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Text: Revelation 2:1-7
CIT: Explore the ideas of Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart
During the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, sentenced a soldier to be shot for his crimes.
The execution was to take place at the ringing of the evening curfew bell.
However, the bell did not sound.
The soldier's fiancé had climbed into the belfry and clung to the great clapper of the bell to prevent it from striking.
When she was summoned by Cromwell to account for her actions, she wept as she showed him her bruised and bleeding hands.
Cromwell's heart was touched and he said, "Your lover shall live because of your sacrifice.
Curfew shall not ring tonight!"
Our Daily Bread.
When writing to the church of Corinth the Apostle Paul gave a warning to the church.
Paul’s warning to the church is that we can go about the work of Christ clanging a bell and not really changing anything.
You and I know this though don’t we.
You have experienced it as easily as I have.
We put in illustration the preacher in Ecclesiastes 7.8
We get started and running and soon we lose interest…We used to read the Bible daily.
…We used to teach a class
We used to win souls
We used to attend church regularly
We didn’t just do these things we actually gave ourselves to them.
And I’m not so jaded as to think that the reason you did those things in years past was because people were applauding or their was a culture you were fitting into.
I tend to believe that God’s people want to serve Jesus.
Which brings into focus the words of Jesus from Johns pen...
Evidence That You May Have Left Your First Love
Spending time in prayer is a burden/duty rather than a delight.
Your worship is formal, dry, lifeless, merely going through the motions.
You are more concerned about physical health, well-being, and comfort than about the well-being and condition of your soul.
Your heart toward Christ is cold and indifferent; not tender as it once was, not easily moved by the Word, talk of spiritual things, etc.
Christianity is more of a checklist than a relationship with Christ.
You measure spirituality (yours/others’) by performance rather than the condition of the heart.
Your obedience and service are motivated and fueled by expectations of others or a desire to impress others, more than by passion for Christ.
You find yourself becoming resentful over the hardships and demands of serving Christ and others.
You have a hard time coming up with something fresh to share in a testimony service at church or when someone asks, “What’s God been doing in your life?”
You are critical or harsh toward those who are doctrinally off-base or living in sin.
You enjoy secular songs, movies, and books more than songs or reading material that point you to Christ.
“Little” things that used to disturb your conscience, no longer do.
You are slow to respond to conviction over sin—or you ignore it altogether.
You rarely give sacrificially to the Lord’s work.
Accumulating and maintaining material “things” consumes more time and effort on your part than seeking after and cultivating spiritual riches.
You have broken relationships with other believers that you are unwilling or have not attempted to reconcile.
https://www.reviveourhearts.com/articles/40-evidences-left-your-first-love/
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
If we are honest it is easy to allow our walk with God to take a back seat to the business and entertainment of our daily life.
Recognize that we know alot about this great church in Ephesus.
John knows that they had a really good beginning.
This work in Ephesus was started approximately twenty years after Jesus ascended when:
Paul knew the culture that surrounded this church and predicts there to be trouble in this church at Ephesus.
About 10-14 years latter (AD.
60-64) Paul writes a letter to this church in Ephesus.
John knew that they currently had some good things going for them.
thy works
thy labour
thy patience (endurance to hardship)
can’t bear evil in the church
won’t put up with false teachers
they suffered for Jesus
they kept going in spite of the suffering
1. Church’s can have their act together and still be missing the most important thing.
This church was centered on laboring and ministering together.
(v2) They hadn't forgotten how important it was to be involved in the work of the Lord.
They had the attitude that no Christian is saved to sit on the sideline.
There are plenty of churches that have people sitting on the sidelines and all they want to do is focus on the Word of God.
They don’t want to distract themselves with the things of ministry and miss out on all the good teacing.
Here’s the problem with that kind of thinking.
It doesn’t please God.
We are created unto good works.
He that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it is sin...
However it is possible to have all the ministries in the right place and miss the main thing.
This church had remained true to truth.
They understood that life and death don't run in the same crowd.
They knew that light and dark have no fellowship.
Be thankful that we have the truth today.
This world is starving for truth and we can see it in the overwhelming desire for anything that calls itself knowledge.
Here me we are at that place where the culture doesn’t want truth they want information.
In fact if you have guts to be dogmatic that you have the truth the world will push you away.
but if you are willing to throw your idea in the worlds and mix it around with the foolishness they bring then they will hear you out.
This is why the most popular preachers today can fill stadiums but can’t answer how the Bible views homosexuality or marriage.
Count yourself blessed to hold this precious old book in your hand.
Its true from beginning to end.
It's a solid foundation where I firmly stand,
Sin kept me from it; now it keeps me from sin.
One thing I've found to be true:
If you find when you read it that there's something wrong,
Then there's something wrong with you.
They endured hardships (v3).
This passage is the idea that they were continuing even when they didn’t understand.
Jesus wasn’t explaining everything to them.
Paul didn’t explaining everything to them but they continued.
We have been there haven’t we?
We have said look at what God has done.
God I will never go back I will never allow this to be taken from me.
I have, I have said God you gave me what I have prayed for you have given victory, supply, money, restoration; you have put me back on my feet and I will never go back.
You have felt the sinking feeling of waking up to see you did go back.
You did let yourself slide.
Jesus extends to grace to correct course:
He asks them to Remember - Many of the Christians problems rest in the fact that we forget far to easy.
This is why we must give thanks to the Lord for giving us his word.
He commands them to Repent - This tells us a little about how Jesus sees this condition.
It is sin.
- it needs to be repented of.
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