Title: Don't Lose Your First Love
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It felt like I was walking on a cloud ~When I open my mouth I sing praises
My life, my life, my health, my material, my family. Even when I prayed for a small child, I prayed that I would sacrifice even this child.
But the years go by~ As 1, 2, 5, 10 years go by, the excitement and joy of the past are gone and my faith is skeptical~
Eating moths with doubt about where that joy went in the past, complaining rather than thanks
When it is just like that, you have to go back to the time of the very first time you started. You have to go back to the experience of your first love.
So, in order not to lose our first love when we are new?
1. Always keep the grace you have received
(The Word of Revelation 2:2-3)
* I know your deeds and your hard work and your patience
You will test the falsehood, which you have uncovered,
* And I know that you have persevered and endured for the sake of my name, and you are not sluggish.
There is a church we see today ~ Ephesus Church A very good church, but this church is being rebuked
Ephesus Church Asia's largest port Politically, Rome was a free city and a privileged city, there was a statue of Artemis~ a foreign god
Full of lewdness and sin, but the church at Ephesus was patient with patience and was not lazy as a bold church in pain and defeated the diligent evil
The fact of the church that overcame laziness and temptation with wisdom to distinguish between what is false and what is right
it's not easy
But Lord~ Ephesus Church and the saints who seem to have such excellent faith (You have forsaken your first love)
All your hard work, devotion and effort, no one can follow you, you are a loyal servant~~
What are you guys (First Love-Acafe Protoss)? Anyone who has ever had our first love knows
First love is pure love Love like pure gold Love that you can starve if you have love
Even without a spoon or chopsticks, everything is ok as long as there is love
So crazy, love, crazy, eye pods, I can't see anything, my parents don't have money, my health, I can't hear anything in the house.
This is the first love - Agape Protoss Only love A love that no one can stop!! crazy in love
But the church in Ephesus gave up this pure love for the Lord~~ I forgot the pure grace I received~~
Behold, the Lord knows that the church at Ephesus has done its best, but the core is missing. The appearance but the motives are twisted!
They say they do it for the gospel, but it's not for the main thing, it's for themselves.
They look fine on the outside, but when you look inside their hearts, they have been reduced to a formal faith like an empty shell.
Toil, perseverance, perseverance, the best, but no matter how patiently sacrificed, reluctantly, it was reduced to a formal faith.
So, no matter how good the faith seems, if the elements are omitted, it cannot be seen as complete faith and such goodness and praise cannot be received.
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So, after praising the church in Ephesus, the Lord pointed out the problem that he had lost the most essential first love.
Is the confession you made in the past that you will be faithful to death if you give me the grace of the Lord is still alive today?
Don't forget the grace you received!! Don't be a hypocrite about your first love! In order not to lose your first love, always keep the grace you received
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2. So that the emotion of the gospel overflows
(The words of Revelation 5)
* Therefore, remember where you have fallen, repent, and do the first deeds.
I will come to you and remove your candlestick from its place.
Ephesus Church A port city at the center of Asia Minor, where commerce and industry were developed and entertainment and idolatry flourished
But Acts 19) f) 3 month Gospel of the synagogue ~Let's persecute ~Durannus ) Daily DT for 2 years 3 years night and day with tears
Then all the Jews and Greeks living in Asia heard the word of the Lord and believed in Jesus (Acts 19:9-10)
For this reason, the gospel of the church in Ephesus, the gospel of Paul, the gospel of Christ, was planted in a place that seemed to have nothing to do with it.
A church in the body of the Lord was created ~ The flames of church revival
What a revival of the church~ The magicians heard the gospel and burned the conversion book, but the book cost a whopping 50,000 silver (Acts 19:19)
However, as the years passed, the gospel gap cooled down, and in the end, only traces of the church in Ephesus remained (pictured), and the city became ruins.
You (Acts 19:20) Once upon a time, the word of the Lord will have power, and it will prosper and gain power__ There were wonderful times.
Now, it is only maintained as a site where archaeologists originated from, and it has become a place only visited by pilgrims.
It was because of the loss of the gospel gap, although Paul had a gospel gap every day for two years.
Struggle until the gospel gap overflows!! Let the thrill of salvation flow from your heart!!
What the Lord wants is not DOING>> BE I want to confess that the Lord is my very existence~~ My very existence is the gospel!
It's a really strange member of our church, when the emotion of the gospel dries up!! A church member who has nothing to say even with ten mouths! First love through the gospel
Therefore, we strive to overflow with the gospel gap through the Word every day so that we do not lack spiritual nourishment!!!
3. Don't let your passion for the gospel cool down
(The words of Revelation 2, 3, 5)
* I know your deeds and your hard work and your patience
You will test the falsehood, which you have uncovered,
* And I know that you have persevered and endured for the sake of my name, and you are not sluggish.
* Therefore, remember where you have fallen, repent, and do the first deeds.
I will come to you and remove your candlestick from its place.
Verse 2 - deeds, toil and perseverance) Newborn) I tried my best to do well~ Do the right deeds, work hard around you, endure hardships
Verse 3 - Be patient, enduring and diligent A church with a system in place
Verse 6 - The church that defeated the heretical forces of the Nicolaitans Therefore, the church in Ephesus had more passion for the gospel than any other church!!
However, this passion faded as the years passed, and in the end, only the name remained and only traces of the church were left.
So, in verse 5, if the Lord does not repent, he will move the candlestick, which means that the meaning of the church will be removed.
Verse 7- The fruit of the tree of life that is in the Paradise of to be eaten contains both present and future meanings.
In other words, we promise with the word of blessing that we will enjoy the joy of eternal life while we live in this world, and that we will enter heaven when we leave this world.
However, Ephesus did not receive these warnings and blessings properly and eventually became a church that left only traces of the church.
Do you want our church to be like this? Losing your first love means giving up on your first resolution
What if I am baptized? ~~ When I became a gypsy, I had a heart of what I would do with the elder Kwon and the shepherd.
That the passion of the gospel that I had to devote myself to the Lord, X, and the gospel with a certain attitude had disappeared
(Mt 28:19-20) Therefore go ye and give me the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit-I give to you of all nations.
Teach them to obey all that I have commanded them. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
Go - Active, active, and lasting meaning - This means that the saints should take an agrarian and active attitude towards the gospel in their social life.
The mission is the home, workplace, and business place of the saints, and since it is the place of the heavenly ambassador, the saints should never lead a passive or escape life.
Therefore, when we go to meet and preach with passion for the gospel, work begins and miracles happen~~~
Therefore, the basic attitude of you saints is the passion of the gospel!! Devotion to the Gospel!! Thanks for the Gospel! I'm thrilled.~~!1
The emotion of salvation, the emotion of redemption, our Lord, with the emotion that it was for the sake of the shedding of blood and that it was my sin that I was whipped.
You must put your whole body on the tenth table with passion and have the passion to offer yourself as a drink like Paul.
But I couldn?셳 do it because I was reluctant, so I looked at other people, so I was busy with my work, so I followed suit
If you go back and forget the Lord for a week, you have abandoned your first love, so today's saints have lost their strength.
Rick Warren> The only condition for a church to grow in the 21st century is a church that is healthy in the gospel and a church that is passionate about the gospel.