WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:29.980 Thank you. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:59.980 Thank you. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:29.980 Thank you. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:32.000 Thank you. 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.000 Thank you. 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:08.360 Now, anger is essentially a response, a reaction. 00:02:08.740 --> 00:02:13.780 You see something, you don't like it, you feel offended perhaps, and you get angry. 00:02:13.860 --> 00:02:15.180 It's an intense response. 00:02:15.180 --> 00:02:19.180 To be human is to get angry. 00:02:19.180 --> 00:02:24.360 In order to make that point, let's have a show of hands. 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:28.500 Have you been angry in the last three months? 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:29.200 Raise your hand. 00:02:30.180 --> 00:02:31.080 I knew it. 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:34.500 How about last three weeks? 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:35.840 Early September. 00:02:36.140 --> 00:02:37.380 Yep, amen, me too. 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:39.180 Last three days? 00:02:40.040 --> 00:02:41.420 Yes, I have. 00:02:43.320 --> 00:02:44.480 Close your eyes now. 00:02:44.660 --> 00:02:45.600 Last three hours? 00:02:46.160 --> 00:02:46.800 Just kidding. 00:02:47.020 --> 00:02:47.439 Just kidding. 00:02:47.700 --> 00:02:48.080 Just kidding. 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:51.520 We get angry, don't we? 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:53.440 We get angry. 00:02:54.540 --> 00:02:55.960 Now, you may be surprised. 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:01.700 God does not forbid anger in the Bible. 00:03:01.699 --> 00:03:04.179 God Himself is angry. 00:03:04.979 --> 00:03:06.599 I'm going to show you that in just a little bit. 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:11.879 But He calls us as Christians to a certain kind of anger. 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:19.740 As Christians, who we are in Christ determines how we deal with our anger. 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:25.979 And so if you would now open up your Bibles to Ephesians chapter 4, verses 26 and 27. 00:03:26.519 --> 00:03:28.039 I'm going to read those two verses. 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:31.620 Listen now, this is God's Word. 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:36.680 Be angry and do not sin. 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:44.719 Do not let the sun go down on your anger and give no opportunity to the devil. 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:47.360 Be angry and do not sin. 00:03:47.460 --> 00:03:51.840 Do not let the sun go down on your anger and give no opportunity to the devil. 00:03:54.060 --> 00:04:01.560 The anger of our former manner of life before we became Christians was a destructive kind of anger. 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:02.780 It was not useful. 00:04:02.780 --> 00:04:10.099 But now as new creations in Christ, our anger is to be constructive. 00:04:10.819 --> 00:04:12.020 It's to be useful. 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:14.099 It's to be redemptive. 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:21.259 It's to be Christ-like in true righteousness and holiness. 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:24.519 So here's what we need to see this morning. 00:04:25.660 --> 00:04:29.840 God is calling us simply to be Christ-like in our anger. 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:33.500 He's calling you and me to be like Jesus. 00:04:34.259 --> 00:04:37.759 And what we get angry about and how we express our anger. 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:40.699 So God is not forbidding anger here. 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:46.459 What He is doing though is He's calling us to a Christ-like anger. 00:04:46.659 --> 00:04:51.000 Which will mean putting off the anger of our former way of living. 00:04:51.219 --> 00:04:52.719 Our selfish anger. 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:55.720 Reminding ourselves of who we are in Christ. 00:04:56.180 --> 00:05:01.620 And then putting on our new self with Christ-like anger. 00:05:02.060 --> 00:05:07.640 So all throughout Ephesians 4, we've seen that we're getting this new wardrobe of clothes. 00:05:08.300 --> 00:05:10.480 Last week we talked about putting off falsehood. 00:05:10.900 --> 00:05:11.840 Putting on truth. 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:16.380 This morning we're talking about putting off a certain kind of anger. 00:05:16.760 --> 00:05:19.580 And putting on a Christ-like anger. 00:05:19.579 --> 00:05:24.439 And so to help you see that this morning, we're going to kind of bear down on these two verses. 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:27.620 The first thing that we need to be sure of is this. 00:05:27.899 --> 00:05:31.979 We need to be sure about our relationship to God's anger. 00:05:32.300 --> 00:05:33.800 So we've got to be clear on that. 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:37.839 The second thing that we need to be clear on is this. 00:05:39.019 --> 00:05:45.419 We need to be angry and suspicious of our anger at the same time. 00:05:46.180 --> 00:05:48.240 And then the last thing that we need to see is this. 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:51.300 We need to be sanctifying our anger. 00:05:51.500 --> 00:05:54.240 We need to be stabilizing our anger. 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:57.079 We need to be controlling our anger. 00:05:57.579 --> 00:06:01.759 So we'll see this come out as we walk our way through this passage. 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:03.319 We're to be Christ-like in our anger. 00:06:03.900 --> 00:06:09.319 And so, let's be sure about our standing in relationship to God's anger. 00:06:09.620 --> 00:06:12.280 Now there's two things you need to know about God's anger. 00:06:12.420 --> 00:06:13.240 First one is this. 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:15.139 God is angry. 00:06:16.420 --> 00:06:16.920 He is. 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:23.240 Now, it's not that uncommon to hear someone make a statement like this. 00:06:25.080 --> 00:06:30.900 The God of the Old Testament is a God of anger and the God of the New Testament is a God of love. 00:06:31.259 --> 00:06:33.120 Has anybody heard anything like that before? 00:06:33.980 --> 00:06:35.439 It's just not true. 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:41.060 Because the God of the Old Testament is the same God of the New Testament. 00:06:41.540 --> 00:06:42.240 Same God. 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:52.120 In both Testaments, God reveals Himself as a God of just anger and steadfast love. 00:06:52.120 --> 00:07:03.879 Now, one of the greatest references that echoes through the pages of the Old Testament about God's anger is found in Exodus 34. 00:07:04.139 --> 00:07:05.379 Now, let me tell you what's going on here. 00:07:05.780 --> 00:07:10.459 God has just delivered His people out of Egypt, brought them to Mount Sinai. 00:07:10.459 --> 00:07:17.060 He brought Moses up onto Mount Sinai and with His very finger wrote the Ten Commandments on two tablets. 00:07:17.479 --> 00:07:18.060 They're talking. 00:07:18.239 --> 00:07:19.419 God makes aware of something. 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:22.219 There's something off with my people right now. 00:07:22.339 --> 00:07:23.359 Moses, go down there. 00:07:23.779 --> 00:07:25.240 Moses goes down the mountain. 00:07:25.579 --> 00:07:26.399 And what does he see? 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:30.639 His people, God's people, are worshiping a golden calf. 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:34.099 Moses throws down the tablets. 00:07:35.139 --> 00:07:37.779 And then God wants to wipe His people out. 00:07:38.060 --> 00:07:38.959 He'll start from scratch. 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:40.099 Moses intercedes. 00:07:40.219 --> 00:07:40.740 No, God, no. 00:07:40.819 --> 00:07:41.519 That won't look good. 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:42.699 God relents. 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:45.300 And then He calls Moses back up on the mountain. 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:48.399 And He cuts out two new tablets. 00:07:49.180 --> 00:07:50.839 He's going to renew His covenant with His people. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:52.800 Our God is amazing. 00:07:53.699 --> 00:07:56.459 But before He does that, He says something about Himself. 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.259 Exodus chapter 34. 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:01.839 Verses 5 through 8. 00:08:01.919 --> 00:08:03.199 Listen to what God says. 