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As long as we live in this world. 43 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 4: Someone's going to say something that we don't understand, something 44 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 4: that hurts our feelings. Maybe your husband doesn't listen to 45 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 4: your opinion. There's always going to be reasons to take 46 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 4: up an offense, an opportunity to take it in. You know, 47 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 4: it's interesting because you know, the people that you're around 48 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 4: are one thing, But how about the people that you've 49 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 4: never even met? And you know what I mean by that. 50 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 4: Everybody's opinion can go public these days on social media. 51 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 4: You begin to read somebody's opinion, you hear what they're 52 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,399 Speaker 4: railing against. Kind of flusters you. You think, I don't 53 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 4: agree with that. Why would they say that? Then you 54 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,679 Speaker 4: begin getting all upset. You call your brother, you call 55 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 4: your sister, you call your neighbor. Can you believe that 56 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 4: they think that? In that crazy you see, you begin 57 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:03,399 Speaker 4: to get frustrated and upset and spend energy on that offense, 58 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 4: on those things that don't really even matter. You see, 59 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 4: it's as if we're taking the bait. See, we cannot 60 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 4: take the bait of a fence and live in victory, 61 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 4: joy and peace. We gotta let it go. We can't 62 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 4: let it get on us, We can't swallow the bait. 63 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 4: In fact, in the scripture, the word offense comes from 64 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 4: the Greek word that means bait. It was used to 65 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 4: lure animals into a trap. See the bait or the 66 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 4: offense was what got the animals to come on in 67 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 4: and take the bait. And sometimes that's what happens to 68 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 4: us with a fence. It lures us right into a trap. 69 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 4: We get caught up in this circle of a fence, 70 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 4: in this trap of a fence, we get upset, we 71 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 4: get frustrated. Did we get bitter because we've swallowed it, 72 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 4: hook line and sinker. So we spend our time trying 73 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 4: to figure out what somebody meant, dissecting every word. That's 74 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 4: a waste of our time. What in the world could 75 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 4: be so important that we have to take our time 76 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 4: to figure it all out? What in the world could 77 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 4: someone say that would be that important to your destiny 78 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 4: if it's offensive to you? Now you know what we 79 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 4: take of offense sometimes when no one really means anything. 80 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 4: Now that's a whole nother subject. But we're talking today 81 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 4: about thinking twice about any offense, any offense. We got 82 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:46,599 Speaker 4: to recognize what's happening when we're frustrated and when we're 83 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 4: going in the circle of offense, and we've got to 84 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 4: learn to drop it and let it go. See the 85 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 4: quicker we let go of offense, the more free we're 86 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 4: going to be. The other day, I was cleaning spot 87 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 4: off of my carpet, so I went and got some 88 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 4: carpet spot remover. I looked on the back to see 89 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 4: what the instruction said about it, and it said get 90 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 4: the spot off as quickly as you can. Why because 91 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 4: the longer that spot's there, the harder it is to remove. 92 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 4: I see. That's the same way with a fence. Well, 93 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 4: if you have a stain of a fence on your heart, 94 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 4: the longer you allow it to be there, the harder 95 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 4: it's gonna take to get rid of it. See. But 96 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 4: the sooner you let it go, the better off you'll be. 97 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 4: Don't go hour by hour, day to day, trying to 98 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 4: figure it all out. It's not that important. If it's 99 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 4: offended you, it's not that important. Proverbs nineteen eleven says 100 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 4: good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is 101 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 4: to one's glory to overlook an offense. Good sense makes 102 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 4: one slow to anger, And it's too our glory to 103 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 4: overlook an offense. You see, it's to our good. It 104 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 4: does us no good to go around offended, allowing that 105 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 4: to take root in our heart. See, if we'll get 106 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 4: good at overlooking offense. We're gonna live a more satisfied 107 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 4: and happy life. Jesus was no stranger to offense. People 108 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:27,679 Speaker 4: were constantly trying to trap him into offense. It says 109 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 4: in Second Peter that they hurled insults at him. You 110 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 4: know what he did, It says he entrusted himself to 111 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 4: the one who judges justly. He didn't entrust his life. 112 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 4: He didn't give his life his ways to some opinion, 113 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 4: false accusations. He entrusted his life to the one who 114 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 4: was in control of his life, the one who could 115 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 4: judge justly. That's where he felt his resolve. He found 116 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 4: it by knowing other people's opinions, whether they mean it 117 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 4: or not, don't have to affect him. You see, we're 118 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 4: all going to have to learn how to let go 119 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 4: of offense, and it is a process we're all going 120 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 4: to have to learn. The apostle Paul in two Timothy 121 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 4: fourteen four had to work at keeping a fence off 122 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 4: of him as well. He said, Alexander the Coppersmith did 123 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 4: me a great wrong. But God will judge him. God 124 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 4: will take care of what he's done. You see, he 125 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 4: gave it to God. He wasn't taking the responsibility on 126 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 4: himself to be the judge and jury of everyone's opinion. 