The church in Thyatira, while commended for their patient endurance in love, faith, and service by the Lord Jesus, was nevertheless in deep peril having giving itself to tolerating false teaching and immorality. The Lord warned them that judgment would fall upon the church unless they repented by purging the threat from within. The call to discern is an essential need for the church today as doctrinal compromise and immoral toleration are always present temptations with the world pressing into the church. The power to resist comes not from toleration but from revelation -- the revelation of who Jesus Christ is in all His glory and power.