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:10.319 The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with Moses there and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:12.860 The Lord passed before Him and proclaimed, 00:08:12.860 --> 00:08:16.899 The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, 00:08:17.620 --> 00:08:22.060 slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:24.779 keeping steadfast love for thousands, 00:08:25.339 --> 00:08:28.000 forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:30.500 but will by no means clear the guilty, 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:35.559 visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children to the third and fourth generation. 00:08:36.199 --> 00:08:41.240 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:47.480 The God of the Old Testament is a God of just anger. 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:49.240 He's slow to anger. 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:49.759 He's slow to anger. 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.220 And full of steadfast love and faithfulness. 00:08:54.300 --> 00:08:57.440 He's a God merciful and gracious. 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:00.920 Do you know what makes God really angry? 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:03.360 Do you know? 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:09.279 When the people He has created in His image, 00:09:09.800 --> 00:09:11.120 to worship Him, 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:12.899 reject Him, 00:09:13.220 --> 00:09:16.180 in order to worship something other than Him. 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:19.139 That's what makes God really angry. 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:21.460 It's called idolatry. 00:09:21.940 --> 00:09:23.399 And in God's economy of things, 00:09:23.620 --> 00:09:26.440 that is a capital offense. 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:29.360 Now think about this. 00:09:30.580 --> 00:09:32.520 God knows everything. 00:09:33.280 --> 00:09:34.460 The fancy word is, 00:09:34.860 --> 00:09:36.060 He's omniscient. 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:41.100 He knows that which is of greatest value 00:09:41.100 --> 00:09:43.940 and worthy of highest praise. 00:09:44.740 --> 00:09:45.960 It's Himself. 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:52.379 He knows that the best thing for us 00:09:52.379 --> 00:09:55.220 is to be in a relationship with Him. 00:09:56.379 --> 00:09:58.019 Giving Him the praise, 00:09:58.139 --> 00:09:58.840 do His name, 00:09:59.000 --> 00:09:59.860 living for Him. 00:10:00.740 --> 00:10:02.160 I mean, that's what He made us for. 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:04.600 To be in right relationship with Him. 00:10:05.139 --> 00:10:06.160 To delight in Him. 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:07.180 To enjoy Him. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:09.420 But in our sin, 00:10:09.580 --> 00:10:11.060 we've rejected Him 00:10:11.060 --> 00:10:15.540 and settling to worship junk. 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:19.720 Now you might be thinking, 00:10:20.379 --> 00:10:22.320 you know, that idolatry stuff, 00:10:22.400 --> 00:10:24.420 that was a big problem in the Old Testament. 00:10:27.080 --> 00:10:29.940 It's not an Old Testament problem alone. 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:34.400 It is a worship problem. 00:10:35.400 --> 00:10:37.460 It is a human problem. 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:39.720 It's a sin problem. 00:10:39.920 --> 00:10:41.620 We all deal with it. 00:10:41.620 --> 00:10:46.580 Our nature, apart from Christ, 00:10:46.779 --> 00:10:48.179 is dead to God. 00:10:49.259 --> 00:10:51.419 And in our spiritual deadness, 00:10:51.560 --> 00:10:53.759 we seek to worship things not God. 00:10:54.779 --> 00:10:55.840 Namely, ourselves. 00:10:57.340 --> 00:10:58.620 Have you ever heard of the expression, 00:10:59.460 --> 00:11:00.519 look out for number one? 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:02.100 You heard that before? 00:11:03.060 --> 00:11:05.240 Think of it as a worship refrain. 00:11:06.139 --> 00:11:07.639 I'm living for myself. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:10.659 You see, 00:11:11.680 --> 00:11:14.279 even though we are futile in our thinking, 00:11:15.180 --> 00:11:16.539 darkened in our understanding. 00:11:16.620 --> 00:11:17.960 Now this is before we became Christians. 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:19.980 We are futile in our thinking, 00:11:20.180 --> 00:11:21.180 darkened in our understanding. 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:21.899 We are ignorant. 00:11:22.139 --> 00:11:23.899 We are alienated from the life of God. 00:11:24.259 --> 00:11:25.659 Our hearts were hardened to Him. 00:11:25.740 --> 00:11:26.639 All that was true. 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:27.879 Do you know what else was true? 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:30.320 We were worshipers. 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:35.000 And since we did not worship God, 00:11:35.419 --> 00:11:37.120 we worshiped something else, 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:39.159 and it provoked His anger. 00:11:40.779 --> 00:11:43.039 And so in Ephesians 2, 1 through 3, 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:45.360 we read something like this. 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:46.320 I'll just summarize it. 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:48.580 We were dead to God. 00:11:48.779 --> 00:11:49.820 We were deceived. 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:51.320 We were disobedient. 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:53.940 We were bedeviled following the prince 00:11:53.940 --> 00:11:55.179 of the power of the air. 00:11:55.179 --> 00:11:56.980 And as a result, we were damned. 00:11:57.879 --> 00:12:00.200 We were children of wrath. 00:12:00.620 --> 00:12:03.240 Under God's just wrath. 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.019 And what provoked it was our idolatry. 00:12:07.439 --> 00:12:09.379 Our exchange of the Creator 00:12:09.379 --> 00:12:11.860 for the created things in our worship. 00:12:12.439 --> 00:12:13.799 Our hearts were hardened to Him. 00:12:14.460 --> 00:12:16.519 And what Romans 2, 5 says is that 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:19.919 it stores up God's wrath against us. 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:25.100 You know what's hard to think about? 00:12:25.100 --> 00:12:28.779 People are under God's wrath right now. 00:12:29.580 --> 00:12:31.040 We've got a beautiful day. 00:12:31.800 --> 00:12:34.620 And people are under God's wrath right now. 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:37.659 There are people sleeping in apartments and homes 00:12:37.659 --> 00:12:38.860 all around this place, 00:12:39.220 --> 00:12:41.720 many of whom are under God's wrath right now. 00:12:42.899 --> 00:12:44.540 We're going to be watching the football game 00:12:44.540 --> 00:12:45.399 later this afternoon. 00:12:45.700 --> 00:12:46.860 How many people are going to be watching? 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:48.600 How many under God's wrath? 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:52.279 We like to think of John 3, 16. 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:54.659 For God so loved the world 00:12:54.659 --> 00:12:56.060 that He gave His one and only Son 00:12:56.060 --> 00:12:57.300 that whoever believes in Him 00:12:57.300 --> 00:12:58.300 shall not perish, 00:12:58.700 --> 00:13:00.019 but have eternal life. 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.700 But just 20 verses later, 00:13:04.139 --> 00:13:05.840 we read this. 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:08.879 Whoever believes in the Son 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:09.920 has eternal life. 00:13:10.580 --> 00:13:12.259 Whoever does not obey the Son 00:13:12.259 --> 00:13:13.820 shall not see life, 00:13:13.820 --> 00:13:16.340 but the wrath of God 00:13:16.340 --> 00:13:19.580 remains on Him. 00:13:23.660 --> 00:13:25.240 The Bible is very clear. 00:13:26.140 --> 00:13:28.460 If you've not put your trust in Jesus, 00:13:29.379 --> 00:13:33.020 God's wrath is hanging over your head. 00:13:33.980 --> 00:13:35.080 You're in danger. 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:37.000 You're in danger. 00:13:37.680 --> 00:13:39.820 And God's wrath is a just wrath. 00:13:39.820 --> 00:13:43.580 It's a right response to idolatry. 00:13:43.800 --> 00:13:44.640 Your idolatry. 00:13:45.460 --> 00:13:46.620 You swapping Him out 00:13:46.620 --> 00:13:47.940 to worship something else. 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:50.080 God is right in His wrath. 00:13:52.520 --> 00:13:54.300 Now for those of us who are Christians, 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:56.300 that's who we used to be. 00:13:57.800 --> 00:13:59.080 It's not true anymore. 00:13:59.820 --> 00:14:00.940 But if you're not a Christian, 00:14:01.640 --> 00:14:03.960 you need to flee to Jesus 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:06.700 because He will rescue you 00:14:06.700 --> 00:14:08.259 from the just wrath 00:14:08.259 --> 00:14:10.340 hanging over your head. 00:14:10.980 --> 00:14:12.420 He will bear it for you. 00:14:14.100 --> 00:14:14.860 And so the first thing 00:14:14.860 --> 00:14:16.259 I wanted you to be sure of is 00:14:16.259 --> 00:14:17.540 God is angry. 