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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the
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world. Let's join
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Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and I'm just so excited that
today we are gonna return
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to my series, which is called - The Right Way to Join
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or to Leave a Church.
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There's a right Way to join a Church
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and there's a wrong way.
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There's a right way to leave a church
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and there's a wrong way to leave a church.
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And we're covering all of
that in this five part series,
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which comes with a study guide.
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And the study guide has
everything in this series
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and the study guide so you
can read the material while
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you're seeing or hearing the series.
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And by the way, the reason
I'm teaching this series is
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because sometime ago during the night, I dreamed
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that I was teaching this series and the dream was so vivid.
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It was like it really took place.
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I could see the name of
every part of the series,
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all the points, and I woke
up in the middle of the night
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and said that was from the Lord.
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So I went to the room where I study
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and pray, got out my computer
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and begin to write down
everything I saw in the dream.
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And this series is the result.
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I believe the Lord instructed me
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to teach you about the right way to join
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or to leave a church.
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And I'm also so excited
about my book called The
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Life Ablaze.
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It's quite a substantial book
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and I've written a lot of books,
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but this is one of my favorites because it's so practical.
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It really shows you what kind of fuel you need
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to put into your spiritual fire
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so you keep burning like an inferno to the end of your life.
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Jesus wants you to be a
flame of fire to the end,
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and this book will help you
know how to stay on fire.
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But you can find out
about all these resources
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by going online or just call
the number on the screen.
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And by the way, write that number down
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because that's also the number
you can call for prayer.
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And if you need prayer, call that number.
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Even if you don't want to
ask anything about these
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resources, but you need
prayer, call that number
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or send us an email.
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And when we hear from you,
we're gonna release our faith.
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We're gonna pray according
to the word of God,
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and Jesus is gonna do
something spectacular in
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your life.
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But call us right now.
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We're waiting for you to
call or send us an email.
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And when you call
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or when your email shows
up, we're gonna pray
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and Jesus is gonna move.
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But today we're gonna return
to the series the right way
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to join or to leave a church.
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And I want you to reach for your Bible
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because today we're
gonna be using the Bible
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as we always do,
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and we're believing for
a restoration of verse
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by verse teaching of the
scripture in the church.
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My friends, the church needs
the teaching of the Bible.
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It's why I end every one of my programs
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with Ecclesiastes 8:4.
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It says "Where the word of the king is, there's power."
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God's word has power
and we need to know it
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and we need to internalize it.
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But today we're gonna talk about
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what if you have relational
conflicts in your church?
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Some people leave their church
because they get offended.
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That is our wrong reason
to leave a church.
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But in this series we have seen - What is the right way
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to join a church?
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Why is church membership important? Today,
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we're gonna see what to do if you have relational
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conflicts in the church.
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In tomorrow's episode,
we're going to see what
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to do if you have doctrinal
disagreements in a church.
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And finally we're gonna
wrap it up on Friday with
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what is the right way to leave a church.
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But what do you do if
you have a relational
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conflict in a church?
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Well, guess what? You will.
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It is likely you will at
some point have a relational
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conflict with somebody in the church
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because the church is made of people.
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And it might be that you
are the source of offense.
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Everybody does something
wrong from time to time.
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And my friends, we need
to be in the business
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of showing mercy rather
than holding people
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to their offensive actions.
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But let me ask you - Don't
you sometimes have conflicts
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with your own siblings
or with your parents
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or with other members of your family?
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Of course you do. That
just goes with life.
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Maybe you wake up on the
wrong side of the bed
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or somebody's in a bad mood
or somebody says something
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and it just comes across wrong
and it's offensive to you.
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When that happens, you have a choice.
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You can forgive it and
overlook it and let it go.
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Or you can make this little
ant mound into a mountain,
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you can turn it into something really big,
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end up losing your relationship with your siblings.
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But you know what? As you get older, you realize
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that you need your siblings,
you need your family.
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And as you get older, you begin to realize just get over it.
