12 Dec 2010; Rev 1-2

Revelation 1-2
The Letters to the 7 churches.

Jesus offer who He is, He gave the churches the hope.

The church were in many areas wrong in their doing and in many ways, fallen to the teaching of false teachers and teachings.

4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

This against the churches spoke to me about the fundamental relationship with Jesus. My first love.

As we grow, the many things of this world busy us and we forgot about how we began simply wanting to know and be with Jesus.

Revelation is a big book, it is about the war between heaven and earth, good and evil. Well none of my business. Good, for wehn we want the matters of God to be left alone and are satisfied with the little things or busy with the things of the world, Satan will leave us alone.

But when God' matter matter to us, it is going to be a war.

Jesus address speacially to the 7 churches - they are important to Him. We are important to Him. Because we are to carry out the mandate Christ has given to us.

But as we do, false righteousness comes in. We gave excuses for doing what is wrong to be what is right and what is right to be what is wrong. And worse of all, sexual immorality.

But Jesus gave the hope, the battle cry. The letter to the church always end with promises from Christ.

Taking the key word and the 1 out of the 2 main problems found in the churches - first love and false teaching and self rightoueness, Let me grow deep with Jesus.