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:19.320 Even right now. 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.240 The second thing I want to remind you of 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:23.300 as a Christian is this. 00:14:24.460 --> 00:14:26.020 He's not angry with you anymore. 00:14:28.100 --> 00:14:28.780 He's not. 00:14:28.780 --> 00:14:29.780 You can be sure 00:14:29.780 --> 00:14:31.420 that the wrath of God 00:14:31.420 --> 00:14:32.780 in all its fullness 00:14:32.780 --> 00:14:35.200 was poured out on Christ. 00:14:36.700 --> 00:14:40.879 If you haven't made Romans 8.1 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:45.060 a verse to set in your heart, 00:14:45.259 --> 00:14:45.879 you must. 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:48.360 There is therefore 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.480 now no condemnation 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:52.259 for those who are in Christ Jesus. 00:14:52.800 --> 00:14:53.900 No more wrath. 00:14:54.800 --> 00:14:55.740 No more danger. 00:14:56.540 --> 00:14:58.680 No more fear of judgment. 00:14:59.740 --> 00:15:00.860 There is therefore now 00:15:00.860 --> 00:15:02.440 no condemnation 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:04.200 for those who are in Christ Jesus. 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:06.520 There was a time 00:15:06.520 --> 00:15:07.540 when God's wrath 00:15:07.540 --> 00:15:08.480 was over us 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:09.120 but no more. 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:11.780 We believed in the Son. 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:12.980 We have eternal life. 00:15:13.540 --> 00:15:15.620 It no longer remains over us. 00:15:15.920 --> 00:15:17.020 So now the question is 00:15:17.020 --> 00:15:18.540 where did the wrath go? 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:21.600 Where did it go? 00:15:23.220 --> 00:15:24.340 If it's not on us, 00:15:24.420 --> 00:15:24.840 where did it go? 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:28.080 Did God sweep it under the rug? 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:31.879 Is God a passive-aggressive God? 00:15:32.420 --> 00:15:34.200 He just kind of packs it down 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:34.940 for a little bit 00:15:34.940 --> 00:15:38.340 only for an explosion of rage later on? 00:15:40.100 --> 00:15:42.060 Do we have to be afraid of our God? 00:15:42.139 --> 00:15:44.139 Do we have to walk in eggshells around Him? 00:15:45.980 --> 00:15:47.280 No, no, no, no, no. 00:15:49.060 --> 00:15:50.280 Though God was just 00:15:50.280 --> 00:15:51.540 in His wrath towards us, 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:53.560 He dealt with His anger 00:15:53.560 --> 00:15:55.280 in a just and loving way 00:15:55.280 --> 00:15:56.600 for us. 00:15:56.600 --> 00:15:59.560 Here's the Gospel. 00:16:00.620 --> 00:16:03.600 God made peace with us 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:06.300 through the cross of Jesus Christ. 00:16:07.560 --> 00:16:10.560 God poured out all of His wrath 00:16:10.560 --> 00:16:12.139 on the head of Jesus. 00:16:13.019 --> 00:16:16.259 All of it for me on Christ. 00:16:17.300 --> 00:16:18.960 The death that Christ died, 00:16:19.040 --> 00:16:20.460 He died for you, Christian. 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:25.100 Fully satisfying the just wrath of God. 00:16:25.100 --> 00:16:26.500 So we can say, 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:28.120 there is therefore now 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:29.180 no condemnation 00:16:29.180 --> 00:16:30.740 for those who are in Christ Jesus. 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:33.940 There is no more wrath 00:16:33.940 --> 00:16:35.019 to be poured out. 00:16:36.460 --> 00:16:37.779 It's been all poured out 00:16:37.779 --> 00:16:38.639 on Jesus for you. 00:16:39.139 --> 00:16:39.800 No more wrath. 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:41.500 Nothing's hanging now. 00:16:42.259 --> 00:16:43.320 Nothing's hanging over your head. 00:16:45.060 --> 00:16:46.720 In the cross of Christ, 00:16:47.100 --> 00:16:48.879 we see God's just wrath 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:50.660 and steadfast love 00:16:50.660 --> 00:16:52.240 on full display. 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.680 It's a glorious place. 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:55.639 It's wonderful. 00:16:56.379 --> 00:16:57.000 Can I just tell you 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:57.620 one more thing too? 00:16:59.779 --> 00:17:00.639 We don't have to fear 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:02.600 God's wrath against us. 00:17:03.580 --> 00:17:06.759 God's wrath is now for us. 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:09.279 At the end of time, 00:17:09.339 --> 00:17:10.279 when Jesus comes back, 00:17:10.339 --> 00:17:10.880 He's going to make 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:11.640 all things right. 00:17:12.700 --> 00:17:14.039 He's going to judge everything. 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:16.059 We have nothing to fear. 00:17:17.059 --> 00:17:18.720 His wrath is for us. 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:21.700 In Ephesians 2, 1 through 3, 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:23.600 we were under God's wrath. 00:17:23.700 --> 00:17:24.259 We were damned. 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:27.100 And at the end of Ephesians 2, 00:17:27.180 --> 00:17:27.940 in 2.10, 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:30.059 we're His workmanship. 00:17:31.059 --> 00:17:32.140 We're His delight. 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:34.860 And the difference is Jesus. 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:37.559 God's grace to us. 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:42.960 We've got to be sure 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:43.679 of our standing 00:17:43.679 --> 00:17:46.220 in relationship 00:17:46.220 --> 00:17:47.980 to God's anger. 00:17:48.779 --> 00:17:49.720 And sure of that, 00:17:49.919 --> 00:17:50.759 now let's turn 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:52.879 to our own anger. 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:57.659 In Ephesians 4, 00:17:58.399 --> 00:18:00.359 verses 26 and 27, 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:04.119 there is actually four commands. 00:18:04.399 --> 00:18:05.379 The first one is 00:18:05.380 --> 00:18:07.100 to be angry. 00:18:08.940 --> 00:18:11.020 Be angry. 00:18:12.780 --> 00:18:14.660 God is not forbidding anger. 00:18:15.460 --> 00:18:17.920 He's actually commanding it. 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:20.700 He's calling us to be angry. 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:23.620 Now, let me just clarify 00:18:23.620 --> 00:18:25.100 something quickly. 00:18:26.520 --> 00:18:28.500 He's not commanding us 00:18:28.500 --> 00:18:30.380 to be sinful in our anger. 00:18:30.380 --> 00:18:34.020 He is commanding us 00:18:34.020 --> 00:18:35.280 to be Christ-like 00:18:35.280 --> 00:18:36.500 in our anger. 00:18:36.940 --> 00:18:39.940 Remember verses 22 through 24 00:18:39.940 --> 00:18:42.860 that just preceded this passage. 00:18:43.820 --> 00:18:44.600 We're being called 00:18:44.600 --> 00:18:46.960 to put off the selfish way 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:48.080 of living of our former 00:18:48.080 --> 00:18:49.000 manner of life 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:50.160 with its anger. 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:52.220 To be renewed in our mind 00:18:52.220 --> 00:18:54.020 that we belong to Christ. 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:55.880 That God's wrath 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:57.180 has been paid out 00:18:57.180 --> 00:18:58.120 in full on Him. 00:18:58.200 --> 00:18:58.820 We're no longer 00:18:58.819 --> 00:19:00.179 under God's wrath now. 00:19:00.500 --> 00:19:01.119 And so now, 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:02.019 knowing who we are 00:19:02.019 --> 00:19:02.659 in Christ, 00:19:03.019 --> 00:19:04.740 we are to put on 00:19:04.740 --> 00:19:05.799 a new kind of anger. 00:19:06.740 --> 00:19:08.639 A Christ-like anger. 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:09.859 So this command here, 00:19:09.919 --> 00:19:10.599 to be angry, 00:19:11.099 --> 00:19:12.419 is to be angry 00:19:12.419 --> 00:19:13.159 in a way 00:19:13.159 --> 00:19:14.179 that's like Jesus. 00:19:16.379 --> 00:19:17.379 And there is a way. 00:19:18.659 --> 00:19:19.799 God is saying to us, 00:19:19.939 --> 00:19:20.679 you is mine, 00:19:21.419 --> 00:19:22.519 you is alive, 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:23.740 you is holy, 00:19:24.139 --> 00:19:25.960 and you is to be angry 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:28.299 the way Jesus gets angry. 