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God's word is your answer. There's so many things that Satan does to make us just miss it. He comes to kill, steal, and destroy. And today I want to talk to you about one of the most common ways that Satan derails our life. You say, what is that? Well, let's go to Luke, chapter 17, verse 1 through 5. The Bible says, then said he unto the disciples, it is impossible but that offenses will come. But woe unto him through whom they come. It were better for him that a milestone were hanged about his neck and he was cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. Take heed to yourself. If thy brother trespass against you, rebuke him. And if he repents, forgive him. And if he trespass again against you seven times in a day. Seven times in a day, turn again and say to him, I repent, and thou shalt forgive him. And the apostles said unto the Lord, increase our faith. No wonder they said, increase our faith. They didn't say, hey, help us with this forgiveness. They're saying, whoa, you mean if somebody offends me 70 times 7, you know, 490 times in a day, I'm to forgive them? And the Bible says, absolutely, yes. But it says, offenses must come. They absolutely will come. So a car cuts you off and you yell obscenities. A rude store clerk demeans and embarrasses you. You don't shop there anymore. A friend betrays trust and you cut off that relationship. A church member tells everyone about your struggle, or even more, let's do a prayer request, and then you leave the church. Your spouse insults and criticizes you in front of others, and you're livid. And it doesn't matter how many sunsets go down on your wrath, you just cannot get over it. You see, these feelings of anger and pain, hurt and frustration, resentment and hate will poison our life, our calling, our relationships, our hope, our love, and eventually our life. One of the most potent weapons that Satan uses to steal people's destiny and destroy their lives is the weapon of offense. Satan wants you offended. And Jesus said, offenses must come. He said, it's impossible for them not to come. So what is an offense? And how do I not be victim to this? How do I know that I'm not living with one right now? Now. Well, the word offense comes from this Greek word, skandalon. The word means a snare, a noose, or a trap. It also means something that makes someone to stumble or fall into a scandalous act. It means a stumbling block. Generally, it means to feel annoyed or hurt by something or what someone did or said. It's when the hunter digs that deep hole, that pit, and he takes a sharp stake in the pit and he puts those sharp stakes in. And then he camouflages the hole and he puts the stick, the debris on top to cover it up. And he places the bait right there on top of this trap, on top of this pit. Now, it doesn't look like a pit. It doesn't look like those sharp stakes are under it. You know what I'm talking about. But he places that bait to attract the hunted, and then a scandal happens. In other words, the hunted comes, takes the bait, and falls into the pit. And it can either cause extreme destruction or even death. You see, the devil can ensnare you through offense. And when that happens, you begin to do his will and manifest feelings of anger, resentment, wrath, criticism. And ultimately it leads to division, rebellion, and fighting. I've been guilty. I know you're going. Well, I've never been offended. Sure you have. Baited by Satan and mad as a hornet and justified it. Great men and women in history have missed God opportunities because they've allowed offenses to dictate their responses. They've reacted and they've allowed that offense to dictate an action at a crucial point in their lives. And Satan makes sure of this. Hebrews, chapter 10, verse 30 says. For we know him that has said, vengeance belongs to me, and I will recompense, saith the Lord. You know, it's one of the things that God says, this is mine, and vengeance is not to be in your hand. It's to be in the hands of the Lord. But how hard is that? When someone hurts you really bad, hurts someone you love does something horrific to you. Matthew, chapter 24, verse 10. And then many will be offended and will betray one another and will hate one another. When we allow ourselves to be offended and we don't deal with it, it leads to other very damaging human emotions like betrayal and eventually hatred. Hatred of the person that is concerned, hatred of the person that hurts you, hatred of all people that trigger you. This happens in marriages. You Know the person that you stand at the altar and say to death, do I part? And I love you and you have those goo goo eyes and then there's a day that you can't even stand to be in the same room with them. It happens in work, it happens in churches, businesses, almost every environment. And hear my heart, this is very serious because it really is one of Satan's greatest weapons. I want to go over seven signs that there's unresolved offense, particularly in the church. But it can be in your home, any atmosphere that the enemy wants to destroy. So I want you to take notes, I want you to think about these. Do I have one of these things happening in my life? Because it's probably an unresolved issue that has an underlying of an offense. And if you don't deal with the offense, then Satan will win. Because the Bible clearly