Title: Manly Emotions: The Anger and Joy of Jesus (Part 4)
Meta: Jesus’ anger sprang from His recognition of the sources of man’s fall – Satan and sin, but also death. The motives of Jesus’ anger were pure: love for God and love for others. The joy of Jesus springs from His contemplation and anticipation of the solution to the fall which He came to bring!
Tags: anger,bitterness,righteous,Jesus Christ,indignation,Ephesians 4:26

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Brothers, I want to thank you again

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for the privilege of being with you,

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and the privilege of speaking 
the Word of God to you.

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This has been just a great time.

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No doubt most of us have not had

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our typical devotional 
times in the morning,

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am I right?

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Because of the schedule,

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because of the circumstances.

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And yet, we've been in an 
atmosphere of grace.

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God is dwelling among His people.

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And so the absence of those

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personal devotional times,

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which I haven't had to 
the degree I've had,

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I don't feel because we've been

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swimming in an atmosphere

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of God's presence and grace.

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And that's been wonderful.

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But I do want to encourage you

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as you return home,

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to make sure you get back on schedule

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with your usual pattern

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of morning meeting with God.

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One of the signs of life within us

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is that we can't really 
flourish without that.

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I'm a different man if I miss

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my time in the Word and prayer

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on any given morning.

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And so as this has been 
disrupted a little bit

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by these days together,

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make sure you get back into that rhythm

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of seeking the Lord.

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But it's been wonderful to be together.

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It's been just a joy to be with you.

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Brothers, one of the strongest

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and most passionate emotions

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is that of anger.

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It is also one of the most destructive.

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To quote David Powlison,

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who wrote an excellent book

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which I read recently,

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entitled "Good and Angry," -

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and if you want a good book on anger,

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that's a good one -

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David Powlison says, 
"anger is the reaction

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that incinerates marriages

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and disintegrates families.

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It energizes gossip

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and guns down classmates.

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It divides churches,

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turns friendship into enmity,

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and erupts in road rage.

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Anger is also the basic 
DNA of complaining,

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brooding, irritability, and bickering."

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He goes on to say that we all

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experience anger.

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Some of us explode.

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Some of us simmer.

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And some of us seem dormant.

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Anger can be explosive like a volcano.

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It can be cold like an iceberg -

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calculating and vengeful.

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And I don't doubt in a group this size

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that some of you men

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grew up with anger in your home.

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You may have had an angry mother.

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More likely, an angry father.

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And that anger with which you grew up

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has had an impact on you -

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an impact you've had 
to live with for years

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and perhaps even decades.

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The likelihood is if you grew up

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with an angry father,

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you have become an angry person yourself.

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Proverbs 22 warns us,

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"Do not associate with 
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or go with a hot-tempered man,

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or you will learn his ways

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and find a snare for yourself."

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You may find that your own anger

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is damaging your marriage,

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oppressing your children,

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alienating your friends,

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and maybe even causing problems at work.

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Anger is so destructive and so painful

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in its effects,

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that many people when they talk of anger,

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or think about anger,

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they think of all anger as sinful.

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But I think you know that

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that's not the case.

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The simple proof is that 
Jesus Christ got angry.

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We can construct a 
little logical syllogism.

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Major premise: Jesus 
Christ was without sin.

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Minor premise: Jesus Christ 
felt and displayed anger.

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Conclusion: All anger is not sin.

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Plus, we have the command

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given through the Apostle Paul

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in Ephesians 4:26,

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"Be angry, but do not sin."

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Well, that presents us with the challenge

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of trying to sort out

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what is good anger and what is bad anger.

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What is righteous anger

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and what is unrighteous anger?

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There's no better way 
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than to look at the anger

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of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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And the first thing I want us to see

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is what I'm calling the 
gradation of Jesus' anger.

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As I surveyed the Gospels,

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looking for all of the emotions of Jesus,

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but in particular the expressions

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of displeasure in Jesus,

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I found that His displeasure

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is on a continuum.

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There are degrees of anger.

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And I've chosen three words:

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exasperation,

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indignation,

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and then full-out anger.

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Now those are not inspired words.

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You may use different words.

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And you may put different 
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But I think you will agree with 
me that there's a gradation

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in the anger of Jesus,

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in the displeasure of Jesus.

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And I'm going to quote a lot of texts.

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Oftentimes, it's not wise 
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Sometimes they ought to use

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just an epitomizing text -

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one that captures the point -

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and not weary the people

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with a lot of texts.

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But in this case, I want to multiply texts

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because I want you to feel

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the cumulative effect of how often

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Jesus felt this displeasure.

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Not just take an isolated verse.

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And I'm not repeating verses

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from various synoptics, OK?

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These are all different incidents.

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So, we feel the cumulative weight

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of Jesus' exasperation,

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His indignation,

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and then His full-out anger.

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The holy exasperation of Jesus.

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Matthew 8:26

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The disciples are afraid in a great storm.

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"Why are you afraid,

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O men of little faith?"

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(Incomplete thought)

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Matthew 14, Peter walks on water

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until he sees the wind 
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Jesus: "You of little faith.

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Why did you doubt?"

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Matthew 15, Peter asks Jesus

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to explain a parable.

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"Are you still lacking in 
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Matthew 17, The disciples come down

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from the Mount of Transfiguration.

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And they meet with some disciples

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who are unable to cast out

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a particular demon.

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Jesus' response: "You unbelieving

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and perverted generation.

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How long shall I be with you?

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How long shall I put up with you?"

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Matthew 26, the disciples 
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in the garden at the time of Jesus' agony.

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He's yearning for companionship.

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So, "you could not keep watch

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with Me for one hour?"

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Mark 8:12, the Pharisees 
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seeking a sign to test Him.

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"Sighing deeply in His spirit,

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'Why does this generation seek for a sign?

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Truly, I say to you,

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no sign will be given 
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We saw the sigh of compassion.

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This is a sigh of exasperation.

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Mark 8:17, Jesus warns

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about the leaven of the Pharisees,

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and the disciples are thinking carnally.

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Oh, we forgot to take bread!

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And Jesus says, "why do you discuss

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that you have no bread?

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Do you not see or understand?"

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Do you have a hardened heart?

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And then the resurrected Jesus

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appearing incognito to those two men

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on the road to Emmaus,

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and they're downcast.

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And He says to them,

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"Oh, foolish men

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and slow of heart to believe

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all that the prophets have spoken."

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And of course He opened up

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from the Law and from the Prophets

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all about Himself.

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What a biblical theology lesson

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that would have been, right?

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John 14

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Philip said to Him,

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"Lord, show us the Father,

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and it is enough for us."

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Jesus said to him,

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"Have I been so long with you

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and you've not come to know Me, Philip?

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He who has seen Me has seen the Father.

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How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?"

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Do you agree with me?

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Exasperation in Jesus.

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Let's put it up a notch

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to what I'm calling 
the indignation of Jesus,

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or maybe irritation or 
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It's a little bit more,

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or a little hotter up the thermometer

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in terms of His displeasure.

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Mark 10:13-14, People bring children

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to Jesus for Him to touch them.

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The disciples rebuke them.

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But, "When Jesus saw this,

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He was indignant and said to them,

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'Permit the children to come to Me.

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Do not hinder them.

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For the kingdom of God

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belongs to such as these.'"

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Matthew 21, Jesus is questioned

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by the chief priest and the elders

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about His authority.

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He counters with a question of His own.

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"I will ask you one thing,

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which if you tell Me, I will also tell you

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by what authority I do these things.

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The baptism of John was from what?

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From heaven or from men?"

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They recognized that this was a trap,

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and they bowed out 
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So Jesus said, "Neither will I tell you

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by what authority I do these things."

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I don't know about you,

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but I hear some indignation.

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Jesus: You're going to question Me?

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I'm going to question you.

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I'll answer you if you answer Me.

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And He silences them.

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He's pushing back with 
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Matthew 22

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The Sadducees take a whack at Jesus.

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They come to Him and 
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about the resurrection,

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which ironically, they 
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And Jesus answers,

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"You are mistaken,

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not understanding the Scriptures

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nor the power of God."

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I'm not a King James guy,

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but I love the King James at that point.

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"You err,

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knowing not the Scriptures

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or the power of God."

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You want to be ignorant?

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Be ignorant of the Scriptures.

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You want to be knowledgeable?

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Know the Word of God.

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Matthew 26, A woman pours perfume

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on His head.

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And the disciples are indignant

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and said, "Why this waste?"

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Jesus said to them,

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"Why do you bother the woman?

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For she has done a good deed to Me."

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Matthew 26:50, Jesus is being arrested.

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Judas leading the pack

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with a treacherous kiss.

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Jesus' words to him, "Friend,

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do what you have come for."

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Indignant sarcasm.

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Friend.