00:19:30.460 --> 00:19:32.100 So we need to realize 00:19:32.100 --> 00:19:33.019 that we're being called 00:19:33.019 --> 00:19:33.720 to be angry 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:35.079 about the right things here. 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:37.620 But we also need to realize 00:19:37.620 --> 00:19:38.819 we've got to be suspicious 00:19:38.819 --> 00:19:39.519 of our anger. 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:41.500 We've got to be suspicious of it. 00:19:41.980 --> 00:19:43.299 And there's two reasons why 00:19:43.299 --> 00:19:44.720 we've got to be suspicious 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:45.299 of our anger. 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:47.079 The first reason is 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:47.840 our anger, 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:48.720 even in Christ, 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:49.600 is unstable. 00:19:50.420 --> 00:19:51.579 It's an unstable anger. 00:19:51.579 --> 00:19:54.899 The Bible describes 00:19:54.899 --> 00:19:56.480 the experience of a Christian 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:58.679 as having a war 00:19:58.679 --> 00:19:59.699 within them. 00:20:00.500 --> 00:20:02.220 Galatians 5, 16 and 17, 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:03.439 the desires of the flesh 00:20:03.439 --> 00:20:04.939 are opposed to the desires 00:20:04.939 --> 00:20:05.559 of the Spirit. 00:20:05.879 --> 00:20:07.699 This is happening inside of us. 00:20:08.539 --> 00:20:09.439 James 4, 1. 00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:10.240 James says, 00:20:10.539 --> 00:20:11.399 hey, why are there quarrels 00:20:11.399 --> 00:20:12.139 and fights within you? 00:20:12.220 --> 00:20:13.279 Is it not because 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:14.500 of the passions 00:20:14.500 --> 00:20:16.000 that war inside of you? 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:19.699 We have a mixed bag 00:20:19.699 --> 00:20:21.259 when it comes to our motives. 00:20:21.579 --> 00:20:22.779 Why we do what we do. 00:20:24.139 --> 00:20:24.579 And so, 00:20:24.779 --> 00:20:27.019 because of sin in our hearts, 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:28.399 even though we're new creations, 00:20:29.460 --> 00:20:31.039 we've got to be suspicious 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:32.199 of our anger. 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:34.299 We've got to be careful 00:20:34.299 --> 00:20:36.220 from where it comes from. 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:36.919 And so, 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:38.039 when James, 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:40.399 in James 1, 19 and 20, 00:20:40.500 --> 00:20:40.720 says, 00:20:41.199 --> 00:20:42.579 be slow to anger. 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:44.859 For the anger of man 00:20:44.859 --> 00:20:45.720 cannot accomplish 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:46.859 the righteousness of God. 00:20:47.159 --> 00:20:48.919 He's being extremely wise. 00:20:49.500 --> 00:20:50.419 He's not forbidding it. 00:20:50.619 --> 00:20:51.000 He's saying, 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:51.599 whoa, 00:20:52.140 --> 00:20:53.420 be careful. 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:55.559 So, 00:20:55.660 --> 00:20:57.480 anger is unstable. 00:20:57.619 --> 00:20:58.420 That's the first reason 00:20:58.420 --> 00:20:59.880 why we need to be suspicious. 00:21:00.339 --> 00:21:01.240 The second reason 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:02.519 why we need to be suspicious 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:05.940 is anger's impact. 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:08.359 It can be devastating. 00:21:10.119 --> 00:21:12.039 Do you know what nuclear fission is? 00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:15.059 I study nuclear fission on the side. 00:21:15.059 --> 00:21:15.079 I study nuclear fission on the side. 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:17.920 In my free time. 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:19.619 Actually, 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:21.440 nuclear fission is the splitting 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:23.759 of one atom into two. 00:21:24.019 --> 00:21:26.819 And when that fission takes place, 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:30.960 there is a massive release of energy. 00:21:31.399 --> 00:21:32.000 Massive. 00:21:32.700 --> 00:21:34.740 Anger is a reaction 00:21:34.740 --> 00:21:37.359 that releases a huge amount of energy, 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:37.799 isn't it? 00:21:38.579 --> 00:21:40.159 We all can relate with that. 00:21:41.419 --> 00:21:42.059 Anger 00:21:42.059 --> 00:21:44.379 can either be destructive 00:21:44.379 --> 00:21:46.279 or constructive. 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:48.419 Anger can either 00:21:48.419 --> 00:21:49.500 devastate 00:21:49.500 --> 00:21:50.740 or be useful. 00:21:52.439 --> 00:21:53.419 Anger can actually 00:21:53.419 --> 00:21:54.379 be redemptive. 00:21:55.979 --> 00:21:57.379 There are two kinds of angers. 00:21:58.419 --> 00:21:59.299 There's unrighteous, 00:21:59.459 --> 00:22:00.339 ungodly anger. 00:22:00.339 --> 00:22:01.019 And then there's 00:22:01.019 --> 00:22:02.519 righteous Christ-like anger. 00:22:04.659 --> 00:22:05.480 Does the name 00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:06.679 Little Boy ring a bell? 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:09.439 Little Boy was the name 00:22:09.439 --> 00:22:10.759 of the first atomic bomb 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:12.740 that was detonated 00:22:12.740 --> 00:22:14.539 over Hiroshima 00:22:14.539 --> 00:22:16.439 at the end of World War II. 00:22:16.740 --> 00:22:17.619 It was detonated 00:22:17.619 --> 00:22:19.079 actually above the city. 00:22:20.019 --> 00:22:20.959 And the detonation 00:22:20.959 --> 00:22:21.980 was the splitting 00:22:21.980 --> 00:22:24.159 of an atom. 00:22:25.179 --> 00:22:27.240 I think it was a uranium-235 atom. 00:22:27.980 --> 00:22:28.659 It split 00:22:28.660 --> 00:22:30.600 and there was immense chain reaction 00:22:30.600 --> 00:22:31.840 and it released 00:22:31.840 --> 00:22:33.220 a huge amount of energy 00:22:33.220 --> 00:22:34.519 and it completely 00:22:34.519 --> 00:22:35.500 devastated 00:22:35.500 --> 00:22:36.460 that city. 00:22:37.940 --> 00:22:38.240 I'm not sure 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:39.140 if you've seen pictures 00:22:39.140 --> 00:22:39.820 of Hiroshima 00:22:39.820 --> 00:22:40.980 after that bomb was dropped. 00:22:41.980 --> 00:22:43.100 It was raised. 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:45.060 Flattened, charred. 00:22:45.840 --> 00:22:46.560 Many died. 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:48.740 Devastating. 00:22:52.420 --> 00:22:53.060 Anger 00:22:53.060 --> 00:22:55.740 is a reaction 00:22:55.740 --> 00:22:57.740 that can bring about 00:22:57.740 --> 00:22:59.839 bomb-like devastation 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:01.259 to relationships. 00:23:03.660 --> 00:23:04.920 Devastating friendships. 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:07.160 Devastating marriages. 00:23:08.900 --> 00:23:10.019 Devastating families. 00:23:11.420 --> 00:23:12.859 Devastating workplaces. 00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:15.359 Devastating churches. 00:23:19.420 --> 00:23:21.240 We've got to be suspicious of it. 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:22.240 Devastating. 00:23:23.740 --> 00:23:25.539 This sinful kind of anger 00:23:25.539 --> 00:23:26.920 is much more devil-like 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:28.120 than it is Christ-like. 00:23:29.420 --> 00:23:30.579 It destroys. 00:23:31.900 --> 00:23:33.339 It brings hostility. 00:23:34.259 --> 00:23:35.519 It doesn't unite. 00:23:36.279 --> 00:23:37.500 It doesn't bring about peace. 00:23:38.700 --> 00:23:39.559 Last week, 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:41.059 we read the command 00:23:41.059 --> 00:23:43.519 to put off falsehood 00:23:43.519 --> 00:23:44.539 and speak the truth 00:23:44.539 --> 00:23:45.339 with his neighbor. 00:23:46.940 --> 00:23:48.819 We can't spin 00:23:48.819 --> 00:23:50.299 our sinful anger. 00:23:50.299 --> 00:23:50.379 anger. 00:23:51.099 --> 00:23:53.519 We can't be untruthful 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:54.859 about our anger. 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:56.399 We've got to be honest 00:23:56.399 --> 00:23:57.139 about it. 00:23:57.839 --> 00:23:59.279 Honest before God 00:23:59.279 --> 00:23:59.639 about it. 00:23:59.700 --> 00:24:01.419 We must confess it 00:24:01.419 --> 00:24:02.559 to one another 00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:04.440 in order to put it off. 00:24:05.639 --> 00:24:06.599 We've got to be 00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:07.419 suspicious of it. 00:24:08.460 --> 00:24:09.339 It's unstable. 