Get Over It (Robert Madu)

live in Cedar Hill, Texas. He's a part of the teaching team at Trinity Church. Most of the time he's traveling the world though, preaching the Gospel, sharing the grace and love and mercy of Jesus. And we're blessed because this isn't his first time he's back with us. So could you help me welcome Pastor Robert Madeu back to the pulpit this morning. Oh, good morning, Elevation Church. Come on, do you have another praise or Hallelujah on the inside of you? Come on? Can we just take ten seconds

across every location? Come on, let's give God the best praise that we die hallelujah. Oh come on, this is the day that the Lord has made. Let's rejoice and be glad in it. Who are you excited to be in God's House today? Oh? I'm telling you I am expressed so elated to be back at elevation. Can would you do me a favor before you take your seat?

Across every location, I want you to look at your neighbor, whichever one you like the best, and just get in their face, get in their personal space, and just say neighbor. Come on, don't be afraid to talk to your neighbor. Come on, say neighbor. I waited all week to sit next to you. Now, see if they really meant it. See if they really meant it. Come on, give somebody a high five, show them some love. You can be seated. Oh thank you, worship team. It feels good to be

in God's House today. Man. I so honored and privileged to be here for a couple of reasons. As Chris mentioned, this is my second time here on the weekend, and I kind of have a rule. I have a rule as I've been traveling that when you come to a church like the first weekend, you're still kind of in the guest category. You know, people don't know you, but if you come back a second weekend, then you just straight up family. Okay, So I hope you know I've

adopted myself into the Elevation family. Y'all are stuck with me. I'm your cousin from the great country of Texas. So it's gonna be good today. It's gonna be good, especially because I just came back from Israel. I was in Israel two days ago. I felt extra anointing. So I was in the Holy Land of Israel now on the Holy Land of Charlotte, and I was walking around Israel. Is pretty signific to think that what happened on that little parcel of land through Jesus turned the world upside down.

And then walking in here today just to think that just thirteen years ago, what God has done through this church, what started has now reverberated around the world. What God is doing here in Elevation. And come on, how many you know you are blessed, favored, and straight up spoiled to be a part of this church. Come on, if this church has ever blessed your life, you ought to give God some praise or this is unbelievable. I'm telling you right now, the grass is not greener anywhere else. Okay,

if it is, it's astrochurch, it's not real. This right here, this is real. And God had to have somebody special to steward this, to lead this. And my wife and I we so love and appreciate the life and the leadership Pastor Stephen and Holly Ferdick. And anytime I got the mic at elevation and come on, I'm gonna give honor to where honors do. Would you help me thank God for your pastors. Come on for their vision, for their hearts to serve. Y'all could do better than that

across every location. Come on, make some noise for your leaders. Pastor Stephen is undoubtedly one of the greatest preachers you will ever hear. And not only does he has really the relational equity to get anybody behind this pulpit. So it is my honor to be here today, and I'm gonna preach. I feel like preaching today. I feel like preaching from Genesis all the way to the maps in the back. So it's gonna be good. Would you stand with me to honor the reading of God's word and

across every location. If you got a Bible, would you wave it in the air like you just do? Care, Come on some of your boble's a glowing thank you for charging up your Bible today. I want to look at Matthew Chapter fifteen. Today, Matthew fifteen. I want to look at verses twenty one through twenty eight. Matthew fifteen will start at verse number twenty one, and we'll land at verse number twenty eight. When you're ready to read it, why don't you say, yeah, you need some time to

find it. Say hold up, that was a lot. Hold up. I'm gonna give you a moment. Matthew Chapter fifteen, starting a verse number twenty one. Look at what it says. It says. Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tire and Sidon, and a Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, Lord, son of David, have mercy on me. My daughter is demon possessed and

suffering terribly. Jesus did not answer a word, so as disciples came to him and urged him send her away, for she keeps crying out after us, And he answered, I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel. The woman came and knelt before him, Lord, help me, she said, and he replied, it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs. Yes it is, Lord, she said, Even the dogs eat

the crumbs that fall from their master's table. And Jesus said to her woman, only Jesus could get away with that. By the way, woman, you have great faith. Your request is granted. And her daughter was healed six months. I'm tripping ron prescription. Let me worry that again. Her daughter was healed three days. Oh no, my bad. Her daughter was healed at that moment. It's almost like what she said in verse twenty seven activated the miracle in verse

twenty eight. At that moment. I want to preach across every location today, not long, about six and a half hours. I'm playing just using this as a title. Get over it. Get over it? Would you do me a favorite? Look at your neighbor for the last time and just say, neighbor, I know this message is for you. Get them all this prayer. Father, thank you for your word across every location. Speak to our hearts today. Lord, let us leave different than the way that we came in in Jesus' name.

