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Power of CHRIST daily 28-11-15 My First Love 2

Revelation 2:1-5 New King James Version (NKJV)

2 “To the angel of the church of Ephesus write,

‘These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:

2 “I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil.
And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;

3 and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary.

4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

5 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.

John 6:28-29 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

28 Then they said to him, “What must we do to perform the works of God?”
29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent

John 6:28-29 Amplified Bible (AMP)

28 Then they asked Him, “What are we to do, so that we may habitually be doing the works of God?”
29 Jesus answered, “This is the work of God: that you believe [adhere to, trust in, rely on, and have faith] in the One whom He has sent.”

Revelation 2:1-5 Amplified Bible (AMP)

Message to Ephesus

2 “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):

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] are not, and have found them to be liars and impostors;

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].

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].

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 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; =====================================================================================

James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 6

But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says,

“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”

2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)

5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith
and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves

Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience]
that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?

Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)

3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.

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Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”
27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”

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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 28-11-2015 My first love, part two My first love, part two. Brothers and sisters, before we start on the daily, we remind ourselves some of the things that we
might have forgotten. First of all, mark 1617.

00:24 These signs will accompany those who believe. Those who believe in Jesus Christ, that he died on the cross and rose again and gave you his precious blood and washed your sins away and you want to follow him. He is your Lord and master now and he is
your husband of your soul.

00:42 By using his name they will cast out demons in the name of Jesus Christ. Will cast out demons? What demons? First of all, cast out fear, confusion, everything from us. Because this is a wonderful way, a powerful way to live our life.

00:56 This is why Jesus had to die on the cross to do this for us. So that we can live this life in power, not in some form of godliness. That’s what the scripture says.

01:07 In some form of godliness without the power thereof. Many live like this. Some form of godliness without the power.

01:16 The power here is from Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ will cast out a fear and any other temptation. Temptation.

01:24 Last we command the name of Jesus Christ. Command our heart not to follow the things of the world. Not to follow the temptation.

01:31 Not to cast out the spirit of anger and cast out the spirit of unforgiveness. In the name of Jesus Christ. We must remember these brothers and sisters.

01:40 And we have to do whenever some of the spirit attacking we have to do. And that you can only do when we examine ourselves. That is why we have to examine ourselves.

01:50 We have to. There’s no other way. Examination is part of us.

01:53 We do not. We need to examine ourselves daily, particularly in the bed before we go to sleep. And then we have Kalish.

02:00 And then we have another scripture which says, anybody with grace. God gives more grace to the humble. God gives us grace to the humble.

02:09 That is, in James 4:6, God gives grace to the humble, but he opposes the proud. Apostles are proud. And then in James 1:22 it said, Be doer of the word, not just hearers deceiving ourselves.

02:23 Do not, it says, be doers of the Word and not hearers only deceiving yourselves. If I do not do what the word of God tells me, I just hear, hear, hear, hear, hear. God’s word says, I am deceiving myself.

02:39 And the examination is in 2 Corinthians 13:5. Examine and test and evaluate your own selves and whether we are counterfeit Faith or whatever, whether we are counterfeit, whether we are false Christians. Then in Galatians 6:3 it says, if anyone
thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

03:02 Therefore let us humble ourselves. We are all nothing. Brothers and sisters, from dust we came, unto dust we shall return only by the mercy of Jesus Christ our Lord.

03:12 Souls will go back to Him. Our Spirit will be with him. Now, in First Corinthians 8:2, those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.

03:24 That’s a simplified version. That’s easy. Easy to read version.

03:28 Those who know something, they do not know anything as they ought to know as yet. So now we may understand that whatever thing we know, that I keep applying to that myself daily, for a long time now, for years, why, there’s a danger in me that
suddenly my heart will think I know. This is a very big danger.

03:48 Suddenly the heart will think I know and I forget to control my heart. Then the thing will act funny. Then everything is going to go haywire and I’m giving the devil a big foothold for him to come and steal, kill and destroy.

04:01 And of course, love your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. And love your neighbour as you love yourself, love your neighbor as yourself, and do this and you will live. Meaning if we do not love our neighbor as ourselves, we may be
loving God.

