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PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR: JESUS SAID, 'I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER IS

ANGRY WITH HIS BROTHER WITHOUT A CAUSE, SHALL BE IN DANGER OF THE

JUDGMENT.' NOW DON'T MISS THAT JESUS SAID 'WITHOUT A CAUSE' -

MEANING THERE MAY BE A TIME WHEN ANGER IS APPROPRIATE.

I HOPE YOU ARE ALL IN A GOOD MOOD BECAUSE I'M GOING TO TALK

ABOUT ANGER; AND IF YOU'RE ALREADY ANGRY THIS MAY GO

THE WRONG WAY.

THE MESSAGE TITLE TODAY IS

DEALING WITH, WHAT MAY SOUND LIKE AN OXYMORON,

THE ANGRY CHRISTIAN. YOU KNOW, BACK IN MARCH THIS

YEAR, THERE WAS A PLANE THAT WAS TRAVELING FROM LAS

VEGAS TO HAWAII. SOMETIME SHORTLY AFTER THEY

FINALLY PASSED OVER THE PACIFIC OCEAN, ONE OF THE PASSENGERS

BECAME VERY AGITATED BECAUSE THEY ASKED FOR A BLANKET - I

GUESS THE PLANE WAS COLD - AND THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT SAID IT WAS

TWELVE DOLLARS FOR ONE OF THEIR BLANKETS. AND HE SAID, 'THAT'S

NOT REASONABLE.' HE SAID, 'YOU'RE THE ONES MAKING THE

PLANE COLD.' THEY SAID, 'WE'RE SORRY, THAT'S JUST WHAT IT IS

FOR ONE OF THE BLANKETS.' AND IT TURNED INTO QUITE A STIR.

AT ONE POINT THEN, THE 66-YEAR-OLD MAN THREATENED TO

TAKE THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT OUT TO THE WOODSHED.

THEY WEREN'T SURE EXACTLY WHAT THAT MEANT, BUT THEY TOOK IT AS

A THREAT AND THEY WERE AFRAID - 'YOU KNOW, IF THIS FELLA'S GOT A

TEMPER AND WE GET OUT OVER THE MIDDLE OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN, WHO

KNOWS WHAT COULD HAPPEN AT THAT POINT?'

SO THEY TURNED BACK AND THEY SCHEDULED - THEY MADE AN

UNSCHEDULED LANDING THERE AT LAX - LOS ANGELES - AND EVERYBODY

WAS DELAYED FOR HOURS. THEY ESCORTED THE MAN OFF THE

PLANE - PROBABLY WRECKED HIS HAWAII VACATION.

SOMEBODY COMMENTED LATER, THEY SAID, 'IT COST THE AIRLINE

$12,000.00 TO MAKE THAT UNSCHEDULED LANDING BECAUSE OF A

DISPUTE OVER A $12.00 BLANKET. ANGER IS A VERY SERIOUS ISSUE.

YOU READ FIRST IN THE BIBLE WHERE CAIN BECAME ANGRY WITH HIS

BROTHER AND GOD ASKED CAIN, 'WHY ARE YOU ANGRY?'

IF THERE'S SIN AT THE DOOR, YOU NEED TO DEAL WITH THAT.

THAT ANGER IN THE HEART OF CAIN LED HIM TO KILL HIS BROTHER.

THE BIBLE TELLS US JESUS SAID, 'I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER IS ANGRY

WITH HIS BROTHER WITHOUT A CAUSE, SHALL BE IN DANGER OF THE

JUDGMENT.' NOW DON'T MISS THAT JESUS SAID, 'WITHOUT A CAUSE' -

MEANING THERE MAY BE A TIME WHEN ANGER IS APPROPRIATE.

1 JOHN 3:12, "NOT AS CAIN WHO WAS OF THE WICKED ONE AND

MURDERED HIS BROTHER. AND WHY DID HE MURDER HIM?

BECAUSE HIS WORKS WERE EVIL AND HIS BROTHER'S RIGHTEOUS."

SO THAT'S THE ANSWER WHY SOME PEOPLE BECOME ANGRY, IS BECAUSE

THEY'RE WRONG. I THINK IT WAS CHARLES DE GAULLE

WHO SAID, 'WHEN I'M RIGHT I GET ANGRY.

WINSTON CHURCHILL, ON THE OTHER HAND, 'WHEN HE'S WRONG HE GETS

ANGRY. SO WE OFTEN ARGUE WITH EACH

OTHER BECAUSE I'M RIGHT AND HE'S WRONG.'

