The First

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Revelation 2 ESV

2 “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.

Revelation 2 ESV

3 I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.

Revelation 2 ESV

4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. 6 Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’

First Love.

First works.

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There is a natural drift in all people.

1. REMEMBER.

Remember how far you have fallen.

James 4

5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?

”REMEMBER”

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2 REPENT.

Revelation 2 ESV

5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. 6 Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’

There are CONSEQUENCES when we drift!

I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

He will remove

His presence,

His Spirit,

His favor,

His protection,

His provision

1 Remember

2 Repent

3 Remove.

Revelation 2 ESV

5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first.

James 4 ESV

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

It is our responsibility to put away both the unholy and the unhealthy.

Fighting with sin consumes most believers' lives.

John 14 ESV

15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

1. Remember

2. Repent

3. Remove

4. Return

Revelation 2 ESV

5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first.

“Do the works you did at first.”

REMEMBER

REPENT

REMOVE

RETURN

He wants us to return and do our first works.