Sunday Morning: June 20, 1999
Text: Matthew 7:6 "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs (fig.), neither cast ye your pearls (fig.)before swine (fig.), lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you."
Matthew 13:34 "All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable [para + ballw; beside + lay] spake he not unto them:"
Mark 4:2 "And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,"
Mark 4:11 "And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom (heavy doctrine) of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:"
1 Corinthians 3:1-2 "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able."
Romans 8:7-8 "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God."
Hebrews 5:12 "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.
1 Peter 2:1-2 "Wherefore laying aside all (works of the flesh) malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2. As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:"
Hebrews 5:14 "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."
Isaiah 7:15 "Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good."
Proverbs 30:33 "Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, ..."
Isaiah 28:9-10 "Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand [separate mentally or distinguish; Lk 24:45] doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:"
Luke 24:45 ".. opened he their understanding [nouv, mind], that they might understand [su>n = together+ ihmi = to send; here a little there a little] the scriptures,"
1 Samuel 14:27 "But Jonathan &ldots; put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened."
Ephesians 1:15-18 "&ldots;after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, 16. Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17. That the God &ldots;, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge [eJpi>gnwsiv, exact knowledge] of him: 18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,"