(CFRA broadcast date: Sunday, June 24th,
2012)
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Broadcast Notes:
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Rev. Juliet Schimpf is the Minister of First Baptist Church in Perth, Ontario: | |||||||
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PART 1: SANCTIFIED
ANGER--NEEDS TO BE CHANNELED
PART 2: SUDDEN ANGER--NEED
TO BE CONTROLLED
PART 3: SLOW ANGER--NEEDS
TO BE CONDEMNED
PART 4: SPIRIT-CONTROLLED
ANGER
PART 1: SANCTIFIED ANGER
* ARE ALL FORMS OF ANGER EVIL? NO--JESUS WAS ANGRY:
·
Jesus acted out His anger when He drove the moneychangers out of
the temple courts. He did this because they had made God's house a marketplace;
they had cheated people and prevented them from worshiping God (see Matt. 21:12).
(http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2021:12&version=NIV)
(http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2021:12&version=NIV)
·
He became angry with the Pharisees because of their heartlessness.
They wanted Him to keep the rules
they had made for the Sabbath, and they had no compassion for the man with the
shriveled hand whom Jesus healed (see Mark 3:5).
(http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%203:5&version=NIV)
(http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%203:5&version=NIV)
·
Jesus was very indignant when the disciples tried to prevent people
from bringing children to Him (see Mark 10:14).
(http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%2010:14&version=NIV)
(http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%2010:14&version=NIV)
* KEY: JESUS WAS ANGRY ABOUT INJUSTICE, RELIGIOUS
HYPOCRISY, SIN; HE DISPLAYED RIGHTEOUS ANGER
* Winston Churchill
"A man is about as big as the things that make him angry."
* Moses exhibited righteous
indignation when he came down from Mount Sinai
after forty days of talking with God and
receiving his holy law. At the foot of the mountain, he found the Israelites in
a wild orgy, dancing around a golden calf. He smashed the two tablets of stone
to the ground, shattering them as powerfully as their laws had been shattered
by the people's rebellion. God did not rebuke him for that.
(NIV) JAMES 1:19 "My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone
should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the
righteousness that God desires. ... 26 Those who consider
themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves,
and their religion is worthless.”
PART 2: SUDDEN ANGER
* THE TEMPERAMENT OF THIS
TYPE OF PERSON: "HOT UNDER THE
COLLAR", "SHORT FUSE", "BAD TEMPER", "EASILY
OFFENDED"
* EXTERNALIZE
ANGER---->VIOLENCE, ANGRY WORDS
2008 MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF BRITAIN
("BOILING POINT" ARTICLE)
·
Almost a third of people polled (32%) say they
have a close friend or family member who has trouble controlling their anger.
·
More than one in ten (12%) say that they have
trouble controlling their own anger.
·
More than one in four (28%) say that they worry
about how angry they sometimes feel.
·
One in five people (20%) say that they have ended
a relationship or friendship with someone because of how they behaved when
angry.
·
64% agree that people in general are getting
angrier.
·
Fewer than one in seven (13%) of those people who
say they have trouble controlling their anger have sought help for anger problems.
* 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!”
behind!”
·
PROVERBS 15:18 “A hot-tempered
person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.”
·
PROVERBS
29:22 “One given to anger stirs up strife, and the
hothead causes much transgression.”
·
PROVERBS 14:29 “A patient man has great understanding, but
a quick-tempered man displays folly.”
·
PROVERBS
29:11 (NRSV)
“A fool gives full vent to anger,
but the wise quietly holds it back.“
but the wise quietly holds it back.“
* But forty years later,
Moses' rash, impatient anger exploded in rage, and he disobeyed God and struck
a rock twice with his staff instead of speaking to it as God had commanded. For
this display of anger, Moses was rebuked by God and forbidden to enter the Promised Land.
PART
3: SLOW ANGER
* THIS TYPE OF PERSON INTERNALIZES
ANGER--->ON THE SURFACE, PERSON LOOKS FINE; AND PEOPLE MIGHT SAY, "HE
OR SHE NEVER GETS ANGRY"!
* ADJECTIVES: SARCASTIC, CYNICAL, CONDESCENDING, BITTER,
GOSSIP
*
(NRSV) EPHESIANS 4:31
"31Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger
and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, 32and be kind to one
another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven
you."
* DON'T LET ANGER FESTER!
* EPHESIANS
4:26 "Do
not let the sun go down on your wrath"
* MARK TWAIN: Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the
vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.--BITTERNESS
IS LIKE DRINKING POISON AND EXPECTING THE OTHER PERSON TO DIE!
PART 4: SPIRIT-CONTROLLED
ANGER
* EPHESIANS 4:26 "Be
angry, and do not sin"
* THIS IS POSSIBLE FOR THE
CHRISTIAN
* (AMPLIFIED) PROVERBS 31:26 "She opens her
mouth in skillful and godly Wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness [giving
counsel and instruction]."
* (NRSV) Proverbs
8: 6-8
"6 Hear,
for I will speak noble things,
and from my lips will come what is right;
7 for my mouth will utter truth;
wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8 All the words of my mouth are righteous;
there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.
9 They are all straight to one who understands
and right to those who find knowledge."
and from my lips will come what is right;
7 for my mouth will utter truth;
wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8 All the words of my mouth are righteous;
there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.
9 They are all straight to one who understands
and right to those who find knowledge."
* YOU
NEED TO BE BORN AGAIN AND FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
*
EPHESIANS 5:18 "BE
FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT" -- CONTINUOUS VERB!
* GALATIANS 5
(NIV) 13 ...the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one
command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b] 15 If
you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.16 So
I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For
the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is
contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you
are not to do whatever[c] you
want. 18 But if you are
led by the Spirit, you
are not under the law. 19 The acts of the
flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity
and debauchery; 20 idolatry and
witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions,
factions 21 and envy;
drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I
warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the
kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of
the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, forbearance,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness,23 gentleness and
self-control.”
THE KEY: CONTROLLING
ANGER---NOT LETTING ANGER CONTROL YOU!
Proverbs 25:28, (ESV). “A man
without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.”
Proverbs 17:27, (ESV). “Whoever
restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of
understanding.”
Proverbs 16:32, (ESV). “Whoever is slow to anger is better than the
mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.”
PRACTICAL
TIPS:
1. E-MAILS ARE NO GOOD!
2. FACE-TO-FACE IS BEST; PHONE SECOND BEST
3. BATHE SITUATIONS IN PRAYER--WE PRAY NOT TO
CHANGE GOD'S MIND, BUT TO GOD CHANGE US!
4. BE BRUTALLY HONEST WITH GOD; ASK FOR HIS LOVE
TO FILL YOU!
5. DON'T DRAG UP THE PAST
6. IF
YOU INTERNALIZE; GET A JOURNAL
7. GUARD YOUR EYES AND EARS--WHAT GOES IN, COMES
OUT!
JAMES 1: “21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and
the evil that is so prevalent and
humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.”
A study found that between 1993
and 2001, incidents of physical violence increased by 378 per cent. TV shows in
2001 averaged 40 acts of violence per hour.Overall, 87.9 per cent of all
violent acts appear before 9 p.m., and 39 per cent air before 8 p.m.
-- at a time when children are likely
to be watching.
CONCLUSION: "One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one
who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city." Proverbs 16:32
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