Chapter Seven/Rekindle That First Love - Continue

 Now, however, as he does with five of the seven congregations, Jesus singles out a serious problem. He says to the Ephesians: "Nevertheless, I hold this against you, that you have the love you had at first." (Revelation 2:4) They should not have failed in this respect, for Paul had written them 35 years earlier referring to God's great love with which he loved us," and he had urged them: " Become imitators of God, as beloved children, and go on walking in love, just as the Christ also loved you." (Ephesians 2:4; 5:1, 2) Further, Jesus' words should have been inscribed indelibly on their hearts: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah, and you must love Jehovah God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind and with your whole strength." (Mark 12:29-31) The Ephesians had lost that first love. 

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