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Greg Lory points out if we're moving forward in our faith we're not moving backward. It's either or.

This is the day we live again.

Back before four-wheel drive, drivers in rural areas with lots of muddy roads learned one lesson

early on. If there's a muddy hill ahead, the only way to get up and over is to build up your

momentum and then keep your foot on the gas. If you stop, you sink and then you're sung.

Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Lory brings a similar instruction for our walk with God.

Keep our foot on the gas. Don't slow down. If you're going forward, you won't go backward.

A title of my message is, what if Jesus sent you an email in the Trump the Book of Revelation?

And we're studying the Book of Revelation together. There's a special blessing promise to the

person who reads and hears and keeps the words of this book. So let's look together now at Revelation.

Chapter two, I'm reading verses one to five. To the angel of the Church of Ephesus, right? These

things say if he that holds his seven stars in his right hand and who walks in the midst of

the seven golden lamp stands. I know your works, your labor, your patience. You can't bear those

who are evil and you've tested those who say there are apostles and are not. You've found them

liars. You've persevered. You've had patience and you've labored from my name's sake and you have

not become weary. Nevertheless, I have this against you. You have left your first love. Remember

from where you will fall in and repent and do the first works where all of a sudden will come to you

quickly and remove your lamp stand from its place unless you repent. Wow, powerful words. Jesus

says there's a problem. You guys are doing awesome. You're hard working. You're discerning. You do

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