2022 Apr 24 Sunday Morning Service

If you go from church to church, you'll go through two very different kinds of Thor's very different, kinds of environments, worship Style, music, theological doctrine of considerations, and programs that most significantly and Saturday, they will differ and how they deal with sin. Do Jesus is clearly called his church to be wholly, pure and intolerant of sin, even though the Lord says that if you know anyone in, send go to your brother and tell him about his sin and ask him to repent. Even though we are to be that directed the church still churches throughout history have defied, God help the church and Paul Reading Cinemas town a ways. It is. In fact typical I suppose of churches. By that, I mean, the majority of churches are tolerant of seven to one degree or another. This is the Church of the attire at. And so the message to this church is a very relevant message to any church with tolerates, any kind of sin. You made it especially difficult to be in that church. If you were devoted the holiest because it was the only church in town. As was the case in the church. There was only one church for Sunday and you went there because that was the only one if you were a serious Christian and you were pursuing Holiness and you believe the church should be assured. You are, you were sort of stuck. If you live in a few Tyra. Now, this kind of church is still coming today because most churches tolerate sin to some degree to do. So however is to be in direct Disobedience to the lord of the church. In the case of the Church of the entire. They were tolerated any woman who would usurp, the place of leadership in teaching plus call herself a prophetess. They were hollering evils of idolatry. They were tolerated sexual soon. Not only were they tolerate even But there were certain people in the church who are advocating it and that's the church would become significantly corrupted. And as I told you last time it wasn't long until it went out of existence. The seriousness of the seriousness of their involvement with sin can be seen as bursts 24, where you see the phrase, the Deep things of soup. They have managed to plunge themselves, very deeply in the satanic things. In this letter to the church suits, many churches throughout history. Even today. It is a permanent word to Church's to compromise with Sim. Don't let me briefly review. What we looked at last time. First of all, the introduction gives us the one who writes to the angel for the messenger, the one who had been sent by the church, to John the Apostle to get this letter and take it back rub Elations 218 and to the angels of the church in theater, right? The Son of God who has eyes like a flame of fire and feet. Like burnished bronze says this It comes from the Lord, and this is a picture of judgment. He has seen in his judgment character, his eyes like a flame of fire or like Supernatural to buying lays the penetrating, into the death of the church and see the Fatal flaws. Nothing is given to the lasers of his vision and his feet like burnished bronze, or the feet, the trampled out judgement. Secondly, we noted last time the signal via Tyra halfway between pergamum and Sardis. It had been rolling since 190 b. C over three hundred years ago, for many centuries. It was only an unprotected military. Outposts. Stop the ongoing armies. There were coming.

Then we're coming out to forgive them and fought them off for a little while, so they could get ready to fight. And so it got destroyed and rebuilt over and over again, then eventually when the Romans took over it had a. Of peace and under that. Of Peace became a commercial center. It became a city with more guilds Craftsman than any other city in Asia Minor. It became a center for wool and a center for developing beautiful purple. Dye. Guilt involved in the city, had a lot of its own and they would not only do their crap, but they would worship their deity, that would include feasts and festivals. And that would include certain sacrifices that were offered at whatever Temple serve to worship His God. And it also included certain sexual words used and so the guilds were not simply labor union. Trade, religious organizations. Well, with many deities sort of fitting into all the various kinds of trades for their newest non-warriors City, who was the smallest of the Southern cities that the letters, here are written. And thirdly with taking a, look at the church, and the church was not from the outside, so much my persecution, but from the inside by compromise, the disaster, this church was not some Onslaught from false teachers on the outside, but an onslaught false Doctrine on the inside. If you want it, your job you stayed with the guild and they would have a pretty strong hold over you. And you'll be forced to engage yourself and all the functions of the guilt which meant the Feast of the Fast Pace in the ceremonies, or maybe even the sexual sin. And if you didn't do that, it would