WHAT DE GAULLE SAID. BUT IT'S TRUE.

SOMETIMES WE BECOME ANGRY BECAUSE SOMEONE'S RIGHT.

1 JOHN 3:15, "WHOEVER HATES HIS BROTHER IS A MURDERER, AND YOU

KNOW THAT NO MURDERER HAS ETERNAL LIFE ABIDING IN HIM."

WELL, MAYBE BEFORE WE GO ANY FARTHER, IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA

TO JUST - LET'S LOOK AT A SIMPLE DEFINITION - WHAT IS ANGER?

ANGER, A NOUN, 'A STRONG FEELING OF DISPLEASURE, BELLIGERENCE,

HOSTILITY, OR WRATH AROUSED BY SOME REAL OR PERCEIVED WRONG.'

THAT'S ANGER. NOW, YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED

THAT THERE IS GOOD ANGER. ROMANS 1:18, "FOR THE WRATH OF

GOD IS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN AGAINST ALL UNGODLINESS AND

UNRIGHTEOUSNESS OF MEN, WHO SUPPRESS THE TRUTH

IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS." SO DOES GOD EVER GET ANGRY?

SEE, WE ARE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD AND THERE IS A PASSION -

THERE IS A RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION - THERE IS AN APPROPRIATE

EMOTION OF ANGER THAT WE SHOULD ALL HAVE INSIDE TOWARDS THE

JUST PURPOSES. JESUS GOT ANGRY.

MARK 3:1, "AND WHEN HE HAD LOOKED AROUND AT THEM WITH

ANGER," - CAN'T BE MISUNDERSTOOD - "BEING GRIEVED BY THE HARDNESS

OF THEIR HEARTS." - THEY WERE MAD THAT HE WAS

GOING TO HEAL THIS MAN. HE SAID TO THE MAN, 'STRETCH OUT

YOUR HAND.' HE STRETCHED IT OUT AND HE WAS RESTORED.

HE BECAME ANGRY AT THEIR COLD HEARTEDNESS.

MOSES BECAME ANGRY - EXODUS 32:19 - HE CAME DOWN THE

MOUNTAIN AFTER GETTING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND, OF COURSE,

THERE, AGAIN, YOU'VE GOT THE LAW.

THE DEVIL WAS MAD AT THAT SO HE TEMPTED EVERYBODY TO SIN.

"...HE SAW THE CALF AND THE DANCING. SO MOSES' ANGER BECAME

HOT," - WAS THAT THE RIGHT KIND OF ANGER?

HE WAS JUST SO OUTRAGED THAT AFTER THEY JUST MADE THIS

COVENANT WITH GOD, MOSES HAS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS STILL RADIATING

IN HIS HANDS WITH THE WRITING OF THE HAND OF GOD AND HE GOES TO

THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE BREAKING ALL TEN COMMANDMENTS.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S A TIME FOR RIGHTEOUS JUSTIFIED ANGER.

THE EARLY CHURCH FATHER JOHN CHRYSOSTOM SAID, 'HE WHO IS NOT

ANGRY WHEN HE HAS CAUSE TO BE SINS. FOR UNREASONABLE PATIENCE

IS THE HOTBED OF MANY VICES.' IN OTHER WORDS, NOT BEING ANGRY

WHEN YOU SHOULD BE ANGRY CAN BE A SIN BECAUSE IT CAN BE AN

INDIFFERENCE - IT CAN BE A LUKEWARMNESS THAT YOU'RE NOT

OUTRAGED BY SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE A PROBLEM.

MARK 11:15, "SO THEY CAME TO JERUSALEM.

THEN JESUS WENT INTO THE TEMPLE AND BEGAN TO DRIVE OUT THOSE WHO

BOUGHT AND SOLD IN THE TEMPLE, AND OVERTURNED THE TABLES OF THE

MONEY CHANGERS AND THE SEATS OF THOSE WHO SOLD DOVES."

