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ποΈ 31 May 2022
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In this episode of Pray the Word on Revelation 2:2β4, David Platt reminds Christians that their patient endurance should be marked by love.
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0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net. |
0:04.2 | Revelation chapter 2 verses 2 through 4. |
0:07.3 | I know your works, your toil, and your patient endurance. |
0:11.1 | Now you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves |
0:15.6 | apostles and are not and found them to be false. |
0:18.5 | I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake and you have not grown weary. |
0:24.9 | But I have this against you that you have abandoned the love you had at first. |
0:32.7 | I want to make the connection here between. |
0:34.9 | If you listen to podcast episode, we pray through Revelation chapter 1 verse 9 |
0:39.6 | and this phrase patient endurance. |
0:42.2 | Now we see that same phrase used two times in Revelation chapter 2 verse 2 |
0:48.8 | in Revelation chapter 2 verse 3 as we see this exhortation from Jesus to his church saying, |
0:56.5 | I know that you are patiently enduring and that you are standing up against those who are |
1:03.2 | evil in the church and in the world and you are enduring patiently, bearing up from my name's |
1:09.9 | sake and you're not growing weary in that. |
1:12.5 | So they're patiently enduring, but they're doing this without love. |
1:17.8 | And there's a lot we could dive into here about what kind of love this is talking about. |
1:22.4 | It's talking about love for God. |
1:24.1 | It's just talking about love for others and without going into exhaustive study here. |
1:30.8 | I think it's both when you look at the context here in Ephesus and you look at what Jesus is saying. |
1:37.2 | They were patiently enduring in their faith, but they had lost love for God with all their |
1:44.1 | heart, soul, mind and strength that possible to patiently endure, to do all kinds of things |
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