James White - You Have Left Your First Love

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  • @ApologiaStudios
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  • @deceptionsdemise
    @deceptionsdemise Рік тому +64

    Honestly, I've been avoiding this sermon because I knew what was coming. Well, I finally listened to it and sure enough, it led me to repentance. Thank you all for what you do, sincerely. God bless.

  • @gabrielamartiniuc6322
    @gabrielamartiniuc6322 Рік тому +21

    Apologia studios is the best place for online sermons . I wish my local church pastor was this passionate at the exposition of God’s word.

    • @kristenspencer9751
      @kristenspencer9751 Рік тому +4

      pray for him. He may be growing weary in ministry. It can reach a point of drudgery...just as it can for members of the congregation. Some people go into the ministry, but don't really know the Lord.

    • @EasternRomeOrthodoxy
      @EasternRomeOrthodoxy Рік тому +1

      @@kristenspencer9751 Pray for a Protestant snake-oil TV preacher?🤣

  • @godsaves1127
    @godsaves1127 Рік тому +13

    Amen and thank you from South Africa

  • @erocklledo3314
    @erocklledo3314 Рік тому +2

    God help us. God help me.. Tough to hear but no truer words

  • @Thebeardedyouthpastor
    @Thebeardedyouthpastor Рік тому +10

    Best sermon I've ever heard on that passage

    • @Dar123abc
      @Dar123abc Рік тому

      Don’t get out much?

    • @Thebeardedyouthpastor
      @Thebeardedyouthpastor Рік тому +2

      @@Dar123abc I get out plenty and listen to close to a dozen sermons each week. I guess I could ask you the same thing about not getting out much

    • @RaptureIsNEAR7634
      @RaptureIsNEAR7634 Рік тому

      @@Thebeardedyouthpastor this guy is the devil spreading lies about Christianity and promoting Islam ......hes being paid by Islamic jihadist to promote Islam this guy is pure evil may the Lord rebuke this wolf in sheep's clothing

  • @lotticus8599
    @lotticus8599 Рік тому +4

    I have been in anguish over this very thing for the past few months. My prayers have been this exact “how did I end up here?”. This sermon is an answer to prayer and an immense blessing! Glory be to God.

  • @kevinteichroeb6997
    @kevinteichroeb6997 Рік тому +1

    Thank you, Dr White. Thank you, Apologia church. Pray for Canada.

  • @KarinaStavenes
    @KarinaStavenes Рік тому +4

    Thank you so much! Hugs and prayers from me in the UK.

  • @timothy4702
    @timothy4702 Рік тому

    Don't always agree with you but respect your fervor and dedication to The Word.

  • @amandarengel7260
    @amandarengel7260 Рік тому +4

    Fantastic sermon. Wish more preachers preached this way

  • @christiancedillos9543
    @christiancedillos9543 Рік тому +2

    Love everyone @ apologia studios, thx you for this sermon, thx you Dr, white, I’m listening from 🇨🇦 Canada while fishing on the lake.. if I don’t to meet you guys in the flesh we know out destination… grace to everyone and pray that I continue to catch great fish

  • @soluschristus1689
    @soluschristus1689 Рік тому +5

    Excellent admonition to examine our hearts, thank you pastor

    • @nancymarv4434
      @nancymarv4434 Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/D4TK5R3pJjg/v-deo.html

  • @druanneglascott5299
    @druanneglascott5299 Рік тому +1

    A message for the local body at Apologia, but also for the church of Jesus at large. Thank you for preaching it, Dr. White.

  • @Yesica1993
    @Yesica1993 Рік тому +5

    Let's see if I can remember it from memory:
    "Oh, what can be done for an old heart like mine?
    Soften it up with oil and wine.
    The oil is You, Your spirit of love
    Please wash me anew in the wine of your blood."
    Keith Green died 3 years before I got saved. And I didn't even discover him until years after that! I guess it's better that way. I would've been heartbroken if I'd come to love him and then learned of the horrible crash. As always, God gives me music right when I need it. It came along at a time when my heart was growing dull and cool. Not yet cold. But cooling. I am grateful for his ministry, short (by our standards) though it was.

