When someone in your church is blatantly sinning and unrepentant, you can't just let it go.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Waldemuth.

Sin in the body of Christ, in the family of God, like cancer.

If you let it go untreated, it will spread, it will destroy the whole body.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamov, author of Surrender,

The Heart God Controls.

For August 30th, 2023, I'm Dana Gresh.

The Book of Revelation begins with a series of letters to churches.

And it's amazing how much we can apply these letters to ourselves today.

2,000 years later.

This week, Nancy's focusing on the message to the church in Pergamum.

Well, after the last session where we talked about how Jesus confronted the church in Pergamum

for the issue of worldliness that was being tolerated in the church, people said different

things to me after that session.

Somebody said, that was so convicting.

My heart was thumping as I heard that.

Someone said, I didn't think I could take any more after you finished that session.

And I heard someone else say, that is going to be hard for people to hear.

And as I heard those comments, I thought, that's exactly the kind of response that Jesus wanted the church in Pergamum to have when he sent

that letter to them. When he said, I have this concern, you've got to deal with this. He wanted

their hearts to be pounding. He wanted them to be saying, we've got to do something about this.

Or as someone said after that last session, search my heart,

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