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  BIBLICAL TEACHING
  by Norman Grubb
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Summary: Norman Grubb's sermon emphasizes the stages of Christian growth
and the importance of understanding and applying God's Word in our
lives.

Topics: "Christian Growth", "Spiritual Maturity"
Scripture References: John 15:7, Ephesians 6:10, Colossians 3:16, 1 John 2:12, 1 John 5:4

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Norman Grubb discusses the stages of Christian growth as outlined in the
Bible, emphasizing the phases of infancy, adolescence, and adulthood.
Infancy represents receiving forgiveness of sins, adolescence involves
understanding the Fatherhood of God, and adulthood is about living a
self-sufficient life in Christ. He highlights the importance of having
the Word of God abiding in us, leading to inner strength, victory over
challenges, and a deep understanding of God's ways.

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I pointed out to you also the stages of Christian growth plainly
outlined to us in God's Word, suggesting too that God's Word shows us
that there are three phases which are to be experienced as well as
mentally apprehended. Infancy, adolescence, and adulthood--the infant
being in the condition in which it only knows how to receive forgiveness
of sins for His Name's sake; adolescence being the knowledge of the
Fatherhood of God; adulthood being the experience of a self-sufficient
life. That word of course needs further interpretation. I'll leave it at
that at the moment.

A life which in itself has in itself discovered the secret of continuing
strength "because ye are strong," and has discovered how to win every
battle, "I have overcome the wicked one," twice over, and which has a
fixed, inner understanding and ingrafted apprehension of the way of God,
the Word of God abiding in us.

Karuizawa Japan Conference of 1954

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/norman-grubb/biblical-teaching/
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