Part 1 - Stop Being Offended

• Rather than being
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  to the world, we are to be
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  by the Holy Spirit.
• We are called to live #blessed, not #offended.
  

  2 Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying:
  3 Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous—with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the poor in spirit (the humble, who rate themselves insignificant), for theirs is the kingdom of heaven! —Matthew 5:2-3 AMP

• We are called to stand in
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  without losing
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  .
• “Right and wrong won’t fix it, only
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  can.” - Pastor Roger Houtsma.
• We need to focusing on making a
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  instead of just making a
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  .
• Offend - skandalizō: a) To trip up. To make or be offended; b) to be displeased or indignant.

1) Embrace biblical best

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My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be

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to listen,

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to speak and

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to become angry, —James 1:19 NIV

• Practical question: How
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  is your anger?
  

  My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,
  20 because human anger does not

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  the righteousness that God desires. —James 1:19-20 NIV

• Do you want to make a

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  ? Or do you want to make a
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  ?

  37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ I 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
  39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. —Matthew 22:37-39

2) Adjust your

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But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. —2 Timothy 3:1-4

3) Increase your

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for God’s grace.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—9not by works, so that no one can boast. —Ephesians 2:8-9
In

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give thanks, for this is the will of God concerning you. —1 Thessalonians 5:18
Do

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without [murmuring] complaining or arguing, 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world. —Philippians 2:14-15