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Intro
Open your Bibles to .
Should I bring my Bible?
This was scheduled to be the Mother’s Day text?
Re-intro series
Make sure to maintain a they-we
This is his church - his bride
Stop the bus at Thyatira (show map)
Small town - Clermont
Oddly the longest letter.
We may think, we’re not CCV...
We don’t know much about Thyatira
They had a temple to Apollos - the son of God?
They were ran by guilds (the lollipop guild)
Wool dying - we are introduced to Lydia
Bronze smelting
Towns would be broken up into districts according to the guilds.
Social life centered around the guild at the Temple.
Food sacrificed to idols
Sex
What happens when a bronze smelter became a Christian?
Incredible pressure.
The pressure in Thyatira wasn’t physical persecution.
It was much more deadly - they got hit in the wallet.
Have you ever heard the old saying - when in Rome?
What will Jesus say to the small church in Thyatira?
Remember, as we look at what Jesus says to Thyatira, what would he say to SCCC?
Text
Rev
Jesus introduces himself
Son of God - not Apollos (only time SoG title used in Rev)
eyes are like a raging fire - He sees everything
Feel like burnished bronze - Daniel
THIS IS SOMEONE TO LISTEN TO!!!
Keep it up
Jesus says, “I know.”
Them
I know your deeds (works of persevering witness to the outside world.)
What are those deeds?
love (agape)
faith (living in the midst of pagans)
service (deaconing)
Jesus knows about their perseverance.
You are doing more now than you did when you first started.
They were growing in their good deeds!
What an awesome thing to hear from the Lord.
Us
We have to always be reminded that Jesus knows.
When you’re struggling as you try to be a Christian in a difficult environment.
He knows
When you’re a student...
But - and its a big but
Cut it out
They tolerated heresy
Looking at them
Jesus singles out an individual
You tolerate this woman!
Code name: Jezabel
Describe Jezabel - set up her own agenda (Baal) and persecuted YHWH’s prophets.
Prophetess?
In Greek, the sentence is emphatic - she misleads my servants!
Someone is misleading those whom Jesus loves and he’s not about to stand by and watch it happen.
Jesus said this would happen in and
What is the problem?
Pornea and participating in idol worship
Jezabel is seen here as a satanic force (this is the only place in Rev where a person wields this terrible power).
She claims to speak for God but she is really speaking for Satan.
The church let this happen!
Either, they don’t have the understanding or the guts to address the problem.
Jesus literally says that he has a grudge against all of them because they are tolerating it!
Looking at Us
Make no mistake about it; the church isn’t a showcase of saints; it’s a hospital for the sin-sick.
That being said, we cannot have ongoing sin issues that are left unaddressed—particularly in the area of doctrine and morality.
Guard the truth
Restoration motto (In essentials unity, in, in non-essentials liberty, in all things love)
The Bible
The Trinity
Deity of Jesus
All people are made in the image of God
Grace through Faith
Indwelling of the HS
One universal church
Biblical morality
We don’t follow the ever-changing winds culture; our morality is set.
God’s standard of morality must be ours.
Dignity of life
Sexual ethic
Capernaum
A Word about Repentance
Looking at them
Notice with each of the churches, Jesus has spoken about what will happen but with Jezebel, her opportunity to repent is gone.
Don’t miss the wordplay.
She’s been teaching that it’s okay to jump into different beds.
She will now be thrown onto a sickbed.
Her opportunity to repent has passed.
What a terrifying reality!
Jesus offers a choice to the rest of the church.
Repent or you’ll walk the same path she’s about to walk.
It’s her way or Jesus’ way.
Anyone who followers her is now put on notice.
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