2022 Apr 03 Sunday Morning Service

All right. Hey, good morning again. Only, if I wanted to tell you a story this morning story that I've read. It was about a pastor. Anyway, this shirt somewhere in the US. This church had a interview with the superintendent or the bishop or something with a sign, the new task.

They are all excited about getting a new pastor and they tried to make the church look, just as nice as they could. Is that day was coming up and I got some Sunday afternoon. Pastor was supposed to show up and give his first sermon. There's this guy. Absent from the church. And then still got some big code on a fender wrapped in a blanket, and they've got great. How old is Justin Berfield? Listing for the coffee.

Stater Brothers, music. And it was about time. I know that Pastor just want to be where he is. He hasn't shown up a little bout time for that. Pastor 2 to give us certain.

Happy little guy coming from the core of the Earth.

Take me to the front of the church and dropped his blankets and drop his big coat. Is there a faster way, was all dressed in this nice? Got up there on the course. He talked to them about judging people by hand.

The gallbladder shoes that Stefan. You know, we had people coming to church here.

Purposely dressing as outrageous as they. Ever did to see what kind of reaction do you get? And

Can I have learned over the years that this is that those bikers that looks scary. A lot of that pretty nice guys and down and I've learned a lot of people that are all saddled up.

So, I just wanted to give you a reminder about.

Judge.

How people look here or whether their style is not your style or anything or you?

Thank you.

Us adults was all on on not judging. Letting people doing good.

In better way. Not insisting that. You just like us.

Help us all to be a little more cautious. Are quick judgments on Jesus precious name? Amen? You're dismissed. I'll move this. So damn.

This morning. We're going to look at the next letter to the seven churches, in Revelations, chapter 23. Will be looking at the letter to the church in the city of Fayetteville. This is the longest letter of all the seven.

And it will take us to Sunday's to get through it. Very similar to the letter to the Church of pergamum. My studies lost the letter about a true that have benefited.

Only mobile, give me the haven't heard of them.

This letter shows the death of sin.

Full scale at Dollar Tree. A land route and worst of all, this is the church. This is the call Arabia considered an error and lived happily ever after. This is the kind of church. Is it has been throughout history?

Look at the leather Revelations. 2 18.

And to the angel of the church in theaters, right now. You have eyes like a flame of fire feet. Like burnished bronze says this I know your Deeds. And you're loved and safe and service and perseverance and let you Deeds of late or greater than it first. But I have this against you, but you can tolerate the woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess and she teaches and leads my bond Servants of straight to the sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed. I gave her time to repent and she does not want to read

the whole I will throw her on a bed of sickness and Those who commit adultery with her into Great Tribulation and less

And I will kill her children with play and all the churches will know that I am. He who searches for mines hearts and I will give to each one of you according to When I say to you, the rest of you Corinthia Tyra, who do not hold this. We have not known that these things are safe and cuz they called out, I placed no other burden on you. Nevertheless, what you would hold firmly until I come the one who overcomes and one who keeps my Beats until the end. I will give him authority over the and he shall rule them with a rod of iron as the vessel.

Cuz I also have received the 40 from my father, and I will give him the morning star one. Running gear.

As I said, this is the longest of the seven letters even though it's written.

It is in some ways. The most complex has seven letters in the man's attention. Be given to the number this year. Let's start with the first thought that comes to mind to read the letter. It's obvious that this church have tolerated, accident, morality, and certain evolve bikes. Cuz we're not only had it. But it is allowed to To reach the point of prominence when she was articulating it and leaving Christians astray as well as collecting around her.

Lord promises that he's going to judge and he's going to judge that church. Severely staring only those according to verse 20.

We have not known that. These things are safe. There is a church that has been infiltrated by error and sin and do nothing about it. Then appeals, primarily with the church that tolerates in it, takes us back to a very basic understanding that we have to have in regard to the church and then it is for the Lord wants his church. He wants us to church in every since intolerable said, this goes all the way back to the first instruction. We have about the church. Instructions in Matthews. 7th, and the very first construction ever given specifically to the Now, if your brother sins Go and show him.

Listen. You have to change your brother has not listened to you. Take one or two more with you. So that on the testimony of two or three Witnesses ever matter. Maybe he can if he refuses to listen to them. Tell it to the church. And if they refuse to listen, to even to the church, used to be to you as a gentile.

