Repeated Word: Most Quoted Verse: Why, when, and how?
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What do I believe God wants them to know? Why, how, when, does God get angry…and
Why? It brings peace and joy
What do I believe God wants them to do? Rejoice that God is slow to anger and the full anger is satisfied at through Jesus.
Why? It brings peace and joy
ME/WE
Today we are going to be walking through one of the most misunderstood things God does.
Many people wonder the WHY, HOW, WHEN this thing that God does happens
Anybody want to guess what many what I am talking about? (this could lead to handful of things we don’t know…that we wonder about that are a mystery to us) What do we wondering WHEN, or HOW or WHY God does this?
hint it is in the most quoted verse of the Bible
WHY DOES GOD GET ANGRY, AND WHEN DOES GOD GET ANGRY?
WE see God gets angry....He is not angry, it is not an attribute of God…it is a response to an action
Let’s read
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
ANYBODY WONDER THAT?
WE SEE GOD GETS ANGRY BUT WHY DOES HE GET ANGRY
What will help us to understand is what the word slow to get angry means
it means to be LONG IN THE NOSE
HUH?
What helps us understand for ANGER means to have a HOT SHORT NOSE....is this not what anger looks like sometimes???
God says I am LONG IN THE NOSE
GOD GETS ANGRY BUT IT TAKES A WHILE…AS WE WILL SEE A LOT TO GET HIM ANGRY
THIS BRINGS US GREAT COMFORT
PAUSE, come back to this…UNPACK THIS
PAUSE, come back to this…UNPACK THIS
Why is there so much confusion? WHY DOES IT MATTER
Why is there so much confusion? WHY DOES IT MATTER
THERE IS A BLACK AND WHITE TO ANGER BUT THERE IS ASLO GREYNESS TO IT…INJUSTICE is a BLACK AND WHITE…THERE ARE MANY TIMES WE THING GOD WOUDL GET ANGRY AND HE DOESN’T…IT IS NOT THE OTHER WAY
One of the reasons for some people is because of our earthly imperfect human fathers....I am not trying to be mean, but we read that God is our Father and then we look to our human earthly fathers in regards to anger and no dad is perfectly slow to anger
The word means long in the noise....anger in the Hebrew mean hot in the nose
I can have a HOT NOSE with my KIDS sometimes
Spiritual fathers, I messed up with this because I sat under some spiritual fathers, who were HOT IN THE NOSE....they had anger problems....I have experience this
Not only that we have spiritual leaders, mothers and fathers, who preached a either too liberally or to conservatively
Liberal NOT GOSPEL
God is love....ALWAYS LOVE NEVED AGNRY
He is not mad at me
JESUS IS GOD OF NT NOT OT…GRACE VS LAW
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
WHEN DID JESUS CHRIST BEGIN…IN THE BEGINNGIN WAS THE WORD
THERE IS A AN OT GOD
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
That is a western idea of God....the eastern mindset is of course God is mad at us,
JESUS IS CALLS THE PHARISEES A BROD OF VIPERS…GOD GETS MAD AT INJUSTICE
WHAT DID JESUS DO IN THE TEMPLE
And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.
He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
I HAD A TEACH SAY BECAUSE JESUS DID THIS IT WAS SIN BECAUSE GOD DOENS’T GET ANGRY
IS IT A SIN TO GET ANGRY
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
YES AND NO
THERE IS GOOD ANGER AS WE WILL SEE…JESUS GETS ANGRY AT INJUSTICE AND WRONGFUL ANGER THAT WE DO THAT GOD DOES NOT DO
TOO CONSERVATIVE NOT GOSPEL…more law than grace…law leads, grace is almost lost
who mainly preached that God was HOT in THE NOSE…God is going to get you
You better obey…OR ELSE…OR ELSE THE WRATH OF GOD IS COMING....anybody been there?
I remember several times a pastor saying young men you better watch what you are looking at online because that is not from God. REPENT!…it is was not what they said but how they said it
RIGHTOUS ANGERY, THEY SAY!!
Is this the heart of God? Is this SLOW TO ANGER?
IN ENGLISH IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANGER AND WRATH??
If I say I am angry at you it can mean different things....but if I say I am going to my wrath against you or the wrath of God…are the same? No one is worse
Question in Hebrew is there a word for anger and wrath? No there are two primary words for anger, seven in totally and they all mean anger
The word wrath is in not in the HEBREW
Or another thing to cover before move on
How often are anger and judgement linked together with God?
NOT VERY OFTEN…GOD JUST MAKES A VERDICT
I wish that was the case for me.
Why is this so important???
Why is this so important???
If we think God is HOT IN THE NOSE what is our relationship with God going to be like with God and with others?
If we think God is HOT IN THE NOSE what is our relationship with God going to be like with God and with others?
No relationship
No relationship
Many people who used to go to the church do not come back to church because they think God is angry with them
Many people who used to go to the church do not come back to church because they think God is angry with them
If we think God never get’s angry how are to live?
If we think God never get’s angry how are to live?
In rebellion
In rebellion
COME BACK AROUND TO GOD IS SLOW TO GET ANGRY
God says He is slow to get angry but He doesn’t just say it…he shows it
We see this by the first time God gets angry
- ANYBODY know the first time God’s gets angry?
- Centuries later....
He is grieved like a good father over a child
And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.”
Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”
But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.”
Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do.
God gives concession....He still stays with Moses
This is another thing to point out
How long does God stay angry at us?
NOT LONG
He’s a good good father
The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.
He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel.
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.
He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
BUT GOD DOES GET ANGRY
WHAT DOES GOD GET ANGRY AT?
INJUSTICE AND WHEN PEOPLE DO NOT FOLLOW THE WAYS OF THE KINGDOM…ANGER IS A RESPONSE
BUT HE IS SLOW TO GET ANGRY
GOD DOES ONE OF TWO THINGS TO THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO REBEL…HE HANDLES IT THIS HAPPENS WITH INJUSTICE OR HANDS THEM OVER
GOD SAYS IF YOU CONTINUE…A NATION CONTINUES INJUSTICE GOD SAYS I AM GOING TO TAKE THEM OUT
HE DOES THIS WITH PHARAOH…HEY YOU ARE BEING INJUST....LET THE PEOPLE GO
GIVES HIM 10 CHANCES THEN FINALLY TAKES THEM OUT
THEN WE ALSO SEE GOD SAYING IF WE CONTINIUE TO WALK IN DISOBEDIENCE…I AM GOING TO HAND YOU OVER TO WHAT YOU WANT
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
HANDS THEM OVER
THE ULITMATE THEY RECIEVE AND THEY RECIEVE IS DEATH
among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
BUT INSTEAD OF US BEING HANDED OVER TO DEATH GOD HANDS OVER JESUS TO DRINK THE CUP OF WRATH OF GOD.
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
THE ANGER OF GOD HAS BEEN SATIFIED IN CHRIST