Teaching Elder Duke Shelley of Black Forest Chapel continues a series on Revelation. Part 9 explores further the letter to the Church at Ephesus.

1. To the Church in Ephesus
Part 2
Revelation 2:4&5
But I Have This Against You

2. • (4) 'But I have this against you, that you have left
your first love.

3. • (4) 'But I have this against you, that you have left
your first love.
• Jude 1:20-21 But you, beloved, building yourselves
up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Spirit, (21) keep yourselves in the love of God,
waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus
Christ to eternal life.

4. • Luke 10:27 And he answered, "YOU SHALL LOVE
THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND
WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR
STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND
YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."

5. • Luke 10:27 And he answered, "YOU SHALL LOVE
THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND
WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR
STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND
YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."
• Matthew 10:37 "He who loves father or mother
more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who
loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy
of Me.

6. • John 13:34 "A new commandment I give to you,
that you love one another, even as I have loved
you, that you also love one another.

7. • John 13:34 "A new commandment I give to you,
that you love one another, even as I have loved
you, that you also love one another.
• Ephesians 1:15 For this reason I too, having heard
of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among
you and your love for all the saints

8. • “No religious act is of any value in God’s sight if it
does not accompany and flow from Christian
love….” Maurice Roberts

9. • “No religious act is of any value in G’s sight if it
does not accompany & flow from Xian love….”
Maurice Roberts
• Luke 11:42a "But woe to you Pharisees! For you
pay tithe of mint and rue and every kind of garden
herb, and yet disregard justice and the love of God;

10. • 1. Jude 1:21a keep yourselves in the love of God,

11. • 1. Jude 1:21a keep yourselves in the love of God,
• 2. 1 Corinthians 14:1a Pursue love,

12. • 1. Jude 1:21a keep yourselves in the love of God,
• 2. 1 Corinthians 14:1a Pursue love,
• 3. Ephesians 5:2a walk in love,

13. • 1. Jude 1:21a keep yourselves in the love of God,
• 2. 1 Corinthians 14:1a Pursue love,
• 3. Ephesians 5:2a walk in love,
• 4. John 15:9b abide in My love.

14. • “I took up the word ‘Love,’ and I do not know
how many weeks I spent in studying the passages
in which it occurs, till at last I could not help loving
people! I had been feeding on love so long that I
was anxious to do everybody good I came in
contact with.
• I got full of it. It ran out my fingers. You take up
the subject of love in the Bible! You will get so full
of it that all you have got to do is to open your lips,
and a flood of the love of God flows out upon the

15. • meeting. There is no use trying to do church work
without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good
work without love, but God’s work cannot be done
without love.” DL Moody.

16. • 3. Deuteronomy 6:5 "You shall love the LORD your
God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your might.

17. • 3. Deuteronomy 6:5 "You shall love the LORD your
God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your might.
• 7. Psalms 106:1 For His love is everlasting.

18. • 3. Deuteronomy 6:5 "You shall love the LORD your
God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your might.
• 7. Psalms 106:1 For His love is everlasting.
• 8. Isaiah 63:9 In His love and in His mercy He
redeemed them.

19. • 3. Deuteronomy 6:5 "You shall love the LORD your
God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your might.
• 7. Psalms 106:1 For His love is everlasting.
• 8. Isaiah 63:9 In His love and in His mercy He
redeemed them.
• 12. Matthew 5:44 Love your enemies.

20. • 14. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He
gave His only begotten Son.

21. • 14. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He
gave His only begotten Son.
• 18. John 15:9 "Just as the Father has loved Me, I
have also loved you; abide in My love.

22. • 14. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He
gave His only begotten Son.
• 18. John 15:9 "Just as the Father has loved Me, I
have also loved you; abide in My love.
• 20. Romans 8:35-39 Who will separate us from the
love of Christ?...no created thing, will be able to
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.

23. • 26. 1 Corinthians 13:2 If I…know all mysteries and
all knowledge;…but do not have love, I am
nothing.

24. • 26. 1 Corinthians 13:2 If I…know all mysteries and
all knowledge;…but do not have love, I am
nothing.
• 29. 1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all that you do be done
in love.

25. • 26. 1 Corinthians 13:2 If I…know all mysteries and
all knowledge;…but do not have love, I am
nothing.
• 29. 1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all that you do be done
in love.
• 36. Colossians 3:14 Beyond all these things put on
love, which is the perfect bond of unity.

26. • 38. 1 Timothy 1:5 But the goal of our instruction is
love.

27. • 38. 1 Timothy 1:5 But the goal of our instruction is
love.
• 41. 1 Peter 4:8 Above all, keep fervent in your love
for one another, because love covers a multitude
of sins.

28. • 44. 1 John 3:18 Let us not love with word or with
tongue, but in deed and truth.

29. • 44. 1 John 3:18 Let us not love with word or with
tongue, but in deed and truth.
• 48. 1 John 4:19 We love, because He first loved us.

30. • Ephesians 3:14-19 For this reason I bow my knees
before the Father…(16) that He would grant you,
according to the riches of His glory, to be
strengthened with power through His Spirit in the
inner man…that you may be able to comprehend
with all the saints what is the breadth and length
and height and depth, (19) and to know the love
of Christ which surpasses knowledge,

31. • Philippians 1:9 And this I pray, that your love may
abound still more and more in real knowledge and
all discernment,

32. • Philippians 1:9 And this I pray, that your love may
abound still more and more in real knowledge and
all discernment,
• 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 Now as to the love of the
brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to
you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love
one another; (10) for indeed you do practice it
toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia.
But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more,

33. • 2 Thessalonians 1:3 We ought always to give
thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting,
because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love
of each one of you toward one another grows ever
greater;

34. • “I cannot encourage you enough to make praying
for love a regular part of your prayer life. Pray for
increasing knowledge of God’s love in Christ. Pray
to excel more in love for others. Pray with others
for growth in love. In your church prayer meeting
or in your small group study, pray for more love for
Christ and for a lost, suffering world. As you pray,
‘May the Lord make you increase and abound in
love for one another and for all’ (1 Thess. 3:12)”
Alexander Strauch

35. • Hebrews 10:24 and let us consider how to
stimulate one another to love and good deeds,

36. • Hebrews 10:24 and let us consider how to
stimulate one another to love and good deeds,
• Matthew 5:46-47 "For if you love those who love
you, what reward do you have? Do not even the
tax collectors do the same? (47) "If you greet only
your brothers, what more are you doing than
others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

37. • 1 John 2:15 Do not love the world nor the things in
the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of
the Father is not in him.

38. • 1 John 2:15 Do not love the world nor the things in
the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of
the Father is not in him.
• 2 Timothy 4:10a for Demas, having loved this
present world, has deserted me and gone to
Thessalonica;

39. • Galatians 5:22a But the fruit of the Spirit is love,

40. • Galatians 5:22a But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
• Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ also
loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering
and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

41. • Galatians 5:22a But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
• Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ also
loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering
and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
• 1 Corinthians 14:1 Pursue love,

42. • 1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all that you do be done in
love.

43. • 1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all that you do be done in
love.
• Hebrews 10:24 and let us consider how to
stimulate one another to love and good deeds,

44. • (5) 'Therefore remember from where you have
fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at
first; or else I am coming to you and will remove
your lampstand out of its place--unless you repent.

45. • Study love
• Pray for love
• Practice love
• Love the right things
• Love in the power of the Spirit
• Remember
• Repent
• Do the deeds you did at first.