The right choice.
Anger is an emotion. Like every emotion, it can be misused and miss-understood. There is right anger and a wrong anger.
The emotion may be the same, but the motive is everything.
There is carnal (evil) anger, such as when someone is angry over some immature or trifling matter. Their feeling got hurt, and they blow up. That’s carnal anger, and its based-on selfishness.
There is also a righteous anger, as when a parent sees his child getting abused or attacked. This is the same anger God has at the wicked who mock him or attack his children.
There is a human anger in response to pain or fear. We see this when someone suddenly falls into pain or fear. There is that human anger that rises up, and they have a great strength or endurance.
The most terrible anger of all, is the spirit of anger. this is a dark sinister spirit of rage and brutality. It does not need a reason; it only needs a victim. Its explosive and uncontrolled. The spirit of anger does not happen overnight. It usually is cultivated in the person who refuses to control themselves. As the dark spirit slowly takes control, until it is uncontrollable. This type of anger is usually based on selfishness, of those who seek to use anger as a means of control.
Mat 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment:
There are people who think themselves to be super spiritual, and say they never get angry, or they will say anger is a sin. But these types of statements are based on ignorance or religious hype. The word of God is our final authority. It sheds a clear light on anger and its understanding.
Satan lives in a constant state of rage. He tries to use peoples misunderstanding of anger. He will convince them they have sinned because they got angry. But that isn’t always the case. God and Jesus were both angry at times. They did not sin. The real answer to anger as a sin, is found in the motive.
Its important to understand, no where in the bible does it say the saints wont be angry at times.
The bible says:
Eph 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Eph 4:27 Neither give place to the devil.
The basic message is” there are time you will be angry. But anger in its self is not a sin. Unless your anger was based on selfishness. If that’s the case. You will need to ask forgiveness and make some restitutions. But you don’t have to blow your top because you got angry. Dony let the devil beat you over the head with your emotions. Don’t let your emotions control you! One of the fruits of the spirit is self-control.
These verses teach us, to have self-control. It does not say you won’t be angry, it says to control yourself, even if you are upset!
Eph 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Eph 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Eph 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Eph 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Col 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
God can be angry.
Psa 7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
Jesus can be angry.
Mar 3:5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
Moses was angry
Exo 32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
We will be angry at times. It is possible to be very angry, and people don’t even know it. We should let God take care of the problem and trust him for the outcome! We know vengeance belongs to God: but so does great mercy and patience!
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