Why do we loose/leave our initial love for God? Simply because in the midtime we come to love something else more than God, whatever that might be. And people usually follow what their heart loves best, and if that is not God then it is somehting else And so they leave Him and the narrow path He wishes us to walk on.
In the parable of the Sower, the third case, Jesus describes a type of Christians, Luke 8:7, "And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it." and in Luke 8:14 He explains "And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection."
Why did those people bring no fruit? Because they left God and their life in Christ. Why? Because they loved some things more than God. They loved the pleasures of this life, the riches etc so they leave God and go forth for what they love more.
In Hebrews Paul raises our attention about something serious. Hebr 3:11-14,
"12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin 14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
Sin can harden our hearts in leaving God and follow a wordly sinful life. It can deceit us. Our heart becomes evil and unfaithful. Even the cares of this life can do that. For if we live to aquire more and more and to please ourselves all the time we end up with no time for God. The eternal life is our priority. All others come next. We will not take anything with us from this life up there. We will leave them all down here.
In the scriptures there are examples/warnings of people who failed because they followed what in the midtime their heart loved more than God. Judas is the most well known case.
When we hold the Holy Bible in our hands ( not a version) we hold the eternal Word between our fingers . How is that possible?
The Word is a seed .
When John spoke about the words and deeds of the Lord he said if everything that He said and did was written down the whole world would not be able to contain the books ."
Therefore not everything that Jesus said and did is contained in the gospel of John but he put enough he wrote that " we might know that He was the Christ "
The whole Bible though historically accurate does not contain a comp,eye history nor does it record everything . But it does contain everything that is needed to produce faith and come to know in some measure the God of the Bibke and to know His will and His way .
For a seed is not the tree but it has everything to reproduce the fruit . For a seed has this property it has rverything that is needed and nothing that is not needed to reproduce the fruit.
If yiu add to it or subtract from it you change it . Not that the Word of God can be changed but yiu will be changed for the worse .
You can get a mule by mixing a horse with a donkey but a mule has no life in it to reproduce itself . If then you want another mule you need another horse and donkey . If yiu mix truth with error you will get something but it has no life in it.
If you want people to be saved Salvation needs to be preached .
Deliverance and healing thst must be preached .
Holyness unto God that too must be preached . For the Bride of Christ to "get herself ready " Yiur must preach the nature character and disposition of the Bride .
Some will fall by the wayside . The well trodden path of our own thoughts.
Stone ground etc .
It does not just apply to our salvation .
In fact the gospel of God has been reduced to being only BORN again .
But that is but the ' S' of our Salvation.It is getting out of Egypt only .
Even as the birth of a child is but the beginning. Wonderful though that is
There is a world of difference between accidentally losing something and leaving it .
I would suggest (though I don't know )that it is some version of the Bible that has inserted leave instead of lost . Though it might well have been the natural trait of the flesh to weaken the truth to make it more palatable?
Leaving our first love is because somewhere we loved something more . Paul spoke of someone "loving this present rvil world " and is not written that to love the world " the love of the Father is not in you"?
Timothy 4:10, "For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica;..."
Jeremiah 179, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
Proverbs 4:23, "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life."
2 Cor 13:5, "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?"
Mark 14:38, "Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation ..."
Why do we loose/leave our initial love for God? Simply because in the midtime we come to love something else more than God, whatever that might be. And people usually follow what their heart loves best, and if that is not God then it is somehting else And so they leave Him and the narrow path He wishes us to walk on.
In the parable of the Sower, the third case, Jesus describes a type of Christians, Luke 8:7, "And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it." and in Luke 8:14 He explains "And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection."
Why did those people bring no fruit? Because they left God and their life in Christ. Why? Because they loved some things more than God. They loved the pleasures of this life, the riches etc so they leave God and go forth for what they love more.
In Hebrews Paul raises our attention about something serious. Hebr 3:11-14,
"12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin 14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
Sin can harden our hearts in leaving God and follow a wordly sinful life. It can deceit us. Our heart becomes evil and unfaithful. Even the cares of this life can do that. For if we live to aquire more and more and to please ourselves all the time we end up with no time for God. The eternal life is our priority. All others come next. We will not take anything with us from this life up there. We will leave them all down here.
In the scriptures there are examples/warnings of people who failed because they followed what in the midtime their heart loved more than God. Judas is the most well known case.
see pt 3
When we hold the Holy Bible in our hands ( not a version) we hold the eternal Word between our fingers . How is that possible?
The Word is a seed .
When John spoke about the words and deeds of the Lord he said if everything that He said and did was written down the whole world would not be able to contain the books ."
Therefore not everything that Jesus said and did is contained in the gospel of John but he put enough he wrote that " we might know that He was the Christ "
The whole Bible though historically accurate does not contain a comp,eye history nor does it record everything . But it does contain everything that is needed to produce faith and come to know in some measure the God of the Bibke and to know His will and His way .
For a seed is not the tree but it has everything to reproduce the fruit . For a seed has this property it has rverything that is needed and nothing that is not needed to reproduce the fruit.
If yiu add to it or subtract from it you change it . Not that the Word of God can be changed but yiu will be changed for the worse .
You can get a mule by mixing a horse with a donkey but a mule has no life in it to reproduce itself . If then you want another mule you need another horse and donkey . If yiu mix truth with error you will get something but it has no life in it.
If you want people to be saved Salvation needs to be preached .
Deliverance and healing thst must be preached .
Holyness unto God that too must be preached . For the Bride of Christ to "get herself ready " Yiur must preach the nature character and disposition of the Bride .
Some will fall by the wayside . The well trodden path of our own thoughts.
Stone ground etc .
It does not just apply to our salvation .
In fact the gospel of God has been reduced to being only BORN again .
But that is but the ' S' of our Salvation.It is getting out of Egypt only .
Even as the birth of a child is but the beginning. Wonderful though that is
I would suggest (though I don't know )that it is some version of the Bible that has inserted leave instead of lost . Though it might well have been the natural trait of the flesh to weaken the truth to make it more palatable?
Leaving our first love is because somewhere we loved something more . Paul spoke of someone "loving this present rvil world " and is not written that to love the world " the love of the Father is not in you"?
Timothy 4:10, "For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica;..."
Jeremiah 179, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
Proverbs 4:23, "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life."
2 Cor 13:5, "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?"
Mark 14:38, "Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation ..."
GBU
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