THE TEXT:
The text for the sermon today is Revelation 2:1-7. Our text can be found on page 1028. These are the words of God:
“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.
2 “ ‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who …