what do you put up with?
Topic: actually 2001
revelation 2:18-29

to the angel of the church in thyatira write:

these are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

i know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.

nevertheless, i have this against you:

you tolerate that woman jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. by her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. i have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. 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. 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.

now i say to the rest of you in thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan's so-called deep secrets (i will not impose any other burden on you): only hold on to what you have until i come.

to him who overcomes and does my will to the end, i will give authority over the nations - 'he will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery' - just as i have received authority from my Father. i will also give him the morning star.

he who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.


***let's look at this - first, nevertheless is just a really cool word!! but it also brings a significant transition - the Lord is pleased with these people - their Love, Faith, Service, Perseverance and Progress - but he is upset with one thing - what is it? their TOLERANCE - beware the long fingers of immorality - don't let yourself be influenced and don't put up with it in your Christian brothers and sisters - speak the truth in love -

proverbs 27:5-6 "better is open rebuke than hidden love. wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses."

always remember to get the plank out of your own eye, too - how do we see it? the mirror of God's word! james 1:23-25 -and with the Lord's help who "searches hearts and minds"