Everybody said, man, you may be seated in the presence of the Lord. Get over it. You know, I really hate to preach before I preach, but just watch this real quick. Watch this, hear me. God will often use desperation to push you into your purpose. I will offer use desperation to push you into your destiny. In fact, watch this. Desperation is the door that breakthrough walks through. I'm gonna say that again. Desperation is the door that

breakthrough walks through. Some people wonder how come I han't got my breakthrough you Sometimes it's because you hadn't got downright desperate enough for God to do it in your life, because desperation will open up doors that complacency will keep shut. I'm telling you. I'll travel and people often ask me, Robert,

where's your favorite place to preach? Your favorite place to preach in To be honest, I struggle to name a place because I want to articulate to them that the effectiveness of preaching and ministry has little to do with an address or a destination of a place, but everything to do with the attitude and the disposition of the

people that are in the place. Come on, I would rather preach in a basement with three desperate people than to preach on the Bahamas with thousands of bougies, stuck up people who act like they don't need God to do anything in their life. But if you give me some desperate people, miracles will break. For if you'll give me desperate people, signs and wonders will suck. If you'll give me desperate people, the atmosphere will shift and pain

and God will sell himself strong and mighty when you're desperate. Hey, that's a good sermon clip right there. It's actually a good sermon. It's a good sermon. At least I thought it was. I thought it was until after I preached that message. I did what every confident, secure and emotionally healthy preacher does after a message, I went online to read the comment underneath that message. Now, in full disclosure, most of the comments ninety percent of them were positive.

No comments like good word, ooh that blessed me preach bro. There are a few fire emoticons, but those aren't the comments that I have saved and snapshotted on my phone that I want to read for you today. Now, remember in that snippet. In that snippet that was not the whole sermon. I said, and I quote, I would rather preach in a basement with three people who are desperate for God than to preach in the Bahamas with thousands of stuck up, bougie people who act like they don't

need God to do anything in their life. That's what I said in that clip. That was not the full sermon. Okay, Now, what I was clearly stating is that as a preacher and a pontificator of the Gospel, that a meager but eager audience in a basement would be preferred over a large, apathetic audience in the Bahamas. My juxtaposition of the Bahamas in the basement was solely to compare contrasts a magnificent

environment with the mundane environment. I was in no way, shape or form trying to denegrate Behamian people or basement people. I just needed two words that started with the letter be But let me read the comments for you. It says in your message, pastor, you mentioned the Bahamas stating that it has stuck up and bougie people. How can a pastor say those things about a country? Have you met everyone in the Bahamas. Very distasteful of you to make those statements as a Bahaman. I am offended and

owed an apology. Next comment, Pastor, you have greatly offended a large group of Bahamans with your comments about the Bahamas. Next comment and my favorite, the expression on his face when he made that comment about my people tells me everything I need to know. That was flesh coming through, not God. Watch it again and watch his expression closely. Hashtag apology required urgently. Next comment, Wow, just wow. Sad that he used this platform to offend hundreds and thousands

of people. Oh that's about one hundred more comments where that came from. That's the edited version right there. And the irony is the irony is is I went there was one dude. He tried to cancel my ministry from coming to the Bahamas. Start a campaign on Facebook to cancel my ministry from coming to the Bahamas. And the irony is is. I would love to preach in the Bahamas. I would die to preach in the Bahamas. I'm gonna keep you one hundred. I would leave y'all right now

to go preach in the Bahamas. I mean, Valentine is beautiful, but it ain't the Bahamas, and I just found it funny, interesting, and to be honest, quite sad. Some people missed the transformational truth of an entire message, not because it could not be comprehended, but because they were offended. Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters. We are now living in the age, in the era of offense. Have you noticed that it seems like everybody everywhere is perpetually offended about everything all

the time. Everybody is now offended. It is as if victimhood has gone viral and being easily offended is no longer seen as a weakness in your character, but is now your constitutional right to be offended? Oh you got a right to be offended. Oh that didn't offend you. Oh I'm offended for you. Everybody is offended. It's like we're no longer living in the USA. We are now in the USO because everybody is in the United State

of Offense. Everybody's offended. Men are offended, women are offended, the millennials are offended, the baby boomers are offended, Democrats are offended, Republicans are offended, the atheists are offended, the saints are offended. The new Orleans Saints are still offended. You know, we're supposed to be in a super Bowl, right, we were supposed to be everybody is. The vegetarians and vegans are offended. Oh come, you heard about this, right.

