darleen

The lessons of this chapter seem to kind of boil down to the fact that none of the churches have the first lost the first love they had when they first came to accept Jesus as Lord. All of the individual things the churches were condemned for all could be avoided if they had kept their first love for the Lord and lived by it. All of the things they were accused of came from lack of following the leadership of God. The churches were praised for many things like remaining faithful, being loyal, enduring, having obedience and other things that are expected of the followers of the Lord. We as the Christian church today must heed the warnings that are presented in this chaper as we too can become affected by the same thigns and in the same ways the early Christian church was.

What God has done is so wonderful and powerful it must be seen with spiritual eyes. They had nothing in the natural to compare it to so they can't comprehend what has happened and what it means. The power operates in the spiritual realm and must be looked at differently than natural happenings. The example of the power God has performed was the Resurrection. The power God used in the resurrection makes any power found on earth seem like no power at all. This even includes atomic power. Praise the Lord, the power used in the resurreciton is available to me. Nothing is too difficult through the power of God.