04:15 And we do not love your neighbor as yourself means we are really not loving God. So if you love your neighbor as yourself and you will live. And of course for us, even love your enemies.

04:26 If we want to be sons of the Most High God. And we can do how in the name of Jesus Christ, we can cast out, we can command our heart and mind to do this. Now today, brothers and sisters, we are back to this, my first love, because it’s a very
wonderful topic.

04:43 Now, having said that, a wonderful topic, let’s look at the verse again, what God taught us yesterday. First, first love is the love we have for Christ. The love we have for Christ.

05:01 First must come Christ Jesus the Christ. Why? He is God, Father. God is God, the Holy Spirit, God.

05:08 Three of them are one. And this is a mystery. But the mystery or not, we can easily look at it in many, many different ways.

05:16 Like water. Water can be vapor. Water can be ice, Water can be liquid.

05:22 Now they have even found different forms of water. Scientists, you know. Now having said that, we can also look at this way to understand deeply.

05:30 The word of God was with God and in God, in Father God. When our Father God spoke The Word was the one. That is the one.

05:39 Jesus Christ is the word of God was, is and ever will be. Everything was created by Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through the Word, for the Word, by the Word, and then the Spirit of God. Of course, the Holy Spirit is in
Father God.

05:54 Now the Holy Spirit also is God, because it is in. Because he, the Holy Spirit is in Father God. The Word of God, Jesus Christ is in Father God.

06:03 Now what happened? Jesus Christ had to come out. The word of God had to come out and took the form of a man so that can suffer as a man and pay the sacrifice for all mankind. Whoever want to believe in him will have freedom, be set free from the
captivity of the devil.

06:19 Now thank Jesus Christ for his love that took him to suffer like that. Now, here, Revelation 2:1 5. The Word of God was saying, right, I know your works, your labour, your patience, and you cannot bear those who are evil.

06:37 You have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and found them liars. And you have persevered and have patience and have laboured for my name’s sake. Have not become weary and have not become weary.

06:50 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.

07:00 Or else I’ll come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place unless you repent. Now, quite clearly, the critical word for us is this. Remember therefore, where you have fallen from is of course repent and do the first works.

07:14 That means once we have left the first love, we have to get back. To have Jesus Christ as our first love, all we have to do is repent. That means repent is what? Turn away.

07:28 Turn away from our old selves. And I’m looking for the. I’m looking for.

07:41 I will remove repent from its place unless you repent. Now. The repent is actually turning away.

07:48 Not just saying, I will turn away and all that, but actually turning away and making sure that now we do the right thing. To do the right thing. Very simple.

07:57 How to do the right thing? We are supposed to do the right thing. How? Because he said what? Very simply, he said, repent and do the first works. And what’s the work of God? We have proven in 1 John 6:28, 29.

08:12 The work of God is believing in the One whom He sent. And the work of God believing in the One whom He sent means believing in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom Father God sent, the God Almighty sent. Therefore it is easy.

08:25 It is Easy to go back to our first love. When we understand this, that we believe in the one whom he sent, we begin to put our faith, everything in Jesus Christ and not be drawn away as the heart and mind will tell us. Our training will tell us to
put our faith in what the world says.

08:40 Now let’s look some examples. Now let us say there is a job you have and then the boss or somebody, they’re having difficulties maybe in the job, the boss or somebody saying, look here, I want you to fill up these forms for the bank and I want you
to fill up with these numbers and all that which of course you know, may be fraudulent. They’re trying to put another face to the bank, trying to tell you to tell things which are not true.

09:09 Now you are the person who is supposed to fill up these forms and sign these forms even, but you know it’s wrong because you are a follower of Jesus Christ. Now this is where the first love comes. Do you love your job so much? Do you fear that you
lose your job? Love your job so much can also be fear of loss of job, you know.

09:23 Do you fear that you lose your job? All kind of fear takes place that you said, okay, Jesus Christ will understand that. I’ll just lie here for the boss, because I’m supposed to. Now we can also take scripture out of context.

