TBC Notes

A Note from William MacDonald

Here is an excerpt from Bill’s Believer’s Bible Commentary regarding Hebrews:5:12-14 [12] For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. [13] For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. [14] But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
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“The writer reminds the Hebrews that they had been receiving instruction long enough now so that they should be teaching others. But the tragedy was that they still needed someone to teach them the ABCs of the Word of God.

“You ought to be teachers. God’s order is that every believer should mature to the point where he can teach others. Each one teach one! […E]very believer should engage in some teaching ministry. It was never God’s intention that this work should be limited to a few.

“You have come to need milk and not solid food. In the physical realm, a child who never advances from milk to solids is impaired. There is a form of stunted growth in the spiritual realm as well (1 Corinthians:3:2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
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“Professing believers who stay on a milk diet are unskilled in the word of righteousness. They are hearers of the word but not doers. They lose what they do not use, and remain in a state of perpetual infancy.

“They do not have a keen sense of discernment in spiritual matters and are “tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting” (Ephesians:4:14That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
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“Solid spiritual food is for the full grown, for those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. By obeying the light they receive from God’s Word….”

T. A. McMahon

Executive Director