Offenses: A Sin Causing Hate and Division

Offenses: A Sin Causing Hate and Division                    Capt. Kelly Durant

Matthew 11:6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me

2. Many of you know about the example I am about to describe. It is the parable about boiling a frog in water. There is a claim that if you but a frog in boiling water he will jump right out, however, if you put frog in cool water and then slowly turn up the heat, he will not notice it. He will stay in the pan until the water is so hot it cooks him!

This example is often used to describe the nature of people. If you want to get people to do something offensive, wrong, or shocking, they will not do it because they react strongly against it. But if you start out with slow small increments, then over time what was shocking, what was rude and offensive, what would never have been accepted is suddenly un-noticeably alright and imitated. 

This example is, in part, a proof that we can use to show that we are living in the endtime and that people have become calloused, sinful, and evil. What did Jesus say would happen towards the end? Matthew 24:10 “And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another”. Today hate, offenses, and wrong behavior has increased exponentially and most people are accepting it as the normal! The cooked indoctrinated ones are attacking the wise ones who have resisted the forced topsy-turvy paradigm! It’s been a slow process but every area of society is invaded by corruption, immorality, and offensive behavior!

3. The problem is those who are offending others, offending soldiers, offending a country, offending any and everyone over politics, religion, and even over decorations, are divisive tools of Satan and they do not perceive it! They have been slow boiled in the water of hate, so any and everything good and functional, as seen by them, is to be hated. What miserable souls who really need Jesus!

Today we are now dealing with new divisive forces who hate and offend claiming that others are hateful and offensive?! How do they get away with that?  But when the denouncer who claims to stand or kneel for some cause has a lifestyle of being more hateful, violent, extravagant and perverse than the ones being accused, it is time to denounce the hypocrite denouncers for being shamefully guilty and unworthy to have a voice. What ungodly authors of confusion who care not for making a better world but instead just want to wreck-havoc!

Offended protesters are simply distracting us away from solving matters with God’s standards of love, forgiveness, holy justice and kindness. Many issues are much more important than all the politics of the moment. We should be focusing in on the horrible crimes committed by dictatorships, the oppression of the human trafficking rackets, the mega murders done by false religious or atheistic nations who oppress by murder and torture of their own. These are traumatic and real issues that should summon our call to Christian protest. What about the dozens of thousands of Christians tortured and murdered in certain nations every year? We all should stand against real injustices!

4. In this country, and it is the same pattern recurring in many countries, we observe how offenses and divisions begin. They begin with hating certain top leaders, then it progresses on to hating the police, and then on to hating the rich, and hating certain political parties, and then on to hating certain races which are accused to, but not universally true, hate other races. Where does this hate, hate, hate, come from?

Mostly the news channels, the TV, and the internet. Many of these information sources seem to be directed by Satan himself since they produce distortions and pure lying poison pretending that they are on the public’s side while falsely exposing (with no evidence) those they chose to hate whom they claim “offend”. Stop drinking their cool-aide! Read God’s Word in the Bible so wisdom and discernment will guide you out of this world and into a better world of peace and love!

Remember Satan has many identifiers and one of them is as “the prince of the air”, and Christians should not be listing to Him! Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

5. What are some of the characteristics of Satan anyway? He loves breaking all of God’s laws and offending God as much as possible! God stands for love, he stands for hate! He does his evil works through others making them offensive to God’s people. When the hypocrite Pharisees and religious leaders accused Jesus of being the prince of devils, which is a horrible offense, Jesus fired back at them and denounced them as being the ones God is most offended by because they were hypocrites for being false teachers, exploiters of the poor, and murderers of the righteous! They were offended by His exposure of them!

These rich and powerful false leaders had their hand in getting Jesus arrested by their own Sanhedrin soldiers and later got the crowd to say, “Crucify Him” as they welcomed a curse on their selves for perpetual generations. That is the evidence that they were evil! They were so hateful and offensive they wanted to see Jesus cruelly murdered! This spirit of anti-Christ is still alive and well today!

Satan’s offensive qualities influence, with his demons, the people of the world so they become a deceiver like him, appearing to be defending something good, while behind the scenes working evil as he and his rich and powerful people operate by intimidation. They are liars, thieves, exploiters, perverts, God-hating, violent, murderous, psychopathic loud-mouthed hell-raisers!   