00:24:10.220 --> 00:24:11.240 It's devastating. 00:24:12.379 --> 00:24:13.480 But not all 00:24:13.480 --> 00:24:14.220 nuclear fission 00:24:14.220 --> 00:24:15.299 devastates. 00:24:16.579 --> 00:24:17.279 Nuclear fission 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:18.259 is what takes place 00:24:18.259 --> 00:24:19.180 in nuclear reactors 00:24:19.180 --> 00:24:20.340 that produce all sorts 00:24:20.340 --> 00:24:20.920 of electricity 00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:22.259 so that we can read 00:24:22.259 --> 00:24:23.240 our Bibles in the morning. 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:25.660 It's useful. 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:26.640 It's productive. 00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:29.080 It's still dangerous. 00:24:30.779 --> 00:24:31.940 Fission reactions 00:24:31.940 --> 00:24:33.380 still need to be stabilized, 00:24:34.100 --> 00:24:35.600 but it's useful. 00:24:36.820 --> 00:24:38.120 So God in Christ 00:24:38.120 --> 00:24:39.519 is seeking to do something 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:40.220 in us 00:24:40.220 --> 00:24:41.539 with regard to our anger. 00:24:41.539 --> 00:24:43.819 He's seeking to purge 00:24:43.819 --> 00:24:45.339 out the old stuff 00:24:45.339 --> 00:24:46.339 that's destructive 00:24:46.339 --> 00:24:48.519 and to radically change us 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:49.559 and transform us 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:50.599 to get angry 00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:51.799 about the right stuff 00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:53.700 for redemptive, 00:24:53.779 --> 00:24:54.639 useful purposes. 00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:57.460 And God is really 00:24:57.460 --> 00:24:58.940 interested in doing that 00:24:58.940 --> 00:25:00.220 for the advancement 00:25:00.220 --> 00:25:01.180 of His glory 00:25:01.180 --> 00:25:02.339 and for the good 00:25:02.339 --> 00:25:03.079 of other people 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:04.139 and it's starting 00:25:04.139 --> 00:25:04.700 with you. 00:25:05.759 --> 00:25:06.759 It's starting with me. 00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:09.379 If you're a Christian, 00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:10.299 God made you new 00:25:10.299 --> 00:25:10.819 in Christ 00:25:10.819 --> 00:25:12.099 so that you wouldn't 00:25:12.099 --> 00:25:13.119 be enslaved 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:14.539 by your sinful anger, 00:25:14.900 --> 00:25:15.980 but you'd be able 00:25:15.980 --> 00:25:18.160 to use your anger 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:18.779 for good. 00:25:21.900 --> 00:25:23.000 It's Christ-like. 00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:24.440 Did you know 00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:25.259 that Jesus got angry? 00:25:26.660 --> 00:25:27.960 Let me just point you 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:28.640 to two places 00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:29.200 really quick. 00:25:30.420 --> 00:25:31.680 In Mark chapter 3, 00:25:32.879 --> 00:25:33.900 Jesus walks into 00:25:33.900 --> 00:25:34.400 a synagogue 00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:37.120 and there was a man 00:25:37.120 --> 00:25:38.180 with a withered hand 00:25:38.180 --> 00:25:38.840 in the synagogue 00:25:38.840 --> 00:25:41.160 and what was taking place 00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:42.360 when Jesus was teaching 00:25:42.360 --> 00:25:42.860 was this. 00:25:43.120 --> 00:25:44.240 He was healing people 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:46.000 and He was healing people 00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:46.720 on the Sabbath 00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:48.980 and there were teachers 00:25:48.980 --> 00:25:49.500 of the law 00:25:49.500 --> 00:25:50.500 that were saying this. 00:25:50.759 --> 00:25:51.740 You can't do that, 00:25:51.880 --> 00:25:52.100 Jesus. 00:25:52.600 --> 00:25:53.740 That's a work. 00:25:54.200 --> 00:25:54.800 You're not allowed 00:25:54.800 --> 00:25:56.220 to work on the Sabbath. 00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:57.500 So Jesus walks 00:25:57.500 --> 00:25:58.240 into this synagogue. 00:25:58.920 --> 00:25:59.640 He sees the man 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:00.440 with a withered hand. 00:26:00.620 --> 00:26:01.500 It was a total setup. 00:26:01.780 --> 00:26:02.220 Total setup. 00:26:02.820 --> 00:26:03.940 And Jesus looks at him 00:26:03.940 --> 00:26:04.880 and He looks at the people 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:05.900 there watching Him 00:26:05.900 --> 00:26:06.779 to see what He's going to do 00:26:06.779 --> 00:26:07.519 and He says, 00:26:07.840 --> 00:26:08.900 is it not lawful? 00:26:09.620 --> 00:26:10.860 Is it not lawful 00:26:10.860 --> 00:26:12.660 to heal on the Sabbath? 00:26:14.860 --> 00:26:15.779 And He waits 00:26:15.779 --> 00:26:18.500 and they remain silent. 00:26:21.059 --> 00:26:22.320 And what the Scriptures say 00:26:22.320 --> 00:26:24.259 is Jesus looking around 00:26:24.259 --> 00:26:25.620 in anger, 00:26:26.700 --> 00:26:28.160 grieved over the hardness 00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:28.980 of hearts, 00:26:29.779 --> 00:26:30.360 be healed. 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:33.619 Jesus healed the guy 00:26:33.619 --> 00:26:34.979 and Jesus was angry. 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:38.259 We see a redemptive use 00:26:38.259 --> 00:26:38.979 of His anger. 00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:41.319 He was angry at people 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:43.619 using God's Word, 00:26:44.259 --> 00:26:45.259 twisting it 00:26:45.259 --> 00:26:46.719 in order to keep 00:26:46.719 --> 00:26:48.299 loving the neighbor. 00:26:48.299 --> 00:26:48.419 Remember, 00:26:49.419 --> 00:26:52.659 Luke 19, 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:54.139 Jesus walks into Jerusalem. 00:26:54.279 --> 00:26:56.319 He walks into the temple 00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:58.479 and He sees all these people 00:26:58.480 --> 00:26:59.860 selling goods in the temple. 00:27:00.860 --> 00:27:01.779 Remember what Jesus did? 00:27:02.279 --> 00:27:03.319 He clears it. 00:27:04.120 --> 00:27:05.039 Throws over tables. 00:27:05.160 --> 00:27:06.160 He runs people out. 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:07.920 And He said, 00:27:08.680 --> 00:27:10.980 you can't make this house 00:27:10.980 --> 00:27:11.599 of prayer 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:12.900 a den of robbers. 00:27:14.360 --> 00:27:15.640 They were using 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:17.120 God's place of worship 00:27:17.120 --> 00:27:18.799 to make money 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:20.299 for greed. 00:27:21.860 --> 00:27:23.059 It made Jesus mad. 00:27:24.700 --> 00:27:25.480 We see in these examples, 00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:26.140 examples. 00:27:26.740 --> 00:27:27.900 Jesus is wanting 00:27:27.900 --> 00:27:28.860 God worshipped. 00:27:29.120 --> 00:27:30.059 He's wanting good 00:27:30.059 --> 00:27:30.779 for others. 00:27:33.019 --> 00:27:34.299 What do you get angry about? 00:27:36.620 --> 00:27:37.680 What makes you mad? 00:27:40.339 --> 00:27:41.660 What provokes you 00:27:41.660 --> 00:27:43.380 to an anger reaction? 00:27:44.700 --> 00:27:45.819 Is it about you? 00:27:47.819 --> 00:27:48.960 Are you afraid? 00:27:49.500 --> 00:27:50.319 Out of control? 00:27:50.599 --> 00:27:51.519 Plans change? 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:52.099 You've been hurt? 00:27:52.259 --> 00:27:52.799 Stressed out? 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:53.599 Misunderstood? 00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:54.680 Disrespected? 00:27:54.860 --> 00:27:55.380 Disappointed? 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:56.700 You've been denied a right? 00:27:56.779 --> 00:27:57.620 You've been passed over? 00:27:57.700 --> 00:27:58.299 You get angry? 00:27:59.019 --> 00:27:59.720 Someone tells you 00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:00.539 you don't want to hear something. 00:28:00.620 --> 00:28:01.120 You get mad. 00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:04.519 What is it that you wanted 00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:05.620 that you weren't getting 00:28:05.620 --> 00:28:06.640 that made you angry? 00:28:08.019 --> 00:28:09.319 Is it about you? 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:11.839 Or is your anger 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:14.079 about God's glory 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:15.259 and the good of others? 00:28:15.620 --> 00:28:16.559 Do you get angry 00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:17.339 about abortion? 00:28:18.500 --> 00:28:19.539 Do you get angry 00:28:19.539 --> 00:28:20.279 about pornography? 