Scandal

The title of today's sermon is, behind me, Scandal. Scandal! Many of you might remember I never watched the show, but I went on YouTube and looked up the show this week. Watched five minutes here and five minutes there, but it was a show that was about, as a matter of fact, it's based on a real person who handled scandals in Washington and Hollywood and so forth like this. And the TV show starred Kerry Washington and told how she would handle different scandals that would pop up at different times and that she would kind of be a fixer for these things. Hollywood's been known to handle scandals from its earliest days, whether it was Eddie Mannix or whether it was Pelicano or one of these guys that would work for the industry and would handle issues that came up. So many of you know of certain scandals that have happened during our time, and most of you can relate to this word scandal because we hear it quite often. You might remember one of those scandals from a few decades ago with Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. It was a scandal that almost took his presidency down, and there were people trying to fix it or to make it less of a scandal than what it was. As a matter of fact, a little over five years ago now, there was another scandal involving a president. It had to do with Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels, as we all heard those names brought up, and they would show various sides of each of their stories. And it was something that made headlines because they would use the word scandal. And everybody got, oh, I want to hear more about it. I want to hear more about this. Well, let me give you a definition. Definition of scandal. Definition of scandal. An action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong. And you see where that comes from. An action or event. That pretty well tags it for what we're used to. Have you been involved in a scandal? Do you understand what I really mean here, where I'm going? Because I found this to be very interesting, as Janay Zadon talked to me about it, and Jeff and I discussed it. And little did I know he would be giving that subject last week. But I am talking and going in a different way, in a different angle here. And I think you'll see that as we go through. But I think it's such an important concept for us, and I hope to make that point today as I go into the sermon. So scandal comes from the Greek word scandal. Scandal. And this scandal.

Is used quite often, and it's known as a trap or a snare laid for an enemy. We would all agree that that pretty well defines scandal, right? But the scandal is more than that, because it's, um, it brings out, as it's translated in the New Testament, and stumbling block, which Jeff touched on last week, did a very good job of, he will reference more of the Old Testament, but I'm referencing more of the New Testament, because it not only is known as a stumbling block, but more than that, and more cases are translated in the New Testament as offense. Offenses. Offending someone. As a matter of fact, in the verb form, it's not just scandal and but it's a scandal nitzo. Scandal nitzo is the verb form that you might be, you might offend someone, you might be offending someone. And so I really want to touch on that, because the Bible talks to us, and we read the Bible. We're supposed to read it every day, every week, so these are things that we need to make sure that are locked into our minds, and not only our minds, but our character, because God is looking at us. We are His children, and He makes that clear. So I'd like to go very first scripture I'd like to turn to is in Luke. Luke 17. Luke 17 in the New King James Version, in verse 1, I'll read that, and He said to His disciples, at the top of my page or top of this, the header for this chapter 17, it puts there, Christ teaches on offenses. Christ teaches on offenses. And so here it says, it is possible. What? No. It is impossible. It is impossible that no offenses should come. So guess what? Get used to them. We're all human. We do these things. And so we offend people. And so it's part of our character, the godly character that we do not offend others if we can't avoid that. But Christ says it's not impossible. It is impossible that no offenses should come. But whoa, whoa, whoa, to Him through whom they do come. So He's saying, whoa, are doomed on you. Another translation. Doomed on you for committing these offenses. So it's really talking to us that we make sure, but let's go on down to verse 2. It said, it would be better for Him if a millstone were hung around His neck and He were thrown into the sea than He should be, should offend one of these little ones. Little ones. Is He talking about small people? Is He talking about midgets? Is He talking about... No! He's talking about those who are new to the faith, those who God has called out of this world, and they're striving to become more Christ-like in their lives. And so here God brings them into the ecclesia, the called out ones, as we gather together to worship. So He's talking to the church here, and He's talking to us, and He's saying, don't offend one of these little ones. It'd be better if a millstone was hung around your neck.

