I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,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.I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able;
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… not just Romans 8 but also 1 Corinthians 3 2 Timothy 1 The Spirit dwells in us, and he prompts our prayers and empowers our prayers and guides our prayers. And what's so significant about this is there is this special relationship for the Christian between the Holy Spirit in us and prayer. So Ephesians 6 talks about praying at all times in the Spirit, praying in the Spirit. and in the book of Jude talks about keeping yourselves in love of God, praying in the spirit. This connection between our spirit who's now indwelt by the Holy Spirit, making expression to God in prayer, being prompted by God himself in us to pray to God the father through Jesus the son and the spirit interceding for us and groans too deep for words when we don't know what to pray as we ought, he gives us his own spirit to prompt our hearts to pray and enable us to pray and pray for us when we need help in our weakness. …
will receive his own reward according to his own labor." We are God's fellow workers. You are God's field and God's building. So we are fellow workers. We are not to be compared to each other, and some kind of a hierarchy that sets one above the other. In the end of chapter 3, Paul says in verse 21, all things belong to you, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all things belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. You can't separate in it anything because it all belongs to you. All spiritual blessings belong to you. All teachers belong to you. This is by God's design. Everything that the kingdom provides is for all of you. It's not as if you need to attach to one teacher who offers you more of spiritual benefits than another one. If they're equally faithful in their discharge of ministry, then they are dispensing to you the riches of the household of God, and they do that equally. …
It is wonderful to be back at Duke Chapel. I was beginning to think that I was not going to be able to get back. Over the last few years, I've been scheduled several times to preach here on Sunday, but it was always one of those February weekends when the snowflakes flew, but the airlines didn't, and I wasn't able to get here. I began to fret a little bit that they were inviting me in February, confident that the weather would wipe me off the schedule. But the weather has held this weekend, and the greetings and hospitality have been very warm indeed, and it's always a joy to be in worship with you here. Will you join me in prayer? O God, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of all of our hearts be acceptable to you, O God, our strength and our redeemer. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. On a warm April night in Memphis, Tennessee, nearly 52 years ago now, Dr. Martin Luther King, even though he did not know it at the time, gave what was his last speech. …