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Dear Saints: “You Have Left Your First Love” My son lost his phone in the house. For more than a month now, we have searched everywhere in the house and still can’t find it. “Lost” and “left” are two different words. Left means you know exactly where you left something and can go back and find it. As we continue our study of the book of Revelation (please read chapters 2 and 3), you will hear Jesus use “left” not “lost”. Many of us think Jesus said, “You have lost your first love”. Let’s hear directly from Jesus as He speaks to the Ephesian church and to us: “To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, ‘These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:  2  “I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;  3  and you have persever...

Dear Saints:   How dare we think we can live the Christian life in our own strength and our will-power. Paul will say to the Galatians:   “ O foolish Galatians! Who has  bewitched  you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?  2  This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?  3  Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?”    “Bewitched”? Yes, that is exactly where we may be right now in the church. We are at place in our individual lives and collective church lives where we are often doing and living without the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit. We have the technology; we can make things happen instantly by pushing some buttons and we are going at a high speed and not paying attention to the voice of the Holy Spirit. Ou...

  Dear Saints:   “I know Your Works.” l thank God for the cameras. It’s now everywhere for good and for bad. There are the body cameras required for the police to wear; home surveillance cameras, cameras on every phone and etc. We don’t normally think and believe that we are being watched. Even the thieves believe and think that nobody is watching. But there have been cameras from day one of the world’s creation. We are continually under the watchful eyes of the Lord. Have you thought about that? We are continuing our study of the book of Revelation (please read entire chapters 2 and 3). Jesus now speaks to the seven churches - Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea. There are statements that are the same that Jesus gave to the seven churches. These are: "I know your works"; Commendations, Rebukes, "Repent"; "He who overcomes"; and "Hear what the Spirit says to the Churches". Keep in mind that these are not separat...

  Dear Saints: The COVID-19 pandemic has become a game changer and a reset button.  In July 2020, “ Barna president David Kinnaman indicated that as many as 20 percent of churches could close within the next 18 months.”  The reason being that we are now in the digital church age.   Barna Group is an organization that studies churches and church movements. The predicted rate of closure seem alarming but prior to COVID-19, churches were closing at an annual rate of 1% in the USA which is far better than most other institutions. Who owns churches? Do people own churches? Is it like McDonald restaurant where you buy a franchise? Some churches seem to be and they are the ones that will close. Jesus own churches and He is the Head of the Church (Ephesians 6). There are churches in different geography locations but there is only one Church. It’s not your denominational church but the Church of Jesus Christ. Jesus loved and died for His church therefore He paid the highest p...

  Dear Saints: I read a headline today. “Tiger Woods is lucky to be alive” according to first responders. I will never use the word “lucky”. God spared and saved Tiger Woods from a deadly accident. I pray we will all realize that including Tiger Woods; so that he and all will make peace with Jesus before all face the ultimate judgment.  Lord, we thank you for sparing Tiger Woods. Please heal and help Tiger and all people to know you for you have the “ keys of hades and death ” as we will discover in today’s study of Revelation. We will all see you Jesus for good or bad based on our believe and trust/faith in You and Your finished work on the cross. Amen.   What picture of Jesus do you have in your mind and head? Most of us go back to the image/impression of Jesus based on the accounts of Christ in the four Gospel books (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). I must confess that normally I do not think of Jesus as revealed to Apostle John in the book of Revelation (please read the...

  Dear Saints: Jesus is Coming Soon and You will See Him! Whether you believe, don’t believe or like or don’t like Jesus Christ, you will surely see Him. Guaranteed! This is the theme of the book of Revelation: “7  Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.  8  “I am the Alpha and the Omega,   the  Beginning and  the  End,”  says the  Lord,  “who is and who was and who is to come, the   Almighty.”  Revelation 1:7-8. We are continuing our study of the book of Revelation (please read the entire first chapter). Friends, we don’t have any choice or options in this matter. Every eye will see Jesus for good or for bad. Oh you may say, I don’t care. But we must care now or on that day which may be too late. The seal of heaven (the Almighty) has guaranteed Christ’s return. Why is Jesus coming? He is com...

  Dear Saints: Last week we learned that the Book of Revelation is all about Jesus and that’s why we have to study it. Today, as we begin our deeper dive, Jesus encounters us at the door to remind us of our covenant love relationship with Him. No relationship is worth anything if the parties don’t recognize their love and responsibilities to each other. Knowing Jesus Christ is a love relationship and not a Rule-lationship. Christ loves us too much to leave us the way we are. He is transforming us to His image. Hear Jesus speak to the seven churches and to us: “Blessed  is  he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time  is  near.” Revelation 1:3.   Jesus is saying, stop and let’s not play games. You will be blessed/happy if you do what I am saying to you and will say to you.  You can read and not hear. You can hear and not keep or put into actions what you heard. Right at the...