be reasonable to assume you might lose your job. And so, there was some pressure for the phone, these Christians, in this regard, Satan wanting to see to it that the compromise was made at a woman when the church was identified here by the name, Jezebel this woman found platform of the church and thought everybody. Good to commit, sexual sin and get involved in. Idle worship was okay. And so the church actually have an internal spokesman advocating. Which took the monkey off of everybody's back and let them be free. That you bought to engage in the guild idolatry and immorality while at the same time, calling themselves Christians and attending the church. So this is our church was really struggling for survival because of the corruption on the inside. And lastly, in our review. We looked at the Commendation in verse 19. He says, I know your deeds and your love and faith and service and perseverance and that your Deeds of late are greater than it first. He identifies, those four things. I know your love that is few demonstrate sacrifice to one another out of love. I know your faithfulness. You have not abandoned Christ. I know your service, you're involved in activity in your meeting needs. You're doing Ministry and I know your perseverance or your endurance, you hung in there, you've been faked when there has been some hostility, and some persecution. This is all very commendable. And then at the end of Hearst 19e says, and your Deeds of late, Greater than the 1st. So you're doing fees to demonstrate your love and faithfulness in your service and your perseverance. The church may have had in the community. A very good reputation after all of the Power. Aided people attending the beasts and orgies and festivities of the guilds. It certainly wasn't calling for any division between the church in the world. If they were busy meeting needs and doing Deeds of sacrificial, love, and injuring hostility. They must have had a reputation as a somewhat Noble bunch. What is absent is the combination is sound Doctrine, an old man living. Now that brings us to the point as we dissect our way through this letter and that its condemnation in verse 20, but I have this against you, that you tolerate, the women Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess and she teaches and leaves. My bond service is straight so that they can commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to Idols. This was a church names of the name of Jesus Christ. This was a church that claimed to be identified with him. This was a church that claim to be sharing his love and being faithful to his gospel. A church endeavoring to serve him in a drawer for his sake and the whoever comes and says, I have to tell you to come against your church. And here's why you have this woman Jezebel in you, Paula reiter Universe. 20 says that she led the bond Servants of Christ, commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to Idols. She was very effective and you'll notice that phrase and give 20 leads my bondservants astray. In fact, in 1st Corinthians, 6:15 through 20. The Apostle Paul says the Christians. Do not know that your bodies of parts of Christ. Shall I, then take away the parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute far from it, or do you not know that one who joins himself to a prom? Dude is one body with her for he says, the two shall become one flesh with the one who joins himself to the Lord, as one spirit with them. Flee sexual immorality. Every other SIM, that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sends against his own body or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you whom you have from God? And that you were not your own for you. Have been fought for a price. Their fault for glorify. God, in your body is telling Christians. Don't commit fornication. Can Christians also lined up at an idle feast and eat that which is offered to a false deity and engage themselves. And some kind of celebration of that. Deity course, they can. They were doing it then go to work and then come Worship the Lord they would go to the Feast of the aisle and then come. OK, Google call, Susan Corinthians, 10:21. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and the table. This woman had succeeded in leading true Christians to engage themselves. A title feast, and sexual sin in. This is very serious. This woman has committed a very serious film to show you how serious go back to Matthew 18, just to remind you of the seriousness of leaving Christians to commit sins. The Matthew 18:7, Jesus was referring here to Christians, not to little baby's boo. Boo, ski refers to his children. Whoever, one of these little ones who believes in me, to send it is better for him. That a heavy Millstone be hung around his neck and then he, he drowned in the depths see, you better off to die a painful, horrible death, and the cause a Christian soon verse 70 to the world because of its stumbling blocks. Where does the novel