Title: Let's restore our first love
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Title: Let's restore our first love
Bible: Revelation 2:1-7
2011.5.15. day
The revival meeting has arrived. At this point, I am caught up in two minds. On the one hand, we expect our members to be filled with the Holy Spirit, receive grace, and their faith will be restored. On the other hand, if the people who must attend are missing, the feeling of regret takes precedence.
Dear saints, this revival crusade is a special crusade for the blessing of healing. Rev. Il-soo Shin receives a special gift from God and holds a gift gathering. Therefore, please do not miss this meeting and attend. I hope that your sickness will be healed, your problems will be resolved, your broken heart will be healed, and your mission will be restored.
Let's restore our first love. Let's all follow along. Let's restore our first love. Now, let's experience God's love for all of you who are starting a life of faith! We pray that existing members will have an opportunity to recover their lost first love.
1. What is the appearance of the Lord in the church in Ephesus?
The appearance of the Lord in the 7 churches of Asia Minor is different. Its appearance contains the Lord's message to that church.
The image of the Lord appearing in the church in Ephesus is “the image of the Lord holding the 7 stars in his right hand and walking between the 7 golden candlesticks.” This is the secret. The Bible interprets the mystery.
“What you saw was the mystery of the seven stars in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches.”
7 Candlesticks - Church. The appearance of the candlesticks coming and going symbolizes the state of controlling and intervening in all matters of the church.
Here is something we must realize. The Lord takes care of the overall affairs of the church, but through whom does He work? It means that the Lord is working while holding onto the right hand of power through the messengers he has established.
At that time, the church becomes a gracious church, and each member receives blessings. Hallelujah!
2. The Lord's Praise
What is the praise of the church in Ephesus?
1) Works, toil, and perseverance - works of faith, labor of love, perseverance of hope - faith, love, hope.
Our church was also able to build such a beautiful temple because of the acts of faith of all of you, dear members. It was a great work that could not have been accomplished without the act of faith and the bloody sacrifice. Perhaps the Lord will not give you a wonderful compliment.
2) Discerning and revealing the false spirits of evil Satan - Spiritual discernment - Nicolaitans. - False prophets.
In our church, false spirits and evil heresies are also targeting us. Shincheonji cults are targeting our church. However, I hope that you will be alert and gain the ability to discern spirits, eradicate heresy, and always stand firm on the side of the truth and move forward.
3) To endure for the sake of the name of the Lord - I hope that you will be victorious every day in the name of Jesus even in the midst of harsh persecution and persecution.
4) Diligence - Diligence and diligence are basic attitudes that believers must have. In the Ephesian church, Paul the Apostle opened the Tyrannosaurus vow for 3 years and 6 months and gave a theology course, and many people around there came to learn the Word. The members of the church in Ephesus were handling those tasks well. Saints must be diligent. You have to be zealous. If you are lazy, you will not be able to serve the Lord, and you will not be able to serve.
Some saints say who is sick? After the morning worship service, they write and bring porridge. If someone is having a hard time, they quickly come to them, comfort them, and share friendship with love. Better than most shepherds.
Please believe that our Lord remembers and praises all of you for your nameless and lightless hard work and sacrifices for the church.
3. The Lord's Rebuke
Along with praise, reproof is another expression of love. If there is no discipline, there is reproof because we love as if we were called illegitimate children. What is the rebuke of the church in Ephesus?
You have abandoned your first love.
When he first received the gospel, the apostle Paul preached the gospel to the Galatia region of Hiera, Boli, based on the Ephesus church as the base for the Asia Minor mission. I do not know how much the saints loved the Lord, the church, and the apostle Paul at that time. However, the love gradually grew colder, the zeal disappeared, and the church was reduced to an incompetent church.
Some saints work hard at first and serve faithfully, but as the zeal and service gradually disappear, they fall into the complacency of the body and the pleasures of the world and have fallen into saints who have to be satisfied with only holy water on Sunday.
4. Counsel
But the Lord expects that first love will be restored. Where did you fall? I urge you to think and repent and restore your first deeds. Why did you lose your first love? Each has a reason. There is a cause.
Some members are tempted because of people, some members are tempted because of material things, and some members are tempted because of the sermons. It is wasting time. How sad is this? Where did you fall? It is important to know it. And you must repent. God is not unforgiving of those who repent. But unless you repent, you cannot be forgiven. Find the cause and repent. Please repent at the place where you were tempted. And restore your first love. I hope this crusade will be a time to recover your first love.
But the Lord is telling us very scary things. If I do not repent, I will remove the candlestick. What will be the future of the church where the Lord moved the candlestick, the soul that moved the candlestick, the family that moved the candlestick, the workplace that moved the candlestick, and the children who moved the candlestick?
David fell from his first love when he fell in love with Bathsheba. But because he repents, he receives God's forgiveness and favor and recovers.
King Saul fell from his first love because the people said that David was a thousand and Saul was ten thousand. But he did not repent. He was obsessed with it all his life, trying to kill David, and eventually he dies. God removed the king's candlestick from him.
What God wants is not to move the candlestick. They want to restore their first love and lead a powerful life of faith. May you recover your first love.
5. Grace to those who overcome
What does God give to those who restore their first love and overcome?
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.”
The tree of life was in the Garden of Eden, and Adam and Eve, who sinned, protected it with a flaming sword so they could not eat it. But now, to those who have restored their first love and overcome, He is allowing them to eat the fruit of the tree of life and grant them eternal life.
Dear saints,
I sincerely hope that you will be blessed by eating the fruit of the tree of life by recovering your first love through this revival meeting and winning to the end.