November 9, 2008
Returning to Your First Love!
Mike Fritscher, pastor

Revelation 2:1-7

1.God Always Notices and Is Pleased with Your Work!

2. God Always Reveals the Believer's Lack!
“I have this against you! You have left Your First Love!”

Revelation 3:1-3 – You Have a Name that You Are Alive, But…

Revelation 3:14-19 – The Danger of Spiritual Contentment and Spiritual Pride!

Left your First Love?
1. Remember from where You Fell!
2. Repent!
3. Do the First Things!

What are the first things?

When You First Loved God!

•  Trusted, Honored, Respected!
•  You Desired His Presence, You Desired His Words!
•  Loved to hear from Him so you made time for Him! You prayed, you read scripture, you sought to apply it daily, You desired to make the appropriate changes!
•  You Repented, so that nothing came between the two of you!
•  When confronted with wrong, you humbled yourself! You admitted failure.
•  You were ready to obey! Ready to Love, letting go of selfishness!
•  You loved getting with God's people! You couldn't wait to fellowship!
•  He was the one and only!

Luke 14:16 But He said to him, " A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many; 17 and at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, 'Come; for everything is ready now.' 18 "But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, 'I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused.' 19 "Another one said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused.' 20 "Another one said, ' I have married a wife, and for that reason I cannot come.'

Ezekiel 16:8-15