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3. REBUKE (2:4)
2:4.
In spite of the many areas of commendation, the church in Ephesus was soundly rebuked: Yet I hold this against you: you have forsaken your first love.
The order of words in the Greek is emphatic; the clause could be translated, “Your first love you have left.”
Christ used the word agapēn, speaking of the deep kind of love that God has for people.
This rebuke contrasts with what Paul wrote the Ephesians 35 years earlier, that he never stopped giving thanks for them because of their faith in Christ and their love (agapēn) for the saints (Eph.
1:15–16).
Most of the Ephesian Christians were now second-generation believers, and though they had retained purity of doctrine and life and had maintained a high level of service, they were lacking in deep devotion to Christ.
How the church today needs to heed this same warning, that orthodoxy and service are not enough.
Christ wants believers’ hearts as well as their hands and heads.
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