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Matthew 26:55

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Jesus' indignation toward 
the arresting crowd.

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"Have you come out with swords and clubs

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to arrest Me as against a robber?

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Every day I used to sit 
in the temple teaching

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and you did not seize Me."

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Jesus is indignant at

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the indignation being shown to Him.

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They're treating Him like a criminal

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when He did everything out in the open.

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I love this, Matthew 26:63.

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The high priest grills Jesus

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about the testimony of false witnesses.

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And it says, "But Jesus kept silent."

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Have you observed the 
holy silences of Jesus?

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An indignant silence.

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What is He saying?

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You don't deserve an answer.

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You're not really seeking the truth.

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And I'm not going to answer you,

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because you don't want the truth.

302
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And Jesus was silent.

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In Matthew 23, likewise before King Herod,

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who was hoping to see Jesus put on a show,

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He was looking for a sign 
for Jesus to perform.

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"And He questioned Him at some length,

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but He answered him nothing."

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A holy, indignant silence.

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And likewise before Pilate.

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An indignant terseness.

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Pilate says, "Are You 
the King of the Jews?"

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And Jesus said to him,

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"You say."

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An affirmation, but with some indignation.

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Again, another man not 
really seeking the truth.

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He's the man who said, "What is truth?"

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And so Jesus, indignant toward those

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who really don't want the truth.

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But now, let's move to

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what I'm calling the 
flat-out anger of Jesus.

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We're moving up the scale.

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I think His anger is seen in the woes

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that He pronounced on His enemies

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and staunch unbelievers.

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Matthew 11, "Woe to you, Chorazin!

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Woe to you, Bethsaida!

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For if the miracles had occurred

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in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you,

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they would have repented long ago

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in sackcloth and ashes."

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Matthew 15, "You hypocrites!

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Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you,

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'This people honors Me with their lips,

334
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but their heart is far away from Me.'"

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Matthew 23 as you know

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is a litany of woes,

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where 8 times, Jesus pronounces woes

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upon the hypocrites.

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"Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees!

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Hypocrites!

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Woe to you..."

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Eight times.

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In Matthew 18,

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"But whoever causes 
one of these little ones

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who believe in Me to stumble,

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it would be better for him

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to have a heavy millstone 
hung around his neck

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and to be drowned in 
the depths of the sea.

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So we see His anger expressed

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in His angry woes.

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We see His anger in some of 
the strong language He uses.

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In Luke 13, He calls Herod, "that fox."

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He calls the Pharisees "blind guides,

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whitewashed tombs, brood of vipers,

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children of the devil,

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a wicked and adulterous generation."

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And He calls false prophets

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"ravening wolves."

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I think His anger is seen

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00:13:00,553 --> 00:13:02,858
in the cursing of the fig tree.

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You know, somebody looking 
at that superficially

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or trying to find things against Jesus

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would say was He just 
having a bad morning?

364
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He was just passing a fig tree

365
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and curses a fig tree?

366
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Was He just ticked off

367
00:13:13,865 --> 00:13:16,601
and took it out on a poor plant?

368
00:13:16,601 --> 00:13:17,525
No.

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The fig tree was a picture

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of Pharisaic hypocrisy.

371
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It was all leaves and no fruit.

372
00:13:22,844 --> 00:13:25,834
And He cursed the fig tree.

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00:13:25,834 --> 00:13:28,424
His anger is seen in His rebukes

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of Satan and demons and demonic activity.

375
00:13:32,022 --> 00:13:33,879
Mark 1, A man in the synagogue

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with an unclean spirit,

377
00:13:35,234 --> 00:13:37,211
"Be quiet! And come out of him."

378
00:13:37,211 --> 00:13:39,556
Mark 9, He rebuked the unclean spirit,

379
00:13:39,556 --> 00:13:42,203
saying to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit,

380
00:13:42,203 --> 00:13:43,771
I command you, come out of him,

381
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and do not enter him again."

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Luke 4, He rebuked the fever

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and it left Peter's mother-in-law.

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00:13:50,346 --> 00:13:52,993
Luke 4, later, demons were also

385
00:13:52,993 --> 00:13:53,937
coming out of many,

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but rebuking them,

387
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He would not allow them to speak.

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And John 11,

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remember I said I was 
going to refer to that again.

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00:14:00,941 --> 00:14:03,545
In John 11, Jesus wept.

391
00:14:03,545 --> 00:14:05,583
There was holy grief.

392
00:14:05,583 --> 00:14:08,118
There was holy compassion.

393
00:14:08,118 --> 00:14:10,090
But the words used indicate that

394
00:14:10,090 --> 00:14:12,436
that grief and compassion 
was mixed with anger.

395
00:14:12,436 --> 00:14:14,311
You see, the emotions of Jesus

396
00:14:14,311 --> 00:14:16,312
often can not be isolated.

397
00:14:16,312 --> 00:14:18,702
They are mixed together.

398
00:14:18,702 --> 00:14:20,561
We have to isolate them somewhat

399
00:14:20,561 --> 00:14:21,939
for the purpose of study,

400
00:14:21,939 --> 00:14:24,160
but they're mixed together.

401
00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:27,427
And when it says at the tomb of Lazarus,

402
00:14:27,427 --> 00:14:29,859
Jesus was deeply moved in spirit,

403
00:14:29,859 --> 00:14:31,027
maybe I told you that,

404
00:14:31,027 --> 00:14:32,846
that that word in the Greek means

405
00:14:32,846 --> 00:14:36,517
to be very angry - to snort like a horse.

406
00:14:36,517 --> 00:14:38,531
And it says He was troubled -

407
00:14:38,531 --> 00:14:40,735
to agitate, to cause inward commotion,

408
00:14:40,735 --> 00:14:43,677
to take away calmness of mind.

409
00:14:43,677 --> 00:14:46,147
He is angry at that point

410
00:14:46,147 --> 00:14:49,857
with death and its author Satan.

411
00:14:49,857 --> 00:14:51,434
B.B. Warfield says,

412
00:14:51,434 --> 00:14:54,536
"Jesus approached the grave of Lazarus

413
00:14:54,536 --> 00:14:58,512
in a state - not of uncontrollable grief,

414
00:14:58,512 --> 00:15:01,715
but of irrepressible anger.

415
00:15:01,715 --> 00:15:04,152
Jesus wept, but the emotion which

416
00:15:04,152 --> 00:15:06,608
tore His breast and clamored for utterance

417
00:15:06,608 --> 00:15:09,697
was just rage."

418
00:15:09,697 --> 00:15:12,044
He raged in Himself

419
00:15:12,044 --> 00:15:15,417
is what the Greek indicates.

420
00:15:15,417 --> 00:15:18,223
It's also seen (His anger)

421
00:15:18,223 --> 00:15:19,805
in the angry judgments pronounced

422
00:15:19,805 --> 00:15:21,526
in the parables.

423
00:15:21,526 --> 00:15:23,327
The parable of the vine growers

424
00:15:23,327 --> 00:15:25,406
where the land owner sends

425
00:15:25,406 --> 00:15:26,952
one servant after another,

426
00:15:26,952 --> 00:15:29,173
and the vine growers kill the servants.

427
00:15:29,173 --> 00:15:30,743
He says I'm going to send my son.

428
00:15:30,743 --> 00:15:33,952
Surely they will respect my son.

429
00:15:33,952 --> 00:15:35,982
But they kill the son

430
00:15:35,982 --> 00:15:37,256
to seize the inheritance.

431
00:15:37,256 --> 00:15:39,493
Jesus then asks His detractors,

432
00:15:39,493 --> 00:15:41,572
"When the owner of the vineyard comes,

433
00:15:41,572 --> 00:15:43,486
what will he do to those vine growers?"

434
00:15:43,486 --> 00:15:45,223
And they answer rightly.

435
00:15:45,223 --> 00:15:48,316
He will bring those wretches 
to a wretched end.

436
00:15:48,316 --> 00:15:50,644
And of course, that's true.

437
00:15:50,644 --> 00:15:54,425
And He is the land owner

438
00:15:54,425 --> 00:15:57,887
there represented as 
the One who will bring

439
00:15:57,887 --> 00:16:01,762
wretched unbelievers to a wretched end.

440
00:16:01,762 --> 00:16:03,420
Jesus' anger is surely seen

441
00:16:03,420 --> 00:16:05,893
in His violent cleansing of the temple.

442
00:16:05,893 --> 00:16:07,691
And I want to read it at some point.

443
00:16:07,691 --> 00:16:09,320
So let me just read it now.

444
00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:12,580
We'll refer to it later.

445
00:16:12,580 --> 00:16:14,767
But we'll read the John 2 account.

446
00:16:14,767 --> 00:16:16,218
There's more than one account

447
00:16:16,218 --> 00:16:17,849
when Jesus cleansed the temple.

