Lord Jesus, we want to thank you for today. We thank you for the entrance of your world. We thank you for what you are set to speak to us today, all the glory to you in the highest in Jesus name. Thank you for the entrance of your world, our Father.
We appreciate you because you want to speak to us in the language that we understand you, the glory to you in Jesus name. Our Father, we ask of you this day that you will have our hearts, let your love increase in our hearts, let us love you with the whole of our hearts. And is there any area that we are offended in you? Lord, I've made your opponents in Jesus name.
Give us the grace not to get offended in you in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Father. In Jesus' mighty name, we are freed. Amen.
The topic today is, are you also offended in Jesus? Are you also offended in Jesus? Matthew 11, 6. And blessed is he, who so ever shall not be offended in me.
Jesus was talking day, Jesus said, blessed is he, who so ever shall not be offended in me. May the Lord bless the ring of his word in our hearts in Jesus name. Are you also offended in Jesus? That is the question that God is asking all of us today.
Are you also offended in him? We are going to look at three-case studies there. We are going to look at the disciples. The disciples of Jesus Christ, some of them got offended in Jesus.
And they refused to follow him. From that day that Jesus spoke, he baptized and left Jesus. And what led to this? When Jesus Christ spoke in John chapter 6, starting from the 60, Jesus told the disciples and told the Pharisees also together that he was the bread of life, that they needed to eat, they needed to eat him and drink of him before they can have it in their life.
The disciples said this is a thing that they are saying and they got offended. Jesus told them, are you offended in me? And some of them left Jesus. Why the other disciples followed him?
Another site of people, another person rather, that got offended in Jesus, was John the Baptist. We can see down in the multi chapter 11 from verse 2-6. When they locked him up in prison, he sent his disciples to Jesus and to his Jesus. Jesus, are you still in the Messiah to be expecting?
Or if you knew, follow them in the Messiah. Remember, it's the same John the Baptist that I was preaching in the Deredines. That was me preparing the way for Jesus to come. And now when challenges came, when he felt loneliness, what happened, he felt lonely rather.
He now said, I wanted to have existed in the same Jesus, in God's offended in Jesus. And Jesus told him also, that blessed is he, that we shall not be offended in me. Another set of people, all set of persons is Mary or Marta rather. Marta was also God offended.
When his brother, the Abroad died, she ran to Jesus when Jesus was coming all the way. She said, Robbie, a master, if you were here, my brother would have died. He got offended, I'd come the time that he sent a message to him. Maybe he last suddenly died.
So those are the three scenarios we are going to look into. People are God offended in Jesus. Now, what are the causes of offense in Jesus? What are the things that can make you to get offended in Jesus?
Number one, thing is undiluted what a God. When you hear the word that is not diluted. When you hear the real word of God, it's in the same name of the word of God. It makes some people get offended.
And that is exactly what this disciples and the sacrifices ate. When Jesus told them that he is the bread of life, they got offended in Jesus because of the undiluted word of God. And another cause of being offended in Jesus is persecution, challenges or troubles of life. In Romans 8-35, the Bible says that, who shall separate me or separate us from the love of God of Christ?
Is it tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or period? Or sword? So what has separate us from the love of Christ? So when you learn the cause of offense in Jesus is persecution, is distress, is famine, is tribulation.
When it comes to the way of a man, there is a tendency for such man to get offended in Jesus' lives. Another cause of offense in Jesus is delay. In John 11-6, Jesus, if you have been in the A, my brother would have died. So now the, the felt that Jesus was too late.
Or she felt that Jesus was too late. That she did not come at the right time. And that's the way a lot of us also, huh? When we have one delay or the other, we tend to get offended in Jesus.
Jesus, why is there not this way? We have not attended to me. Why is there not this way? I've been facing all this and it seems like you are not here anymore.
You feel a sick Jesus Christ, it's too late for you. And if K is not taking, you can get offended in Him. Another thing is divine loneliness. When you are having feelings of divine loneliness.
When you have the feelings that you have been left alone. When you are to be fed up, you are the one alone. Like the way John the past is born, but it's felt loneliness in the prison. So why are you having the feelings of divine loneliness that God is not with you again?
Or God is not with you anymore. You tend to get offended in Jesus. Now what are the signs of being offended in Jesus? The number one sign is that the Word of God we have no meaning in you again.
You will not see the Word of God as anything again. When you even want the opportunity to be a God, it doesn't have any root in you. It is like into the seed that was born on the rock. On the sandy rock.
When the seed is sown on the rock, it means to go out to the rock. It's because it's not the depth of the heads. The Bible says what happened? The sown goes easily.
So when it's prang up easily, and the same way it's prang up, that is the same way the sown has all scorched it. And that was the end of that seed. So now when you are in the Word of God, that's not meaning in you. That's one of the signs that you are offended in Jesus.
Another reason or not signs of being offended in Jesus is the feelings of divine loneliness. As I said earlier, feeling of divine loneliness. As a way, matter that John de Bartis also felt so lonely that Jesus was not with him. Another signs of being offended is discouragement.
You are so discouraged. You are everything around you, not just encouraging you. You are feeling discouraged in all your individuals. Another would listen or another signs of being offended is momering.
When you keep momering, you can't wait to keep momering and keep telling God. I mean, am I still to pray or to sing to praise God in that situation? You keep momering. I keep telling God what I'm going to do this.
Am I the only one? I did this a way, it's still like momering. This momering makes God to get angry at the children. When God sees that you are momering, you are prolonging the blessings that is already, that is true all to be what to be near and near unto you.
Another one is comparison. You keep comparing yourself to A. You can compare yourself to B. As if you have the same destiny to fulfill.
Everybody upon yourself is against you, and they are standing to fulfill. So you don't need to compare yourself to another person. I pray that Almighty will help us in Jesus' name. So what God is telling us today is, are you also offended in Jesus?
This challenge of life or challenge of life, what to a great to a listen to means, has made you to get offended in Jesus and now you are so offended. Like whatever thing that comes your way now, you are not in the world. No, we are not in Jesus' in the show. The Bible says in Matthew 11.64, we are under.
The Bible says, and blessed is he. Whose will ever shall not be offended in me. So if you are not offended in Jesus, you are blessed. So if you have been of, if one of two things have been offended in Jesus, this is the check unto yourself.
So that you also receive a blessing of the Lord. Inasmuch as well as not offended in Jesus, Jesus says you are blessed. So if, truly, you want to be blessed by Jesus, check your heart. Whether you are not offended in Jesus.
And if you can find out that while you are offended in Jesus, this is the way one is that Jesus is bringing to you. You know that for you to come back to him. Ask for mercy. Tell him to come to your heart afresh.
Tell him to help you. Tell him, tell him you are sorry that you are offended in him. And if we surely show mercy on you, in the name of Jesus Christ. This is what the Lord has for you today.
The Lord will bless your hearts. And if there is any challenge in your life that is making to get offended, is there anything that is in your life that is making to get offended? Then Lord Almighty God will come in his aid and put an end to search in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. So shall he be in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, and the name of the Holy Ghost.
In Jesus' mighty name we are prayed. Amen. By the grace of God, if Jesus is the least, we will listen to what he has to wrote next Saturday. Your day is blessed.