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Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden

 

Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira,

After His words of condemnation, Jesus now turns to those who walk with the Lord. There is always a remnant that is true to truth and does not follow false doctrine.

as many as do not have this doctrine

“This doctrine” is the doctrine of immoral practices through the cultic guilds that participated in sex as a part of worship.

who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say

Some people believed that they had an edge on the “depths of Satan.”

I will put on you no other burden

Jesus asks no more than they “hold fast what you have till I come” (Re 2:25). He wants us to be true to the objective Word of God and measure everything by the Bible. A subjective approach to spirituality is dangerous.

Principle:

Jesus wants us to be true to the objective Word of God.

Application:

There are people today who believe that they have a “deep” knowledge of God. Invariably, when people drift from the Bible, they buy into cults and mysticism. Usually, this is some form of mystical spirituality. No one can measure whether this “deep” spiritual knowledge is true because only the person who proclaims this knowledge is privy to it. If we cannot measure something by God’s objective Word, we should not buy into it. If we do, we may enter “the depths of Satan.”

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