Nancy DeMoss-Walgamu says there's a link between adultery and idolatry.

You see, adultery breaks a marriage covenant.

And a covenant with the world, when our hearts go after this world, we end up having a broken

covenant relationship with God.

It affects our covenant relationship with Him.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgler, author of Surrender.

The Heart God Controls. For August 29th, 2023, I'm Dana Gresh. You would be enraged if your spouse were to be unfaithful to you in marriage, but a lot of times we don't realize how we're being unfaithful to God.

We're going to learn to pursue faithfulness in every area as Nancy continues the

series on the church at Pergamum. If you were Satan and wanted to silence the church and its witness,

what would you do? Well, one obvious way would be to make affrontal assault to bring in overt opposition

from outside the church, to pressure Christians to deny Christ and then annihilate those who refuse.

The problem is true Christians won't deny Christ. And as we have seen over and over again throughout history,

the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. In fact, history shows us that the church

actually thrives and multiplies and spreads in periods of persecution. So Satan has found

what I think is a remarkable alternative, rather clever on his part, and that is rather than annihilation of the church. He certainly does that at times, but there's another program he has, and we could call that accommodation. Not annihilation, but accommodation. This is a more subtle backdoor approach. He can try to conquer from

without by means of persecution and intimidation, or he can try to corrupt the church from within

by means of deception and infiltration, penetrating, permeating the church from within. In the persecution approach,

the world rejects the church and moves against the church. In the accommodation approach,

the church embraces the world and moves toward the world. In the persecution approach, the annihilation approach,

the church has a confrontational or adversarial approach with the world. They don't mix.

But in the accommodation approach, the church and the world have a comfortable relationship with each other. They become blended together,

melded together. Now both of these approaches were taking place in the Asian city, the capital city of Pergamum, in the first century, as we're looking at these seven letters to the churches in Revelation. And in the case of Pergamum, the subtle

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