Pastor
Kyle explained two clear lessons about God from the church in Thyatira. (1) God
recognizes our progress, no matter how small it may be. The Lord acknowledges
when we are doing “right”; knows when we are working hard on our life, aligned
with His perfect Word, Will and Way. (2) God is sickened by half-hearted
Christianity. There are no half-hearted versions of Christianity. The person
who tells people what they want to hear becomes popular, even if they are
wrong. The fact is that it is better to be “wrong” with the people and “right”
with God, than it is to be “wrong” with God and “right” with the people. But
make no mistake, we all are being distracted, enticed and tempted into sinful desires
of the flesh and damning behavior still today. Galatians 5:16-17 tells us, “Walk by the Spirit, and you will not
gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh
are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh,
for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you
want to do.” The light of true Christianity cannot mix with the sinful
thoughts, words and deeds of darkness, yet they are taught. The sovereign Maker
of heaven and earth, who has purer eyes
than to see “evil” and cannot look at “wrong” shall not bless such mixing, which
is spiritual adultery against Him.
Romans
1:24-32 “Therefore God
gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring
of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about
God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave
them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural
relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave
up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men
committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty
for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God
gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They
were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice.
They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers,
haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to
parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's
righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they
not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.”
Many
sinful practices are the false teachings of the
deep things of Satan, believing that Creator Father God is holding out on and
keeping “good things” from us, which was the original lie of the devil that
lead to original sin (doubting God) in the Garden of Eden. The quest for hidden
secrets of God or hidden knowledge that our Maker is keeping from us is a cheap
trick and lies from the enemy, the father of lies, who comes to steal, kill and
destroy. Don’t fall for the deceiver and accuser, who distracts and derails us with
lies that create distrust and sickens our loving Father God.
Proverbs
12:15a “The way of a fool
is right in his own eyes.”
Jeremiah
4:22 says, “For my
people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they
have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they
know not.”
Let's conclude Pastor Kyle's message from the church in Thyatira on the next post.
In Christ, Brian
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