Oakwood Church

“And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him. And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.”
1 Kings 16:30-31

“(There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited. He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)”
1 Kings 21:25-26

“And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly. And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house.’”
1 Kings 21:27-29

“For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol.”
Proverbs 5:3-5

“And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house… lest at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, and you say, ‘How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!’”
Proverbs 5:7-9,12

How to Protect Our Holiness:

1. Focus on Jesus, the all-seeing, all-righteous Judge

“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.’”
Revelation 2:18

“I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist. His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.”
Daniel 10:5-6

“Then he said to me, ‘Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words. The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia.’”
Daniel 10:12-13

How to Protect Our Holiness:

1. Focus on Jesus, the all-seeing, all-righteous Judge

“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.’”
Revelation 2:18

How to Protect Our Holiness:

1. Focus on Jesus, the all-seeing, all-righteous Judge

“And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.”
Revelation 2:23

How to Protect Our Holiness:

1. Focus on Jesus, the all-seeing, all-righteous Judge

“I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.”
Revelation 2:19

How to Protect Our Holiness:

2. Fight for high standards of Purity and devotion, Together

“But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess.”
Revelation 2:20

How to Protect Our Holiness:

2. Fight for high standards of Purity and devotion, Together

“I gave her time to repent but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality…”
Revelation 2:21

How to Protect Our Holiness:

2. Fight for high standards of Purity and devotion, Together

“Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed… and I will strike her children dead.”
Revelation 2:22-23

How to Protect Our Holiness:

2. Fight for high standards of Purity and devotion, Together

“But to the rest of you in Thyatira who do not hold this teaching… to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden.”
Revelation 2:24

How to Protect Our Holiness:

2. Fight for high standards of Purity and devotion, Together

“Only hold fast what you have until I come.”
Revelation 2:25

How to Protect Our Holiness:

3. Find hope in Christ’s return and everlasting Reward

“The one who conquers and who keeps my word to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.”
Revelation 2:26

How to Protect Our Holiness:

3. Find hope in Christ’s return and everlasting Reward

“And he will rule them with a rod of iron as when earthen pots are broken in pieces.” Revelation 2:27

How to Protect Our Holiness:

3. Find hope in Christ’s return and everlasting Reward

“And I will give him the morning star.”
Revelation 2:28