3/1/26

The Church in Thyatira

In this sermon, Keith Miller walks through Revelation 2:18–29 and Jesus’ letter to the church in Thyatira. Thyatira was a working-class trade city where economic life was tied closely to idolatry, pagan feasts, and sexual immorality. In that setting, compromise could easily appear practical, reasonable, and necessary for survival.

Jesus commends the church for its love, faith, service, patient endurance, and growing works. But He also rebukes them for tolerating a false teacher He calls “Jezebel,” who claimed prophetic authority while leading people into idolatry and immorality. Thyatira reminds us that love must be joined to truth, faith must be guarded by discernment, and tolerance without repentance becomes spiritually poisonous.

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