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Once again, good morning. Please turn in your Bibles to Revelation chapter 2. We'll pick up where we left off. We're looking at the church in Thiratira, what I've called the church of compromised loyalty. We'll be looking at verses 22 and 23 today. That's where we'll pick up. But as you're turning there, I want to ask you a question, a question kind of a little bit of a review, but maybe somewhat of a thought that we need to carefully investigate and give our minds to.

Why did Israel fall? Why did Israel fall as a nation? And beyond that, the more fundamental question is, how does Satan bring down a great people? Same question could be asked, how does Satan bring down a great church? How does Satan bring anyone down for that matter? He is not sovereign.

He is not all-powerful. He doesn't have all authority. We know he cannot curse that which God has blessed. So how does Satan bring down Anyone. How does he bring down you or me? Well, the same way that he brought Adam and Eve down, the same way he brought Israel down.

How did he bring Israel down? Now, this was a mighty nation, a nation that was enslaved in Egypt and God brought out with a powerful hand. It's clear that he brought them out not because of their own righteousness, but because of his purposes and for his mercy and for his purposes.

But as he's ready to take the children of Israel into the land, they're out there on the plains of Moab, and he gives them Deuteronomy second giving of the law there, Deuteronomy. And in chapter 18, he says this, beginning in verse 9: When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations.

Israel, you're going into the land, do not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets art. Omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

And then he says, This, for whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord. And because of these detestable things, the Lord your God will drive them out before you. So God says, the reason I'm bringing you into this land and driving them out is because of the detestable things that they do in this land.

Want to understand what was going on in the land in the Canaanite period? Really can summarize it in really two figures: Baal and Asherah. Fertility God and goddess. Baal, the male God. Asherah, the female consort. And it was a religious practice to promote and engage in all kinds of sexual immorality so as to get these gods to make the land fertile and grow.

Israel goes into the land. The express commandment, do not imitate their ways. And then in 2 Kings 17, we get the answer of why Israel fell. Why did God allow, why did God not just allow, but bring in the Assyrians to destroy Israel. And then later, the Babylonians upon Judah.

2 Kings 17, 16 gives us an insight into this. They, speaking of Israel, forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an asherah, and worshipped all the hosts of heaven, and served Baal. They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire and practice divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him.

They sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Yahweh against them. How does Satan bring down a people? Well, he doesn't bring more powerful enemies. It wasn't because Israel's enemies were too powerful. It was because they provoked the Lord. And brought the Lord against them.

They provoked the Lord by doing evil in his sight. And so, because of that, the Lord brought them down. The same reason the Canaanites were expelled from the land was the same reason the Israelites were expelled from the land. And so, this is how Satan brings down a great people, a great nation, a great person, individual, you or me.

He brings them down by causing us to provoke the Lord. Well, this is what was going on in Thyratira: a provoking of the Lord. Just look at chapter 2, beginning in verse 18. We'll spend a little time in review and then get back to it in verse 22.

But remember, in verse 18, Jesus characterized himself. Look at how he characterized himself. Verse 18, and to the angel of the church at Thyratirah, write, the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished bronze, says this, the Son of God.

Yes, there is a Son. God has a Son, the Son of God, and He has a Son, and we're not to think of the Son as Coming from some kind of female consort. No, he's unique, only begotten, one comes from the Father, Son of God. He has eyes like a flame of fire and feet like burnished bronze.

And then Jesus goes on to say what he likes. He compliments the church for its strengths. Look at verse 19: I know your deeds, and your love, and your faith, and service, and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first. This is what Jesus liked about this church.

Their deeds, which were characterized by love, faith, service, and they were persevering in these kind of works, and they were getting better at them. This is what he liked about this church, and what he likes about all churches. But then Jesus voiced his concern over their weaknesses. Look at verse 20.

But I have this against you: that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads my bondservants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.

So there present at Thyratira was this satanic persona or this person who was promoting gross evil in the church. And the church, in large part, many were caught up in it, but a large part of the church was just standing by, letting her get away with it. Like a robber coming in, just robbing in broad daylight, and they're just watching, letting this evil go on.

