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You know, as long as we live, we're going to have to guard our hearts from taking in offense.

You know, all through our life, people are going to hurt us.

Unfair things are going to happen. We'll be disappointed. People may say something that's not true.

See, these are all the types of offense that we can't allow to take residency in our heart. See, we can't allow those things to become

part of our lives. I have seen people who have gone through a difficult divorce. They have been

hurt. I've seen people who have been cheated and it was real. But the difference is those people

never let that situation go. They always brought that situation back into their life. And you know,

these types of offenses, they don't do us any good. You see, they only bring heartache, resentment,

bitterness, unforgiveness. See, that's what offense does when it gets into our heart. It produces

in our life. That's why we have to make sure that we don't allow what happens to us to get in us.

You see, I believe that God wants us to understand that we are secure in him. You know, we talk

about identity. We talk about what we identify with.

You see, if you identify with your job and your job goes away, then your identity has gone away.

If you identify with a person and they make you important, if that person happens to leave

or that person happens to disappoint you or say

something to hurt you? Guess what? Your identity has been crushed. You see, we are to identify

with Jesus Christ. We are to find our security in him. We have to know that he is for us and he's not against us. He's the one that's

going to take care of us. When we identify with the wrong thing and the wrong thing happens to us,

then guess what? We feel wrong. That's an offense. That's an offense. And I want to encourage us all. If you've ever been hurt,

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