7 Churches Week 4

Revelation 2

18 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

19 “‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. 

20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. 

21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

22 Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, 

23 and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works. 

24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden. 

25 Only hold fast what you have until I come. 

26 The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,

27 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.

28 And I will give him the morning star. 

29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

Vulnerable

Exposure 

The Compromised Church

The Corrupted Church 

I know…

Outside

Inside 

You tolerate Jezebel. 

Silences 

Substitutes 

Tolerate 

I've noticed that there's nothing as intolerant as the intolerance of the tolerant against the intolerance of the intolerant.

— Adrian Rodgers 

What do we tolerate?

Why do we tolerate it? 

Do I redefine biblical truth to fit culture?

Do I excuse sin in the name of tolerance?

Do I cave to the pressure of political correctness? 

Am I aware that He knows and that He sees the deep things in my life?  

Guild > God 

We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

— A.W. Tozer 

Revelation 2:21 — I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

I gave _______________ time to repent. 

The REJECTION of REPENTANCE.