448
00:16:17,849 --> 00:16:21,732
But in John 2, just reading 13-17.

449
00:16:21,732 --> 00:16:23,786
"The Passover of the Jews was near,

450
00:16:23,786 --> 00:16:26,030
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

451
00:16:26,030 --> 00:16:27,634
And He found in the temple

452
00:16:27,634 --> 00:16:29,024
those who were selling oxen

453
00:16:29,024 --> 00:16:30,111
and sheep and doves,

454
00:16:30,111 --> 00:16:32,787
and the money changers were 
seated at their tables,

455
00:16:32,787 --> 00:16:34,643
and He made a scourge of cords,

456
00:16:34,643 --> 00:16:36,559
and drove them all out of the temple

457
00:16:36,559 --> 00:16:37,977
with the sheep and the oxen,

458
00:16:37,977 --> 00:16:40,385
and He poured out the coins 
of the money changers

459
00:16:40,385 --> 00:16:41,833
and overturned their tables.

460
00:16:41,833 --> 00:16:43,885
And to those who were selling the doves

461
00:16:43,885 --> 00:16:45,475
he said, 'take these things away!

462
00:16:45,475 --> 00:16:46,888
Stop making My Father's house

463
00:16:46,888 --> 00:16:49,174
a place of business.'

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00:16:49,174 --> 00:16:51,987
His disciples remembered 
that it was written,

465
00:16:51,987 --> 00:16:56,485
'Zeal for Your house will consume Me.'"

466
00:16:56,485 --> 00:16:59,366
And then His flat-out anger is seen

467
00:16:59,366 --> 00:17:02,336
in the only place, I believe,

468
00:17:02,336 --> 00:17:05,672
where His anger is explicitly mentioned

469
00:17:05,672 --> 00:17:08,304
by name as such.

470
00:17:08,304 --> 00:17:10,813
In John 3,

471
00:17:10,813 --> 00:17:12,847
He's entered the synagogue.

472
00:17:12,847 --> 00:17:14,918
A man was there with a hand

473
00:17:14,918 --> 00:17:16,092
that was withered.

474
00:17:16,092 --> 00:17:17,786
And they were watching Him to see

475
00:17:17,786 --> 00:17:19,532
if He would heal him on the Sabbath,

476
00:17:19,532 --> 00:17:21,441
so that they might accuse him.

477
00:17:21,441 --> 00:17:23,561
He said to the man 
with the withered hand,

478
00:17:23,561 --> 00:17:25,579
'Get up and come forward.'

479
00:17:25,579 --> 00:17:26,631
And He said to them,

480
00:17:26,631 --> 00:17:28,564
'Is it lawful to do good or to do harm

481
00:17:28,564 --> 00:17:29,441
on the Sabbath?

482
00:17:29,441 --> 00:17:31,455
To save a life or to kill?'

483
00:17:31,455 --> 00:17:32,941
But they kept silent.

484
00:17:32,941 --> 00:17:35,569
After looking around at them with anger,

485
00:17:35,569 --> 00:17:37,365
grieved at their hardness of heart,

486
00:17:37,365 --> 00:17:38,334
He said to the man,

487
00:17:38,334 --> 00:17:39,618
'stretch forth your hand.'

488
00:17:39,618 --> 00:17:40,772
And he stretched it out

489
00:17:40,772 --> 00:17:42,253
and his hand was restored.

490
00:17:42,253 --> 00:17:43,884
The Pharisees went out immediately

491
00:17:43,884 --> 00:17:47,020
to be conspiring with 
the Herodians against Him

492
00:17:47,020 --> 00:17:48,681
as to how they might destroy Him."

493
00:17:48,681 --> 00:17:51,537
Jesus looked at them with anger,

494
00:17:51,537 --> 00:17:55,949
grieved at their hardness of heart.

495
00:17:55,949 --> 00:17:58,493
So we see the degrees of anger

496
00:17:58,493 --> 00:18:00,161
expressed by Jesus.

497
00:18:00,161 --> 00:18:01,951
You're free to use different terms.

498
00:18:01,951 --> 00:18:04,432
You're free to put them 
in different categories.

499
00:18:04,432 --> 00:18:07,039
But do you see something of a gradation?

500
00:18:07,039 --> 00:18:09,316
From the exasperation of Jesus

501
00:18:09,316 --> 00:18:11,966
to the indignation and irritation of Jesus

502
00:18:11,966 --> 00:18:14,817
to His flat-out holy anger,

503
00:18:14,817 --> 00:18:18,801
even expressed physically in the temple.

504
00:18:18,801 --> 00:18:21,979
What are the grounds of Jesus' anger?

505
00:18:21,979 --> 00:18:23,567
What gave rise to it?

506
00:18:23,567 --> 00:18:25,022
Well, we saw that the sorrow

507
00:18:25,022 --> 00:18:27,087
and the compassion of Jesus

508
00:18:27,087 --> 00:18:28,957
was born of His observation

509
00:18:28,957 --> 00:18:31,459
of the effects of the fall

510
00:18:31,459 --> 00:18:33,603
upon man and upon the world.

511
00:18:33,603 --> 00:18:35,525
As He walked among the wreckage

512
00:18:35,525 --> 00:18:36,654
of a fallen world,

513
00:18:36,654 --> 00:18:38,328
He saw crippled limbs,

514
00:18:38,328 --> 00:18:39,490
and blind eyes,

515
00:18:39,490 --> 00:18:40,441
and deaf ears,

516
00:18:40,441 --> 00:18:42,033
and leprous skin,

517
00:18:42,033 --> 00:18:43,696
and sicknesses and diseases

518
00:18:43,696 --> 00:18:46,518
and the emotional anguish caused by death,

519
00:18:46,518 --> 00:18:48,028
and unshepherded sheep,

520
00:18:48,028 --> 00:18:49,709
and people dead in their sins

521
00:18:49,709 --> 00:18:51,118
and hardened in their hearts,

522
00:18:51,118 --> 00:18:54,007
and it broke His holy heart with grief

523
00:18:54,007 --> 00:18:57,962
and He was moved with compassion.

524
00:18:57,962 --> 00:18:59,841
The compassion of Jesus

525
00:18:59,841 --> 00:19:01,935
was born of His observation

526
00:19:01,935 --> 00:19:05,975
of the effects of the fall.

527
00:19:05,975 --> 00:19:08,987
Regarding His anger, I would say this.

528
00:19:08,987 --> 00:19:13,170
His anger sprang from His recognition

529
00:19:13,170 --> 00:19:16,088
of the sources of man's fall:

530
00:19:16,088 --> 00:19:18,503
sin and Satan.

531
00:19:18,503 --> 00:19:19,768
Now to be sure,

532
00:19:19,768 --> 00:19:22,160
He gets angry with death.

533
00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,880
And death is an effect of sin.

534
00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:26,103
But for the most part,

535
00:19:26,103 --> 00:19:29,817
His anger is directed at the source

536
00:19:29,817 --> 00:19:33,657
of that fall: Satan and sin.

537
00:19:33,657 --> 00:19:34,885
Man's sin.

538
00:19:34,885 --> 00:19:36,983
He looked at them with anger

539
00:19:36,983 --> 00:19:39,360
in the hardness and uncompassion

540
00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:40,568
of their hearts,

541
00:19:40,568 --> 00:19:43,142
the sinfulness of 
their legalistic hearts -

542
00:19:43,142 --> 00:19:44,958
He looked at them with anger

543
00:19:44,958 --> 00:19:48,808
because sin angered Jesus.

544
00:19:48,808 --> 00:19:51,529
The devil: He (Jesus) saw demonized people

545
00:19:51,529 --> 00:19:53,754
and angrily rebuked them.

546
00:19:53,754 --> 00:19:55,307
He rebuked the wind,

547
00:19:55,307 --> 00:19:57,664
ultimately under the 
control of His Father,

548
00:19:57,664 --> 00:20:00,605
but when the wind comes 
with destructive power,

549
00:20:00,605 --> 00:20:02,918
immediately it is under the control

550
00:20:02,918 --> 00:20:04,672
of the god of this world.

551
00:20:04,672 --> 00:20:06,755
And He rebuked the wind.

552
00:20:06,755 --> 00:20:09,982
He rebuked the works of Satan,

553
00:20:09,982 --> 00:20:12,471
Satan himself, and demons.

554
00:20:12,471 --> 00:20:14,699
Jesus is angry at the devil

555
00:20:14,699 --> 00:20:18,032
and demons and demonic doctrines.

556
00:20:18,032 --> 00:20:20,531
And He is also angry at death

557
00:20:20,531 --> 00:20:24,400
which is the effect of sin.

558
00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,843
But now, let's consider the goodness

559
00:20:27,843 --> 00:20:32,639
of Jesus' anger in contrast to ours.

