悔改
在写给推雅推喇教会的信中的这一段，耶稣呼召他们悔改，尽管祂在其他书信中也如此行，但悔改却是这封信的重点。
这件事是关乎一个名叫耶洗别的妇人，她抗拒神悔改的呼召。在这里，我们看到不肯悔改就像筑起一道石墙来抗拒神的恩典。在神施恩的日子，耶稣多次呼召神的儿女从悖逆的道路上回转，改而追随“靠圣灵行事”（加拉太书 5:25）的生活。我们需要好好使用神赐给我们去悔改的时机。
耶稣提到耶洗别的“儿女”时，我们看到，我们很容易便会沉迷在别人鼓吹的活动中；当我们这样想：“人人都是这样做的了！”我们很容易就忽略神要我们悔改的呼召。悔改要求我们听从耶稣多过听从我们的同侪。
在耶稣对教会其他人所说的话中，我们看到，悔改和转离假的教导，如何能帮助教会群体兴旺和更有影响力，去按神的旨意过生活。我们需要一个关怀、支持、和爱的教会群体，并且“你们已经有的，总要持守”，直等到耶稣再来。我们想努力悔改，若能与相信耶稣的信众一起致力去做，是最有效不过的。
全能的神和慈爱的好牧人，你以大能持续不断地呼召我们悔改，我们感谢你。求你拆毁我们筑起的墙，又愿你的国降临。阿们。
启示录 2:20-29
20然而，有一件事我要责备你，就是你容让那自称是先知的妇人耶洗别教导我的仆人，引诱他们行奸淫，吃祭偶像之物。
21我曾给她悔改的机会，她却不肯悔改她的淫行。
22看哪，我要叫她病卧在床；那些与她行淫的人，若不悔改所行的，我也要叫他们同受大患难。
23我又要杀死她的党类，叫众教会知道我是那察看人肺腑心肠的，并要照你们的行为报应你们各人。
24‘至于你们推雅推喇其余的人，就是一切不从那教训、不晓得他们素常所说撒旦深奥之理的人，我告诉你们：我不将别的担子放在你们身上；
25但你们已经有的，总要持守，直等到我来。
26那得胜又遵守我命令到底的，我要赐给他权柄制伏列国，
27他必用铁杖辖管他们，将他们如同窑户的瓦器打得粉碎，像我从我父领受的权柄一样。
28我又要把晨星赐给他。
29圣灵向众教会所说的话，凡有耳的，就应当听！’
Repentance
“I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.” - Revelation 2:21
In this part of his letter to the church in Thyatira, Jesus calls for repentance. Though he does that in other letters too, in this letter repentance has center stage.
The situation has to do with a woman called Jezebel and her resistance to God’s call for repentance. Here we see that refusing to repent is like building a stone wall against God’s grace. God’s season of grace is filled with Jesus’ calls to God’s children to turn from their ways of disobedience and toward a life that is “in step with the Spirit” (Galatians 5:25). We need to make good use of the time that God gives us for repentance.
When Jesus speaks about Jezebel’s “children,” we see how easy it can be to get caught up in a movement. It may be easy for us to ignore the call to repentance when we think, “Everyone is doing it!” Repentance demands that we listen more to Jesus than we do to our peers.
In Jesus’ address to the rest of the church, we see how repenting and turning away from false teaching helps the community to flourish and grow in authority to live God’s way. We need a caring, supporting, and loving church community, and we need to “hold on to what [we] have” until Jesus returns. Repentance works best when we work at it with fellow followers of Jesus.
Almighty God and loving good shepherd, thank you for your persistent and powerful calls to repent. Break down the walls we build. Let your kingdom come. Amen.
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