Sermon Tone Analysis

The Christian’s life is New “IN” Jesus.

The On/Off - Put On/Put Off Principle continues in this section.

The Christians has a new set of clothes, a new wardrobe, a new life.

Read Eph 4:23-29

Ephesians 4:23–29 (KJV 1900)

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

When you study the Bible be sure to make notes of the VERBS.

Verbs tell us what do do and how to live.

They are the action of life, the doing and being of life.

“Let” is a transitive verb meaning that it is connected to a direct object.

3 NEW Changes of being NEW IN Jesus.

NEW: Wrath.

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Can you be angry and not sin?

Is being angry all the time sin?

Today's Best Illustrations, Volumes 1-4 (Anger Is Its Own Reward)

One morning Ralph woke up at five o’clock to a noise that sounded like someone repairing boilers on his roof.

Still in his pajamas, he went into the back yard to investigate.

He found a woodpecker on the TV antenna, “pounding its little brains out on the metal pole.”

Angry at the little creature who ruined his sleep, Ralph picked up a rock and threw it.

The rock sailed over the house, and he heard a distant crash as it hit the car.

In utter disgust, Ralph took a vicious kick at a clod of dirt, only to remember—too late—that he was still in his bare feet.

Uncontrolled anger, as Ralph learned, can sometimes be its own reward.

Today's Best Illustrations, Volumes 1-4 (How to Deal with Anger)

“When you get really angry, stick your hands in your pockets.”

ANGRY

New American Standard Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries: Updated Edition (3710 ὀργίζω (orgizō))

ὀργίζω orgizō; from 3709; to make angry:—angry(4), enraged(3), moved with anger(1).

WRATH

New American Standard Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries: Updated Edition (3950 παροργισμός (parorgismos))

παροργισμός parorgismos; from 3949; irritation:—anger(1).

Ephesians: An Introduction and Commentary (b.

Truth and Love to Replace Falsehood and Bitterness (4:25–5:2))

The danger of anger is that it gives an opportunity to the devil.

It gives him ‘a half-open door’ (Moule, CB), an opportunity of fostering the spirit of pride or hatred.

ANGER ALLOWED TO REMAIN GIVES SATAN A CHANCE TO HARM YOUR LIFE AND HOME.

Ephesians: An Introduction and Commentary (b.

Truth and Love to Replace Falsehood and Bitterness (4:25–5:2))

Sudden instinctive indignation against injustice or wrong, good in itself, if retained and nursed (NEB) as a grievance, will let the devil lead his victim on to unkind thoughts, words and actions, and so work havoc with personal relationships.

The devil is to be resisted (Jas 4:7), and given no place whether it is the individual’s spiritual life, or the welfare of the fellowship that is in danger (cf. 1 Pet.

5:8–9).

Many times Anger is just a selfish outburst.

Anger can be righteous.

3 ANGER DANGERS:

The Anger Danger of Bitterness.

The Anger Danger of Unforgiveness.

The Anger Danger of Satan:

Don’t give Satan a “place” in your life or home.

We flea from Satan and we fight Satan.

There is a place for WRATH: Not “IN” You.

New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations (144.

Anger, Nature Of)

There is an anger that is damnable: it is the anger of selfishness.

There is an anger that is majestic as the frown of Jehovah’s brow: it is the anger of truth and love.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful.

The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

Anger can be contagious...

In his autobiography, Number 1, Billy Martin told about hunting in Texas with Mickey Mantle.

Mickey had a friend who would let them hunt on his ranch.

When they reached the ranch, Mickey told Billy to wait in the car while he checked in with his friend.

Mantle’s friend quickly gave them permission to hunt, but he asked Mickey a favor.

He had a pet mule in the barn who was going blind, and he didn’t have the heart to put him out of his misery.

He asked Mickey to shoot the mule for him.

When Mickey came back to the car, he pretended to be angry.

He scowled and slammed the door.

Billy asked him what was wrong, and Mickey said his friend wouldn’t let them hunt.

“I’m so mad at that guy,” Mantle said, “I’m going out to his barn and shoot one of his mules!”

Mantle drove like a maniac to the barn.

Martin protested, “We can’t do that!”

But Mickey was adamant.

“Just watch me,” he shouted.

When they got to the barn, Mantle jumped out of the car with his rifle, ran inside, and shot the mule.

As he was leaving, though, he heard two shots, and he ran back to the car.

He saw that Martin had taken out his rifle, too.

“What are you doing, Martin?” he yelled.

Martin yelled back, face red with anger, “We’ll show that son of a gun!

I just killed two of his cows!” Anger can be dangerously contagious.

As Proverbs puts it, “Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man … or you may learn his ways” (Proverbs 22:24–25).

The Christian’s life is New “IN” Jesus.

NEW: Wrath.

Prolonged anger or selfish anger is sin.

NEW: Work.

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Replace stealing with working.

Replace taking with giving.

Replace coveting with contentment.

SATAN Was a Thief...

YOU ARE NEW AND DIFFERENT AS A CHILD OF GOD.

Even honest labor could become a selfish thing, and this Paul seeks to avoid.

Of course, it was a fundamental rule in the early church that “if any would not work, neither should he eat” (2 Thes.

3:10).

A lazy Christian robs himself, others, and God.

Of course, Paul was not writing to believers who could not work because of handicaps, but with those who would not work.

Sometimes the type of work/job you can do changes with the economy, physical and mental limitations, and other factors.

Judaism valued laboring with one’s hands and sharing with the poor.

Although Greek artisans no doubt prided themselves in their work, the aristocracy throughout the Mediterranean world disdained work with one’s hands as the duty of the lower classes.

Doing Good.

Give to people in need.

It’s OK to “HAVE” in order to be able to “GIVE.”

We don’t work to accumulate or merely have but to be able to give.