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