about? The stumbling blocks, come but woe to the person to whom stumbling blocks. Come? Whenever the world does something to make a Christian Sim, load of that person who doesn't have this is serious. The world around is pumped out. Filled the music books, television movies, whatever it is the world, Paula rates all the sin. And when it causes a Christian stumble, God remembers who paused at Kristen's phone. If he says one of the world hasn't been stumbling blocks for it was inevitable. The stumbling blocks come the word of the person to whom the stumbling block, as if you were doing anything to make a Christian soon. Loading you. Leonard verses 8 and 9. He says and if your hand or your foot is causing you to send cut it off and throw it away from you. It is better for you to enter like Maine without a foot thing to have a few hands or two. She needs to be thrown in the Eternal fire. And if your eye is causing you to send, tear it out and throw it away from, you is better for you to end her life. With one eye, then have two eyes and be thrown into the fiery. Hell. If those are the things affecting your sim is better off without her. Lemon, burst heading out see that? You do not look down on one of these little ones. What Jesus is saying? There is a matter of grave, seriousness to him. When anybody causes of Christian Center, So now go back to Rome. Revelations chapter 2. We understand why he said I have this against you. I am against you because you are tolerating a woman who is putting stumbling blocks in front of my little ones in my own bottle service. That phrase is there for a reason, he wants, no doubt in anybody's mind that she is causing Christians to be led astray. He says, you powering the woman judge. You don't deal with this. This is not a pagan deity. This is one of their own people. She had successfully seduced the members of the church. Some of them do I Dollar Tree in immoral sexual activity? The way she could do, this was the same like the pressures on you because of the girls. They want you to be engaged all the activities and you need to do that. She could have taken to dualistic approach, which says the spirit is only one thing God's concerned about the flesh is flesh, is wicked. Anyway, the spirit is good. You can do whatever you want. Or she may have sort of embellished that with the idea of Grace. It really doesn't matter what you do. You're going to be forgiving. Anyway. I'm a forgiving God loves you, you're sincere offer given you can't give yourself a chance. So don't give it a thought, whatever it was. She got a platform there and she was teaching and leading people astray and to make matters. Worse says she calls herself, a prophetess. She claimed, her message was from God, that it was not him. It was from safe. It was doctrines of demons, and she was a hypocritical liar, who is under the control of seducing Spirits? Amazingly. She was effective in this church, and she was teaching, and leaving the very, bondservants of Jesus Christ was straight and they were engaging, and I have moral activity, and they were going to hide on pieces. In verse 21, this is Grace upon Grace here. I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of their sexual immorality. Is that not gracious when people are in the Sin and darkness, they love it. Don't they? John 3:19 says, and people loved the darkness rather than the light for their deeds were evil. Wickedness is a phone prison. I gave her time to repent. She doesn't want to repent. That's a lot of final statement. So first, 20 to behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness and Those who commit adultery with her into Great Tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. He wants to bed. I'll give her a bed in the name of the bed, as hell. It's a bed of death. This is a settled thing and Those who commit adultery with her into Great Tribulation unless they repent of her deeds. And some of them may even die in that. Unless they repent of her Deeds. They weren't even doing their own of these. They were just joining in and doing furs. Trouble for all those who followed her because they didn't repent, if they don't make him stop turn around and go the other way. They're going to have a lot of trouble with me until the promise, fear is a promise of severe Judgment of the woman and great chasing those who follow you. But there's another group of 23, legally different group and I will kill for children with play. I don't think he needs his bond servants who were following her. He means the second generation of a falsehood. It tells me that this thing has been around long enough to this church. That there is a second generation of people, propagating the same stuff. That's for children. She has begotten a generation who are advocating the same thing offspring of her debauchery. And the Lord says, I'll kill them and I'll kill them with a play. That's very severe judgment. What? What church pewter. New church isn't pure. You have a