Above All Else, Guard Your Heart — Part 14

This sermon explores the “spirit of offense” as a spiritual trap that partners with other negative influences like anger, bitterness, and division. Pastor Steven L. Shelley identifies three categories of partnering spirits: self-centeredness, bitterness, and divisiveness. The solution comes through receiving the “engrafted word” with meekness, which transforms the believer’s soul (mind, will, and emotions). Using the metaphor of medical organ transplantation, the message emphasizes that complete surrender to God enables spiritual growth through temperance (self-control) and brotherly kindness, ultimately leading to an “unoffendable life.”