14 Sep Understanding And Resolving Anger
Pastor Vincent - 9 January 2014
Right Before God, Unity With Brethren
What is delightful in God's eyes is always a sore in Satan's eyes. How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! (Psalm 133:1 NIV). While God loves His children to live in harmony and grow in love towards one another, Satan hates it to the core and tries to stop. As a result, misunderstandings, distrust, suspicions and Pharisaical issues arise even within churches. While it is a difficult battle to fight, for evil and cunning is the thief who works through all ways to steal away the peace and joy of children of God. But to children of God, He always provides a way out. When things get messy and out of hands, look to Him and seek Him carefully. Continue to dwell in His word, meditate and confirm it repeatedly until it becomes the unshakeable anchor point in your life. When you look to the Word with a believing heart, the Word gives you a God-revering spirit, a spirit that is fertile to the guidance of Holy Spirit. Learn from Phinehas confrontation and defense of the Eastern Tribe in Joshua 22. When we want to be right before God first, the leading of Holy Spirit will do His work in uniting the brethren's in love and grace, leaving no foothold for Satan.
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<Eph 4:26-27, 31-32> ESV
26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil (Or: Do not give the devil a foothold).…. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Be angry and do not sin <v26>
1) Intrinsically and inherently, anger in itself is not a sin.
2) Understand “Righteous Anger” – Can be a powerful force to put a stop to sinning.
3) Yet, our anger many a times lacks element of “righteousness”.
4) Individuals, Family and World are all terribly affected by anger
2. DO NOT let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold <v27>
1) Persistent/prolonged anger invites the devil to work.
2) Prolonged anger can open a way for the devil in our hearts to make his lies believable to us.
Causes of anger and Answers to it
1) Disappointment
⟹ Learn Submission and Love
2) Frustration (Thru repeated disappointments)
⟹ Grow in True Love (Always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres)
⟹ Even accepting and even adapting to someone who doesn’t change quickly)
3) Pain/Hurt
⟹ Understand that internal and emotional pain are more hurting than physical ones
⟹ Learn how to relate your pain/hurt rather than retaliation
⟹ Most important, look to the Cross of Calvary – The greatest pain ever inflicted, yet brought redemption.
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