woman there and she's leading my bond service in the Sin. I'm going to give her a bed already, Abed of death and a bed. And I'm going to take all my bond servant who were following her into that soon. And if they don't, repent and mediately, I'm going to punish them severely and may even cost of their lives. It'll be great trouble. Is I punish them and then I'm going to take her children, the second-generation false prophets and prophetess is who are propagating and I'm going to kill them. Very serious. You just picture the Christ wants his church pure, and if he has to deal kill false Christians, don't kill us product to remove them. The message for us is powerful. If you call yourself a profit, you better be speaking the truth. You better not believe in God's people into any. Are there any reform, like Dollar Tree, wreath form of immorality for you, or bring it upon yourself to tell if you are Christian and you're following or false Doctrine, and you're engaging in some kind of sin, you'd better repent, or you're going to find yourself in great trouble. And if you're the second generation and if you sat at the feet of some false prophet and you're spouting off that same stuff, you're going to get the same sounds in the Lord May kill you to Jezebel, have time to repent and didn't do it. He cries out to those who would follow her to repent, while they have time and that's the message that he wants to hear. If you're involved in sin. You must repent. You're a danger of death. You're in danger of punishment. Demented verse 23 says and all the churches will know that I am she who searches the minds and hearts and I will give each one of you recording to your knees. When I do it. Everybody is going to know. We don't have to have any record of when it happened when God killed, just felt when God kill the second generation, but we known do know that it wasn't very long until this church went out of existence. The Lord wanted everybody to know, though. If there's any send me where you will find it. He says, when I move in, everybody's going to know that I can find the Fatal flaw, everybody is going to be warned about already soon. Jeremiah 17. 10 says, I the Lord search the heart. I test mine to give to each person according to his ways according to the results. God is the one who searches the heart surgery. So he knows the Deep reality and he will find it. He has perfect knowledge to the very depths and no evil. This judgment is accurate and his judgment is based on a perfect understanding of every single detail. Lord is saying I know the truth. And when I move against you and people start dying and people start having tremendous trouble in this church, eventually passes out of existence. Everybody is going to know that. I know the truth about the sin in the church. And then the warning is Broad Universe, 23, and I will give to each one of you recording to your deeds. And now he's talking to everybody. I can only imagine the instant Panic set in because you're sitting in church. While this guy is reading the letter and you're feeling good about love and faithfulness service and perseverance and everything's fine. And then all of a sudden, he reads Jezebel and everybody's here is put yourself, and then we hear about the second generation of her children, propagating the same. And they know who they are. And then we hear about the people who are following after her, in that same sin and they know who they are. And he says, I'm going to kill our people to propagate a message in the Next Generation down. And I'm going to bring big trouble with those of you who are following it. And there was some dear folks sitting there in fear because they think they're going to get gobbled up in this tremendous judgment. And so, he qualifies it says, I'll give to each one according to your Deeds. You don't have to panic if your life is right, or you, we going to be judged on works. We will be judged on our works. That's not New, Living Testament, Romans 26, the righteous Judgment of God, who will repay each person. According to his deeds. We will be judged on the basis that is always has been always will be in the Divine principle for judgment. Matthew 16:27. For the son of man is going to come in the glory of his father with his angels and will, then repay every person according to his deeds, were going to be judged by your Deeds, by what we've done. Is that salvation by Works know the principle is this, your Deeds demonstrate, your spiritual condition. God can look at your life and see your deeds and know whether you're his that's what James was talking about. James 218. You have faith. I have Works. Show me your faith without works. I will show you my face by my work. That's the only way you can show faith is by words. He goes on to say faith without works is dead. How can how can you say you have faith? If you don't forgive? Saving Faith makes you a new creation, being a new creation, methadone manifest itself in some kind of works.

