He who is offended

Is it true? Is it helpful? Is it inspiring? Is it necessary? Is it kind? The question we should ask is, do we as Christians have a right to be personally offended? Jesus in all the things done against Him, in every offense made against Him, more than we could ever suffer in a thousand lifetimes was never offended personally.

Would we not be offended if most mocked us and wanted to kill us? We are to let it go. Being offended is only concerned with self. The Bible, the Word of God, is all about dying to ourselves. Jesus was never selfishly offended by things done against Him.

Having a child who is "sick" gives me plenty of opportunity to be offended with my God. To say " Why us? Why her? I have tossed aside the lie that "God won't bring you to anything you can't handle" because it is a misquote of 1 Cor And last I checked, sickness isn't a temptation. Our God is going to protect us from personal sin. I will gird you, though you have not known Me; That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun That there is no one besides Me.

I am the Lord , and there is no other, The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these. And as Beth Moore said "He cannot do good for himself and harm to His children. We hear the sirens coming down the highway and Norah tells me "I love you, mommy. I so sowwy I having a 'action'.

The paramedics walk in, and she doesn't make one squawk. Not one cough, not one grunt. Just talking like "Oh hey guys, what's up? Over the next few minutes the EMTs note how much better she's doing. The French court was offended , and he was confined for six months. He afterwards fled to Athens, where he was soon put to death by Octavian, whom he had offended by writing an abusive letter Suetonius, Augustus, 4. Although he repeatedly offended his rulers, he held several high offices. Some of the most distinguished scholars have offended worst.

By his divorce from Isabella of Gloucester he offended the English baronage ; by his marriage with Isabella of Angouleme, the betrothed of Hugh of Lusignan, he gave an opportunity to the discontented Poitevins for invoking French assistance and to Philip Augustus for pronouncing against him a sentence of forfeiture. The apparent object of the measure was to deprive the people of Pittsburg temporarily of the privileges of self-government by empowering the governor to appoint a recorder in the title of mayor was again assumed to exercise until , when the municipal executive should be again chosen by the people the functions of the mayor, thus removed by the governor under this statute; and this act applied to the other cities of the second class, Allegheny and Scranton, although they had not offended the party managers.

Maximilian himself was an "enlightened" prince of the 18th-century type, whose tolerant principles had already grievously offended his clerical subjects; Montgelas was a firm believer in drastic reform "from above," and, in , had discussed with the rump of the old estates the question of reforms. But the revolutionary changes introduced by the constitution proclaimed on the 1st of May were due to the direct influence of Napoleon.

Frederick, whose authoritative temper was at once offended by the independent tone of the Arnoldist party, concluded with the pope a treaty of alliance October 16, of such a nature that the Arnoldists were at once put in a minority in the Roman government; and when the second successor of Eugenius III. He offended the pope by his arrogance and pride, and both pope and emperor by his proposal to set up a new Roman empire, the sovereignty of which would rest directly upon the will of the people.

A man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not know God and hate your life. The case, as represented by the offended parties, was that, after seizing the transports, Major Denisov, being drunk, went to the chief quartermaster and without any provocation called him a thief, threatened to strike him, and on being led out had rushed into the office and given two officials a thrashing, and dislocated the arm of one of them.

Julie was offended and replied that it was true that a woman needs variety, and the same thing over and over again would weary anyone. Natasha felt offended by the hesitation she had noticed in the anteroom, by her father's nervousness, and by the unnatural manner of the princess who--she thought--was making a favor of receiving her, and so everything displeased her.

Probably she is offended by it. Distressed, offended , and surprised by all this, Rostopchin had returned to Moscow. Remember that you have still to answer to our offended country for the loss of Moscow. I used to meet him at Mary Antonovna's," said the countess in an offended tone; and still more offended that they all remained silent, she went on: "Nowadays everyone finds fault.

Cavour, on the other hand, while anxious to deal irously with the Garibaldians, recognized the impossibility of such urse, which would not only have offended the conservative spirit :he Piedmontese military caste, which disliked and despised am troops, but would almost certainly have introduced into the y an element of indiscipline and disorder.

