"... the Church of Ephesus in Revelation 2. They know all the rules, they can lock your heels with the rules, but they ‘have lost their first love’. That was the only church threatened with the loss of their candlestick of the 7 listed in Revelation 2-3." And therein, Pastor, is a lesson so powerful and confounding that it needs to be revisited over and over again, each year, to the flock. What Jesus did for us in His crucifixion, death, and resurrection made eradication of a multitude of sins (the sin nature, after all) in the life of any who will confess with their mouth that God has raised Him from the dead ... and in love, the spirit of a man knows the judgment is in God's hands not the legalists.
I live with me. I know that I cannot make it through a single day without violating the two commandments wherein lay all the law and the prophets. I live, but only by His Grace and tender Mercies. His love still envelopes me even as I confess my failings and I am His so I can love others, regardless. But I still despise the mouthers like Pelosi, and Harkin, and Kerry, and Dorgan, and, well, perhaps you get the picture etc. As you say, they eat and drink to their own damnation.