09:42 One scripture says, serve your master’s well. So the devil will tell you. Your mind will tell you.

09:47 Serve my master well. So I will just fill up this form as the master says. I’m supposed to serve the master well.

09:52 Lord Jesus Christ, it is your word which says I must serve my master well. So I will fill up this fraudulent thing. No, you put your trust in Jesus Christ.

10:01 Believe in the one whom he sent. He said, all liars will burn in the lake of fire. He didn’t say, those who call themselves Christians and lie won’t burn in the lake of fire.

10:11 All liars. If you’re practicing sin, if you fell into sin now remember this, if you fell into sin, immediately there will be conviction because the Holy Spirit will convict you. You are wrong.

10:21 And all you straightaway start, sorry, Lord, Sorry Lord, and begin to rectify and settle things. But if you are practicing sin, that was Jesus very clear in John. Those who are practicing sin, they are born of the devil.

10:35 That means they don’t have this born of the Spirit yet. They do not have the first love of Jesus Christ yet. They do not.

10:43 I was practicing sin, so I am not condemning anybody here. I was practicing sin, and although I was Supposed to be some kind of Christian, which really never bothered. I was practicing sin.

10:54 And the more I was practicing sin, the more religious my wife was becoming. She’ll do all the religious activities, novenas and what have you. So when we have this situation, if you are practicing sin, brothers and sisters, today is the day to turn
and call on Jesus Christ and say, lord Jesus, I don’t want to sin anymore.

11:14 I want to be pleasing to your sight. You want to be pleasing to your sight. So therefore, and you want to be born of the Spirit.

11:22 I’ve dealt with another segment. What is being born of the Spirit? Because born of the spirit is born again. If you’re not born of the Spirit, you’re still born of the flesh.

11:30 You won’t be able to overcome these temptations. So I understand the problem you’re facing. So you have to be born of the Spirit means now you have some awe and reverence for Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

11:42 And you begin to crave for the Word of God and begin to meditate on the Word of God. And you begin to overcome your overcomers. Jesus Christ is looking for overcomers and he has given us his blood.

11:54 We can say, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus. You don’t know any prayer also brother or sister. You just say, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus.

12:05 The temptation will move away from you. The fear will move away from you. You will then be able to stand boldly and say, sorry, sir, I cannot do this because I made an o oath.

12:14 I got taken an oath with Jesus Christ that I will not do any wrong. I’m not saying anything to you, sir, but please, I made an oath. If I do this, I’m breaking the oath and I will suffer.

12:27 So you have to make a stand. But you can make a stand in the power of Jesus Christ by the blood of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ.

12:34 You can make a stand because you want to do the work of God. And the work of God is your first work is what? Believing in the One Whom he sent. And that action when you do, you have come back to your first love.

12:49 Because you are believing Jesus Christ will take care of you. Whether the job is God or not God or God or whatever. Jesus Christ is a provider.

12:59 He will take care of you. You’ll begin to go and look for scriptures seeking the kingdom of God and righteousness first. And all these things will be added.

13:06 And you begin to work on that and begin to cast out the fear and stand for truth because you are a child of God. Likewise, same thing whenever we face other things. You stand for what is right.

13:20 Let us say there is a drunken husband. Remember I was drunken. Of course.

13:26 I didn’t take money from my wife because I was blessed. I spoke about the devil’s blessing. The devil was blessing me.

13:32 I didn’t know I was just taking the blessing and using the money for wrong things. The drunken husband taking money from a wife, a Christian wife follower, or the drunken son or daughter having habits, taking gambling or whatever. Then you keep
giving the money as a child of God because you’re afraid what they will do.

13:55 Some people say, keep the peace, keep the peace. That’s false. Peace.

13:59 Keep the peace, keep the peace. And you begin to give the children what they want. And all because you don’t want to get into all this problems.

14:05 So what happens, that is you have fallen from your first love. Because first love says you not support sin. You will hate everything that’s evil.

14:15 You don’t hate them, you love them. Love your husband, love your children and all that. But you cannot support the evil they are doing, so you cannot give.

