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Pastor spoke about Revelation 2

Rev 2:1-7, Rev 2:18-29 please take it away Biblebot

I was struck by how Ephesus is praised for rightly calling out false teaching, but then sternly warned for not being loving. I see a lot of joy in right wing Christians in calling out absurd and harmful teaching. But without care it's a path to a callous heart in the face of people who need to be shown love.

Not that there are any rightoids on this gay cat dating website or anything.

Almost opposite is the church in Thyatira, love and faith are growing, but too quick to tolerate false teaching and sexual immorality. There's also a subtext that they're sucking up to the State in the hopes to curry worldly political favor - which Jesus warns will be fleeting when compared to the crowns he offers for following him. You can think up your own modern parallels if you feel like it.

My prayer is that you stand firm on solid teaching, but have an open and soft heart to those who are hurting, even as they hurt others. Meditate on Matthew 10:16.

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>Not that there are any rightoids on this gay cat dating website or anything.

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Anyway, revelations is a joke and was one of the main reasons I lost my faith.

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cant lose what u never had bb

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Revelation 2:1-7

To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things: "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false. You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have{TR adds "have labored and"} not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent. But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

Revelation 2:18-29

"To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: "The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things: I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first. But I have this against you, that you tolerate your{TR, NU read "that" instead of "your"} woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works. I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you. Nevertheless, hold firmly that which you have, until I come. He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations. He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father: and I will give him the morning star. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

Matthew 10:16

"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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