Anger

Have you ever been angry? Do you have a "hot temper" Have you sometimes been told that it’s not a good idea being angry?

Well if this is you I'm pretty sure you are not alone.

To be angry does not help you in many situations in life. I know that in anger you many times say things you really did not want to say, and later on you need to apologise.

But there is a righteous anger, a so-called "godly anger" that we need to be aware of.

If we can’t get angry at the mean and false things happening to us and around us, we have no way to stay against Satan.

The Bible clearly is telling us that: "Be angry but sin not" Ephesians 4:26


The first person to be angry in the Old Testament is found in Genesis 4:5, was Cain. Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.”
The first person to be angry in the New Testament (Mt 2:17), was Herod.
In Bethlehem and its surrounding district he had all the male children killed who were two years old or less.”
Jesus himself was often quite angry.
Jesus got very frustrated with His disciples. Matthew 17:17 reads, “Faithless and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you?”
Jesus got very angry at the sellers in the temple. John 2:15, 16: “Making a whip out of cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, sheep and cattle as well, scattered the money changers’ coins, knocked their tables over and said to the dove sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop using my Father’s house as a market.”
Jesus got very angry with the religious leaders because they were keeping the people from the truth of God.

Jesus called Peter Satan in Mt 16:23
He said things like serpents, brood of vipers, faithless generation, hypocrites, and perverse generation.
Jesus got angry many times but he never sinned.
Strange though is that he never got angry to women. He corrected them but never scored at them.
Jesus rebuked men, evil spirits, the wind, demons but never women.
He was in control, and that is something very important. It is when we in our anger lose that control that we sin.


So the important message Jesus was telling us is: Righteous anger is good because it motivates us to do what is right. Personal anger is bad because it motivates us to do what is wrong.

We do need anger.