Primary 143 - From Milk to Meat

Class,

We have taught you the basics; the milk, if you will. In teaching you, we hope you are becoming more prepared for the world; to be teachers and leaders. Hebrews is a book about pushing forward. In the Gospel of Jesus Christ we are asked to prepare with the plain and simple truths so that wen we are faced with trial our foundation is based on our Redeemer, on our faith, our repentance and our covenants. 

Hebrews were converted to the gospel. They had an old law with old prophets, priesthood and covenants. When they the gospel went through it's renewal through Christ, the saints had to go through that vail too, like the Hebrews passing through the Red Sea, to new ideas and understanding. All the stories of the prophets were fulfilled in Jesus and the desire, the fear to return to the old ways, was intense, especially for life long Hebrews. 

We are saints, some of us by several generations and some new converts. We are asked to change daily through the fullness of the gospel. We have something the saints in the past didn't. We have history, technology, a world wide church. The words of prophets are at our fingertips. The world is small and our temples and missionaries are all over. We have been drinking the milk of the gospel in primary. Now that you are moving into your next decade, you will experience the priesthood and blessing of leadership. Your milk days are now of milk toast and meat. You are the next leaders of the church and the blessings of the temple and priesthood will be yours. 

What this requires is building on our experience as members of the primary. Now we can build on that like the Hebrews of the past. For them it was Levitical priesthood to Melchizedek priesthood, the Law of Moses to the Law of Jesus, flawed high priests who needed the Atonement, to a High Priest who is the Atonement. They went from milk to meat. We need to do that to. The letter of the law now has a greater spirit of the law, a law that has justice and mercy. We will be great with our ancestors and angels behind us and the Savior before us. Thanks for being in my class guys. You have taught me a lot.

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