Colossians 2:6 (KJV)
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
“As ye have” is a precise expression. Paul encouraged these believers to continue their walk in Christ in the same manner as they had begun. Spiritual growth does not mean a change in doctrine, a departure from what we were first taught, or a coming to some “new light.” Spiritual growth is a deepening of those early teachings. It is, if you will, coming to grasp why we were taught them. It is not determining that we do not understand, and therefore choosing no longer to comply, but rather a decision to dig deep and become rooted in these things until we understand their value, meaning, and purpose.
Spiritual growth is a growing thanksgiving for the things we have been taught from the Word of God. It is an abounding in them—practicing them more faithfully and more consistently.
Spiritual growth is a wariness of, and a refusal to accept, those who would attempt to teach us otherwise. Spiritual growth does not embrace the ideas of other doctrines. Spiritual growth withstands them and stands against them.
Spiritual growth clings to the “rudiments of Christ.” It rejects those religious opinions that make less of Christ and more of man-made duties.
Spiritual growth accepts baptism by water into a local church as the proper outward expression of faith after salvation. There is no fleshly expression of that faith, such as circumcision, that is necessary. The Jewish rituals have been fully replaced by faith in Christ.
Spiritual growth ignores the scoffing, mocking, and judgmentalism of religious legalists. Let them say what they will. We know we stand before Christ alone and in full faith.
Spiritual growth holds the Head—Jesus Christ—as the fullness of the Godhead bodily and reckons himself to be complete in Him.
Spiritual growth is not a departure from these things. It is a settling into them.
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