[Message] Pastor Jung Myeong Seok
[Scriptures]Revelation 2:2-4 (Key verse is 4)
2. I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.
3. You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
4. Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.
Hallelujah! I bid all of you the love of the eternal God and the peace of the Holy Son.
When I pleaded with the Holy Son to give me Word about ‘loving the Holy Son’ in the <Year of Loving the Holy Son>, this is the Word that the He gave me so that the ‘fire of our first love’ would not be extinguished.
I bless that you will be filled abundantly with the fiery movement, inspiration, and working of the Holy Spirit as you listen to the Word, burn vigorously with the ‘fire of the first love,’ and regain the ‘Holy Son whom you love.’
1. If you lose the love you had at first, [it] will be taken from you.
2. If you regain the love you had at first, you will take [it] back.
3. People look for ‘things that are newer,’ they want [newer things], and seek to feel [newer things]. Therefore, when they look at and use only the ‘first things*,’ no matter who they are, they lose ‘the heart they had at first.’
4. If you want to not lose the heart you had at first and be always like the first time,
then with <environments>, continually develop them; with <objects>, continually make them better; and with <people>, continually transform them and make them better.
5. <Religions> too. Because the life of the old time period in the old history is a history that is repeating, they are in a state where they have already lost their curiosity, lost interest in the new things, lost their flavor, and lost their first love.
6. The thing about <History> is that when people accept the ‘new history’ on [the foundation] of the established world according to the time period, the first love will be regained and a new life will begin. The same is true for <individuals> too.
7. Because human beings’ level of intelligence is low, even though at first they liked God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son so much and treated Them [well], when the time passes, they forsake Them and leave Them because of their own lives. Even if they do live believing, they live believing in an ordinary way.
8. Just as [people] do not remain in the current state but live while continuously developing the ‘sciences’ and continuously discovering and developing ‘new things,’ with ‘your faith’ also, keep finding and developing new things as you live. Then you will live feeling the joy of life. If you want to live in a fun and joyful way, do not be idle, but search. Take action together with the Holy Son.
9. 'Love' is the purpose of God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son. 'Making us into the counterparts of love,' is the purpose of God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son.
10. If you do it till the end, you will defeat both Satan and the world. This is 'predestined.' This is 'God's plan.' Surely <whatever is eternal> will achieve victory. Therefore, do it till the end. Therefore, do it till the end.