Well, we looked at her last time. Jesus called her Jezebel. She called herself a prophetess, exerting her own authority. She was clearly a teacher and leader in the church, and she had absolutely no intention of repenting. That is the satanic persona. And so beginning in verse 22, Jesus makes it clear he's going to deal with her.

But not only her, he's going to deal with her children. She's going to deal with those she leads astray. And he's going to deal with all those who let her get away with it. And so that's where we are and where we'll pick up this morning. Look at verse 22.

Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds. And I will kill her children with pestilence. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts.

Hearts, and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. Well, in these verses, we see principles of God's judgment. It's very clear, and we can all leave here assured that Christ is going to remove all satanic influences from his people. And so, what he does here, Jesus announces his judgment upon Jezebel, her children, and he gives the reason for his judgment.

So that his churches will be people who repent of their compromises. That we will be a people repenting of our compromises, being good and growing in our repentance of our little compromises and big compromises, and that we will be a people who are holding fast, who are believing the gospel.

This is it. Be repenting, be believing. It's that same New Testament concept, that activity that is to engage our hearts and to be who we are and how we go through life each day. We are to be a people who are repenting, be a people who are believing, holding fast to the gospel.

And so, we're just going to step through these verses and we're going to look at Christ's judgment. Yes, Christ judges. He is the Son of God. This is what he does. In our world, we don't like the idea of a person judging. We'll meet the Son of God.

He has eyes of fire and feet of bronze, eyes that search, and feet, holy feet, that move to make things right. That's the heart of our Savior and our Lord and God's Son. And so we're going to look this morning at Christ's judgment or the announcement of his judgment upon a compromising church.

Christ's judgment upon a compromising church, and we'll just walk through this. You know, a church is, I don't know how to say this. Maybe have you heard the word monochromatic? Well, maybe I can say it like this. A church is not monosinermatic. Does that make any sense? I just made it up.

Monocinermatic. That is, within a church, there are varying kinds of sinners. We're not all monocinermatic. There are different, varying kinds of sinners. There are those who promote sin, teach sin. There are those who are enticed by sin. Embrace sin. There are those who are flirting with sin. There are those who are tolerating sin.

And on the other end of the spectrum, there are those who are walking away from sin and who are remaining faithful. So because a church is, there's not just one kind of sinner, there's also not just one kind of judgment. So we could say, neither is judgment mono-judgmentic.

Okay. I thought it was a good word. But judgment is specific to the sinner. And that's what we're going to see as we walk through this passage. Christ judges people differently according to the level and the depth of their sin. And there are some in this passage that there is hope for, and there are some who don't have any hope.

It's because of the condition of their heart. We'll see that. But judgment is specific to each individual. First, Christ judges the source of compromise. When he comes to a compromising church, he's going to first deal with the source of that compromise. Look at verse 22. Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sin.

Sickness. Who is he going to throw on a bed? Jezebel. And I believe that she is a literal person in this historical context. That she is the one, obviously, she is proclaiming, she is embodying the satanic, she embodies the satanic persona of the Jezebel of old. There's a very similar persona here.

And yes, it's a teaching. Yes, it's a body of teaching that is impacting the church. So it's a school of thought. But it is this individual, Jezebel, who is promoting it. I'll be the best spokesperson, the source, Satan's messenger, Satan's spokesperson. And God is going to judge her.

He's going to deal with her. And look at what Jesus says. Behold. That's strong language. Get this. Behold, watch this. I. And the verb is present. I am throwing her. It's not just I will throw. I am throwing. I throw her on a bed. Some of your texts have of sickness.

The idea is that he is throwing her up on her deathbed. It's very strong language. Behold, I throw her. Her on her deathbed. You remember the Jezebel of the Old Testament? I think it's important to bring her to mind because what happened to her, there is similar depiction of what's going to happen to the Jezebel of the New Testament and how the Jezebel of the Old Testament was judged.

You remember, we looked at her last time, her influence. We already talked about her, but remember in 1 Kings 16:31, it came about that Ahab married Jezebel, the daughter of Ephbael, king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him. So he erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.