And none of us want that. None of us. I have this picture back behind me now, and it's just kind of like, uh-huh, is it that serious? To God it is. That's why Christ here used this visual, because everyone knew what a millstone was. They knew how big it was, and they knew what would happen if a millstone was hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea. You're not coming up. You're done. You're done for. And so here He brings this incredible story to each and every one of us, but He doesn't end there. Because then He goes to verse 3. He says, take heed to yourself if your brother sins against you. Rebuke him, and if... if what? If he repents, forgive him. Well, wait a minute. I thought He's talking about the little ones. Not here. He's talking about us. He's talking about those in the church, and He first talks about make sure you don't offend one of these little ones, but also don't offend each other. Be able to forgive each other. That was important to Him.

And He said, if your brother sins against you, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. Then in verse 4, and if he sins against you seven times in a day... Remember Peter asked him in another account. I think it's in John or wherever. He says, well, wait a minute. What if my brother, and you know you can read the story, and what if he sins against me seven times? And you can imagine Peter almost wanting to look over at one of the disciples that got on his nerves and and and offended him or sins against him as it brings it.

And so Christ is covering this. And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, I repent, you shall forgive him. Christ's giving instructions on how we should be in the church. And yes, those of us have been in the church for years. We find that it's true. We can be offended by someone, maybe someone that we've known for a long time. And so if that person realizes you go to him, you say, you really hurt my feelings, or you offended me, and they say, well, I didn't mean to.

Or hey, a day or two later, they come back and go, you know, I really thought about it. And I've looked at myself, and please forgive me for that. And Christ is saying, then you have to do it. But I want to go to another account. We'll go to another account here, because we just looked at offenses. And I'd like to look at Matthew. If we'll go to Matthew 18. Matthew 18. I think this is a really neat, neat story here that Christ is telling. Basically the same event, whether it happened, this is another account of it or whatever, but it gives us, I'm not just reading it just to make my case, I'm reading it because there's so much more here that helps us to learn so that we can understand about scandals that we want to avoid.

So here we are in chapter 18. Chapter 18. And I'll go to verse 7. New King James versions. Whoa, whoa! To the world because of offenses. For offenses must come. But woe to that man by whom the offense comes. Here he is saying the same thing we just read over in Luke. But then he says something different here. He's saying if your hand or foot caused you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you.

It is better for you to enter life lame or maimed rather than having two hands and two feet and to be cast into what? Everlasting fire. He's talking about the Gahanna fire, the lake of fire, where no one wants to be cast, especially the followers of God. So we've got to listen to this. We've got to take this to heart because if you've been around the church any time, any length of time, you're going to find that there are some people that they sometimes have to take joy in offending others.

Shocking you, trying to change your state that you might have come in on a good state and all of a sudden it's different. Let's go down to verse 9. He says, and if your eye caused you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye rather than have two eyes and be cast into Gahanna fire, the lake of fire.

Here to read about in Revelation. But it's so interesting here because he covers this talking to us. But then go down to verse 10. I don't think it did. I give you verse 10, Jeff. I don't think I did. Yeah, I did. Okay. Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones. He's talking about the little ones again. For I say to you that in heaven, they're angels. Always, not might, always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. Kind of making it first and foremost to us that we kind of not despise little ones, but look after them, take care of them, kind of help nurture them.

I know when I first started attending church, there were people who you knew you could go to who were not only positive, but even when you were down, they had a way of picking you up. Now, a lot of times that's what we're supposed to do. When we go to services because there's people, you may have had a great week, but the person right beside you didn't. And isn't it our job to not only not have offenses, but try to pick them up, enlighten them, give them some positivity that they haven't had all week. Now positivity should come from the Holy Spirit, which is in you.

It's time to use it. So here he's talking about the little ones, but it's interesting here because up in verse 6, it says, but whoever causes one of these little ones causes, causes. So there's a person who causes this, who causes these little ones who believe in me to sin. Now it's taking on a very serious tone. Causes them to sin. Have you ever caused anyone to sin? I have. Sometimes unknowingly, other times, knowingly scary thought.

