WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:03.557 [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back to the Discipleship series with me and Pastor Elwood. 00:03.938 --> 00:06.702 [SPEAKER_03]: Today we're going to be talking about the spirit of offense. 00:07.384 --> 00:17.180 [SPEAKER_03]: This is something that a lot of people have and a lot of people will deal with, and it's very vital that you know how to deal with it, because a spirit of offense is often the root cause of a lot of problems. 00:17.561 --> 00:23.091 [SPEAKER_03]: In your relationships, in your family, in your church, a lot of times it starts with that spirit of offense. 00:23.551 --> 00:24.553 [SPEAKER_03]: So let's talk about it. 00:25.090 --> 00:33.863 [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, you know, as I read in chapter 17 of Luke of what Christ said, and I like read it. 00:33.923 --> 00:34.785 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 00:34.805 --> 00:42.897 [SPEAKER_02]: Said then said he entered disciples, it is impossible, but that offense will come, but wall into him. 00:42.877 --> 00:45.222 [SPEAKER_02]: So through him, they come. 00:45.803 --> 00:55.502 [SPEAKER_02]: It is better for him that a meal stone were hanged about his neck, and he cast in the sea than that he should have been one of these little ones. 00:56.163 --> 01:04.159 [SPEAKER_02]: Take heed to yourself if I'd brother trust bass against it, rebuke him, and have he repent for forgive him. 01:04.139 --> 01:13.792 [SPEAKER_02]: And if he trespass again, the seven times a day and seven times a day turn again to the saying, I repent, thou shall I forgive him. 01:14.032 --> 01:15.073 [SPEAKER_02]: That actually scares me. 01:15.814 --> 01:23.424 [SPEAKER_02]: It really does because there's a lot of people that is offended, brothers and sisters in Christ and think there's no repricution of it. 01:23.925 --> 01:24.726 [SPEAKER_02]: But there is. 01:25.347 --> 01:29.071 [SPEAKER_02]: That's a judgment that's going to come up on them. 01:29.612 --> 01:33.437 [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, I'm scared 01:33.485 --> 01:35.908 [SPEAKER_03]: You gotta ask yourself what is this spirit of offense? 01:36.449 --> 01:42.598 [SPEAKER_03]: Offences often when there's something that someone says or something someone does that personally bothers you. 01:43.079 --> 01:53.433 [SPEAKER_03]: It's something internally that disrupts you or that you have a problem with and that little bit of offense can quickly spiral into something more. 01:53.974 --> 01:56.918 [SPEAKER_03]: It can often provoke you in a different way with your emotions. 01:57.319 --> 02:00.403 [SPEAKER_03]: It can provoke you to wrath, to anger, 02:00.383 --> 02:16.671 [SPEAKER_03]: Revenge to vengeance and all the things that are not of God, you know, the things of God are the fruit of the Spirit which is gentleness and kindness and self-control and then you have the opposite of that and the spirit of offense tries to provoke those reactions. 02:16.651 --> 02:19.436 [SPEAKER_03]: and it is literally opposite of the fruit of the spirit. 02:19.776 --> 02:28.210 [SPEAKER_03]: And so it's very important to realize this because a lot of times your problems could be fixed, had you not acted on that spirit of offense. 02:28.871 --> 02:34.620 [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm so excited to talk about it today because like I said, this is such a massive problem in our church world. 02:35.061 --> 02:36.844 [SPEAKER_03]: Is that someone gets heard about something? 02:36.964 --> 02:39.027 [SPEAKER_03]: They develop that spirit of offense. 02:39.047 --> 02:41.832 [SPEAKER_03]: And then from there, it damages relationships. 02:41.812 --> 02:51.980 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's believers who are clothe and humility and as they are clothe and humility, the Lord will defend them, they will defend them. 02:52.541 --> 02:56.833 [SPEAKER_02]: As you said, take heed to yourself, Jesus is speaking directly to His disciples. 02:56.813 --> 02:58.195 [SPEAKER_02]: The rectitude in soccer. 02:58.236 --> 03:08.053 [SPEAKER_02]: He was warning them that the spirit of offense can come on anyone, unless they are very aware of what's taking place. 03:08.815 --> 03:12.922 [SPEAKER_02]: And if they're not aware, this is a trap. 03:13.483 --> 03:14.084 [SPEAKER_03]: It is a trap. 03:14.104 --> 03:15.767 [SPEAKER_02]: What's Satan has placed? 03:15.747 --> 03:36.827 [SPEAKER_02]: It's a trap because when this offense comes upon him or they've been offended, this trap, all of a sudden bitterness can come in and it can grow into hatred and down through the Bible, all the way from the Old Testament, from the Old Testament, we see with Cain and Abel. 03:36.807 --> 04:05.110 [SPEAKER_02]: you know and so you know we got to be very careful and not let this come in because it can set up inside of us and we have hatred we have bitterness we have envy we have strife and that's the reason so many people builds walls they've been offended and so therefore they start building a wall that build a wall here and because they don't want nothing to do with that one build a wall over here they want nothing to do with that build a wall here and next thing you know they are 04:05.090 --> 04:05.471 [SPEAKER_03]: Wow. 04:05.691 --> 04:08.077 [SPEAKER_02]: And that's what Satan is done. 04:08.338 --> 04:10.583 [SPEAKER_02]: Now he has separated them. 04:10.603 --> 04:14.552 [SPEAKER_02]: And so therefore what he's separated them one now. 04:14.853 --> 04:17.860 [SPEAKER_03]: They're isolated in offense and then it's it just festers. 04:18.321 --> 04:19.784 [SPEAKER_03]: And you know it's self destructive. 04:20.366 --> 04:23.453 [SPEAKER_03]: Is there anything right now that you can think of that you're offended about? 04:23.433 --> 04:28.901 [SPEAKER_03]: Is there anybody in your life that has done something to you that has caused you to have a spirit of offense? 04:29.502 --> 04:32.206 [SPEAKER_03]: If so, you are the only one that can fix that. 04:32.667 --> 04:36.613 [SPEAKER_03]: You might be trying to rely on the other person, but it is not their problem to fix. 04:37.033 --> 04:37.634 [SPEAKER_03]: It is yours. 04:38.035 --> 04:41.560 [SPEAKER_03]: If you get offended, that is your problem and not theirs. 04:41.540 --> 04:48.630 [SPEAKER_03]: No matter what someone does around you and tries to provoke you to this offense, it is you that accepts the offense or not. 04:49.031 --> 04:53.157 [SPEAKER_03]: It is you, then, that has to deal with the repercussions of that spirit of offense. 