The Letters to the seven Churches

Revelation 2:4 NASB95

‘But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

Revelation 2:14–15 NASB95

‘But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality. ‘So you also have some who in the same way hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

Revelation 2:20–21 NASB95

‘But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. ‘I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.

Revelation 3:1–2 NASB95

“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. ‘Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God.

Revelation 3:15–17 NASB95

‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. ‘So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. ‘Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

Ephesus - We must remember that Love is what binds us and guides us.

Pergamum - There is but one Gospel! Preaching/Teaching anything else as doctrine is sin.

Thyatira - False prophets/prophetesses are among the churches. We must all be weary of their influences lest we fall away from God.

Sardis - The world is trying to lull us to sleep with their distractions.

Laodicea - Being “lukewarm” is akin to spiritual blindness with a side of hubris. One cannot see their own error whilst thinking they have done enough to “earn” their salvation.