Message Notes
Re-Igniting the Passion
What’s the Problem
Romans 12:11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
Psalm 51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Back to Basics
Revelation 2:4-5 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
Acts 6:2 So the Twelve (Apostles) gathered all the disciples together and said, “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables.”
Add Some Flare/Make it Special
Revelation 2:19 I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.
Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
1 Corinthians 10:31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthains 16:14 Do everything in love.
Eliminate the Clutter
Revelation 2:20 Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.
Exodus 12:15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
1 Corinthians 5:7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
John 10:10 The thief come only to steal to kill and to destroy, But I (Jesus) have come that you might have life and life abundant (and full of passion).
Create a Healthy Rhythm
Revelation 3:15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!
Exodus 20:9-10 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.
John 9:4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
Practical Application
People
Revelation 3:4 Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy.
1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”Places
Revelation 2:13 I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.
Luke 5:16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
John 4:21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem., 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.Practices
Revelation 3:2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God.
Revelation 2:5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
Galatians 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
A Call to Turn Back to God
Hebrews 3:8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness,
