Revelation 1:6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate. This deed right here that Jesus hated is what has taken over the world today. It definitely take deep study to exactly find out what these deeds were. In the earliest recorded days of Church history the Nicolatians were the spiritual descendants of Nicolas of Antioch, who had been ordained as a deacon in Acts 6:5. That verse says, And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch. The fact that he was a proselyte tells us that he was not born a Jew but had converted from paganism to Judaism. Then he experienced a second conversion, this time turning from Judaism to Christianity.According to the writings of the Early Church leaders, Nicolas taught a doctrine of compromise. The deeds that Jesus hated of the Nicolatians was that it was alright to have one foot in the church and one foot in the world and one there need to be no separation. Sound like our world today when believers are allowing sin and compromise to be in their lives draining away the power in the work of the cross and the power of the Holy Ghost residing on the inside. By encouraging the people Nicolas led them to participate in worldliness and lowered the standard of God. People of God #YouCantStraddleTheFence
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 17:12:08 +0000