04:53.498 --> 04:56.622 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, the spirit of offense, it just makes you feel all kinds of ways. 04:56.963 --> 05:04.594 [SPEAKER_03]: It makes you start thinking about how much you hate that person, how much you want to get back at them, and it's just the internal, it's like a bacteria. 05:04.574 --> 05:11.249 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's an internal sin that just spreads and it's no good and it affects you. 05:11.369 --> 05:12.151 [SPEAKER_03]: It harms you. 05:12.291 --> 05:13.413 [SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't harm the other person. 05:13.433 --> 05:14.155 [SPEAKER_03]: It's harming you. 05:14.195 --> 05:16.019 [SPEAKER_03]: It's eating you from the inside out. 05:16.660 --> 05:22.954 [SPEAKER_03]: And so it's so important to realize this that if there's something that you're offended about, if there's somebody out there that's offended you. 05:22.934 --> 05:44.622 [SPEAKER_03]: Then you fix that, and the ways that you can fix that is you take it to the Lord, and you start trusting in the Lord enough that you know that He says Vengeance is mine thus say at the Lord, and if God says that you have to trust that if you trust that He will take care of your problems And you trust that vengeance truly is his then you won't want to get back in nobody 05:44.602 --> 05:45.763 [SPEAKER_03]: You won't be offended. 05:45.864 --> 05:53.633 [SPEAKER_03]: You won't have all of these emotions, and this offense towards this person because you trust that God has seen all, and that God will handle it. 05:54.054 --> 05:58.259 [SPEAKER_03]: And so spirit of offense, the only person that's going to hurt is you. 05:58.579 --> 06:07.470 [SPEAKER_03]: And that's why so vital to reflect upon yourself, looking that mirror, and figure out what it is that you're offended over and get over it. 06:07.450 --> 06:17.606 [SPEAKER_03]: take it to the Lord, take it to repentance, pray about it, and get over it because you do not want a spirit of offense, rebuke that thing, get it out of here in Jesus' name. 06:18.087 --> 06:34.673 [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, you know, the baptism of things and revivals that we've done, we've seen so many people that has come, that they have had an offense with the church, and a lot of times the offense comes at them through the name of Jesus Christ. 06:34.653 --> 06:36.376 [SPEAKER_02]: by other Christians. 06:36.998 --> 06:40.204 [SPEAKER_02]: What it may be the case, let Christ deal with them. 06:40.544 --> 06:41.025 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, amen. 06:41.045 --> 06:43.610 [SPEAKER_02]: Get them there and let the gospel be preached to them. 06:43.670 --> 06:46.175 [SPEAKER_02]: And let God deal with them. 06:46.716 --> 06:49.221 [SPEAKER_02]: We find that able, you know, can't enable. 06:49.682 --> 06:52.307 [SPEAKER_02]: As I talked about that while going chapter 4 Genesis. 06:53.249 --> 06:56.793 [SPEAKER_02]: And we find that Abel was a keeper of a sheep. 06:57.534 --> 07:00.538 [SPEAKER_02]: Cain was a tealer of the ground. 07:01.118 --> 07:09.608 [SPEAKER_02]: And because God didn't accept Cain's sacrifice, then he got offended at Abel. 07:10.770 --> 07:12.171 [SPEAKER_02]: And we know what happened. 07:12.211 --> 07:16.236 [SPEAKER_02]: I was four people up on this people planet at time, and what I'm killed the other one. 07:16.418 --> 07:34.309 [SPEAKER_02]: and so it grew into hatred and so when people is offended don't, don't let it grow into hatred whatever you do because it will grow, it will fester as you said before to go and sooner later that thing is going to bust you know. 07:34.289 --> 07:49.925 [SPEAKER_02]: And so therefore the fence that had come through the church in the name of Jesus a lot of time and just like we talked about some people A lot of people has come to nature have they've been heard in church and things like this and and I'm sure. 07:50.646 --> 07:58.474 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure I don't care what church you go to They're gonna be somebody that says something stupid to you 07:58.454 --> 08:23.230 [SPEAKER_02]: you know and they will just say something stupid but don't let that faster in there pray for them and so therefore they'll switch churches or whatever may be the case because they've been offended and so you know don't let it set up in there whatever somebody says to you you know you may go bed and the tears drop off your cheek upon your pillow of a night 08:23.210 --> 08:29.758 [SPEAKER_02]: But you have been hurt so bad, but you just place your hand in Jesus Christ. 08:30.439 --> 08:36.607 [SPEAKER_02]: And if they come back and ask you to forgive them, forgive them because that's exactly what the Bible says. 08:37.548 --> 08:43.415 [SPEAKER_02]: And don't let this thing sit up in there and make a bird's nest because I'll tell you what, it will. 08:43.856 --> 08:44.256 [SPEAKER_02]: It will. 08:44.316 --> 08:52.727 [SPEAKER_02]: But the spirit of the fence and there has probably been none of us what hasn't been 08:52.707 --> 08:54.309 [SPEAKER_03]: Now let's talk about giving offense. 08:54.910 --> 08:56.571 [SPEAKER_03]: This is something that's really hard for me. 08:56.812 --> 09:02.258 [SPEAKER_03]: I feel like I offend people all the time and that happens whenever you speak truth a lot. 09:02.278 --> 09:06.743 [SPEAKER_03]: It's especially in the tough topics that I have to talk about that God convicts me to bring to people. 09:07.203 --> 09:14.732 [SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes it is very convicting and no matter what I do and how gently I present things somebody gets offended. 09:14.712 --> 09:19.177 [SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, I see it in my comment sections all the time of just people that are offended. 09:19.838 --> 09:31.551 [SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, I do my best to de-escalate the situations, but again, I'll go back to what I said in the beginning of this, is that the spirit of offense is a reflection of how you take something. 09:31.951 --> 09:35.195 [SPEAKER_03]: It's not anybody else's fault, it's how you perceive it. 09:35.595 --> 09:39.960 [SPEAKER_03]: And if you are offended, that is your problem, not the person that is speaking. 09:39.940 --> 09:58.118 [SPEAKER_03]: you know there's not much people can say that if in me there's not much that you could say it might for a moment make me you know sit there and think oh what did they say but i either agree with you or i don't agree with you but i'm not going to get offended and get mad at you for something that you believe or something that you say unless it is a personal conviction. 