560
00:20:32,639 --> 00:20:34,790
What is it about the anger of Jesus

561
00:20:34,790 --> 00:20:37,109
that makes His anger good

562
00:20:37,109 --> 00:20:39,053
and so much of our anger bad?

563
00:20:39,053 --> 00:20:40,247
His anger righteous

564
00:20:40,247 --> 00:20:43,442
and so much of our anger unrighteous.

565
00:20:43,442 --> 00:20:45,367
There is so much to be said about anger.

566
00:20:45,367 --> 00:20:47,724
Like I said, I read recently 
a whole book on it,

567
00:20:47,724 --> 00:20:49,325
which is very rich,

568
00:20:49,325 --> 00:20:51,122
and I was trying to distill -

569
00:20:51,122 --> 00:20:52,603
how can I get across to the men

570
00:20:52,603 --> 00:20:53,774
and to my own heart

571
00:20:53,774 --> 00:20:55,348
the essence of the matter,

572
00:20:55,348 --> 00:20:58,513
because I only have a short time.

573
00:20:58,513 --> 00:21:00,966
What is it that makes Jesus' anger good

574
00:21:00,966 --> 00:21:04,066
and ours often not good?

575
00:21:04,066 --> 00:21:05,294
It is this:

576
00:21:05,294 --> 00:21:09,348
The motives of Jesus' anger were pure.

577
00:21:09,348 --> 00:21:13,798
Jesus' anger proceeded out 
of two basic motivations:

578
00:21:13,798 --> 00:21:16,328
His love for God His Father

579
00:21:16,328 --> 00:21:18,644
and His love for His neighbor,

580
00:21:18,644 --> 00:21:20,953
which is the essence of 
true religion, isn't it?

581
00:21:20,953 --> 00:21:23,715
To love God with all your heart,
soul, mind, and strength,

582
00:21:23,715 --> 00:21:25,417
and love your 
neighbor as yourself.

583
00:21:25,417 --> 00:21:27,470
Not surprisingly,
Jesus perfectly practiced

584
00:21:27,470 --> 00:21:29,251
true religion.

585
00:21:29,251 --> 00:21:32,375
And His anger was born of love for God

586
00:21:32,375 --> 00:21:35,765
and love for His neighbor.

587
00:21:35,765 --> 00:21:37,706
His love for God is seen

588
00:21:37,706 --> 00:21:39,661
in His cleansing of the temple.

589
00:21:39,661 --> 00:21:44,642
Zeal for His Father's house consumed Him.

590
00:21:44,642 --> 00:21:47,388
Zeal in Greek is the 
same word for jealousy:

591
00:21:47,388 --> 00:21:48,717
zelos

592
00:21:48,717 --> 00:21:49,917
It's just transliterated.

593
00:21:49,917 --> 00:21:52,826
He was jealous for His Father's honor

594
00:21:52,826 --> 00:21:55,903
and glory and name and cause.

595
00:21:55,903 --> 00:21:58,131
And what did the temple represent?

596
00:21:58,131 --> 00:22:01,020
The temple had been ordained of God

597
00:22:01,020 --> 00:22:04,045
as the place of His manifest presence.

598
00:22:04,045 --> 00:22:06,055
It was the place of worship.

599
00:22:06,055 --> 00:22:08,882
His house was to be a place of prayer.

600
00:22:08,882 --> 00:22:12,019
It was a place where God's 
holy law was stored, right?

601
00:22:12,019 --> 00:22:15,546
In the holy place; in 
the ark of the covenant.

602
00:22:15,546 --> 00:22:17,213
The Ten Commandments were there.

603
00:22:17,213 --> 00:22:19,376
It was the place where, let me say,

604
00:22:19,376 --> 00:22:20,865
the Gospel was contained.

605
00:22:20,865 --> 00:22:21,631
How so?

606
00:22:21,631 --> 00:22:23,974
Because it was the place of sacrifice.

607
00:22:23,974 --> 00:22:25,859
All of those animals sacrificed,

608
00:22:25,859 --> 00:22:27,759
sacrifices which typified

609
00:22:27,759 --> 00:22:30,088
and prefigured His ultimate effectual

610
00:22:30,088 --> 00:22:31,426
sacrifice for sin -

611
00:22:31,426 --> 00:22:33,391
the sacrifices were made in the temple.

612
00:22:33,391 --> 00:22:35,699
So the temple was the 
place of God's presence.

613
00:22:35,699 --> 00:22:36,776
His holy presence,

614
00:22:36,776 --> 00:22:37,776
His holy worship,

615
00:22:37,776 --> 00:22:38,804
His holy law,

616
00:22:38,804 --> 00:22:40,499
and His holy Gospel,

617
00:22:40,499 --> 00:22:43,942
represented by the 
prefiguring sacrifices, right?

618
00:22:43,942 --> 00:22:46,078
And He saw these religionists

619
00:22:46,078 --> 00:22:47,929
choked with their tradition -

620
00:22:47,929 --> 00:22:49,176
man-made tradition -

621
00:22:49,176 --> 00:22:50,755
taking advantage of the people,

622
00:22:50,755 --> 00:22:52,462
charging them exorbitant prices.

623
00:22:52,462 --> 00:22:53,961
They had come from a distance.

624
00:22:53,961 --> 00:22:55,274
They have to offer animals.

625
00:22:55,274 --> 00:22:57,859
They jack up the price and 
get what they want for it.

626
00:22:57,859 --> 00:23:00,935
And they're making it a greedy business.

627
00:23:00,935 --> 00:23:03,028
And zeal for His Father's house

628
00:23:03,028 --> 00:23:04,475
consumed Him.

629
00:23:04,475 --> 00:23:06,139
Love for God His Father -

630
00:23:06,139 --> 00:23:08,644
His honor, His name, 
His law, and His Gospel

631
00:23:08,644 --> 00:23:10,466
consumed Jesus.

632
00:23:10,466 --> 00:23:13,158
That's what gave birth to His anger.

633
00:23:13,158 --> 00:23:16,901
Interesting that when they crucified Jesus

634
00:23:16,901 --> 00:23:20,107
He said, "Father, forgive them."

635
00:23:20,107 --> 00:23:21,509
But when they trampled upon

636
00:23:21,509 --> 00:23:23,225
His Father's house,

637
00:23:23,225 --> 00:23:25,459
He turned over tables

638
00:23:25,459 --> 00:23:28,653
and drove out the money changers.

639
00:23:28,653 --> 00:23:31,408
And then what was the 
other occasion we saw

640
00:23:31,408 --> 00:23:32,722
when Jesus got angry?

641
00:23:32,722 --> 00:23:33,954
In the synagogue.

642
00:23:33,954 --> 00:23:35,243
A man with a withered hand,

643
00:23:35,243 --> 00:23:36,955
and Jesus is looking with compassion

644
00:23:36,955 --> 00:23:39,629
on this man suffering 
the effects of the fall.

645
00:23:39,629 --> 00:23:41,536
Crippled hands, withered hands

646
00:23:41,536 --> 00:23:43,603
weren't in the original intention of God

647
00:23:43,603 --> 00:23:45,102
in the Garden of Eden.

648
00:23:45,102 --> 00:23:48,228
But the fall had brought these things on.

649
00:23:48,228 --> 00:23:50,150
And Jesus looks at that man with pity

650
00:23:50,150 --> 00:23:52,022
and compassion and love for this man.

651
00:23:52,022 --> 00:23:54,470
And remember, His love was one of action;

652
00:23:54,470 --> 00:23:55,861
not just "I feel your pain,"

653
00:23:55,861 --> 00:23:57,833
but "I'm going to 
do something about it."

654
00:23:57,833 --> 00:23:59,404
And He looks at these Pharisees

655
00:23:59,404 --> 00:24:01,954
totally indifferent to this man

656
00:24:01,954 --> 00:24:03,413
in this crippled condition.

657
00:24:03,413 --> 00:24:05,921
Only concerned to guard 
their man-made traditions

658
00:24:05,921 --> 00:24:09,338
and their reputation in the eyes of men.

659
00:24:09,338 --> 00:24:11,895
And His anger toward them

660
00:24:11,895 --> 00:24:14,933
was born of His love for His neighbor.

661
00:24:14,933 --> 00:24:16,848
Because I love this man,

662
00:24:16,848 --> 00:24:18,516
and I want to relieve His hurt,

663
00:24:18,516 --> 00:24:23,282
I am angry with anything 
that is contrary to

664
00:24:23,282 --> 00:24:26,335
serving Him and meeting His needs.

665
00:24:26,335 --> 00:24:29,466
And so love for God and love for others

666
00:24:29,466 --> 00:24:32,297
was the driving force behind the anger

667
00:24:32,297 --> 00:24:33,972
of Jesus.

