Revelation 2:1-7 Lost Love & Heartened Hate + PDF NTRF.org

Today we'll study the first of seven performance reviews from Jesus for each the seven churches. The Ephesians had “abandoned” the love that they had at the first. Though not explained further by Jesus, it implies that their love for both Jesus and each other had grown cold. They seemed to be at a place of dead orthodoxy. A person can be as straight as a gun barrel theologically, and just as empty. Their love for Jesus had cooled, and with it a love for each other. Perhaps their ministry for the Lord was merely academic, a dry job, done without an underlying love for the Lord. Perhaps the endless parade of false apostles had caused them to be cynical so that they dealt with people in a joyless, tribunal-like fashion.