Revelation 2:1-7

Lessons from those who lost sight of what is most important:

1- You can be right, and still be wrong. Your faithful toil, fierce persistence, and hunger to be doctrinally sound can miss the mark if it has not been doused in a deep love for God and your neighbor. Your desire to be right cannot replace your desire to be obedient. Your desire to be right cannot replace your hunger for proximity to God. Your desire to be right cannot replace the first love. There is a difference between being right and righteous.

2- Self inventory, assessment, and alteration is paramount to salvation and sanctification. The deeds you did at first should be the habits that are sustaining your soul, not a phase when you were single and did not have responsibilities. There is no seniority or hierarchy in faith.. Only those who will s ...