Going Back to the Beginning

When John saw all this, he wrote the book of Revelation. After he left the island of Patmos, he went back to Asia to the church in Ephesus where he started to help the saints. What did he help them to do? Practice the traditions? Merely study the truths? Did he open the school of Tyranus again? No, he helped the saints to go back to the beginning. So, what does the Lord want to do with us? He wants to bring us back to the beginning. All of us need to ask the Lord for a heart that wants to come back to the beginning. “Lord, take me out of the realm of knowledge, of tradition. Bring me back to the first love. I want to be transferred to the realm of Spirit and life.” This is an organic realm. Oh Lord Jesus!

First Corinthians 8:1b says, “Knowledge puffs up.” If you only know the truth but you still remain in the realm of the soul, the result will be pride. What was the condition of Laodicea? “I am wealthy and have become rich and have need of nothing” (Rev 3:17). This is to be arrogant and proud. But there is something that builds up. What builds up? Love does. Love is the result of the flowing of God’s life. When we touch this organic ministry, we touch life. When we exercise our spirit, we touch life and the result is that life flows and the flowing of God’s life is love. Love builds up. This is to be brought back to the beginning!

John’s ministry brings us back to the Word. “In the beginning was the Word” (John 1:1). What a wonderful verse! When you are going through a trial, when you are suffering, when you are being attacked by the enemy, when you are discouraged, you only need to read this portion of the word: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Hallelujah! Verse 3a says, “All things came into being through Him.” The word brings all things into being. So our attitude when we listen to the word, when we receive the word, needs to be that we come to touch God Himself. We do not go to the word only to seek for knowledge, only to learn more.

I was praying to the Lord, reading and ruminating the word and seeking the Lord for the message tonight. When one releases a message, there is a risk of only teaching, but I was praying to the Lord, “Lord, release us from mere teaching. We want to touch the Word.” “The Word was God.” When we touch the Word we need to touch God Himself.

All things were made through the Word. Verse 4 says, “In Him was life.” Life was in the Word, so when we touch the Word our attitude must be that we are coming to touch God Himself, When we touch the Word in such a way, we touch life. Halleluiah! There is nothing better than touching God’s life.

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