Discussion Jumpstarter
Study leader reference - not a definitive answer
Question 10
Jason previews Hebrews 5:11–6:6 and says the issue with being “dull of hearing” is not inability to comprehend but that “it wouldn’t be appropriate for him to go into additional teachings”; what habits, comforts, or sins today might produce the same “dullness,” and what concrete changes would need to happen in your week so you become the kind of person who can actually receive “solid food” rather than needing “milk”?
Another way to ask: What habits, comforts, or sins today can make someone “dull of hearing” like in Hebrews? What specific changes could you make this week so you can handle “solid food” instead of always needing “milk”?
Discussion Jumpstarter
Direct Answer
The transcript doesn’t list specific modern habits or sins that cause dullness, but it defines dullness as a spiritual condition that makes deeper teaching “not… appropriate,” even if comprehension is possible. A concrete change implied by the passage is moving from passive dependence (“need someone to teach you again”) toward practiced maturity where your “senses [are] exercised” through “reason of use.”
- Jason quotes Hebrews 5:11: teachings are “hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.”
- He previews next week’s point: it’s “not that they were not able to comprehend it,” but “it wouldn’t be appropriate… to go into additional teachings.”
- He reads Hebrews 5:12: “by this time you ought to be teachers,” yet they need “the first principles… again.”
- He contrasts “milk and not solid food,” calling milk-drinkers “unskilled in the word of righteousness… a babe.”
- He describes maturity: “solid food belongs to those… who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”