* Although the church in Ephesus had let their love grow cold, God applauded them for hating what He hates.

* You can’t just love what God loves you must hate what He hates.

* True love always has a hate component to it.

* If you love your spouse then you hate anything that would threaten that love.

* EX: a man watching the Cowboys and the camera goes to the cheerleaders.

* If he doesn’t hate what that can do in his mind then he’ll find himself looking.

* Here in this verse the church at Ephesus hated what the Nicolaitins stood for.

* What was that? They turned what God called black and white into a strange shade of grey.

* But the church in Pergamum tolerated them (vs 2:15).

* In the church today, we should hate that which would stand in the way of people coming to Christ - a true knowledge of Him.