authors and speakers will often come along claiming to have some new unusual insight from god nancy damas walgamus says

focus on the bible rather than the latest popular idea cling to what he's already given to you in his word

by his indwelling spirit hold it fast this is the is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss

Balgermouth, author of Sur opinion, do you ever feel alone?

Nancy will provide you with hope and encouragement as she continues in a series on the church in Thiatira.

It's called The Sin of Tolerance. I came across a quote

recently in a book that was co-authored by the late pastor Dr. James Boyce and then Pastor Philip

Reichen. Here's what they have to say. Sadly, this is not the church's finest hour. We live in an

age of weak theology and casual Christian conduct. Our knowledge is insufficient,

our worship is irreverent, and our lives are immoral. Even the evangelical church, they say,

has succumbed to the spirit of this age. Perhaps the simplest way to say this is that evangelicalism has become worldly.

And I see some of you nodding your heads and I hear some amends.

That paragraph could summarize the letter to the church in Thyatira that we've been looking at in Revelation chapter 2.

Let me back up and read the part that we've talked about so far, and then I

want us to continue in that letter today. Jesus says to this church, I have this against you,

that you tolerate that woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my

servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrifice to idols. I gave her time to repent.

What a word of God's mercy. But she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. And what a picture of

unrepentant, stubborn sinners. Then he says there will be consequences. Verse 22, behold, I will throw her onto a sick bed.

And those who commit adultery with her, I will throw into great tribulation unless they repent of her works.

And I will strike her children dead, her spiritual followers. There will be serious consequences.

And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart,

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