Overcoming Anger

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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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