When we are called to have a childlike faith, it doesn't mean that we're supposed to have a simplistic

faith or an uninformed faith or an unintelligible faith. But what it means is that I must have

confidence in my heavenly father, that I trust him implicitly. Now that is not unreasonable. In fact,

the more mature your intellectual understanding of God is, the greater should be your childlike acceptance of His authority.

Yesterday, we saw that there is great confusion when it comes to meekness, and that meekness is not

synonymous with weakness.

And today we'll see that many confuse a childlike faith with childish faith, avoiding

diligent study, avoiding theology, and neglecting the means of grace.

Welcome to the Thursday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm Nathan W. Bingham.

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To close out this series, here's Dr. Spraw on what it means to grow in maturity.

We've seen throughout this series a close connection between Paul's teaching of the fruit of the spirit in his epistle to the Galatians and his exposition of the ramifications of love of

Agape in the Great Love chapter in 1 Corinthians 13. We started by a little bit of consideration of 1st Corinthians 13,

and then we moved over to an examination of the list of the fruit of the spirit in Galatians.

And now in this session, I'd like to go back to 1 Corinthians 13 for a moment,

to the last portion of it.

Let me refresh your memory of what it says, beginning in verse 8 of chapter 13 of 1st

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