But this is a warning to us because he says it would be better for him to have if a millstone were hung around the neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea, going back to what we just looked at. But it's those who cause others to sin. How would you cause others to sin? By saying things that are not right. What did Christ say? Matthew 4, 4, Manchin, I live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Do we? Are we helping people or are we putting stumbling blocks, maybe offenses so that these little ones, the new ones, the babes in Christ, as the scriptures tell us, they're having problems because of people putting scandalous stumbling blocks, offenses in front of them. And they're not mature enough. Not mature enough to handle it and they don't know what to do. I think about knowingly and unknowingly doing this through the years and just how how dangerous it is for us. Because God is tying this having offenses to the lake of fire. It's not a good outcome. That's why it's so important. That's why I wanted to bring this up because we all need to watch. Watch ourselves not only watch the world, but watch ourselves as these days progress. Deadly. Deadly. Eternal death, the lake of fire. That's Gehenna fire. That's hell fire. It's translated from Greek word Gehenna, but it is. And it's our destiny unless we can make some changes and make sure we don't do this. We don't cause other people to do this. We don't cause other people to stumble. Jeff talked about last week in his sermon about that piece that I have not stubbed my toe, but I have to kind of step over when I walk towards that way. And I think it was a good point that we should watch ourselves that we don't stumble. But today I'm talking about our own life. And I think that's a good point. We should watch ourselves that we don't stumble. But today I'm talking about us putting that in front of people. I think it's a good visual. Have we put any of those things down? Oh, no, not me. Not me. Really. Really. I'd like you to turn, if you will, to Matthew 12. Matthew 12. I found this to be an incredible scripture. Two scriptures here. Matthew 12, and I'll read from verse 36. It says, But I say to you, Jesus Christ saying it, I think it matters.

And I think He made a point of it. But I say to you that for every idle word men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. Ooh, what? Let's read on in 37. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be what? Condemned. Condemned. But every idle word—what is idle word? I had to look the definition of it up because I found it interesting. Because have you ever used idle words? Maybe you're thinking, Well, yeah, maybe I just added something at the end of a sentence. Maybe I was going to—maybe somebody told me this story about them, and then they're just like looking for me, and you might say, Oh, well, that sounds stupid.

Idle words. Definition. Empty rhetoric. Insincere or exaggerated talk are from vocabulary.com. Idle can mean having no value or purpose. Idle rumors and rumors that— are rumors that people make up when they are bored, but have no grounding in fact.

Idle words. Have we? Yes. We all have. And it's something— Brethren, we need to work on— I'm not saying this. I'm not— Hey, I'm just saying I'm preaching to the choir. I'm preaching to myself, because it's so important. Because it said there that judgment— we will come before the judgment seat.

For every idle word. That's scary. We're going to come before the judgment seat of Christ, and we know Christ is merciful, but what?

We're told the judgment is on the house of God now. We're being judged daily.

What Paul said, I die daily, because he has to repent.

He wants that old man dead every day. Get rid of those sins. Cleanse us, purge us of these things. But idle words. Well, people say, well, yeah, but I didn't really mean it. Hmm? Really? Why did we say it? Well, I didn't mean to say it this way. In political speakers, oh, I misspoke.

Most of the time, they didn't.

We didn't.

So, if he says here that we're going to come into judgment for every idle word, what do you think's going to happen to us about forethought?

Idle words is something else. Forethought! We knew! We knew what we were saying. We knew it might be offensive, and we said it anyway.

That one person telling me, oh, I just love the shock value of that. Really? Is that what we're about?

No, forethought. Premeditated words. When we think about something, you know, I haven't liked that person a long time anyway. I think I'll tell people just exactly what he told me in confidence.

That's why we have this kind of vow we take of silence when it comes to confidentiality as pastors. There's things you need to be able to tell us that Jeff and I both know. We don't even tell our wives. Now, if it's something that I feel like my wife needs, no, I ask a person, can I share this with Mary if it's something they're dealing with, and they may say yes, but no. So forethought.

It's those thoughts that we think about, and we could catch ourselves, but we don't. Judgment. Judgment will be on us.

Is that a scary thought? Well, I think as we go along within the second half of the sermon, you will see that the gravity of this situation takes on a new outlook because it is pretty important. Growing up, growing up, as I think about forethought, I think about premeditation. Growing up, before I came into the church, there was a magazine that I liked to read, and my parents said, oh, don't read that garbage. And it was Mad Magazine. I don't know whether many of you ever read Mad Magazine, but I did as a kid because I liked some of the humor in it, and I liked the cartoons. I liked some of the things in it. But I so remember this little section, and they would have it in every one of them called Spy vs. Spy. And because it was the time of conflict between Russia and the United States, and they had spies that would get captured, and we had spies. And of course, James Bond movie was coming out. He was a spy. And so all this took in. So here, they had this cartoon, and many of you have seen it. And there were two spies, one dressed in white, one dressed in black. And so all they would do during this cartoon thing was set traps for each other.

