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Unfettered - Overcoming The Lure of Offences - Part 2
April 18, 2024 · 41 min
Learn how to deal with offenses and walk with a clear conscience towards God and men.
Series Overcoming the Lure of Offences
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Rev. Paul Jeyachandran leads the Intentional Disciple Making Church (IDMC) Movement, which is all about calling churches back to its disciplemaking roots. Visit us at idmcmovement.com
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In this video 0:00 Breaking Free: Overcoming Offenses5:04 The Pathway to Grace and Glory
Breaking Free: Overcoming Offenses 0:00 Shall we give the Lord a clap offering, church? Hallelujah. What a joy and a privilege for us to study the word of God together. We are in a short sermon series on the title, breaking free,0:11 overcoming offenses and growing in grace. Last week, I spoke the first part, and this week, we're touching on part 2. I'm titling today's sermon, unfettered, the0:23 pathway to grace and glory. In my first sermon, I talked about being unhooked, overcoming the lure of offenses. The word of God0:35 clearly states in Luke chapter 17 and verse 1, Jesus said to his disciples, offenses will certainly come, But woe to the 1, they come through.0:47 I want you to pay attention to that word offenses. It is that Greek word skandalon. Skandalon actually means the bait stick of a trap. In other words,0:59 the offense is a snare that the enemy has set for you. So if you hook onto the snare of the devil, then you will be taken captive, and you will do his will.1:11 In another way of explaining offenses or the word scandalon is this. Scandalon always denotes an enticement to conduct which could ruin the person in question.1:23 In other words, scandal on affects you. In other words, someone has offended you. Someone closest to you have offended you. Now you have taken offense. And once that offense is lodged inside of1:35 you, it will dictate a certain type of behavior that will ultimately bring to your own ruin and destruction. Second Timothy chapter 2 and verse 26 says, and they
1:47 come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil after being captured by him to do his will. In other words, offense is a bait of Satan. He has set a
1:59 trap for you. He has set a snare for you. So what you need to do is to be unhooked, but not get hooked. The moment you get hooked, you are trapped in the snare of the devil. And once you are caught
2:11 in the snare of the devil, the Bible says you are captured by him to do his will. That's why in the last sermon, I established that enemy is riding inside homes,
2:23 small groups, church communities to create havoc. He's riding on the backs of offended Christians. In other words, an offense is the bait of Satan.
2:35 So in today's sermon, unfettered, the pathway to grace and glory, I wanna establish how do you deal with offenses? How do you handle them? See, I want you to think
2:46 about how can you be free? How can you be unchained? How can you walk in a manner that pleases God and edifies men? You know, Paul writes in Acts chapter 24 and
2:58 verse 16 in the American Standard Version. It says this, here in I also exercise myself to have a conscience wide of offense toward
3:10 God and men always. In the other English translations, it says that we would have a clear conscience. Paul says, I strive to keep my conscience clear
3:22 both before God and before men. What is the clear conscience he's talking about? It's a conscience that is wide of offense, a wide of offense. In other words, you and I, we
3:34 need to work hard. Paul writes and says, I exercise. In other words, I train myself to not become offended. To become unoffendable, we
3:46 need to train ourselves. Exercise. You know? I have constant issues with my muscles. And most of the time when I go to, someone
3:58 to get help, in other words, to get treated, whether it's a chiropractor or a physio or a massage therapist, usually they would tell me this, your muscles are weak. You need to
4:09 exercise more. And the more you exercise, the more you do those stretches, the more you do those things, it'll help to develop the core strength. And the more you have the strength in your
4:21 muscles, then it can withstand all the all the maneuvers you do during your day to day activities. Otherwise, without exercising your muscles, your muscles become
4:33 weakened and therefore, they are prone to spasms. Listen to me carefully. The same thing happens in our heart. We need to exercise godliness. We need to exercise that we
4:45 need to grow in that grow in that grace, grow in that maturity, grow in what it is true love. And and as followers of Christ, as disciples of Christ, we need to reach that point where we
4:57 can walk with a conscience that is wide of offense both before God and before men. In my observation of offended people, I see there are 2 categories of offendedShow more
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