The Nicolaitans are very much like many Christians we have today. They have done a deal with the world. Not with paganism – by and large they cannot find paganism in their society – but with worldliness, worldly living, worldly music. These things are brought it into the churches, so that you can be a Christian and you can be a worldling at the same time. But when Christ speaks to Ephesus, he says, ‘I hate that kind of compromise, and I commend you, because you were against it too, and you will not tolerate it.’