Revelation 2

📖  Revelation 2:18 ESV And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.’

A. Today’s tolerance says all deserve acceptance.

📖 John 14:6 ESV Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

📖 Acts 4:12 ESV And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

B. Today’s tolerance says no one should another’s or .

📖  Galatians 6:1 ESV Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

📖 Ephesians 4:15 ESV Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ…

C. Today’s tolerance says is more important than .

1. A Tolerant Church will acceptable .

📖 Revelation 2:19 ESV I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.

📖 Acts 20:26–27 ESV Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all, 27 for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

2. A Tolerant Church will teachers.

📖 Revelation 2:20 ESV But 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 sacrificed to idols.

False Christianity majors on while refusing to .

📖 Revelation 2:24 ESV who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan

3. A Tolerant Church is by Jesus.

📖 Revelation 2:21–22 ESV I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. 22 Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works

📖 Revelation 2:23 ESV and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.

📖 Revelation 2:24 ESV But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden.

4. A Biblical Church above .

📖 Revelation 2:25 ESV Only hold fast what you have until I come.

📖 Revelation 2:26-27 ESV The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, 27 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.

📖 2 Timothy 2:11–13 ESV The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; 12 if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; 13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.

📖 Revelation 2:28 ESV And I will give him the morning star.

Sermon in a Sentence:

A church values God’s above the world’s because only sets people .

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