hey guys Jennifer LeClaire here here's another episode of hand-to-hand
combat dealing with everyday demons we're going to expose some of the common
attacks that come against your mind against your body against your family
against whatever area of your life and you're gonna get free in Jesus name
we're exposing I'm here again with my good friend Ryan Johnson from Ryan
Johnson ministries and today we're gonna talk about the spirit of offense I'm
gonna let you lead out on this one Wow I mean in this day and time it seems like
everybody is offended at something we can't say anything we can't do anything
without somebody taking offense and you know Jesus in the scripture he
definitely tells us there's gonna be a time when everyone takes a fence at so
many different things and I believe that we're definitely in that generation
we're in that time where people are looking to be offended looking at
something to catch us off guard looking at something to pull us away and put the
attention on us and here's one of the things I want us to fully understand
about offense and how and why do even works in her life it is solely and
purely a foundational point of trying to take every attention off of everything
around us and putting that focus on us it's about you know it's not about what
you think or how you act or what you do it's not even about what people can
bring to the value when people walk in a fence one of the things that is just
detrimental to our society and our culture is we're not able to advance
because we have to stop and put our focus and attention on the one that is
offended years ago I made I'd like to cut up a lot to Joe glad to have fun and
I had a couple that was part of the church where I was at and stuff and
everything and and I walked up to this this couple and I looked at the husband
I look to the wife and I look to the wife and I said well warden are you
keeping him straight as a joke I mean that in simplices what it was
she took great remember then yeah that I called her warden and so I had a deacon
come to me and he goes you need to go apologize to her because now her
feelings are hurt and she's offended so I was I was not being rebellious I was
gonna go back I was gonna talk to her and about halfway there
Holy Spirit spoke to me and he said do not apologize which is just crazy
because we would sit here and go God would never say anything like that and
what the Lord began to speak to me was if you apologize to her in this matter
you are only enabling her to continue that cycle of offense so I didn't I
didn't go back to her I went back to the deacon and told him I said I can't
apologize to her he was dumbfounded at that statement I said we're only in
abling her to continue the cycle and this is where we're at we have to deal
with this stuff we have to overcome this stuff or we're just going to keep
repeating this cycle it's a really dangerous cycle it's it's you know I I
think was about to maybe 25 years ago I really started to sound the alarm the
Lord showed me that the rise of a spirit of others I'm not just Tama being
offended but a spirit of offense to actually tempt people into offense was
rising and I've seen more and more and more and more and more but people
getting offended over the dumbest things and they don't even take the time you
know to find out if it did I hear you wrong you know did did did I miss
something it should an automatic like a knee-jerk reaction with offense and
we've seen it rise and rise and rise and rise and it's so dangerous you know John
Bevere called it the bait of Satan and it really really is it's it's it's it's
a scandal on the Greek word scandal on and it's a trap it's a trap to bring you
into bitterness resentment unforgiveness and these things our absolutely
poisonous to your spiritual life you cannot advance in God walking in offense
why the Bible says that we are says walky in love Paul told us in Ephesians
to walk in love to be tender-hearted for women are kind to one another but when
we're walking in offense were not walking in love you cannot walk it off
in and walk in love at the same time it's not going to happen when you walk
in offense you bitterness about you you've got a just a
just a a heart posture about you and all fits baguette softens once you take on
this mentality of offending you know of offense you begin to see through the I
could call them offense colored glasses and and you're just easily offended but
the Bible says love is not touchy and love takes no account of a wrong and
therefore when we are walking in offense it's one thing to feel offended it's
another thing to actually chomp down on the bait a thought can come a thought
can come well that offends me well then what are you gonna do with that thought
what are you gonna do in that moment are you gonna take that bait you're gonna
take that thought or are you gonna say wait a minute wait a minute let me do
the hate is that way is that what you meant like I I I read a text and it kind
of came off funny to me I yeah you know just clarify and at least if you're
gonna be mad have a good reason to be mad you know that gets me tickled
because I was sitting there thinking in the social media world that we live in
when offense takes root into your heart and you know not a play on words here
but it literally if we look at it of a fence like a fence every fence has a
gate yeah and the problem is when we allow a fence to affect us in that way
and it takes root it really creates two massive problems in gates one is our ear
gate and one is our eye gate and what happens is that things that we read on
social media we now look at it with a damaged gate and now a person said
something that hat was absolutely nothing to do with you but you look at
it and because you know them or you may have a relationship some form you go oh