  • @losmcdonald
    @losmcdonald Рік тому

    What a timely message. Thank you, Lord. I may not agree with Calvinism, but I do appreciate and love Dr. White and what he has done for the Kingdom.

  • @preston748159263
    @preston748159263 Рік тому

    Couldnt find a contact on the website, but just saw an excerpt from Jeff Durbin where he claims the Christians should seek unity with Christ, not seek heaven as a reward. I've been concerned about this for years and it was so refreshing to hear that. Looking forward to watching the sermons from Apologia!

  • @SHARPSHEEP316
    @SHARPSHEEP316 Рік тому +4

    This one smoked my boots
    🥾🥾 🔥🔥

  • @Tr305ive
    @Tr305ive Рік тому +3

    Amen 🙏🏽

  • @justinchamberlain3443
    @justinchamberlain3443 Рік тому +1

    -This is a great word
    10:10 mothers doing laundry working for the kingdom is a great point; "47,000th load of laundry this week" in service to raising their chidlren
    26:45 exceptional point here
    27:10 heres the cessationists prayer bc every cessationist is a continuationist when they pray, "Lord i want to hear what You have to say to me from this texts"; but its a great continuationist point from a cessationist thank you dr
    28:01 they had ceased to be evangelistic!!
    -this is a great word
    33:45 "its been awhile. How have i become so spirotually dry"; then he brings up keith green. "He performed with passion"
    35:20 "my eyes are dry my heart is cold.." keith green
    37:20 how to get right? "Remember where you have fallen"
    39:10 get back out there and preach evangelize
    40:01 "have i gotten too comfortable?"
    45:45 another great point; hating what christ hates
    48:01 "pray Lord give us the ear to hear";
    50:01 we should always be or regularly willing to ask "Lord have i abondoned my first love??"

    • @kristenspencer9751
      @kristenspencer9751 Рік тому

      Everything we do for God is spiritual. Everything COUNTS with Him. You serve your family (Proverbs 31:10-), serve your husband and children and are faithful to them.

    • @Thebeardedyouthpastor
      @Thebeardedyouthpastor Рік тому +2

      In no way is that prayer a continuationist prayer. Do you even know what cessasionists believe?

    • @justinchamberlain3443
      @justinchamberlain3443 Рік тому

      ​​@@Thebeardedyouthpastoryeah he's asking clearly for specific revelation from the written word which would be the practical out working of receiving from the spirit of revelation eph1:17 and/or word of knowledge from 1cor12 that all calvinists deny for today who hold to a cessationist view. So you can read the text and take it for its original meaning/intent but to draw specific personal revelation would then be continuationist by definition

  • @vibeauxssxuaebiv3489
    @vibeauxssxuaebiv3489 Рік тому +1

    Amen!

  • @КлюевСергей-э5с
    @КлюевСергей-э5с Рік тому +2

    43:00 Amen

  • @jlandles
    @jlandles Рік тому +1

    The only church where the sermon is interrupted by a commercial about toenail fungus.

  • @heaveningearth
    @heaveningearth Рік тому

    God love you! Very powerful, very thankful
    The world cannot hate us, as it hated him first! No? I've wondered on this bit awhile. Maybe memory fails me. It's hard to understand as I have felt hated, but in truth as Christians, we are at spiritual war with people still made in God's image deep down, the truth still in their heart, though suppressed.

  • @wishuhadmyname
    @wishuhadmyname Рік тому

    Begins at 1:34

  • @davidboyer2290
    @davidboyer2290 7 місяців тому

    Revelation Ephesus sure sounds like the RCC.

  • @HesDylan
    @HesDylan Рік тому +1

    *These ads make me sad. :’(*

    • @kristenspencer9751
      @kristenspencer9751 Рік тому

      Persevere and don't let it distract you. You Tube is run by pagans who probably interrupt Christian/conservative content more than other types of content. The devil doesn't want you to learn from this teacher and gets you all frustrated and in a sour mood over commercials. Just skip them and keep viewing!

