Revelation 2

📖  Revelation 2:1 ESV “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 2:2–3 ESV “‘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 2:6 ESV Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

📖  Revelation 2:4 ESV But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

1. It is possible to be but not .

📖 Luke 10:40 ESV Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.”

📖 Luke 10:41–42 ESV But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, 42 but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

📖 Revelation 2:5 ESV do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, 18 and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

2. It’s impossible to faithfully Jesus without .

📖  Revelation 2:4 NLT “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first!

📖  John 13:34–35 ESV A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

📖  1 John 4:20–21 ESV If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

📖 Romans 12:9–10 ESV Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

is the where our to God and others .

3. It’s possible to deeper in with God and .

📖 Revelation 2:5 ESV 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.

A. the things that you from God.

📖 Acts 19:18–19 ESV Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. 19 And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver..

B. in and community.

📖 Acts 20:18–20 ESV “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, 19 serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews; 20 how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,

C. Visibly your with each other.

📖 Acts 20:36–38 ESV And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. 37 And there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him, 38 being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.

📖 Romans 12:9 NLT Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them.

📖 Revelation 2:7 ESV 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.’

Sermon in a sentence:

Jesus loves His church too much to let our replace our .

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