668
00:24:33,972 --> 00:24:36,282
Holy anger, brothers,

669
00:24:36,282 --> 00:24:38,852
is the flip side of love.

670
00:24:38,852 --> 00:24:42,579
(Incomplete thought)

671
00:24:42,579 --> 00:24:44,548
If you love your wife,

672
00:24:44,548 --> 00:24:46,941
you're going to protect her.

673
00:24:46,941 --> 00:24:48,915
You're going to be jealous of her, right?

674
00:24:48,915 --> 00:24:50,510
You're not going to let anything

675
00:24:50,510 --> 00:24:51,310
happen to her.

676
00:24:51,310 --> 00:24:52,905
It will be over your dead body

677
00:24:52,905 --> 00:24:54,547
that anything happens to her,

678
00:24:54,547 --> 00:24:55,646
because you love her.

679
00:24:55,646 --> 00:24:57,440
And you will get angry with anything

680
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,804
that threatens her at any level.

681
00:25:00,804 --> 00:25:02,318
Jesus loved God,

682
00:25:02,318 --> 00:25:03,663
so anything that threatened

683
00:25:03,663 --> 00:25:05,985
the honor and glory of God His Father

684
00:25:05,985 --> 00:25:07,368
made Him angry,

685
00:25:07,368 --> 00:25:09,344
because He loved His father.

686
00:25:09,344 --> 00:25:10,550
He loved His neighbor

687
00:25:10,550 --> 00:25:12,150
and was bent on doing them good.

688
00:25:12,150 --> 00:25:13,832
So anything that threatened them,

689
00:25:13,832 --> 00:25:15,723
that abused them or oppressed them,

690
00:25:15,723 --> 00:25:18,575
or hurt them made Him angry.

691
00:25:18,575 --> 00:25:21,995
So, the anger of Jesus sprang from love.

692
00:25:21,995 --> 00:25:25,737
Love for God and love for His neighbor.

693
00:25:25,737 --> 00:25:29,142
Now, our anger also usually

694
00:25:29,142 --> 00:25:32,718
springs from love.

695
00:25:32,718 --> 00:25:34,178
But not love for God

696
00:25:34,178 --> 00:25:35,510
and not love for neighbor -

697
00:25:35,510 --> 00:25:37,152
but love for self.

698
00:25:37,152 --> 00:25:38,051
Right?

699
00:25:38,051 --> 00:25:40,609
Here's the difference.

700
00:25:40,609 --> 00:25:44,349
Our anger often springs from self-love.

701
00:25:44,349 --> 00:25:46,323
Jesus was jealous for the honor

702
00:25:46,323 --> 00:25:49,872
of God His Father and the good of others.

703
00:25:49,872 --> 00:25:54,930
We are jealous to protect 
some selfish interests.

704
00:25:54,930 --> 00:25:56,830
What makes us angry?

705
00:25:56,830 --> 00:25:59,549
What makes us angry is when some need

706
00:25:59,549 --> 00:26:00,871
that we think we have

707
00:26:00,871 --> 00:26:02,716
is not being met.

708
00:26:02,716 --> 00:26:05,612
I need to be respected by my wife.

709
00:26:05,612 --> 00:26:07,126
And she's not respecting me,

710
00:26:07,126 --> 00:26:10,863
so I'm angry.

711
00:26:10,863 --> 00:26:14,608
Beware of need theology, brethren.

712
00:26:14,608 --> 00:26:16,713
Need theology says God commands

713
00:26:16,713 --> 00:26:19,214
your wife to respect you,

714
00:26:19,214 --> 00:26:21,733
therefore you need to be respected.

715
00:26:21,733 --> 00:26:23,075
No.

716
00:26:23,075 --> 00:26:25,625
She needs to respect you.

717
00:26:25,625 --> 00:26:28,282
I say my need is not to be respected

718
00:26:28,282 --> 00:26:29,258
by my wife.

719
00:26:29,258 --> 00:26:33,670
My need is to love my wife.

720
00:26:33,670 --> 00:26:35,325
There's a subtle difference,

721
00:26:35,325 --> 00:26:37,916
but it's a huge difference.

722
00:26:37,916 --> 00:26:40,007
I focus on my duty, not my rights.

723
00:26:40,007 --> 00:26:41,660
I have a need.

724
00:26:41,660 --> 00:26:43,175
I have a need to be respected,

725
00:26:43,175 --> 00:26:44,911
and I'm angry because my need

726
00:26:44,911 --> 00:26:47,870
that I think I have is not being met.

727
00:26:47,870 --> 00:26:50,066
We get angry because our pride or ego

728
00:26:50,066 --> 00:26:51,077
is being stepped on.

729
00:26:51,077 --> 00:26:52,360
Somebody comes to bring us

730
00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:54,660
a correction that we need,

731
00:26:54,660 --> 00:26:56,099
but because of our pride,

732
00:26:56,099 --> 00:26:57,919
it wells up and we get angry

733
00:26:57,919 --> 00:27:00,728
and we get defensive and resentful.

734
00:27:00,728 --> 00:27:02,224
Why?

735
00:27:02,224 --> 00:27:04,861
Because we're trying to 
protect God's honor?

736
00:27:04,861 --> 00:27:06,177
The good of our neighbor?

737
00:27:06,177 --> 00:27:08,867
No. Our own pride and our own ego.

738
00:27:08,867 --> 00:27:10,457
We get angry because my opinion

739
00:27:10,457 --> 00:27:11,907
isn't being weighed as heavily

740
00:27:11,907 --> 00:27:14,454
as I think it should.

741
00:27:14,454 --> 00:27:16,637
We get angry because

742
00:27:16,637 --> 00:27:17,951
some right I think I have

743
00:27:17,951 --> 00:27:19,102
isn't being granted.

744
00:27:19,102 --> 00:27:20,669
I should be promoted at work.

745
00:27:20,669 --> 00:27:22,184
I have a right to be recognized

746
00:27:22,184 --> 00:27:24,596
for the service I'm 
doing for the Lord.

747
00:27:24,596 --> 00:27:26,310
I'm angry because I'm not being

748
00:27:26,310 --> 00:27:28,054
praised and recognized

749
00:27:28,054 --> 00:27:30,265
as I think I ought.

750
00:27:30,265 --> 00:27:32,163
We get angry when circumstances

751
00:27:32,163 --> 00:27:35,244
aren't falling out as 
we think they should.

752
00:27:35,244 --> 00:27:36,571
I get angry, I confess,

753
00:27:36,571 --> 00:27:38,107
when the driver in front of me

754
00:27:38,107 --> 00:27:40,964
isn't driving as quickly 
as he or she should

755
00:27:40,964 --> 00:27:43,116
because I need to get to my appointment.

756
00:27:43,116 --> 00:27:46,206
The problem is I didn't 
leave early enough.

757
00:27:46,206 --> 00:27:49,161
And I'm being driven and angry

758
00:27:49,161 --> 00:27:54,122
because of things not going my way.

759
00:27:54,122 --> 00:27:55,779
So often then,

760
00:27:55,779 --> 00:27:58,017
our anger does not spring from

761
00:27:58,017 --> 00:28:01,203
love for God and love for neighbor,

762
00:28:01,203 --> 00:28:03,556
but it springs from love of self.

763
00:28:03,556 --> 00:28:05,711
It is self-centered.

764
00:28:05,711 --> 00:28:07,841
Our anger so often has to do

765
00:28:07,841 --> 00:28:09,627
with what I want.

766
00:28:09,627 --> 00:28:10,910
I want what I want,

767
00:28:10,910 --> 00:28:12,115
when I want it.

768
00:28:12,115 --> 00:28:13,323
And if I don't get it,

769
00:28:13,323 --> 00:28:15,099
or if you don't give it to me,

770
00:28:15,099 --> 00:28:18,144
or if you stand in my way of getting it,

771
00:28:18,144 --> 00:28:21,131
I will be angry.

772
00:28:21,131 --> 00:28:23,785
So brothers, what are we to do?

773
00:28:23,785 --> 00:28:27,395
How can my self-centered anger

774
00:28:27,395 --> 00:28:29,158
be transformed into a Christ-like,

775
00:28:29,158 --> 00:28:31,515
holy anger?

776
00:28:31,515 --> 00:28:32,711
Number one,

777
00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:35,885
we need to be converted to Christ.

778
00:28:35,885 --> 00:28:39,557
Our big need is that 
we live for ourselves.

779
00:28:39,557 --> 00:28:41,893
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 says,

780
00:28:41,893 --> 00:28:43,827
"The love of Christ constrains us,

781
00:28:43,827 --> 00:28:46,005
having concluded this,

782
00:28:46,005 --> 00:28:47,099
that One died for all,

783
00:28:47,099 --> 00:28:48,305
therefore all died.