And it was all premeditated. They thought about how they could get over on this one or destroy him. For those of you that aren't as older got as much gray hair as I do, and you don't remember a mad magazine. Many of you remember, or I think it's still out, is the Road Runner. Road Runner and, what is it, Wylie Coyote, I think it was his name. And this coyote would always set these traps, and he would go ahead and bought from the Acme Dynamite Company, Acme, whatever. And he would try to catch this Road Runner, which he never could do, but then it ended up coming back on him. But I give these visuals. I tell these kind of, stories so that you can think about premeditation. Because if you know the legal system, first-degree murder, the one you get the death penalty for, is about premeditation. It's a murder that's planned. It doesn't just happen. It's not involuntary manslaughter. They're not second-degree murder. It's premeditated murder.

How many times have we said things that assassinated the character of someone? And we've said it. And we really didn't know the facts. And we had to come back later. Mmm, missed that one. That's a big miss. That's a big miss for us.

Let's go to another set of scriptures. I'd like to stay in Matthew. Matthew 13. I'll turn over one page here. Matthew 13. Now this takes on a deeper, deeper interrogation of us, as it should. It should help us to say, I don't want to go down that path.

And many of us have not even thought about offenses, stumbling block, the word scandalin' that's used here. We never even think of it as that bad. That bad.

Because some of us said, like Jeff's sermon last week, oh, well, you know, that was stumbling block. And I, you know, I didn't get caught up by it. Oh, wasn't any big deal. But, but God is talking about His little ones. And this is very big deal. Let's go to Matthew 13. Matthew 13 and verse 41.

You read the previous verses before, and it's talking about the start of the Kingdom of God. That is our goal for us to be there. It's for all humanity to be there eventually. But this is the start of the Kingdom when Christ returns. And it says, the Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His Kingdom all things that... scandalin'... scandalidzil.

offend... offend.

He will gather out of His Kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness.

Lawlessness.

Anomia is a Greek word for lawlessness. Means no law, means transgression, means wicked. It's sinners. It's sinners. So, so let's look at this verse 41 because of, of, of how it changes things. The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His Kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness. Wait a minute. Isn't there a big difference between maybe just a, oh, I had a little stumbling block, and then being this, oh, let's look. And we'll cast them, these two groups, cast them into the furnace of fire, and there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the Son in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has an ear to hear, let him hear. What's he saying? Listen up! This is big. Because if you're part of that first gathering by the angels, you're not in the Kingdom of God. You're not one of the righteous ones. You're not one who's going to spend eternity with our Savior. And the Father will bring his Kingdom to where this earth used to be. So, yeah. Sinners, lawless, anomia. We're talking about perpetual sinners. Those who practice. Those who are practicing, because we all sin, but it's one who is practicing. And so he's grouping these people who offend, who put stumbling blocks, he's grouping them together with the sinners and say, Guess what? I don't want you in my Kingdom. That is a scary thought. That is why I thought this sermon was so important, that I wanted to give it, not only for you, but for me, because I desire to be in the Kingdom. And I know that this verse was given to me because I have caused some stumbling blocks for other people. I have offended people. And I could tell you many, many stories of that, where I had to go and apologize.

Or I found out what I said wasn't true.

And someone took offense to it. So what does it do? It causes us to back up and watch the, not only the words of forethought, which is one, but also some idle words.

And catch ourselves as we look through there. The Bible shows through these scriptures that we just looked at here. It showed that not only are these two groups put together, those who offend and they're sinners, but they're also paying the same price, a heavy price to pay.

The Bible basically shows that they're cut from the same cloth.

And no one would think about that. Well, wait a minute! Killers? There's killers! There's adulterers! There's people who lie all the time. They're still! Still! Oh, and I just said these few little words, these idle words. And wait a minute. He's putting me in with them? Yes. Yes.

