How to Be Angry
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Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Neither give place to the devil.
Introduction.
Introduction.
1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching Anger, Effect Of
“Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back; in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you” (Frederick Buechner
1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching Anger without Sin
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, and in the right way—that is not easy.22
Paul is quoting from the Greek translation of Psalm 4:4
Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
In the original “awe” is to be so mad that you’re trembling. Have you ever been that angry?
Anger in itself is not sin, because it is an attribute of God.
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, And ye perish from the way, When his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
The most famous example of anger is Jesus taking the whip and cleansing the temple. We couldn’t even do that without sin, He did.
You hear so much today about it being, God being a good God. He is a good God, but remember He is a God of holiness, a God that cannot overlook sin. The penalty has been paid for, and you’ve got to accept it on His grounds.
And remember, He is a God of anger, a God of wrath. And you’ll stand before an angry God, not just a God of goodness and mercy. Tonight He is your Saviour; that Day He is your Judge. 64-0321E - The Voice Of The Sign
Our anger is different because our motives are rarely pure.
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: But he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
If you live long enough you will get hurt, you will see others get hurt, and you will get angry. All of us do that.
Paul is saying “deal with anger the very day you get angry; Do not let the devil find a home in your anger.”
No matter how long you have been a Christian, no matter how good of a life you lead, even if you are a preacher or pastor, If you go to sleep angry you have opened up the door of your heart to demons of bitterness and unforgiveness, and they will destroy you.
Science knows this.
From “The Guardian”
“Never go to bed angry, the old saying goes, or bad feeling will harden into resentment. Now scientists have found evidence to support the idea that negative emotional memories are harder to reverse after a night’s sleep.
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that during sleep, the brain reorganises the way negative memories are stored, making these associations harder to suppress in the future.
The Study
Brain scans offered a clue to why memories may be more difficult to unpick once they have been consolidated by sleep. Functional MRI scans of the participants revealed that newly acquired memories were represented by brain activity tightly centred on the hippocampus, the brain’s memory centre, but the overnight memories had become more distributed across the cortex.”
The anger had found a home.
Anger that finds a home and is not evicted at some point becomes murder.
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
He held on to it.
Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
Why do people leave the Message? They get angry, many times rightfully so, but they hold on to it.
Peter gets rebuked as well, he probably gets just as mad about it, but he doesn’t hold on to it.
And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
What a quick turnaround!
You say “Bro. Ben, I would never commit murder”
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. - Benjamin Franklin
Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
And you people with these saw-blade tempers, that’s always spouting off in the mouth at somebody, can’t put up, and things like that. Be careful.
You’re guilty if you speak a word against your brother that’s not right, not just, go around and tear down it. You don’t have to stick a knife in a man’s back to kill him. You can break his character and kill him, kill his influence.
Speak against your pastor here, say something bad about him, you just might as well as shot him. Told something that wasn’t right about him, well, it’ll kill his influence with the people and things like that, and you’re guilty of it. 57-0922E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
The Bible commands us to not touch God’s anointed.
We’re also not supposed to slander the little ones.
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
(Billy Paul’s son)
For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
If I live…I’m fifty, if I live to be ninety or a hundred, have another fifty years to preach, and I never preach a time, go down and sit on the river, I’m saved anyhow. God saved me by His grace, unmerited of anything I ever could do, did do, or anything else.
I preach because I love Him and I love His people. And that’s the reason I know I’ve passed from death unto Life, because that I love them and I go after them.
No matter what kind of condition they’re in, I go after them anyhow. Go get them anyhow, pull them anyhow. If ministers disagree and others disagree, and denominations disagree, that don’t stop me.
There’s something! It didn’t stop Him! He come right in the midst of unbelief, and it didn’t stop Him, He moved right on anyhow. That’s what we do, go out and get them, catch them anyhow.
No matter, reach, grab, hold on with all your might. You don’t know who they are. Save them. That’s because of love. Not because that “I have to,” but because I love, because you love.
Say, “I ought to go make that right with that woman, but, I tell you right now, I guess ’cause I go to church I ought to go make it right.” No, you’re the one ought to get right, first.
If you ain’t got the love of God in your heart, something another makes you know that you’re wrong, then you go make it right with God. Then you’ll make it right with your neighbor.
Jesus taught the same thing. He said, “If you come to an altar, and there’s a…remember there’s an ought against a neighbor or the brother, go make it right with him, first.” 60-0522M - Adoption #3
If I knew tonight that I had an enemy, I may have. I perhaps have. But if I do, I don’t know just who it is.
If it was, I sure wouldn’t go to preaching till I went, first, and made that right, see if I could get it straightened up, ’cause we’re not supposed to have anything against anyone, or if anything we can do, let no one have anything against us.
And It don’t say, “If you have ought against a brother,” but, “if the brother has a ought against thee,” see, “you go to him,” see, “if he has the ought.” And that way, why, we live peaceful. 61-0215 - Thou Son Of David, Have Mercy On Me
Don’t let the sun go down until you’ve dealt with it. If it’s too much for you to let go, get help.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
And you find yourself in love with your enemies. Somebody say, “Well, he’s nothing but a holy-roller.” And you start to get…Ah! Be careful. Um-hum. Be careful.
But when you really find, yourself, that you love him! Regardless of what they do, you still love them. See?
Then you beginning to find, and your patience gets from about that long, till it just don’t have no end. Anybody just keeps saying things about you, “Well, I don’t care what you say!”
Don’t get stirred up. If you get stirred up, you better go pray first, ’fore you talk to them again.
Don’t get in fusses. Don’t like to get in fuss; if you like to see somebody raise up in church, say, “You know what? I’ll tell you, So-and-so did so-and-so.”
You say, “Now, brother, shame on you.” If you say, “Oh, is that so?” Listen to that scandal? Watch out.
The Holy Spirit is not a cesspool. No, no. No, no. The heart is occupied by the Holy Spirit, is full of holiness, purity. “Thinketh no evil, doeth no evil; believeth all things; endureth, longsuffering.”
Don’t fuss. When the family gets in a fuss, don’t fuss with them. Your mother said, “I ain’t having you go up there, that old church, anymore.
Well, you, all you think about now, you’re letting your hair grow out. You look like some old grandma.” Don’t fuss with her.
Say, “Okay, mother. It’s all right. I love you, just the same. And I’ll be praying for you as long as I live.”
Now, don’t fuss. See? Temper breeds temper. First thing you know, you grieve the Holy Spirit away from you, you’ll be fussing back. Then the Holy Spirit takes Its flight. Temper breeds temper.
And love breeds love. Be full of love. Jesus said, “This will all men know you’re My disciples, when you have love, one for another.” That’s the fruit of the Holy Spirit, love. 63-0630E - Is Your Life Worthy Of The Gospel?
Conclusion
Conclusion
10,000 Sermon Illustrations Anger - Shotgun
A lady once came to Billy Sunday and tried to rationalize her angry outbursts. “There’s nothing wrong with losing my temper,”
She said. “I blow up, and then it’s all over.”
“So does a shotgun,” Sunday replied, “and look at the damage it leaves behind!”
Before you go to bed, unload your weapon.
