going back to first love
Omar Soto(Audio: Spanish)
I titled my message today, returning to first love. I would like you to go with me to Revelation chapter 2, a passage that I know many of you are familiar with, I would like to read it just to refresh you. Revelation chapter 2, last book of the New Testament bible, this is the letter, there are seven letters that are written to seven churches between chapter 2 and chapter 3, and the first letter is addressed to the church that is in Ephesus. I am going to start in verse 2, it says like this from 2 to 5: "I know your works, and your hard work, your patience, that you cannot bear the wicked, and you have tried those who say they are apostles and they did not they are, and you have found them liars, and you have suffered, and you have been patient, and you have worked hard for my name's sake and you have not fainted. But I have against you that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works, because if not, I will come soon to you, I will remove your candlestick from its place, if you had not repented."
What an interesting letter. The letter continues but I am going to leave it there, the central idea of what I want to share with you today. How interesting that when we see what the letter is saying, obviously this is a message from Jesus that is being communicated by the apostle John, the leaders, the pastors who are in charge of these churches. If you say verse 1 says: "Write to the angel of the church of Ephesus." That is interpreted as each of the pastors and bishops who were in charge of each of those churches. The account according to the book of Acts says that the angel of the church of Ephesus was Timothy, because Timothy was the character that Paul left in charge of the church of Ephesus. So it can be said that this letter was addressed to Timothy and the rest of the leaders who were there in the church of Ephesus.