Anger and Lust: The Evil Wonder Twins
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The Hidden Battle
The Hidden Battle
Japan surrendered to the US in 1945 after the atomic bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Bad communication with soldiers in the Philippines there were some Japanese Soldiers that either didn’t believe the surrender was real, or didn’t get word of the surrender and continued to fight.
One of the last of these was Lt. Hiro Onoda who was and intelligence officer and continued to conduct gorilla warfare operations until his commanding officer traveled from Japan to personally relieve him of duty in 1974.
Onoda woke up and went to sleep fighting a war that had been over for 29 years.
This is the kind of radical commitment to the war with our own flesh Jesus expects us to wage with our own flesh when it comes to sin.
Matthew 5:
“You have heard that the ancients were told, ‘You shall not commit murder’ and ‘Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.’
“But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.
“Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,
leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.
“Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
“Truly I say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last cent.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’;
but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
“If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
“If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.
6th and 7th Commandments
Guy flashing his lights at me story:
Starts with irritation/frustration (Some more than others)
Reflex at the Doctor’s office
Prayer
Sleep
Exercise
Anger, good for nothing, fool.
Fool carried a religious idea.
“Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,
leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.
Matthew 5:
Why would you be mad if you brother had something against you?
V 23. Your brother has something against you. (You are helping your brother not to sin)
Get up and leave Church (then come back and offer your worship to God)
“Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
Matthew 5:25:
V. 25 Make friend quickly with your opponents at law. (Helping your enemies not to sin)
LUST:
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’;
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’;
but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:27-
Matthew 27
Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6
Meth of the soul
Right Eye and Right hand
Jesus was not being literal.
325 AD Council of Nicea forbid the practice of self mutual.
If there is a cute guy at the coffee shop you go to and it causes you to lust, pick another coffee shop.
Motorcycle community and hugs. but if that gives you pause.
There are earthly consequences to sin that will leave you bloody and battered.
Jesus gives us a new battlefield. But He gives us the Holy Spirit to help fight that Battle.
Jesus gives us a new battlefield. But He gives us the Holy Spirit to help fight that Battle.