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1 | Love Him then work for Him | Rev 2:5 | cloud | 72034 | ||
The lamstand does not mean your salvation. Here Jesus is telling them to do the works that they did when they first new Him. But we cannot be saved by our works. 1 Corinthians 3:15 says that our works wll be tested, and if they are not good we will lose our reward but we will still be saved. So the lampstand could mean our rewards or it could mean the light that we are supposed to shine into the world. They were not lazy. They had been working hard. (verse 2 and 3) The work He was talking about was loving Him.(verse 4) We must remember to not get so involved in working for the Kingdom and forget about God. When we spend time with God in prayer we are loving Him. Then He places the lampstand in our life and it shines into the world. The only way we will be effective in God's Kingdom is by His anointing. 11 Cor 3:5 |
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2 | Love Him then work for Him | Rev 2:5 | Robert Nicholson | 72318 | ||
Greetings cloud: I agree that christians must guard against becoming distracted with the labor and forget about our "first love". As you have pointed out the people in the church of God at Ephesus were doctrinely correct, the labored to the point of exhaustion, but they had left their first love. Their labor appeared to be motivated by a sense of duty rather than a labor of love. When we were first saved, nothing was to much to ask for the Lord, we wanted to honor him and to please him because of our love and devotion to him. However, after a few years, it is possible to carry on doing things for the Lord because we know we should, rather than acting out of love. You mentioned the "lampstand". The Lord tells us in Rev.1:20 what the lampstand is: "the seven candlesticks (lampstands) which thou sawest are the seven churches". Each local church had a testimony which the Lord will remove if they do not repent of the faults he finds in them. Christ dwells in us by his Spirit and as such we are as lamps in a dark world. We can look at it from the aspect of our personal testimony and from a collective testimony ie. the local church. It is humbling to realize that God in his grace has choosen these earthen vessels to display himself to the world around us. Peace in his most excellent name Robert |
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