14:23 My husband may bang me up. That is when the first love, your faith in Christ has to come. You are standing for Christ and standing for righteousness.

14:32 Yes, it is tough. It is. It is hard.

14:34 But this is when your faith will be tested. When you begin to hold on to Jesus Christ and say, lord, you are my first love. I just believe in you, that somehow or other you settle me, you take care of me.

14:46 Whatever it is, Lord, even if they hammer me, I take it because I do not want to sin against you. I do not want to cause sin to these people and feed their sin and damage them and cause them into damnation. You don’t want.

14:58 So you are making a stand. It’s not easy, brothers and sisters. I know that there are things I had to stand after coming to Christ.

15:05 It was not easy being drawn to the world. Drawn to the world when we have not enough money. We are drawn to the world to do some things in the world.

15:13 No. But the mercy of God helped me. So I didn’t go back and do the world work because I thought, okay, then somebody offering me general manager’s post again.

15:23 I can go back and all the income will come again. But then Jesus said, you go back there, you’ll fall into all these sins again what you were doing earlier. And I have called you into being a pastor.

15:34 I will provide for you. Then I hang on to Jesus Christ. I didn’t go and take that job like before.

15:40 And then somehow, rather, Jesus sees us through. And that is when we rejoice and say it’s a miracle how Jesus has seen us through month by month and has finally provided us more than enough. And it’s given us peace and righteousness and joy and
relationship, a loving family and a family in Christ that surrounds me.

16:00 That family in Christ is the church that I’m pastoring for Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters, we must stand for the first love. It’s not easy, but you stand in faith and go back to his word, his promises and hold on, hold on.

16:15 Hold on, brother. Hold on, sister. In the name of Jesus Christ, your faith is Jesus Christ.

16:21 Your faith, your. Your hope is in Jesus Christ. Your works, that is, believing in the One Whom he sent.

16:29 Believing in Jesus Christ’s commands and the provisions and the offers and the promises. Believing in His Word. Believing in His Word.

16:37 Read the Word, meditate the Word, and you see miracles happen. And then people say, boy, this man fantastic. This woman says, jesus Christ, brother.

16:46 Jesus Christ, sister. It’s not me. In Jesus name I pray.

16:50 Amen, brothers and sisters, Amen.

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Scriptures Referenced

Revelation 2:1-5 New King James Version (NKJV)

2 “To the angel of the church of Ephesus write,

‘These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:

2 “I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil.
And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;

3 and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary.

4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

5 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.

John 6:28-29 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

28 Then they said to him, “What must we do to perform the works of God?”
29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent

John 6:28-29 Amplified Bible (AMP)

28 Then they asked Him, “What are we to do, so that we may habitually be doing the works of God?”
29 Jesus answered, “This is the work of God: that you believe [adhere to, trust in, rely on, and have faith] in the One whom He has sent.”

Revelation 2:1-5 Amplified Bible (AMP)

Message to Ephesus

2 “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):

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] are not, and have found them to be liars and impostors;

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].

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].

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 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; =====================================================================================

James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says,
“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”

2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)

5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith
and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves

Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience]
that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?

Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)

3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.

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Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”
27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”

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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 27th November 2015 titled My First Love. My First Love. Brothers and sisters, as I keep telling our today has been determined from how we went to sleep last night
before we went to sleep.

00:20 It determines what was going to happen today, why, how we have cleaned ourselves out of spiritual. All the bad demons and negative forces and evil spirits and deposits they put into us our thoughts, our toxic thoughts, our toxic feelings and all
that bad feelings against people or even upset somebody has upset you. We cannot go to sleep like that.

00:42 We have to go to sleep in the peace of Christ to clear everything out. It’s a wonderful thing Jesus Christ has done for us. He had to suffer like that, die on the cross, rose again and then he loves us to say, I give you power.

00:59 He has to do all that to give us power to use his name. Can you imagine? He gives us power to use his name and call on his blood and we can live a life well. Although there will be trouble all over the world here around us, the families this and
that.