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Just get over it. It's your family. They're just people.
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They didn't intend to be offensive.
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They didn't intend to be hurtful.
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And as you get a little older,
you become more merciful.
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When I was younger, I
was much more tending
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to be judgmental.
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But as I get older,
I'm a lot more merciful
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than I used to be.
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But they are your brothers and sisters.
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They're your siblings, they're your family.
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You have no choice but to
love them and forgive them
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or lose your relationship with them.
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And there's nothing worse
than to lose your relationship
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with your siblings.
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We'll transfer all that to the church
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because in the church you are filled with spiritual siblings
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by the blood of Jesus.
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We are all related to one another.
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We have real blood bought brothers
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and sisters.
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But when you come to Luke 17:1,
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Jesus addressed the subject of hurt
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and offense when he was
speaking to his disciples.
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And in Luke 17:1, Jesus said unto the disciples,
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now listen to this.
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It is impossible, but
that offenses will come.
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That's not my words,
that's what Jesus said.
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It's the equivalent of saying, like it
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or not, this just happens in life.
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It is impossible, but
that offenses will come.
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And the word offenses is the plural form
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of the Greek word scandalous.
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This word scandalous is where
we get the word scandalous,
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so it's something scandalous.
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But the Greek word actually
depicts a device used
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to trap an animal
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so there was no way to escape.
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It was used to describe
a stone or an obstacle
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or an event that caused
a person to trip, stumble
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or to lose his footing.
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This word scandalous
means to waver, to falter
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or to fall down.
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And it is the word for an offense.
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So when you've been offended,
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you've been entrapped in
some kind of a conversation
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or event that has caused
you to feel offended,
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it's caused you to stumble,
it's caused you just to be
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so upset with this other person.
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And you know there are only
primarily two primary reasons
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why people get offended.
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There's just two; there's not a whole lot
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of reasons why people get offended. If you take all offenses
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and really analyze them,
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they're just two reasons why people get offended.
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No.1: people get offended
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because of what somebody said
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or did - No.1.
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No.2: people get offended
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because of what somebody didn't say
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or what somebody didn't do.
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Let's examine No.1.
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People get offended because
of what somebody says or does.
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They do something that is below your expectations
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of them and it just causes you to stumble.
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You say, I just can't
believe they said that.
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I just can't believe they did that, that it's, that's
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so far below them.
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And it causes you to
stumble, to lose your respect
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and to become offended.
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Or they don't say something
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that you were expecting them to say.
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You served them, you went
out of your way to help them.
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And they didn't even express gratitude.
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They didn't say what you
thought they would say
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or they didn't do what
you thought they would do.
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Maybe you've been sick,
you've been at home
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and nobody called you.
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Nobody called you and you're offended
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because nobody reached out to you.
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There they are. The 2 reasons why people get offended,
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No.1: because of what somebody said or did,
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or No.2: what somebody did not say or did not do.
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And if you take all offenses
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and analyze them, they all
fit into those two categories.
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And guess what? We have all been guilty
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of it at one point or another.
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We've all been guilty of failing someone's expectations.
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We've all been guilty
of not saying something
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that we should have said
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or we've been guilty of saying
something in a wrong way
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that was offensive.
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My friends, we are all guilty of this.
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If you get offended, remind yourself
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that you've been hurtful and offensive in the past.
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Did you intend to hurt and offend?
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Were you shocked when you heard
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what someone perceived you did or said?
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Was it really your intention
to be hurtful or offensive?
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Always take the higher road
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and choose to believe the
other person didn't intend
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to be hurtful or offensive.
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Believe the best.
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Remember that if you show
mercy, when you need mercy,
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it will also be shown to you.
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You know, Denise and I
have been through a lot
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of things over the years.
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We're serving on the front lines.
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We've had to deal with
the devil, we've had
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to deal with people.
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And when you deal with a lot of people,
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sometimes people do well, sometimes people don't do well.
