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“We have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing” (Hebrews 5:11).
The inspired author of the book of Hebrews (probably the Apostle Paul) had many things that he would have liked to have told those Jewish Christians, for God had committed to Him the precious truth of the assembly. This included things that had not been revealed to anyone else; God gave them specially to Paul, so that he could pass them on to others. Sadly, he had to say to some of those saved Jews that they were not really interested in what he had to tell them. They had not progressed in the things of the Lord, and were like small children who did not know much.
It can be the same with us today. Perhaps there are older ones in our local assembly who know a great deal in spiritual things, and would love to tell them to us. But if we are not interested—if we are “dull of hearing,” like those Jews, then it is hard for them to tell us those things. If we have a new life in Christ, then we have a nature that wants to learn more of Christ. But sometimes our desires for the things of this world stand in the way.
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