Sermon Tone Analysis

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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