Rhythm of Offense and Forgiveness | Rhythms Week 1 | Pastor Candace Cortez

3 Rhythms That Are Important as We Seek to Follow Jesus

1. Offense and Forgiveness

2. Growing and Serving

2. Work and Rest

 

2 Timothy 2:25–26 NLT: Gently instruct those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will change those people’s hearts, and they will learn the truth (the true, truth).

Then they will come to their senses and escape from the devil’s trap. For they have been held captive by him to do whatever he wants.

Psalm 55:12–14 NLT: It is not an enemy who taunts me— I could bear that. It is not my foes who so arrogantly insult me— I could have hidden from them.

Instead, it is you—my equal, my companion and close friend.

What good fellowship we once enjoyed as we walked together to the house of God.

 

How to Grow Less Offendable

Hebrews 12:15 NLT: . . . Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.

1. Don’t pick it up.

2.  Be a truth seeker.

3. Sift it out!

4. Be an owner.

PROVERBS 19:11 NIV: A person’s wisdom yield patience; It is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.

 

How to Grow in Forgiveness

John 8:1-11 NLT: Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.

“Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”

They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.

When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”

“No, Lord,” she said.

And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”

1. Acknowledge the pain

2. Remember God’s forgiveness

3. Reflect on our Biblical command

4. Let go of the hurt

5. Pray for the person who hurt you

6. Continue to forgive