GUT CHECK FOR THE CHURCH

02-02-25

Revelation 2: Gut Check for the Church!

Revelation 2: 18-29

Who is the of Revelation?

• • Let the Bible answer that question!

Revelation 1:9

⁹ I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. ¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet ¹¹ saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.” ¹² Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, ¹³ and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. ¹⁴ The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, ¹⁵ his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. ¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.

• Importantly this passage (Rev 2:18) again reiterates who is the author.
  • Written most likely by the Apostle John but Authored by
• Why is this important?
  • God Almighty is speaking !

Revelation 2:18 ESV – To the Church in Thyatira

¹⁸ “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.

Encouragement!

Revelation 2:19

¹⁹ “‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first…”

1 Corinthians 1:4

Philippians 1:3

Revelation 2:20-23

²⁰ 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. ²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

• “That Woman Jezebel”

Deuteronomy 7:1-5

Exodus 34:15

1 Kings 16:29

2 Kings 9:30

Deuteronomy 18:20

Ezekiel 13:8-9

The groundwork for the weight of the accusation and correction has been laid!

• Is there something in our place of work that we are willing to compromise?
  • • Even the “”
    • Do we sacrifice for our employers?
    • What are the possible ramifications we would face?

Revelation 2:22-23 NIV

²² So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. ²³ I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

How does Satan so easily enter the church?

The context of a Godly sexual relationship

Genesis 2:24

• Anything outside that context is not within God’s plan for our , our , our , and for any other consumption.

Matt 15:19

Rom 13:13

1 Cor 6:9

Eph 5:5

Col 3:5

Rev 21:8

Wake up Church!!

• “Battleship”, Hope & Healing, Breaking Free, Westside Recovery

There is hope!

Revelation 2:24-28

²⁴ 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. ²⁵ Only hold fast what you have until I come.

Revelation 2:26-27

²⁶ 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.

• Revelation 20:4

⁴ Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also, I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. ⁵ The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ⁶ Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

• Psalm 2:9
• Salvation is and

Revelation 2:28

²⁸ And I will give him the morning star.

Numbers 24:16

Revelation 22:16

¹⁶ “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”

Finally, a call to , spoken directly from the Lord.

Revelation 2:29

²⁹ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

Final thoughts.

• God is speaking, let us listen, none of this should be a surprise to us.
• Jesus does Not want us to perish, he wants us to live in full relationship.

Ezekiel 18:30-32

• ³⁰ “Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin. ³¹ Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel? ³² For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so, turn, and live.”