Title: Restoring Your First Love
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Topic: Recover your first love. Verse: Revelation 2:1-7
Let's recall the moment of first love, when a man and a woman for the first time met and began to fall in love with each other, the experience of that first love once again.
Then, let's compare our relationship and our married life today with that of our first love. You'll probably find it's easy to feel that something has changed tremendously.
And on the other hand, let's compare the appearance of my religious life today with the time when I first believed in Jesus and started my life of faith.
Perhaps you will come to realize that my religious life today is also very different from that of the first time.
Today, the Lord sternly warns us to restore this very first love and this first faith through the text of the Bible.
But I have this against you, that you have forsaken your first love that is, speaking of your first love. - You have forsaken your first love, your first love.
Therefore, now, think again, think deeply about where you dropped your first love, where you lost your first love, and try to restore it again.
Repent, take the first deed. If it is not so, and you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your candlestick from its place... How terrifying and dreadful are these words?
It is the most frightening thing in the world for the Holy Spirit to depart from among us.
When are you? I will never find my first love again, that is, today's tasteless and dry/ hot and lukewarm/ cold and cold, as soon as my heart cools, rough and bleak/
When this state of faith, to the point of being hardened, continues, the Lord speaks. The candlestick of the Holy Spirit from me, from our very church,
He says that he will leave and move to another place, a truly terrifying warning. Today, this church in Ephesus is a church that has received both praise and reproof.
If you look first, first of all, the act was praised. This is the saying that the church in Ephesus kept the beautiful faith in which faith and deeds coincide.
Second, judging from the words of knowing your hard work, you can see that it was a very well-serving, serving, and devoted church.
Next, and thirdly, it was also a persevering church. As we know well, the early church suffered terrible persecution for a very long time.
Last but not least, it was the church that also overcame and triumphed over heresy and the temptations of false apostles.
It was said that it was a church that hated the Nicolaitan Party, a terrifying Gnostic heresy in the early church, who did not tolerate evil people, exposed lies, and hated even our Lord.
But, indeed, in spite of the fact that even such a wonderful church, although it was the church of Ephesus with so many rare merits, there was only one thing lacking.
I was rebuked, which was that the church in Ephesus had lost its first love. And we should note well, if this Ephesus church lost its very first love,
The point is that the Lord is saying that if we do not recover, even though there were many advantages in the past, all of them may become useless.
Restore the first act, the first love again, if not, I will remove your candlestick from its place. This, of course, means that love is just as important,
Because the first love in love is that much more important, if the church loses that love, it will lose everything at once (1)
This is a message that we should pay close attention to and pay attention to, as it teaches us something serious and important. Saints!
Have the emotions and feelings of believing in Jesus have disappeared? Has your passion run out? There is no joy at all, there is no emotion, what kind of praise is there,
There is nothing new about hearing the sermon, it is a sound I have always heard, a sound I know everything, I am just trying to be wrong, there is no emotion, no realization,
Have you become hard-hearted and cold-hearted, with no new resolutions taking place at all? If so,
I hope you can realize that there is a big task of first love that must be restored. The task is none other than the work of repentance in our hearts.
The spiritual state of mind is rusted and filled with this dirty substance, and now there is no more emotion, no emotion, no enlightenment.
All purity, all passion, all love, cold and hard-hearted, that our heart, now re-established,
This means that it needs to be cultivated and heated. That method is none other than the work of repentance.
{Therefore, only remember where you fell, and repent - that is, repent, and do the first works again. If it is not so and they do not repent,
I will come to you and remove your candlestick from its place.} We should be able to listen deeply to what the Holy Spirit is saying to our church today.
So, what specifically does repentance mean? As is often thought, repentance is not just about pouring out tears and runny nose, mourning, and confessing.
Complete repentance should rather be followed by a change of volitional action, which, in a word, clears the highway of the heart,
This is what makes the highway of Zion wide open in your heart. John the Baptist, who came to this earth six months before Jesus and prepared the way for the Messiah to come,
The first voice was to repent. Repent. And make the path straight, this was it. But then that repentance
We can see that it is teaching us that there is nothing else but a way to open the highway in our hearts and to polish it. Filling the valley of my heart broken by despair,
He cut down the hills of the heart lifted up by pride, and brought it down again with humility, the crooked and rough road, the high wall between brother and neighbour,
The highway of the heart that is torn down and made into a cool road that communicates well with each other.
I also hope that you will be living with a deep mind that ultimately, it will be about restoring the first love of my faith again today.
(2) 07, 01, 14 Sunday Daytime Worship