TBC Notes

Re-establishing Our First Love

As was mentioned in this and last month’s newsletter articles, any good work that doesn’t reflect or is not enabled by one’s love of Jesus is not a good work, and a build up of such works has dire consequences. They may have some temporal value, and very likely they will bless others, but they have no eternal value for the one who works such works without the love of Jesus.

Too often we are deluded into thinking of our love for Jesus in terms of our emotions. That may be okay to some degree, but our emotions should never be more than a “feelings” by-product of our genuine love for Him. In John:14:23Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
See All..., Jesus declared, “If a man love Me, he will keep my words.” Obedience motivated by one’s love for Him is the true criterion for biblical love. Jesus said in Luke:6:46And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
See All..., “Why call ye Me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” That is the basis for our slipping away from the love of Christ that He commands us to repent of and restore (Revelation:2:4-5 [4] Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. [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.
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T. A. McMahon

Executive Director