There's a group, there's a contingency of vegans that are offended, right, and they are now calling for the removal hear me of meat based metaphors. They want to ban on phrases like bring home the bacon. They are rallying for less offensive and more health conscious frame like bring home the Broccolian. Animal rights activists have jumped on the same bandwagon, backed by PETA. They feel that some of our commonly used phrases and idioms are offensive and are actually encouraging animal cruelty.

Phrases like you're beating a dead horse and you can kill two birds with one stone should be removed and replaced with less offensive ones like you're feeding a fed horse and you can feed two birds with one scud. That is a for real article. No, I see somebody, I'll judge it. And you laugh. You're like, oh, come on, vegans, animal activists, get over it. That's silly. Understand it's silly to you but it's serious to them, so so serious

that some of these animal activists actually got arrested. They were arrested because they were going to steakhouses with speakers and they were playing the sound of slaughtered cows at these states. And when the managers came out and said, no, hold up, y'all, can't do this, y'all gotta move, I had to they refused and got sent to jail. They got arrested. It was very serious to them. And this is the variability of offense that an offense that's silly to me might be serious to you, and an offense

that's serious to you might be silly to me. And I don't care who you are under the sound of my voice. Every single person has something, some offense, some touchy subject that if the right person on the wrong day when you forgot to pray, hit that butty. Oh you find yourself in a jail cell right next to the animal activists. Oh what do we do with our offenses? Our offenses? You remember that game operation? Yeah, board game. This is before Fortnight. They had these board games and

there was a patient on the board game. You had to get the tweezers, You had to get like his heart or his organ. But if you hit the wrong spot the patient on the board games, his nose would light up and turn red. That's you, that's me. All of us have offenses that if the right person hid it, your nose would light up like Rudolph. What do we do in a culture of offense? My Texas in Matthew chapter fifteen, But in Matthew chapter twenty four, offense comes up.

The disciples privately come to Jesus and say, hey, Jesus, how can we know the end of the age. How can we know when you are coming back? You're going to return? And Jesus gives them a litany of things. He says, let no man deceive you. Many will come in my name saying I am Christ, and they will deceive many. He said, Nation will rise against nation, and

kingdom against kingdom. There will be wars and rumors of wars, and earthquakes and diverse places and diseases, and Estillan says, and when you're reading Matthew twenty four, you can get lost in the suspense of the earthquakes and the diseases that you'll miss. Matthew twenty four, Verse ten, where Jesus says, oh, and then many will be offended. In other words, Jesus says, one of the blues clues from my return is that you will be in a culture, in a society of offense.

Matthew in Luke seventeen, not Matthew twenty four. Jesus brings up this issue of offense, and he calls his disciples and he says, to the disciples, let's look at it. He says to the disciples, he's talking to disciples, any disciples of Jesus. Okay, not four of you. Good to see you. And look what he says to the disciples.

He says, it is impossible. It is impossible. That got my attention, because you know, when the God of the impossible is saying something is impossible, you better pay close attention. What is impossible, Jesus to heal the sick, to raise the dead. He's like, oh, that's easy. Now, here's what's impossible, that no offense should come. In other words, Jesus saying, I guarantee you offenses are gonna come in your life. It is a part of being a breathing human. Offenses

are gonna come. He promises you that offenses are coming he promises you. Your spouse is gonna get on your last nerve. He promises you, somebody's gonna send you the wrong text message. He promises you, somebody's gonna see you at Walmart about to pull on a parking spot which shall signal turn, and they gonna squeeze in there. And he promises you. Offenses are gonna come. He later says in the text, now don't let the offenses come through you. Now,

you don't be out there just causing offenses. He says, if you do that, it would be better for you to put a millstone around your neck and jump in the bottom of the sea. A millstone was a stone about the signs of a washing machine. He said. Now, you don't be the one doing offenses. He said, But offenses, Oh, they're gonna come. It is impossible for them not to come. But I noticed in the he did not say that it is impossible for you to not get offended. Because

