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we want a church that will take its
stand regardless of whether we get more
members regardless of whether we have
more money God says what is unacceptable
to God must be unacceptable to God’s
people so you must hold in your hand two
things truth and love you don’t give up
Truth For Love and you don’t give up
love for truth you have to hold both of
them
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well today in Revelation Chapter
2 the Lord is going to talk about the
intolerance of an
overcomer if you are going to be an
overcomer and not an
underc if you’re going to be a winner
and not a loser if you’re going to be
Victorious and not living
defeat you must have your Toleration
limits there are certain things you will
not tolerate you won’t accept it’s
outside of the
boundary he writes to the church at thy
Tyra he says beginning in Revelation CH
2 Verse 18 to the angel that is the
messenger that is the pastor of the
church at thy Tyra
WR the Son of God who has eyes like
flame of fire and his feet are like
branish bronze says this so he produces
this designation to the church at thyra
so let me tell you about thy Tyra it was
a place known for its gilds or
unions in the midst of these unions in
this city called thy Tyra a church was
established the beginning of that church
is summarized for us in Acts chapter 16
verse4 when Paul the Apostle comes
across a woman named Lydia and Lydia was
a sell of purple it says purple die
thyro Tia made purple dye and these dyes
was part of couture clothing for the
Uptown Shoppers and so uh the purple dye
she was a manufacturer of it she was a
distributor of it she was a wholesaler
of it and Paul came and led Lydia to
Christ in acts
16:14 out of that grew a church it grew
out of the Salvation of Lydia well thyro
to is known for its skills and its
unions but let me tell you about a
couple of aspects of the unions because
that will help you to understand what
Jesus is getting ready to say to the
church now only were the unions
connecting people who had the same
occupation for protection and for
Privileges and for
rights but it each Union had its own own
God so the unions had a spiritual or
religious aspect to them so if you were
part of thy tyus teachers
union then you were expected to give
recognition to the teachers union God or
whatever God was tied to that Union so
that was one part of it so thara was a
Workers Union but it it had a religious
aspect but it not only had a religious
aspect the unions in thy Tyra also had a
social aspect like a fraternity or a
sority so there was a social aspect to
the unions so there was a working aspect
tied to a religious aspect tied to a
social aspect so you got together with
the people that you work with and you
partied with them and you you enjoyed
good time with them because you shared
the same occupation well the problem
occurred when people became
Christians and belonged to the union and
they were expected to recognize the
Union’s God and to party with the other
co-workers that it involved things that
went against the Christian faith and
that created a crisis for the Christians
in these secular
occupations Verse 18 says the Son of God
the one with eyes of fire and feet of
branish bronze says this Jesus Christ
has already been introduced as the son
of man but on this occasion in verse 18
to the church at thyra Tyra he’s not
introduced as the son of man he’s
introduced as the Son of God and of
course Jesus is both the Virgin birth he
is now introduced to us as the Son of
God as the Son of God deity he says he
has eyes of fire and Jesus’s eyes of
fire penetrates the facade he knows when
you’re really Christian and he knows
when you’re faking it to make it because
his eyes of fire penetrate to the
reality of a thing he not only has eyes
of fire it says in Verse 18 it says he
has feet of branish bronze well what do
you do with feet you walk so he’s got
eyes to see it and feet to get to it
Jesus Christ now presents himself to
this church as the allseeing
authoritative one to these Christians
who are caught in these unions that are
being demanded that they tolerate
certain beliefs and practices that
compromise their Christian in faith so
that’s the Dilemma he compliments them
in verse 19 where he says to them I know
your Deeds your love your faith your
service your per perseverance and that
your Deeds of late are greater than your
Deeds at first so you are doing better
you are growing you are a congregation
that I see wants to do the right thing
and so I want to commend you for that
but after commending them he now
criticizes them he says in verse 20 but
I have this against you that you
tolerate the woman
Jezebel who calls herself a propheus and
she teaches and leads my bonder servants
astray so that they commit acts of
immorality and eat things sacrificed to
Idols what’s Jesus’s problem with this
church his problem is what they
tolerate he says you tolerate the woman
Jezebel the problem was Toleration watch
this
now Jesus the son of God says I got a
problem with you thyra Tyra Bible
Fellowship not
only not
