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This symbolised enduement with power and authority. He told John not to be afraid. He speaks the very same words to us today. Jesus went on to tell John that He was the First and the Last - the very same title used by the Father earlier verse 8. He knows the end from the beginning and He Himself is before the beginning and after the end.

This is why we need never fear. Jesus then tells John how He has conquered death and the grave and now holds the keys of death and Hades the place of departed spirits verse Keys symbolise the power to open and close doors. Once it was Satan who had the power of death Hebrews , But when Jesus died and rose again, He took those keys from Satan.

Today Jesus has the keys of death and Hades. That means that if you are a wholehearted disciple of Jesus, seeking to do the will of God alone in your life, you cannot die until God's appointed time comes. No accident or sickness can claim your life, until Jesus decides that it is time to open the door of death for you to go through into His presence. This is a tremendous encouragement for all who are truly disciples of Jesus. John may be persecuted by men at Patmos. But they could not kill him until God's time for him had come.

And the Lord still had a ministry for John to fulfil. John is now empowered and commissioned by the Lord for a new task - to write this wonderful book of Revelation verse We need to be empowered again and again by the Lord if we are to complete our ministry triumphantly.

The Lord then explains to John the meaning of the lampstands and the stars verse The Lord alone can give us revelation on the secrets of His Word. To receive such revelation, we need two indispensable qualities - the fear of God and humility. Although these seven letters are addressed primarily to the messengers of the churches, yet at the end of each message, we find an invitation to anyone who has an ear to hear, to pay attention to what the Holy Spirit is saying to ALL the churches.

They have a message therefore for every disciple in every church in every generation. We see Him fulfilling this ministry in these letters of His. To use a modern expression, Jesus " tells it like it is ". Christ is the Judge in the midst of His church, judging both the messenger and the church itself. He tells the messengers and the churches exactly what He thinks of them.

In His evaluations, the Lord doesn't "touch-up" the portraits like modern photographers do. He loves His people far too much to do that!! He knows that it is better that we deal with sin, worldliness, lukewarmness and self-centredness right now, than to have to face up with these things at His judgment-seat later.


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To be judged for these over there would not be profitable for us; and He has our eternal good in view. So it is good for us to pay careful attention to everything that the Lord says in these letters. Where there is room for appreciation, the Lord expresses sincere appreciation. And where there is need for rebuke, He does not hesitate to rebuke scathingly.

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It has to be excised by radical surgery. Even so with sin. Verses To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, The One who walks among the seven golden lampstands, says this: 'I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot endure evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false; and you have perseverance and have endured for My name's sake, and have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

Remember therefore 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. Yet this you do have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God. In the letter to the messenger at Ephesus, the Lord describes Himself as the One Who holds the seven stars in His right hand and walks among the seven churches verse 1. The Lord is always walking in the midst of the churches, examining everything that is said and done by everyone therein, and especially by the messengers Whom He holds in His hand.

And He measures everything, not by the low standards that carnal Christians have, or even by the standard of the ten commandments, but by the plumbline of Divine righteousness.

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He expresses His approval and appreciation first before He points out the failures verse 2. The Divine nature is like that. The Lord always looks for that which is good first, and expresses appreciation for that, before pointing out what needs to be set right. Man's nature however is quite different. He does not look for that which is good in others first, but for that which is bad.

Man is naturally slow to appreciate and extremely quick to criticise.

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This is but one mark of the poison of the " Accuser of the brethren " that is in our system. The more we partake of the Divine nature however, the more we will be like our Lord - quick to appreciate and slow to criticise. It is good to follow this principle all through life: " I will never point out a fault to someone, in whom I have found nothing so far to appreciate ". Following that simple rule can lead us to greater heights of godliness than we have ever imagined. It will make us a far greater blessing in the church and far less of a nuisance to others than we have been thus far.

It is only when we appreciate others that we have laid the foundation to constructively criticize them. Otherwise we will only be hurling bricks at them. You cannot write with a chalk on thin air. You need a blackboard if people are to see what you are writing. Even so, expressed appreciation forms the blackboard on which we can write and " speak the truth in love " to others.

Then, what we say is also more likely to be accepted by them. Appreciation and rebuke are both signs of love. But we must begin with appreciation first. Notice how Paul follows this principle even when writing to the carnal Corinthian Christians 1 Corinthians The Lord commends the messenger at Ephesus for his toil and perseverance and for his efforts to keep the church pure from evil men.

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No doubt he had fought a battle against worldliness to keep it from entering the church. Not only that, he had also striven to keep the church pure in doctrine. He had tested those who claimed to be apostles and had proved their claims to be false.

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The Lord's reference to "apostles" in verse 2 clearly indicates that there were other apostles in the church in the first century, besides the eleven whom the Lord had appointed when He was on earth. Christ has given apostles to the church even after He " ascended on high " Ephesians , and there are apostles even today. But there are also many who claim to be apostles who are not.

And so we must not be deceived by false apostles verse 2. The messenger in the church at Ephesus had also " endured " for the sake of the Lord's Name without giving up verse 3. What a wonderful man this messenger was, according to the standards of most believers. And what a wonderful church the Ephesian church appeared to be - one that toiled, persevered, kept away evil men, kept out false doctrine and exposed deceivers - thus emphasising both purity of life and purity of doctrine.

One would have thought that such a church had everything that the Lord wanted to find in a church. But alas it was not so. It lacked the main thing that the Lord looked for. It had left its first love - love for the Lord and love for one another verse 4. The church here had become like a wife who once served her husband joyfully out of love for him, but who now considers the same tasks a drudgery - because the fire of love has gone out of her marriage.

In the olden days, she used to wait eagerly for her husband to come back from the office every evening. But not now.

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She is still faithful to Him, but she has lost her first love. What does a true husband desire from his wife first of all? Is it her love or her labours? Certainly, it is her love. It is the same with the Lord. He desires the love of our hearts first and foremost. When that is gone, everything that we do becomes dead works. The believers here had also cooled off in their love for each other. They were no longer able to bear with each other's weaknesses or to overlook each other's sins. They had lost their first love for one another too.