Don't Lose Your Temper with Others
Series: Breaking the Unwritten Rules
March 18, 2018
Frank Foreman
As we live in an imperfect world we need some rules and laws to combat the worst forms of evil. Both in Jesus’s day and even today, the religious culture then and now had/has its own sets of rules. One of those rules that Jesus flew in the face of this was in becoming angry. But is there a difference between being angry and losing one's temper? Is there a contrast between anger and righteous indignation? We look at these questions in this message from the life of Jesus Christ.
Episode Notes
Mark 11:15-19, And they came to Jerusalem. And He entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and He overturned the tables of the money- changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. And He would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. And He was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.” And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy Him, for they feared Him, because all the crowd was astonished at His teaching. And when evening came they went out of the city.
1. Righteous anger is directed at INJUSTICE, IMMORALITY and UNGODLINESS
- Money changers were dishonoring GOD and taking advantage of OTHERS
2. Righteous anger is UNSELFISH and based on LOVE for God and others
- Jesus’s anger had NOTHING to do with how people were treating HIM
3. Even righteous anger can turn to BITTERNESS if PROLONGED
- Either DEAL with your anger by taking action or set it ASIDE
CHALLENGE: Be ANGRY and don’t SIN
Ephesians 4:26
Pick a fight with ANYTHING that gets in the way of your WORSHIP
- Un-repented SIN
- Un-realized GRACE
- Un-recognized POTENTIAL
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