Sometimes following Jesus involves economic risk, but according to Nancy DeMas Walgamuth,

you can always trust the one who's leading you.

This is the son of God who's speaking to you, and he is the one who's going to care for you

and meet your needs if in the place of obedience it requires that you lose your job.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamooz, author of Adorned.

For September 4th, 2023, I'm Dana Gresh.

Imagine traveling to a conference for business, and once you arrive, your coworkers use this

trip as an opportunity for drunkenness and immorality.

And even though your boss knows about it, she looks the other way and pretends it never happened.

Well, that's similar to a situation faced by members of the first century church. Nancy will explain in a series called

The Sin of Tolerance. Earlier in this series, we pointed out that the seven churches in Revelation

2 and 3 describe seven kinds of churches, they were actual

churches, but descriptive of seven kinds of churches that were in the first century and in every

period of history since. As I've been studying these churches, it's just amazing to me how they

picture different strengths and weaknesses of churches in the 21st

century. And these letters provide for us an overview or a synopsis of the different kinds of

issues that churches face. But not only to churches fit into these categories, I believe that

every believer fits into one or more of these categories.

So this is an opportunity as we study these letters to not only say, Lord, what are the issues in my

church? What are the issues in the churches in evangelicalism today? But what are the issues in my own

heart? Search my heart, O Lord, and show me what you see as you look down as the

Lord of the Church. We come today to the longest of the seven letters. It's the fourth letter,

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