The writer’s rebuke to the spiritually immature

The writer brings the readers to the heights (Ch 1) and then plunges them into the depths (Ch 2:1ff), to the heights again (Ch 2:14 - Ch 3:6) and plunges them down again (Ch 3:7ff). Last week we read about the great High Priest and he brings us down again (Ch 5:11ff). Why cannot he leave us on the mountain top? ||||||1. The writer is speaking the very mind of God. |||||| 2. The writer must be faithful to God regardless of what men may think. (2 Tim 4:2, Tit 1:9, Tit 2:15.) |||||| 3. The writer has a great concern for his flock as an under-shepherd. Spiritual growth is not for a 'spiritual elite' but for every child of God