Revelation 2:4
THE COMPLAINT
Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love Revelation 2:4)
Though they maintained their doctrinal orthodoxy and continued to serve Christ; that service had degenerated and become mechanical orthodoxy. This could include love for God and Christ, love for each other, and love for the lost. They had sunk to the place where they were carrying out their Christian responsibility with diminishing love for their Lord and others (Ephesians 1:15; 3:17-19; 6:23; Jeremiah 2:13; Ezekiel 16:15). This loss of a love relationship with Christ opened the doors to spiritual apathy, indifference to others, and love for the world, compromise with evil, judgment, and eventually, the death of the Ephesian church.
A “first love” (or chief love,” or “best love”) is a sincere love – Henry M. Morris.
No comments:
Post a Comment