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Anything that’s uncontrolled eventually will destroy you.
It can be eating, drinking, sex, television, chocolate, spending, pecan pie… anything that’s not controlled will eventually destroy you.
So we have been looking at Values to Live By and tonight we will look at Self Control.
This is not a popular topic today, but one that’s needed.
Most people want to look at how to have more fun, make more money etc. tonight we will look at specifically one area of self control that is completely out of control in our culture and that’s controlling our anger.
This has to do with all of us in some way.
You may not blow up… you may clam up.
You are either a skunk or a turtle.
When a skunk gets mad, it sprays the person that made it mad and stinks up the place.
On the other hand, the turtle draws back into his shell.
Turtles usually marry skunks.
One of you will let it all out and the other clams up.
One of you makes life exciting while the other keeps you both out of trouble.
Both need to learn how to deal with anger in a better way so they are not over whelmed by their emotions.
In our culture today, it’s obvious that we don’t know how to handle anger.
Violence is at an all time high.
Every area of violent crime is up in almost every city.
Did you know that many of the murders that take place are among family members?
Then even more murders are among people who know each other.
Every week in NO east, someone gets shot driving on the interstate.
You don’t dare give anyone the ugly eye while driving now because they may just up and shoot you.
People are frustrated and the anger level is climbing.
Where is all this anger coming from?
I think it comes from the fact we live in this fast paced, microwave society where we expect results in minutes to complex issues.
Add 2 years almost of COVID regulations and the politics of that along with the ugliness of politics in general.
People have gone left and right and become polarized in their positions.
Social media has stripped a generation of learning how to interact with people face to face.
People will say things on Social Media they would never say face to face.
Our media saturates the news with all kinds of violent behavior and they post headlines and stories for ratings, not to deliver the news.
It’s all about money for them.
Add the fact that we have politicized a disease and the vaccine to help prevent that disease we have become divided… possibly even more so than anything else right now.
All of this has brought a lot of frustration into our culture we are in today.
So tonight we will look at what God says about how to control our anger.
First let me say this.
Anger is not a sin
In the bible we see that God gets angry so it cannot be a sin to get angry.
The bible even says be angry and don’t sin.
Jesus got angry.
So it’s not the anger that’s sin, its how we express it.
God gave you and me the capacity to get angry, but we have to learn to use it wisely.
If you don’t learn how to use your anger wisely, it will destroy you.
But if you use it in the correct way, managed anger can be an asset.
There are things in this world that happen where the only proper response in anger.
injustice, someone is taken advantage of, violence should make us angry as a society, your children being hurt by someone…
So I am not telling you tonight that God is saying to get rid of all of your anger.
What I am saying is that God wants you and I to learn how to express it and use it the way he wants us to.
Solomon in the Proverbs gives us seven specific steps we can utilize in our lives to control anger.
How to control my anger
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I need to Decide to control it
First, we have to take responsibility for our anger and stop saying that we can’t control ourselves.
Paul stated that we can do anything through Christ who gives us the strength.
So we have to stop making excuses and accept responsibility for our own anger.
When I read verses like this, I always ask God to help me not be there stupid person.
He says that sensible people are patient and hold it (anger) back.
Anger, like every other emotion, is a choice.
When I worry, that’s a choice.
When I get depressed, that’s a choice.
When I am happy, that’s a choice and when I am angry, thats a choice that I make.
You may not like to admit it, but you have a lot more control over your emotions including anger than you know.
Have you ever had a fight with someone… phone rings and you answer nice?
So you have more control over your anger than you think you do.
That’s why the Bible says we can control it.
You decide in advance how you will control it.
You have to decide before you hit a boiling point and develop strategies to deal with it.
You may wonder why we should control our anger?
2. I need to realize there is a cost to uncontrolled anger
Anger has a price tag and when you realize that you are more likely to control it.
Here is what the Bible says about uncontrolled anger.
Hot tempered people get into trouble all the time.
They cause arguments and start fights.
They also make mistakes.
You lose your mental capability when your anger blows up.
Anyone besides me ever done or said something really stupid when they were angry?
Look at this one…
You lose when you lose your temper.
You will lose your reputation… your kids… the love of your spouse… your job… When you let anger go uncontrolled, you lose.
That’s a big price tag and it’s not worth it.
3. I need to learn to Restrain my mouth
We have go to learn to think before we open our mouth and throw up on people.
We all need to learn that one.
If you learn to keep your mouth shut, you won’t put your foot in it.
The Bible says that even a fool sounds wise if he says nothing.
Keep control of your mouth and you will stay out of trouble.
Anger is in a big way, about mouth control.
But the problem is we all like to talk.
The more we talk, the more likely we are to say the wrong thing.
crimes are solved because criminals keep talking.
If you have 30 conversations per day, you will spend 1/5 of your life talking.
In one year, that’s enough words to fill up 53,000 pages of books.
Someone said the average man speaks 20,000 words per day while the average woman speaks 30,000 words per day.
Both of you go to work and you come home from work and your wife has a 10,000 word surplus while you are talked out.
It can be the other way around…
A wise old owl sat in an oak.
And the more he saw, the less he spoke.
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
Let’s try to be more like that bird.
We have to learn to restrain our mouths.
James, the half brother of Jesus gives us a formula.
If you do the first two, the last one is automatic.
If you are quick to listen and slow to speak, it’s inevitable that you will be slow to become angry.
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