Thyatira

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Write this letter to the angel of the church in Thyatira. This is the message from the Son of God, whose eyes are like flames of fire, whose feet are like polished bronze. Revelation 2:18 NLT

I know your works, your love, faithfulness, service, and endurance. I know that your last works are greater than the first. Revelation 2:19 CSB

But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols. Revelation 2:20 CSB

We can become so concerned with maintaining a loving, accepting, and compassionate reputation that we become unwilling to confront what is spiritually destructive, even deadly, to those we allegedly to love!

For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3 CSB

If the enemy can get you to question what God meant, he can get you to redefine what God said.

Redefining God’s word until it no longer challenges us is no less damning than disregarding it all together!

Jesus loves you too much to leave you comfortable in something that will kill you.

I gave her time to repent, but she does not want to repent of her sexual immorality. Revelation 2:21 CSB

You must throw this man out and hand him over to Satan so that his sinful nature will be destroyed and he himself will be saved on the day the Lord returns. 1 Corinthians 5:5 NLT

Grace is a far greater gift than tolerance could ever be. It calls us to turn from our own self-destructive decisions and embrace the life-giving love and truth of our merciful Messiah and Savior.

Look, I will throw her into a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction. Unless they repent of her works, I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who examines minds and hearts, and I will give to each of you according to your works. Revelation 2:21-23 CSB

God's stern judgment against compromise and rebellion reflects His hatred of the spiritual destruction they bring to those who embrace them!

Do you think that I like to see wicked people die? says the Sovereign LORD. Of course not! I want them to turn from their wicked ways and live. Ezekiel 18:23 NLT

I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven’t known “the so-called secrets of Satan”, as they say, I am not putting any other burden on you. Only hold on to what you have until I come. Revelation 2:24-25 CSB

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