Nancy Demoswagamu 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 Demoswagamu,

author of Surrender, The Heart God Controls.

For August 29, 2023, I'm Dana Grasch.

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 a frontal 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,

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