6. Putting up with offensive devils on earth is like having to live in hell! As earth dwellers and sojourners, we are as those in a prison. The situation is as such: the good warden was murdered (Jesus), and the evil warden (Satan) is temporarily in control and he is continuously inciting people to get offended so they fight each other! Many powerful people love everything evil and they love filling people’s heads with hate so there is war, violence, and atrocities. Never go with the flow and trends of the world, question everything! Luke 16:15 (b) for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

So I offer you the idea that there are different ways in which people get offended. The way in which we as Christians get offended is when someone is insulting or mocking our holy God, our loving Jesus, our Christian faith, or our compassionate works done with our heart. But our reaction is different from the world. How did Jesus tell us to handle it? He told us to give it up in prayer and to ‘forgive trespasses’ because we too have in some time or another been trespassing, or offending, someone as well. So let offenses pass, God will handle it! He said also that we are blessed when other people offend us for being His own!

Matthew 5: 10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

7. Here is something very important that Jesus said about offenses. Matthew 12:31 “Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men”.

In other words, if a person is hearing God’s truth, is learning that Jesus is God’s Son, and he or she is so evil that they will not allow God to touch their heart with His Spirit, then that person has resisted fiercely to remain in their own stubborn sinful perverse ways. But to resist God’s love and forgiveness is to invite hell on your soul! There is no other way to clean the spirit making it fit for heaven.

It is nothing to play with, God will not tolerate evil offenders in the judgement of the Great White Throne in the end! We are currently living in a grace period and God is holding back the lake of fire as he wants to give everyone an opportunity to repent and to have a chance to live in a holy loving manner. His gospel of love needs to be preached to the whole world! If everyone had converted hearts, it would be heaven on earth! But as it is the entire world suffers under the reign of the usurper, Satan, which is afflicting everyone with his evil people doing evil in word and in deed as they do now.

8. The world is offended by Jesus, but we are offended by the world! We are blessed, but they are condemned by their own choice of self-destructive Satanic ‘offensive’ practices done in word and deed.

The people of Satan are at war with God’s children and anyone who does anything good, fair, just, loving, or something glorifying God, will get attacked as evil. The offended complainers will always find fault with the good and make it a scandal and lie and want the whole world to be as offended as they are! But the so called offended people are committing an offense and insulting when they label good people as evil, as bigots, or racists, with their invented accusations. They are bearing false witness against their neighbor, a grave sin with God! Many, many people are guilty today of repeating lies about others just because they love creating controversy, which escalates to war and is Satanic, not of God’s peace.

What a never-ending torture to listen to people who whine, complain, and decry an offense over matters that are usually defending postures that are perverse, rebellious, or evil in nature. These people invent evil even where it is not!

9. So, God’s people forgive and let God do the sorting out and do not go on the attack to offend, insult, riot, and burn down cities as evil people do. God commands his people to let Him have the vengeance. Romans 12:19  Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

As Christians, we do not want to offend others, or offend God with our complaints either as the children of Israel did after leaving Egypt. They offended God with their whiny complaints and they paid for it. I Cor. 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Obey God, love your neighbor and help him, preach the good news of Jesus!

As Christians we do however, have legitimate complaints and God-given rights to speak up and get the brakes put on offensive evil seducers, liars, violent instigators, and Jesus hating perverse, corrupt, doers of evil! We fight with the truth against human injustices and exploitations which include murder by despots, the murder of innocent ones, and the seduction of others by means of perversions, false religion, or atheism! How unfair and hypocritically oppressive is Satan’s world! His reign will end with Jesus return, thank God for that!

Jesus says, “Blessed are the peacemakers”, which implies that the troublemakers are cursed by God! Here is our comfort, ‘this world is not our home, we are just a passing through’. And here is a line from Martin Luther’s hymn that I love, ‘And though this world with devils filled, should threaten to undo us, we will not fear for God has willed, his truth to triumph through us!’ Amen! 

Pray that you and I can win as many souls as possible with Jesus liberating, refreshing, un-hateful, loving truth!