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Oh, my, I was going to talk to you for a few

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minutes on anger, but after all that good time

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of fellowship and good music, it's kind of hard

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to sit down and talk about getting mad, you know

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what? But we do. All of us. Sooner or later,

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sometime or another, there are times when we

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display our... Anger. Yes, sir. I don't care

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what a nice, sweet disposition you have. Sooner

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or later, something's gonna happen and something

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will rise up within you. And we call it anger.

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We're gonna have a little heart -to -heart talk

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for the next few minutes. And I pray that...

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This portion of the Word of God, it's so brief.

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It's only one little verse, that's all. And sometimes

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I think it's so misunderstood. There's much confusion

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in the human mind as to exactly what was meant

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in these words. Fourth chapter of Ephesians,

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the 26th verse. Be ye angry. And sin not. Let

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not the sun go down upon your wrath. Let's go

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back again. Be ye angry and sin not. We know

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very definitely then that there must be two kind

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of angers. A righteous anger, a good anger. anger

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and a bad anger. We know immediately then that

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it is possible to become angry and not sin. There

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is definite proof here that one therefore can

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become angry and sin. Now what's the difference?

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How are we going to know? Let's pause a minute.

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If anger is to be constructive, it must be harnessed

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to a great cause or to great causes. It must

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be like the explosions in the engine of your

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automobile. These explosions are under control

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of purpose and will drive you to your destination.

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But if... Instead of harnessing the explosions,

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you lighted all the gasoline in your tank all

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at once. With one great blow -up, you'd blow

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yourself and the car to pieces. It's one thing

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to have that gasoline harnessed, and it's another

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thing to have that gasoline unharnessed. It's

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one thing to have the gasoline controlled in

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a tank, and it's another thing to throw the gasoline

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all over the car. And if the gasoline is ignited,

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there'll be terrific tragedy. Yet in both cases,

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the thing that's involved is gasoline. One horned,

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one controlled, and one unhorned. uncontrolled.

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Let me go a little deeper. Take Jesus. Jesus

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was an example of controlled anger. When he was

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about to heal the man with the wounded arm, he

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saw the hardened faces of religious men who opposed

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the act because of being done on the Sabbath

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day. And the scripture says he looked around

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on them with Anger. Oh, sure. I can give you

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other scriptures that will substantiate the fact

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that Jesus became very angry. If you will, please,

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read it. It's there in Matthew when he became

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so angry, so enraged. Jesus literally got mad

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when he entered the temple and saw they were

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misusing the temple. So angry did he become that

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he called them. everything he could lay his tongue

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to. But the scripture also says that the day

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came and he turned around and challenged the

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whole world and said, which of you convinces

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me of sin? He never sinned. He became angry and

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he sinned not in his anger because it was a righteous

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anger. Go back again to that incident. He looked

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around about on them with anger, being grieved

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for the hardness of their hearts. Here his anger

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was not personal. It was not a wounded egotism.

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It was grief at the hardness of men's hearts

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to think that they could block the healing of

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a poor unfortunate. His anger drove him to oppose

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these men on behalf of the underprivileged. It

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was therefore a righteous anger. Watch it. It

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is absolutely a possibility for one to not become

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angry and sin. You'll say, Miss Cormorant, what

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in the world? That is a statement that... Are

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you sure you know what you said? Yes. If you

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do not feel something on the inside of you when

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you see sin, if you can hear men and women, if

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you can stand by and hear people use the name

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of the Lord Jesus Christ in vain, if you can

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stand silently by and keep your mouth closed,

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and feel nothing. When some man is so near to

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you that you can hear him take the name of the

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one that you love with all of your heart, the

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name of the one who died that you might have

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life eternal, if you can hear someone take the

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name of the Lord Jesus Christ in vain and not

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become incensed and become angry over it, there

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is some... wrong with you and your Christian

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experience. And it's just like that. That's right.

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What then is sinful anger? I'll tell you what

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it is. It is when self and selfishness are projected

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in the matter. When somebody says something about

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you and you get your feelings hurt. The whole

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matter pertains to self. This, therefore, is

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when there is sin in anger, and that is where

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most of us manifest our anger, when it centers

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around ourselves. We become angry when our feelings

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are hurt. We're so self -centered and when something

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touches us, hits our selfishness, hits us as

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an individual. Sure. It's them, beloved. If we

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display our anger, that anger is sin. You know,

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bad anger is poison. And it's just like that.

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Some doctors very recently put a tube down through

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the nostrils of a man and down through the nostrils

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into the man's stomach. And do you want to know

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something that they discovered? They discovered

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that when that man became angry, the digestion

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completely stopped. All of his digestive organs

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stopped immediately when that man became angry.

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One night when I was preaching on this subject

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of being angry, I dismissed the congregation

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and walked off the platform. And a young daddy

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who has absolutely a dearest little girl, just

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the one child, little Ruthie, I think she's five

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years of age now, he said, you want to know something?

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He said, my little girl taught me one of the

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greatest sermons that I've ever been taught.

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He said, unknowingly, I had gotten into the habit

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that sooner or later at the dinner table, I would

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become very cross with her. I would correct her

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for something. I'd be very loud about it. And

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he said, the other night at the dinner table,

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I did the same thing. Right in the middle of

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our meal, I said, Ruthie, and became very angry.

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He said she just looked at me. She has beautiful

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dark eyes. He said she just stopped me cold when

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she looked at me and said, Daddy, when you talk

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like that to me, My food don't taste good. When

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you talk like that to me, my food don't taste

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good. In a child's way of expressing it, she

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was saying exactly what the doctors discovered

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when they put that tube down through the nostrils

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of a man into his stomach. When that man became

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angry, the digestive organs completely stopped.

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Do you want to know something? It is a proven

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fact that stomach ulcers are often caused by

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anger and resentment. There's a certain form

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of arthritis caused by anger. Anger literally...

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dims the eyesight a doctor will not examine a

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patient's eyes he will not fit a person for glasses

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if he knows that that one is angry it's just

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like that beloved be careful you may find that

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those fits of or upsetting your entire physical

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body. I'll go a little further. It's a truth.

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A physician will verify what I'm saying to you.

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He could not find the cause of a little baby's

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illness. He tried everything. Stopping in the

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home one night, he saw the mother sitting there

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nursing the baby. And as she was nursing the

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baby, she was throwing a fit of anger, having

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become enraged with her husband. The doctor threw

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up both hands. He said, I see why your baby is

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ill. Let me give you the scripture. Watch it.

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For you become angry like that. You are your

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own worst enemy. Amen.