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Destination—Thyatira
THE TOLERANT CHURCH
(How much is Jesus worth to you?)
Notes from John Macarthur
Shows what compromise with the world leads to.
Fullscale idolatry and immorality.
First 3 churches had not yielded the faith
Not so with the next 3.
False teaching had penetrated the souls of the people.
Love left behind, compromise follows, leads to tolerance of sin
This is the longest of the 7 letters written to the smallest city.
Chapter 1 “The Son of Man”—speaks to his humanness.
His care, his intercession for us, his identifying in our weakness and struggle
In this letter “The Son of God”—His holiness, his trancendence, his judgement
Same image in —eyes like torches of fire
Jezebel—review history on who she was.
Mention how she died
This woman was probably not named Jezebel but she was Jezebel-like
She called herself a prophetess—one who claims to speak for God
Antinomianism—dualism.
All that is flesh is evil.
Doesn’t matter what happens in the flesh.
it doesn’t matter
She probably convinced the church that paganism and its expression of immorality was OK.
We are saved by grace so you can live any way you want.
these are the “deep things of Satan”.
They felt that they could tamper with the things of Satan and it not have any consequence for them.
“her Children” All who follow her patterns, her teachings.
“I will kill them”—See
Why? “So that all the churches will know” vs. 23
Must have been a lot of other churches in the same condition.
Victorious ones—will rule the nations—rod of iron; protection--
Morning Star—Jesus
Whoever has ears—are you listening?
Are we listening?
My Notes
We move on today to the Church at Thyatira
We are nearly half way through our journey and I wonder what you are thinking by now?
Have you been inspired?
Encouraged?
Convicted?
Scared?
Confused?
Has your view of Jesus changed at all?
Perhaps you are like me and would prefer for Jesus to be someone safe.—someone
whom you can have absolute confidence in--
That best friend, the gentle shepherd,
He is ALL of that and MORE
But after reading some of His strong messages to the churches, (and we have another one today) maybe you are starting to feel confused and unsafe.
Exerpt from “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”
“Is he a man?” asked Lucy.
“Aslan a man!” said Mr Beaver sternly.
Certainly not.
I tell you he is King of the wood and the son of the great emperor-beyond-the-sea.
Don’t you know who is the King of the Beasts?
Aslan is a lion – the Lion, the great lion.”
“ooh!” said Susan, “I’d thought he was a man.
Is he – quite safe?
I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.”
“That you will, dearie, and no mistake” said Mrs Beaver; “if there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most or else just silly.”
“Then he isn’t safe?” said Lucy.
“Safe?” said Mr Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs Beaver tells you?
Who said anything about safe?
‘Course he isn’t safe.
But he’s good.
He’s the King, I tell you.”
And as the stories progress, we see this to be true
He is safe enough for the children to ride on and curl up to when they are scared
But he’s fierce enough to deal harshly with those who rebel against him.
I think C.S. Lewis did a fantastic job of giving us a picture of Jesus.
This is the Jesus we see in the Bible.
He’s safe enough for children to come and sit on his lap
But he’s fierce enough to deal harshly with those who are in rebellion against him.
We can quote verses about fearing the LORD.
But I wonder if we really believe that we should actually be scared of Him.
I think that there should be an actual fear of Him.
That there will be consequences if we defame Him, if we compromise the worship of Him, if we are permissive of things that break His law.
And the Jesus we are meeting in Revelation is one who has no tolerance for sin
He is one who will deal with sin and wants His church to have the same passion for holiness and the same zeal in getting rid of sin.
This is not a popular message.
This is not one that will get me millions of dollars on TV
Revelation 2:18-28
Town of Thyatira—not very significant compared to the others
Originally established as a military garrison by Alexander the Great.
He and his soldiers worshipped Apollo.
They called him “the son of god”.
This was a prosperous town.
Not a world class city like the first 3, but a nice town.
Maybe like Iowa City.
We don’t know much about the history of this town, but there is something interesting that sheds some possible light on this letter
Had many “trade guilds” represented—kind of like a workers union.
Not like we know today—not so much concerned with wages, hours, benefits etc
These guilds were almost purely social.
Get together for meals or parties, or just dicussion
It had many different artisans and craftsmen here.
One of the most notable was the making of purple and red textiles.
The dye was so rich that it was covted around the world
—Lydia, dealer of purple from Thyatira
but also wool, silver and bronze.
Jesus introduces himself as having eyes like blazing fire and feet like burnished bronze.
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