offenses and offended are two separate and distinct things. Oh, can I teach in her a little bit today? There's a difference between offense and offended. Offense is what happened. Offended is a reaction. Offense says, you did it, offended says I'll never forgive it. Offense Pastor Stephens says, is an event. Offended is a decision. The power of what Jesus is saying in this text is that offenses, Oh,

those are inevitable, but offended, now that's optional. So if offenses are inevitable, but offended is optional, that means it is possible and plausible for you to live your life. Jesus says, I got a power and a grace that not many believers tap into. But it is possible for you to live your life unoffended. Oh, So the question I've been waiting all week to ask you At every location, I'm gonna drink the water before I ask it. Hold on one second, ready, this is the question I'm been

waiting all week to ask you? What is your current level of offendability? I know offendibility is not a dictionary, but you know what I mean? How much does it take for you to get offended? And the only reason I'm asking you is because in my own life, in my own life, as I was seeking God, he spoke to me so clearly and said, Robert, your level of offendability is too high. He said, I got big things in store for you, massive things in store for you, things that your eyes have not said and your ears

have not heard. Neither has it entered into the heart of men. The big things I've already prepared for you. But he said, you'll never be able to handle the big thing as long as it keeps taking the smallest thing for you to get offended. He said to me that your level of offendability is actually an indicator of

the level of your spiritual maturity. So what God will often do is put your miracle on the other side of an offense, so that you will be faced with a decision to stay small where you are, or to grow up and get over it. Oh I'm preaching it here today. I might not get a lot of amen's, but this is for somebody. What do we do with our offenses? And when God spoke that to me, I didn't shout, I didn't clap, I didn't do the Holy

Ghost two step. I got offended. I say, God, what do you mean my current level of offendability is too I don't get offended easily. Oh, I was so man. I didn't talk to Jesus for like two weeks. No I'm for real, because you do know that God knows how to offend you. Oh, come on, can't nobody offends you like Jesus. Jesus knows how to offend you. He can't help but offend you. It's who he is. Come on, he is the way, the Oh there, it is the truth and the life and the truth. By nature it offends.

Sometimes Jesus will tick you off with the truth. Before that truth can transform you, he will offend you. I'm telling Jesus is like spandex toddlers and drunk people. He gonna give you the truth, whether you will like it or not. Somebody get that tomorrow. I'm telling you, Jesus he of every relationship you have. Every relationship you have runs the risk of offense. Come on, relationship is the

context of offense. You don't get offended in isolation. Come on, you don't look in the mirror talking about I can't stand what you did to me, at least not all of us. Come on, it's in the context of relationship. I submit to you that if Jesus has never offended you, you might not have relationship with Jesus. Had all, he will offend you, So all I'm saying is that sometimes Jesus is offending you, and sometimes people are offending you, and sometimes it's both at the same time. And that

is exactly what is happening in our text today. In the Gospel of Matthew fifteen, the Bible says, a Canaanite woman, a Canaanite woman, She is a pagan to the Israelites. A Canaanite woman. This is years of strife, years of offense,

years of arguing between the Canaanites and the Israelites. Do you know how much courage it took for that woman to roll up on this Jewish man named Jesus and his Jewish homeboys, after the years of a fence between the Canaanites and the israel Do you know how much courage it took for her to walk up to him that day? Come on, have you ever had to walk into a room that you knew the people in the room hated you, but you had to walk in anyway

because your check was in there or whatever. I mean, you know how much courage it took for this woman to walk into this room. What would make a Canaanite woman walk into a room in an atmosphere with the Jewish Messiah and his disciples. I'll tell you what made her do it. The devil was messing with her daughter. And come on, when the devil is messing with your child, Oh, come on where the parents had. When the devil is messing with your child, all stuff will come out of

you that you didn't even know what's there. When the devil is messing with your child, Oh you'll find a prayer room you're like, don't play that music. Come on, play on some elevation. Ha laylu You'll get costco oil and just start throwing it all over the world. Oh, come on, I didn't know this till I had kids myself, my wife and I I did not know this that It's one thing for the devil to mess with your job. It's one thing for him to mess with your Honda accord.

