Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Revelation 2 today. The message to the church in Ephesus was a dire warning, and we know today that the church no longer exists. Roughly 4,000 churches close each year in the US alone, with only 3,800 being planted. The reason is that churches are losing their focus. When we make church about everything except Jesus, it’s no wonder why God may decide to pull the lampstand. Highland alone has gone through several cycles of shrink and growth over the last 25 years, but we aren’t immune. If we treat God's grace as a license to do whatever we want like other churches are doing, then it's only a matter of time before our lampstand gets pulled. This warning didn't just happen to the church in Ephesus, but to all churches that have ever been planted. And as we get closer and closer to the tribulation, the number of churches will continue to shrink because people would rather be unfaithful than suffer for His name sake.

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28 19-20

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'Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. '

Galatians 6-7