09:58.098 --> 10:03.747 [SPEAKER_03]: whenever it becomes a personal conviction and you start looking inwardly, then a lot of times that you may get offended by it. 10:04.127 --> 10:21.895 [SPEAKER_03]: And you know a lot of people don't know how to handle that offense whenever something bothers them and irritates them and they just go to type it in their keyboard warriors and you know our world has been so desensitized because everyone's behind screens and it's so easy to say ugly things now because you're not face to face with the person. 10:21.875 --> 10:28.381 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, likely there's a lot of things that you would never say to someone's face that you would type out and send in an instance. 10:28.401 --> 10:35.608 [SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, I think it's really important to always reflect your beliefs and if you believe in Jesus Christ, are you acting like it? 10:35.928 --> 10:41.474 [SPEAKER_03]: Because if you're getting offended and you're going off in someone's comment section, well, that's not being Christ-like. 10:41.634 --> 10:42.515 [SPEAKER_03]: He wouldn't have done that. 10:42.855 --> 10:45.617 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, Jesus, he never had that offense. 10:45.818 --> 10:48.060 [SPEAKER_03]: Even when he was trying to be provoked to it. 10:48.160 --> 10:51.443 [SPEAKER_03]: Even when the Pharisees was trying to trap him in words. 10:51.423 --> 10:52.926 [SPEAKER_03]: throw all kinds of things at him. 10:53.327 --> 10:54.510 [SPEAKER_03]: Jesus was never offended. 10:54.550 --> 10:56.434 [SPEAKER_03]: He said, shake the dust off your feet. 10:56.834 --> 10:58.197 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, move along. 10:58.358 --> 11:05.894 [SPEAKER_03]: If someone is offended by you and they have a problem with you, well, it's up to you whether you take the offense they're trying to give you. 11:05.954 --> 11:12.267 [SPEAKER_03]: If they're trying to throw something at you to make you hate them or to make you, you know, act a certain way. 11:12.247 --> 11:14.470 [SPEAKER_03]: It is up to you in how you take that. 11:14.731 --> 11:17.094 [SPEAKER_03]: Your actions belong to no one but you. 11:17.776 --> 11:19.979 [SPEAKER_03]: How you respond is up to you. 11:19.999 --> 11:29.333 [SPEAKER_03]: And if you respond in a fence, if you respond in anger or in any sort of malicious intent, that's not fruit of the spirit, that's not of Christ. 11:29.634 --> 11:39.469 [SPEAKER_03]: And so you must always reflect whenever something bothers you, whether you're gonna take that a fence or not, or you're gonna take that bait of a fence, or are you gonna have grace? 11:39.449 --> 11:45.526 [SPEAKER_03]: in order you go into handle this as a mature Christian and either move along or do you have to have your words heard. 11:45.847 --> 11:52.847 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, a lot of people just feel like they've got to have someone to hear what they've got to say if they are offended, they want the world to know that they're offended. 11:53.428 --> 11:54.471 [SPEAKER_03]: That's selfish. 11:54.451 --> 12:01.584 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, if you're offended, then that's something that you need to take to the Lord, and it needs to be between you and God of how that offense is handled. 12:02.045 --> 12:05.171 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, this is a personal problem that you're having when you're offended. 12:05.292 --> 12:09.760 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, someone said something, someone's done something, and it's disrupted you internally. 12:10.020 --> 12:12.966 [SPEAKER_03]: How you process that is up to you. 12:13.216 --> 12:14.118 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. 12:14.138 --> 12:15.059 [SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly right. 12:15.100 --> 12:28.525 [SPEAKER_02]: My first service when I become pasture that the very first one had that was about five or six ministers from Northern Kentucky to come down and support me. 12:28.505 --> 12:46.598 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, when I first took that church, and I was all excited, you know, and you're I'm just a young minister of whatsoever, and I took that church, and they were standing up there when people come walking in the church, you know, they would shake their hand and everything, and so it went on, I got a phone call on Tuesday. 12:46.578 --> 12:54.908 [SPEAKER_02]: And this lady called me and she said, I have been offended, I said, what have you been offended about? 12:55.489 --> 13:00.615 [SPEAKER_02]: She said, every one of those ministers was looking down there and knows it me. 13:01.636 --> 13:03.358 [SPEAKER_02]: I said, no, they was not. 13:03.959 --> 13:09.025 [SPEAKER_02]: I said, they came down to support me and she said, I'm not coming back. 13:09.005 --> 13:36.463 [SPEAKER_02]: And so you know here I am then my first service and in my first church and I thought more Lord this is a fine way to get started off on this one huh and but I got another phone call and this one guy called me and said you have offended me I said what did I offend you about he said it was something that you read out the Bible 13:36.443 --> 13:38.106 [SPEAKER_02]: I said, well I said, I'll tell you what. 13:38.506 --> 13:46.859 [SPEAKER_02]: If it came out of the Bible, I'm not going to apologize for that to you or nobody else because the word is a word. 13:46.939 --> 13:52.187 [SPEAKER_02]: If it hits you, you know, and touched you, you just took it wrong. 13:52.468 --> 13:54.631 [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe God was trying to tell you something. 13:54.651 --> 13:55.052 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 13:55.292 --> 13:57.355 [SPEAKER_02]: But here I am. 13:57.335 --> 14:04.622 [SPEAKER_02]: Just a young minister, and all of a sudden, I get bam, bam, thank you, ma'am, you know, in this stuff going on. 14:05.063 --> 14:14.372 [SPEAKER_02]: But it's so easily, we're living in a generation this day in time, that it's so easily for people to get so offended, but so many people going to be in it. 14:14.392 --> 14:25.823 [SPEAKER_02]: You take Mordecai, and Esther, you know, and Mordecai, I was there when Esther was 14:25.803 --> 14:27.965 [SPEAKER_02]: every day to see how Esther was doing. 14:28.766 --> 14:31.029 [SPEAKER_02]: And Hayman would come out. 14:31.729 --> 14:33.511 [SPEAKER_02]: And Hayman, more to K.I. 14:33.551 --> 14:35.393 [SPEAKER_02]: would not bow to Hayman. 14:35.794 --> 14:39.798 [SPEAKER_02]: That's a very problem that we have so many to this day and time and our church world. 14:39.818 --> 14:50.669 [SPEAKER_02]: We've got so many uppity deputies, you know, that they think the people just ought to bow to them and people don't do it, but Hayman would come out there and it burned him up. 14:50.789 --> 14:53.312 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean it, we're burning that boy to a crisp. 