Hello, my beautiful family. We have now reached the end of our offended sermon series,

and I firmly believe that this particular message is going to bless your life and not just bless you,

but give you a strategy on how to cast down thoughts, because the mind has the propensity

to dwell on betrayal, which grows into offense. Let's tap in.

Let's tap in.

So, church family, this is it.

This is the conclusion, the culmination, the divine finale of our offended sermon series that we have been working through and journeying through for the last 11 weeks. Has this series blessed anybody?

Let me ask it this way. Has it came for anybody's edges?

For the last several weeks and even months, we have been plowing through the scriptures,

plowing through the text, so that the Holy Spirit can cultivate in us this spiritual discipline,

this fruit of the spirit, self-control.

It is the ability to be unbothered, unshaken, unprovoked whenever the world, culture, a friend, an enemy,

a frenemy, a post, or a Pharisee tries to provoke us to step outside of our Christ-like character and sabotage our witness. We have learned for 11 weeks now that to be unoffendable does not mean that we don't

see offense or disrespect. For Jesus told us in Luke chapter 17, verse one, offenses will happen.

It's impossible for you to not encounter offense.

He also said, in the last days, many will be offended.

So to be unoffendable does not mean we don't recognize when somebody's being offensive,

when they're being petty, or they're being disrespectful.

It just means the Holy Spirit governs my responses.

Simply means offense will knock on the emotions of my heart.

It will knock on the door of my emotions, but it will not access residency in my reactions.

Sin against me will not produce sin in me, and we plow through that, we work through that, we navigated through it, we preached, we cried, we worshipped.

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