Seven:The Church At Thyatira

Seven

The Church At Thyatira

(1/26/25)

Pastor Mark England

The Book of Revelation is not a horror story… it’s a story.

John 14:1-3 (CSB) “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. ² In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? ³ If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also.

Revelation 2:18-29 (CSB) “Write to the angel of the church in Thyatira: Thus says the Son of God, the one whose eyes are like a fiery flame and whose feet are like fine bronze: ¹⁹ I know your works—your love, faithfulness, service, and endurance. I know that your last works are greater than the first. ²⁰ But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols. ²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she does not want to repent of her sexual immorality. ²² Look, I will throw her into a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction. Unless they repent of her works, ²³ I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who examines minds and hearts, and I will give to each of you according to your works. ²⁴ I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven’t known “the so-called secrets of Satan” —as they say—I am not putting any other burden on you. ²⁵ Only hold on to what you have until I come. ²⁶ The one who conquers and who keeps my works to the end: I will give him authority over the nations— ²⁷ and he will rule them with an iron scepter;
he will shatter them like pottery — ²⁸ just as I have received this from my Father. I will also give him the morning star. ²⁹ “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

The Church At Thyatira: Remove

The trade guilds in Thyatira were devoted to a patron god or goddess, and social events centered on their .

To be a Christian in Thyatira, you were faced with great and pressure to participate in the lifestyle they lived.

The letter to Thyatira is the of the seven messages and the of all seven.

The being waged at Thyatira is parallel to the battle to be waged in the end times (Revelation 14-18).

Revelation 2:20 (CSB) But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.

was the wife of Israel’s King Ahab (1 Kings 16:31; 2 Kings 9)

Jezebel may be dead physically… but her demonic is today and its mission is to the Church.

The Church becomes dismantled when it begins to its agenda and becomes focused only on .

Thyatira are the people who have bought into .

Identifying the :

These are those who say “Well , so it’s okay for me… even told me I could.”

This is .

This is the practice of changing to the kind of life you to live.

Those who practice the ways of Thyatira will say… “I was this .”

I was born , and .

That’s why I got .

John 3:1-3 (CSB) … “Truly I tell you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Don’t’ let your gravitate to your .

Let your gravitate to your .

If you’ve been searching for meaning, purpose, peace, strength, grace, mercy, truth, family, belonging, and endless love…

Jesus is saying “.”

Revelation 3:20 (NIV) Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.

For some of us… Jesus has been knocking on the to our for a .

makes it difficult to hear that knock.

is going to send Him away.

He’s because He is with you.

But there will come a day when He will knocking, and He will come to get those who have the door for Him.

I don’t want to be on the wrong side of a when Jesus comes.