AND HE WOULD NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO CARRY WARES THROUGH THE TEMPLE

AND HE SAID, 'YOU'VE MADE MY FATHER'S HOUSE A DEN OF

THIEVES.' NOW I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE WENT AS FAR AS NEHEMIAH

IN THE BIBLE, WITH THE CHURCH AND, HOPEFULLY, THE PASTORS WILL

NOT EVER HAVE TO RESORT TO THIS, BUT NEHEMIAH SAYS, "I CONTENDED

WITH THEM AND CURSED THEM AND STRUCK SOME OF THEM AND PULLED

OUT THEIR HAIR AND MADE THEM SWEAR BY GOD SAYING, 'YOU WILL

NOT GIVE YOUR DAUGHTERS AS WIVES TO THE SONS OF THE PAGANS, NOR

TAKE THEIR DAUGHTERS TO YOUR SONS' NEHEMIAH SAID, 'THIS IS

HOW WE GOT CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON IN THE FIRST PLACE AND

YOU'RE STARTING TO DO IT AGAIN.' AND HE FLEW OFF THE HANDLE.

JOHN WESLEY, HE SAID, 'HE THAT WOULD BE ANGRY AND SIN NOT MUST

NOT BE ANGRY WITH ANYTHING BUT SIN.' SO THE RIGHTEOUS ANGER IS

THE ANGER AGAINST A SIN OF SOME FORM. MARTIN LUTHER BECAME ANGRY

AT THE CHURCH'S ABUSE OF POWER. HE SAID, 'WHEN I'M ANGRY, I CAN

WRITE, I CAN PRAY, I CAN PREACH WELL. FOR THEN MY WHOLE

TEMPERAMENT IS QUICKENED, MY UNDERSTANDING IS SHARPENED AND

THE MUNDANE VEXATIONS AND TEMPERAMENTS DEPART.'

WHEN HE SAW THE OUTRAGEOUS THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING IN

THE CHURCH, HE WAS ANIMATED BY THIS RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION.

AND, IF YOU'VE EVER READ ANY OF LUTHER'S WRITINGS, YOU COULD SEE

THAT HE DID HAVE A PRETTY ANIMATED NATURE, TO PUT IT

MILDLY. ARISTOTLE PUT IT THIS WAY:

'ANYBODY CAN BECOME ANGRY, THAT'S EASY.

BUT TO BE ANGRY WITH THE RIGHT PERSON TO THE RIGHT DEGREE AT

THE RIGHT TIME FOR THE RIGHT PURPOSE IN THE RIGHT WAY, THAT

IS NOT WITHIN EVERYBODY'S POWER AND IT IS NOT EASY.' AND A LOT

OF TIMES WE THINK THAT OUR ANGER IS THE RIGHTEOUS ANGER

AND IT IS NOT.

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PASTOR DOUG: WHAT CAUSES ANGER? WELL, SOMETIMES, JEALOUSY.

SOMETIMES WE GET ANGRY WHEN WE ARE BEING CHALLENGED.

PETER DENIED CHRIST AND, AFTER SOMEONE ASKED HIM THE THIRD

TIME, AND HE KNEW HE WAS WRONG, HE BEGAN TO SWEAR AND TO CURSE.

SOMEONE FEELS LIKE THEY'RE UNAPPRECIATED THEY CAN BECOME

ANGRY. THAT'S OFTEN - SEVERAL OF THESE REASONS I'M GIVING YOU ALL

KIND OF POINT BACK TO SELFISHNESS AND PRIDE - WHEN OUR

PRIDE'S OFFENDED WE OFTEN GET ANGRY - NEGLECT - POTIPHAR'S

WIFE BECAME ANGRY WHEN JOSEPH WOULD NOT ACCEPT HER ADVANCES,

AND SHE WAS WILLING TO SEND HIM TO JAIL. THEN THERE'S THOSE WHO

THE ANGER DOESN'T HAPPEN ALL AT ONCE BUT IT COMES AS A RESULT OF

STORING THINGS. THEY JUST - THEY'VE GOT THIS MINI STORAGE

AND SOME LITTLE OFFENSE, IT'S NO BIG DEAL.

THEY JUST LET IT GO, BUT THEY REMEMBER IT AND THEY FILE IT AND

THEN SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENS AND THEY FILE IT.

AND YOU'D NEVER KNOW, BUT FINALLY THEY - IT'S LIKE YOU GET

FREQUENT FLIER MILES AND THEN THEY SEND YOU ON A FREE TRIP

AFTER A PERIOD OF TIME. YOU EVER MEET ANYONE LIKE THAT?

AND SOME PEOPLE, THINGS HAPPEN AND YOU THINK, 'OH, THEY

SWALLOWED IT. IT'S OKAY' BUT, NO, THEY DIDN'T.

AND THEY'LL PROCESS IT WITH YOU LATER.

