Losing Your First Love

1. To reduce prejudice.

2. The Romans thought Christians were a sect of Jews.

3. God destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D. because of apostasy.

4. The destruction of Jerusalem forced Christians to carry the love of Jesus and the gospel throughout the world. Christianity became distinctly separate from its Jewish origin. Christian doctrine became more Christ centered.

5. Ephesus had lost its first love.

6. Allowing the carnal nature to resurrect itself and become dominate.

7. Jesus promised to abandon the church.

8. Overcomers will have the right to eat from the tree of life and live forever.

9. Gnosticism was a faulty philosophy about good and evil that Jesus hated.

10. Loss of interest in spiritual matters. A greater interest in the temporal things of this life. No time for prayer and Bible study. Compromise with sin and indifference to the prompting of the Holy Spirit.