When two people disagree, it's helpful to find middle ground. For example, married couples learn how to compromise. We settle

our differences by mutual agreement. But what happens when we're called upon to compromise

the truth? How should we respond when a business partner or an employer wants us to

concede on a non-negotiable matter of faith? Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall

finds the answer to those questions in Revelation Chapter 2.

In this passage, we read a tragic story about believers who corrupted their long-held values.

Chuck titled today's message, The Church that compromised the truth.

The Church that was located in Pergumum had an uphill climb. It was a tough

place to minister. The first strength was that they didn't try to escape the

pressures of their location. Not only did they live there and didn't try to

escape, look at what it says. You hold fast my name, you did not deny my faith. So they

were true to their faith, these saints were.

They held fast to his name.

Look at this.

Even in the days of Antipus, my witness, my faithful one who was killed among you.

We know nothing more about Antipus than what appears here. Nothing. Legend has it that he was that

he was roasted alive in a hollow brass bull where the heat was increased and the persecutors killed him

inside this hollow brass replica of a bull. I don't know if that's true. That's legend. Probably isn't true. But he was

killed. He didn't die a natural death. He was killed among them. So there by the way see the word

witness it's the Greek word Martus m a r t u s we get our word martyr from it.

What a wonderful epitaph for Antipus.

Here lies Antipus, my witness, my faithful one.

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