Living Without Offense
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 21 May 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Our Scripture for today comes from Proverbs 19:11, and today's worship is Forgiveness by Jason Upton.
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| 0:00.0 | Loving others is one of the most important and difficult commands Jesus gave us. |
| 0:10.0 | We are a messy, needy, and broken people. |
| 0:14.0 | We constantly have to deal with our own wounds and the wounds of others. |
| 0:18.0 | But if we can learn to love others well, rich, life-giving relationship will be our |
| 0:24.1 | award. May you receive the love of your father given you by His grace and be empowered to love |
| 0:30.3 | others this week as we look to grow in our obedience of Jesus' command to love others. Welcome |
| 0:36.7 | to the first of teen podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | Our verse for today comes from Proverbs 1911 and reads, |
| 0:55.0 | Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense. |
| 1:02.0 | Taking offense allows others to dictate your emotions and thereby your quality of life. |
| 1:09.0 | When we allow the expressions of brokenness and others to affect us, |
| 1:13.4 | we take our minds off of the ways of heaven and place them on the ways of the world. If we are |
| 1:19.7 | to effectively live in obedience to the second greatest commandment of loving others, we must |
| 1:25.5 | allow God to transform us into those who live without offense. |
| 1:30.3 | When someone wrongs me, I instantly feel a need for justice and fairness rise within me. |
| 1:37.3 | I feel as if I inherently have the right to be angry or even to exact revenge for the wrong that they've committed. |
| 1:45.3 | Offence stirs up feelings of insecurity, pride, anger, and frustration that I will do just about anything to rid myself of. |
| 1:54.8 | But when I look at Scripture, I see Jesus modeling the exact opposite reaction to offense. |
| 2:01.6 | Matthew 27 is filled with wrongs done to Jesus. |
| 2:05.6 | As seen in his betrayal, the freeing of the murderer Brabis, the floggings, a crown of thorns, |
| 2:12.6 | carrying of the cross, the mocking by the soldiers and thief and his eventual death. |
| 2:18.3 | Jesus had more right to take offense and exact revenge than any human in all of history. |
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