01:15 But we will have righteousness, peace and joy when we seek the kingdom of God, which is righteousness, peace and joy. Brothers and sisters, I keep reminding this because it’s critical. Before sleeping, talk to your heart, commune to your heart,
meditate on the issues, cast out every rubbish that we’ve collected or whatever and then receive love, love of God and to love for others, release love.

01:38 Think of these people who did something to you and you’re upset or whatever. Forgive them in the name of Jesus Christ. Your heart doesn’t want to forgive, that’s okay.

01:48 You command the fellow to forgive, command the heart and mind to forgive in the name of Jesus Christ. And then we go to sleep having love for everyone, having love for God and having love for others. In Jesus name I pray.

01:53 And then we sleep the sweet sleep of the righteous. Get up in the morning and those who are older or whatever, not well, whatever you are having, this thought will come. Cast it out.

02:11 Have faith in Christ. Now. When we trust Jesus means we surrender to him.

02:16 Means we refuse to think of those things. But we meditate on the things that we need to do even for those issues. Brothers, research.

02:24 Today the title is My First Love. Now the word Hollywood, Bollywood. As we do not know if Madras is from Chennai, Bollywood is from Delhi, from North India, Collywood is South India and Hollywood of course, everybody knows San Francisco, Los Angeles
and all that.

02:51 Brothers and sisters, the world will make us only love things and make us Believe that we can only love what we see. And that causes a lot of problems. Because you see the first love.

03:06 Yes, those of us who have had our first love, we would have experienced and the world will tell us to feel things, go by sight, go by hearing. What is our first love? It can be a thing, but it can also be people. But mostly it is people.

03:22 Person. A person. If you have that person as a first love, trouble comes.

03:27 Why? The human being, however much the person loves you, will fail in areas. In some areas, because he is a human being, he or she is a human being. He or she has faces and all kinds of problems that you face, you and I face.

03:45 And when they face, and if they don’t have Christ, they will end up not being able to respond in the way you expect, the way you expect. Because your heart and mind would have expected certain things. And then suddenly you’re disappointed, you are
hurt and all that.

04:00 And plus, we cannot allow ourselves also to be first love for somebody. Even in a husband and wife case, you cannot allow your husband to be the first love for you and the wife to be a first love for the husband. And we cannot allow ourselves to be
considered first love by our wife or by our husband.

04:18 Because human love is fraught, is full of dangers, full of difficulties, and full of unsettling unexpectations or expectations cannot be fulfilled. And all this. So therefore God has a word for this.

04:37 Lord Jesus Christ clearly said, love God with all your heart. What’s the highest command? The first commandment is love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. Love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.

04:48 That’s the first command. So now we read the Book of Revelation, chapter 2, verses 1 to 5, and you will see what God, Jesus Christ is saying to us. Is the word of God, what is he representing here? And we are titled it.

05:04 27th of November 2015. My first love. Revelation 2:1.

05:09 Onward 1:5 to the angel of the church of Ephesus, write, this is the Lord God has ordered the angel of the church of Ephesus to write. But this applies to all of us. These things says he who holds the seven stars in his hand, in his right hand, who
walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands.

05:22 These things says he who, Jesus Christ, who holds the seven stars in his right hand. Each star representing a type of church, a kind of church. So we are not discussing those things in detail today.

05:50 In his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lancet, there are seven types of churches. Two I know your works. He’s talking to this Ephesus church and he says I know your work.

06:05 Jesus Christ telling I know your works, your labor, your patience. This wonderful isn’t it? He knows our works, our labor, my patience. He knows and that you cannot bear those who are evil and I cannot bear those who are evil.

06:18 People doing evil things to people around we cannot bear, we don’t like it. We want people to do the right thing. We want to do ourselves the right thing first.

06:26 And we cannot bear people doing the wrong things. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not and have found them liars. You see there are a lot of self appointed apostles running around.

06:38 Some association appoints them apostles and running around. And God says Jesus Christ says here you have tested them and found them to be liars. 3 and you have persevered and have patience and and have labored for my name’s sake and have not become
weary.

06:55 Is he persevered? I suppose I pray I persevered and with patience and labored for his name’s sake. And I’ve not become weary. I hope I’ve not labored for my own case, my own agenda, but for Jesus name sake and have not become weary.

