Revelation 2:5

Revelation 2:5

Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

    I.        Remember therefore from where you have fallen

The lost son parable is the good example to explain these words.  The younger son left his father and lost everything he remembering the early days. How he was very much happy with his father. He was very much joy that time there is no sorrow. But now he suffered to get food, even he will not able to get what pigs had.

We can see the same situation in the Ephesus church. When the church was with Heavenly Father they was very happy, they received the blessing from heavenly Father, they got deliverances from all sickness, and they got deliverance from demons. But when they left from God’s presence, they lost all blessing, not only blessing they took part God’s fury.

  II.        Repent and do the works you did at first

That’s because God inviting them to repent. We know many verses from bible tell us to repent. If not repent we can’t enter into kingdom for God.

Bible says in

Proverb 28:13 He that covered his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.

Repent means what ?

   Leave all your sins and listen His voice and obeying His commandments are called repent.

Deuteronomy 30:8 And you shall again obey the voice of the Lord and keep all his commandments that I command you today.

First prophet in New Testament was John the Baptize. His first message was in Mathew 3:2 

Matthew 3:2 "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

In this verse John the Baptize told the kingdom of heaven is very near so he telling to repent everybody.

According to gospel of mark the first message if Jesus Christ also the same

Mark 1:15 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."

So God told to this church to repent

III.        … do the works you did at first

    As we know, how much the church lived with God, How much the church showed it love to God? But currently the state of the church is not like before. So God gave warning to this church to do the works what it did at first

 IV.        If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

   From these words we can understand, what god have punishment if the church is not repent. I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place

            In general we know why we are using the lamp stand?  We are using the lampstand for light. If we remove lampstand we will not get the light.

            We know here the lampstand refers the church. The light refers the Christ. Christ told I am the light. Here God told to church if you are not repent I will remove the Christ’s sprit from the church.

            We can give many examples from the bible.

1.      When King Saul not obeyed God’s commend the bible says the Spirit of the Lord left from King Saul.

1 Sam. 16:14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

2.      When Simpson told his secret to dalailla, he lost his strength. When the philistine arrested him he is not able to fight against them because bible says the Spirit of the Lord left from Samson.

Judges 16:20 And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he awoke from his sleep and said, "I will go out as at other times and shake myself free." But he did not know that the Lord had left him.

3.      Jesus had chosen Judas one of His disciples. After tasting His love also he betrayed Jesus. Why? Bible says the Lord of Spirit was left from him.

Luke 22:3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.

In the same way, God warning this church, if you not repent, I will remove the Spirit of the Lord from you. We know what happened to the above mentioned three personalities, when the Spirit of the Lord left from them.

The ruler over the darkness was entered into them and they died very poorly. The same thing happen to this church if it not repent, the ruler of the darkness conquer them when the Spirit of lord left form the church. You think here if the Spirit is not there in church, what is the statutes of the church?