The detailed description of Constantinople and the Byzantine court is a document of rare value - though highly coloured by his ill reception and offended dignity. In January , offended by the growing influence of the Bedford faction which joined the government, Conway resigned the seals of office, though he was persuaded by the king to remain a member of the cabinet and "Minister of the House of Commons.

He conceived it as " a religious monopoly " to which " the nation at large contributes," while " Presbyterians alone receive," and which placed him in " a relation to the state " so " seriously objectionable " as to be " impossible to hold.

The French ambassador, de la Haye, had delayed bringing him the customary gifts, with the idea that he would, like his predecessors, speedily give place to a new grand vizier; Kuprili was bitterly offended , and, on pretext of an abuse of the immunities of diplomatic correspondence, bastinadoed the ambassador's son and cast him and the ambassador himself into prison.

After the accession of Richard I. The German tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner to his people in Germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by.

She is like a sister to me, and I can't tell you how it offended me Then there would not be war because Paul Ivanovich had offended Michael Ivanovich. Hopefully she wasn't offended. I won't be offended. She was too happy for him to be offended. As irritated as he was with Darkyn's words, he was also fascinated by the idea the demon lord who prided himself on preying on the vulnerabilities of others was capable of being offended. He couldn't tell from the tone of her response if she was offended.

Are you sure you won't be offended? His great sin in the matter of Uriah would have been forgotten but for his repentance: the things at which modern ideas are most offended are not always those that would have given umbrage to early writers. The little trade of his dominions was ruined, and the burghers and peasants were deeply offended.

A pamphlet written to propose a substitute for the system of impressment in is said to have offended King William IV. But the author had offended in it several powerful persons who threatened his life, and if Count Danneskjold had not personally interested the king in him, Holberg's career might have had an untimely close.

Bergler led a wild and irregular life, and offended his friends and made many enemies by his dissipated habits and cynical disposition. The emigres were awarded a milliard as compensation for their confiscated lands; and Gallicans and Liberals alike were offended by measures which threw increased power into the hands of the Jesuits and Ultramontanes. He must have been a much hated man, for his latitudinarianism offended the high church party and his rationalism the other sections.

Holofernes now inquires of the chiefs who are with him about the Israelites,and is answered by Achior the leader of the Ammonites, who enters upon a long historical narrative showing the Israelites to be invincible except when they have offended God. But the idea of making him responsible for the foreign policy of France could not be realized owing to the necessity under which Louis Philippe lay of courting the goodwill of the powers, whom Bignon had offended by his outspoken writings.

He offended the states by seeking to sweep away many of their inherited privileges and to change the time-honoured, if somewhat obsolete, system of civil government. He was joined by Eberhard, duke of Franconia, and it was only by the aid of the duke of Swabia, whom the duke of Franconia had offended , that the rising was put down.

They were much offended by Caprivis statement that no greater injury could be done to Germany than to give her the whole of Africa, and they refused to accept his contention that the period of flag-hoisting was over, and that the time had come for consolidating their possessions.

The Military Bill had offended the prejudices of conservative military critics; the British treaty had alienated the colonial party; the commercial treaties had only been carried by the help of Poles, Radicals and Socialists; but it was just these parties who were the most easily oflended by the general tendencies of the internal legislation, as shown in.

Russia, justly offended , drew closer her ties with Prussia, where Bismarck was already hatching the plans which were to mature in ; and, if the attitude of Napoleon in the Polish question prevented any revival of the alliance of Tilsit, the goodwill of Russia was assured for France in the coming struggle with Austria in Italy. The Czechs also were offended ; they arranged riots at Prague; the professors in the university refused to lecture unless the German students were defended from violence; Gautsch resigned, and Thun, who had been governor of Bohemia, was appointed minister.

This character of the offended wife was borrowed by later poets from the Greek epic; but it belongs to literature rather than to cult, in which the dignity and power of the goddess is naturally more emphasized.

He entered Phoenicia with every prospect of success, but having offended Agesilaus he was dethroned in a military revolt which gave the crown to Nekhtnebf or Nectanebes II.

