Sermon on the Mount (Anger)
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What do I want them to know? There is good anger, bad anger, and how to release bad anger, and God has forgiven them over there sin
Why? It brings freedom
What do I want them to do? Forgive
Why? It brings freedom
ME/WE
What do we do with the emotion of anger? Anybody in this room been angry before?
All of us
What do you do with that emotion? How do you handle, it process it, deal with it?
How we handle it or deal with it is connected to what we think about ANGER.
For some of us the view we believe now or were taught growing up is ANGER is ALWAYS NEGATIVE, NEVER POSITIVE, ALWAYS BAD
1. EXPERIENCE....Some of this is because most anger we have seen the destructive nature of anger, being unleashed, from a family member or friend....ANGER IS A BAD EMOTION
YOU SAW THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF ANGER or the DESTRUCTIVE POWER THAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU GET ANGRY....because your experience with anger you view anger as
2. you were taught to believe into the Christian belief that good Christians don’t get angry, outstanding man or woman of God…we don’t get mad, I am not mad,
- As a result of labeling ANGER is a BAD EMOTION we, to appear Godly, we deny we being angry when we are angry (Something happens to us that causes us to be angry, someone causes pain to you or your loved one, someone lies to you...We have the motto of I’m not angry, no I am not angry, good Christians don’t get anger, fist clenched)....…
AND BECAUSE WE DENY WE ANGRY WE CANNOT DEAL WITH BEING ANGRY…
What happens? Does it just go away? Dissipate? Evaporate like water, give it enough time it will be gone?
NO....anger festers and grows, and grows and grows and grows, the embers get hotter and hotter
What happens then? As we will read about in the Sermon on the Mount
If we do not deal with our anger, whether we deny or and don’t deal with it or know it is there and don’t deal with it?
Unresolved anger turns to
We become BITTER....unresolved anger makes us bitter....it is this anger that is below the surface that always simmering....at a level that we are furious with different people, our work place, the world....we have all been around people like this they…
They are just mad at the world! Or we have been this way
Are you angry no!
They are often harsh or unresponsive to people
Closed off
I am not bitter
Negative, negative
This is the thing with anger it many times affects us more than the person we are angry at, not all the time
English Standard Version Chapter 4
31 gLet all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 hBe kind to one another, tenderhearted, iforgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
2. Eventually if continue not to deal with it we bottle it up we become like a pop bottle that has been shaken up and we BLOW UP....we unleash our anger on someone by insulting them, cursing them, calling them names. (some of us have short fuses and others long fuses)
Anybody experience this or have done this?
How do we not do that with anger? How do we resolve this? I don’t want to be BITTER or BLOW UP?
THIS IS NOT HELPFUL WE NEED A PROCESS OF KNOWING HOW TO GET OVER ANGER
BEFORE WE GET TO HOW DO WE DEAL WITH ANGER LET’S FIRST ANSWER THE QUESTION
BEFORE WE GET TO HOW DO WE DEAL WITH ANGER LET’S FIRST ANSWER THE QUESTION
Is all ANGER WRONG, BAD, and DESTRUCTIVE? NO
NOT ALL ANGER IS BAD, LET’S NOT PROCESS AND DEAL WITH GOOD ANGER THE WAY WE DEAL WITH BAD ANGER
SOME ANGER IS GOOD ANGER
In fact, all emotions in and of themselves are neutral and God given.
They can go either way
Even the emotion of LOVE (we don’t often think this way because Love is often seen as positive), we can love things that are not good, we can LOVE LOVE MONEY, or we love an ADDICTION,
We see this over and over in the Bible God getting ANGRY and it is a good thing.
What’s an anger that is good?
What is something that God gets angry, that God portrays and has the in the Bible?
One of the biggest things God gets angry at is INJUSTICE
God gets angry when he sees injustice happening (he doesn’t sit by and wouldn’t sit by when we see injustice happening in front of us someone getting hurt), when a widow is being mistreated, an orphan not taken care of, when the whole nation of Israel is in slavery to Egypt (God doesn’t sit back, God is angry at the wickedness done by Pharaoh)
So often we put a negative label on ANGER…there is Good ANGER
Jesus gets angry when the temple becomes a market place
The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.
And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.
And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”
His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
Market place to make money and not meet with God
Exploitation....people were upcharging the cost of the animal sacrifices to make prophit…kind of like you see at a baseball game…water outside the stadium is $1 inside the stadium its $5
There is Good ANGER
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
and give no opportunity to the devil.
ANGER IS A REAL EMOTION, IT IS CAN USED FOR GOOD OR BAD, IF IT IS BAD WE NEED TO KNOW HOW TO GET OVER AND PROCESS BEING ANGRY
The question for us today that Jesus wants to show us in the Sermon on the Mount.
What is wrongful anger?
How big of deal is wrongful anger?
How do we get deal with our anger?
“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’
You have heard that murder is bad basically all levels of society agreed with murder being wrong.....no objections.
Jesus is pointing out the LETTER of the LAW and now HE wants to get to the HEART of the LAW.
What’s the at the HEART, the CORE of the LAW....
We are going to get into anger now, three forms of anger that assoicated with the heart of the law of not murdering....what we will see is there are murderious words and actions that violate the heart of law.