BUT PRIDE IS A BIG PROBLEM. 1 TIMOTHY 6:4, "HE IS PROUD

KNOWING NOTHING, BUT IS OBSESSED WITH DISPUTES AND ARGUMENTS OVER

WORDS, FROM WHICH COME ENVY, STRIFE, REVILING, EVIL

SUSPICIONS," - NOW WHAT'S THE FALLOUT OF ANGER?

ANGER DESTROYS COMMUNICATION, IT GENERATES FEAR, IT SCARS

RELATIONSHIPS AND, IF THE TRUTH BE TOLD, THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE

THAT ARE LIVING WITH ANGER THAT IS BURIED IN THEIR LIVES.

A LOT OF MARRIAGES HAVE UNRESOLVED ANGER, AND SO,

BECAUSE THERE'S NO FORGIVENESS BECAUSE OF SLIGHTS OR GRIEVANCES

OR PROBLEMS - AND THEY MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED - AT ONE TIME IT MIGHT

HAVE BEEN A RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION - BUT YOU'VE NEVER

LET IT GO; YOU'VE NEVER FORGIVEN, AND SO YOU CLING TO

THE ANGER. I'VE MET PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN

ANGRY FOR YEARS WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAD.

AND YOU THINK, 'BOY, THAT'S REALLY SAD.' IT'S LIKE, IF I LET

GO OF THE ANGER - SOMEONE'S GOT TO STAY ANGRY AT THEM.

THEY'RE DEAD. THEY'RE IN THE GRAVE.

THEY DON'T KNOW IT. BUT THEY'RE DESTROYING THEMSELVES WITH THEIR

ANGER. I READ ABOUT HOW COSTLY ANGER IS.

THERE'S A PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE THAT MADE THE MISTAKE OF HITTING

HIS COACH AND HE LOST A 32 MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT.

ANGER'S EXPENSIVE. SOME OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN MIKE

TYSON GOT ANGRY DURING A BOXING MATCH AND SO, INSTEAD OF JUST

BOXING WITH EVANDER HOLYFIELD, HE BIT OFF A PIECE OF HIS EAR.

WELL, YOU REALIZE HE LOST MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

I HOPE IT TASTED GOOD BECAUSE THAT WAS THE MOST EXPENSIVE MEAL

HE'D EVER BOUGHT - MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM THAT.

AND, AGAIN, THAT FLIGHT I JUST MENTIONED TO YOU OVER THE

[PACIFIC] - $12,000.00 FOR A BLANKET.

YOU KNOW, IF I WAS ON THAT PLANE, I WOULD HAVE SAID, 'LOOK,

I'LL PAY FOR YOUR BLANKET. LET'S JUST KEEP GOING.

LET'S TAKE UP A COLLECTION. HOW MANY WILL GIVE 5O

CENTS FOR THAT BLANKET? (LAUGHTER) AND LET'S JUST GET TO

[HAWAII].' - AND TRY AND CALM THE GUY DOWN, YOU KNOW. YOU

KNOW, MOSES LOST THE PROMISED LAND BECAUSE HE LOST HIS TEMPER?

AND, I SUPPOSE, IF I HAD BEEN LEADING THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,

I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE LOST IT A LOT SOONER.

BUT MOSES HAD A TEMPER AND - YOU REMEMBER, HE KILLED AN EGYPTIAN

- BURIED HIM IN THE SAND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FORTY YEARS.

AND THEN, AFTER - ACTUALLY, HE DID THAT WHEN HE WAS 40 YEARS

OLD - 80 YEARS LATER HE LOSES HIS TEMPER AGAIN.

SO YOU MAY BE THINKING, I'VE GOT IT UNDER CONTROL FOR A WHILE AND

THEN YOU'VE GOT TO WALK WITH THE LORD.

SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, I LOSE MY TEMPER BECAUSE

I'M SPANISH' - 'I'M ITALIAN' - 'I'M IRISH - I'VE GOT RED HAIR'

- 'I'M ENGLISH' - 'I'M GERMAN' - YOU NAME IT, PEOPLE SAY, 'OH, I

CAN'T HELP IT BECAUSE I'M HUMAN.' YOU EVER HEARD THAT?

'GOT IT FROM MY MOTHER.' 'GOT IT FROM MY FATHER.' 'IT'S IN THE

WATER.' WE'VE ALL GOT EXCUSES FOR WHY WE LOSE OUR TEMPERS.