127 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 4: He said, I'm giving it to God. I have things 128 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 4: to do. I can't walk around with an offended heart. 129 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 4: I can't walk around with bitterness and anger and expect 130 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 4: to be everything God called me to be. See, we 131 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 4: need to have that kind of attitude. We need to 132 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 4: turn the situation around like Paul did and turn it 133 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 4: over to God. A fence will show up, It's just 134 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 4: how are we gonna handle that offense? When it shows up, 135 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 4: It's gonna be there. I can tell you it's gonna 136 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 4: be there. As long as you live on this earth 137 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 4: with people, it's gonna be there. Have you ever put 138 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 4: like a bite of food in your mouth, maybe you're 139 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 4: gonna try something new, and it was like, ooh, I 140 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 4: don't like the way it tastes, and you have to 141 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 4: stop for a minute, and you're thinking, what am I 142 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 4: gonna do? Am I gonna spit it out? Or am 143 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 4: I gonna swallow it? And you're thinking, you know, what 144 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 4: what do I do? I mean, who am I with? 145 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 4: You're just thinking, right, a lot of this stuff. I 146 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 4: have literally done that and taken my napkin and went, 147 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 4: I know that's not very ladylike, But if there's something 148 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:52,959 Speaker 4: that's ucky in your mouth and you don't want to 149 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 4: swallow it, that's kind of what you need to do 150 00:08:54,920 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 4: is spit it out. If you ever taste the bitterness 151 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 4: of offense, that yucky feeling in your mouth, don't swallow it, 152 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 4: Just spit it out in your napkin. Don't let it 153 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 4: go down in your innermost parts. We've got to take 154 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 4: a moment and think twice about taking up offense. Is 155 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 4: it gonna benefit you any Is it gonna make your 156 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 4: life better? Is it gonna make you more happy? More joyful? See, 157 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 4: you may be rinding up your day at work four 158 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 4: o'clock a coworker leaves you out of an important meeting. 159 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 4: You have till four fifteen to decide if you're gonna 160 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 4: take that offense. Are you gonna spit that offense in 161 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:40,439 Speaker 4: your napkin? Are you gonna take it home with you? 162 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 4: Are you gonna let it upset your whole day? Are 163 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 4: you gonna let it disturb the peace in your home? 164 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,319 Speaker 4: What are you gonna do with that offense? We gotta 165 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 4: learn to step back and think twice about taking an 166 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 4: offense and John Ken. The scripture tells us that there 167 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 4: were certain people in the crowds when Jesus would go 168 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 4: places that wanted to capture him. They wanted to seize 169 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,959 Speaker 4: his life. They wanted to take him and stone him. 170 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 4: There was certain people that were always trying to stir 171 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 4: up trouble. But there's such an important thing that it 172 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 4: says that Jesus did. And I've always kind of wondered 173 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 4: what it said. And the other day when I read it, 174 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 4: I thought, could this mean? It says that Jesus would 175 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,839 Speaker 4: slip out of the crowd and go on his way. 176 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 4: Now I thought about that just a minute. Here's some 177 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 4: people in the crowd that were trying to seize him 178 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 4: and trap him, but he like slipped away and moved on. 179 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 4: And I thought about, you know what Jesus did. He 180 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 4: wasn't playing Houdini, he wasn't being some magic man. He 181 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 4: didn't give in to their opinions. He didn't go try 182 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 4: to defend himself. He didn't strife. He didn't say, Peter 183 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 4: and John, why are they and so and fair? Will 184 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 4: you go over there and talk to those people. No, 185 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 4: he ignored the opinions of others, and he moved on 186 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 4: his way. He literally slipped through the fingers of offense 187 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 4: and moved on. You see, nobody capture Jesus' life. Nobody 188 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 4: could capture him. Jesus gave his life. He made the 189 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 4: decision to lay it down. He didn't allow anybody to 190 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 4: change the course of his destiny by offense, by insults. 191 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,839 Speaker 4: He said, no, I've got an assignment from God. I'm 192 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 4: gonna entrust my life to the one who judges justly. 193 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 4: And can I tell you you got to slip through 194 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 4: the fingers of offense. If you're gonna move on your way, 195 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 4: if you're gonna keep going to those places that God 196 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 4: has you, Nothing is that important to waste your time. Listen, 197 00:11:55,800 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 4: If offense can't upset you, offense can't control you, and 198 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 4: if offense can't control you, you're going to be free 199 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 4: to live a life of joy and victory. Shake off 200 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 4: any offense. You have a decision to make today, Give 201 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 4: it to God. Live happy, Chelsey and hope. Amen. 202 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 5: Amen, Thank you for listening to the Jolus Deine podcast. 203 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 5: Help us continue to share the message of hope with 204 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 5: those all over the world. 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