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Keeping Your Heart Strong

Series:  Letters to the Boondocks

Revelation 2:1-7

4/18/2010

Point: 

Out in the Boondocks

I will build my church . . . Matthew 16 :18

Good News / Bad News

To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:  These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands:  I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance.  I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.  You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.         Revelation 2:1-3

Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.        Revelation 2:4

A Love Driven God

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 

John 3:16

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:13

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!

1 John 3:1 

Let Love Rule!

Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. Revelation 2:5

Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

Matthew 6:33

There is nothing greater than love . . . 1 Corinthians 13:13