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An Offense
.What about
me?
An angry person’s favorite verse:
• Ephesians 4:26 Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,27 and do not give the devil an opportunity.
But we have to keep reading:
• Eph 4:31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
• Eph 4:32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Causes of offense
1.Injustice2.Envy3.Misunderstanding
Injustice•Social Injustices•Personal Injustices
•A Ticket
Injustice
Envy• If Sharah gets a sucker, so do I.
Envy•Unfair
Misunderstanding•Miscommunication
• Ignorance•Thoughtlessness•Cultural Differences
Misunderstanding•Where were you?
What does warrant Extended Anger and
Grumpiness:
•Nothing
The Right?
Bekah’s Blankie
Proverbs 19:11 Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
What Do I do with Actual
righteous offenses?
• Turn it over to God.• Let Him be angry about it.• The desire for vengeance should never last long, and it should not be personal.
God & The Atonement•Not satisfying
personal grumpiness•100% Motivated by Love
•Jesus & His killers•Jesus & Peter
13 And the landowner replied to one of them, 'Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn't you agree with me to work for the standard wage?14 Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last man the same as I gave to you.15 Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?‘
Matthew 20
15 If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.“
Joshua 24