Ahab also made the Asherah, and thus Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel than all the kings who were before him. This is because of his wife's influence. She's the one who murdered Naboth to get his land. So she was a liar, an imposter, a thief, brutal, all this.

Well, the day of her judgment came, as Elijah prophesied it would. And we read about it in 2 Kings 9. Beginning in verse 30. I'll read that in just a second. But just a little over a week ago, I was standing there, and some others, Cooper and Haley, and other folks in our church, Nancy and Michael, and Anna and Noah.

Now, I've got to start naming everybody, or I miss it, right? But we were standing there at the Jezreel Valley. We stood at the place where this showdown between the prophets of Baal and Elijah took place. Then we went down a little further and we stood at the place, the likely place where Naboth's vineyard is, right next to the place of the ancient Jezreel.

So all of these places are historical places that you can go to today. You can, certainly the vicinity, you can go to the places and even to the exact spots in many places. And this is what happens. The day of her judgment came. Jehu, an instrument that God used to bring judgment upon the house of Ahab and Jezebel.

And it wasn't because he was a particularly swell and righteous guy. It was just because God had had enough and raised up this individual to deal with the wickedness and bring judgment and push Ahab out. But let me just read to you what happens to Jezebel of the Old Testament.

2 Kings 9.30. When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. Now, what had happened is he had just had this showdown with Elijah, had had the showdown with Baal. The prophets of Baal, God answered in fire. The prophets, Baal, were slaughtered. And you would think that that would bring about a certain amount of repentance.

It doesn't. She wants to kill Elijah. God raises up Jehu. And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, Is it well, Zemri, you master's murderer? So she goes into the window. She puts in all of her makeup. Here comes Jehu. And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, Is it well, you master's murderer?

Then he lifted up his face to the window and said, Who is on my side? Who? And two or three officials looked down at him, as if to say, Yeah, we're with you. And he said, Throw her down. Throw her down. So they threw her down, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her underfoot.

When he came in, he ate and drank. Jehu came in, ate and drank, and he said, See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king's daughter. In other words, go back out there, give this woman a proper burial just because she's a king's daughter.

They went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. And he said, This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the property of Jezreel, the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel, and the corpse of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field in the property of Jezreel, so they cannot say, This is Jezebel.

In other words, what happened to her body? It went through the digestion track of a bunch of dogs, and it was scattered all over the face of Jezreel. That was her judgment. We can look at this. Why do such things happen? Why do events like this happen in history?

Well, there is a cause and effect. God is behind the scenes of human history. And this is what judgment looked like. This is what it looks like when God judged Jezebel. And this is what it looked like in her case. And this is similar language. I will throw her on.

Her deathbed. The same depiction of what's going to happen to the Jezebel of the New Testament. And as we just look at this and learn from this, we're learning about principles of God's judgment. How does this relate to us? Well, do not be a Jezebel. See, what is a Jezebel?

What was she doing? She was promoting biblical truth mixed in with cultural relevancy and came up with a concoction that justified sexual immorality. That's what she did. Take a little biblical truth, maybe the forgiveness part, maybe it's okay to do some things, and then mix in there some of the cultural relevancy, look, and then come up with a, you're free to go do whatever your flesh desires.

In fact, be bold about it. In fact, celebrate it. In fact, participate. Support. Justify your sexual immorality. Wed it to some kind of religion. This was. This was Canaanite religion. This is what it looks like when a church embraces the LGBTQ rainbow. This is what it looks like when a church turns a blind eye to the covenant of marriage, allows divorce just to run rampant through its ranks, as if a commitment and devotion, marriage fidelity has no basis or no bearing.

And on and on. Do not be a Jezebel. Do not be syncretistic. Look, if the Bible is true, let's go with it. If God is God, let's serve Him. Let's not mix all this. Let's not elevate our preferences above His Word. Oh, Christ judges the source of the compromise.

I would say that many in this room are probably more inclined to be enticed by the compromise than be these hardened advocates of it. But that's the second category. Christ judges those who are enticed. By the compromise, he will look back at verse 22. Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds.

