CRAZYMAKERS WHO’S PUSHING YOUR BUTTONS? part 2

2 Is anger always wrong?

3 “Be angry, and do not sin” Ephesians 4:26

4 “Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls.” Proverbs 25:28 “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” Proverbs 16:32

5 W AYS P EOPLE E XPRESS A NGER

6 1.The Machine Gun

7 G ENESIS 4:4-5, 8 “The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast…. Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.”

8 W AYS P EOPLE E XPRESS A NGER 1.The Machine Gun 2.The Mute

9 J EREMIAH 15:17-18 “ I sat alone because of Your hand, for You have filled me with indignation. Why is my pain perpetual and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed?”

1010 W AYS P EOPLE E XPRESS A NGER 1.The Machine Gun 2.The Mute 3.The Martyr

1 L UKE 15:28 “But he (older brother) was angry and would not go in (to the feast). Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him.”

1212 W AYS P EOPLE E XPRESS A NGER 1.The Machine Gun 2.The Mute 3.The Martyr 4.The Manipulator

1313 L UKE 6:10-11 “[Jesus] said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he did so, and his hand was restored as whole as the other. But they [Pharisees] were filled with rage, and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.”

T HINK BEFORE R EACTING

1515 “An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.” Proverbs 29:22 “A quick-tempered person does foolish things,” Proverbs 14:17

1616 “He who is slow to wrath has great understanding, but he who is impulsive exalts folly.” Proverbs 14:29

L OOK P AST THEIR W ORDS TO T HEIR P AIN

1818 P ROVERBS 19:11 “The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and his glory is to overlook a transgression.”

A SK G OD FOR H ELP

2020 P SALM 141:3 “Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.”

2121 G ALATIANS 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”

2 4. B ASE M Y I DENTITY IN J ESUS

2323 P ROVERBS 29:25 “Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.”

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2525 “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21