Sunday Re-cap 7th August

Anger Management
by Bob Kok

Eph. 4: 26 – 32 (The Message Bible)
Go ahead and be angry. You do well to be angry—but don’t use your anger as fuel for revenge. And don’t stay angry. Don’t go to bed angry. Don’t give the Devil that kind of foothold in your life.
Did you used to make ends meet by stealing? Well, no more! Get an honest job so that you can help others who can’t work.
Watch the way you talk. Let nothing foul or dirty come out of your mouth. Say only what helps, each word a gift.
Don’t grieve God. Don’t break his heart. His Holy Spirit, moving and breathing in you, is the most intimate part of your life, making you fit for himself. Don’t take such a gift for granted.
Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.

This scripture commands us not to sin by being angry. We are told to put away or to bring anger under control.

4 Types of Anger

1. Charcoal or pay-back type of anger (Gen 4:1 – 8)
   Cain’s jealousy led him to anger and then to murder his brother Abel. Cain allowed his anger to the boiling point; just like the charcoal, when anger has burned for a period of time, it gets hotter and hotter (out of control).
2. Match type of anger (1 Sam 18:5 -12)
   This type endures for only a moment but causes a lot of destruction. King Saul kept a jealous match on David. He was afraid of David because God was with David, and many times tried to kill David.
   Fear may cause anger to rise up in people and they can act very irrationally.
   Ecc. 7:9 - Don’t be quick-tempered: that is being a fool.
3. Righteous indignation or anger (Mk.3:1 – 6)
   Jesus got angry at the selfish hardness of their hearts (the Pharisees’ indifference to human needs).
   Deut 29:24 – 28- The Lord’s anger was kindled because of the people’s hard-hearted disobedience.
4. The anger of provocation
   1 Col 3:21- Fathers, provoke not your children to anger……
   Eph 6:4 - Do not nag or provoke them to wrath….but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
   
   Conclusion
   But now is the time to cast off and throw away all these rotten garments of anger, hatred, cursing and dirty language. Col 3:8
   Walk according to the Spirit and always operate through the fruit of the Spirit! Gal 5:16-22