they're talking about me yeah and oh that was a shot at me that was a direct
you know in reality yes there are those circumstances but sometimes I think we
we think too much of ourselves and we feel like everybody's attacking us and
it's just not a reality everybody's not doing that but then it affects our ear
gate as well because we come to the church and we listen to the preacher
preach and because we had counseling sessions with the preacher now the
preacher says something and now are irrigated damage we go oh he's talking
to me she's talking about me and it's it's really again we think too
much of ourselves a lot of times so those gates become damaged and the
interesting thing is we receive error but we reject righteousness and so it's
one of those things and what I try to tell people you know if you feel like
someone is taking shots at you especially on social media there's a
great button it's delete it's blocked its unfollow
you know cut that out because offense I believe is one of the things that really
can affect you physically your body physically it can make you if you allow
it it can make your heart grieve so much to where you physically become sick in
body because you're putting this weight on you
that is not merited in a lot of ways yeah it's a big deal in just a minute I
want to talk to you about another danger of offense we're gonna take a quick
break we'll be right back
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you something another danger of offense I see this all the time people taking up
other people's offenses this is really really a bad scene now it's one thing if
we're running together and somebody attacks you I'm going to stand with you
I'm going to encourage you I'm gonna pray for you but for me to get bitter
over what someone did to you is not helping you and so then we're both in
the pit and so we have to be very careful you know I would like that as
well as loyal as they come I will I will if I'm if I'm running with you I am with
you to the end I will fight for you but but if we take that offense we're not in
a position to help the one who we're running with because we get into that
poor spiritual condition and I see this all over the place where there is even
these I hate to keep using social media but it's just so so relevant to our
generation you know people it's like this gang mentality somebody says
something about somebody and then five of their friends come in and batter and
bruise and jump on the one that said it and who knows if they're even talking
about them I have somebody just recently this week email me and said well we know
you know we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna you know divide this
and do that we're not gonna work together and if you want to make videos
about me that's fine I'm like dear God if you want to make another video about
me that's fine I'm like I didn't make any videos this week at all like what
are you even talking about so people's imaginations anticipate an offense many
times before it even occurs it's what the Bible calls vain imaginations and
we're told to cast them down not meditate on them so
a lot of times an offense will come over meditating on what someone said instead
of meditating on what the word says you know one of the things I've learned
through experience is if I was in the part of the original conversation then
my opinion is just that it's just an opinion it doesn't really have any mate
any measure or weight to it because I wasn't initially a part of it time has
taught me to not really weigh in on something that I was never a part of to
begin with and so what I'm saying about that is a lot of times we have
relationships with people a family member said something about another
family member and then a family member runs to you and go - what do you think
about that you know at the end of the day because you weren't a part of that
it's just an opinion but we have to be a little bit more wise and how we're
handling this because we don't want to take on others offenses because
everybody's gonna try to be quick to tell their side of the story and the
reason they're gonna be quick to tell their side of the story is because a lot
of times people want you on their side and what the one thing from a strategic
and in a war I was in the military but I've spent my fair share time of
studying and reading strategies and you know so on and so forth you know there's
a difference in standing with someone versus standing with someone through
attacks in other words you can stand with someone and never throw a dart you
never fire an arrow but if you stand with someone by retaliating what happens
is if you are out of sync you end up bringing damage and harm to yourself so
it's a process of learning how to stand with someone by being there and not
wanting to always attack other people not always wanting to you know defend by
I want to make sure that the person that is on that I'm on their side they hear
me that I'm on their side Wow you're setting yourself up for a
potential downfall of damage and Horne the best thing that we can do is through
the acts of Christ I believe in when he's arrested and he's facing Pilate he
could have said anything he wanted to say and took on and defended himself but
he remain silent I believe in offense one
of the biggest things that we have to do is learn when to talk and when not to
talk and let our actions reveal our heart in that moment there's a timing in
that and we have to learn that my gosh this is so good I want to do a part two
on this we're gonna be back with another episode talking about more strategies
for offense because there's a freedom key we don't have time to get to it a
day so stay tuned we'll be back with part two of this episode
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