========================================================================
  (CLIP) I LOST MY FIRST LOVE FOR JESUS
  by Greg Gordon
========================================================================

Summary: This sermon reflects on the speaker's journey of losing their
first love for God, leading to a hardened heart, critical spirit, and a
focus on religious knowledge rather than a personal relationship with
Jesus. Through a divine intervention, the speaker experiences a renewal
of their faith, being restored to a deep connection with God and a fresh
infilling of the Holy Spirit. The sermon emphasizes the importance of
daily seeking God's presence, preparing for the return of Jesus, and
cultivating a genuine love for Him.

Topics: "Renewal of Faith", "Cultivating Love for God"
Scripture References: Revelation 2:4, Psalm 51:10, John 4:24, Matthew 25:1, Ephesians 5:18

------------------------------------------------------------------------
DESCRIPTION
------------------------------------------------------------------------

This sermon reflects on the speaker's journey of losing their first love
for God, leading to a hardened heart, critical spirit, and a focus on
religious knowledge rather than a personal relationship with Jesus.
Through a divine intervention, the speaker experiences a renewal of
their faith, being restored to a deep connection with God and a fresh
infilling of the Holy Spirit. The sermon emphasizes the importance of
daily seeking God's presence, preparing for the return of Jesus, and
cultivating a genuine love for Him.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
CONTENT
------------------------------------------------------------------------

And I was in the process of basically losing my first love for quite a
while. And you think, well, how can that happen? And most of us don't
realize when we're actually losing our first love. I just wrote some
notes, so I'll just kind of read some things here.

My heart was hard. I was being more and more critical and judgmental. I
was filling my life with theology, church history, ancient church
traditions, but not Jesus.

I was happy to know about God more, but not spend time with him in a
secret place. I became critical of some revivals and would be against
spirit-filled teachings at times. The more I delved into religion,
orthodoxy, Anglicanism, whatever you fill that with, the more sad I
became.

Jesus opened my eyes to this. It was a miracle of God. He restored me
back to himself and gave me fresh manna daily.

He is my life, my love, my everything. He has refilled me with the Holy
Spirit. He has given me love for the things of the Spirit.

Worship has become something I get to do. Spending time with him in a
secret place is something I want to do now. I left my first love, but
now God has brought me back.

The mandate for me this year is to fill my oil daily, seeking to be
prepared for the coming bridegroom, to have the bridegroom love for
Jesus.

========================================================================
Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/c9BSNOuJwIo.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/greg-gordon/clip-i-lost-my-first-love-for-jesus/
========================================================================