14:53.292 --> 15:08.041 [SPEAKER_02]: And everybody would bow except Morticae and finally, you know the story, as I said, this is a trap that Satan has laid for people, and it kept the bitterness kept growing in him. 15:08.461 --> 15:14.473 [SPEAKER_02]: And then Hayman finally went to the King, gave him money, he meant to dispose of all the Jews. 15:14.453 --> 15:43.515 [SPEAKER_02]: well make a long story short we know what happened to him and he got hung on his own gallows because Satan had set the trap for him he fell into it and he lost his life for him but the spirit of offense is everywhere you turn and so people need to understand who this is coming from it's coming from Satan and it's very slight it can happen at an instant 15:44.457 --> 15:44.938 [SPEAKER_03]: Amen. 15:45.459 --> 15:47.183 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, a fence is not just being hurt. 15:47.624 --> 15:49.448 [SPEAKER_03]: It is choosing to hold on to that hurt. 15:49.468 --> 15:49.649 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 15:50.190 --> 16:01.555 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, it turns you into an attack mode where you just all the sudden want to get back, you want to attack, you want to make your point known, you want to make sure that other person knows how you feel, you know, that's what a fence does. 16:01.535 --> 16:19.189 [SPEAKER_03]: it produces a reaction that is not godly, you know if you stop and pause and you just reflect on whatever it is that's hurt you, whatever it is that's offended you and you reflect on it and you sit on it and maybe you go and write it out or you go and you pray on it then often times you'll change your mind. 16:19.169 --> 16:28.948 [SPEAKER_03]: But if you sit there and you skew from your mouth and you immediately take reaction and you have that offense with this person, then that's going to escalate into a problem. 16:29.168 --> 16:34.579 [SPEAKER_03]: That's going to cause division, it's going to cause disunity, and that's exactly what Satan wants. 16:34.559 --> 16:37.045 [SPEAKER_03]: That's exactly the seed that he's trying to plant. 16:37.326 --> 16:39.431 [SPEAKER_03]: He's trying to cause division in this unity. 16:39.731 --> 16:52.281 [SPEAKER_03]: And so if you get offended and you reflect that offense on someone else, and you start letting the enemy use you in that manner, and letting you get offended and letting you get hurt, and letting you have all of these problems with this person, 16:52.261 --> 16:54.324 [SPEAKER_03]: then your relationships going to be tarnished. 16:54.545 --> 16:55.566 [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to hate that person. 16:55.586 --> 16:56.367 [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to have bitterness. 16:56.387 --> 16:57.209 [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to have anger. 16:57.229 --> 16:58.050 [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to have envy. 16:58.491 --> 17:01.716 [SPEAKER_03]: All the things that we spoke of so many times that are against God. 17:01.996 --> 17:02.878 [SPEAKER_03]: They're not of God. 17:02.918 --> 17:04.019 [SPEAKER_03]: They're not fruit of the Spirit. 17:04.300 --> 17:08.927 [SPEAKER_03]: And if you have all of those things, it just it becomes a bitter root inside of you. 17:09.308 --> 17:14.676 [SPEAKER_03]: But you have the option in the very beginning of reflecting as soon as you are offended. 17:15.097 --> 17:19.163 [SPEAKER_03]: As soon as that 17:19.598 --> 17:48.593 [SPEAKER_02]: absolutely you know Matthew chapter 24 verse 10 says and then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another and we see that this day and time you know they just say you take near mile when he went to build a wall Jerusalem the gates was burned in the walls had been beaten down sandblown to buy you know when near mile went there and you see all this 17:48.573 --> 17:50.235 [SPEAKER_02]: They got angry. 17:50.815 --> 17:57.522 [SPEAKER_02]: They got offended by it because it was going to stop them from just running to them for all of inside of Jerusalem there and doing whatever they want to. 17:58.022 --> 18:04.168 [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of people will get offended of somebody else's ministry because it may be a bigger ministry or whatsoever. 18:04.188 --> 18:05.169 [SPEAKER_02]: It may be the case. 18:05.189 --> 18:07.311 [SPEAKER_02]: It may have a bigger church or whatever. 18:07.752 --> 18:15.019 [SPEAKER_02]: Or the pastor gets a bigger parsnige or whatever and they get offended of that. 18:14.999 --> 18:22.528 [SPEAKER_02]: And so, you know, it's very easy for people to get offended at anybody this day and time it seems like. 18:22.548 --> 18:33.841 [SPEAKER_02]: But if they'll keep their eyes focused on Christ, and Jesus Christ only, and what he did at the cross, I'm telling you what, they'll live a whole lot of happier life. 18:34.522 --> 18:38.126 [SPEAKER_02]: And some people get offended about the cross, you know. 18:38.807 --> 18:43.993 [SPEAKER_02]: And so, and preaching of the blood, you know, they get offended of that. 18:43.973 --> 18:47.698 [SPEAKER_02]: But I'll tell you what, without the shame of blood, there is no remission of sin. 18:48.439 --> 18:50.121 [SPEAKER_02]: And that blood can be applied. 18:50.161 --> 18:52.864 [SPEAKER_02]: That can take away the offense of the individual. 18:52.945 --> 18:55.668 [SPEAKER_02]: He wants to set them free as they are letting. 18:56.209 --> 18:58.492 [SPEAKER_02]: But so many people, they are hang on to that. 18:58.532 --> 19:02.357 [SPEAKER_02]: And then, let's say like you've already said, it will best rinse out of them. 19:02.377 --> 19:05.661 [SPEAKER_02]: And just like the word says, they'll even want to kill them. 19:05.641 --> 19:12.432 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, it is a, it's a, it's a bitter, bitter trap that Satan has set and he knows what it will do. 19:12.793 --> 19:26.516 [SPEAKER_02]: He knows what it will do and I'll tell you what, we've got to be very careful because any of us can fall into a fence, any of us can and we just got to keep our eyes set on the price before. 19:26.696 --> 19:27.818 [SPEAKER_03]: That's right. 19:27.798 --> 19:29.881 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, offense is often wrapped in self. 19:30.281 --> 19:41.016 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, if you're reflected on yourself and you're worried about yourself and you know, that's often the offense starts with that is that your self desires and your self motives, you know, and it's often entitlement. 