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Looking Back and Looking Ahead

Unoffendable?

Tom LundeenOctober 23, 2022All Church Spiritual Journey

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Passage: Ephesians 4:29-32

Looking back to remember what we've learned about anger in this series, how do apply all that we've learned about anger, bitterness and forgiveness? The power to live an Unoffendable life comes from the filling of the Holy Spirit. 

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Looking Back and Looking Ahead

 

Pastor Tom Lundeen

 

We live in a world where people are either  offended, or looking for ways to be offended. 

Is it actually  to experience an unoffendable life?

  

1. Let's Remember

 

We're told  times in the Bible to remember (note Isaiah 46:9; John 14:26; Psalm 103:2)

 

A. Do we have things mixed-up? (note James 1:19-20)

B. How  is your anger? Is it making you more like Jesus and  others to Jesus? Our so-called "righteous anger" is always about someone else's  (i.e., "-righteous" anger).

C. What sets me off? = , fear, frustration, injustice.

D. Anger has a  progression (note Ephesians 4:31).

E. Our responses to anger = express, suppress, repress, or God's way,  it.

F. How can we learn to let go of anger? =  my expectations of others and  my gratitude for God's grace.

G. Who are those people and what's the  of not dealing with them God's way? (note Ephesians 4:29-32).

H. We all tend to think of ourselves as being a bit above average and we always have to navigate the  between being right but always being loving and not jerks. 

I.  is a concealed marauder (note Hebrews 12:14-15) - it dies when we bring it into the light. 

J. Forgiveness means I surrender my hurts to a sovereign God. I live in the hope of today and not the hurt of yesterday. 

 

Knowing these  is critical. 

But where do we get the  to begin experiencing a more unoffendable life? 

 

2. Be Filled With the Holy Spirit

 

A. Confession and .

B. We need to know  we are in Jesus (note Romans 6:5-7).

C. We need to  that this truth is true for us (note Romans 6:11).

D. We need to  the parts of our body to the Holy Spirit (note Romans 6:13, 16-18) - it is this offering of all that we are physically, mentally, and emotionally that is our  (note Romans 6:19-22; Galatians 5:25). 

E. We need to  to be filled with the Holy Spirit (note Ephesians 5:18 and Luke 11:13) - to keep in step with the Spirit is an act of trust in a  God who promises to give the Holy Spirit when we ask Him to take control. 

 

 

CAN I LIVE AN UNOFFENDABLE LIFE?:

 

  • Note Ephesians 5:18
  • 2 Greek words for  - one means to fill a jar with a liquid...
  • ...in Ephesians 5:18, the word conveys the idea of to fill with .
  • Today is a great day to  into the Spirit-filled life!
  • Have you personally embraced these true principles in God's Word and  asked God to fill you with the Holy Spirit? 
  • Is being filled with the Holy Spirit a regular, consistent experience in our lives, or is it an  spiritual step? 
  • Let God fill your sails and discover (or rediscover) the Spirit-filled life. 

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