In fact, the weaknesses of the Thyatira Baptist Church is threefold.
You can basically categorize them with three F's.
You know, you take a test, you don't do well, and you get an F.
Well, this church got three F's.
What are the three F's?
Female preachers, fornication, and false doctrine.
Not a good report card.
Female preachers, right off the bat, bad.
You know, fornication, right off the bat, bad.
False doctrine.
That's the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Now look at verse 20.
Not withstanding I have few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel,
which callest herself a prophetess, to teach, it says.
So apparently this church was allowing Joyce Myers to come and preach for them.
You know, they're allowing these Pentecostal, prophetess-type, false-teaching females to
stand behind their pulpit and teach the Word of God.
You know, what they're teaching is good.
I don't care if what they're teaching is biblical, it's not biblical for them to be
behind the pulpit and teach the Word of God.
Period.
Exclamation mark, period, period, period.
The Bible tells us in 1 Timothy 2, 11, let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffered not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in
silence for Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Now see, when you hear preaching like this, a lot of the times people on the outside who
don't read their Bibles, they're not in 1 Timothy 2, they're not in 1 Corinthians, they
hear something like this, oh you're just a male chauvinist pig or whatever.
Well first of all, pigs are females, hog would be a more correct way of saying that, okay?
Secondly, you know, take it up with God.
And when we preach this, we're not saying that women are less than men, okay?
They hold the same amount of importance in the sense of we're both human beings saved,
so on and so forth, but there's an order to things.
And according to God, this is out of order.
Pentecostal churches need to read this verse and tell me how do you interpret that?
You know, they're so busy flapping their tongue and dreaming up all kinds of visions and dreams
that they're not actually reading the Bible.