19:41.156 --> 19:43.960 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, a lot of times a person thinks they're entitled for something. 19:43.980 --> 19:49.908 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, they think people owe them something or they think they're deserve this and that's all selfish desires. 19:49.929 --> 19:52.472 [SPEAKER_03]: That's all like a root of selfishness. 19:52.452 --> 20:03.216 [SPEAKER_03]: and so people are can easily offend you if you expect people to react in a different way and you have all of these expectations, you know, expectations often come with disappointments. 20:03.336 --> 20:11.254 [SPEAKER_03]: If you expect stuff from other people and you expect things to be given to you and you expect all of these things, you're often going to be let down and disappointed. 20:11.234 --> 20:35.217 [SPEAKER_03]: And then when that offense comes in and you're offended because you didn't get something the way you wanted it or it didn't go the way you wanted it or someone said something that you didn't like all of those things can reflect on yourself it's how you perceive them it's how you internally process them and then it's how you reflect them so when that offense comes and someone offends you you have to look at yourself and think 20:35.197 --> 20:36.279 [SPEAKER_03]: is this of self? 20:36.299 --> 20:38.282 [SPEAKER_03]: Was I being selfish in this moment? 20:38.502 --> 20:42.448 [SPEAKER_03]: Do I expect something from this person that's unrealistic expectations? 20:42.709 --> 20:48.818 [SPEAKER_03]: Whatever a fence it is, it is always yourself that has the option on how to handle it. 20:49.019 --> 20:49.980 [SPEAKER_03]: No one else does. 20:50.381 --> 20:51.923 [SPEAKER_03]: If you get offended, 20:51.903 --> 21:14.232 [SPEAKER_03]: then it is your problem and your priority to be able to fix that offense before it spirals into something worse before it turns in so many stories in the Bible tell us that someone starts with this offense and then that anger and hatred grows and then it spirals from there but it starts at that offense what are you offended by and when you are offended and that first offense 21:14.212 --> 21:14.873 [SPEAKER_03]: starts. 21:15.153 --> 21:19.078 [SPEAKER_03]: How are you going to fix it before it turns into an open wound? 21:19.379 --> 21:24.245 [SPEAKER_03]: Before it keeps festering, before it turns into a problem that is hard to fix. 21:24.265 --> 21:25.447 [SPEAKER_03]: You fix it first. 21:25.767 --> 21:31.214 [SPEAKER_03]: You go straight to that offense and you figure out what can I do to have peace with this situation? 21:31.675 --> 21:37.823 [SPEAKER_03]: What can I do to keep myself from being offended at this person or what they said or what they did? 21:38.191 --> 21:43.562 [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, you know, you can turn into a dungeon, a dark dungeon. 21:43.943 --> 21:50.677 [SPEAKER_02]: If you don't get it taken care of, seek the Lord out and pray and read the scriptures. 21:50.737 --> 21:58.714 [SPEAKER_02]: But if that, just like you said, if it pesters, it can pull you into a dungeon and just keep you there. 21:58.694 --> 22:03.962 [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, we go back, I go back to the man in his tombs of the Gaterians, you know. 22:04.643 --> 22:10.672 [SPEAKER_02]: Every hit, the whole city was fine as long as he stayed up earned, cried and cut himself and wailed and went on. 22:11.033 --> 22:19.285 [SPEAKER_02]: But soon as that man got the demons out there, they came up and seen him in his clothes and his right mind, with clothes on, while they was sort of offended. 22:19.265 --> 22:28.142 [SPEAKER_02]: And the Bible said, they prayed Jesus to leave their coasts, to leave their country, you know, we got to keep ourselves. 22:28.162 --> 22:34.554 [SPEAKER_02]: When Jesus said I come to give you life and give it more abundantly, the spirit of offense will take all your life from you. 22:34.634 --> 22:36.598 [SPEAKER_02]: He'll take your happiness from you. 22:36.578 --> 22:51.461 [SPEAKER_02]: to take your morality from you, it'll just take your humbleness from you because next thing you know you're ended up in anger and bitterness and all this stuff and I am not going to be one of those that does that. 22:51.481 --> 22:52.001 [SPEAKER_03]: That's right. 22:52.322 --> 22:53.103 [SPEAKER_02]: I am not. 22:54.485 --> 23:00.915 [SPEAKER_02]: We got too much to do to many people to help and what the world likes or not, that's just too bad. 23:01.135 --> 23:02.738 [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, really? 23:02.858 --> 23:04.240 [SPEAKER_03]: How would you press 23:04.220 --> 23:09.050 [SPEAKER_02]: We're just going to put the metal to the pedal and get it done. 23:09.110 --> 23:13.298 [SPEAKER_02]: And so we're all can gripe and moan if they want to. 23:13.979 --> 23:20.292 [SPEAKER_02]: But our focus is upon Jesus Christ and what we can do for these people because they're broken. 23:20.773 --> 23:21.675 [SPEAKER_02]: And they're hurting. 23:22.136 --> 23:24.861 [SPEAKER_02]: And a lot of them has went through the church hurt. 23:24.841 --> 23:53.245 [SPEAKER_03]: uh... you know and uh... so they want to be they want to deliver from this stuff they want a happy life and so uh... and best uh... we're going to happen to the best of our build the cali what you're saying is we have no time to be offended and it's exactly right to me if you would help we have no time to think about ourselves offenses it makes you reflect on yourself absolutely and worry about yourself it makes you you know self-absorbed there yeah we got we got too many people to help 23:53.343 --> 24:06.371 [SPEAKER_02]: We ain't got time for this wall was me stuff and even though some things comes against us and it hurts us bad all the way to the core but we've got to remember for this is coming from. 24:06.471 --> 24:12.043 [SPEAKER_02]: We have to understand that Satan will work through people. 24:12.023 --> 24:24.099 [SPEAKER_02]: to bring the spiritual offense against them, and we just got to understand it and keep our eyes off of that individual, and no one works coming from them. 24:24.119 --> 24:27.884 [SPEAKER_02]: When we know where it's coming from, it helps us so much to get over that. 24:28.465 --> 24:35.955 [SPEAKER_02]: Because we know we got an adversary, and he is out to stop, and we got to understand where this is coming from. 24:35.935 --> 24:39.444 [SPEAKER_02]: But so many people look at somebody else and say, that's where it's coming from. 24:39.464 --> 24:42.512 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't like Kayle again, but I don't like you. 24:42.532 --> 24:47.405 [SPEAKER_02]: Wood Patrick, I don't like them people, who they think they are, anyway, you know. 24:47.425 --> 24:49.851 [SPEAKER_02]: We all suck it up, butter cook, we're coming. 