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1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.

I have two babies in my house, and as I read these verses I couldn't help but think of my children.

My children started off on breast milk, but at some point we began the process of moving them to the bottle to make things easier on us. In doing this we had to find the right milk. We had to find the milk closest to the mother's breast milk.

One brand of milk we tried caused a rash to appear on the baby: Another brand caused the baby to throw up a lot. Finally we found a brand where the baby would only throw up a little. This was the one. We continued to feed the baby this milk,

and eventually the baby stopped throwing up.

Some of these daily fruits are excerpts from my much larger sermons, and sometimes it is hard to just pull out a single piece of fruit without the reader missing the full gist of what's being said. This is another one of those cases, but in a nutshell I would like for you to think about the milk you drink, or better yet the milk you drank when you were a new babe in Christ. What particular denomination or doctrine was it? Maybe you were born into a Christian home with Christian parents already with a belief system, and it is only natural that you grow up believing the same? There are different types of processed and prepare milks out there, and maybe when you drank it, it didn't cause a rash or some kind of reaction. Maybe it didn't cause you any stomach problems or caused you to throw some of it up, but the point is that after this milk was fed to you over and over again, it is now part of your system. I started a discussion with someone about a bible topic. Their immediate response was a defensive one, " I'm not changing what I believe." We were only two sentences into the conversation. This was the milk he was drinking from his Christian birth. There are a lot of milks, milk products, and milk byproducts, and consumption of it will cause some growth. But the milk in our text has an adjective in front of it, an adjective which denotes the quality of the thing being named. This milk is devoid of denominational doctrine, theology, and religiosity. The mere fact that this milk is called "sincere", means that there is milk out there that is not so sincere.

This milk is straight up the Word of God fed to you through the revelation of the Holy Spirit. You are left with the question of what milk are you drinking.


	Ministry of Peace \| home Daily Fruit \| To Thine Own Self Be True \| A Bunch of Grapes \| The Milk The Milk Part 1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious. I have two babies in my house, and as I read these verses I couldn't help but think of my children. My children started off on breast milk, but at some point we began the process of moving them to the bottle to make things easier on us. In doing this we had to find the right milk. We had to find the milk closest to the mother's breast milk. One brand of milk we tried caused a rash to appear on the baby: Another brand caused the baby to throw up a lot. Finally we found a brand where the baby would only throw up a little. This was the one. We continued to feed the baby this milk, and eventually the baby stopped throwing up. Some of these daily fruits are excerpts from my much larger sermons, and sometimes it is hard to just pull out a single piece of fruit without the reader missing the full gist of what's being said. This is another one of those cases, but in a nutshell I would like for you to think about the milk you drink, or better yet the milk you drank when you were a new babe in Christ. What particular denomination or doctrine was it? Maybe you were born into a Christian home with Christian parents already with a belief system, and it is only natural that you grow up believing the same? There are different types of processed and prepare milks out there, and maybe when you drank it, it didn't cause a rash or some kind of reaction. Maybe it didn't cause you any stomach problems or caused you to throw some of it up, but the point is that after this milk was fed to you over and over again, it is now part of your system. I started a discussion with someone about a bible topic. Their immediate response was a defensive one, " I'm not changing what I believe." We were only two sentences into the conversation. This was the milk he was drinking from his Christian birth. There are a lot of milks, milk products, and milk byproducts, and consumption of it will cause some growth. But the milk in our text has an adjective in front of it, an adjective which denotes the quality of the thing being named. This milk is devoid of denominational doctrine, theology, and religiosity. The mere fact that this milk is called "sincere", means that there is milk out there that is not so sincere. This milk is straight up the Word of God fed to you through the revelation of the Holy Spirit. You are left with the question of what milk are you drinking.