The Corrupt Church

First Words:

I. The ___________ to the Church –Revelation 2:18 – “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.”

II. The _________________ of the Church – Revelation 2:19-23

A. The ____________ – Revelation 2:19 – “ ‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter

works exceed the first.’”

There is a ____________

There is ____________

B. The ______________ – Revelation 2:20-23 – “But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. 21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. 22 Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, 23 and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.”

1. Cause

2. Confrontation

3. Consequence

III. The ____ ____________for the Church – Revelation 2:24-25 – But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden. 25 Only hold fast what you have until I come.

A. ______________

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IV. The ______________ concerning the Church – Revelation 2:26-29 – The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, 27 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. 28 And I will give him the morning star. 29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

A. An _______________

B. A _________________

So…What’s it to me?

1. God insists that doing the right things must be accompanied by believing the right things. Discernment and love must go hand in hand.

2. God will chasten us to bring us into conformity to His will and purposes.