It is offensive to God when we use words that offend the little ones. It should not try to offend anyone. Of course, scriptures say we should not be easily offended, but that's talking to us that's been around. We've had God's Spirit. We've had years. We've had decades! And we should learn not to be offended. But I've known people, Jeff, you've known people, all of you that are brethren. You've known people that just they're offended by anything. No! How dare you say that to me? I've had people come to me and go, Ah, I was offended by that sermon! You were talking to me! No? When I first got to South Florida, I had people tell me that all the time, and I would go back and go, Okay, here's my notes. Here's my sermon. Okay? Look at the date of it. It was written 12 years ago. I didn't even know you.

They were offended. And I told them, It's not my intention to offend you. Now, if the word of God offends you, that's one thing. But also, there's making sure the words for the little ones. We are having some work being done in the coming weeks up in Cocoa Beach as we spread out and do more evangelizing of that area, and work our way during the next year, all the way down to West Palm. To those who are interested, those who get to be on Today Magazine, those who we want to have an opportunity to know what we're about. So we're sending them a letter, and we're asking them to watch the webcast. Watch the webcast. We're not inviting them to church. We say, Watch the webcast. See what we preach. See how we do things.

Because I've known people who have come in who were a little who was a little one. He came in one week, and guess what? He was offended by the message. And so there's things we have to be careful of. And these are the little ones, the babes that we're going to be working with as we work our way from from Cocoa Beach down to Melbourne, down to Vero Beach, down to St. poor St. Lucie, all the way to West Palm. We're going to be doing these things to help people who want to understand who God is working with, who God is calling. And I want to make sure. And this sermon isn't just for everybody in Cocoa Beach. I'm just not talking to Maria and Frank and Victor and all those that will be working and helping me do this. No, it's not that then, because we want to make sure that we are there to help people. We're there to help the little ones. Let me go on as I begin to wrap this up. I've kind of left my notes here. But I do want to go to that last verse. He who has an ear to hear, let him hear. That's Christ, basically, with the exclamation mark, yelling at the people. Listen! Listen! Are we listening? Brethren, I hope so, because this is so important to him. Because what we say and how we say it matters to God. Let me say that again. What we say and how we say it matters. To God. Do a Bible study sometime. Pull out the cords and read about the tongue. It'll take you all week to study all those. The tongue.

James will light your fire on the tongue, because he knew he was one that ran off at the mouth to his half-brother too many times. He will light your fire on the tongue. We can do better. Now, why do I say that it so matters to God? Because God is very, very, very, very, got enough varies? Very, very protective of these little ones.

If I can use a metaphor.

I would say just like a mother bear. It's like a mother bear. This looks like a grizzly here. And those are two of her little cubs. See, God, he views these little ones as this mother bear. Views her cubs. She's there to protect them. And that's why Christ is telling all of us, we can help protect the little ones from being offended. I've had people come in one time. One time, and somebody met them and said something, and I'm going, oh no, because they just weren't thinking, and the person never came back.

We're a hospital for the spiritually sick. No nurse ratchets here. Okay? No hard nurses. Nurses are caring, giving, loving. And they're there to help. That's what we need to be. To the little ones. Just like that mother bear. Now, I know back in Tennessee, I used to spend time, my earlier years, I would go up to Gatlinburg, went there quite a bit, up in the Smoky Mountains. I'd go hiking, whether it was Cade's Cove, or whether it was these various trails that would lead us there. And everyone knew, even though they were only black bears, and black bears are not near as big as this grizzly or any of the others, they were sometimes only 300-400 pounds, but that bear is big enough to tear you apart. But they were not really that vicious up there. But they always told you, whenever you walk on a trail, if you see a bear, keep walking. Because they're like, oh, I want to see that. Keep walking. And if you see, not a mother bear, but some cubs crossing your path, or anywhere near you, don't walk. Run. Because if you get between that mother bear and those cubs, she's going to tear you apart, and she will attack. Why? Because she cares about her cubs. God cares about the little ones.