  • @justinfarmer8371
    @justinfarmer8371 Рік тому +1

    I’ve always wanted to ask dr. White about this passage I was always taught that to do your first work again was to get rebaptized now I don’t believe that and had always felt weird about it but never had a different answer to what it meant to do your first work over again

    • @watchmanofthenight2700
      @watchmanofthenight2700 Рік тому +1

      The loss of first love is revealed in the loss of the first works. In other words, love for Jesus is revealed by works of love (Galatians 5:14). To lose the first love is to lose the first works. To do the first works is to recover the first love. The first epistle of John reveals the relationship between love and works but it also describes a personal relationship to Jesus (I John 3:16-18; 5:3; II John 6).

    • @Godisnumber1always
      @Godisnumber1always Рік тому

      You have to repent and be baptize in the name of Jesus Christ and follow what he gave his apostles. If you back slide repent try to pray and fast. After you get baptized in the name of Jesus Christ then you don’t have to get baptized again. Just repent and try to live the holy way.
      1 Peter 1:16
      Since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

    • @iacoponefurio1915
      @iacoponefurio1915 Рік тому

      ​@@Godisnumber1alwaysthere is no robotic impersonal self preservation methodology for each person to copy each other. It's a relationship.
      We already have foreign gods who rule over us.
      We must turn from them (1Sam 7) and give up our freedom and independence for a new authority.

    • @iacoponefurio1915
      @iacoponefurio1915 Рік тому

      ​@@watchmanofthenight2700🤦 Love and works are not the same. Like almost all you have never had actual love and try to pass off effort you want to give your own sacrifice without conversion ala Cain..
      Affections and commitment precede action but actual conversion from our worldly wealth chasing work has to precede any acceptable outward response.

    • @iacoponefurio1915
      @iacoponefurio1915 Рік тому

      ​@@watchmanofthenight2700the inside is never cleansed by the outside but vise versa.

  • @markrobby7136
    @markrobby7136 Рік тому +2

    I couldn't even watch and listen to this sermon because it's full of advertisement or commercial clips every 5mins. So sad!😢

    • @kristenspencer9751
      @kristenspencer9751 Рік тому

      It's like television in the old days...or radio. BUT persevere and don't let it distract you. You Tube is run by pagans who probably interrupt Christian/conservative content more than other types of content. The devil doesn't want you to learn from this teacher and gets you all frustrated and in a sour mood over commercials. Just skip them and keep viewing!

  • @greg6935
    @greg6935 Рік тому

    Love your channel james white i'm a fan but i just have to say just my opinion i don't think you should have so many ads on your youtube channel when you're giving a sermon making money off of giving a sermon you can make money off of books of avalor weighs enough of a sermon that is a little low

    • @danielnoel3540
      @danielnoel3540 Рік тому

      Apologia Church has no ability to control the number or the content of ads played on their UA-cam channel. This is controlled by UA-cam. Apologia has also been demonitized by UA-cam because they do not follow all of UA-cam's guidelines and favor the truth over UA-cam's agenda.

  • @jenniferpaul1832
    @jenniferpaul1832 Рік тому

    I am wondering what White's motive was to heavily tattoo his arms in recent times?

    • @R.L.KRANESCHRADTT
      @R.L.KRANESCHRADTT Рік тому

      He's a Calvinist/Theistic Determinist.... God made him do every tattoo. In his world there can be no other explanation. WCF, "God has ordained whatsoever comes to pass". According to his doctrine, no one can come to, or believe in, God unless God has predetermined they would. BUT the same is true for those to leave the faith... their apostacy can only be by God's decree because he only gave them a false/temporary 'evanescent grace'. And, once accepting that God does that to some... one can never know if God has already planned to do it toyou someday.... He cannot be trusted.
      The the same is true for all of those who repent and return... It will not happen unless God has decreed their repentance. It is irrational for him, or anyone else, to believe White's sermon will have any effect on whether or not God has decreed someone to return to their 'First Love'. The argument that God decrees the 'means as well as the ends' is a red herring. The doctrine literally has the supreme creator of the universe playing checkers with himself. The Cognitive Dissonance of Calvinism is mind-numbing.

  • @ok__6441
    @ok__6441 Рік тому +4

    Why would a pastor have tattoos? Makes no sense, I dont care how many crosses you put on your body, I understand if before you were secular, tattoo shops are just secular as they get.
    Apostles had no tattoos, and they turned the world upside down.