In other words, the very first instruction ever given to the church is to deal in front of me soon. That instruction was given to individuals in the church not to some Elite Four. We're set up and spies in the church. What if your brother sins you feeling? Lord wants his church. And therefore the first instruction he gave had to do with the purity of the church. Wanted to be of Tolerance in next 15. When the council met in Jerusalem. There was concern about the evangelization effort is going on today. In the Bible who owns Gentiles coming. So the council and letter to be sent to all of these other Christians and all of these other churches, telling them how they were to live their lives, so that they could be most effective in the witness. In Acts 15 28 and 29. We find the last little paragraph in the council's decision and it says Forward to seeing good to the Holy Spirit and us to lay upon you. No. Greater burden than these extensions, that you abstain from things sacrificed to Idols from Blue, from things strangled, and from acts of sexual immorality. If you keep yourself free from such things, you will do well. Two out of the four. Stay away from Idol piece and you are to stay away from engaging yourself and eating that which has offered to idols. And that was always up to you and you were to stay away from sexual sin which existed in itself and also as a part and again, the first instructions and come with, Jerusalem Church, that is beginning to grow a gospel, beginning to spread around the world is to stay away from Idol activity and stay away from sexual sin. In 2nd Corinthians, 8:11, the gods desire to sit having through the church. And where Stewie says, for I am jealous for you with a. Leigh Private Road. 221 husband presents you as a pure virgin in car. A Gianna. God wants his church in pure Jesus, obviously is a bright. The church is the bride. And he expects not an adulteress ride, but neither adulterous and sense of engaging in Idol teeth Idol. Idolatry nor adulterous in the sense of engaging.

He wants a blameless Church. A home insurance. He wants a Chase brute. He wants to dealt with in the church. Now with that is a background. It isn't difficult.

And I understand that the church is, the attire is a direct conflict with the will of the Lord. Is it true? Listen to church was tolerating sin in the barracks.

She was tolerating. Spiritual fornication. Spiritual adultery worshipping, another deity and it was tolerated. Physical adultery sexual, send the kind of thing. The Lord is not wanting his church was going on in Iraq, and now he, So, if you're coming to Snyder. Very serious. What to put it in perspective? This letter to the church at the entire again.

In the first group. Ephesus was characterized by royalty the Christ which is lacking in. Love in the Church of Smyrna loyalties testify fire in the Church of pergamum loyalty was lacking in moral passion. You have all three churches were true to the faith and have not yielded to the assault vehicle. In other words. They were still fighting against them here and not merely a small minority within different large gums and actually filled it to demoralizing influence false teaching.

There is a progressive, worsening of the character in these churches, as they become more and more influenced by people for the final takes over. In this church, the evils of idolatry and immorality to penetrate deeply. Did come through a woman? A woman's computer is called by the name of Joe. Woman have influence the church in a way that is not unlike Jezebel having Influence People of God in the Old Testament. See if he succeeded in corrupting the church, the death of the Corruptions. Indicated verse 24 x. Praise the Deep things sink. It shows have a plunge to preach to death. the church in Smyrna was being assaulted by a synagogue of Satan that was Jewish, but it was coming from outside against Being confronted by Throne is safe, and that was Gentile. Plummeted into the deep things I've seen and this was not something that's attacking them from the outside. This is behavior that is going on inside. So you can see the flow in the screaming churches. Addresses pergamum the attire.

Ephesus is left. His first love was engaged in compromise. Cynthia Tyra with all the way to tolerating sin and send it to be defined as

There could be much of a surface. Wikipedia American growth, there can be a certain warmth and fellowship and at the same time, evil can have established itself as things of Satan. Into the life of the church and how to work.

Let's begin with the corresponding. Probably one of the Elder.

Is the one who gets leather? And to the angel of the churches.

Son of God who has eyes like a play. Like burnished bronze, says this real offers identify. Here's the son of God. First of all, secondly, as the one who has eyes, like a flame of fire and thirdly, the one who has speak like British bronze. Jesus Christ is the author. He is introduced as the author and that part of his nature, which best describes the relationship.

Describe himself as the Son of God with the pies like twin the fire. Like burnished bronze. Those last two indications eyes, like playing with fire feat. Like burnished bronze. Speak of penetrating judgement. His eyes are like fire like a Divine. The laser they can see through to the Fatal Plaza Church. There's no concealing it in a lot of activity. There is no good.