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Sometimes people disappoint you,
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but you have to make a choice: to be offended
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or just to let it go.
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And somehow, many, many years
ago, God gave me the ability
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to respond like this.
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When somebody does something,
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they would normally be
hurtful or offensive,
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he just gave me the ability to inwardly say -
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they didn't mean to do that. Somebody else might answer
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Yes they did. I always said - No, no, no, they didn't.
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If they really understood how hurtful that was,
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if they really understood how offensive that was,
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They're a child of God. The spirit of God believes in them.
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They're not thinking right.
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They don't realize how their actions are being perceived.
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It just gave me the supernatural ability to deflect
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and to believe the best.
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My friends, it's so important that you believe the best.
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When you feel somebody has been hurtful
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or offensive, don't leave your church
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because you are offended.
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That's a wrong reason to leave a church.
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Furthermore, we're told in Romans 12:18,
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If it is possible, as much
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as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men
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or could be rendered like this - If it's doable,
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and as much as it depends on you, do your best
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to live in peace with all men.
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Some people are hard to live with in peace,
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but this verse puts the expectation on you
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and on me - not on them.
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It's up to us to the best
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as depends on us, we are gonna
live in peace with all men.
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And when you're in the church
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and you've been offended; rather than get offended
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and hightail it out of that church, you need
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to say - You know what?
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I'm gonna get over this.
I'm gonna overlook this.
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And as much as it depends
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These waters are gonna smooth out
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and I'm gonna live in
peace with this person
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who is also a part of my church.
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Ecclesiastes 3:5 says - There's a time to break down
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and a time to build up.
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That's good advice.
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There's a time for you to argue
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and there's a time for
you to put it to bed
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and to start building up.
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to stop investing all your emotion into
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conflict and decide - you know what?
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I'm gonna turn that off
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and I'm gonna turn it up when
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Now it's time to build up.
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Ecclesiastes 3:5 also says - There's a time
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to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing.
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Do you know that verse is a key
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to you being successful in your relationships?
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There's a time to embrace
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and there's a time for you to back off.
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And so you know what? Our
relationship needs space.
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You don't have to charge
into every conflict
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and always settle the
score, try to work it out.
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Sometimes there's a time to back up
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and to refrain from embracing. That is essential for you
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to know when to embrace, when not to embrace
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so you can have peace in your relationships.
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Ecclesiastes 3:7 says, There's a time to get
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and a time to lose.
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Maybe you think it's
time for you to get even,
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or it's time for you to win the argument.
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But you know what sometimes? It doesn't really matter,
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it doesn't matter. Just be the loser.
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There's a time to get,
there's a time to lose.
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We're talking about your
relationship with your church
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and other people in it.
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Ecclesiastes 3:7 also says - There's a time to keep
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and a time to cast away.
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There's a time to keep fighting about an issue.
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And you know what? Then there really comes a moment
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when you say - You know what?
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I'm just gonna put it away. I'm gonna put it away.
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It is a decision.
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Ecclesiastes 3:7 says, There's a time
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to keep silence and there's a time to speak.
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There's a time for you just to be quiet.
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You don't have to solve everything and correct everything.
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Just back off.
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And remember the Holy Spirit
dwells inside other people
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and he will speak to them
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and tell them where they did wrong.
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And there's a time for you to speak
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and there's a time for
you to zip your lips
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and just back off and be quiet.
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Just let it go.
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And we're also told in Ecclesiastes 3:8
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or there's a time to fight
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and there's a time to stop fighting.
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There's a time to stop fighting and there's a time of peace.
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You know, since we're
talking about the church,
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you know why we have
all these denominations?
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Most denominations were
born out of offense.
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Now I understand that you need
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to know which group you belong to,
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but that was not the original plan of God.
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Denominations primarily are formed because of offence
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or doctrinal disagreements, schisms in the church.
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This was never the plan of God, and my friends,
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we need to know how to listen to the Holy Spirit,
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calm ourself down,
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and remember,
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these are our blood bought brothers and sisters.
