Often it's our confidence in and our fixation on our correct doctrine and our practice and our busyness for Jesus that keeps us from fellowship with Jesus because we substitute faithful work for him and write beliefs in him for fellowship with him.

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Last time on the podcast, we began to see Revelation, not as a book of fear, but of hope.

And today, that message gets a little more personal.

Pastor J.D. Greer continues in Revelation chapter 2, walking through Jesus' letters to the early

churches and the warnings that are still meant for us today, because it's possible to look

faithful on the outside, while our

hearts quietly drift away. Let's get started. To the angel of the church in Ephesus right,

the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden

lambs stands. 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. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my

namesake, and you have not grown weary, but I have this against you, that you have abandoned the

love you had at first. 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

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