ALL - Heart
First Love
Revelations 2 AMP
1 “To the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Ephesus write: “These are the words of the One who holds [firmly] the seven stars [which are the angels or messengers of the seven churches] in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands (the seven churches):
Revelations 2 AMP
2 ‘I know your deeds and your toil, and your patient endurance, and that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and have tested and critically appraised those who call themselves apostles (special messengers, personally chosen representatives, of Christ), and [in fact] THEY are not, and have found them to be liars and impostors;
Revelations 2 AMP
3 and [I know that] you [who believe] are enduring patiently and are bearing up for My name’s sake, and that you have not grown weary [of being faithful to the truth].
Revelations 2 AMP
4 But I have this [charge] against you, that you have left your first love [you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me].
Revelations 2 AMP
5 So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will] and do the works you did at first [when you first knew Me]; otherwise, I will visit you and remove your lampstand (the church, its impact) from its place—unless you repent.
Mark 12 ESV
29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Mark 12 ESV
30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Mark 12 ESV
31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
1- I want God to be attracted to our hearts for Him.
1 Samuel 13 ESV
14 The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people,
The only reason my heart can fully belong to my spouse is because it fully belongs to God.
2- Does God have first place in your heart?
I KNOW your :
- Works
- Holiness
- Knowledge of my Word
- Faithfulness
You have “left” your First Love!!!!
Left = au-fee-a-me
To send away. A husband divorcing his wife. To let go. To disregard. To omit OR neglect. To leave or go away from.
3- What have we allowed to compete for first place?
Mark 4 ESV
18 And others(people) are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word,
Mark 4 ESV
19 but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
Mark 4:19 NIV
…making it unfruitful.
Enter in...
Greek word pronounced (Ice-pie-roo’-e-my)
to go into or be carried into or be put into like food into the mouth.
Is He our first love or Just a love?
4- Repent and return.
Revelations 2 AMP
4 But I have this [charge] against you, that you have left your first love [you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me].
Revelations 2 AMP
5 So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will] and do the works you did at first [when you first knew Me]; otherwise, I will visit you and remove your lampstand (the church, its impact) from its place—unless you repent.
Mark 4 NIV
21 He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand?
They can’t see our love for people unless it radiates from our love for Him.
Exodus 33 ESV
9 When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord would speak with Moses.
Exodus 33 ESV
10 And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at his tent door.
Exodus 33 ESV
11 Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
Pursue God
Jeremiah 29 ESV
10 “For thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.
Jeremiah 29 ESV
11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29 ESV
12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
Jeremiah 29 ESV
13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29 ESV
14 I will be found by you, declares the Lord,
Do you know God or do you just know about God?
Is He our first love or Just a love?
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