Ch. 14 What Is the Meat of The Word?

Milk of the Word defined

Hebrews 5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

Hebrews 6:1–2   1 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, 2 of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.

Meat (solid food) of the Word defined

Hebrews 5:13–14   13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

Most modern translations of the Bible use the words solid food to refer to the teaching about righteousness. The King James translation of the Bible uses the words strong meat to describe the same teaching. For years Christians have referred to the milk of the word and the meat of the word. To really get into the meat of the word you need to become accustomed to the word of righteousness. Which is the same as understanding the exchanged life and the difference between Law and Grace. Understanding the old covenant and the new covenant. Understanding that Christians are justified under the new covenant (Grace) and not under the old covenant (Law).

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