Truth Above Deception
9/19/2025
GOOD MORNING ALL!!!
Thank you Father for this day and allowing me the opportunity to write a message for you. Please cover it with you anointing and allow those reading it to feel your presence. We Love you and Praise you and thank you for your mercies that never end.
In My Lord and Saviors name AMEN!
Responding to offense
When we are offended by ones actions or opinion about us or the offense is something they said about us. How should a Christian react or respond?
It can be very hurtful when someone speaks about you in a negative way, weather a lie or truth. The Word tells us that the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity and that it is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body.
In todays world so often people respond with criticize, to discredit ones character. In the church today people will just change church or stop going all together because they were offended or did not agree with a message or someone in the church offended them or hurt them. We are representation of the Body of Christ, We are the church yet we still respond like the world. The word tells us to address it with the individual and work it out between the two of you and if you can not settle the dispute take with you one or two more so that every word will be heard, and if you still can not work it out tell the church and if you still can not work it out then remove yourself from there life.
Matthew 18:15"If your brother or sister sins against you, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over"
Most of the time we do not respond in that way. Often we respond with under our breath comments or removing ourselves from ones life. Some even go to the extreme and set out to make others dislike the person who offended or wronged them. I have seen this so many times and some times the other person may not even know they have offended or hurt them. So then that person reacts in the same way and it becomes a big mess. We have been taught through the years even as Christian that you don’t let people push you around, take up for yourself, don’t forgive but is this the way the Word shows us to respond or react. We as the church as children of God (The Father) have to be aware of our actions and how we are responding to situations. If we the followers of Christ, brothers and sister in Christ can not work out or solve our problems in a Godly way, how do you think that is interrupted by an unbeliever whom we are suppose to be showing the Light of Christ too.
Luke 11:17, "But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them, 'Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls'"
Luke 17:1 Jesus' warning to his disciples that temptations to sin (or "stumbling blocks") are inevitable, but he declares a severe "woe" to anyone through whom they come
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Ephesians 4:32 - "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you." This verse highlights that our forgiveness of others is rooted in the forgiveness we have already received from God.
Colossians 3:13 - "Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you." This passage emphasizes that our ability to forgive others comes from understanding the complete forgiveness we have in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19 - "All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation." This shows that just as God has reconciled us to Himself, we are called to be agents of reconciliation in our relationships with others.
Matthew 18:21-22 - When Peter asks Jesus how many times he should forgive someone, Jesus replies, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times." This teaches us that forgiveness should be limitless, reflecting the boundless grace we have received.
to be continues…