Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 5:21-26
Is anger always bad (Is anger in its self Bad?)
No God gets mad and angry even to a point of rath
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“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by
their unrighteousness suppress the truth.”-Romans 1:18
“Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that he was ready
to destroy you.”-Deuteronomy 9:8
“And the LORD was angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of
Israel, who had appeared to him twice…”-1 Kings 11:9
“Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight.” -2 Kings 17:18
“The LORD was very angry with your fathers.” -Zechariah 1:2
Jesus gets angry. In Mark 3:5, he is angry at the hardness of heart in the Pharisees, that they would rebuke
him for healing a man with a withered hand on the Sabbath. He gets angry when the house of the Lord is
turned into a marketplace, driving out the moneychangers with a whip he made himself.
He gets angry in Matthew 23:17, calling the Pharisees blind fools—the very same word he warns against
using here in Matthew 5.
God sometimes points at human anger and says, “This is right.” For example, Moses in Exodus 11 goes out
from Pharaoh in hot anger, and Moses is also said of God to be the meekest man on earth. Anger isn’t
inherently wrong.
Anger in its nature moves us to act upon it, we can move in a righteous way that we can be so angry with sin that we
can move boldly towards it that we are so angry we cry out to God. often times though our anger is because
someone offended us and whether it's right or wrong for us to get angry it tends to move us towards sin towards
vengeance or payback which leads to hate. Instead of hating others we should hate our sin and the sin of the world.
What To Do With Anger
1. Be slow to anger (James 1:19-20): Who is someone you think is slow to anger; why do
you think they are?
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b.
c.
“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to
anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.”
We remember what we’ve been forgiven before getting enraged or easily offended.
The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. Psalms 103:8
2. Quickly classify your anger (Proverbs 15:18): How often do you stop to think about why
you are mad and if it’s justified?
a. A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.
b.
c.
d.
As soon as frustration, anger, annoyance, or wrath peeks out behind the curtain, you need to
capture it and figure out which kind it is.
What am I mad about?, Am I justified to be angry?
Is my anger just or unjust? If unjust, it’s a thing to be quickly captured, repented of, confessed to
God, and put to death.Bring it to God. If righteous anger, then I still need to bring it to God, make
sure I deal with it quickly, soberly, and not let it drag me into sin.
3. Ask, “Can I cover this offense?” (Proverbs 19:11): What does it take from you to overlook
an offense? If you don’t overlook offenses what does that say about you?
a.
b.
c.
“Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.”
God does this for us all the time. His slowness to anger doesn’t mean that he isn’t just, won’t deal
with all wrongs in their time—he will. He will bring all things to perfect justice, whether on his cross
or in Hell.
It is a glory to overlook an offense.
4. Move quickly and in accordance to scripture (Proverbs 14:29): If you lash out in anger
how should you respond? If your anger is justified how should you act?
a.
b.
c.
d.
People with understanding control their anger; a hot temper shows great foolishness.
The Scriptures are the tracks that keep us from flying off the cliff in responding to our anger. If we
cannot overlook an offense, and our anger is just, then we need to move quickly and in accordance
with God’s Word to get to fellowship.
Move quickly to confession, forgiveness, restitution, and forgetting.
Have I stolen? Repay. Have I gossiped? Confess and ask forgiveness Have I lied? Come clean.
Have I hated? Make peace.
5. Get back in fellowship: What is Jesus teaching in Matt. 5:24? Do you practice this?
Do you need to reconcile with someone you have anger towards?
Verses to consider: Psalms 103:8, Leviticus 19:17-18, Proverbs 22:24-25, 29:8, Ephesians
4:26-27, Ecclesiastes 7:9, Psalms 37:8
The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. Psalms 103:8
17 ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of
him. 18 You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love
your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD. Leviticus 19:17–18
“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a
foothold. Ephesians 4:26-27
9 Be not quick in your spirit to become angry,
for anger lodges in the heart of fools. Ecclesiastes 7:9
8 Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!
Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. Psalm 37:8