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Where Is the Love?

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Where Is the Love?

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In a world torn apart by conflict love still appears to be a constant in some ways and some places.  Yet, not all is well as it appears to be eroding away, diminishing in scope and strength. When it comes to the Church itself, where are we regarding that? Where is the love?

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A Partial list of Scriptures,

 

A young married couple can make us giggle with their giddiness.
In time, however, we often see the cooling of that initial love.

Rev 2:1  Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
Rev 2:2  I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Rev 2:3  And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Rev 2:4  Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Rev 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 from where you have fallen, that HIGH mountaintop of Love...
So, where is THE LOVE, like the love we had at first?? What causes the loss of first love in a marriage???

It begins with the little things and ends up with the BIG things.
“Very seldom does a man take one giant step from a life of virtue & goodness into a life of compromise. Usually, he begins his journey into evil by taking little steps into the shaded areas, areas tinted & colored just a bit, almost unnoticed by those around him. Until one day, hardly aware that he has made the journey, he finds himself firmly entangled in a life of vice & corruption.” – Sir Edmund Burke

"I have one thing against you, you left your FIRST LOVE" Gk. AGAPE.

Your heart is not in it anymore.
When you really LOVE someone it is a LIFETIME COMMITMENT toward the one love.

Romans 9 Paul willing to lose salvation for the sake of his people.
Rom 9:1  I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
Rom 9:2  That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Rom 9:3  For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Rom 9:4  Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Rom 9:5  Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

“Very seldom does a man take one giant step from a life of virtue & goodness into a life of compromise. Usually, he begins his journey into evil by taking little steps into the shaded areas, areas tinted & colored just a bit, almost unnoticed by those around him. Until one day, hardly aware that he has made the journey, he finds himself firmly entangled in a life of vice & corruption.” – Sir Edmund Burke

Exo 32:9  And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Exo 32:10  Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
Exo 32:11  And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
Exo 32:12  Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Exo 32:13  Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

What is FIRST LOVE? it is UNselfish love, real love that we do not throw away on a whim...

HOW DO WE find THAT LOVE again?
Rev 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.

USUALLY, when you lose something... it is WHERE YOU LEFT IT!!