THERE IS NO GOOD EXCUSE BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR TEMPER AND

WHEN YOU HAVE A TANTRUM, YOU ARE, AS I SAID, BASICALLY GIVING

YOURSELF OVER TO THE DEVIL. YOU'RE CREATING A WINDOW TO DO

THINGS YOU'LL LATER REGRET. A BAD TEMPER IS A VERY

EXPENSIVE COMMODITY. MOSES WAS NOT ALLOWED TO LEAD

THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL INTO THE PROMISED LAND BECAUSE HE LOST

HIS TEMPER AND SAID, "HEAR NOW, YOU REBELS! MUST WE BRING WATER

FOR YOU OUT OF THIS ROCK?" AND THEN HE SMOTE THE ROCK - HE

BEGAN TO BEAT THE ROCK WITH HIS STAFF. GOD SAID, 'YOU DID NOT

HONOR ME BEFORE THE PEOPLE. I CANNOT USE YOU.'

HE WAS TO BE A TYPE OF CHRIST. PROVERBS 25:28, "WHOEVER HAS NO

RULE OVER HIS OWN SPIRIT IS LIKE A CITY BROKEN DOWN, WITHOUT

WALLS." MEANING THE DEVIL HAS ACCESS TO YOUR LIFE.

WE NEED WALLS. YOU NEED SELF CONTROL.

ECCLESIASTES 7:9, "DO NOT HASTEN IN YOUR SPIRIT TO BE ANGRY, FOR

ANGER RESTS IN THE BOSOM OF FOOLS."

AND NOTICE HOW SOLOMON SAID THAT - 'DO NOT HASTEN IN YOUR

SPIRIT.' HE DOESN'T SAY YOU SHOULD NEVER

BE ANGRY, BUT DO NOT HASTEN TO BE ANGRY - BECAUSE ANGER RESTS -

THAT MEANS IT STAYS - IN THE BOSOM OF FOOLS. SOMEONE SAID

ANGER WILL LESSEN YOUR PERCEIVED IQ. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT

THE EMPTIER A POT IS, THE QUICKER IT BOILS?

- THE MORE SHALLOW THE WATER IN THE POT, THE QUICKER IT BOILS.

IF A PERSON HAS A LITTLE DEPTH, THEY'RE USUALLY MORE CONTROLLED.

THOMAS KEMPIS SAID, 'WHEN ANGER ENTERS THE MIND, WISDOM DEPARTS.

SOMEONE ELSE SAID, 'AN ANGRY MAN IS SELDOM REASONABLE AND A

REASONABLE MAN IS SELDOM ANGRY.' YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL, PEOPLE

OUT THERE ALWAYS GIVING EVERYONE ELSE A PIECE OF THEIR MIND - YOU

KEEP GIVING AWAY ENOUGH PIECES OF YOUR MIND, YOU HAVE NOTHING

LEFT. ANGER WILL AFFECT YOUR IQ. RALPH WALDO EMERSON SAID,

'WE ALL BOIL, JUST AT DIFFERENT DEGREES.' SO YOU WANT TO BE

SLOW. ANGER IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE VERY

CONSCIOUS ABOUT THE HEALTH MESSAGE AND THEY WONDER

WHY THEY'RE NOT HEALTHY. IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU'RE

EATING, IT'S BECAUSE OF WHAT'S EATING YOU.

AND, IF WE ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE EATEN UP WITH ANGER, YOU CAN

FOLLOW THE HEALTH MESSAGE, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO BE SICK.

ANGRY, CYNICAL PEOPLE DIE YOUNG. THIS WAS A STUDY THAT WAS DONE

BACK IN 1989, BUT I THINK IT'S STILL RELEVANT.

THEY TESTED A VARIETY OF MEN AND THOSE WHO SCORED HIGH FOR

HOSTILITY ON THE STANDARD TESTS ENDED UP BECOMING FOUR TIMES

MORE LIKELY TO DIE PREMATURELY THAN MEN WHOSE SCORES WERE LOW.

THEY ALSO TOOK ANOTHER 27 MEN IN CORAL GABLES AND THEY STUDIED

THEIR HEART/BLOOD DISTRIBUTION AND THEY ASKED THEM A BUNCH OF

QUESTIONS AND THEY DID PHYSICAL TESTS AND MENTAL TESTS AND THEY

FINALLY SAID, 'THINK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT MADE YOU REALLY

ANGRY THAT HAPPENED.' THEY MEASURED THE HEART WITH ALL

THESE VERY SENSITIVE INSTRUMENTS AND THEY DISCOVERED THAT THE ONE

THING THAT AFFECTED THE DISTRIBUTION OF BLOOD FROM THE

HEART TO THE TISSUE THE MOST WAS WHEN THEY WERE THINKING ANGRY

THOUGHTS. IT RELEASED CHEMICALS IN THEIR

BODY THAT RESTRICTED THE BLOOD VESSELS AND AFFECTED

THE FLOW OF THE BLOOD. THAT AFFECTS YOUR HEALTH.