784
00:28:48,305 --> 00:28:50,662
He died for all that they who live

785
00:28:50,662 --> 00:28:53,129
should no longer live for themselves,

786
00:28:53,129 --> 00:28:55,119
but for Him Who died and rose again

787
00:28:55,119 --> 00:28:56,040
on their behalf."

788
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:57,880
One of the major changes that happens

789
00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,785
when we put our faith in Jesus,

790
00:28:59,785 --> 00:29:00,935
is we are transformed

791
00:29:00,935 --> 00:29:03,250
from a predominantly self-centered person

792
00:29:03,250 --> 00:29:05,024
to a Christ-centered

793
00:29:05,024 --> 00:29:08,143
and thereby other-centered person.

794
00:29:08,143 --> 00:29:09,766
Now, that doesn't destroy

795
00:29:09,766 --> 00:29:10,847
all self-centeredness.

796
00:29:10,847 --> 00:29:13,206
We are mopping it up 
for the rest of our lives.

797
00:29:13,206 --> 00:29:14,220
But at that point,

798
00:29:14,220 --> 00:29:17,416
the backbone of a 
predominantly self-absorbed life

799
00:29:17,416 --> 00:29:21,474
is broken by the grace 
of God in conversion.

800
00:29:21,474 --> 00:29:23,688
You will never be freed from

801
00:29:23,688 --> 00:29:25,725
self-centered anger

802
00:29:25,725 --> 00:29:27,614
until you're freed from the root

803
00:29:27,614 --> 00:29:28,956
of your self-centered anger

804
00:29:28,956 --> 00:29:31,127
which is self-centeredness.

805
00:29:31,127 --> 00:29:32,494
And only the Gospel,

806
00:29:32,494 --> 00:29:34,178
only Jesus Christ can free you

807
00:29:34,178 --> 00:29:36,382
from that self-absorption

808
00:29:36,382 --> 00:29:39,107
and living a life of 
self-hyphenated words.

809
00:29:39,107 --> 00:29:41,518
Self-gratification and self-indulgence,

810
00:29:41,518 --> 00:29:45,146
and self-will and self-this and self-that.

811
00:29:45,146 --> 00:29:47,416
You need to be converted to Jesus.

812
00:29:47,416 --> 00:29:49,958
Don't hope to really have a holy anger

813
00:29:49,958 --> 00:29:52,462
until you first come to the Holy One

814
00:29:52,462 --> 00:29:54,699
Who can break the backbone

815
00:29:54,699 --> 00:29:57,921
of your native self-centeredness.

816
00:29:57,921 --> 00:29:59,386
But then, secondly brothers,

817
00:29:59,386 --> 00:30:01,139
we need to be properly suspicious

818
00:30:01,139 --> 00:30:04,057
of the anger that arises from our hearts.

819
00:30:04,057 --> 00:30:07,499
So much of it is either purely selfish

820
00:30:07,499 --> 00:30:10,949
or laced with selfish concerns.

821
00:30:10,949 --> 00:30:13,993
To discover the selfishness of your heart,

822
00:30:13,993 --> 00:30:16,858
David Powlison suggests we ask ourselves

823
00:30:16,858 --> 00:30:18,942
several questions

824
00:30:18,942 --> 00:30:20,930
when we are angry.

825
00:30:20,930 --> 00:30:23,555
These are good diagnostic questions.

826
00:30:23,555 --> 00:30:25,863
If you can pause, step back,

827
00:30:25,863 --> 00:30:27,818
and look objectively,

828
00:30:27,818 --> 00:30:29,137
and ask these questions,

829
00:30:29,137 --> 00:30:32,337
it will keep you from selfish anger.

830
00:30:32,337 --> 00:30:35,813
What do I want in this moment?

831
00:30:35,813 --> 00:30:37,659
What do I believe I need

832
00:30:37,659 --> 00:30:39,724
and can't live without?

833
00:30:39,724 --> 00:30:43,296
What do I most fear?

834
00:30:43,296 --> 00:30:47,666
In this situation, what do I most love?

835
00:30:47,666 --> 00:30:51,300
What is the centerpiece of 
my hopes and dreams?

836
00:30:51,300 --> 00:30:52,958
You see, anger is not caused

837
00:30:52,958 --> 00:30:54,860
by the situation.

838
00:30:54,860 --> 00:30:57,114
It's caused by what we believe,

839
00:30:57,114 --> 00:30:58,304
what we cherish,

840
00:30:58,304 --> 00:30:59,623
what rules me.

841
00:30:59,623 --> 00:31:03,807
Anger reveals the idols of our hearts.

842
00:31:03,807 --> 00:31:05,219
And so, when you're angry,

843
00:31:05,219 --> 00:31:08,928
ask is it because I 
have an idol of control?

844
00:31:08,928 --> 00:31:10,709
I need to control my circumstances

845
00:31:10,709 --> 00:31:12,242
and things are out of control.

846
00:31:12,242 --> 00:31:13,568
They're not in my control.

847
00:31:13,568 --> 00:31:14,854
I'm getting angry because

848
00:31:14,854 --> 00:31:15,782
I can't control it!

849
00:31:15,782 --> 00:31:17,149
And I'm trying to play God

850
00:31:17,149 --> 00:31:19,980
by controlling my circumstances

851
00:31:19,980 --> 00:31:21,771
and my environment.

852
00:31:21,771 --> 00:31:23,520
Another idol is the fear of man,

853
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,725
and the acceptance and 
praise of other people.

854
00:31:25,725 --> 00:31:27,896
Am I angry because 
I'm not getting stroked?

855
00:31:27,896 --> 00:31:29,166
I'm not getting praised.

856
00:31:29,166 --> 00:31:31,560
I'm not getting approved and accepted

857
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:32,710
as I want.

858
00:31:32,710 --> 00:31:35,818
My idol of acceptance is not being fed,

859
00:31:35,818 --> 00:31:37,712
and so I'm angry.

860
00:31:37,712 --> 00:31:40,162
Is it an idol of pleasure and comfort

861
00:31:40,162 --> 00:31:42,293
and ease and health.

862
00:31:42,293 --> 00:31:44,006
These things are being threatened

863
00:31:44,006 --> 00:31:45,087
and so I'm angry

864
00:31:45,087 --> 00:31:46,354
because I've made an idol

865
00:31:46,354 --> 00:31:49,007
of comfort and ease.

866
00:31:49,007 --> 00:31:52,635
Do I have a lust for power over people?

867
00:31:52,635 --> 00:31:55,795
And that's being frustrated.

868
00:31:55,795 --> 00:31:57,939
I'm not being able to control people

869
00:31:57,939 --> 00:31:59,913
and their responses as I want to,

870
00:31:59,913 --> 00:32:01,137
and manipulate people,

871
00:32:01,137 --> 00:32:03,682
and so I'm angry.

872
00:32:03,682 --> 00:32:07,103
Have you ever seen a politician

873
00:32:07,103 --> 00:32:09,197
who lost an election

874
00:32:09,197 --> 00:32:11,644
and is angry and can't seem to

875
00:32:11,644 --> 00:32:14,088
be reconciled to the loss?

876
00:32:14,088 --> 00:32:16,320
Can't seem to let it go?

877
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:17,352
Why not?

878
00:32:17,352 --> 00:32:19,429
Because something precious has been

879
00:32:19,429 --> 00:32:21,087
denied to them.

880
00:32:21,087 --> 00:32:24,573
And they won't let go of that idol.

881
00:32:24,573 --> 00:32:25,673
And then, next men,

882
00:32:25,673 --> 00:32:27,535
we need to progressively die

883
00:32:27,535 --> 00:32:30,681
to selfish desires and wants.

884
00:32:30,681 --> 00:32:32,498
As we recognize more and more

885
00:32:32,498 --> 00:32:33,757
the self-centered idols -

886
00:32:33,757 --> 00:32:35,734
and our idols will vary.

887
00:32:35,734 --> 00:32:37,715
The thing that I would tend to idolize

888
00:32:37,715 --> 00:32:38,953
may not be the thing that

889
00:32:38,953 --> 00:32:39,956
you tend to idolize.

890
00:32:39,956 --> 00:32:40,666
Idols vary.

891
00:32:40,666 --> 00:32:42,453
Flesh comes in different varieties.

892
00:32:42,453 --> 00:32:43,545
You need to recognize

893
00:32:43,545 --> 00:32:45,103
what you tend to idolize.

894
00:32:45,103 --> 00:32:46,699
What are your God-substitutes?

895
00:32:46,699 --> 00:32:48,076
What are the things that you

896
00:32:48,076 --> 00:32:49,460
tend to love, trust, and obey

897
00:32:49,460 --> 00:32:51,053
rather than God?

898
00:32:51,053 --> 00:32:52,722
They vary from person to person,

899
00:32:52,722 --> 00:32:54,591
but we all have them.