Before you were born, I knew you. Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. He knows. He knows these little ones. And he knows, oh, I want to call them at this time. And somebody messes that up, puts stumbling blocks in there. Brethren, that's why this is so important. Like you go with me to Romans now. Go to Romans. Let's have a couple more scriptures, because I really want to touch on this at Roman. Here, Paul is coming to the end of his letter to the Roman churches. There were many churches in Rome at that time. But he's wrapping this up. And it's an incredible book of Romans. I just love it. From the 1st to the 16th, it just loaded with encouragement and instruction. But now, in Romans 16, verse 17, in a New King James, it says, Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses.

Scandal them.

Contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them.

For those who are such, do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ with their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech, deceive the hearts of the simple. Are the little ones.

And it's so easy to do. I don't know about you, but I've seen it. I've experienced it. I remember back in Tennessee, there was a mother and her daughter who came, and they just learned about the truth, and they were excited. And at my office building, we had a water tank there so we could baptize. And so I was excited to be a part of that baptism. And so those who were baptized and just wanting to learn so much, they were on fire.

And about a month or two after the baptism, they came to me and said, Well, Chuck, look at this piece of literature I got. Somebody sent me this. Wow! I found that I can even get closer to God because I'm not calling him by the right name. And so here, unless I say Yahweh, or Yahaveh, they weren't sure because the guy hadn't told them exactly which one to pronounce it yet. But they just said, Oh, I can't say God anymore. What do you call him? And I said, Father, just like my older brother does, and she goes, Oh, yeah, but I, you know, this one, I said, you have to watch it because this can lead you down the path that you won't even be a fellowshiping. You won't even be worshiping with us. And she goes, Oh, no, that's separate. This is my family. And I said, yes, but here's what's going to happen.

You're going to hear, the minister, you're going to hear myself, you're going to hear other people use God. You're going to hear another term used. Maybe you add an I, maybe any of these words. But because it's not the word that this individual is trying to get you to say, you're going to break one of the commandments. Shall not take the Lord's name in vain.

And it will drive you apart. And you're going to be offended because it's going to be, if you buy into this so much that nothing else in the book matters, it's just that, then you're going to go, well, every time a minister says something that's not using my word, it's offensive to me.

In months, they left. They wanted to follow this other religion. And you know, I ran into someone who lived near them about a year later. They weren't even keeping any day. They had become lost. They become disenfranchised with God. Stumbling box. A pretty, pretty big deal. We get our words from the Bible. We get our instruction from this book.

It teaches us how to live. Teaches us how to, how to not only treat others, but to love others.

Like to go to 1 John now. 1 John. 1 John 2. Verse 9, the New Living Translation. As John is, he's had experience now, he's probably 90 years old when he wrote this. And he says, if anyone claims, I am living in the light, but hates a fellow believer, that person is what? Living in darkness. Verse 10, anyone who loves a fellow believer is living in the light, does not cause others to do what? Stumble. We won't do it. We will not do it. We won't cause other people to stumble. Verse 11, but anyone who hates a fellow believer is still living and walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded by the darkness. And don't we all, in the middle of the night, we wake up, and if it's darkness, guess what? We'll stumble over something. Just like Jeff's stumbling block that's down in front of his bathroom. We, we can do better than this, brethren. We have to make sure that we do not. Now, I want to show a short video for those who grew up in the 60s. I date myself, and this was a TV show, and we just have a 20-second clip, because we can show 20 seconds of it, and it's a Dick Van Dyke show. And to me, this is a visual for what we need to do. Not only us, but all of you, wherever you're at, it's not to put a stumbling block into someone's path, but to be able to remove a stumbling block from their path. So let's look at Dick Van Dyke and his ottoman. Jeff.

You might remember this.

Oops! There goes the stumbling block, the ottoman that's in its way. Many of you remember that, and it was always had the and then he would stumble. And I saw that opening of every show till about the third year. They actually had him step around the ottoman, the stumbling block. I do that so we can have a visual so that we can make sure that it is our job to help remove stumbling blocks and make sure we don't put those offenses of scandalance. The greatest gift we can give to any person on this earth is to help them make it into the kingdom of God. Scandal. Scandal. Hopefully you understand now. Hopefully we can all do a better job. So let us remove all scandals from this church of God. And if we can be a fix it, a person who helps remove those stumbling blocks, let us do that. Have a great week.

Thanks for watching!