07:14 For nevertheless I have this against you. Can you imagine Jesus saying you have done all this? That I have done all this? Your works, your labor, your patience. He knows all this.

07:23 I have tested apostles and found them to be liars, those who call themselves apostles. And I have persevered and have patience and have labored for his name’s sake and have not become weary. Nevertheless I have this against you.

07:37 So I have to ask myself what Jesus says next. Is this applying to me? I must examine deeply to make sure that I’m not simply superficially examining. I must examine it.

07:47 Nevertheless I have this against you that you have left your first love. You left your first love. Now this you have to examine brothers and sisters, you might have worked all the works and labor your patience.

07:59 And you tested the so called apostles and found them to be liars. And you stayed away and you do not want to be part of any evil. And then you persevered and have patience and have labored for his namesake and have not become weary.

08:14 Yet Jesus Christ says with all this we’ve done, nevertheless I have this against you that you have left your first love. Your first love must be who? Jesus Christ of Nazareth. That’s our first love.

08:28 Now can you imagine you have not left your first love. The question I have when I First read this years ago was how have I Have I left My first love, that is Jesus Christ? Have you left your first love, that is Jesus Christ,? Have I left my first
love, that is Jesus Christ’? Not all the worldly songs are not my first love. There’s songs and all that.

08:49 There’s only you in my life. That’s right. Yes.

08:53 But the person is putting his faith in a person. Jesus already said, do not put your faith in a person. We trust them, but we know they are limited as human beings.

09:03 So we can’t put our faith in them. Our faith has to be in Jesus Christ, who is unlimited. Now.

09:09 Have I. This is a question each of us have to ask today. Have you left your first love? While we are doing all this work for God, we think and then labor. We are patient.

09:19 He says, I recognize that. I know you are doing this. Jesus says, and you are also testing apostles.

09:25 Remember I talked about these false apostles and all that. We have tested them, found them to be liars. And we have persevered.

09:32 Yes, I persevered and have patience. I’ve labored for his name’s sake. Yes.

09:36 Have not become weary. Yes, I get up by his grace and mercy every morning and every day throughout the day and night. I minister or whatever people need.

09:44 I start doing this. And now, yes, but nevertheless, nevertheless, he’s talking to me. Jesus Christ talking to me.

09:51 I have this against you that you have left your first love. So I have to examine this. I have to.

09:56 Have I left my first love? How to know? How to know whether we left our first love? Jesus says, love your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. But how to know that whether I have left my first love? And I’m telling you, this has
happened to me over the years, off and on. God will remind me, I’ve left this.

10:09 I have left this. I’ve left my first love. He remind me and I immediately come back on track.

10:22 Why? I know when the spirit of God convicts me in my spirit that I’ve left the first love. I immediately stop everything and begin to come back to him, to do the right thing that he wants. But how will I know what is the test? And this is the test.

10:35 You need to know. This is extremely important. You learn this.

10:38 You’re keeping track. Your first love is Jesus Christ and you have not left him. Because when your heart and mind takes you away from your first love, you bring it back in the name of Jesus Christ.

10:50 He must be a first love. Not the pastor, not the priest, not the husband, not your wife. Not your children, not this, not relatives, not the things of the world, not your job, not your.

11:00 But the first love is Jesus Christ. What is the first love and how to know what is love? Birth. We know that Jesus Christ.

11:07 But how to know whether we are actually living our first love or not? Now we will go to 5, verse 5. This is Revelation 2. 5.

11:18 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.

11:31 Remember, always a question of repentance. It’s an issue of repentance. Whenever we do wrong, we have to repent, not just say sorry.

11:38 Repentance is more than that turning away. I’ll come to that a little later. So we have to repent now.

11:43 Here’s what Jesus is saying. Remember from where you have fallen. So when I am living my first love, where my heart and mind has left my first love, that is Jesus Christ.

11:52 In the last 20 years I am serving, there are several times during the period God has reminded me and I felt it or I felt it, sensed it, that hey, I am not keeping Jesus Christ number one. There are other things encroaching into my life. There are
other things encroaching into my mind and soul.