So, who are those who are committing adultery with her? They are those who are allured, who are enticed, and who are persuaded by her teaching. Deep down, they want to give expression to their own sinful inclinations, and they just need a good teacher that allows them to do it.

Listen, there will always be a market for religion that mixes truth with error in such a way as to come up with a way of life to allow free sexual expression without guilt. There's always going to be a market. Historically, there has always been a market for that.

This is what the Canaanite world was like before Israel even came into there. And when you have so much freedom of sexual immorality, it's not difficult to figure out you're going to have a whole lot of unwanted pregnancies, and then all of a sudden, you're going to have a whole lot of child.

Sacrifice. Some things don't change. Notice, I will throw her, I will, those who commit adultery with her, I will throw into great tribulation. Great tribulation. I don't think he's referring to the great tribulation. Some think that's what he's saying here. I think he's saying great tribulation. Just as I think there's going to be evidence of a great tribulation coming.

But I think here he's just simply saying, look, just as this woman, as I'm throwing her on her deathbed, so I'm likewise going to throw those people who commit adultery, those who do the same thing, who are enticed by her apostasy, I will throw them into great tribulation.

They will undergo great tribulation difficulties because of their adultery with her. But notice something about this group. I will throw them, those who commit adultery with her, into great tribulation unless, unless they repent of her deeds. Unless they repent of her deeds, her ways. Christ wants them to repent, to turn away.

And he won't bring this upon them. The thing about Jezebel, she's not interested in repentance. But there are those who get caught up in her teaching. And Christ is saying, Come out from her teaching. I want you outside of her ways. Do you hear a heart of someone who loves you?

Do you hear the voice of the Son of God who loves people? Come out. Come out from her. Well, third, I want you to see that Christ judges those who propagate compromise. There are those, there's the source of compromise, that's that satanic voice. There are those who are taken in, those who are enticed by her apostasy or her compromise, but then there are those who propagate her apostasy.

Look at verse 23. And I will kill her children with pestilence. I will kill her children with pestilence. The literal expression is, I will kill her children in death. That's a literal, I will kill them in death. That's the idea: I will put an end to them forever.

The question is: who are her children? Who are her children? They're a little bit different than those who are committing adultery with her. Who are her children? Her children are those who have not only wholeheartedly embraced her apostasy, but had become advocates or teachers of her apostasy. They're her disciples.

They are the ones who have taken her ways, owned her ways, and has become the one who propagates her teaching. And I will kill them in death. I think it's important again to go back to the Old Testament and think about what happened to Jezebel, what happened to Ahab and his posterity, and what happened to Jezebel and her posterity.

I think it'll give us a little insight into what's going to happen to those who propagate compromise. Remember, Ahab says, okay, so after Jezebel has been thrown out of the tower and the dogs have eaten her flesh, 2 Kings 10, 1. 1. Now Ahab had 70 sons in Samaria.

Probably had a few wives. Because they didn't all come from Jezebel. And Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the children of Ahab. And he says this. And then in verse 6, he goes on, he writes another letter, and he says, If you are on my side and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master's sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow about this time.

Now the king's sons, 70 persons, were with the great men of the city who were rearing them. When the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and slaughtered them, 70 persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel. When the messengers came and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons, he said, put them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.

And in verse 11, so Jehu killed all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men and his acquaintances and his priests until he left them without survivor. Get a sense? This is not going to be propagated. Ahab's posterity comes to an end.

His influence, those responsible for his propagating his political influence, judgment came down upon his household, and he's done. His satanic influence, his influence is done. What about Jezebel? These are those who would have propagated the prophets of Jezebel. These are the ones who would have propagated Jezebel's satanic influence.

So there is the political influence of Ahab's house that was completely wiped out. And then there is those who would propagate Jezebel's religion. They're going to be wiped out. And again, Jehu, not necessarily a very nice guy. He's going to be the instrument of judgment. 2 Kings 10, 18.

Then Jehu gathered all the people and said to them, Ahab served Baal a little. Jehu will serve him much. What's he saying? Yeah, you think I'm going to serve Baal a whole. He's lying to him. Now summon all the prophets of Baal and all his worshipers and all his priests.

