Hebrews 5:11-14
Believers who remain spiritually passive become dull and undiscerning, but maturity requires active engagement with God's Word and practiced obedience.
11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
12 For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
Believers who remain spiritually passive become dull and undiscerning, but maturity requires active engagement with God's Word and practiced obedience.
To rebuke spiritual immaturity and urge believers toward doctrinal growth and discernment.
The Son Appointed High Priest and the Danger of Spiritual Immaturity
Jesus is the God-appointed high priest whose suffering obedience makes him the source of eternal salvation, but only mature hearers can receive the full weight of this priestly truth.