24:50.473 --> 24:50.974 [SPEAKER_02]: And... 24:50.954 --> 25:09.182 [SPEAKER_02]: We're coming, and by the hip and grace of God, it's a hip so many to watch him walk out of the water Walking in high cotton Arms raised up a shouting praise the Lord because they've got what they came after and that means everything 25:11.356 --> 25:14.700 [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, man, I would flip them tables. 25:15.221 --> 25:16.362 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, good. 25:16.382 --> 25:17.023 [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, man. 25:17.263 --> 25:21.068 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, just like anything with sewing seeds, you know, you can sew seeds of kindness. 25:21.088 --> 25:22.409 [SPEAKER_03]: You can sew seeds of goodness. 25:22.449 --> 25:25.192 [SPEAKER_03]: You can sew seeds that produces good fruit. 25:25.212 --> 25:30.158 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, the Bible says that a good tree cannot produce bad fruit and a bad tree cannot produce good. 25:30.659 --> 25:34.283 [SPEAKER_03]: And this is the same way with offense and bitterness and things of the enemy. 25:34.323 --> 25:38.308 [SPEAKER_03]: If you sew those seeds and they start to take root. 25:38.288 --> 25:39.611 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, it starts with the seed. 25:39.811 --> 25:41.294 [SPEAKER_03]: The seed of offense comes in. 25:41.635 --> 25:49.250 [SPEAKER_03]: It is planted in someone, and then it grows that root, and that root of bitterness comes up all kinds of nasty things. 25:49.611 --> 25:56.905 [SPEAKER_03]: And it can take over, you know, it's like that, there's, you know, I grew up in North and South Carolina, and there was this, this plant called Kutsu. 25:56.885 --> 26:06.696 [SPEAKER_03]: Cuts, you know, it comes up and it's hard to get rid of that stuff, like it will spread all over the place and it's really hard to get rid of that invasive plant. 26:06.716 --> 26:23.314 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, and you can use this with whatever invasive species and plants you want to this analogy, but, you know, that's the same way that a fence happens as you start getting offended and that bitterness and everything just bubbles to the top and it just takes over, it takes over your life, it takes over your marriage, it takes over your friendship, 26:23.294 --> 26:36.594 [SPEAKER_03]: it takes over all relationships, it can take over your life if you become offended and you let that root take place and it grows and things sprout from it nothing good comes from offense. 26:36.874 --> 26:42.823 [SPEAKER_03]: That's why is so important to recognize a fence so that you can take care of it at the source. 26:42.883 --> 26:50.635 [SPEAKER_03]: Before the root even starts to take hold, you take care of that offense so that it doesn't grow into something more. 26:50.615 --> 27:11.796 [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, you know, I'd like to read that I read the first 10 of 24, 11 and 12 I think, and because a neck wouldy shall abound the love of many shall wax cold Just like you saw about that seed as it comes up and it starts taking root, it wants to separate the unity 27:11.776 --> 27:35.725 [SPEAKER_02]: of brothers and sisters in Christ, and if it can separate that unity with them, then they're going to love them and they will wax cold, and so therefore they won't get this spirit of offense taken care of in their lives, because already that seed is sewn in there and it's taken root and the long-grish staser 27:35.705 --> 27:42.133 [SPEAKER_02]: the more depth that root is going to go, and more harder is going to be to get that out of there. 27:42.754 --> 27:49.962 [SPEAKER_02]: And so when it's taken care of, right at the beginning, you know, as the Bible said little living, living is the whole lump. 27:50.663 --> 28:02.117 [SPEAKER_02]: And so that if it's taken care of, right at the beginning, it doesn't have time to grow, it doesn't have time to, for the roots to run deep, 28:02.097 --> 28:06.983 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's so easily better to get taken care of first. 28:07.003 --> 28:13.490 [SPEAKER_02]: I heard a man say one time a red book, he said, whatever you have that you hate to do, do it first. 28:14.331 --> 28:19.958 [SPEAKER_02]: Because if you don't, it'll continue to affect your life until it gets done. 28:20.499 --> 28:21.880 [SPEAKER_02]: And that's the same way as the fifth. 28:22.281 --> 28:25.945 [SPEAKER_02]: If it needs to be taken care of, take care of it quickly. 28:25.925 --> 28:36.381 [SPEAKER_02]: Because it is it is a girl roots it gets deeper and gets harder to come out there and Tell you what there's only one way to get it out and that's who Jesus Christ. 28:36.401 --> 28:50.824 [SPEAKER_02]: That's right And you've got to get to the root of the problem and when you get to the root of the problem and Take care that root of the problem then it will come out and you want to worry about that thing no more That's right, but I'm telling you the spirit of offense. 28:50.864 --> 28:52.827 [SPEAKER_02]: Don't let it pull you down 28:52.807 --> 29:00.002 [SPEAKER_02]: in a dungeon, and because it will do that, you'll pull you down there and slam the door up on you. 29:00.022 --> 29:12.148 [SPEAKER_02]: And the next thing you know, you're not going to have any friends that separate, you're going to not going to have a unity, the inequity will be there, and you'll find yourself all alone. 29:12.128 --> 29:31.217 [SPEAKER_02]: with Satan and he just happened him a day with it so get that spirit of offense out of your life and live life to the fullest because if you keep your mind on it and keep thinking about it it will affect your other daily life that you do or your home life so get it out there. 29:31.197 --> 29:31.818 [SPEAKER_03]: That's right. 29:32.438 --> 29:38.243 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I was thinking about Jesus and he offended a lot of people and he offended them though with the truth. 29:38.644 --> 29:44.369 [SPEAKER_03]: He offended them with nothing but words of the truth and a lot of times he offended demons. 29:45.290 --> 29:46.471 [SPEAKER_03]: That's how Jesus offended. 29:46.511 --> 29:59.483 [SPEAKER_03]: He offended people that had demons and you know it's oftentimes like you look at your own life and if there's people around you that's just so easy for you to offend, you know a lot of times you have to look past that person, you know everything's spiritual. 29:59.463 --> 30:00.725 [SPEAKER_03]: Nothing's really fleshly. 