PSALM ONE-HUNDRED NINETEEN

Intro: Sin in offensive!

1. The Danger of Offense - Proverbs 18:19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

2. The Duty of Offense - 1Co 8:13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

3. The Detering of Offense - Ps 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Both Inward And Outward

A. Discouragement (lack of peace - eyes on problems)

B. "Rabbit-Ear Syndrome" - Ecc 7:21-22 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

C. Lack of Forgiveness - Eph 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Col 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

A. Mt 13:21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

B. Unwillingness to change our lives to comform to the Scriptures.

A. Taken as a personal affront or attack

B. God uses preaching to touch on our slack points (Kevin's face!)

2 Tim 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

IV. Rebuke Can Offend You

Titus 2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

V. Pastor Can Offend You

Gal 4:15-16 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

VI. Persecution Can Offend You

Mt 11:6 - And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

Intro: Sin in offensive!

Some Things That Can Offend You!