tells us what happens. The first one is strained relationships. The Bible says that a brother offended is harder to win than a strong city. And contentions are like the bars of a castle. Proverbs chapter 18, verse 19. It means that it's a lot easier to conquer or win a strong city than to reconcile a brother who's offended. So when you have strained relationships and you walk into an atmosphere and you just don't deal with it, some people go, oh, I just don't like to be confrontational. You can be confrontational without being a jerk, without being just mean and nasty. Confrontation is good, especially when you learn the skills and how to communicate. That's not in a way of blaming or doing this. You don't have to yell your voice or raise your voice and yell. Volume doesn't make you right. Volume just means I don't know how to communicate. And I'm trying to say listen, shut up, stop, hear me. So when they're strained relationship, that's usually a sign that there's an unresolved issue of an offense. The second thing that helps you recognize maybe there's an offense in my life, resistance to authority. Those offended will not respond to leadership, whether it's in church or whether it's in a family, whether it's in a marriage at work. So the resistance may not be full blown rebellion, but it's always felt at sensitive time. So counsel is rejected, ideas are ignored, decisions are overturned. In fact, you're just tuned out because deeply embedded in the heart of that person is I'm not going to submit myself to authority. Now you might not even be the reason. Maybe it was a parent, maybe it was a teacher. Maybe it was the first boyfriend or girlfriend, but there's rebellion against authority and that becomes very dangerous to a person. Proverbs 19:20 says, Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise. Hebrews chapter 13, verse 17 says, Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they're keeping watch over your souls. As those who will have to give an account, let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. So as hard as that is, think about this. Do I submit now? Unless they're asking you to do something illegal are against God's word. Like if they're asking you to violate the word of God, you don't submit or asking you to do something illegal. But maybe they're asking you to do something that you're like, well, you don't know. God called me and I'm supposed to do this and da, da, da. That's irrelevant. I remember when I went to my pastor and I said, God had taken me in a trance, literally, I saw my body on the couch. He put me on every continent except for Antarctica. And every time I opened my mouth, there was a manifestation. People got healed, delivered, saved. And when I shut my mouth, they went into utter darkness. And so the Lord spoke to me and said, I've called you to preach the gospel. I go to my pastor so excited. I'm young, I don't know anything. I said, God's called me to preach the gospel. He said, great, Paula. He said, our janitor just quit. He said, show up to the church. I think it's Tuesday night. And so he said, show up and you'll clean the church every week. Now I could have said, wait a minute, sir, you didn't hear what I said. And I could have gone, well, I'll go start a church in the McDonald's parking lot or done whatever I thought I should have done. But I was like, man, this is so awesome. I get to clean the church. What was I doing? Submitting to leadership. And that was a two year process for me, really just staying in the word. And I went to nursery and then children's church and youth, etc. But what I was learning, and I didn't know it at the time, was servant leadership that those that will be great in the kingdom. And I don't consider myself great, I just consider myself humbled and honored and blessed to be able to serve God daily. But those who will be great will be least among you. The third thing, maybe there's offense in my heart. Look at this detachment and drifting from church. Detachment is first detected in an attitude of distance withdrawing from the hub of the church, the church at large and its flow, adrift in the wrong direction. Now you go, well, why is this important? As a pastor, I can tell you, people go from sitting in the front row to the middle to the back row, and then they stop showing up. You're really hurting yourself because when you join a church and you're really commissioned and commanded to be be part of the body of Christ when you join that, it's like getting married and God expects you to be a faithful member. When I say that, if you just decide to walk away, think about it, or slip a note under the door to your pastor, first off, you have more integrity than that. You have more character than that. But if you were going to leave your marriage, do you just slip a note under the door and just walk out on your children, your wife? No, that's ridiculous. I mean, think about what we do. And so we break off or we break away and it's just that it's breaking. And so instead of resolving and maybe your pastor is not going to bless you, maybe, you know, they're not a perfect person. That's okay if you do something right, because if you exit wrong, you'll not enter right into to the next place. And it's really important that we understand how God deals with this and sees this. Of course, Proverbs 27:17 says, Iron sharpens iron and one man