Let no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing shall not live. Live. But Jehu did it in cunning, so that he might destroy the worshipers of Baal. And Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it. Then Jehu sent throughout Israel, and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come.

And when they went into the house of Baal, the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other. He said to the one who was in charge of the wardrobe, Bring out garments for all the worshipers of Baal. So he bought out garments for them. In other words, put robes on the worshipers of Baal, so I can see who they are.

And then in verse 25, it came about as soon as Jehu had finished offering the burnt offering. So he goes and he goes in there with all pomp, makes this big offering to Baal. Pretend that Jehu said to the guard and the royal officials, Go in, kill them.

Let not one out. And they killed them with the edge of the sword. And the guard and the royal officers threw them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal. They brought out the sacred pillars of the house of Baal and burned them. They broke down the sacred pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal and made it a latrine to this day.

Thus Jehu eradicated Baal out of Israel. As you do. More study, it's clear that Jehu wasn't fully devoted to God. He had his problems. But the point is, he was God's instrument that brought about judgment upon the house of Ahab and upon the syncretistic religion of Jezebel that brought about gross sexual immorality and gross idolatry and gross offenses in Israel.

And just in case you're reading your text, you think, okay, maybe Jehu kind of overdid it. Then a little bit later, we read these words in 2 Kings 10:30. The Lord said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing what is right in my eyes and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.

God was behind this judgment. And he brought to an end the political influence of Ahab. He brought to an end the satanic influence of Jezebel. And so just as God removed Baal worship from Israel, God is certainly going to remove all. Satanic influences from his church. Those who wholeheartedly embrace and promote apostasy or compromise in God's church will be removed.

Now, come to a last part of verse 23. Let me see the reason for Christ's judgment. Why does he do all this? Why does he bring all this down on this church at Thyratira? And he says this, and all the churches will know that I am he who searches the minds and heart, and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

The Son of Man, the Son of God, with the eyes of fire, feet, bronze, I am he who searches the heart. All the churches, well, Christ wants us to know he is the one who is searching our hearts, and he is the one who is going to judge the living and the dead.

And he will do so on the basis of deeds. He wants us to understand the principles of judgment. He wants us to get ready for the judgment. He wants to understand the judgment. Jesus wants his church to understand that, number one, he is the judge, who he judges, why he judges them, and the basis of his judgment.

It's interesting in Jeremiah 17:10, it is Yahweh who searches the heart. I, the Lord, search the heart. I test the mind, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds. I, Yahweh, do this. God is the one who searches the heart and gives according to his deeds.

Yet in John 5:22, it's very clear it's the Son of God. Jesus wants it very clear: it's the incarnate Son of God who has been entrusted with all judgment. He says, For not even the Father judges anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son, so that all will honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.

He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Matthew 16, 27, Jesus said, For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds. And this thought of judgment brings to mind a major theme in Revelation.

What is Revelation about? Well, it's the revealing of his God's Son. It's revealing of Christ. It's also the revealing of the events leading up to the revealing of Christ. But another major theme running through all of Revelation is judgment upon the unrepentant. Judgment upon the unrepentant. You have the seven seals, and then you have the seven trumpets and the seven bowls.

Much of the whole book of Revelation is about judgment, but it's judgment upon the unrepentant. We have this promise in Revelation 3:9 that those whom he loves, he reproves and disciplines, and he wants us to be zealous to repent. He wants us to be a people who are repenting and turning away from our evil ways.

But you can see that there is throughout the book of Revelation the unrepentant. In Revelation 9, verse 20, after all these plagues had run their course, we read these words, the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands.

And they did not repent of their murderers, their murders, nor their sorceries, nor their immorality, nor of their thefts. After Revelation 16:9, after the fierce fire, men were scorched with fear. Heat and they blaspheme the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory.

Revelation is about God pressing in on fallen humanity and pushing them to the point, like, I want you to repent, turn away. If you keep holding on to your evil deeds, you will be lost. And you see, throughout the book of Revelation, through the judgments, you see this merciful God calling people to repentance, wanting to get their attention to repent, to turn to him.

