REPENT!
‘Repent, and do the first works.’
The text teaches:—
I. The inseparable moral connection between inward feeling and outward action.—Repent and do.
II. The outward aspect of humiliation and regret which the text wears for the sinner and the backslider.—‘Repent’—change your purposes and plans, and do now what you should have done years ago.
III. The inner heart of life and hope which this command bears in it for all men.—Repent! It can yet be done. There is not a more blessed thought in God’s Word. It is indeed God’s message of hope to men.