It's a whole other thing when he starts messing with your child. Come on, have you noticed other people can say the same thing about your child that if you said, but they say it, it's a problem. Come on, you know your child will make you call on the word late and say I'm gonna be late today. Walk right into the teacher's classroom and said, what did you say about my child on this note? No, no, he's creative. You can't teach. That's the real problem. So mess with

people's children. I'm telling you, Oh, your child will make you low kick A eighth grade on the playground said, I wish you would bully my kid again. Also, this woman, she walks right into that room. She said, I don't care if you're rolling your eyes, Peter, suck your teeth all you want, Judas, I don't care. I don't care. I don't care what y'all think about me. This is serious. I'm tired of the devil torment in my baby girl. I'm tired of being up all night with her. I'm

tired of this. And I heard that this Jesus has the power to heal the sin and raise the tam. I heard the demon shrimble and just the mention of his matchless name. So, Jesus, if you're steal in the demon passing out business, please I feel I preach you now have mus see. Oh don't care what y'all think about me. This is my baby girl, said Lord, please, Son of David, she's a pagan talking about Son of David.

I'm telling her some trouble that hits your life that'll make you say whooh, Father, God, Jaho, Vagirah, all your names. I need you, please help my baby girl. She cries out to him, and Jesus hears her. He hears her loud and clear. But after she cries out, son of David, have mercy, Jesus pulls out his phone. She just goes, Lord, son of David, have mercy my baby girl. And Jesus, oh, you don't believe it. It's in the text verse twenty three.

Jesus did not answer a word. He didn't say, and she pours out her heart and he completely ignores her. Have you ever had to deal with the offense of being ignored? The offense of being ignored? Where did that come from? See, I'm so glad you brought that out there, because this is how life works. An offense is actually a stumbling block. It's a stumbling block. You're just going through your life and all of a sudden, just out of the plu you got an offense. Have you ever

had to deal with the offense of being ignored? Where you cried out to Jesus he didn't say, Yes, he didn't say no, he didn't say maybe nothing at all. All the pain of the offense of being ignored is so frustrating. I can relate. I can relate to this woman because I have a father, a Nigerian father, and I remember being a kid and I would I would ask my dad like my teens and I would ask my Nigerian father. I'd be like sixteen, and I asked him a simple question. I can see it like it

was yesterday. He'd be at the kitchen table reading the paper. A simple question like, Dad, I'm sixteen, I'm grown, and uh, there's a party going on this Friday at a house you don't know, with people you don't know. And I'm gonna be back probably about two am. Is it cool for me to go this party? And my Nigerian father would put down the paper and look at me. I

asked the question. He would not say anything, but just give me a look like you haven't lost your mind, And I say a word, and then just go right back to reading them. And it wouldn't make me so mad because it just ignored me. All the offense of being ignored, I think being ignored is worse than being rejected because when I'm rejected. At least I know where we stand. You don't like me, cool, thank you. Next, it's fine. I know you don't like me. But when

you ignore me and you don't say anything. When I send you a text message and you don't respond at all to the text and you're one of the crazy ones that got the notification where it says you let me know you saw it, didn't say anything. Ever dealt with the offense of being ignored. Wonder does anybody say, God, do you send me to other people see me? I think about David who wasn't even invited to the party when they were looking for a king. He was completely ignored.

The offense of being ignored. It's so pervasive in our culture today because we live in a society where everybody has this incessant need to be noticed. Have you noticed, like don't you see me? And it can be difficult to deal with the offense of being ignored. He said, not a word if that was me. Oh, and I came to Jesus and said, my baby girl is being demon possessed and he ignored me. Oh that's it, I'm

over it. Oh that's cool. Oh no, that's cool. I said, you didn't ignore blind Bartimaeus, you didn't annoy the one with the issue of blood. Yeah, they posted all they miracles, but you ain't got time for me. Now it's fine, Now it's cool. You a good, good father. Yeah right, you're a jerk. I'm over it. Not this woman, she kept asking, please, please, please. You know how crazy you look to be persistent when he didn't even say anything.