He is the source of life, he knows what satisfies, he knows what is good. Revelation 21, you see this angel coming down from, in Revelation 20, verse 1, the angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

Now, I believe it's a literal thousand years. There are those who see that as a symbolic. My point today, it doesn't really matter where you are on that. But in Revelation 20, verse 7, you read these words: When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth.

Guess what? After a thousand years, he doesn't. Reform. He doesn't repent. You'd think, after being locked up after all that time, you'd kind of think, you know, I've thought through this, and yeah, my ways, his ways are good. I've really wreaked a lot of havoc among humanity, you know, and I am changing my ways.

No, he is unrepentant. And all of this prepares us for the great white throne judgment. Revelation 20, 11. Everything you see that's happening and movement in Revelation is moving us to this great white throne judgment. Revelation 20, verse 11. Then I saw a great white throne, and him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books according to their deeds. Well, it's clear that Christ is going to remove Satan forever.

And you think about what's happening at the great white throne judgment. The spirit that questions God's goodness, that questions God's truth, that questions God's authority, is forever banished from humanity. And Revelation and all of human history. Prepares us because God's people we are going to see and we're going to say, Amen, it is good for us to never question the integrity or goodness of God ever again.

Now humanity is ready to start living. You think about that. That seems an anthem to the world. Well, shouldn't we question? Shouldn't we think? Shouldn't we? That's what the great white throne judgment is about. Is God forever doing away with that spirit within humanity that questions the goodness and the wisdom and the authority of God?

And some of you, even as I hear that, may say, you know, I don't really know if that sounds all that good to me. And some of you who know the Lord are like, yes, amen. Humanity's ready to start. And a new heavens and a new earth comes.

That's the good news. So let us get good at repenting. Let us get good at turning away. I'd like to say more on that. But the time is getting away. Christ is going to remove Satan's influence. From his people forever. He's going to remove it from the church.

He's going to remove the source of compromise, those enticed by compromise, either through repentance or judgment. He's going to remove those who are enticed by compromise. He's going to remove those who propagate compromise. And he wants to do that so that we all know that he is the one who is searching our hearts and our minds.

Our deeds are testimonies to who we are, monuments to who we are. But I can tell you as we conclude here, I am thankful for those eyes and feet. I am thankful for those feet that search. I'm thankful that they search me. He knows me thoroughly. I'm thankful for those feet that move to righteousness.

Those are the feet that left heaven for our sakes. He looked down, he saw that things are not right. And his holy feet moved him to action to take care of that which he saw was not right. Listen, for my own sake, I want his. Cleansing. I want his searching.

I do not want to hurt anybody. And I can see in my disposition that I can say things, I can do things that would elevate myself and hurt others. I don't want to be like that. That's not good. I don't want to mess up another paradise. So, for my own sake, I love those eyes.

I love those feet. Even though it may be discipline at times, even though it may be, I love his cleansing work. He does that because he loves us. That's why he searches us. I mean, who's interested in us? Who's interested in me? Who cares? He does. But for the world's sake, not only for my own sake, for the world's sake, I am so thankful that evil will be done away with.

Those eyes know. Those feet move. He takes interest in this world, in us. He knows us thoroughly. He loves us in spite of him knowing us. And he guides us to what is best. And to become best ourselves. He gently leads us. He gives us time to repent.

I am very thankful for those eyes and feet. And I would ask you all to embrace his searching ways, to welcome his cleansing effect in your life. That's why he went to the cross. He doesn't bring your sins to your attention to publicly shame you for eternity. He brings them to your attention so that he can save you.

I love those eyes. I love those feet. That's the Son of God. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for sending your Son into this world to save sinners. Father, we can identify that we need your saving work. We thank you that you search us, you know us, and you know us thoroughly, and you call us to yourself.

You delight in us. You love us. And so, Father, I thank you for your cleansing work. Help us to welcome your ways. Welcome your cleansing work in our life. We thank you. In Jesus' name, amen.