only are you doing good things but you
are
tolerating other folk doing bad
things so you had this
propheus self-proclaimed cuz she called
herself a prophetess God never called
her one she’s a self-proclaimed
propheus and she’s going around speaking
on behalf of
God leading church members astray this
is God’s house and in his house there
are certain things he accepts and
certain things he doesn’t accept or and
neither does he want the other family
members to accept it
he says you tolerate it you accept it
and he says it is unacceptable and it
involves two things it
involved worshiping a false god it says
idolatry the unions worship the idols he
says well the unions May worship the
idols but I’m the only true God you
don’t get to worship the idols just C
everybody else is doing it what he’s
saying is that this church tolerated
Jezebel so let me tell you about
jei we find Jezebel in First Kings
chapter 16 and verse1 17 Jezebel was
married to Ahab the king of Israel
Jezebel was the daughter of a king and
she was a worshipper of the god
Baal she talked her
husband into worshiping Baal so we got a
strong will woman worshiping the king of
is uh married to the king who comes to
the king and says well if you going if
you going to be married to me you got to
go with my God so he compromised with
her and when he compromis with her he’s
the king he’s leading all of Israel into
compromising with her and she got Israel
to
compromise that’s why Elijah ask them
how long will you halt between two
opinions how long you going to go both
ways how long you going to be one way in
church and another way at work how long
you going to be one way with the family
of God and another way in your sorority
or fraternity how long you going to be
one way with your spiritual family and a
whole another way with your biological
family how long you going to go both
ways cuz he wants you to know as long as
you go both ways you’ll never be an
overcomer because you you are not
operating on his standard he says you
tolerate it you accept it even if you’re
not doing it you are allowing it and
it’s going
unaddressed it is shameful
today what churches are beginning to
allow it is shameful today cuz this
woman is in the church she’s a power
broker in the congregation it is
shameful today how churches are dumbing
down God’s standard because they don’t
want to offend they don’t want anybody
to call them intolerant he says to them
you have tolerated
Jezebel you’ve tolerated her and she’s
doing damage to the
church and God says well and I’m not
even being mean about it look at
verse look at verse 21 I gave her time
to repent
oh and she does not want to repent of
her
immorality now we’re gonna get into
we’re gonna get back to this thing of
repentance because it’s it’s one of the
most powerful words in the Bible is a
powerful word because it opens up the
door of God changing his relationship
with you so repentance it means to turn
okay he says even though this
woman
Jezebel is been promoting immorality
been
promoting uh idolatry I gave her an
opportunity to fix it yes he
did repent
yeah so God creates Windows of
repentance opportunities within a
timeline before he moves he says I gave
Jezebel even though she was involved in
this this kind of
wickedness and even though she was
influencing other people to this kind of
wickedness I gave her a window of
opportunity to
turn what was her problem she does not
want to repent sin is bad but but not
wanting to repent is
worse cuz now you’ve entered into the
category called
Rebellion this woman was not struggling
she was a
rebel and she was influencing other
people and other folks were around there
saying well that’s her business I ain’t
got nothing to do with that oh here’s
here’s the way we say
it I’m not supposed to
judge okay so so let’s get this
straight let’s get this straight because
we people are confused on this
thing you are to always judge the
distinction between truth and error that
you must judge you must judge
legitimately you must judge biblically
you must judge lovingly you must judge
responsibly and then you get the
sympathetic thing well well God is a god
of
love
yeah well that’s half a
God that’s one side of
God Romans 11 says
knowing the goodness and severity of God
see you got these two sides of God I can
love you but I must reject that idea
because it goes against What God Says
and God is my
standard so you must hold in your hand
to two things Truth and Love and the two
must be kept together you don’t give up
Truth For Love and you don’t give up
love for truth you have to hold both of
them
simultaneously God is Not lowering his
standard to please folk and so he’s
saying you tolerate you accept you you
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dismiss the
standard and so what is a result of
that is he goes on to say I will throw
her Jezebel on a bed of sickness and
Those who commit adultery with her into
Great
Tribulation unless they repent of her
Deeds so that’s bad news and good news
the bad news is he says I’m gonna throw
her on her bed of
sickness one way God God disciplines us
is with sickness he allows sickness all