LIVING IN SUSTAINED ANGER IS NOT GOOD.

EPHESIANS 4:26, "...DO NOT LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON YOUR WRATH."

NOW THIS VERSE HAS SOMETIMES BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD.

SOMEONE WAS INTERVIEWING AN OLD TEXAN WHO'D BEEN MARRIED FOR

SIXTY YEARS AND THEY SAID, 'TO WHAT DO YOU ATTRIBUTE YOUR LONG

AND HAPPY MARRIAGE?' HE SAID, 'WELL, WE DETERMINED

EARLY ON NEVER TO LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON OUR WRATH.

WE WOULDN'T GO TO SLEEP UNTIL WE RESOLVED OUR DIFFERENCES.' AND

HE SAID, 'I HAVE TO TELL YOU, THERE WERE WEEKS WE DIDN'T

SLEEP.' (LAUGHTER) SO IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO KEEP SHORT

ACCOUNTS. BUT, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU'LL

FIND, IF YOU DO GO TO SLEEP, EVEN IF YOU ARE ANGRY, IT

GOES AWAY IN THE MORNING. WHAT YOU NEEDED WAS

A NIGHT'S SLEEP. SO, A LOT OF TIMES, WHEN

THERE'S DISPUTES IN FAMILIES OR MARRIAGES, OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT

BE, REST ON IT AND THINGS SORT THEMSELVES OUT.

SOMETIMES IN THE MORNING YOU GET A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE AND YOU

REALIZE IT'S NOT THAT BIG A DEAL.

DON'T EVER DISCIPLINE YOUR CHILDREN IN ANGER.

DON'T EVER LOSE YOUR TEMPER IN FRONT OF YOUR CHILDREN.

THREE RULES FOR RAISING CHILDREN IS EXAMPLE, EXAMPLE, EXAMPLE.

THERE WAS AN AUTHOR FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, HE WAS WRITING AN

ARTICLE ABOUT THE AMISH PEOPLE. AND, ONE DAY, AS HE WAS VISITING

THE AMISH SCHOOL, THE THING THAT STRUCK HIM WAS THAT NONE OF THE

CHILDREN IN THE PLAYGROUND EVER RAISED THEIR VOICES AND YELLED.

THEY ALL PLAYED IN A VERY KIND, COOPERATIVE WAY.

AND HE WENT TO THE SCHOOLMASTER AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I DON'T

KNOW IF I'VE EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS.' HE SAID, 'I DON'T

EVER SEE ANY OF THE AMISH CHILDREN YELL AT EACH OTHER.'

AND THE SCHOOLMASTER SAID, 'HAVE YOU EVER HEARD AMISH ADULTS

YELLING AT EACH OTHER?' HE SAID, 'NO, I HAVEN'T.' HE

SAYS, 'THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T HEAR AMISH CHILDREN YELLING

AT EACH OTHER.' WOW.

WHEN YOU SEE KIDS GOING BALLISTIC IN PUBLIC, YOU WONDER

WHAT ARE THEY SEEING AT HOME? NOT ALWAYS, BUT IT

MAKES YOU WONDER. NEVER DISCIPLINE YOUR

CHILDREN IN ANGER. JEREMIAH 10:24, "O LORD," - THE

PROPHET PRAYED - "CORRECT ME, BUT WITH JUSTICE; NOT IN YOUR

ANGER, LEST YOU BRING ME TO NOTHING."

WHAT IF GOD DISCIPLINED US IN ANGER?

WELL, HE WILL, SOMEDAY, FOR THE LOST.

AND WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE WRATH OF THE LAMB?

THEY DON'T SURVIVE. SO, IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR

HEAVENLY FATHER TO DISCIPLINE YOU IN ANGER, YOU DON'T WANT

TO DISCIPLINE OTHERS IN ANGER. SO WHAT DO YOU DO?

WHAT ARE SOME TIPS FOR OVERCOMING INAPPROPRIATE ANGER?

BECAUSE I'VE TOLD YOU THERE'S A RIGHT TIME TO BE ANGRY.

ALRIGHT, PATIENCE - ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS.