  • @КлюевСергей-э5с
    @КлюевСергей-э5с Рік тому +1

    45:35 Did Apostle Paul when rebuking the spirit of divination in that woman, did he try to not offend the very woman herself?
    No, there was no such split in his mind when he was doing it. Because it was a spirit speaking through that woman.
    Likewise Jesus Christ wasn’t trying not to offend money changers of the Temple when He turned the tables upside down. It is a danger much bigger than to be angry at a moment( which actually stems from vanity “ I don’t want to look bad, what will people say if they see an angry Christian”. But it’s not about what, it’s about Who. Who pushes away what. If it’s Grace pushes away unclean spirit - everything is right) danger of giving in, of not being strong in the Lord, of idolatry, of people pleasing( which is demon pleasing in disguise), of Proverbs 25:26.
    There is a protection in Judaism from falling into idolatry for the reasons mentioned above. There is a rule: “You are not allowed to have mercy on the wicked people” If they don’t repent- Not allowed! Otherwise you become guilty in the eyes of God as an associate. You can not, may not approve of or not show disapproval of a certain behavior in a certain moment.

  • @maryloulongenbaugh7069
    @maryloulongenbaugh7069 Рік тому +1

    Not a fan of tattoos. I didn't expect to see that on Dr. James White's forearms.

  • @gotech25
    @gotech25 Рік тому

    James white im calling you out on your debate of kevin Thompson of beyond the fundamentals. He said you pulled out of the debate, and doest know why. Its now your duty to debate him and shut him up. So, its on you now. He said he would debate u the date that was set. So whatsvyour answer

  • @timothykoconas2377
    @timothykoconas2377 7 місяців тому

    I don't like when preachers link the Lord knowing our deeds with volunteer work for the church. It seems to be very self-serving. James White is paid by the church and the seminary. He's paid for debates and such. He gets honorarium. He's a wealthy person. I've never heard him say one thing he did for "the least of them." He tends to be sarcastic and snide at times.

  • @КлюевСергей-э5с
    @КлюевСергей-э5с Рік тому +1

    48:20 I am sorry mr James White. But can a regenerate Christian who is a vessel of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit Who Hates sinners- unregenerate men. How can that Christians not hate a person who is doings those vicious things? Of course, it is a different hate, it is a hate to break that pride of that person, a move to exorcise evil that person, to expel evil from that person. But from the outside it may look like you want to kill the guy. It is like Baptism by Fire if The Hand of God moves you.
    Samson didn’t sin swaying with that donkey jaw. He was judging.
    Guys, get ready. The time is coming, you will have to do it.
    You will have to grab all thise guns you have been collecting and ….
    At least, I guess no one has any doubts by now why they were trying to infringe on the Second Amendment of the US constitution. There is a book of a Russian author Vladimir Soliviev if I am not mistakenly. It is called “Three conversations”. And one character tells a story, answers a question “what he hopes God will have mercy on him for, what one deed he hopes to have mercy for”?( They were not talking about the doctrine of Salvation, or maybe Soloviev wasn’t that doctrinally literate, maybe he was, I don’t know)
    And he tells a story how Turks were prosecuting Armenians. And how his platoon walked in to a village with Armenian women and children slaughtered. Babies killed with pitchforks.
    And he became so inflamed with indignation, so that he charged his platoon, they caught up with the Turks and they killed all of them, cut them to pieces with sabres. And he concluded that this is the event of his life he hopes the Lord will cover all his sins for.
    PS regenerate man, him you just can’t hate. You are stunned he does smth evil.

  • @hila3175
    @hila3175 Рік тому

    👎

  • @paulthompson673
    @paulthompson673 Рік тому

    Honestly, James White should not even be preaching. There’s all kinds of videos on UA-cam that show how he contradicts himself constantly.

  • @Dar123abc
    @Dar123abc Рік тому

    The Lord spoke to James White in an audible voice and told him to get tattooed.

