Tolerating Thyatira: Repent and Hold Fast What You Have Till I Come

Reformed Baptist Church of Kansas City

Rev 2:18-29 – Repent and Hold Fast What You Have Till I Come---and I will give power over the nations and the Morning Star.The letter to the church of Thyatira: The Tolerating Church-G.K. Beale summarizes Christ's letter to His lampstand in Thyatira: "Christ commends the church of Thyatira for its Christian works of witness, condemns it for its permissive spirit of idolatrous compromise, and exhorts it to overcome this in order not to be judged but to inherit end-time rule together with Christ."-I. City (v18a)---A. Market City---B. Pagan City-II. Christ (v18b)---A. Divine Judge---B. Sovereign Judge-III. Commendation (v19)---love, service, faith, patience, latter greater than first.-IV. Condemnation (vv20-23)---A. The Problem (v20)--tolerated further and differently---B. The Patience (v21)--of Christ (we should mimic)---C. The Punishment (vv22-23)-V. Exhortation (vv24-25)---A. Who Remnant Are (v24a)---B. What Remnant Are Told (vv24b-25)-VI. Promise (vv26-29)---A. Reign with Messiah Son (vv26-27)---B. Receive the Morning Star (v28)