The fourth message, the believers in Thayatara.

Chapter 2, verses 18 to 29, this is the longest letter of all the seven, and probably the most troubling of all.

As always, Jesus uses something positive, something good to say about every church.

And he was praising them for some sterling qualities they have.

Love, faith, service, and patient endurance.

Something else, Jesus said.

The latter works exceed the first.

Now, look, growing in love and growing in faith and growing in service and patient endurance.

Wonderful.

What else?

This is a growing church.

This is a mega church.

This is a contemporary church.

It's a with it church.

At that point, you expect Jesus said,

Adaboy, keep it up. Doing great. This is great. But sadly, he tells him that there is a cancer

of moral compromise that is growing on the inside of them.

Beloved, this is a sobering word.

Today, there are many wonderful mega churches, Bible, believing churches.

They love Jesus, serving Jesus all over the world.

I'm not putting everybody in the same bucket here.

But those growing churches have moral compromise,

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