Are you a Pharisee? Characteristic #11 - Pharisees are easily offended
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Pharisees are easily offended
“The disciples came and said to Jesus, ‘Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?’ Jesus said, ‘Leave them alone.’” (Matt.15:12-14).
When Jesus corrected the Pharisees for teaching people to dishonour their parents (as we saw above), they were offended. Pharisees are easily offended by any word of rebuke or correction that the Lord may give through an elder brother. One of the kindergarten lessons in the Christian life is to get victory over “getting offended”. There is no hope that you will ever be delivered from Phariseeism if you don’t seek to be totally free from getting offended when corrected. .
I know people who were once in our church who were so offended by some correction they received, that they left the church altogether. They are wandering in the wilderness today and there is every possibility that they could be lost eternally.
Jesus told His disciples to “leave them alone”. We are not to go after offended Pharisees trying to bring them back to the church. We must obey the Lord and leave them alone. If they repent, then they can come back to the Lord and to the church. Not otherwise.
Read this excellent article by Frank Viola about getting offended
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