What Happened

Revelation 2:5 "Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen,and repent,and do the first works; or else I will Come unto thee quickly,and will remove thy candlestick out of his place,except thou repent."

Remember when you first came to Christ?Remember how you couldn't wait to tell others the good news.Remember how you were the first to service and the last to leave,always wanting and willing to help out where ever you could.Remember how diligently you studied for Sunday School and bible study ,looking forward to hearing and sharing with others in a urgent need to know more and to do more? Well what happened?

Many have fallen off because they refuse to let go of some ways,habits,people and things of the old man to fully grab hold of the Lord.Many refuse to destroy all of the old man not realizing that a little leaven, leavens the whole loaf.When God sent Isreal into a strange land,His instructions to them was to destroy everything,don't spare anything.See if we don't destroy everything in our life that causes us to rebell against God, that little bit will eventually cause us to leave our first love.We must come all the way out of sodom,not just to the plains which is too close to sodom,but get to the mountains which is closer to the Lord.Yes it is harder and more work to get to the mountains, but staying in the plains puts us to close to sin and makes our return to sin much eaiser.

Until we truly repent, meaning destroying that which is ungodly in our lives, we are unable to enjoy all that God has for us.He said to remember from where we have fallen.Let us go back to the day of our salvation when all that mattered was Christ and Him crucified.Let us do the first work of reaching the lost.Remember when saving souls was more important than the collection plate.When the work we did was more important than the title or positions we held.When being called a servant was more than enough.Remember when we were truly on fire for the Lord?Well what happened...