30:00.745 --> 30:04.893 [SPEAKER_03]: We're spiritual beings first living in this fleshly world, but we're spiritual beings. 30:05.314 --> 30:16.054 [SPEAKER_03]: And oftentimes, if you find someone in your life that you just repeatedly keep offending, you know, no matter what you say or what you do, they're just so offended by everything you do, everything you say. 30:16.034 --> 30:20.421 [SPEAKER_03]: Then, you know, first of all, you reflect on yourself because that's what you can handle and control yourself. 30:20.782 --> 30:35.325 [SPEAKER_03]: But if you're speaking true, that if you're speaking love, if you're speaking light, if you're speaking words of wisdom and, you know, from the scriptures, if you're speaking and you're walking in righteousness, then you have to think, what is it about this person that they are so upset about? 30:35.646 --> 30:38.190 [SPEAKER_03]: Why do I keep repeatedly offending them? 30:38.511 --> 30:41.215 [SPEAKER_03]: And oftentimes, you're going to have to reflect and see, hey, 30:41.195 --> 30:44.099 [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe they just have a demon that's really upset at me. 30:44.120 --> 30:51.791 [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe there's something about this person that is very offended and then you have to tread in the ways that the word tells you. 30:52.412 --> 31:03.169 [SPEAKER_03]: This is the same way that Jesus had to do when someone offended him, he didn't react to all of them, he didn't go off on them, he didn't persecute them, he could have, he could have sent the angels down on them real quick. 31:03.149 --> 31:08.099 [SPEAKER_03]: but he didn't, he reacted in grace and humility and honor. 31:08.459 --> 31:13.229 [SPEAKER_03]: He left, you know, he said, shake the dust off your feet and he would just move on to the next place. 31:13.309 --> 31:21.124 [SPEAKER_03]: If he offended people from the truth, then he realized in those moments, hey, they're just not going to listen and, you know, this there. 31:21.104 --> 31:23.027 [SPEAKER_03]: Everybody has their own personal choices. 31:23.107 --> 31:32.262 [SPEAKER_03]: We all have free will and so if you keep offending someone and it just it's not penetrating whatever it is that you're trying to do and you and that person just cannot get along. 31:32.642 --> 31:34.245 [SPEAKER_03]: It might be time for you to move on. 31:34.265 --> 31:40.114 [SPEAKER_03]: It might be time for you to cut that loose and realize, hey, there's nothing more I can do in this situation. 31:40.174 --> 31:44.361 [SPEAKER_03]: This person is just overly offended by everything I say and everything I do. 31:44.341 --> 31:47.005 [SPEAKER_03]: But like I said, you first have to reflect upon yourself. 31:47.046 --> 32:00.288 [SPEAKER_03]: You make sure that it's not you, but then if it's not you and it's, you know, them, then you definitely have to reflect on your own life and what to do in the situation and what reflects the Bible, what Jesus did, and then you take it from there. 32:00.869 --> 32:04.054 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, we looked at Jesus as the example for everything we do. 32:04.034 --> 32:18.752 [SPEAKER_03]: And if, you know, this is the case in your life where it's someone else being offended all the time by something you do, then you need to realize what you can do about the situation and protect your piece, protect yourself and make sure that you were doing it vividly. 32:18.935 --> 32:19.716 [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. 32:20.017 --> 32:20.578 [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. 32:20.999 --> 32:24.024 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, spirit of Vince can call the grudges in people's lives. 32:24.044 --> 32:24.245 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 32:24.926 --> 32:35.164 [SPEAKER_02]: And when it becomes a grudge in his stays there, and just like it keeps growing, it can separate families, it can separate churches, it can separate friendships. 32:36.066 --> 32:42.377 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I think it's probably said, James said, a whisper can separate the cheapest of friends. 32:42.357 --> 32:43.960 [SPEAKER_02]: or what sort of maybe in case. 32:44.321 --> 32:57.487 [SPEAKER_02]: It can separate marriages, whatever maybe in case it's a filthy, nasty poison, or what it is, a spirit of offense, and it will wreck your life. 32:57.507 --> 33:03.859 [SPEAKER_02]: If you don't get rid of it because it will consume your time, it will consume your thoughts. 33:03.839 --> 33:05.681 [SPEAKER_02]: it will consume your daily life. 33:06.241 --> 33:13.348 [SPEAKER_02]: And when you get it taken care of and get that thing under the blood of Jesus Christ and let him handle it. 33:13.428 --> 33:14.429 [SPEAKER_02]: Let him take care of it. 33:14.989 --> 33:16.231 [SPEAKER_02]: And he'll do it the right way. 33:16.771 --> 33:18.032 [SPEAKER_02]: But you do what you have to do. 33:18.092 --> 33:21.896 [SPEAKER_02]: If you have to apologize to somebody and say, I was wrong, I did that. 33:22.537 --> 33:28.682 [SPEAKER_02]: And just like I told the story about the two ladies where she had to go back and apologize and the lady slammed her door in her face. 33:29.363 --> 33:31.585 [SPEAKER_02]: And there was nothing else she could do. 33:31.565 --> 33:36.232 [SPEAKER_02]: But get the thing, taking care of where you can live a life. 33:36.813 --> 33:44.886 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm joy and peace that you don't have to bow your head and skim yourself in a corner someplace like the devil wants you to do. 33:45.427 --> 33:49.573 [SPEAKER_02]: But when you come clean, when you come clean, 33:49.553 --> 33:50.394 [SPEAKER_02]: You know it. 33:50.414 --> 34:07.056 [SPEAKER_02]: It's in you can raise those hands and you can shop praise the Lord And you can lick the Bobby pins out of your hair and a man go dancing through the house or whatever Maybe the case and it has to make thank you're going off the deep end, but anyway, but You just tell him you got no offense. 34:07.176 --> 34:18.531 [SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly right, but get that offense out of your life Out of your life and live or Christ and the way he won't you to live a man 34:18.680 --> 34:19.522 [SPEAKER_03]: Amen. 34:19.542 --> 34:32.668 [SPEAKER_03]: I want to talk about pride and humility now because James 4 6 says God resist the proud but gives grace to the humble and then we look at Proverbs 1310 by pride comes nothing but shrive. 34:33.069 --> 34:39.642 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, offense thrives where pride is pride is the complete opposite of humility. 