Owing to disturbances and misgovernment the population of Egypt and Syria is said to have shrunk to a third in his time, and he offended public sentiment not only by debauchery, but by having his image stamped on his coins.

He also offended the Ottoman sultan. Bayezid II. Instead of marching on to Kassala, Ras Alula, who at this time was much offended by the transfer of Massawa by the Egyptians to Italy, made a triumphant entry into Asmara, and absolutely refused to make any further efforts to extricate Egyptian garrisons from the grip of the khalifa.

The civilians, looking on him as a patriarch of their science, have as a rule extolled his wisdom and virtues; while ecclesiastics of the Roman Church, from Cardinal Baronius downwards, have been offended by his arbitrary conduct towards the popes, and by his last lapse into heresy, and have therefore been disposed to accept the stories which ascribe to him perfidy, cruelty, rapacity and extravagance.

Six years after his death Georges de Scudery edited his work with a Tombeau copy of obituary verses , and a challenge in the preface to any one who might be offended by the editor's eulogy of the poet. Natasha guessed they were talking about the old prince and planning something, and this disquieted and offended her. The Regulations Regulation 51 gave the Government power in certain cases to seize the plant of a newspaper which had offended , or in others to seize the type on suspicion that an offence was about to be committed Reg.

He offended his mistress by showing his instructions to the Scottish barons, and was recalled in August. Irving's severity as a teacher had offended some of the parents, who set up Carlyle to be his rival. Disease and death were often connected with the violation of taboo, the offended gods thus punishing the offenders.

In cleansing the Temple He had given offence by what might seem an excess of rigour: now, by healing a sick man and bidding him carry his bed on the Sabbath, He offended by His laxity.

He tried to tempt the wearied Greeks on the banks of the Beas with schemes of conquest in the rich south-eastern provinces; but, having personally offended their leader, he had to fly the camp B.

Harthama, who was deeply offended by his dismissal, refused at first, but at last consented, and at once checked the tide of disaster. The broken old man became feverishly anxious to propitiate offended Heaven, and save himself another Blenheim or Malplaquet, by exterminating the enemies of the Church. He was a cruel and profligate fanatic. Being offended with the English for giving protection to a native official who had escaped with treasure from Dacca, he attacked and took Calcutta on the 20th of June They had seriously offended their sovereign and yet afforded no aid to the German Protestants.

The result of his policy was that he became extremely popular with the provincials, but offended many of the publicans, a powerful class which farmed the public revenue. Offended , however, by Bedford's refusal to give him a high command, he severed his connexion with the English, and in March 5 accepted the constable's sword from King Charles VII.

As Arsinoe had been married three times, it is thought that she might have been offended by this remark. In November despatches were received from England, but no answer to the emperor's letter, and this, together with a visit paid by Captain Cameron to the Egyptian frontier town of Kassala, greatly offended him; accordingly in January Captain Cameron and his suite,with Messrs Stern and Rosenthal, were cast into prison.

Charles was a thorough despot of the benevolent order, and had been deeply offended by the real or suspected share of the Jesuits in the riot of Thus the Brahmans were offended at the prohibition of suttee and female infanticide, the execution of Brahmans for capital offences, the re-marriage of widows, the spread of missionary effort and the extension of Western education.

One bad habit he contracted, that of using profane language; but he tells us that a single reproof cured him so effectually that he never offended again.

This work produced a great impression throughout Germany, and although large numbers of the orthodox Lutheran theologians and pastors were deeply offended by Spener's book, its complaints and its demands were both too well justified to admit of their being point-blank denied.

Hooke was offended because Sir John did not mention what he had told him of his own discovery. While returning to his dominions by the way of the Adriatic, the king was shipwrecked, and found himself obliged to enter the dominions of Leopold, duke of Austria, a prince whom he had offended at Acre during the Crusade.

This act offended the English barons, but in choosing a new queen John gave much greater offence abroad; he Carried off Isabella of Angoulme from her affianced husband, Hugh of Lusignan, the son of the count of Ia Marche, his greatest vassal in northern Aquitaine, and married her despite the precontract.