If a person is not born again they do not have the spirit of God inside. Without that they can not get into even the milk of the word, let alone the meat of the word. One must first be born again then comes the application of scripture.
What I have been trying to tell you is you can not discern either the milk or the meat without the Holy Spirit.
I said
Read what you wrote up there. You said they must be born again and have the Holy Spirit or they cant get into the milk understanding.
To be born again one must die or crucify something. Emotions, flesh, self. By the Spirit, one must know the Holy Spirit and follow Him into putting to death the emotions. And no one is Christs until AFTER they have crucified the emotions. Born again.
Rom 8:13
13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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Gal 5:24-25
24 And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
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