all sickness is not due to discipline
but some sickness is and one of the ways
he dispens he says I will throw on a bed
of sickness so let me tell you what
happened to Jezebel Jezebel kept going
kept going would not repent would not
repent and then she crossed the line
okay she crossed the line and God said
that’s it so one day she’s sitting up
there in the window she falls out of the
window hits ahead blood splatters
everywhere she laying on the ground and
she dies from the fall okay this is this
is in uh in second Kings chapter 99:
30-35 and so she’s out there blood is
splattered so the men come to get her
body to bury her but when they come to
get her body there’s nothing left but
her skull and her feet cuz the dogs have
devoured her not only did God take her
life it was the shame of being eaten by
because you would not
repent and he says and for Jezebel and
her
followers these are those who were
practicing what she was doing there
would be the discipline of
God and you say well I don’t believe God
is like that that was that was in the
Old Testament well this verse is in the
New
Testament and so is Hebrews chapter 10
verse 30 and 31 because Hebrews chapter
10: 30 and 31 makes it clear he says
vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord and I
will judge my
people I will judge my people not to be
mean but to bring corrective
measures into their
lives there must be a standard that the
kingdom of God holds to that we get back
in line with if we’re out of alignment
so that the Church of Jesus Christ is
distinct in the
culture because no longer will it be
popular to be one of the
culture used to be popular you could be
one of the culture but now you take a
Biblical stand for life you take a
Biblical stand for marriage you take a
Biblical stand for order you take a
Biblical stand and you going to be on
the out now why would this be a problem
if you were working in thyroid Tyra well
now if you belong to this Union and this
union says to keep your job to get a
raise on your job to get promoted on
your job you got to go along to get
along okay if if you don’t party with us
the way we party nothing wrong with a a
good party but when it goes left if you
don’t if you don’t go left with us if
you don’t go worship with us I’m going
tell you now you’re not going to make it
in this company you’re not going to make
it in this career unless you’ve made
that decision in advance unless you’ve
decided in advance that there are
certain boundaries I will not cross then
what you have to understand is that you
are making a choice between the true God
the Son of God and and the false gods
who will not be there when your world
crashes so I’m going tell you that now
cuz those false gods are not real
they’re just convenient cuz let me tell
you something about an idol folks only
pick Idols they can
control see that see folk pick Idols
because they can tell an idol what to do
the problem without our God is you don’t
get to control
him see that’s why folk don’t want that
God cuz that God can’t be dumbed down to
the culture and so he says to
them he says I’mma judge the children
but he still gives them an out he says
unless you repent repentance would
remove the fact of the of the Judgment
of
God but he makes it
clear I say to the rest verse 24 who are
in thy Tyra who do not hold this
teaching watch this now
who have not known the Deep things of
Satan as they call them I have no other
burden on you okay let me let me talk to
you a little
bit to the rest of you who are not
compromising who are repenting to the
rest of
you he says who do not
accept the
teaching of the deep things of Satan so
that raises a question isn’t it what are
the Deep deep things of
Satan so they’re not so deep things and
they’re deep
things a satanic
thing is an invitation to disobey God
that that’s a satanic thing we all face
that we all have fallen short in that
where we’ve disobeyed God that’s that’s
satanic but let me tell you what a deep
thing of Satan is a deep thing of Satan
is not only when you disobey God when I
disobey God when we disobey God a deep
thing of Satan when you really going
down to Hell to hang out with him is
when you call evil
good now you didn’t just you didn’t just
go to the bottom of the pit and you’re
hanging out with the devil see as long
as you call evil evil you’re saying
something true about it but the moment
you go to call evil good this is
legitimate this is okay that’s why why
Romans 1 says things got worse and worse
and worse not only did people do the
things but they they applauded those who
did them in other words they gave
approval and you see today what we clap
for what we affirm what we celebrate and
we call we call wretched good and we we
celebrate the most evil of people the
most evil of lyrics the most evil of
terminology the most evil of actions but
we we applaud it and we say ain’t that
nice and ain’t she great and wasn’t that
funny and isn’t that nice and and we go
along and all of a sudden what we used
to shut at and say ooo boy that’s nasty
we now
say that’s the Deep things of
Satan you you now gone and youve now
partying with the
devil but he says for those who do not