900
00:32:54,591 --> 00:32:56,354
And we need to progressively die

901
00:32:56,354 --> 00:32:59,743
to selfish desires and wants.

902
00:32:59,743 --> 00:33:02,155
You can do that by tracing your anger

903
00:33:02,155 --> 00:33:04,755
back to its source in some idol.

904
00:33:04,755 --> 00:33:06,574
And as you discover that idol,

905
00:33:06,574 --> 00:33:08,678
"Oh God, I love this too much.

906
00:33:08,678 --> 00:33:10,843
I love that too much.

907
00:33:10,843 --> 00:33:12,388
I love the praise of men

908
00:33:12,388 --> 00:33:14,094
more than I love Your favor.

909
00:33:14,094 --> 00:33:15,906
I love to be in control

910
00:33:15,906 --> 00:33:18,123
more than I do to submit to Your control."

911
00:33:18,123 --> 00:33:20,110
As those idols are exposed,

912
00:33:20,110 --> 00:33:22,145
cry out to God in repentance

913
00:33:22,145 --> 00:33:24,171
and cry for grace to help

914
00:33:24,171 --> 00:33:26,081
to put to death that selfish motive

915
00:33:26,081 --> 00:33:27,743
that is at the root of your

916
00:33:27,743 --> 00:33:30,184
unrighteous anger.

917
00:33:30,184 --> 00:33:31,694
But another step.

918
00:33:31,694 --> 00:33:33,633
You know the dynamic of sanctification

919
00:33:33,633 --> 00:33:34,922
is not just put off -

920
00:33:34,922 --> 00:33:36,671
it's not just: stop doing this.

921
00:33:36,671 --> 00:33:39,274
It's not: just say no.

922
00:33:39,274 --> 00:33:41,537
It's put off and put on

923
00:33:41,537 --> 00:33:42,962
the righteous alternative.

924
00:33:42,962 --> 00:33:45,439
So, we need to progressively put on

925
00:33:45,439 --> 00:33:47,708
the righteous anger of Jesus.

926
00:33:47,708 --> 00:33:50,452
Be angry, but do not sin.

927
00:33:50,452 --> 00:33:52,110
And let me say here

928
00:33:52,110 --> 00:33:55,076
that the solution to sinful anger

929
00:33:55,076 --> 00:33:58,200
is not: no anger.

930
00:33:58,200 --> 00:33:59,935
Somebody says, you know,

931
00:33:59,935 --> 00:34:03,217
nothing ever makes me angry.

932
00:34:03,217 --> 00:34:06,060
I would say, well, that's too bad.

933
00:34:06,060 --> 00:34:07,992
I'm sorry to hear that,

934
00:34:07,992 --> 00:34:10,480
because that's not like Jesus.

935
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:14,015
Because Jesus was provoked to anger.

936
00:34:14,015 --> 00:34:15,802
I'm sorry to hear that nothing

937
00:34:15,802 --> 00:34:17,091
ever makes you angry.

938
00:34:17,091 --> 00:34:19,751
You know, they're boasting 
in their placidity

939
00:34:19,751 --> 00:34:22,058
and the fact that they're just unflappable

940
00:34:22,058 --> 00:34:24,520
and unmoved.

941
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,969
No, the answer to sinful anger

942
00:34:26,969 --> 00:34:28,455
is not: no anger.

943
00:34:28,455 --> 00:34:32,294
It is righteous anger.

944
00:34:32,294 --> 00:34:34,606
As we confess and turn

945
00:34:34,606 --> 00:34:36,379
from our self-centered anger,

946
00:34:36,379 --> 00:34:38,541
we need to grow in our anger

947
00:34:38,541 --> 00:34:40,644
for the things that angered Jesus.

948
00:34:40,644 --> 00:34:42,125
And again, men,

949
00:34:42,125 --> 00:34:43,480
no easy solution.

950
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:44,706
You don't flip a switch.

951
00:34:44,706 --> 00:34:45,826
There's no formula.

952
00:34:45,826 --> 00:34:48,492
Immerse yourself in the Word of God.

953
00:34:48,492 --> 00:34:50,622
Here's where the prophets can help.

954
00:34:50,622 --> 00:34:52,750
We realize that the New Testament

955
00:34:52,750 --> 00:34:53,860
is the fulfillment,

956
00:34:53,860 --> 00:34:55,991
but don't neglect your Old Testament.

957
00:34:55,991 --> 00:34:58,020
Don't neglect the prophets.

958
00:34:58,020 --> 00:34:59,611
Boy, you hear the heart of God.

959
00:34:59,611 --> 00:35:01,629
You hear some of the holy anger of God,

960
00:35:01,629 --> 00:35:03,463
and the mercy of God

961
00:35:03,463 --> 00:35:04,962
coming through the prophets.

962
00:35:04,962 --> 00:35:08,247
We learn of God Who doesn't change.

963
00:35:08,247 --> 00:35:10,408
I talk to some of my Anabaptist friends

964
00:35:10,408 --> 00:35:11,730
who are these pacifists

965
00:35:11,730 --> 00:35:13,333
and I say, now, wait a minute,

966
00:35:13,333 --> 00:35:14,968
the God of the Old Testament

967
00:35:14,968 --> 00:35:17,378
is still the God of the New Testament.

968
00:35:17,378 --> 00:35:19,052
He's the same God.

969
00:35:19,052 --> 00:35:21,526
Anyway, that's a whole tangent.

970
00:35:21,526 --> 00:35:23,680
But don't neglect the Old Testament.

971
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,665
And as you learn more of the nature of God

972
00:35:26,665 --> 00:35:29,000
and the things that anger God

973
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,029
and the things that anger Jesus,

974
00:35:31,029 --> 00:35:33,338
hopefully, you will come to be angry

975
00:35:33,338 --> 00:35:34,668
with the same things.

976
00:35:34,668 --> 00:35:38,019
The things that rob God of glory and honor

977
00:35:38,019 --> 00:35:40,781
ought to make you angry and me angry.

978
00:35:40,781 --> 00:35:42,818
False religion ought to make us angry.

979
00:35:42,818 --> 00:35:45,181
Paul walked down the streets of Athens

980
00:35:45,181 --> 00:35:46,466
and he saw all those idols.

981
00:35:46,466 --> 00:35:48,844
And the Greek word is the 
word from which we get

982
00:35:48,844 --> 00:35:51,081
paroxysms - he went into paroxysms.

983
00:35:51,081 --> 00:35:53,227
This tumult in his soul

984
00:35:53,227 --> 00:35:55,715
as he saw those idols.

985
00:35:55,715 --> 00:35:57,465
He was jealous for the honor

986
00:35:57,465 --> 00:35:58,716
of the one true God,

987
00:35:58,716 --> 00:36:00,177
and he proclaimed it to them.

988
00:36:00,177 --> 00:36:01,608
And as we see religions

989
00:36:01,608 --> 00:36:03,232
where they're worshiping cows

990
00:36:03,232 --> 00:36:04,452
and people are starving

991
00:36:04,452 --> 00:36:05,808
and they're worshiping cows

992
00:36:05,808 --> 00:36:07,785
or they're worshiping ancestors

993
00:36:07,785 --> 00:36:09,878
or they're representing God

994
00:36:09,878 --> 00:36:12,833
as only a cruel judge

995
00:36:12,833 --> 00:36:13,904
and God of law

996
00:36:13,904 --> 00:36:15,694
and not a God of mercy and compassion

997
00:36:15,694 --> 00:36:17,315
as Islam represents Him.

998
00:36:17,315 --> 00:36:19,279
It ought to make us angry.

999
00:36:19,279 --> 00:36:20,715
When we see the cults denying

1000
00:36:20,715 --> 00:36:22,003
essential truths,

1001
00:36:22,003 --> 00:36:23,488
perverting Christianity,

1002
00:36:23,488 --> 00:36:25,214
it ought to make us angry.

1003
00:36:25,214 --> 00:36:26,992
And we see all the nonsense

1004
00:36:26,992 --> 00:36:28,673
being promulgated

1005
00:36:28,673 --> 00:36:30,432
in the name of Christianity today.

1006
00:36:30,432 --> 00:36:32,166
We see the Joel Osteen's

1007
00:36:32,166 --> 00:36:33,423
filling a stadium

1008
00:36:33,423 --> 00:36:34,755
or the Rick Warren's

1009
00:36:34,755 --> 00:36:36,493
and all of these heretical

1010
00:36:36,493 --> 00:36:38,383
representations of Christianity,

1011
00:36:38,383 --> 00:36:39,843
distorting the Gospel,

1012
00:36:39,843 --> 00:36:41,105
distorting our God.

1013
00:36:41,105 --> 00:36:43,626
It ought to make us angry,

1014
00:36:43,626 --> 00:36:46,278
because it would make Jesus angry.

