offense

The Offended Body of Christ
12-21-07



When My people worship Me in praise and dance, I am happy. How do you think I feel when one person’s worship makes another person unhappy? If an older woman dances and another one despises it? When My people love each other and accept Me in each other, then the body will be sound and whole. But a curse of illness and affliction enters in where offense runs rampant. As it is with a physical body that neglects the care of its members, so it is with the spiritual body, My Church.

There are those who believe their judgments of offense are beneficial to the body of Christ. If only I would consult them My bride would become perfect! If they continue to justify their offenses, they will become like a bunch of little Hitlers, setting their brethren at naught because of offenses, and seeking to create the perfect people in My Church. This is not my Spirit.

I receive those who are wounded in spirit, crushed in their heart and forsaken by man. It is My glory to take the wounded member of My body and heal him, setting him in his place according to My purpose.

If I bring an obnoxious man to the body, is not My purpose that the body would use the gifts I gave them to minister to him and set him free from his root sin of bitterness? But some fold their arms in front of their chests and shake their heads. In their offense at the obnoxious brother, they keep him out. In doing so, these offended ones do not represent Me.

My body needs the Life I supply each member with. And by that Life, each member needs to nurture those in need. This is not by each member’s choosing, but the decisions are made in the Head, Jesus Christ Himself. And therein lies the problem; the body is not in submission to the Head. Some of its members think if they submit to the important scriptures they do well. This is like the scribes and Pharisees who asked Me which commandment was the most important. They did not know how to apply the word of God to their lives and take care of their brother. So when I come, many offended people will say “Lord, I prophesied in your name and cast out demons.” But I will say to them that what they neglected to do for their brethren, they did not do for Me, and I do not know them.

Scripture references;
Mt 11:6
I Cor 12:18 – 21
Eph 4:16
Mt 22:36 (see also Luke 10:27-37)
Mt 7:21-23 and 25:41-45

Addendum; in the concordance the Greek word for offense is a synonym to charging a person with a sin or a trespass. After looking this up, the Lord added “If you are offended at your brother, you pray out of those offenses that I will fix him. But if you love him and choose to forgive him, you will pray for his healing.”