accept the teaching of the deep things
of Satan who don’t call evil
good he saysi have no greater burden for
you this is a great
statement I have no greater burden for
you one of the things that God says
about his Commandments is that they are
not burdensome but that’s a striking
statement because I’m feeling the weight
I’m feeling the weight they are not
burdensome he says but I have no greater
burden for you God says if you reject
the teaching of Satan
then you will lift the burden from you
how will rejecting that teaching when it
could cost me my job lift the burden
from
me because now the Son of God is working
for you and not working against
you now the Son of God the one with the
eyes of fire and the feet of
bronze listen I don’t want to be
misunderstood if you take a stand for
intolerance where God is int tolerance
there may be some negative things for
those who live Godly in Christ Jesus the
Bible says will suffer but when God is
on your side and I I’ve shared it I I
share once more my experience with this
was when I was at the bus station they
had a scam going I was working night
shift and they had a scam going going
through Seminary working night shift and
what they would do was punch other
people in when while they were sleeping
and they would get paid were working
while they were sleeping but they would
be punched cuz they would be punched in
by somebody else and then it was the
next person’s turn the next night to
punch you in so you could get paid while
you slept so they sleep for two hours
but they’d be getting paid for two hours
cuz somebody else punched them in so
when I went to work there they told me
this is how we roll This is and This Is
Your Night This Is Your Night to punch
in him he’ll punch in you the next night
so now I’m caught on the horns of a
dilemma I’m on the horns of a dilemma
cuz I’m poor okay okay I I I don’t have
no M I’m making $300 a month okay so I’m
on the horns of a dilemma uh and then
everybody’s doing it so now I’m going to
be the odd man out if I don’t
participate in the scam so after getting
up some carriage and remembering I’m
studying for the ministry after all
that uh I uh I say okay okay guys I
can’t do that I I can’t participate in
that cuz that’s stealing and that’s I
just can’t do that they said well no you
don’t understand everybody does this
yeah I know but um I I can’t do that
okay so now I am a nonparticipant in the
union I’m an odd man
out so I’m feeling the weight of this
literally because when buses came in I
would be left to unload them by myself
the other guys wouldn’t come cuz I
wasn’t participating so I or they would
just come and take a bag and then leave
so now I got the
weight of
non-participation because there was a
standard in that
situation that I would not acquest
to so I’m feeling the weight of this the
weight of this it’s the right thing but
sometime the right thing can be weighty
and so I’m doing the right thing but I’m
feeling it’s a little
heavy a month and a half later I get
called to the
office I get called to the office the
supervisor says Evans I need to see you
so I’m wondering you know what’s wrong I
go in I sit
down he said we are aware of the scam we
are aware I’ve got we got a night guy
coming around and we are aware of people
punching other people in when they’re
really not
working we’re also aware that you were
not
participating so from now on you are the
new supervisor for the night share
you talk about a burden being
lifted because in that op in that
occasion I accepted the teaching so I
know this could be weighty right now
when you feel like what is this gonna
mean for me on my job and and I’m not
talking about you going preaching on
your job I’m just talking about you
having the Divine standard on your work
and that’s why he
says hold fast till I come verse 21 the
one who overcomes and he who keeps my
Deeds until the end to him I will give
authority over the Nations you may get
some of it now you get most of it later
but he says I’m going to give you the
ability to rule with me and he shall
rule them with a rod of iron as the
vessels of the Potter are broken to
Pieces so I shall receive Authority from
my father I will give to him the morning
star that is intimacy with Christ based
on revelation 22 he that that ha an ear
let him hear what the spirit of God says
to the churches what he’s saying to you
and me is to take your stand with love
with kindness but with
Clarity that there is a boundary here
and that boundary we do not cross and
when we do cross it we repent and get
back in line so that we can continue on
and have the eyes of the son of God
cuz just like the Son of God saw you
leave it the eyes of God saw you come
back to it and when he sees you come
back to it he can now respond to you
based on your present condition at
whatever level he feels appropriate and
so we want a church that will take its
stand for God regardless of whether we
get more members regardless of whether
we have more money regardless of whether
we get more notoriety it is the Divine
standard that we we must hold to at all
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