DEAD FLY #1

In my last blog I talked about “Dead Flies in the Ointment of GOD” so today I am continuing that, and I am going to name the first “Dead Fly”. That would be, “Lack of Love”.

Lack of “Love”, the church has left its first love

 1: Revelations 2:1-5 The church of Ephesus, “..they had left their “FIRST” LOVE (the LOVE of CHRIST).
 2: What is our example of the love JOHN is talking about? What will get us back to doing the “First Works”? What will get us back to our “First Love”? Listen to what the apostle Paul says to the believers in his letter to the church at Galatia.

Galatians 2:20  “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the SON of GOD, who loved me, and gave himself for me.   

Also, listen to what Paul wrote to those disciples in Corinth.

3: 2 Corinthians 5:14  (NKJV)“For the love of Christ compels us…” (the KJV interprets it as constraineth us); it is what motivates us, moves us forward, and pushes us on. “It was not the love of money that sent my wife and I to a small town in middle Tennessee named Sparta. It wasn’t the love of fame that sent me to the “Cove” in Cedar Grove Georgia. It is not the love of praise that causes me to, still after all of these years, stand and proclaim the GOSPEL of CHRIST, but it was and is the “LOVE OF CHRIST”! If you are “BORN AGAIN”, it wasn’t anything but the “LOVE OF CHRIST” that brought you here this day; it was the “NEED OF . CHRIST”! The Holy Spirit of GOD was given to each one us. It was given to each “BORN AGAIN” person to empower us to live as GOD wants us to live; to “go ye into all of the world and preach JESUS”. Jesus said, that “after the Holy Ghost comes upon you”, you will receive power. Now, that’s not worldly power or political power, but spiritual power to carry out the tasks, the jobs, the works that GOD has for us to accomplish. When we preach the WORD of GOD, the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD moves and touches the hearts and souls of men and women, boys and girls, and they must make a decision of what to do with that drawing of the HOLY SPIRIT. If the person has been saved and attempting to work for the LORD and follow the HOLY SPIRIT, they continue on, LOVING, PRAYING, FORGIVING, & WITNESSING, using their gifts to glorify CHRIST. If they are a “BORN AGAIN” person, but have let the cares of the world crowd into their hearts and impede the flow of the Holy Spirit in their lives, all they need to do is to fall prostrate before GOD and confess their sins to HIM and receive the forgiveness and cleansing that GOD has for them, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9). Then, continue on their journey to live and glorify CHRIST in their daily lives. If they have never received CHRIST as their savior, if they have never had that “BORN AGAIN” experience, it is time that they make a move and turn from the way they have been going and invite CHRIST into their heart and lives. Look to the example that GOD gave us through the conversation between JESUS and Nicodemus in the third chapter of John, and concentrating on the verses 14 and 15 where HE said “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

It is so imperative that the Church, GOD’s people, get back to their “FIRST LOVE” and do those “FIRST WORKS”. It is time that this “DEAD FLY”, the “LACK OF LOVE” be removed from the ointment of GOD, so the healing and strength can return and this broken world can find strength and power to overcome. This world needs to see the real church stand up and be the example that GOD meant for them to be. They need to see that there is hope in the future. The Bible says that if a man has hope only in this world, he is of all men most miserable.

“COME ON CHURCH STAND UP AND LET THE WORLD SEE WHAT YOU ARE REALLY MADE OF”