In this sermon Compromise: Hell's Trojan Horse, God's people are to be a distinct people. The story of the Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy come to represent the subversion of anything from within. That is what was happening to the church at Pergamos. Whereas Satan was trying to crush the Smyrnan church by persecution from without. He was trying to collapse the Pergamos congregation through corruption from within. That is the way our enemy operates. He either tries to crush us with hardship and hostility or corrupt us with compromise. And we need to take heed to the fact that what ten years of outward assault on Troy was unable to accomplish was done in one night when the enemy was brought within the city. The Trojan Horse at Pergamos was what Jesus called the doctrine of Balaam. It became a stumbling block to the believers, leading them to accept idolatry and immorality while trying to maintain their distinctiveness as Christians. As we see from Scripture, the danger of the doctrine of Balaam is that it tries to wed the people of God to the ways of the world, and that is something that has never worked and will never work. God's people are to be a peculiar people. God's people are to be a distinct people.