Holiness

SPECIAL FEATURE

Amazing Love (And Can It Be)
Words by Charles Wesley; Music by Carson Li@KEC Worship

MESSAGE SUMMARY

Introduction

• We are living in a culture of entitlement.
• People live as if a different set of rules apply to them and they can do whatever they want without any consequence.
• We are also living in a culture of tolerance and compromise.
• Sadly, Christians are also living with a sense of entitlement, tolerance, and compromise.
• Sadly, Christians are also living with a sense of entitlement, tolerance, and compromise.
• We often repeat the same sin and ask for God's forgiveness.

Problems with the church at Thyatira (Revelation 2:18-29)

• The church was doing very well in many areas.
• But the church was tolerating the false teaching of a woman named Jezebel who was pushing for a type of compromise teaching - Christians could eat meat that has been offered to idols. (Revelation 2:20)
• Christians could also participate in business guild meetings where drunkenness and fornication happened.
  Jesus gave Jezebel time to repent but she refuses (Revelation 2:21)
• Jesus' judgment will come to her and her followers because of their refusal to repent. (Revelation 2:22-23)
• For those who endure, Jesus promises that He will come soon. (Revelation 2:24-25)

What We Can Learn

• This type of compromise teaching is still prevalent in our society and church.
• Christians still want to live in sin and refuse to repent. We live as if there is no consequence.
• Jesus reminds us that He will come soon to judge.
• He is the one "who searches mind and heart" and He will judge us according to our works.
• We were given many chances but we willingly and even joyfully repeat the same sin over and over again.
• We talk mostly of God’s love and forgiveness and we have lost the "fear and reverence” of Jesus.
• If we do not take sin seriously, we are not taking Jesus seriously

Repent and stop repeated sinning

• We need to stop hiding behind the disguise of Grace. We are deceiving ourselves if we think that God will continue to ignore our sin and not punish us.
• "God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out." R.C. Sproul

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