IT SAYS IT OVER AND OVER IN THE BIBLE - PROVERBS 15:18, "A

WRATHFUL MAN STIRS UP STRIFE, BUT HE WHO IS SLOW TO ANGER

ALLAYS CONTENTION." YOU NOTICE HE SAYS 'SLOW TO ANGER'.

IT DOESN'T SAY YOU NEVER HAVE ANGER.

AGAIN, PROVERBS 16:32, "HE WHO IS SLOW TO ANGER IS BETTER THAN

THE MIGHTY, AND HE WHO RULES HIS SPIRIT THAN HE WHO TAKES A

CITY." SO YOU PRAY FOR THE SPIRIT OF

GOD TO GIVE YOU PATIENCE AND SELF-RULE.

DO YOU KNOW THE PHRASE 'SLOW TO ANGER' IS MENTIONED NINE TIMES

IN THE BIBLE? IT DOESN'T SAY DON'T BE ANGRY,

IT SAYS 'SLOW TO ANGER'. YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT

YOU'VE GOT THE REAL REASON TO BE ANGRY.

AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN HAD AN INTERESTING HABIT: ONE TIME HIS

SECRETARY, STANTON, CAME TO HIM AND HE WAS JUST OUTRAGED BY

SOMETHING SOMEONE ELSE IN THE GOVERNMENT HAD DONE AND LINCOLN

SAID, 'I THINK YOU OUGHT TO WRITE A LETTER AND TELL HIM

EXACTLY HOW YOU FEEL.' SO STANTON SPENT A DAY AND A HALF

WRITING THIS LETTER. HE BROUGHT IT TO LINCOLN AND

SAID, 'SO, SHOULD I MAIL IT NOW?' HE SAID, 'NO, DON'T MAIL

IT.' HE SAID, 'THROW IT AWAY NOW.' HE SAID, 'YOU PROBABLY

ALREADY FEEL MUCH BETTER.' HE SAYS, 'NOW WRITE ONE THAT'S

DISCREET AND DIPLOMATIC.' HAVE YOU EVER DONE THAT?

SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING OR MISTREATS YOU OR THEY DO

SOMETHING INCONSIDERATE AND YOU TYPE OUT AN E-MAIL AND THERE'S

JUST SMOKE COMING OFF THE KEYS, YOU KNOW?

AND YOU HAVE ALL THE RIGHT WORDS AND YOU LOOK AT IT AND THE

LONGER YOU LOOK AT IT YOU THINK, 'WELL, MAYBE I OUGHT TO CHANGE

THAT WORD.' WELL, I DON'T NEED THAT LINE IN THERE, I'LL DELETE

THAT ONE AND' - DON'T EVER SEND AN E-MAIL WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY,

BECAUSE YOU CAN'T UNDELETE - YOU CAN'T UNSEND, YOU KNOW WHAT I

MEAN? AND YOU SEND SOMETHING WHEN YOUR

BLOOD'S BOILING AND LATER YOU SAY, 'OH, I OVERREACTED AND NOW

THAT PERSON WILL NEVER BE A FRIEND AGAIN.

ALL I NEEDED TO DO WAS THINK ABOUT IT A LITTLE MORE.' WRITE

THE LETTER, BUT USE A PENCIL AND PAPER.

DON'T DO IT ON YOUR KEYBOARD, YOU MIGHT BUMP THE SEND BUTTON.

(LAUGHTER) JAMES 1:19, "...LET EVERY MAN BE SWIFT TO HEAR, SLOW

TO SPEAK, SLOW TO WRATH; FOR THE WRATH OF MAN DOES NOT PRODUCE

THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD." PRAY WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY.

SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY YOU WILL FEEL LIKE PRAYING THE LEAST

BUT IT IS WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE PRAYING THE MOST.

IT DOESN'T HELP IF THE PERSON YOU'RE ANGRY AT - IF THEY'RE

ASKING YOU TO PRAY, BUT YOU MAY NEED TO.

CLAIM THE PROMISES OF GOD.

THE BIBLE'S FULL OF EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES LIKE

GALATIANS 2:20, "I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST" - IT'S

HARD TO BE ANGRY WHEN YOU REALIZE, 'HEY, JESUS DIED ON A

CROSS FOR THIS PERSON'S SINS. HE DIED ON A CROSS FOR MY SIN.

WHAT RIGHT DO I HAVE TO BE SO ANGRY AT THEM?'

