1. Taming Your Anger

4. Anger in the Bible
Anger is mentioned about 500X in the Bible.
Most of those references refer to God’s anger over sin and injustice.

5. God’s Anger
God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses his wrath everyday. (Psalm.7:11)
The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not always accuse, nor will he hold his anger forever. (Psalm103:8-9)

6. Christ’s Anger
Matthew 21:12-13
Mark 11:15-18
Mark 3:5

7. Gary Collins
“Many times people raised in Christian homes learn to repress rather than express their anger. They tend to deny that they feel angry because they mistakenly think anger is a sinful emotion.”

8. “The root cause of people keeping their anger all bottled up is almost always the same: As children they were extravagantly rewarded for the times when they were good, and sweet, and compliant, and cooperative. At the same time, they were severely reprimanded and punished any time they showed any expressions of anger. So they learned to keep their anger all bottled up. Expressing anger either got them nowhere, or worse, got them in trouble.”

11. “We got mad.”

12. Lovingly and righteously expressed anger is a constructive force in the world.
Sinfully and selfishly expressed anger is a destructive force in the world.

13. Proverbs
15:18 - A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the person who is patient calms a quarrel.
14:29 - Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
29:11 - Fools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end.

14. How can we express our anger lovingly and righteously?

15. To Tame Your Anger . . .
Be convinced that you can learn to tame your anger.
Learn to think before you act on your anger.
Determine whether your reason for being angry is selfish or legitimate.
Express your anger in constructive ways.

17. To Tame Your Anger . . .
Be convinced that you can learn to tame your anger.
Learn to think before you act on your anger.
Determine whether your reason for being angry is selfish or legitimate.
Express your anger in constructive ways.

19. Psalm 103:8
The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

20. James 1:19-20
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because improperly expressed anger does not produce the righteous results that God desires.

21. Think before acting on your anger.
Why am I angry?
How legitimate is my anger?
What could happen if I handle this incorrectly?
How can I handle my anger constructively?

22. Quick-Tempered
Proverbs 14:17 - A quick-tempered person does foolish things . . .
Proverbs 14:29 - Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.

24. Establishing a foothold in enemy territory.

25. To Tame Your Anger . . .
Be convinced that you can learn to tame your anger.
Learn to think before you act on your anger.
Determine whether your reason for being angry is selfish or legitimate.
Express your anger in constructive ways.

27. Love . . . is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered . . .
1 Corinthians 13:8

28. Rationale Behind Present Sermon Series
Taming Your Ambition
Taming Your Anger
Taming Your Tongue

29. To Tame Your Anger . . .
Be convinced that you can learn to tame your anger.
Learn to think before you act on your anger.
Determine whether your reason for being angry is selfish or legitimate.
Express your anger in constructive ways.

30. Stop! Don’t do it! X vulgar speech hurtful speech hurling insults
pushing and shoving
punching & hitting
damaging property
retaliation e.g., toothbrush
slandering
and so forth X

31. Use extreme caution X yelling & screaming slamming doors
throwing things
and the like
Make it rare
Use it intentionally X

32. Go for it! X Be constructive in what you do and say
Remain calm, cool, and collected
Attack problem, not person
Pray for wisdom
Say and do what needs to be said and done X

33. Communion
Anger is mentioned about 500X in the Bible. Most of those references refer to God’s anger over sin and injustice.
God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses his wrath everyday. (Psalm.7:11)