What a title for a sermon right?
Old Things

First of all, I’m not talking about people!

Secondly, I’m talking about good, old things

Does anyone have a favorite couch, hat, shoes, even clothes?

Sometimes you get that piece of furniture or article of clothing, and they are just perfect.

However, time goes by, and although it just keeps being your favorite, it has worn and is beginning to look terrible.

In the beginning, your spouse is your favorite thing to pour into. You do everything together.

Time goes by, kids, jobs, finances and on and on, begins to change the way you act with each other.

You still love your spouse, but what anyone else would see doesn’t truly show it.

In fact, even your spouse may begin to wonder if that is true.

It seems that while this thing or this relationship may still be important to you, it isn’t as important as it was.

You have lost your first Love!

The church at Ephesus was still doing many good things, but to God, it wasn’t sincere

Just like the church at Ephesus, today’s churches can seem cold

I don’t mean the buildings, but the people that are the church

Today, often times, the church is super busy

The things that we are doing are wonderful things, and we work hard at them

If anything, sometimes we could be accused of having too much going on

What does that mean?

That, out of all these things you are doing, you have forgotten who you were doing them for

Perhaps, you are so busy that you are no longer actually worshipping

The acts have become greater than loving the Lord

These things we spend so much time doing become cold without loving God first

I have this against you

No one wants to hear God say that to them

If He stood in front of you today, would that phrase fit?

The Pharisees strived to do all the stuff, but they didn’t have that love.

Have you lost your first love of God today?

Have you ever truly had love for God, or is it something else?

It is time for that love to be re-kindled today!