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Our Spiritual immunity is compromised when we as believers, as God’s own people, are comfortable with what God hates. Revelation 2:12-17
And today, when what God hates finds its way into our Netflix queue, into our internet search history, into the magazines we buy, when we flirt with sin, touch it, get it on our hands, and bring it into our homes, how do you think Jesus feels?
Pergamos started out so strong, just how we imagine the first-century church to be: strong, witnessing, persecuted, but remaining faithful to Christ. And we wish we in modern-day America could be like them.
But they were as susceptible to sin as we are today and as susceptible as the Israelites were in Numbers.
No amount of vitamin C can keep you from catching a cold if you’re constantly bombarded with every germ and virus there is. Eventually, your immunity will wear down and you’ll get sick.
They hang around with it. They handle it. They touch it. They get it on their hands, they bring it into their homes, and somehow, they think their immune system is strong enough not to be affected by it.
But in Numbers, “the anger of the Lord was aroused against Israel,” and He sent a plague that wiped out twenty-four thousand of His own people. In Revelation, He finds His bought-and-paid-for church going the same way and says, “Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.”
His anger was aroused in the Old Testament, He says, “repent or else” in the New Testament, and when sin comes right into our camp and we do nothing to stamp it out, Jesus says our spiritual immunity is compromised no matter how impervious we think we are. And Jesus says, “repent.”