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*Thomas** S. Myers*
*4** Ways To Control Your Anger*
Exodus 32 & Numbers 20
As you take a close look at the life of Moses you discover he had a problem controlling his anger.
In Exodus chapter 2 he killed an Egyptian (Exodus 2:11-12).
In Exodus 32:19 Moses sees the golden calf that the children of Israel had made for worship.
In his anger, Moses throws down the tablets of stone, shattering the 2 stone tablets that God had made.
In Numbers 20:10-12, Moses, filled with anger, disobeys God and the result was that God would not let Moses enter into the promise land.
Moses is not the only one with a problem of anger.
More than likely you also have had a problem with anger.
Lets take a test to see if you have a problem with anger.
When you get angry, do you get angry against the person rather than the offense?
Do you have a desire for revenge?
Do you have a hard time forgiving others?
Do you get angry easily?
Do you have a reputation for losing your temper?
If your answer is yes, then you have a problem losing your temper.
Lets look at God's word and find out how to control anger.
The context of Exodus chapter 32 is that Moses has been up on a mountain talking with God for a number of days.
He has received from God the 10 commandments and the outline for building the tabernacle that will be used in worshipping God.
But it has been
days since he has been seen by the congregation of Israel.
So Moses' brother Aaron is encouraged to make a god out of a golden calf.
So while Moses is speaking with God, his congregation is worshipping a calf.
Look at *Exodus 32:1-10**.
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* WHAT IS TRUE ABOUT ANGER?*
*1ST** -- THERE IS A PROPER USE OF ANGER.
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* *Notice from Exodus 32:10 that is proper to be angry at sin.
You will see that one of the characteristics of God is that He gets angry against sin.
Look at what God says to Moses.
*Exodus 32:10** *
*10 **Now** leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them.
Then I will make you into a great nation."
(NIV)*
* *God has a righteous anger against sin.
There is a proper use of anger.
Some people think that all anger is sin.
That is not the case.
Notice what Ephesians 4: 26 says about that.
*Ephesians 4:26** *
*26** **"In your anger do not sin."
(NIV)*
Ephesians 4:26 says that in our anger we are not to sin.
That is, there are some things we are to be angry at.
We are not to get angry to the point that it drives us to sin.
Look at Mark 3:5 and you will see that Jesus got angry.
*Mark** 3:5** *
*5** **/Jesus/** looked around at */the Pharisees/* in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, "Stretch out your hand."
He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.
(NIV)*
Jesus did not lose his temper.
He didn't yell in a fit of rage, but He was angry.
He was angry at the sin of the Pharisees.
Sin ought to move you to anger.
Abraham Lincoln in his younger days, went down to the slave market in New Orleans.
There he saw a black girl being auctioned as a slave.
Abraham Lincoln said he felt a righteous indignation coming over him.
And he said to his friend, "That is wrong, and one of these days, if I have a chance to stop it, I'm going to stop it."
I'm angry that over 30,000,000 babies have been aborted.
I'm angry that thousands of children are being sexually and physically abused.
But my anger is not to drive me to sin.
For example, I heard of a business man went to the hospital to visit his partner, who was dying from being poisoned.
Suddenly the dying man said, "Before I die I must confess some things to you and ask your forgiveness.
I want you to know that I robbed the firm of $100,000.
I sold our secret formula to our competitors, and also, I'm the one who supplied your wife with the evidence that helped her get her divorce that cost you a fortune."
The business man said, "Oh, that's O.K. I'm the guy who poisoned you."
There is to be a proper use of anger.
*2ND** -- THERE IS THE IMPROPER USE OF ANGER.*
Moses illustrates the improper use of anger.
*Exodus 32:15-19** *
*15** **Moses** turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands.
They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.
16 The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, "There is the sound of war in the camp."
18 Moses replied: "It is not the sound of victory, it is not the sound of defeat; it is the sound of singing that I hear."
19 When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.
(NIV)*
* * What is this all about?
Well, Moses has been on a mountain top talking with God.
And as he is working his way down the mountain, he sees the golden calf that they people were worshipping.
Notice the improper use of his anger.
*EXODUS 31:19*
*19 **When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.
(NIV)*
In rage, Moses takes the two stone tablets that contained the law of God , and he throws them down.
And the result is that they shatter.
You say, "Pastor, are you sure Moses lost his temper?"
Yes, I am.
Let me ask you a question.
Who made the stone tablets?
God did.
Who wrote on the stone tablets?
God did.
Look at Exodus 32:16
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*Exodus 32:16** *
*16 **The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
(NIV)*
Now look at Exodus 34:1.
When God wants to replace the 2 stone tablets, is God going to make the tablets and give them to Moses again?
No way.
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