YOU KNOW SOMETHING THAT HELPS ME NOT BE ANGRY WITH PEOPLE?

I HEAR ABOUT FOLKS WHO SAY THEY'RE ANGRY AT GOD AND, IF YOU

TRUST THAT GOD IS GOOD, YOU CAN USUALLY WORK YOUR WAY THROUGH

THAT. BUT WHEN YOU GET ANGRY AT PEOPLE

- I THINK ABOUT THAT PARABLE IN MATTHEW 18, OF THE UNMERCIFUL

DEBTOR WHO IS FORGIVEN TEN THOUSAND TALENTS AND GOD HAS

FORGIVEN US SO MUCH THAT WHAT RIGHT DO I HAVE FOR THE LITTLE

OFFENSES THAT WE HAVE WITH EACH OTHER?

THE OTHER THING THAT HELPS ME IS I REMEMBER THAT THE LORD LOVES

EVERYBODY AND SINNERS ARE GOING TO DO DIABOLICAL THINGS BECAUSE

THEY'RE BEING TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL.

SO, IF PEOPLE DO DEVILISH THINGS, THAT'S TO BE EXPECTED IF

THEY'RE LOST. YOU'VE GOT TO LOVE EVEN THOSE PEOPLE.

JESUS SAID 'LOVE YOUR ENEMIES' - RIGHT?

HE DIDN'T SAY 'BE ANGRY AT THEM.' 'GIVE THEM A PIECE OF

YOUR MIND.' "A SOFT ANSWER TURNS AWAY WRATH" - PROVERBS 15:1 -

THERE'S AN INTERESTING EXAMPLE OF THIS IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES,

CHAPTER 8. GIDEON, WHEN HE WAS FIGHTING

AGAINST THE MIDIANITES, HE DID NOT CALL THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM TO

GO WITH HIM TO BATTLE AND THEY FELT LEFT OUT OF THE VICTORY.

THEY, ON THEIR OWN, THEY WENT OUT AND THEY FOUGHT AGAINST THE

PRINCES OF THE MIDIANITES AND THEY WERE GOING TO, NOW, HAVE A

CIVIL WAR WITH GIDEON. AND IT SAYS - I'M READING, NOW,

JUDGES 8:1, "NOW THE MEN OF EPHRAIM ...REPRIMANDED HIM

SHARPLY. SO HE SAID TO THEM, 'WHAT HAVE

I DONE NOW IN COMPARISON WITH YOU?

IS NOT THE GLEANING OF THE GRAPES OF EPHRAIM BETTER THAN

THE VINTAGE OF ABIEZER? GOD HAS DELIVERED INTO YOUR

HANDS THE PRINCES OF MIDIAN, OREB AND ZEEB.

AND WHAT WAS I ABLE TO DO IN COMPARISON WITH YOU?'

THEN THEIR ANGER TOWARD HIM SUBSIDED WHEN HE SAID THAT."

HE GAVE THEM A GENTLE DELICATE SOFT ANSWER AND IT DEFUSED THE

WHOLE THING THAT COULD HAVE TURNED INTO A CIVIL WAR.

GRIEVOUS WORDS STIR UP STRIFE. IF YOU'RE IN AN ARGUMENT WITH

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TELL THEM HOW WRONG THEY ARE. A SOFT ANSWER - IN MARRIAGES -

A SOFT ANSWER TURNS AWAY WRATH. PSALM 46:10, "BE STILL,

AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD." DO YOU REALIZE THAT THE REASON

THAT YOU AND I HAVE HOPE OF SALVATION IS BECAUSE, AFTER THE

DEVIL DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO GET JESUS TO REACT AT THE CROSS,

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AND SO, HE SET AN EXAMPLE FOR US. HE WAS THINKING ABOUT US

WHEN HE KEPT HIS COOL. JESUS DIDN'T COME TO MAKE US

STRESS, HE CAME TO GIVE US PEACE.

HE SAYS, 'PEACE I GIVE TO YOU, NOT AS THE WORLD GIVES, GIVE I

UNTO YOU.' 'LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED.' 'BE ANXIOUS FOR

NOTHING.' 'FEAR NOT.' SO MANY TIMES PEOPLE ARE ANGRY BECAUSE

THEY JUST - THEY DON'T HAVE PEACE.

AND THE LORD IS GIVING YOU A PEACE THAT THE WORLD DOESN'T

UNDERSTAND - A PEACE THAT PASSES UNDERSTANDING.

I WANT THAT PEACE, DON'T YOU?

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