Revelation 2:18

“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.

What comes to mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you. - A.W. Tozer

Jesus is the only name that can command and comfort at the same time.

There is no refuge from Him, only in Him. – Tim Keller

His name is a stand-in for his character.

Revelation 2:19-23a

“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. 20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate (allow) that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. 21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. 22 Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, 23a and I will strike her children dead. 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."

Cultural accommodation is the gateway to tolerating sin.

Don’t trade what you want most for what you want in a moment.

Revelation 2:23b-29

“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. 24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden. 25 Only hold fast what you have until I come. 26 The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, 27 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. 28 And I will give him the morning star. 29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

James 1:22

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Does the name of Jesus command or comfort you?

Revelation 2:28

And I will give him the morning star.

What are you tolerating in your life, and who knows about it?