I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

Revelation 2:18-29

To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze. I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.

Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching, she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, ‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’

To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’—just as I have received authority from my Father.  I will also give that one the morning star.

Thyatira, in Turkey, was a town with many skilled workers, and the trade guilds many skilled workers, and the trade guilds held meals associated with pagan worship.

This was another very mixed church. In many ways it was healthy. But an influential woman in the fellowship is advocating easy compromise with the immoral, idolatrous pagan world. And many have fallen in with her way of thinking. Ther are 'Christians' who have plunged deep into evil - perhaps to demonstrate their moral superiority: perhaps because they make a false separation between soul and body. Those who remain faithful are promised Christ's power and his presence.

Why?

This is an inner sin that it shows good behavior outside, love and faith, service and perseverance. But the Lord sees our hearts and minds. God will repay each of us according to our deeds.

Sexual immorality is common in the world, but the Lord asks us to be Holy to our couple.

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眼目如火炎：很嚴厲的眼光注視正在犯罪的人。

腳像銅： 銅代表審判。

優點：愛心，努力行善信心，

缺點：愛和真理分不清楚。

審判是神要使他們生病。

鐵杖的權柄，可以摧毀敵人。晨星是指金星，羅馬皇帝會以金星為他們的權柄。

應用：推雅推拉生活中活出愛心，善心，不怕殉道，面對事情與異教妥協。

與以弗所教會不同，是很公義，卻沒有愛心。這兩個教會做好人，向善卻不明是非。愛與鐵的紀律不是不相容。愛是不喜歡不義，只喜歡真理。責備人也是出於愛心。教會中有時候為了使人來教會，以致不敢指出會友的錯誤，這不是愛。我們唱詩願意堅定信靠主，轉身後卻又落入誘惑中。

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How?

Be aware of the little sin, it may increase to big mistakes. Be humble and focus on the Lord for all of us are weak. May the Holy Spirit remind us through God's word every day.