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Your muscles tense as your body prepares for action.
Sugar pours into your bloodstream, creating a high level of energy.
Your blood pressure increases and your heart beats faster to circulate blood more rapidly.
Large amounts of adrenaline are released into your system and you feel a surge of strength.
The stomach muscles constrict and the digestive process stops.
Your face flushes.
Your body is ready for action.
No, it's not love you're feeling: /It's anger./
Anger is another of the /Seven Deadly Sins/.
Of the seven, I believe that anger is perhaps the most malignant.
Anger is a fire; it spontaneously ignites, it consumes, and it destroys.
Watch, and you'll see it everywhere.
Anger is found on the highway during the morning and evening rush hours.
You'll see anger in the elderly employee let go from his job so the company can hire a younger man at a lesser pay.
Anger is the teenager pounding his fist into his locker at school for any one of a thousand reasons.
Anger is the harried business woman coming home from a busy work day only to pick up the role of being mother to three kids who ask, /"What's for supper?"/ the moment she walks through the door while dad sits unresponsive in front of the TV set.
Anger is the child who can't have another toy and throws a tantrum in the middle of the aisle.
Anger is the single woman being told she is overqualified for the job, when what she needs is any job that will help her make money to keep her home or her car or her furniture.
Anger is the trigger of a gun being squeezed in the ally or the school yard or the office or the home that brings an argument to a sudden and violent close.
Anger is one of the great sins of our time.
Everywhere you look, Americans seem to be angry at someone or something.
We live at a time when there is a harassed, and knife-edged quality to daily life.
Nerves are ragged and millions of people seem terminally fed up.
Of all the seven deadly sins, anger is the most dangerous because, if uncontrolled, it can lead to calamitous results.
That is why the Apostle James wrote: /"My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires."/
James 1:19-20
Christians are not immune to the feeling of anger.
But if we are to lead righteous and Christ-like lives anger must be brought under the control of the Holy Spirit in the believer's life.
So what do the Scriptures have to say about anger?
Let's take a look.
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I. ANGER IS AN EMOTION THAT IS PART OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE
#. there are some Christians and preachers who will tell you that anger in the believer's life is always wrong period!
* ILLUS.
When I was a freshman in college I took a class in astronomy.
Sitting next to me in that class was a young women in her early thirties who had come back to college to finish her degree.
She was a hard core Pentecostal and we had many interesting discussions about the bible.
She believed that anger was wrong in the believer's life and that to get mad at anyone or about anything was a sin.
Well, one day I saw her get mad.
I mean, she got mad!
She got red-in-the-face, flared-nostrils, clenched-fist mad.
When I chided her about it, her eyes flashed and she shot back, /"That wasn't anger!
It was righteous indignation!"/
#. as I reflect back on that experience I've come to realize that, no, it was plan old anger!
#. there are some Christians and preachers who will tell you that anger in the believer's life is always wrong
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I am not one of those
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anger is an emotion God has given us for good reasons
#. the goal in the believer's life is to learn how to express it appropriately, so that it does not control us
!! A. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN ANGER IS THE NORMAL RESPONSE
#. let me give you an example
* ILLUS.
On Wednesday morning of this past week, I was coming up the hill here at the church on my way to Jefferson City.
I was already doing about sixty when some idiot shot by me on the right just as the passing lane disappears.
She just about forced me into the on-coming lane with traffic coming my way.
It made me mad!
I got angry.
It was a normal response.
I didn’t say anything.
I didn’t do anything.
But I thought a few things that weren’t very Christ-like.
#. everyone here today has experienced anger as a response to some situation or experience or person
#. for some of you /super pious /folks that say, /“Not me, pastor.
I never get angry,”/ we’ll deal with lying at another time
#. for the rest of us, anger is a behavioral, emotional, and physiological reaction to stress and provocation
#. and I doubt that there is a single person here who does not experience stress and provocation on an almost daily basis
#. the question is, /"How are you handling that stress and provocation and the anger you experience because of it?"/
#. the Scriptures give us numerous examples of even the great men and women of God getting angry
#. one of my favorite examples that I came across this week is found in the book of Nehemiah
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Nehemiah confesses . . .
/"Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.
Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language of Judah.
I rebuked them and called curses down on them.
I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair.
I made them take an oath in God's name and said: "You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves."/
Nehemiah 13:23-25
#. we might not condone Nehemiah's methods, but his anger was a normal response to the situation
#. /there are times when anger is the normal response/
!! B. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN ANGER IS THE  RIGHT RESPONSE
#. there are things that happen in our community or our society that we should be angry about
#. in these cases, anger is not only the normal response, but the right response
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we should get angry over the atrocity of abortion on demand in this country
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every year 1.2 million babies are tossed into surgical scrap buckets, not for some medical reason, but because they were merely inconvenient
#. it ought to make us angry
#. we should be angry over the perversion of pornography
#. child pornography alone is a $1 billion dollar a year business in this country
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pornography perverts and poisons  the minds and souls of hundreds of thousands of young men and exploits the lives of tens of thousands of young women and children
#. it ought to make us angry
#. we should be angry at the greed of the gambling interests that have moved into Missouri
#. their goal is not to make this a better state, but to suck as much money as they can out of our citizens and to line the pockets of as many politicians as it takes in order to keep exploiting our residents
#. it ought to make us angry
#. we should be angry at the deadliness of drunken drivers and a system that treats them with leniency
#. over half of all fatal traffic accidents involve a drunk driver
#. it ought to make us angry
#. again, the Scriptures reveal that there are times when anger is a justifiable emotion
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Jacob's father-in-law cheated him and gave Leah as a bride instead of Rachel, and Jacob got mad
#. he was justified in doing so
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Moses returned from the mountain top with the Ten Commandments after meeting with God, only to find that the people had made an idol to worship, and Moses became angry
#. he was justified in doing so
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Jesus healed a man with a shriveled hand, for which the Pharisees in the hardness of their hearts accused Jesus of  working on the Sabbath' and Jesus became angry at their callousness
#. he was justified in doing so
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yes, there are times when anger is the right response
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