Nope, they're still getting failing it in a lot of superficiality because his penetrating eyes see right through it. Let me speak like blazing bronze. Ready to trample? Judgment to stop out the center and send you will notice. First of all, he is identified as Son of God. That's his Messianic Bible. That means that he is deity. He is the one with God and that's all he is the Son of God, John identify as the Son of God because he's not emphasizing him in. His humility is emphasizing him because Define Emphasizing. The other deity is sympathy is over. When it comes to this particular going on. He is not coming. The sympathizer, was the judge. He's not coming as the man who understands he is coming. He is coming and severe judge. In fact to see his anger. You need only look at first 23 where he says and I will kill her children. 27. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron as the vessels of the Potter. And so becomes a sort of God Speak. but the severity of his,

the map phrase who has eyes like a flame of fire. It means he has a piercing. Everything. Heals to his vision, everything melts before his Nothing stupid. Penetrate you all. We cannot disguise. It cannot cover it up. This must be reminded John of Daniel chapter 10 where it says the God has eyes. Like, and speaking of God in the fierceness of his judgment, Isaac, the Son of God, they look through everything all masks. They Pearsall, coverings. They search the remote for the church. The church may have had a good reputation. Give me a community station, didn't even have had so many of the notoriety among other churches. They may not have known everything.

But certainly, whatever the people around them, for the other churches, you knew or didn't know the Lord's, penetrating eyes.

Then along with that, his feeder described as like burnished bronze polish to the hill with the light flashing off and on. Picture of pure metal reflecting Williams trampling out. The remind skin of Revelations. 19 at the vision of Christ in person. Treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God. So here he comes in trampoline judgment. Scary thing to see Jesus coming.

This is how I'm going to do this. Judgment are threatening the picture and can you imagine what happened in the church in the entire? When the letter was delivered next Sunday? This is a real City. This is a real church and a real letter was read to these real people. Says that God comes in judgment with the fury. Which one?

This is the Lorde. The God is Not Eddie. God has no sentimental room. He has the power to do devastating judgment and he hasn't Holiness to not tolerate sin. And if something doesn't change at the attire.

Good judgment. That vercellone haven't been reading the congregation on Sunday. Morning must have brought shock.

So, let's look at the city of fear. About 30 miles from vertical as we travel. This post, with me. This has become a Roman occupied City since about 190 piece. So for nearly three centuries, now, it's been under Roman rule. The city was in a very long now, swept all the way down and it is not a well fortified. Do Takis have no natural defenses at all? And so it's history. If you look into it was this long history of conquering and destructions and rebuilding? Every young lady that came to Asia, Minor came down through that Valley, swept through and devastate a small City. it was infiltrated by every artist came along, and even since the first century the time of Jesus, that continues to be They were always seemingly in the danger of marching armies. What David did significance was simply that it was the game-winner pergamon and in order to get the trailer, you have to go through? So, all is good for was to put up with.

Get their act together.

They would like to think we got. It was originally operated by soldiers of Alexander, the Great as about the 30 or 40 mph wind at the fence. So what is the truth truth pergamon, which was the greatest?

It was little more than a military Garrison guard. Provided nothing.

So, was just going to go to a history of Destruction rebuilding many times. But now since the Romans took over, there was a certain amount of peace and during that time and some city of the entire sword, flourished, and turned from a military place to becoming a commercial City. In fact became the center of wool and tying cloth historians. Tell us. It became the Center of Trade guilds. Would be much like a. There were people who had the same trade who banded together and it had were trade guilds in this city than any other city in the seminars. What do a very prominent thing? Their work was the time clock today. Theater in Jacinto, City has about 25,000 people. And the main themes of Life Today is weaving Oriental Rugs. So they're still in the text. What are the Curiosities of this town was the The people band together for the various traits. They were engaged. The more interesting than that with each Guild had its own God. Each Guild has come to define the guardian. Particularly gave himself taken care of. And they worship. And if you were associated with the kill, you were in a religious group, and there was a god of that group, that you have the person associated with that worship was immoral. That's in almost all my Hagan systems. And so there would be Idols, Idols, feasts and celebrations, orgies, and that can be very difficult for Christian. Because now, if you were in a gill, What state you were Weaver claw, or you were involved in the oil industry and you were working with?

Why you would be? And in order to have good standing up.

Navigate yourself to The Guild activities.

So here's a Christian you'll hasn't God. You'll have some teen activities which involves sacrifices. Tobacco, you're Christian.

So religiously, this wasn't how it wasn't, really the center of anything. The chief God, there was a Tahoe religiously, it wasn't the center of the heme notable worship. We had many false. So that's something about the count, the attire. And what about the church? Sadly, this letter is written at the end of the first century by the end of the 2nd Century. There was no truth.

Out of accessories. The problem faced this little church was not persecution. It wasn't what was on the outside? Prestridge. What was on the news? The real problem here is not.