You don't have anything to be afraid of if your Deeds are right. You don't have to be anything to be afraid of. If your life is right. If there are Deeds of genuine conversion, all outward actions, reflect inward life. And if I have the life of God, my soul is going to manifest itself on the outside. But dog will act like a dog and a cat locked like a cat in the Christian walk. Like a Christian because that's the nature. God Can you look at your life and say there's a Believer living in a holding way. He just listen to work so he can see what produces them. And so you have this in one sense broad sweeping warning. I'm going to give you exactly what your needs are. And so are you going to come in here and blow me away with everybody else? Wealthy answer, sat verse 24 here is the command, but I say to you, the rest who are in Theater, Tyrone, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known as they call out. I place no other version audio. You folks who don't hold this teaching who haven't gone out there and engage to self and what they call the Deep things of Satan. I'm not putting the burden on you. No other burden. Just the burden happen to be in the church like that. That's a big enough pain. No other bird than happy to live with this group and resist this group and their incessant solicitation and ridicule impression, because you're being a bully and you're being faithful. He says, you don't hold this teaching the erroneous doctrine of this woman. You have not known the Deep. Signs of Satan has they caught another words? They were saying yes, we're engaging them to be. Things are shaping were claiming to it, be involved in the Deep things are safe. And we're out there in those piece festivals and fornication, and we're right there first and seen Satan at his death, but it doesn't matter because we're spirit. Gods and that's only Flash and that's what we body. And what's the difference? And no matter what we do with our body. It can't touch the spirit and it can't touch her Eternal salvation. Cannot overpower us and we do not lose our Salvation unbelievable. That found its way into some complex kind of system of theology that they've developed in which, they even announced that they rent, the few things are safe, and they were trying to, because their Spirit was still redeemed and they can still come and worship God. And so he says, you folks who don't hold this teaching and you haven't known the Deep things of Satan as they call them. I'm not going to do anything for you. I'm not adding another burden to do. You've got enough of a pretty bird in captivity live with these p. Verse 25 says, never the less what you have hold firmly until I come. Why does he say that? Because Paul made a very important observation 1st Corinthians 10:12. Therefore, let the one who thinks he stands watch out. That he does not fall. You don't want to get too sure that you're Invincible. It won't be easy. You're going to have to hold on for dear life, like a guy hanging on a rope, over a precipice full of fire. Jesus is saying this to all of his church. There's always going to be sent around, hold on until I finally the council verses 26 to 28, the one who overcomes and the one who keeps my Deeds until the end. I will give him a 40 over the nation's and he shall rule them with a rod of iron has the vessels of the Potter or shattered as I also have received a thorny from my father and I will give him the Morning Star. As in the other letters, John closes with the word to the true Christians, and it's a Word of Promise, saving Faith, triumphs and never abandons. You never give it up. You always overcome. No matter what comes against you. You never lose your faith. You continue to believe. So the true Christian has an unending faith and has a pattern of obedience is faith. Has made manifest in his works. So, to the True Believer, he says, I want to give you two things, if you and you're in constant anti pattern of obedience to the end of your life. For the time, when Jesus comes, I'll give you the 40 over the nation's, He's saying that you're going to rain with Christ in the Earthly, Millennial Kingdom. That's the first promise. You're going to be in my kingdom. When the whole curse is reversed when the lion lies down with the lamb, when the Desert Blossom, like a rose. In that ring time when peace fills the Earth in wisdom and knowledge of Christ and you're going to be there with me and then he gives another promise from verse 28 and I will give him the morning star book, a WhatsApp.

You've been standing Revelations, 22:16. I Jesus have sent my angel to testify to you of these things for the church's. I am the route and the descendant of David, the bright and Morning Star. Now when you go back to Revelations, chapter 2 that he says, I'll give him the Morning Star. Would you think he's talking about? I'll give you Jesus Christ. That's what I'm talking about. Peter said the 2nd Peter 1:19. And so we have the prophetic word made for sure. To wish you'd do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in the dark place until the date Dawn's in the Morning, Star rises in your hearts and someday in the future. We will have Kim and his fullest and then the final words verse 29, the one who has an ear bleed him hear what the spirit says to the churches. All Revelation, even when Lockard like Christ is inspired by the Holy Spirit and that first just me, listen and pay attention. Now, listen to several things stand out. One the seriousness of sealing, the church, and how God reacts to it, that's verses 20 to 23. The second thing to stand down. This passage is the evidence of true Christianity, Natsu vs 24 to 26. And I know who the rest of you are. You don't. You're not involved in these kinds of sin. You're holding fast. Your faith is consistent in overcoming, and your life has a pattern of The Obedience that shows up in the way you live. That's the evidence of Truth. The third thing I see here is the wonderful graciousness promise of God to his own. He gives them the kingdom of Christ, that church must have been shaken to its foundation. The tragedy is, we don't have any reason to believe that it changed many churches today to read and hear the same mate, Messi, make the right choices that they may know, all the blessing of God and not his judgment. Let's prank.

Father God. Thank you for trying this morning. Make a beautiful as individuals to deal with sin as we know it at church. We pray that all of us might be true Christians with continuing faith and obedience, working every hard here.

Thank you. Gorgeous. Miss.

Thank you, everyone.

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