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:22.920 Do you get angry 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:24.079 about the payday loans 00:28:24.079 --> 00:28:25.839 on the corner of 22nd and 60th? 00:28:26.439 --> 00:28:27.139 Do you get angry 00:28:27.139 --> 00:28:27.899 about these things? 00:28:29.399 --> 00:28:30.139 Do you get angry 00:28:30.139 --> 00:28:31.000 about your own sin? 00:28:31.619 --> 00:28:32.539 About your own lust? 00:28:32.619 --> 00:28:33.500 About your own greed? 00:28:34.059 --> 00:28:35.299 About your own laziness? 00:28:35.419 --> 00:28:36.259 About your own pride 00:28:36.259 --> 00:28:37.179 and self-righteousness? 00:28:37.220 --> 00:28:38.480 About your own self-worship? 00:28:38.579 --> 00:28:39.059 Do you get angry 00:28:39.059 --> 00:28:39.500 about that? 00:28:43.379 --> 00:28:44.059 We've got to be 00:28:44.059 --> 00:28:45.059 suspicious of our anger. 00:28:46.699 --> 00:28:47.379 We've got to be 00:28:47.379 --> 00:28:48.259 suspicious of where 00:28:48.259 --> 00:28:48.980 it comes from. 00:28:48.980 --> 00:28:51.759 A great question 00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:53.360 to start asking yourself is 00:28:53.360 --> 00:28:55.480 why am I angry? 00:28:57.539 --> 00:28:58.860 What is it that I want 00:28:58.860 --> 00:28:59.680 that I'm not getting? 00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:03.019 Are you angry 00:29:03.019 --> 00:29:04.200 at the right things? 00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:08.460 Now, a Christ-like anger 00:29:08.460 --> 00:29:11.799 is a sanctified anger. 00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:14.720 A Christ-like anger 00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:16.759 is a stabilized anger. 00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:19.799 It's a controlled anger. 00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:21.799 And to that point, 00:29:21.900 --> 00:29:22.500 we now turn. 00:29:23.579 --> 00:29:24.859 We've looked at God's anger. 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:26.299 We've looked at our own anger. 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:27.619 We've got to be suspicious of it. 00:29:27.940 --> 00:29:29.299 And now, let's look at 00:29:29.299 --> 00:29:31.379 how to be angry 00:29:31.379 --> 00:29:32.960 in a way that pleases Jesus. 00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:37.400 We need to control our anger. 00:29:38.819 --> 00:29:40.700 In Ephesians 4, 26 and 27, 00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:41.660 there are four commands. 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:42.940 The first one is be angry. 00:29:43.160 --> 00:29:43.720 And then there are 00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:44.839 three negative commands. 00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:45.879 They are, 00:29:46.299 --> 00:29:47.720 be angry and do not sin. 00:29:48.399 --> 00:29:49.659 Do not let the sun go down 00:29:49.659 --> 00:29:50.220 on your anger. 00:29:50.619 --> 00:29:52.039 And do not give the devil 00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:52.939 an opportunity. 00:29:55.659 --> 00:29:57.379 These three commands, 00:29:57.480 --> 00:29:58.659 these last three commands, 00:29:58.919 --> 00:30:00.799 are designed to help us 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:02.259 direct our anger. 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:05.859 Help us to control our anger. 00:30:06.579 --> 00:30:07.819 Help us to stabilize it, 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:08.740 to sanctify it. 00:30:08.740 --> 00:30:13.980 If anger is like kindling a fire, 00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:17.680 what we're called to 00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:18.920 is control the burn. 00:30:20.359 --> 00:30:21.579 We've got to control 00:30:21.579 --> 00:30:22.900 the burning of our anger. 00:30:24.180 --> 00:30:26.240 My folks live west of Chicago. 00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:28.519 And so when we drive out there, 00:30:28.579 --> 00:30:30.259 we drive through a lot of prairie land. 00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:33.420 And in the spring and early summer, 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:34.099 what you'll notice 00:30:34.099 --> 00:30:36.779 are big swaths of this prairie 00:30:36.779 --> 00:30:39.199 that are just charred black. 00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:40.779 And what happens is 00:30:40.779 --> 00:30:41.819 the Illinois DNR, 00:30:41.919 --> 00:30:43.299 Department of Natural Resources, 00:30:43.959 --> 00:30:45.559 they send out groups of people 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:47.339 to do controlled burns 00:30:47.339 --> 00:30:48.119 on the prairie. 00:30:48.579 --> 00:30:49.419 It's preventative. 00:30:50.039 --> 00:30:50.919 It protects against 00:30:50.919 --> 00:30:52.740 a devastating wildfire. 00:30:53.199 --> 00:30:54.379 And it's healthy. 00:30:54.819 --> 00:30:56.259 It manages the prairie. 00:30:56.659 --> 00:30:57.199 It's good. 00:30:57.699 --> 00:30:59.799 If anger is like kindling a fire, 00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:01.119 we must learn 00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:03.480 how to control our anger. 00:31:03.919 --> 00:31:04.740 We must learn 00:31:04.740 --> 00:31:06.379 how to control the burn. 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:07.759 And so let's look 00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:09.659 at these three negative commands 00:31:09.659 --> 00:31:11.279 and benefit from learning 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:13.460 how to control anger 00:31:13.460 --> 00:31:15.220 which can burn inside of us. 00:31:16.359 --> 00:31:17.779 The first is this. 00:31:18.500 --> 00:31:20.619 Be angry and do not sin. 00:31:21.899 --> 00:31:24.980 Aim your anger. 00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:26.819 Aim it. 00:31:26.819 --> 00:31:26.879 Aim it. 00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:31.379 The word translated 00:31:31.379 --> 00:31:33.279 aim, 00:31:33.779 --> 00:31:34.359 or excuse me, 00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:34.940 sin, 00:31:35.859 --> 00:31:36.859 literally means 00:31:36.859 --> 00:31:37.919 to miss the mark. 00:31:39.139 --> 00:31:39.940 It was used of 00:31:39.940 --> 00:31:41.399 spear throwing. 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:42.299 When someone would throw 00:31:42.299 --> 00:31:43.259 a spear at a target 00:31:43.259 --> 00:31:44.119 and miss, 00:31:44.819 --> 00:31:45.779 they would sin. 00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:46.180 Do you remember 00:31:46.180 --> 00:31:47.980 King Saul? 00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:50.599 David playing his harp. 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:52.319 Saul is angry, 00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:53.359 picks up his spear 00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:54.299 and tries to 00:31:54.299 --> 00:31:56.019 pin David to the wall. 00:31:56.659 --> 00:31:57.359 He missed. 00:31:58.359 --> 00:31:59.099 He sinned. 00:31:59.099 --> 00:32:00.679 In more ways than one. 00:32:02.899 --> 00:32:04.740 We must aim our anger 00:32:04.740 --> 00:32:06.359 at the right target. 00:32:07.199 --> 00:32:07.659 And for that, 00:32:07.779 --> 00:32:08.939 we've got to renew our minds. 00:32:09.919 --> 00:32:10.899 We've got to remember 00:32:10.899 --> 00:32:11.779 what God values. 00:32:12.459 --> 00:32:13.219 We've got to remember 00:32:13.219 --> 00:32:13.899 who we are. 00:32:14.859 --> 00:32:16.500 We've got to aim 00:32:16.500 --> 00:32:17.679 our anger 00:32:17.679 --> 00:32:19.119 at the glory of God 00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:19.819 and the good of others. 00:32:19.919 --> 00:32:20.039 Now, 00:32:20.339 --> 00:32:21.779 I am not saying 00:32:21.779 --> 00:32:23.000 be angry 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:24.539 at the glory of God. 00:32:24.819 --> 00:32:25.759 Be angry 00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:27.000 at the good of others. 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:29.119 We leverage our anger 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:31.200 for the glory of God. 00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:33.900 For the good of others. 00:32:34.099 --> 00:32:36.140 If I am getting angry 00:32:36.140 --> 00:32:37.140 because I'm ashamed 00:32:37.140 --> 00:32:37.920 or embarrassed 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:38.619 or I'm jealous 00:32:38.619 --> 00:32:39.480 of someone else, 00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:41.200 that's missing the mark. 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:45.519 I've got to aim my anger 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:46.180 in a way 00:32:46.180 --> 00:32:48.460 that pleases Jesus. 00:32:50.099 --> 00:32:51.339 Am I angry 00:32:51.339 --> 00:32:52.599 at the right thing? 