But I'm telling you sometimes there's power in your persistence. I don't know who this is for, but you gave up too soon. Don't stop. Keep pushing, keep pressing. She said, please, I ain't leaving. Please. She was persistent. She didn't get a response out of Jesus. She got a response out of his disciples. This woman kept going to disciples, get annoyed. They're like, this girl, Felicia is not gonna leave. Obviously, don't worry, Jesus, we got you, Jesus. I want to

see what disciples say. They said, Jesus, here's what we should do. Send her away for she keeps crying out after us. Somebody called it, send her away. She keeps crying out after us. Really, Disciples, where in the text did she cry out after you? You You can't do anything. Didn't nobody say your name that they didn't want you. See, this is the problem with some people to hang around Jesus. Sometimes they get it twisted. You think people want you. No,

I want Jesus. He's the only one that's got the power to change the situal way. If you move out the way I could get to them. The disciples represent the offense of the institution the church. Disciples clearly demonstrate for us that sometimes the greatest offenses we occur are not necessarily from Jesus, but from the people who bear his name, the people who represent them. Have you ever dealt when an offense in the church the disciples come on the disciples, you're the very ones who are rejects

an outcasts. Then Jesus reached out to you, and now you're rejecting people because you've been around Jesus a while. Your Instagram followers are blowing up. Now you thinking that what do you do with the offense? When you've been heard the institution of the church or people in the church, and you be shocked at the people who are not in any of the locations today and some of the people who are in them who are still wrestling with the hurt of the offense that came from somebody who

bared his name. And if I could just speak to you, just for a moment, can I tell you this. I'm not saying what they did was right. I'm not saying what they did was okay. But can I tell you this, Never project the nature of man onto the character of God. Never project the nature of man onto the character of God. Just because they forsook you. He's not gonna forsake you. Just because they were wrong. It doesn't mean God is wrong. Can I also say that God has this uncanny way

of also using the church to heal your church. So don't leave. Stay planted. And this woman, she didn't leave. She said, I'm gonst stay. And because she stayed, God spoke. I don't know who that's for today, but God told me to tell you. If you'll stay, he'll speak. Don't walk away. If you stay, he will speak. But you might not like what he says, because look at what he says to her. He says, I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel. Let me translate it for you, girl. I am here for you. You are

an outsider. I am here first for the children of Israel. I'm on a mission. I'm on an assignment. This is the offense of insignificance. Can you imagine how she felt? He said, I am not here for you. You're not my focus right now. My focus is actual on the lost sheep of Israel, the offense of insignificance. And let me teach you just for a moment, y'all good? Because offenses are like lenses. Okay, anytime you have an offense with somebody, it's like a lens. Would you come up here,

what's your name, Litho, Litho? Would you take off your glasses real quickly. See, let's say I got into it with Letho, like you, bro, we had an offense, we had a falling out. The moment the offense occurs, put them back on lenses. Offenses are lenses. I see it a certain way, you see it a certain way. You always see the offense from your vantage point. That's why when you tell the story, they're always the villain and you're the victim. Can you believe they did that? That's

why I always asked, did they really say that? Or is that how you see it? Because if we just traded glasses, offenses or lenses. And if I put my goodness linto is blind, No wonder you saw it like that? Say yes, your issue and he's got mine on talking about man, how has he even reading the time clock? No wonder he going over? Because offenses are lenses. So when the fence comes, you gotta say, Lord, help me

to see this the right way. Or even better, it gets somebody else in the situation that don't got glasses and say, both of y'all blind, both of y'all jacked up. Let me tell you what's going on. Fences or lenses. So watch this from her vantage point, I'm here only for the lost sheep of Israel. I'm insignificant, but from Jesus vantage point, it is not insignificance. It is precedents. I'm not saying you're insignificant, but I'm saying the children

of Israel take precedence. And just because they take precedence doesn't mean you're insignificant. Okay, I lost some of you. This is the equivalent of you springing your ankle and going to the hospital for them to see about your ankle, and as they're rolling you in to take care of your ankle, All of a sudden, a gunshot wound victim comes in the room, so they put you to the side, throw you a bag of ice, and they cream the gunshot victim wound in and they start treating him. How

crazy would you look? So? Oh, really, are you just gonna take care of him? Oh? No, it's cool. I guess I'm insignificant. Now take your ice. I'm good Now. This hospital don't love people. I'm five nahaboo boo. But now saying you're insignificant, it's just that this victim takes precedence. But in the culture where everybody is a narcissist, he focus is on you. You'll look at insignificance and go, man,

I guess he doesn't care about me at all. If that was me, if that was most of us, these three what already made us be over it and be going. How many people do you know who felt like they've been ignored by God and people and the church has hurt them, and they've been made to feel insignificant so they walk away. But not this woman, Oh, this woman, watch this. She gets down on her knees, she changes

her posture. She says, Jesus, please Lord, please help me she said, no, I know it's a lot of offenses, but I'm not gonna walk away. I'm just gonna worship you. Come on, you know you are on the edge of your breakthrough. When you could have walked away, you had every reason to quit, to walk away and throw on the t but thiss Dad, I just said, no, I'm gonna worship you. I'm gonna give you a glory and honor.