12:04 There are other things. Encroaching means we moving inside there and taking whole step by step. They come slowly.

12:17 Remember, the worldly issue will come slowly step by step. You won’t sense it, you may not realize it, but this scripture will keep us in check because we have to check. Have I left my first love, therefore where you have fallen? Remember, he says
repent and do the first works.

12:31 Or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place unless you repent. Lancet means the church will have powerless like it removes the power from the church. And there’s really no church that you.

12:45 You. You are not part of the church. You are not part of it.

12:48 We are all part of the church. We are part of the body of Christ. So remember lamps.

12:53 I mean, we are not attached to this thing that there is no, there’s no hold nothing to hold on to that we are part of Jesus Christ. So he said, remove the power. He removes everything attached to it.

13:03 So believing that thing shouldn’t happen, brothers and sisters, shouldn’t happen if we examine ourselves and repent and do the first works. Now this is the key. Repent and do the first works.

13:15 But what is the first works? The first works is what in John 6, 28 and 29. When they said to him, I’m reading from the Catholic version. Earlier I was reading from the new King James version.

13:27 Here I’m reading from the Catholic version. Then they said to him, John 6:28. Then they said to him, what must we do to perform the works of God? 29 Jesus answered them, this is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.

13:44 That you believe in him whom he has sent. Now, this is the first work. This is the work of God, right? By knowing this, we will know that whether we are having the first love or not.

13:55 Now, repentance, exchange yourself, inner self, your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior, and seek God’s will. Repentance actually is removing our old way of thinking, our sinful behavior and seeking God’s will. And do the works you did at
first means when you first knew me.

14:13 He says, amplified, says the first work that you do means do the works when you did at first. First when you knew me. When I first knew Christ, what was I doing? How was my heart? And then he said, he’ll remove all this unless we repent.

14:28 Now, remove the lampstand means the church. He’ll remove the church. I mean, the church is not powerless.

14:33 It’s not part of him, that particular group of people or whatever. Yeah. So now here, brothers and sisters, the requirement here is very simple.

14:42 We must know what are first love. But to know where your first love means we must be doing the first works. That’s key.

14:49 5. Repent and do the first works. When we’re doing the first works, then we know we have our first love.

14:55 This key again. We know we are still, we have the first love in our heart and mind. When we do the first works, what is the work of God? Believing in the One whom He sent.

15:05 Everything we do, we must believe in Him. We suddenly, suddenly begin to believe what the world says, what the history book says, what the economic says, what the treasury says, what the people of the world say and what the doctors say, what the
lawyers say. We believe that.

15:23 What science says. We believe that, then we are not believing Jesus Christ. What’s the work of God? Believing in Jesus Christ, believing in the one whom he sent.

15:32 That’s how we know whether we left the first love or not. Because we begin to believe the world and we begin to believe the signs. We begin to believe the hospitals and the doctors above Jesus Christ.

15:45 That’s why bring everything under the subjection of God, every thought. Believing doctors, believing lawyers, believing engineers, believing the economist, believing the accountants. Believing the Auditors, believing this above the word of God,
above Jesus Christ.

15:59 Then you have lost your first love. You’ve moved away from your first love. You do not have your first love.

16:04 You first believe in Jesus Christ. That’s the work of God. By what we do when we come back to the first.

16:10 Repent from where you’ve fallen. Remember where you’ve fallen from. Repent and do the first works.

16:14 Then you have the first love. First work is what? Believing in the One Whom he sent. So we keep on believing Jesus Christ.

16:22 First go to His Word. What he says is important. Seek His Word.

16:26 When you begin to seek His Word and apply in your own life on the issues that you’re facing, then you are having the first love. But if we do not lean on His Word, you’re not leaning on Jesus Christ. Then you’re away from your first love.

16:41 Then we have trouble. Then we have trouble. Brother.

16:43 It’s very simple. How to know when you’re fallen from where you’re fallen. And not having your first love is when you’re not doing the first words, which is believing in the name of Jesus Christ and everything that in your life.

16:57 Amen.