00:32:52.900 --> 00:32:54.440 And I'm exercising my anger 00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:55.680 in the right way. 00:32:57.400 --> 00:32:59.299 One of the tremendous tools 00:32:59.299 --> 00:33:00.279 in our fight here 00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:00.820 is this. 00:33:01.980 --> 00:33:02.380 Pray. 00:33:03.900 --> 00:33:04.299 Pray. 00:33:05.500 --> 00:33:06.620 When you feel the heat 00:33:06.620 --> 00:33:07.220 coming on, 00:33:07.360 --> 00:33:08.279 when you feel your anger 00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:08.779 kindling, 00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:10.140 pray. 00:33:10.820 --> 00:33:11.980 Turn to God in prayer. 00:33:12.600 --> 00:33:12.759 Say, 00:33:12.840 --> 00:33:13.059 God, 00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:14.299 is this anger 00:33:14.299 --> 00:33:15.160 rising in me 00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:16.360 pleasing to you? 00:33:16.840 --> 00:33:17.559 Or do I just need 00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:18.700 to put this off right now? 00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:20.180 God, 00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:21.000 is there a way 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:21.740 that this anger 00:33:21.740 --> 00:33:22.380 can be used 00:33:22.380 --> 00:33:23.120 for your purposes? 00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:25.079 We pray. 00:33:26.139 --> 00:33:26.819 We pray. 00:33:27.939 --> 00:33:29.399 It helps control 00:33:29.399 --> 00:33:30.779 the burn. 00:33:32.679 --> 00:33:33.459 We've got to make sure 00:33:33.459 --> 00:33:34.739 we're getting 00:33:34.739 --> 00:33:35.899 our angry, 00:33:36.139 --> 00:33:36.739 aiming it 00:33:36.739 --> 00:33:38.279 at the right thing. 00:33:39.619 --> 00:33:40.599 One of the results 00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:41.099 will come 00:33:41.099 --> 00:33:41.659 is this. 00:33:41.759 --> 00:33:42.319 We're going to be 00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:43.179 slow to anger. 00:33:43.979 --> 00:33:45.279 We're going to slow it down. 00:33:45.539 --> 00:33:46.099 We're not going to 00:33:46.099 --> 00:33:46.899 rush into something. 00:33:47.399 --> 00:33:48.419 If you are quick 00:33:48.419 --> 00:33:48.959 to anger, 00:33:49.539 --> 00:33:50.899 if you jump to conclusions, 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:52.079 if you impute motives 00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:52.679 very quickly, 00:33:53.179 --> 00:33:54.099 if people walk 00:33:54.099 --> 00:33:55.259 on eggshells around you 00:33:55.259 --> 00:33:56.019 because you're volatile, 00:33:56.359 --> 00:33:56.799 you know what? 00:33:56.939 --> 00:33:57.679 You need to confess 00:33:57.679 --> 00:33:58.220 your anger. 00:33:59.659 --> 00:34:00.899 You need to go to the Lord 00:34:00.899 --> 00:34:01.740 and confess 00:34:01.740 --> 00:34:02.960 your anger to Him. 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:04.740 Ask Him 00:34:04.740 --> 00:34:05.699 to change you. 00:34:06.199 --> 00:34:07.039 Make you more 00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:07.859 like Jesus. 00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:10.019 Don't spin it. 00:34:11.059 --> 00:34:11.860 Be honest 00:34:11.860 --> 00:34:12.679 about it. 00:34:13.139 --> 00:34:13.840 Keep it real. 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:14.619 Be truthful. 00:34:15.139 --> 00:34:16.059 Ask other people 00:34:16.059 --> 00:34:16.779 to help you. 00:34:17.380 --> 00:34:18.380 That's how we repent. 00:34:19.319 --> 00:34:20.119 That's how we turn. 00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:21.940 And we turn to Jesus. 00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:24.139 Jesus changed me. 00:34:27.460 --> 00:34:28.519 So we've got to aim 00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:29.019 our anger 00:34:29.019 --> 00:34:30.279 and then we've got 00:34:30.279 --> 00:34:30.900 to be quick 00:34:30.900 --> 00:34:33.059 to resolve our anger. 00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:33.980 We're to be slow 00:34:33.980 --> 00:34:34.420 to anger 00:34:34.420 --> 00:34:35.659 but we're to be quick 00:34:35.659 --> 00:34:36.460 to resolve it. 00:34:38.299 --> 00:34:39.199 Don't let the sun 00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:40.219 go down on your anger. 00:34:43.819 --> 00:34:44.599 Paul is saying 00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:45.759 is don't fuel your anger. 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:48.440 As time goes by 00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:50.460 don't be fueling your anger. 00:34:52.200 --> 00:34:53.520 Be cooling your anger. 00:34:54.720 --> 00:34:55.800 Be resolving it. 00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:57.380 Be confessing it. 00:34:58.020 --> 00:34:58.600 Get it right 00:34:58.600 --> 00:34:59.460 with other people 00:34:59.460 --> 00:35:00.900 before the sun sets. 00:35:00.980 --> 00:35:02.140 It's a great rule of thumb. 00:35:02.540 --> 00:35:03.240 Don't go to bed 00:35:03.240 --> 00:35:04.060 until you've sought 00:35:04.060 --> 00:35:05.040 peace with others. 00:35:05.380 --> 00:35:06.080 Which that means 00:35:06.080 --> 00:35:07.460 is confessing 00:35:07.460 --> 00:35:08.420 your sin to others. 00:35:08.560 --> 00:35:09.320 Maybe you're not sure 00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:10.420 if my anger is sinful. 00:35:10.820 --> 00:35:11.280 That's okay. 00:35:11.500 --> 00:35:12.060 Confess it. 00:35:12.300 --> 00:35:12.940 Hey, I'm angry. 00:35:13.620 --> 00:35:14.040 Help me. 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:15.179 You should see 00:35:15.179 --> 00:35:16.119 my kitchen sometimes. 00:35:16.259 --> 00:35:17.960 I walk into our kitchen 00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:19.019 and I'm frustrated 00:35:19.019 --> 00:35:19.880 which is a code word 00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:20.360 for angry. 00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:21.619 And I walk in 00:35:21.619 --> 00:35:22.139 and something doesn't 00:35:22.139 --> 00:35:22.639 go right. 00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:23.860 And I'm like, 00:35:23.900 --> 00:35:24.699 Jenny, I'm just like 00:35:24.699 --> 00:35:26.579 You know what my wife does? 00:35:27.300 --> 00:35:28.559 Tells me to go for a walk. 00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:30.420 Cool down. 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:31.779 Slow it down. 00:35:32.599 --> 00:35:33.420 Slow to anger. 00:35:34.500 --> 00:35:35.659 I confess it to her 00:35:35.659 --> 00:35:36.519 and she helps me. 00:35:37.380 --> 00:35:38.199 And if I need somebody 00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:38.920 to confess to, 00:35:39.019 --> 00:35:40.019 I'm able to. 00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:42.579 Slow it down. 00:35:42.579 --> 00:35:44.480 Be quick to peace. 00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:47.920 The goal here is 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:49.519 that we're moving 00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:50.619 to peace together. 00:35:51.259 --> 00:35:52.539 We're controlling 00:35:52.539 --> 00:35:53.599 the burn together. 00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:55.960 We can't let 00:35:55.960 --> 00:35:57.360 unresolved anger 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.079 burn like a fire 00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:01.880 and sweep through 00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:03.199 our marriages 00:36:03.199 --> 00:36:05.059 and our families 00:36:05.059 --> 00:36:06.400 and our workplaces 00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:07.159 and our church. 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:08.199 We can't do that. 00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:10.079 We've got to be quick 00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:11.759 to resolving 00:36:11.759 --> 00:36:12.639 our anger. 00:36:13.939 --> 00:36:15.159 Now the third way 00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:16.039 that we control 00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:16.480 the burn 00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:17.339 is found 00:36:17.339 --> 00:36:18.419 in verse 27 00:36:18.419 --> 00:36:18.980 as well. 00:36:19.359 --> 00:36:20.039 Don't give 00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:21.119 the devil 00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:22.139 an opportunity. 00:36:23.759 --> 00:36:24.819 We're to aim 00:36:24.819 --> 00:36:25.179 our anger. 00:36:25.539 --> 00:36:26.519 We're to be quick 00:36:26.519 --> 00:36:27.359 in resolving 00:36:27.359 --> 00:36:27.879 our anger. 00:36:28.319 --> 00:36:29.299 And we're to be sober 00:36:29.299 --> 00:36:30.319 of our enemy. 00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:33.059 There is no question 00:36:33.059 --> 00:36:34.920 that the Bible 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:35.940 clearly teaches 00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:37.720 that there is 00:36:37.720 --> 00:36:38.559 a devil 00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:40.019 Satan 00:36:40.019 --> 00:36:41.840 who opposes us. 00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:44.039 He is a destroyer 00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:44.860 a deceiver 00:36:44.860 --> 00:36:45.620 a divider 00:36:45.620 --> 00:36:46.500 and 00:36:46.500 --> 00:36:47.580 what we need 00:36:47.580 --> 00:36:48.039 to realize 00:36:48.039 --> 00:36:48.580 is that 00:36:48.580 --> 00:36:49.480 he is doomed. 