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They are our spiritual siblings in Christ.
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And if you've been tempted to
be hurt or offended, just stop
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and remember, you
probably also in the past
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were offensive and
hurtful to somebody else
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but you did not intend to be.
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Wow! And I want to read to you from
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Ephesians 4 from a verse
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that is really powerful.
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Now you might say, brother Rick,
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do you really mean I'm
supposed to let it go?
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Sometimes that is really the answer.
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Sometimes you're just supposed
to let it go and move on.
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It's not worth the emotion
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and the energy you're putting into it.
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And in Ephesians 4:32, it says -
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Be ye kind one to another.
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The word be ye in Greek means be ye becoming,
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which means you gotta really work on this. Be ye kind one
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to another, tender-hearted -
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now listen to this - forgiving one another even as God
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for Christ's sake has forgiven you.
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But those two words, forgiving
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and forgiven, are both
from the same Greek word.
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And here it's translated
forgiving and forgiven.
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Do you know what the Greek actually says?
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Gracing one another even
as God for Christ's sake,
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has graced you.
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Have there ever been
moments when you've said,
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would you just please give me grace?
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You know you've done wrong, you're sorry
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and somebody's trying to hold you
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to a higher standard really punish you for
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what you've done wrong and
you know you did wrong.
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You don't even know how
to fix it at this moment.
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So you say, would you just please give me grace?
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Or maybe you've said to the Lord,
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Lord, I know I've done wrong.
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Would you just give me grace?
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You're asking the Lord to
help you to get over it.
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In the same way you ask others to grace you,
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that verse says that you're to grace others,
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which means there really are moments when you're just
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supposed to let it go.
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Just let it go. Just give them grace.
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You don't have to fix everything just back off.
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Remember, there's a time to embrace
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and there's a time not to embrace.
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There's a time to speak.
There's a time not to speak.
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There's a time to get, there's a time to lose. My friends,
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this is so important. Don't leave a church
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because of offense.
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God placed you there and God
wants you to thrive there.
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And as long as people are there
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and you are there, there's going
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to be the opportunity to be offended.
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So you just have to decide
to be bigger than that.
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And if your offense is so serious
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that you just can't get over it, you need
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to sit at the table and
you need to talk about it.
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And this is what we find in Ephesians 4:
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15, which says - Speaking the truth in love,
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that we may grow up into him in all things.
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Speaking the truth in love.
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It does not say, butchering everyone with the truth.
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It says, speaking the truth in love.
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Now, I know that people measure spirituality by
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how they prophesy, by how many people
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that have been healed when
they have prayed for them by
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how many supernatural revelations they have.
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But the truth is real spirituality can be measured by
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how you get along in relationships.
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A real spiritual person is one that can get over it.
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One who rather than be offended, is able to say, you know,
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I know that you didn't intend to do this
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and you may not even know that
you did it, but what you said
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or what you did or what you didn't say
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and what you didn't do
was really hurtful to me.
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It's not saying I'm telling
you how badly you've hurt me,
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but it's coming from a
much more mature approach.
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I know you didn't intend to do it,
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but I just feel I need to tell you.
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I need to express this
and I want to tell you
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and love how this affected me.
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Take a mature approach.
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And if you'll take that approach, that person that you speak
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to will probably be shocked to hear
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what you perceived they did or said or didn't.
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They're probably gonna be shocked,
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just like you were shocked in
the past when you found out
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what somebody perceived about you,
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but that was never your intentions.
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The devil tries to divide
us by all these things.
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And my friends, real maturity is just growing up
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and saying, you know what?
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These are my brothers and my sisters
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and God put me in this church
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and I'm gonna stay in this church
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and this event has exposed
that I need to be bigger.
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And it's time for me just to give grace,
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just like God gives grace to me
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and just like I've
received grace from others
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and you stay in your church,
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don't let offense chase
you away from the flock
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that God called you to be a part of.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I'm going to pray for you.
