Our Guest Kynan Bridges

SID: Kynan, you have an analogy that really spells out how offense operates on us. It has to do with the dark alley.

KYNAN: Okay. So imagine people walking down a dark alley. It’s pitch black. You can’t see anything in front of you. And I remember being in an experience when I went to Africa one time. I couldn’t see anything. There were no generators, no nothing, no light. And so you’re walking down this dark path. You can’t see what you’re stumbling. In fact in this particular instance there was a black viper right by my foot. I didn’t even see it. The person behind me happened to step on it. And I believe that many people are stumbling in the dark. That’s what offense is like. The Bible calls it a snare. It’s actually a stumbling block. That’s what the word “offense” means. It means something that causes us to get trapped or stuck. So there are millions of believers, they don’t know why they are stumbling. They don’t know why, why am I not healed. Why can’t I have any joy? Why have I yet to fulfill my purpose? They’ve been saved 20 years and yet they’ve never fulfilled their calling. They are literally walking in the dark and they know what they’re stumbling at. The Bible tells us, it says, “He that hates his brother stumbles in darkness,” and he can’t see where he’s going. And so this is what the enemy wants. He wants us in darkness so that we can’t see our purpose. We can’t see where we’re going.

SID: We literally have an assassin that’s coming out to kill us, but we’re actually being used by that assassin and we don’t even realize it.

KYNAN: God gave me this analogy. Satan moved out of the church a long time ago and he hired hit men to do his bidding. Now who are his hit men? This is going to be very scary for some people. Believers, people who love God, people who are sincere in their walk, but are unknowingly assassinating others in the church, unknowingly assassinating others in their family, on their job, they don’t realize that they’re working for the enemy. But I believe, if I can do this, Sid, I want to release you from that contract. You’re fired. You’re not going to work for the enemy anymore. You’re going to work for the King of King and the Lord of Lords, not the accuser of the brethren, but the healer of the nations.

SID: Is there a vaccine, if you will, because I’ll take it. Now I don’t take a lot of vaccines for other reasons, but this vaccine I want for this virus. Is there?

KYNAN: There is a vaccine. You know, here’s what we have to do. First of all, we have to forgive. You see, God forgave us. The Bible says God, for Christ’s sake, forgave us. None of us deserve forgiveness. That’s why it’s called forgiveness. And we’re required to forgive people who don’t even acknowledge they’re wrong. And this is why, Sid. Forgiveness is not for them, it’s for you. It’s for you because you’re the one that is going to experience freedom. You’re the one that’s going to have peace.

SID: And not gossiping. It isn’t for them, it’s for you, but it destroys people. You know what, it works both ways.

KYNAN: It works both ways. And then we have to repent. This is the vaccine. We have to change our thinking. What if people understood that every time you said something about someone a dagger went into that person’s heart or a dagger went into someone’s heart. Many people would be convicted of mass murder because our words are like swords. This is what the scripture says. It says, “The talebearer, their words are like wounds going into the inward parts.” See, I want people to have a visual of this, Sid, and recognize what’s happening. Satan is the only one who gains from accusation. We gain nothing from it.

SID: Give me one other clue on this vaccine.

KYNAN: You have to avoid.

SID: Avoid?

KYNAN: Avoid

SID: Avoid what?

KYNAN: Avoid conversations that are demonic, conversations that don’t glorify God, conversations that don’t redeem. The Bible says in Romans 16, “Mark those which cause offense and avoid them.” Now what this means is I’m not saying cut off all your friends and all this kind of stuff, but what I’m saying is taking a stand. Now if you realize it’s your destiny depending on what you heard and what you said, you will be very protective of the words coming out of your mouth.

SID: That’s a mouthful. Your destiny. When we come back I’m going to have Kynan tell a true story about a young man that tried to kill a woman, went to prison and what happened. Unbelievable. We’ll be right back.

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