Episode 54: Christ desires you to OVERCOME, are you? (Part 4A - Thyatira)

In this series on OVERCOMING we will be doing a few episodes looking at Jesus' final words to his church.  His desire is for the church to overcome or to conquer.  Now some may think it doesn't really matter in the end, however, Jesus has some stern warnings to some of these churches if they do not overcome or fix the current problem that he sees.  The consequences of not fixing the problem and overcoming are eternal consequences as we will find out as we at each church.

For the church of Thyatira they were commended for the deeds of late being greater than at first.  But false teachers had crept in, one of them being a woman leading some in the  church astray.  This is not allowed as we discussed in the episode "In God's Church - Some are ELDERS (Part 2)."  The false prophetess was causing the people to commit spiritual adultery in the eyes of God.  We will look at examples in scripture of where God warns that continuing in any sin is committing spiritual adultery.   Those who have received of a new heart and new spirit and fall into committing spiritual adultery will be put on a bed of sickness and will see death if they don't repent. 

In the end, they are commanded to hold fast and keep Jesus' deeds until the end if they desire to overcome.

I will do a part 4B and cover some passages on "deeds" and post links to the 2 episodes I mentioned previously.  Below are episodes on overcoming sin:

War in the Flesh:  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/warriors4christ/episodes/2022-08-08T06_13_18-07_00
Spiritually Crucified:  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/warriors4christ/episodes/2022-07-26T20_45_59-07_00
Repent and Stop ... :  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/warriors4christ/episodes/2022-08-02T06_50_39-07_00
Discipline 4A:  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/warriors4christ/episodes/2022-07-17T16_45_04-07_00
Discipline 4B:  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/warriors4christ/episodes/2022-07-20T03_00_00-07_00

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Passages covered: Revelation 2:18-29;  Romans 2:28-29,  6:1-6, 16,  7:1-6,  13:8-14;  Jeremiah 23:1-22;  1 Corinthians 11:23-31;  ch 10;  Galatians 5:13-25;  Ephesians 2:1-3;  Hebrews 3:10-19;  4:1-11;  12:5-13;  James 1:1-5, 26-27,  2:1-13,  ch 3, 4:1-5;  1 Peter ch 1, ch 2, 3:10-14;  Mathew 5:19-30;  7:13-23.