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Becoming a member of a
church is very, very serious.
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It's a long-term covenant,
not a casual relationship.
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that should always be entered
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or exited prayerfully intentionally
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and biblically, not
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Hey, this is Rick Renner,
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and right now I'm standing
in the reception area
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of the Tulsa Ministry Headquarters,
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and this building is just so wonderful.
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You know, the Bible tells us in Proverbs 10:21, The lips
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of the righteous feed many.
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And I know that is our assignment.
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God has called us to feed many
people the trusted teaching
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of the Bible.
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And together with you
and all of our partners,
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we really are taking the trusted teaching of the word of God
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to the very ends of the earth.
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Right now. We've paid off
about 82% of this facility
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and that is just wonderful.
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And my friends, we can
only do it with your help.
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So thank you if you're
already part of the team,
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and if not yet part of the
team, please join us as a part
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of the Giving Team to pay off this facility
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so we can be finished with it
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and use these funds to
take the gospel further
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to other places across the world.
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If you've been listening to me today
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and you've thought - wow - I need somebody to pray with me
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because I've been offended
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and I've been hurt, call
the number on the screen.
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We wanna pray with you.
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We don't have all the answers,
but we know how to pray
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and we know it's God's
will for you to let it go.
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And it's not God's will for
you to let fence chase you out
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of the church where God called you.
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There's a way to get
over it and to move on.
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And we would love to pray with you.
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And by the way, it may have nothing to do with your church:
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may have to do with your spouse: may have to do with one
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of your siblings or another family member or a friend,
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and you just need spiritual
help to get over it.
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We would just be delighted
to pray with you.
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So call the number on the screen
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or if you wish, send us an email
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and, oh, I'm just so excited
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that I'm teaching you this series called, The Right Way
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to Join a Church or to Leave a Church.
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And I'm really thrilled about my book
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that I've been telling you about, which is called
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A Life Ablaze.
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That's what God wants you to
be to the end of your life.
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That's another reason why you
don't want to be offended.
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Offense will affect your spiritual fire.
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God wants you to be a life
a blaze to the very end
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of your life that you can find
out about all these resources
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by also going online or
by calling that number.
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And again, let us know
how to pray for you,
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and I'm gonna pray for you right now.
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So put your hand on your heart.
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Father, help us to be bigger than those
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that did something silly.
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Lord, help us to just grace
them just like we ask you
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to grace us and like you've
shown us so much mercy
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and so much grace, help
us to believe the best
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and take the high road
and just get over it.
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Father, we thank you
for this in Jesus name
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and to stay in the church
where you've called us.
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Amen. Well, when we come back
tomorrow, we're gonna see
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what do you do If you've got
a doctrinal disagreement in
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your church; that's important.
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But until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 says,
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"Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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Hey friends, my wife
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and I are coming to the United States
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to hold some wonderful meetings
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and I want to tell you about them,
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but please be sure to go to our website
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to affirm all these times and dates
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because sometimes things change.
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On January 25th, we're coming
to Green Mountain Falls,
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Colorado to Legacy Church, to be with Pastors Jeremy
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and Sarah Pearsons.
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On Friday, Saturday, Sunday, January 30th, 31st
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and February 1st, we're coming to Mesa, Arizona,
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to Vida Church to be with Pastors Ben
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and Kara Diaz. On Sunday, February 8th, we're coming
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to Southfield, Michigan to be at Word of Faith
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with Bishop Keith and Pastor Deborah Butler.
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On Sunday, February 15th, we're coming to Tulsa, Oklahoma
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to be at Millennial Church with Pastors Paul
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and Karen Brady.
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And on Saturday and Sunday, February 21st
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and 22nd, we're coming to Midland, North Carolina
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to Encounter Church to be with Bishop Alan
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and Tera DiDio -
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and friend, I want to invite you to come to one
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of these meetings.
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We're waiting to see you there.
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation.
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We would love to connect with you.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.