Real problem here.

It wasn't wolves coming out.

There was a woman in this woman can come along and successfully gotten Christian totally compromised with the world. She may have said them, you need your job because you need to live.

so when they have an idle fees, when they have one of those in oral things, it's okay.

She could have said something like that, after all.

And follow the path is sort of his throat philosophical, duals. But it doesn't matter what you do with them.

you can even plugs into the

You can go to the communal meals. You can go and sacrifice something to draw. You can go and enjoy the sexual activity.

Superior Court.

There would have to have been some justification.

You can't just walk into church and say, all right, everybody. Y'all are free to worship idols.

Give them your body. After all, it really doesn't matter.

Philosophical.

Body splash.

Maps. And the spirit is good. And as long as your spirit is committed.

And she let them scream in verse 20. She left Bob service.

What current relationship? By the way, you're still online.

I never cease to be amazed at how many Christians today. We use the law race thing saying it really does.

So, here's the truth.

Here's a little certain spot and very difficult to make a difficult choice, because here's some Christians who can lose their jobs if you didn't participate.

And there is as compromising woman who comes in and she appeals to the

it comes up with some philosophy.

Why did the leaders tolerate it? They're probably pop the same thing and they're all. As soon as you show up on the Lord's Day in the uniformly, worst thing during the week, whatever the job requires they do. We need to church and Sunday.

So, what's put them at the commendation? Verse 19. I know your feet and your love and faith service and perseverance and the trapeze lake or greater than the first. No, defeats and note. I know everything you do or category. Space service persevere. I know what you doing. First of all, he says there's acts of love joy. You're seriously. Love is an action verb. People who care about each other the most live. you can go down into the ghetto, sister city of

Demonstrate love.

Milford.

So he said I know you have love them in a sense. What was Wayne Dallas's was still strong here to go? Even beyond that and I also know about your state. And what he's saying there is

As those who eat people. So, he's encouraging. Dirt cheap.

The future is the cord. So you can love those few things. Come together through the scripture and out of faith and love brother next to services. Love to do some service. If you love, you serve faithful, s produces perseverance, define faithful. I'm going to I'm going to hang on to assist. I look at you and I see you loving and Adam. Love. You serve each other and I see your face.

Facebook to the basics. And then the most amazing thing at the end of verse 19, your Deeds of Lake a greater than at first, you're even doing better at this stuff. You're running work out, your faithfulness continues. Now a greater degree than you ignore and it That's a commendation you think would set this church of heart is absolutely without claw. Then you notice the first words, the first 20. I have this against. But you tolerate the woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess and she teaches and leads my bond services. Wonder Woman. Faithful, people enjoy to touch times compassionate. They had a serious Sin from The Garrison is serious. Because it involved

Why? Old church was tolerated. We weren't doing anything about love was fine, serving people a hard time. That's all well and good. But don't ask us to take a strong stand on soon. Don't ask us the scriptures. Very clear, no place in life.

Even the Apostle Paul said, when you come to the Lord's table, don't you think for one moment that you can come with the table?

Scripture is very clear that you were to live. She will be fully black. But you were to deal with said they weren't dealing with the doll. They were very, very weak.

We don't know, they don't want to see, you can't teach you're not qualified. Not that scary. You can't do that. That's it. They don't want to deal with that. Love faithfulness, service.

There must be a commitment to sound Doctrine for the liver. That's just kind of talked to him. Miss. The love. Be a tire. Has the love.

We have both experienced today. We have those moral doctrinal narrow-minded cyclist, would love us, ruthless and fencing. We have those coloring sentimental. Sort of mushroom 11. Other people who have no regard for food standards, only tri-fold living and both hoses. The desire of God is a beautiful God and the balance for this love. The entire had loved didn't have colon and love without Holiness. You send them to me. The fusions 52. And walk in love just as Christ. Also. First three, the sexual immorality or any impurity. Agreed. Must not even be.

What's he saying? Don't let your love. Send them to me. Don't let your love the following. We're such a loving church. We don't want to make an issue out of it. We believe correctly as biology is. We are thankful. We've been Jordan through tough times, we've held on to our believe. We love people, we serve their needs, we would rather not confront. We would really rather not get into the discussion about. We certainly don't want to run around. And that's what the border is at the door.

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What sort of gets into the water? So much more to come. If that's the next.

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We thank you for what? We've seen this in church because it does Atkins turn.

Loving.

Baby, love of Jesus.

Pray that you will cause our church.

Give us that balance.

Thank you.

Next Sunday is Sunday.

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Good morning.

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