themselves when it's uncomfortable. What you want to do is when you've got those feelings, when you're simmering on the inside and you're ready to take your position, disown yourself and remember why the Lord God sent his son and follow his example and lay your life down for others. It's actually better. This is, this is why it seems so foolish. That kind of difficulty, that kind of pain, that kind of trouble. Let me tell you something. There's more life in it than all of your seeking of comfort. That's what the mystery, what I'm describing to you, suffering for others will fill you with such spiritual joy that you will no longer need to be pampered like this little Christian baby. And you won't need people to change your diapers or find your pacifier when you're not feeling good. You will learn what it means to be alive in Christ, full of the Holy Spirit. Jesus, although he was a son, it says in the book of Hebrews, Jesus learned obedience through the things he suffered. You know what? I'm very grateful. I am glad. I'm just your pastor. I don't want you to freak out now. Some of you are kind of hard to be around sometimes. Not surprising. You know, that's a good thing for me. I get to learn that I don't need to go by my feelings. I can love you like Jesus loved me. Because sometimes when he looks at me, he thinks I'm kind of hard to deal with. You got it? You see? Listen, there's no place. There's no place for simmering among us. There's no place for that person that's ready to take their side. There's no place for they and them. No place for it. Not here. Paul. Paul thought, because sometimes you can be in a difficult situation. And I'm not saying that sometimes dealing with people is not painful and you just want out. Paul wanted out. Remember 2 Corinthians chapter 12? He wanted out. He said he didn't. He experienced this pressure that he thought he could not continue in. He said in 2 Corinthians chapter 12, that a messenger of Satan was buffeting him. The Greek word means to strike in the eye. So he's literally saying this demonic presence is this thorn in the flesh. He also calls it, but with these, a messenger of Satan buffeting him. You know what messengers buffet with? Messages. All kinds of messages, all kinds of thoughts. And listen, many times our thoughts and our wrestling and our battles are very much internal. But this wrestling, it was, it became so intense for Paul that he did not think he could endure it any longer. And he says three times he pleaded with the Lord to take it away. And God in his, what we would think foolishness, what did God tell him? Because sometimes we think, well, I just can't do this anymore. I just can't do this anymore. It's okay, honey. Have another bottle. Here's your Passy. What did God tell Paul? You remember what he told him? My grace is sufficient for you. For my power is made perfect in weakness. And then Paul did something astounding. He stopped asking for the trouble to be taken away. And he said, therefore, I will all the more gladly boast in my troubles. He said that's why for Christ's sake, I'm going to delight in insults. Where do insults come from? People. Where do difficulties come from? Most of the time people persecutions, where do they come from? People. So in other words, Paul said, okay, I'm going to learn to delight in the difficulty I have with people because when I'm weak, oh, Christ is powerful in me. It's not about me anymore. It's about Jesus Christ in me, the Holy Spirit shedding abroad the life of God in my heart, living in his spirit, laying my life down. And you know what then it takes us to? It's so interesting how God unfolds something to you when you seek him for wisdom. It takes us to this place in first John, because if anybody needs to hear this, we Christians in the 21st century who bunch of pampered babies, most of our lives, we've not faced real issues of persecution like many places around the world. We need to hear this. This is a message for us. It's almost like it was written 2000 years ago, but it could be our letter addressed in stamp right here. Listen to Christians. Let us not love in word only, but in deed and in truth. And this is what will give us confidence in the day of judgment. That's what's going to give us confidence in the day of judgment that we don't just sit around and talk about how much God loves us, but we got all this division and we're a bunch of babies and we're being pampered and everyone's trying to save themselves from the difficulty of being with other hard people. Goes on to say that scripture goes on to say this. This is the confidence we'll have in the day of judgment, that in this world, we're like him. And what, how is he in this world? He ate with the sinners and the tax collectors. He did. He offered his face to be smitten. He offered his face to be spit upon. He offered his back to be ripped open. He laid down his life to save the very people who were abusing him. You want to be a follower of Christ? You want to follow Christ? You want to find a life that is so much better than the self-centered infancy of a believer that can only handle how much God loves you. You want to say you want to be saved from that? So you can grow up into Christ, walk like Christ, love like Christ, serve like Christ, be like Christ, because I will die before I give up on you. Till my last breath, you're going to have my love. I'll pray, I'll hope, I'll speak the truth if I have to. I might even have to get a little distance to recoup and breathe hard to come in. I may lose a round or two, but I'm not throwing in the towel. For the honor of Christ, for the sake of Christ, to fulfill the very spirit of Christ. Because once we do this, this is the danger. No, I'll close with this. Here's the danger. Jesus warned that in the last days there's going to be increase of lawlessness. And you know what the purpose of