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:52.160 His day is set. 00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:53.200 He's going to be 00:36:53.200 --> 00:36:53.680 thrown into 00:36:53.680 --> 00:36:54.380 the lake of fire. 00:36:54.820 --> 00:36:55.600 He knows that 00:36:55.600 --> 00:36:56.260 and therefore 00:36:56.260 --> 00:36:57.100 he rages 00:36:57.100 --> 00:36:58.160 all the more. 00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:01.440 brothers and sisters 00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:02.460 our God 00:37:02.460 --> 00:37:03.159 is sovereign 00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:04.279 over everything 00:37:04.279 --> 00:37:05.299 including the devil. 00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:07.599 And he has put us 00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:08.759 in a spiritual 00:37:08.759 --> 00:37:09.579 street fight. 00:37:11.379 --> 00:37:12.199 It's real. 00:37:14.899 --> 00:37:16.019 The prince of the power 00:37:16.019 --> 00:37:16.500 of the year 00:37:16.500 --> 00:37:17.879 who we used to follow 00:37:17.879 --> 00:37:18.739 is now our enemy 00:37:18.739 --> 00:37:19.599 and he's ticked off. 00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:20.879 And no 00:37:20.879 --> 00:37:22.139 he is a schemer. 00:37:23.279 --> 00:37:24.219 I just got done 00:37:24.219 --> 00:37:24.699 reading a book 00:37:24.699 --> 00:37:25.440 on World War II 00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:26.920 trench warfare. 00:37:26.920 --> 00:37:28.760 And one of the things 00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:29.700 that both sides 00:37:29.700 --> 00:37:30.300 both armies 00:37:30.300 --> 00:37:30.659 would do 00:37:30.659 --> 00:37:31.079 is they would 00:37:31.079 --> 00:37:32.000 set up snipers 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:33.300 and they would 00:37:33.300 --> 00:37:34.079 be looking for 00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:34.860 people who are 00:37:34.860 --> 00:37:35.760 passing gaps 00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:36.400 in the trenches 00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:37.159 to snipe. 00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:38.740 People raising 00:37:38.740 --> 00:37:39.200 their heads 00:37:39.200 --> 00:37:39.900 to snipe. 00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:42.680 The devil 00:37:42.680 --> 00:37:43.980 is sniping us. 00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:45.619 He's looking 00:37:45.619 --> 00:37:46.539 for opportunities 00:37:46.539 --> 00:37:47.800 that our anger 00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:48.920 can open up 00:37:48.920 --> 00:37:50.159 to take advantage 00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:50.700 of us. 00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:52.019 To injure us. 00:37:52.340 --> 00:37:53.659 To disunite us. 00:37:54.680 --> 00:37:55.720 We belong to God. 00:37:56.920 --> 00:37:58.159 He is for us. 00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:00.119 Greater is he 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:00.780 that is in you 00:38:00.780 --> 00:38:01.500 than he that is 00:38:01.500 --> 00:38:02.139 in the world. 00:38:03.200 --> 00:38:04.159 I would rather 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:05.559 deal with Satan 00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:06.960 being angry with me 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:08.099 than God 00:38:08.099 --> 00:38:09.059 being angry with me. 00:38:09.659 --> 00:38:10.300 Do I have an amen? 00:38:11.880 --> 00:38:12.940 And God has done 00:38:12.940 --> 00:38:13.599 that for us 00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:14.240 in Christ. 00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:16.420 We're going to learn 00:38:16.420 --> 00:38:17.380 in Ephesians 6 00:38:17.380 --> 00:38:18.599 how we will 00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:19.440 resist him. 00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:21.720 How we fight. 00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:23.820 What I want you 00:38:23.820 --> 00:38:24.260 to see here 00:38:24.260 --> 00:38:24.700 is this. 00:38:24.699 --> 00:38:26.439 Our church 00:38:26.439 --> 00:38:27.739 unity and health 00:38:27.739 --> 00:38:28.559 depends on how 00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:29.379 we deal with anger. 00:38:30.659 --> 00:38:31.759 Your marital 00:38:31.759 --> 00:38:33.039 unity and health 00:38:33.039 --> 00:38:33.819 depends upon 00:38:33.819 --> 00:38:34.379 how you deal 00:38:34.379 --> 00:38:35.099 with anger. 00:38:35.939 --> 00:38:37.159 Your familial 00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:38.419 unity and health 00:38:38.419 --> 00:38:39.339 really does 00:38:39.339 --> 00:38:39.960 depend on 00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:40.519 how you deal 00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:41.099 with anger. 00:38:41.579 --> 00:38:42.099 We've got to 00:38:42.099 --> 00:38:42.899 put off the old 00:38:42.899 --> 00:38:43.239 stuff. 00:38:44.179 --> 00:38:45.000 Renew our minds 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:45.799 and who we are 00:38:45.799 --> 00:38:46.919 and put on 00:38:46.919 --> 00:38:48.299 Christ-like anger. 00:38:48.699 --> 00:38:49.219 We've got to be 00:38:49.219 --> 00:38:49.919 slow to it. 00:38:49.980 --> 00:38:50.399 We've got to be 00:38:50.399 --> 00:38:51.439 suspicious of it. 00:38:51.859 --> 00:38:52.960 We've got to aim it. 00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:53.880 We've got to be 00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:54.820 quick to peace 00:38:54.820 --> 00:38:56.280 and be sober 00:38:56.280 --> 00:38:58.079 of our enemy. 00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:00.179 Let me pray for us. 00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:04.360 God in heaven 00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:07.220 thank you so much 00:39:07.220 --> 00:39:08.619 that you poured out 00:39:08.619 --> 00:39:09.179 your anger 00:39:09.179 --> 00:39:10.920 that was meant 00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:11.639 for us 00:39:11.639 --> 00:39:12.780 onto Christ. 00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:15.000 We do not fear 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:15.960 your anger anymore 00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:17.119 but God 00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:17.699 we rejoice 00:39:17.699 --> 00:39:18.220 in knowing 00:39:18.220 --> 00:39:18.920 that your anger 00:39:18.920 --> 00:39:20.139 is actually for us. 00:39:20.139 --> 00:39:22.019 we pray too 00:39:22.019 --> 00:39:22.559 that God 00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:23.759 you would rid us 00:39:23.759 --> 00:39:25.159 of sinful anger 00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:26.259 that is destructive 00:39:26.259 --> 00:39:27.579 and God 00:39:27.579 --> 00:39:28.639 transform us 00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:29.920 into Christ's image 00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:31.400 that we may use 00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:31.859 our anger 00:39:31.859 --> 00:39:32.500 for good. 00:39:33.579 --> 00:39:34.920 God protect our church. 00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:36.719 I pray 00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:37.460 spirit of God 00:39:37.460 --> 00:39:38.579 that you would convict 00:39:38.579 --> 00:39:40.420 we ask that God 00:39:40.420 --> 00:39:41.059 there would be 00:39:41.059 --> 00:39:42.579 humble conversations 00:39:42.579 --> 00:39:43.139 this afternoon 00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:44.639 confessing 00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:45.619 of sinful anger 00:39:45.619 --> 00:39:46.559 and the giving 00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:47.159 of forgiveness. 00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:48.940 God would you 00:39:48.940 --> 00:39:50.659 bring peace 00:39:50.659 --> 00:39:52.739 to all aspects 00:39:52.739 --> 00:39:53.379 of our life 00:39:53.379 --> 00:39:53.759 together 00:39:53.759 --> 00:39:54.619 as a church. 00:39:55.199 --> 00:39:56.319 God we are aware 00:39:56.319 --> 00:39:57.000 of the devil 00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:57.779 and his schemes. 00:39:58.679 --> 00:39:59.379 God we ask you 00:39:59.379 --> 00:40:00.259 to protect us 00:40:00.259 --> 00:40:01.659 in Jesus name 00:40:01.659 --> 00:40:02.539 Amen. 00:40:02.539 --> 00:40:02.739 Amen. 00:40:02.739 --> 00:40:02.779 Amen. 00:40:02.779 --> 00:40:02.819 Amen. 00:40:02.819 --> 00:40:02.839 Amen. 00:40:02.839 --> 00:40:02.920 Amen.