  • @truth7416
    @truth7416 Рік тому

    I can't think of a more man centered doctrine then Calvinism.
    "Most of the world goes to hell but I'm the special elect chosen before creation "
    The Bible never means what it says and everything always comes back to knowledge the calvinist has that isn't available to everyone else or described in scripture.
    They follow a man’s exalting tradition of John Calvin.
    A true Christian trusts God to perfectly convey His Word and that His Word is true.
    A true Christian doesn’t need to add "kinds" or "types" at the end of sentences that disagree with Calvinist theology.
    A true Christian doesn’t need to declare God has a secret will that contradicts scripture to uphold Reformed theology.
    This is the difference between the Bible believer and the Calvinist.
    One of the main points of Calvinism is that the elect were predestined to be saved prior to them believing. This would mean that salvation is secured outside of Christ!
    So how can a Calvinist who's totally depraved be assured of salvation without relying on totally depraved faculties.
    A Calvinist say they are no longer totally depraved.
    Ok well how do you know?
    The faculties that were at least once totally depraved testify to your new heart?
    OK how do you know your totally depraved heart isn't deceiving you?
    The Mormon is deceived. Why aren't you? Because of the good things you do?
    That's human experience that must be processed by a totally depraved heart with no way of knowing if your heart is changed unless your totally depraved heart tells you it's new.
    So how does the totally depraved individual know Christ died for him and he's therefore been unconditionally elected without having to rely on human experience processed with a heart and mind that are totally depraved?
    Truth in Love

  • @purgatorean
    @purgatorean Рік тому

    James White and Apologia Church teach false doctrines. Any elementary reading of Sacred Scripture will prove this to anyone that cares to take the time to read what the Bible teaches instead of what Apologia teaches. The Salvation of your soul is at stake. All you have to do is compare Acts chapter 2 and Gal. 5:19-21 to the heresies that Apologia teaches and you on your way to preventing them from handing your soul over to Satan. Acts 2 is the Biblical Blueprint for Salvation. Any teaching that is contrary to that is heresy. Gal. 5 teaches that you are not once saved always saved. Only Satan would tell you not to believe that sin is bad. Only Satan would tell you that you can commit those sins in Gal. 5 and still be in Communion with God. You should run far and fast from Apologia. The Catholic Church teaches in the Bible that the Sacraments are necessary for the Salvation of your soul. Embrace the Sacraments, that is God's will.

    • @Evgeniy9712
      @Evgeniy9712 24 дні тому

      You’re breaking hermeneutical rules left and right friend. What about the clearer teaching in Romans 8 of nothing in all creation being able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus? Are you a created thing? If so, you’re powerless to separate yourself from the love of God in Christ. You’re teaching works based salvation, which is the real heresy.

    • @Evgeniy9712
      @Evgeniy9712 24 дні тому

      Come to Christ. Rome’s burden is heavy, and you won’t be able to lift a fraction of it. The yoke of Christ is easy and His burden is light because He carries it to the end.

    • @purgatorean
      @purgatorean 24 дні тому

      ​@@Evgeniy9712 I often wonder if Protestants even care about hermeneutics. Of course nothing can separate us from the love of God. God loves the sinner as well as the saint, but He is very clear that sinners will not go to Heaven, which means they will burn in Hell forever. Talk is cheap, so maybe you wouldn't mind applying some hermeneutics to the following verses as they apply to the love of God:
      John 14:15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments..........
      Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are plain: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, 21 envy,[b] drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
      You see my friend, sin is darkness, but Christ is the Light that destroys that darkness. This is Christmas Day in which we celebrate the Birth of Jesus, Our Savior. He is the Light unto the world for those that love Him......NOT for those that do not love Him. When we are IN CHRIST then we become a New Creation living in the Light of the New Creation. So how do we get IN CHRIST? Paul tells us in Galatians that we are BAPTIZED into Christ. That is how we come to Christ.
      So you can say that you love Jesus all day long, but if you deny Baptism for Salvation then it is impossible to be IN CHRIST. And once IN CHRIST then you must not sin, for to sin is to extinguish the Light in you and return to darkness.
      Today is ChristMAS. Do you keep the MASS in Christmass? The Mass which celebrates the Birth of Christ IS CHRISTMAS. If you don't celebrate His Mass then you are not celebrating Christmas. The Mass is the only way to celebrate Christmas, which is why it is called Christ-Mass to begin with. There is still time for you and your family to do this. Run to your nearest Catholic Church this morning and do Christmas the right way. God bless and Merry Christmas.

  • @jmarko86
    @jmarko86 Рік тому +3

    Amen 🙏🏾