law is? The purpose of law is there to be order, order, boundaries, rules. So what, you know, with lawlessness comes disorder and chaos. And you know, when there's disorder and chaos, you know what there is? A bunch of people with issues. And you know, when people have their issues, they mess up their life, don't they? And when they messed up their life, they need a lot of help. You know, when you have these homes that have problems and issues, they spill out, don't they? It affects their finances. It affects their health. It affects their transportation. They can end up without a car, without a place. They need all kinds of help because their life is a mess. It's out of order. And you know what the danger of that is? It causes the love of the many to begin to be cruel. I don't know if I want to deal with this. I'm kind of tired of helping everybody out. Why do people can't they get their lives together? And it causes the erosion of the very glue that holds a body of Christ together. Love is the bond of unity. And if your love begins to cool, you know what happens? Unity starts to fall apart. As soon as we have brother so-and-so is just going to stay in his corner and brother so-and-so is his corner. And we'll greet one another at the door. How are you doing today? Listen, we laugh, but churches have lived this way for centuries. And it's never produced the righteousness of God. It's never. Our goal is to grow up into all things into Christ, into the unity of the faith, one heart, one mind, one spirit, one purpose, and any attitude or any thought contrary to that is the enemy at work to undermine what God is seeking to do in a group of people. And we just need to recognize it. Now, let me invite you. Here's an invitation. I don't normally give invitations, but this is the kind of invitation I have today. I'm inviting you to forsake infanthood. I'm inviting you to repent of your selfish, peevish, human attitudes towards other people. And I'm inviting you to ask the Holy Spirit to cause the love of God to be shed or brought into your hearts. Because here's what Paul said. He prayed for the church that they would be strengthened with power through the spirit and the inner man so that Christ would dwell in the hearts through faith. And when Christ begins to dwell in the heart through faith, then you become rooted and established. How? In love. You know how you can tell someone is not rooted and established in love? Things get a little bit dry with people. And what happens when the roots aren't deep and it's dry and it's hot? We wither. Our prayer life for others withers. Our desire to see them blessed, our hope for them withers, our faith for them withers, our love and earnestness towards them withers. That's what happens when we're not dwelling in the love of God. But when Christ is dwelling in our hearts through faith, when we become rooted and established in love, we suddenly begin to have power with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ for others. And when you begin to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ for others, then suddenly his grace becomes power to perfect your weakness. Then you don't relate to others based upon mere men-like standards and the impotent, inconsistent strength of men. You begin to live a life in his spirit. Christ in you, the life of God forming in you, and you grow out of infancy into an adult, laying down your life for others, being a blessing to others, and understanding that suffering, pain, difficulty, pressure, frustration, temptation are all being used by God to bring you to maturity. And suddenly you're actually doing what Christ said. You're disowning yourself. You're saying, I'm going to take up my cross and I'm going to live a life of suffering for other people. And you know what you're going to find? You're going to find more spiritual life doing that than you ever will ever find trying to satisfy yourself with the world's pleasures. I'm going to leave it with all my heart. I've tasted it. I don't think I'm finished there, but I tasted it. I know this reality. When you begin to experience this and you begin to hear a difficulty and because tribulation works endurance and endurance proven character and character hope, here comes the tribulation. All right, it's time to endure because endurance is going to do something in me that I need. Let patience have its perfect work so that I may mature, complete, lacking nothing. Here I am giving thanks. All right, it's going to get hard. Let's see what God can do. Let's watch our father work. It's a good sign to me, y'all, that the enemy has been busy because if we didn't have, if we were any threat to him at all, he wouldn't mess with us. Okay. I don't know how you end a message like this. I don't know. I do want to say this. Watch me. Watch me. Follow my example as I seek to follow Christ. If you don't understand it all up here, find someone who's walking. Stick close to them till you get it. Some things are better caught than taught. Look for the person who never murmurs and complains. If you want help, look for the person who never murmurs and complains. The person murmuring and complaining is a child. Give them their pacifiers. Spend time with them. Give them their bottle. Let them tell about all the trouble they've had and how bad this person is. Love them. Pamper them. Don't follow them. Follow the person who said, how can we pray for? How can we help? How can we have patience for? What can we do? Follow that person. Follow that person. Follow maturity and fullness in Christ. Okay. Pray with me. ======================================================================== Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/_uS3OIy1Lmw.mp4 Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/alan-martin/unspiritual-infants/ ========================================================================