I don't understand this. I don't know why this is happening, but I know that you're still worthy, you still deserve my worship. Please, please, please. She just worship him. Oh, they said it in the testimony video. She said, I started to seek the healer more than the healing. She just worshiped. She didn't walk away, and I would have thought that the worship would have got God's attention. Jesus turns up the heat even more, brings the hardest offense.

He looks at her and says, you're worshiping, but you know it's not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs. Jesus, the compassionate Savior, the loving Father full of grace, caused this woman a dog. Now there are some cultural differences that we don't understand because in that culture, if you were outside of the covenant with Abraham, you were an outsider. You were a dog. Dogs were outside. So it was very common for Jews to call gentiles dogs. Jesus were just keep him with

the culture called her a dog. But if you study this text, one of the things you will find is that he doesn't use the common Greek word for dog, which was a wild dog. That's what they called him. He uses pet dog, pet dog. And if you study this, you'll see all these comentators and scholars defending Jesus like now, hold up, now, hold on now. He did call her a dog, but it was a pet dog, Okay, not

a wild dog. He used a different term. It was a pet under defending Jesus, and I'm reading it going, uh, either way you look at it, it's bad. Pet dog, wild dog. He called her a dog. This is the offense of being insulted. Have you ever felt like, be honest, your situation was insulting. How can you help others people's children and your child is on drugs? How can you help so many other marriages? Your marriages is falling apart? Have you ever felt insulted. He called her a dolt. Yes,

a pet dog, but it's still a dog. Oh if that was me, let's be honest, if that was most of us, we've been ignored, were made to feel insignificant, insulted. Oh, I'm over it, and I think this woman, for a moment was over it. It's like I tried everything I know. He keeps bringing a fence after a fence, and to add it, Oh, you call me a dog. Whatever, Jesus, I'm over it, but I think somewhere it hit her. You should be. Wait a minute, you call me a dog. You call me a pet dog. All the other Jewish

people say wild dog, you said pet dog. Wait a minute. There's a difference between a wild dog and a pet dog. A wild dog doesn't have a place. A pet dog has a place. A pet dog can find shelter. A pet dog can be protected when it's raining, when it's cold down. So you call me a pet dog. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What wild dogs have to scrap for food and go through trash cans and get whatever bones and leftovers they find on the street, but not a pet dog. Pet dogs get to eat whatever

their master is eating. Oh, if the master's eating steak, the pet dog is eating steak. If the master's eating lobster, the pet dog is eating lips. Wait a minute, maybe it has nothing to do with the dog, but just showing me that life is predicated upon who your master is. So guess what, Jesus, I don't care if you call me a dog, a cow, or a cat. I'm not walking away just because of these offenses, the even stumbling blocks, these are actually stepping stones. So I'm the gins over it.

I'm over being ignored. I'm over the church herds. I'm over being made to feel insignificancewer I'm over being insulted. Was not our sager insulted? And he hung on the cross. And that is that Father forgets them, for they know not one thing. Do I got to dip over this or somebody want to give got the best praise that you can't it over it? And at that moment, at that moment in the midical pain, at that moment, which

moment the moment you get over it? Before I came in the service today, I told him they said, when do we bring the miracle out? I said, bring out the miracle the moment I get over that last offense. But the miracle was back there the whole time. I came to tell somebody to take God's got your miracle. You just gotta take a stop, get over it, Get over it ease here in my heart today I know we use it over it casually to dismiss and say that the offense wasn't not a deal. I'm telling you

it could have been a big deal. I'm not saying they're right. I'm just saying you have a decision. You can stay stuck where you are. You can say I want my miracle more than any offense that comes my way. Offense is an event. Offended is a decision, and God wants to give somebody the grace today to get over it. She would have never gotten her miracle she walked away at any one of those offenses. No wonder. Jesus looks

at her and says, woman, you have great faith. She is one of the only two people in the entire New Testament that Jesus commended their faith. Why does she have great faith? She said, I'm not gonna let any offense stop. Ma'am want the grace to get over it. Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who give generously to this ministry is because of

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