Comment: NEVERTHELESS!
I have this against you, that you have left your FIRST LOVE. Remember
therefore from where you have fallen; REPENT AND DO the first works, or
else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place –
unless you REPENT. The present-day church in many nations, and who were
one time gospel centers for the world are now in need that someone should once
again speak the words of the Gospel to them. We are living in an age
“worldwide” that reveals the truths of 2 Timothy 4:3-4.
Devotional: Not every church member knows the love of God,
nor is every church member a child of the love of God. But for those of us who
are saved by the LOVE of God, through the sacrifice of God’s Lamb (His Son
Jesus), I ask! Do we know and understand that the Christ/Messiah knows the
works of His church on earth, including every individuals’ response to God by
personal faith? Failing to know this does not relieve us of the responsibility
to preach the gospel of God.
In Revelation 2:1 through Revelation 3:1-22,
Jesus reveals conditions that either bless or condemn the activities of the
church. As each church receives this evaluation, (there are seven) He gives a
warning to repent and an invitation to HEAR what the Spirit of God has said. From
our position on earth the church things we participate in, do not seem to be so
bad. But, from Messiah’s view we are not where we ought to be!
There is an interesting section of scripture in
Isaiah, when He was called by God to be a prophet to Israel. Isaiah 6:1-13,
especially from verses 8 through 13. This same LORD who knew the condition of
God’s chosen people at the time Isaiah was called to preach to Israel, also
knows the condition of His CHURCH. Isaiah 6:9-10 are like the words spoken by
the apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 4. Israel in her journey as God’s Chosen and we
the Church in our journey as God’s Bride have failed God’s love because we have
willing worshipped the gods of this world, we have fallen away from God’s love
and committed adultery with false religions, even mixing these adulterous acts
within our churches, we have wiped our mouths and claimed that we are doing,
nothing wrong.
I say: How long LORD, shall we endure the
failure of our churches today, we are liberal with our doctrines, in fact some
churches do not have a doctrine. Some churches worship the god of celebration,
some the god of ritual and some the god of self-indulgence. God answers Isaiah
by saying in Isaiah 6:11-13 – Until the cities are laid waste… until only the
stump of the terebinth tree remains. So, the holy seed shall be its stump.
Are you of the stump? Whom shall be God’s
remnant be? Whom will He teach knowledge? And whom will He make to understand
the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breast? Isaiah
28:9-13 is not for the weak-minded child of God, but for those heavy burdened
with drought, who fail to abide in His Word. To understand this you must read,
Isaiah 28:1-10. God teaches “Precept upon precept. Line upon line, line upon
line. Here a little, there a little.” While some may believe that these verses
are directed at teaching through an entire book in the Bible at a time, I would
disagree. It does however mean that what is taught is to be taught because
there is a spiritual draught in our day just as it was in Israel’s day.
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