sharpens another. So we should be able to have a relationship. Not always. I don't agree 100% with you, but I'm going to work through this and I'm going to be in agreement. Meaning I'm not going to let offense divide us. First John 2:19 says, they went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us, but they went out that it might become plain that they all are not of us. So just because we live in a culture that is really que sera, sera lackadaisical when it comes to character in many ways, doesn't mean that we compromise in those areas. The fourth area that we want to look at, that maybe there is an issue, an offense, strongholds of vain imaginations. So when the offense is so deep and it's lodged in a person, that individual begins to see everything through the glass of unresolved offense. So you'll hear something, but you'll take it in a way that is through the vetting or through the the glass or the perspective of offense. So the smallest action will be vainly enlarged. It goes into a stronghold, a belief about a person's actions, their words, their attitudes, and you find yourself judging them. And the way you hear something is not the way something is said. Second Corinthians, chapter 10, verse 3 and 4. For though we walk in the flesh, we're not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but they have divine power to destroy strongholds. So a vain stronghold is when something comes to you and it's coming through that filter of offense. The fifth thing, because I want to get through all seven of these, is open doors to satanic harassment. What do you mean? Because remember, these are some unresolved issues that bring offense into our life. The demonic powers of hell are attracted to unforgiveness. They know exactly where to go in and get a person. That's why God says forgive 70 times 7 in a single day. Now, it wasn't an exact number as much as it was a principle. If it's a thousand times forgive. Because demonic powers look for unforgiveness, bitterness, resentment. Gossip is a big one, a talebearer. Gossiping, backbiting means you're. You're speaking about someone, you're. You're undermining their integrity. And you can be very passive aggressive in this. Oh, I would never do that. And you're doing it passively, aggressively. Anger, hatred. So when you carry an offense, it's to open up the door to satanic harassment. Ephesians, chapter 4, verse 27. And we're told, give no opportunity to the devil. Hebrews chapter 12, verse 15 says, See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God. That no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble. And by it many become defiled. So he says, don't let bitterness, because bitterness is a root. When you get offended, you get bit bitter. And then that's where literally rage and murder. Will you actually kill someone? I hope not. But murder spiritually is. Something's dying. You're killing something off in your life, in the life and the plan and the purpose of God. The sixth thing is dried up rivers of the Holy Spirit. So that fresh, powerful flow of the Holy Spirit where out of your belly shall flow rivers of water. According to John 7, 30, 38, it's likened to this mighty, mighty river. And when offenses are allowed to lodge inside our spiritual wells, they're like huge stones that block that river's flow. So you lose Your spiritual vitality. You lose your joy. If you don't have joy right now, you don't have strength. If you're always weary, don't laugh. You're depressed, you're. You're down. You've even gone to doctors, and they're like, I can. You can't find anything wrong. You lost momentum and faith, and you're just. You can't overcome. This can be traced to unresolved offenses. John 7:37, 39. Like I said, on the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried, if any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink. And whoever believes in me, as the scripture said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive. For as yet, the Spirit had not been given because Jesus was not yet glorified. So when you're offended, you literally stop the flow of the Holy Spirit. And then the last thing, how do I know if I have offense? An unhealthy conscious. The conscious is the inner judge, or what we call the umpire, that expresses God's holiness and reproves sin. It's the faculty of the Spirit that approves or disapproves our thoughts, our words, our deeds. And when unresolved offenses turn into unforgiveness or bitterness, the conscience becomes weak, it becomes wounded, it becomes sick, unreliable. It's troubled. So there's no ability, think about this. To discern between what is right and what is wrong. So if we think about that, we've got generations, people, like masses of people that really aren't necessarily woke, they're offended. Think about it. The root of this is there's been trauma, there's been hurt. There's been. And you can say, well, they did it. To me, it doesn't matter. I can say, well, my dad did that when he killed himself. My mom did that when she became an alcoholic. Those people did that when they abused me and tied me up and raped me. All those things happened to me. And I can say, well, it's their fault and what they've done is horrific. But that doesn't leave me free to live a life of hatred and hurt and offense and bitterness and wounded. John 8, 9 