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
1. Jesus says but I say to you everyone who is ANGRY the WORD is liable to judgement....going to court....whoa...
The word for angry here is not small passing anger we might have from being cut off in traffic or someone eating your left overs in the fridge you were saving.....yes we are mad but most of us get over it someone saying a....this anger is a furious anger....a continued anger, a bitterness anger, an anger with embers…you are not getting over it anger..this is bitterness anger.
This is the anger you have against that one person a who has wronged you so deeply or so frequently....you are holding on to that anger…that when that person’s name get’s brought up…it is like a fire has just been lit
Anybody been there before? Oh yeah!!! Let me give you the list of names.
Jesus said anyone who is furious, with their brother they are liable for judgement.
Jesus said this kind of anger is not the anger that is at the heart of God. It is wrong, hurtful, the embers of anger need to be put out.
Jesus is saying you are acting in murderous ways with your heart and actions.
YOU HAVE MURDER IN YOUR HEART
LET THAT SINK IN
WE have all been here and some are here now…that is murdereous
THEY WERE TAUGHT AS LONG AS YOU ARE NOT MURDERING SOMEONE YOU ARE OK, BUT JESUS SAYS NO, THAT IS THE LETTER OF THE LAW…THE HEART OF THE LAW IS YOU CAN BE MURDEROUS IN YOUR HEART
2. Whoever insults there brother will be liable to the council
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 11.80 συνέδριον, ου
συνέδριονb, ου n: the highest Jewish council, exercising jurisdiction in civil and religious matters,
Jesus says to whoever says RAKA, insulting words, says you dumbie, you idiot, you are fat, you are ugly, (one I got a lot) you are short,
Some of think, like I have thought at times as a child oh Jesus this is a small thing....but what you see at times is what we deem as worst sins along side foolish words
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
Jesus knows the power and damaging effect of words....sticks and stones may break my bones words will never hurt me was written by the Devil.
Words have power
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Anyone who comes and insults there brother is liable to the council. Sanherian the highest all of the Jewish courts, sort of the super court.
Jesus says those who say insulting WORDS are being murdeous with them and need to go to the highest council
Anybody feeling the weight of this?
3. Who ever says FOOL (moron) will be liable to hell
Jesus says anyone who calls the people who are created in the image of God MORON’s…what God has created
He’s a MORON
He’s an IDIOT
He’s A PIECE OF TRASH
This is not just an insult by a label that we place on them.
God is not ok with us labeling his creation, what He has called good, created in the image of God, horrific names?
God doesn’t create junk and for us to call what He has created junk is murderous in your words.....can you imagine someone coming up to your child and saying your child is a MORON and you being ok with that???
These words are so murderous that they are liable to hell,
The word for hell is Gehenna, Gehenna represented a place of God’s wrath, punishment, hence the affiliation with fire.
Jesus is saying if call something I created a MORON, label it as something it is not, you are liable to the punishment of hell, the wrath of God.
Let that sink in....the reason for this is one of God’s most valued things in all of creation is people and you just called what He values immensely garbage....He is not ok and God get’s angry.
This is a lot to take in
Jesus said you heard don’t murder and not murder that is the letter of the law but it is not the heart of the law.
If you are furious can’t get over being angry you are being murderous
If you insult you are being murderous.
If you call someone a MORON you are being murderous
This heavy stuff all of us have done this at one point or another. What do we do with this?
Does Jesus leave us hanging? Give us the things we are not do and just say stop doing it? No, he gives us a way out. How to resolve our anger
He says
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.
Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.
If you are coming to alter to get reconciliation and forgiveness between you and God....Jesus said before you that, before go through the sacrificial system, go get reconciled with your brother.
Whoa this is crazy....Jesus says before you seek to get right with God go get right with them....
That is a serious statement. Getting right with God is big deal and Jesus said before you do that go get right with you neighbor that you have wronged.
Go to your brother who has offended you or you have offend them…God get reconciled,
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes!
It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
How do we get reconciled to them?
1. We forgive them (the other F word our flesh does not like)
But sometimes we don’t want to forgive....we want to stay mad...There is a reason we are furious with them, insulted them, called them a moron.
- they wronged you
We stay mad at times because we think if we are mad at them it will hurt them, and many times it does not, it hurts you more....you become BITTER
Not only that unforgiveness mostly hurts the unforgiveness.
- it puts you in prison
- some people have moved on....they’re sleeping
- drinking poison hoping the other person suffers
- unforgiveness is evil
WE ARE TO FORGIVE BECAUSE IT WHAT GOD HAS DONE TO US and when we do it releases us from prison....it is the way of the upside down kingdom.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
How much did God forgive you? A WHOLE LOT
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”
Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.
“Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants.
When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.
So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’
And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt.
But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay what you owe.’
So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’
He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt.
When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place.
Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.
And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’
And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt.
So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”
Forgive them as Christ as forgiven you
God has forgiven us 150,000 years worth of debt and we want to hold $10 charge against someone.
I know it is hard at times.
Michelle starting a women’s group to help the ladies walk through unforgiveness
Then say I am sorry I have been such a jerk
2. go say I am sorry (the other Word we do not like say
When you do you will be released from prison and hopefully you will have been reconciled with your friend and what great joy there is when brothers are sisters are reconciled.
Who do you need to reconciled too? Who has wronged you that you need to forgive? Who do you need to say I am sorry to?
I will end with this
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes!
It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.