Wednesday Night Bible Study - Notes - A Study In Revelation Lesson 11 - The Church of Ephesus P5

TEXT: Revelation 2:1-5

Ephesus - 2:4-6

1. Left their first love-departure from the cross.

2. Lead to ruin without repentance.

3. They fell from grace - left faith in cross (Galatians 5:4).

4. REPENT, do the first works over.

5. Or ELSE - I will come quickly.

6. Remove your candlestick- - "Except you repent."

7. Christ is source of light, cross in means.

8. Also speaks of ministry influence.

9. The Doctrine of the Nicolaitans.

A. "Laity Conquerors"

B. Exploitation instead of spiritually developing them

C. All false doctrine does this.

D. Leads to not just error but sin.

E. Nicolas taught sexual sin, fornication carried no price - it does.

10. Ephesus "Hated this" Thyatira "Held to this" (PAPALCY).

"Repent" and do the first works

1. The repentant seeker will find mercy even at the 11th hour

2. True repentance does not seek to place blame on anyone else but takes responsibility for the sin and the consequences of such folly

3. Mercy rejected will always result in judgement being accepted; apostasy has no remedy

4. Repentance is more than words, but the forsaking of Idols and strange gods

5. Repentance is more than repenting of what we do but what we are

6. We become our sin and Ultimately, we become what an who oppresses us.

7. True repentance is the road and path to the remedy; it is always birthed by the acknowledgement of sin - "We Have Sinned"

8. The remedy is the cross.