says, when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones. And Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him, because, remember, they were ready to stone this woman. And Jesus said, if none of you don't have any sin, he said, go ahead and Throw the rock. But if you've got sin, drop that rock. Basically, Titus 1:15 says, to the pure, all things are pure. But to the defiled and unbelievable, believing nothing is pure, but both their minds and their conscience are defiled. Hebrews 10:22 says, Let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Now, let me pray for you right now. Because when we say an evil conscience, it's not that you want to try to have this evil consciousness. Conscious is that somewhere there's been wounding in your life, and now you don't see right from wrong or wrong from right. You misjudge things. And it's not because you're a bad person. It's because you're a broken person. I've been a broken, broken person. And I say to people all the time, I go, my prayer has always been, God, I want to die whole. Meaning, this is a lifelong work and a lifelong journey. And I don't expect Satan to stop working overtime time. He'll always use something to make sure that I'm in a place of offense. But I'm always going to try to take God's word and forgive. I'll say things that I'll regret, not because I intentionally think about and go. I'm going to say this because I'm a work in progress like you. I'll do things I wish I wouldn't have done. I'll act on things I wish I wouldn't have acted on, because I don't like being hurt. I don't like feeling pain. I don't like the fruit of brokenness. And I wish there was this magic button I could just push and go healed today. But that's not how it works. It's a lifelong work that I have to overcome offense, and so do you. Offenses will come not. Hey, just get over it and live with it. Hey, Paula, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to forgive? Doesn't mean that you have to bring someone back in your life. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to be an old woman and be bitter? You know, my grandchildren that were initially born to three children that I help raise, they called me Mimi for years. And then Brad married Rachel. He's the youngest, my biological son. And they were in prayer one night, and Brad called me up and he said, and they'd not had kids yet. He goes, my kids will never call you Mimi. He goes, your name's no longer Mimi. I said, I like Mimi. I'm not going to be called Grandma. He goes, you're not going to be Mimi. And he was so serious. I said, why? I'm going to be Mimi. He said, no, you aren't. It comes from the root Amara Mara, and it means bitter. He says, and the enemy's decision for your life is that you will die an old, bitter woman. He said, but I break that right now in the name of Jesus. He said, your name will be Abra. And I started first. I was like, oh, yeah, the kids will make fun of the grandkids. Who's Abra? But Abra, which I wear proudly now, means mother of many nations. And I decided to embrace. I'm not gonna die old and bitter. I might be mad about something yesterday, but I decided when I woke up today, forgive them, release it. Change your attitude. And I just didn't make a decision. I listened to a 45 minute podcast to help me reinforce it. Then I prayed and I made affirmations. Why? Because this is work. But I want to pray over you right now. Father, please help my friend. It's so hard when we've been hurt, when we've been broken, when the enemy's got an upper hand through bitterness and God I learned, just like Romans chapter 5 says, the love of God is shed abroad in my heart. I couldn't always feel forgiveness, but I could give the Holy Spirit permission. So I pray right now for you. Ask the Holy Spirit to place forgiveness in your heart. Name that offense, if you know it. Release that offense. Declare that you will not die bitter. But today you receive God's mercy and God's grace and God's forgiveness, and you reject offense in every way and the fruit thereof, that you will not die in that scandalon. And every scandal, every scandal on every pit, every trap that Satan has set for you, let it be overturned in the name of Jesus. On the basis of. Of the blood of Jesus Christ, I declare wholeness and purity and holiness, love and the fruit of righteousness to spring forth out of your life in Jesus mighty name, you might say. Pastor Paula, thank you, but I don't think I can walk in this. You can't alone. You can't do it without Jesus. Maybe you don't know him as your Lord and Savior. Maybe you've never asked him to really take control of your heart, your life, everything you've made him Lord and Savior. Would you pray this prayer with me? Say, father, God, forgive me for my sin. I recognize I'm a sinner, I've missed the mark. I've fallen short, and the wages of sin is death. But I receive the gift of eternal life through your son, Jesus Christ. Christ, who was crucified, buried in a borrowed tomb, and rose again on the third day to give me life. And I received that life and I received Jesus Christ. If you prayed that prayer, welcome to the family of God. Now I say that and it sounds so simple and it's really not. It's not just a prayer and you go on and go back to life. I want you to go to paulawhite.org, there's a free digital download. I want you to get that. What is it to be born again? 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