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Overcoming Anger
  • Ephesians 425-32

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Overcoming Anger
  • The response of secular culture
  • Reject It! (Resentment)
  • 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. Mark Twain
  • Release It! (Retaliation and Rage)
  • What makes anger so elusive and so incredibly
    dangerous is that it flares suddenly, powerfully,
    and irrationally. It takes no counsel of the
    future. It takes no counsel of personal safety,
    even ones own. David Jeremiah, Slaying The
    Giants in Your Life
  • Repurpose It (Re-channel It!)

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Overcoming Anger
  • V.26- Be ANGRY! (PPIV)
  • V.26- Anger
  • Parorgismos- anger that is mixed with
    irritation, resentment, or bitterness
  • V.31- Wrath
  • Thumos- an impassioned, wild rage. That which
    boils up quickly but then quickly subsides.
  • V.31- Anger
  • Orge- an abiding, settled habit of the mind that
    is aroused under certain conditions.
  • V.26- Be angry, and yet DO NOT SIN
  • Realize the Source of our anger

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Realize the Source
  • Genesis 43-7 So it came about in the course of
    time that Cain brought an offering to the LORD of
    the fruit of the ground. 4 Abel, on his part
    also brought of the firstlings of his flock and
    of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard
    for Abel and for his offering 5 but for Cain
    and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain
    became very angry and his countenance fell. 6
    Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry?
    And why has your countenance fallen? 7 "If you
    do well, will not your countenance be lifted up?
    And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at
    the door and its desire is for you, but you must
    master it."

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Realize the Source
  • Mark 31-5 He entered again into a synagogue and
    a man was there whose hand was withered. 2 They
    were watching Him to see if He would heal him on
    the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. 3 He
    said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up
    and come forward!" 4 And He said to them, "Is it
    lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath,
    to save a life or to kill?" But they kept silent.
    5 After looking around at them with anger,
    grieved at their hardness of heart,

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Realize the Source
  • V.26- Be angry, and yet DO NOT SIN
  • When guided by reason, anger is a right
    affection, so the Scripture permits it, and not
    only permits, but on fit occasion demands it . .
    . there can be no more surer or sadder token of
    an utterly prostrate moral condition than the not
    being able to be angry with sin.
  • Unrighteous Anger (Cain)
  • Self-centered, Self-serving
  • Righteous Anger (Christ)
  • God-centered, God-serving

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Redeem the Source
  • V.25- Therefore
  • V.17- you walk no longer as the Gentiles also
    walk
  • Futility of mind
  • Darkened in understanding
  • Excluded from the life of God
  • V.20 But you
  • V.22- Lay aside the old self (former manner of
    life)
  • Strip off
  • That which is worn out and useless
  • Being corrupted
  • V.24- Put on the new self

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Redeem the Source
  • 2 Corinthians 517 Therefore if anyone is in
    Christ, he is a new creature the old things
    passed away behold, new things have come.
  • V.24- put on the new self which
  • V.23 is renewed in the spirit of your mind
  • V.24 in the likeness of God has been
  • Created in righteousness
  • Holiness of truth
  • V.32- Be
  • kind to one another
  • Tender-hearted- a deeply felt empathy for the
    struggles of others
  • Forgiving each other

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Redeem the Source
  • Romans 1217-21 Never pay back evil for evil to
    anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all
    men. 18 If possible, so far as it depends on
    you, be at peace with all men. 19 Never take
    your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the
    wrath of God, for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS
    MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord. 20 "BUT IF
    YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM, AND IF HE IS
    THIRSTY, GIVE HIM A DRINK FOR IN SO DOING YOU
    WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD." 21 Do not
    be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

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Relinquish the Sinful Attitudes
  • V.26- Do Not
  • V.26- Sin (do not allow anger to control you)
  • V.26- Let the sun go down on your anger (do not
    allow anger to remain in you)
  • V.27- Give the devil an opportunity ( do not
    allow anger to become a tool of the devil)
  • V.29- Let unwholesome words proceed from your
    mouth (do not allow anger to choose your words)
  • V.30- Grieve the Holy Spirit ( do not allow anger
    to rob you of the joy of your salvation)

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Relinquish the Sinful Attitudes
  • V.31- Put away ALL (APIV)
  • Bitterness- A smoldering resentment
    grudge-filled attitude
  • Wrath (thumos)- wild, impassioned rage
  • Anger (orge)- a deep, internal smoldering
  • Clamor- public outburst that reveal a loss of
    control
  • Slander- defamation of someone that rises from a
    bitter heart
  • Malice- general term for evil

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Rubin Hurricane Carter
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Rubin Hurricane Carter
  • The question invariably arises, it has before
    and it will again Rubin, are you bitter? And
    in answer to that I will say, After all thats
    been said and donethe fact that the most
    productive years of my life, between the ages of
    twenty-nine and fifty, have been stolen the fact
    that I was deprived of seeing my children grow
    upwouldnt you think I would have the right to
    be bitter. But that has never been in my nature,
    or my lot, to do things the easy way. If I have
    learned nothing else in my life, Ive learned
    that bitterness only consumes the vessel that
    contains it. And for me to permit bitterness to
    control or to infect my life in anyway whatsoever
    would be to allow those who imprisoned me to take
    even more than the 22 years theyve already
    taken. Now that would make me an accomplice to
    their crime.

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