GROWING IN FAITH
After we get saved, God expects us to start growing in the knowledge that He wants to transmit to us. And the only way we can spiritually grow is by seeking after the knowledge that will cause this growth to occur! You will grow in the knowledge of God through your own personal walk that you have with Him, along with learning from other Christians, especially those who are anointed and gifted to be able to teach from His Word.
God has arranged to have all of the spiritual knowledge that we will ever need about Him, His Son, and His Spirit to all be contained in one book, the Bible. God is also using some very curious secrets and parables in many Bible verses. You can really tell that He is trying to let all of us know the extreme importance of seeking and growing in this knowledge. The reason for this is that God’s ultimate aim for us after we get saved is our sanctification and transformation unto holiness. He wants to transform us into the express image of His Son Jesus and be a more holy people.
1Peter 1: 15 Be holy in everything you do, just as God is holy. He is the one who chose you. 16 In the Scriptures God says, "Be holy, because I am holy."
There is one major secret I have learned from the Lord on getting Him to release more of His knowledge to us – is that we have to be willing to go into some type of seeking mode with Him to get it. The Bible says to ask – and then you will receive. Seek – and then you will find. Knock – and then the door will be opened to you.
Notice in all three of these conditions that you have to be the one to initiate it. You have to be the one to ask, to seek, and to knock. If you do – then God will answer you, open doors for you, and let you find the answers to your questions and problems. If you are troubled over a particular issue, you can just start looking on what God had said on that issue, and you will see how the Holy Spirit will help you in the matter. (Joshua 1:8)
You cannot become more holy, more transformed, and more sanctified unless you are spiritually growing. And you cannot start to spiritually grow unless you are first seeking after the knowledge that will cause this spiritual growth to occur in the first place!
About keeping the Sabbath, some preachers claim that Jesus made an excuse for one of the Ten Commandments, that is, for keeping the Sabbath
Mark 2:27 And he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."
Jesus did not make an excuse for Sabbath. The Sabbath was given to man as a memorial day of rest, to remember that God had rested. Sabbath was given so that man can rest not God. God already rested on the 7th day of creation, that is, the day (or 1000years) after the creation of Adam. This means God is working on man’s Sabbath day. God does not rest on man’s Sabbath but the people complained that God is working miracles and healing people on their Sabbath. This was the case with the blind man who was healed by God Himself at the pool of Siloam on a Sabbath, after Jesus send him there with mud on his eyes. This means both God and Jesus works on the Sabbath when they performed this miracle hand in hand because they are one.
This means we have to spend daily quality time in the Bible and have a through study and understanding of His Word before God can really use us to teach and educate others.