Anger Management - 101 (18 of 27)
Series: Ephesians
Collin Wimberly
Ephesians 4:26-27; 31
CIT- Paul commands the Ephesian Christians not to sin in anger but to forgive as Christ has forgiven them.
Proposition - Christians need to learn how to manage their anger through the power of the Holy Spirit.
INTRODUCTION:
I) BE ANGRY IN THE RIGHT WAY -
Be Angry is an imperative, a command.
McArthur - Anger is commanded, not permitted.
You don’t typically start a sermon on anger with a command to be angry.
There is an anger that is good. Anger that is Godly. Anger that is constructive and helpful. This is righteous anger.
Be angry in the right way means that I must have . . .
A) THE RIGHT REASON - This is anger against injustice, immorality, and ungodliness.
1) Moses - Exodus 32:19 - When he saw the wickedness of the Hebrews, he grew angry, angry at their behavior.
2) Jesus - Mark 3:5 - the Ph. Try to set him up, they send a man on the Sabbath with a ruined hand, to see if Jesus would heal him. He was angry. Angry at the unjust treatment this man received.
3) Psalm 7:11 - God is angry with the wicked every day.
4) William Wilberforce - His campaign against Slavery in England in the 1700’s - In May 1789 when speaking to the House ‘‘ I confess to you, so enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did its wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition.’’ Roots of endurance, p. 129
5) We live in the greatest nation on Earth. Yet we have reason to be angry in the US today.
We should be angry over Abortion - thousands are aborted every day.
We should be angry that in Sudan Christians are persecuted and enslaved.
We should be angered by dead, dry, formal Christianity.
B) A LIMITED DURATION - However, there is a tendency for even good anger to go bad. Paul tells us to put a time limit on it.
If we let anger smolder it will likely burst into flames!
Don’t chew on your anger - don’t sleep on it.
If you ...
Series: Ephesians
Collin Wimberly
Ephesians 4:26-27; 31
CIT- Paul commands the Ephesian Christians not to sin in anger but to forgive as Christ has forgiven them.
Proposition - Christians need to learn how to manage their anger through the power of the Holy Spirit.
INTRODUCTION:
I) BE ANGRY IN THE RIGHT WAY -
Be Angry is an imperative, a command.
McArthur - Anger is commanded, not permitted.
You don’t typically start a sermon on anger with a command to be angry.
There is an anger that is good. Anger that is Godly. Anger that is constructive and helpful. This is righteous anger.
Be angry in the right way means that I must have . . .
A) THE RIGHT REASON - This is anger against injustice, immorality, and ungodliness.
1) Moses - Exodus 32:19 - When he saw the wickedness of the Hebrews, he grew angry, angry at their behavior.
2) Jesus - Mark 3:5 - the Ph. Try to set him up, they send a man on the Sabbath with a ruined hand, to see if Jesus would heal him. He was angry. Angry at the unjust treatment this man received.
3) Psalm 7:11 - God is angry with the wicked every day.
4) William Wilberforce - His campaign against Slavery in England in the 1700’s - In May 1789 when speaking to the House ‘‘ I confess to you, so enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did its wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition.’’ Roots of endurance, p. 129
5) We live in the greatest nation on Earth. Yet we have reason to be angry in the US today.
We should be angry over Abortion - thousands are aborted every day.
We should be angry that in Sudan Christians are persecuted and enslaved.
We should be angered by dead, dry, formal Christianity.
B) A LIMITED DURATION - However, there is a tendency for even good anger to go bad. Paul tells us to put a time limit on it.
If we let anger smolder it will likely burst into flames!
Don’t chew on your anger - don’t sleep on it.
If you ...
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