34:39.622 --> 34:44.507 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, everything we do needs to reflect on how Jesus taught us, and Jesus was very humble. 34:44.707 --> 34:48.731 [SPEAKER_03]: There was no pride in Jesus, and that's how we have to be. 34:48.871 --> 34:52.635 [SPEAKER_03]: As we strive to be Christ like, we have to try to be that way. 34:53.196 --> 34:56.519 [SPEAKER_03]: You know, pride is from the enemy, and humility is from God. 34:57.019 --> 35:01.904 [SPEAKER_03]: And so you must reflect which one that you want, if you won't humility, well then you can't have a fence. 35:02.164 --> 35:03.145 [SPEAKER_03]: A fence can't be in there. 35:03.506 --> 35:06.709 [SPEAKER_03]: If you are humble, you're not going to be offended by very much. 35:06.689 --> 35:11.979 [SPEAKER_03]: There's not going to be a lot of people that can provoke you into accepting that spirit of offense if you are humble. 35:12.420 --> 35:19.673 [SPEAKER_03]: If you are humble then you realize nothing nobody says or does can hurt you or bother you as long as you're humble. 35:20.134 --> 35:29.592 [SPEAKER_03]: But if you have pride then you're going to expect a lot from other people and they can come in with all kinds of things that's going to hurt your pride and then that turns into offense and bitterness. 35:29.572 --> 35:37.260 [SPEAKER_03]: And so all of this ties in together, every bit of it, offense, pride, bitterness, anger, wrath, every bit of that ties in together. 35:37.800 --> 35:43.286 [SPEAKER_03]: And it starts with that offense, what someone says, what someone does, and how you take it, and how you react. 35:43.546 --> 35:54.738 [SPEAKER_03]: That's why this lesson is so important today, because these things, if we can stop them, if you can stop the offense from happening, if you can stop yourself from taking offense, then so much is going to be better in your life. 35:55.038 --> 35:58.802 [SPEAKER_03]: So many problems are going to be resolved, if you don't have offense. 35:59.153 --> 35:59.714 [SPEAKER_02]: That's right. 36:00.135 --> 36:00.837 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, that pride. 36:02.560 --> 36:03.482 [SPEAKER_02]: It's like fertilizer. 36:03.863 --> 36:07.671 [SPEAKER_02]: Get ammonia not to ammonia nitrate and 10, 10, 10, 10, 30. 36:08.453 --> 36:10.477 [SPEAKER_02]: And man, it makes everything grow. 36:10.537 --> 36:11.800 [SPEAKER_02]: And that's what happens to pride. 36:11.860 --> 36:13.644 [SPEAKER_02]: It makes it grow in the roots run deep. 36:14.125 --> 36:16.470 [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm telling you what, when you get that humility. 36:16.450 --> 36:18.234 [SPEAKER_02]: You get that round up out there. 36:18.274 --> 36:31.540 [SPEAKER_02]: You spray it from top to bottom and it go let it go to root it a kill everything And then you can have a life You can have a joy piece and happiness in Christ, but you got to kill that thing out 36:31.520 --> 36:33.163 [SPEAKER_02]: And that spirit of offense. 36:33.684 --> 36:36.048 [SPEAKER_02]: It wants to grow and grow and grow. 36:36.549 --> 36:49.553 [SPEAKER_02]: So if you have to take a machete to it, you know, whatever the case is, but just let the lord kill this stuff for you and you get a lot that Christ has called you to live. 36:50.575 --> 36:53.460 [SPEAKER_02]: He wants you to live a life of joy, peace and happiness. 36:53.440 --> 36:56.164 [SPEAKER_02]: But say to him, won't you live a lot of despair. 36:56.645 --> 37:17.980 [SPEAKER_02]: He won't you live a lot of offense or whatsoever, but you live it for Christ and you live it to the healed And enjoy your life because this is shortest one you were ever going to live and I'm going to have myself a root and tooth and good time I'm telling you and I've got only got about 31 more years 37:17.960 --> 37:35.192 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll be 100 years old so I'm gonna grab everything I can because the world is moving fast if you don't reach out and grab it It'll pass you by and I'm gonna leave everything in the dust and keep on going until you know you said that to me in the mountains of North Dakota 37:35.358 --> 37:50.667 [SPEAKER_03]: Yep, we were in the Badlands in North Dakota and you said if you don't reach out and grab it Lafalfa pass you on by and it was like the most like scenic movie moment, you know like the sun was setting we're up in the Badlands in North Dakota and I'm like wow faster. 37:50.727 --> 37:51.949 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that's good 37:51.929 --> 38:00.932 [SPEAKER_03]: You know where we're going back to we're coming back to North Dakota actually so if you'll haven't checked our schedule yet You'll see that we are we've got our revables down to Roland. 38:01.212 --> 38:08.250 [SPEAKER_03]: We're excited this year to go and bring more revables to many more places But it was sure excited to get back to North Dakota so 38:08.230 --> 38:29.172 [SPEAKER_03]: But we'll wrap up this lesson here and just say that if there is any offense in you, if there's anybody in this world that has offended you and you know what you know that there's somebody you're dealing with that's just really bothered you, there's something they've done, there's something they've said and that root is there, reflect on it and repent of it, repent of having offense of anybody. 38:29.453 --> 38:38.102 [SPEAKER_03]: You don't need it in your life, you don't need anybody to have any grudges against, you don't need anybody to have any hatred towards, you know, hatred 38:38.082 --> 38:40.746 [SPEAKER_03]: hatred is literally the root of evil. 38:41.047 --> 38:45.133 [SPEAKER_03]: You cannot have hatred in your life, and that all comes from this offense. 38:45.554 --> 38:52.264 [SPEAKER_03]: And so if you have any offense in your life, if there's anybody that's offended you, take today to make sure you take care of that offense. 38:52.524 --> 39:04.663 [SPEAKER_03]: Take it to the Lord Jesus Christ, and tell him, Lord God, I am so sorry that I have been offended by this person, and Lord I just ask that you remove that root of bitterness, that you remove that spirit of 39:04.643 --> 39:12.941 [SPEAKER_03]: And I just cast it out, as far as the east is from the west in Jesus Christ's name, get that root of bitterness and get that spirit of offense out of there. 39:12.961 --> 39:16.268 [SPEAKER_03]: And you will see so many things in your life improve. 39:16.689 --> 39:18.713 [SPEAKER_03]: I really pray that this lesson has helped you today. 39:19.074 --> 39:22.742 [SPEAKER_03]: And we just thank you for joining us on this episode of the Discipleship series. 39:23.042 --> 39:24.285 [SPEAKER_03]: And we will see you next time. 39:24.766 --> 39:25.167 [SPEAKER_02]: Amen.