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“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.2 “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. 3 I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.
Revelation 2:1-7
4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. 6 Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’
Revelation 2:1-7
Revelation 2:1 - “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.
Revelation 2:7 - . 7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Introduction
God loves us so much that He is calling the church to never abandon the love we must have for Him and for others
Main Idea
I. REMEMBER therefore from where you have fallen II. REPENT III. DO the works you did at first
Outline
Revelation 2:2-32 “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. 3 I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.
I. REMEMBER
Revelation 2:4But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
I. REMEMBER
Revelation 2:5b.
5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; REPENT, and do the works you did at first.
II. REPENT
Revelation 2:5b.
5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; REPENT, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
II. REPENT
REPENTANCE(1)a true sense of one's own guilt and sinfulness; (2)an apprehension of God's mercy in Christ; (3)an actual hatred of sin and turning from it to God; (4)a persistent endeavor after a holy life in a walking
with God in the way of his commandments.
II. REPENT
From BibleGateway Biblical Dictionary
Revelation 2:5c.
5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and DO the works you did at first.
III. DO
The command wasn’t to stop doing something, but to start doing something which they stopped doing.
Sins of Omission are as serious as
Sins of Commission
III. DO
1) Can you go hours or days without having more than a passing thought of Him?
……6) Private Prayer and worship are almost non-existent…cold and dry.
40 Evidences that You May Have Left Your First
Loveby Nancy Leigh DeMoss
10. You spend more time and effort on your physical appearance than on cultivating inner spiritual beauty to please Christ
………11. Your heart towards Christ is cold and indifferent; not tender as it once was, not easily moved by the Word, talk of spiritual things, etc.
III. DO
12. Your measure of spirituality (yours/others’) by performance rather than the condition of the heart.
……………….17. Your service for Christ and others is motivated by a sense of duty or obligation.
III. DO