1015
00:36:46,278 --> 00:36:48,192
I deal often these days,

1016
00:36:48,192 --> 00:36:49,962
I'm privileged to counsel

1017
00:36:49,962 --> 00:36:52,697
some abused young women

1018
00:36:52,697 --> 00:36:54,568
in a ministry that we have

1019
00:36:54,568 --> 00:36:56,437
in the National Guard.

1020
00:36:56,437 --> 00:36:59,416
But these young women sometimes think,

1021
00:36:59,416 --> 00:37:03,396
well, it was my fault what happened.

1022
00:37:03,396 --> 00:37:06,072
And I try to get them to be angry.

1023
00:37:06,072 --> 00:37:07,901
And when they are angry,

1024
00:37:07,901 --> 00:37:10,342
I take it as a good step 
in the right direction,

1025
00:37:10,342 --> 00:37:11,837
because progress is made

1026
00:37:11,837 --> 00:37:13,685
when they are willing to recognize -

1027
00:37:13,685 --> 00:37:15,386
I don't care if it was your father,

1028
00:37:15,386 --> 00:37:16,674
your brother, your uncle -

1029
00:37:16,674 --> 00:37:20,649
what happened to you was wicked and evil.

1030
00:37:20,649 --> 00:37:21,949
It was wrong.

1031
00:37:21,949 --> 00:37:23,467
And God is angry.

1032
00:37:23,467 --> 00:37:24,749
And Jesus is angry.

1033
00:37:24,749 --> 00:37:25,850
And as I hear about it,

1034
00:37:25,850 --> 00:37:26,820
I'm angry.

1035
00:37:26,820 --> 00:37:28,149
And you ought to be angry.

1036
00:37:28,149 --> 00:37:29,816
Now, we don't stop there.

1037
00:37:29,816 --> 00:37:31,260
We work to make sure

1038
00:37:31,260 --> 00:37:33,224
it's not a vengeful, hateful anger.

1039
00:37:33,224 --> 00:37:34,845
And we work toward forgiveness,

1040
00:37:34,845 --> 00:37:36,498
but she's not going to get there

1041
00:37:36,498 --> 00:37:38,266
unless she first says this is wrong,

1042
00:37:38,266 --> 00:37:39,986
call it what it is - it's evil,

1043
00:37:39,986 --> 00:37:41,629
and it makes me angry.

1044
00:37:41,629 --> 00:37:44,536
Because it makes God angry.

1045
00:37:44,536 --> 00:37:47,261
The evils propagated in the world

1046
00:37:47,261 --> 00:37:48,388
because of man's sin -

1047
00:37:48,388 --> 00:37:50,533
oppression of the poor and helpless

1048
00:37:50,533 --> 00:37:51,900
and the needy

1049
00:37:51,900 --> 00:37:55,193
by ruthless, power-hungry, greedy men.

1050
00:37:55,193 --> 00:37:57,661
Deceit, hypocrisy, racial prejudice,

1051
00:37:57,661 --> 00:38:00,168
lies and deceptions of our politicians

1052
00:38:00,168 --> 00:38:02,538
and the deceit in our media.

1053
00:38:02,538 --> 00:38:05,685
It ought to make us disgusted and angry.

1054
00:38:05,685 --> 00:38:09,913
You ought to be angry 
with the natural creation

1055
00:38:09,913 --> 00:38:12,621
as Satan has utilized it to do damage

1056
00:38:12,621 --> 00:38:14,097
in hurricanes and earthquakes

1057
00:38:14,097 --> 00:38:16,661
and forest fires, etc.

1058
00:38:16,661 --> 00:38:18,577
And we ought to be angry as Jesus was

1059
00:38:18,577 --> 00:38:20,672
at the enemy of death

1060
00:38:20,672 --> 00:38:22,648
and the heartache that it brings to us

1061
00:38:22,648 --> 00:38:24,755
and to our loved ones.

1062
00:38:24,755 --> 00:38:27,388
We have reason then to mourn over,

1063
00:38:27,388 --> 00:38:30,980
repent of and come 
to Jesus for forgiveness

1064
00:38:30,980 --> 00:38:33,867
for our unrighteous anger

1065
00:38:33,867 --> 00:38:37,086
that is rooted in prideful selfishness.

1066
00:38:37,086 --> 00:38:38,711
And to learn from Jesus

1067
00:38:38,711 --> 00:38:42,702
to cultivate a holy and righteous anger.

1068
00:38:42,702 --> 00:38:45,083
And especially, men, if you are one

1069
00:38:45,083 --> 00:38:47,062
who struggles with anger,

1070
00:38:47,062 --> 00:38:49,227
I urge you to deal with it

1071
00:38:49,227 --> 00:38:51,579
by the grace of God.

1072
00:38:51,579 --> 00:38:53,456
If you don't, it will run the risk

1073
00:38:53,456 --> 00:38:54,855
of destroying your marriage,

1074
00:38:54,855 --> 00:38:56,710
ruining your children,

1075
00:38:56,710 --> 00:38:58,045
polluting many around you,

1076
00:38:58,045 --> 00:39:01,218
and perhaps even destroying your own soul.

1077
00:39:01,218 --> 00:39:04,373
The good news is there is a Savior

1078
00:39:04,373 --> 00:39:05,501
Who forgives.

1079
00:39:05,501 --> 00:39:06,967
No matter what you've done,

1080
00:39:06,967 --> 00:39:09,209
how intensely, how often you've done it,

1081
00:39:09,209 --> 00:39:10,717
how long you've done it,

1082
00:39:10,717 --> 00:39:12,338
there is a Savior Who can

1083
00:39:12,338 --> 00:39:14,827
wipe the slate clean of all your past

1084
00:39:14,827 --> 00:39:16,178
and future sins

1085
00:39:16,178 --> 00:39:18,263
by His death upon the cross

1086
00:39:18,263 --> 00:39:20,077
on behalf of sinners.

1087
00:39:20,077 --> 00:39:21,527
And not only does He forgive,

1088
00:39:21,527 --> 00:39:23,846
He cleanses and transforms.

1089
00:39:23,846 --> 00:39:27,447
You can change. Jesus can change you.

1090
00:39:27,447 --> 00:39:29,852
Well, men, I know 
that's a sermon in itself,

1091
00:39:29,852 --> 00:39:33,586
but I can't send you off angry.

1092
00:39:33,586 --> 00:39:36,228
We have to end on a note of joy

1093
00:39:36,228 --> 00:39:37,791
because we want to consider,

1094
00:39:37,791 --> 00:39:39,252
I think more briefly,

1095
00:39:39,252 --> 00:39:43,089
the joy of Jesus.

1096
00:39:43,089 --> 00:39:45,560
I enjoy doing this study on joy,

1097
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,022
because many people don't think of Jesus

1098
00:39:48,022 --> 00:39:50,087
as joyful.

1099
00:39:50,087 --> 00:39:51,815
And there are reasons for that.

1100
00:39:51,815 --> 00:39:53,972
He's called the "Man of Sorrows."

1101
00:39:53,972 --> 00:39:55,850
We see Him walking through,

1102
00:39:55,850 --> 00:39:57,059
seeing the destruction,

1103
00:39:57,059 --> 00:39:58,800
being grieved,

1104
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,653
being moved with compassion.

1105
00:40:00,653 --> 00:40:02,324
We see Him angry.

1106
00:40:02,324 --> 00:40:05,344
We don't see Him laughing out loud

1107
00:40:05,344 --> 00:40:07,445
and yucking it up with His disciples.

1108
00:40:07,445 --> 00:40:08,821
And as a result of that,

1109
00:40:08,821 --> 00:40:10,025
some people have thought

1110
00:40:10,025 --> 00:40:12,034
that the prevailing disposition of Jesus

1111
00:40:12,034 --> 00:40:14,053
is not one of joy.

1112
00:40:14,053 --> 00:40:15,430
It's one of somberness

1113
00:40:15,430 --> 00:40:17,202
and it's one of melancholy.

1114
00:40:17,202 --> 00:40:19,396
But nothing could be 
further from the truth.

1115
00:40:19,396 --> 00:40:20,481
And in a few minutes,

1116
00:40:20,481 --> 00:40:21,989
I want to try to prove to you

1117
00:40:21,989 --> 00:40:26,974
that Jesus was the 
consummately joyful man.

1118
00:40:26,974 --> 00:40:30,569
Number one, wasn't He 
filled with the Spirit

1119
00:40:30,569 --> 00:40:33,029
without measure?

1120
00:40:33,029 --> 00:40:36,986
Well, the fruit of 
the Spirit is love, joy...

1121
00:40:36,986 --> 00:40:39,251
So Jesus had unbounded joy.

1122
00:40:39,251 --> 00:40:42,275
We struggle to be being 
filled with the Spirit, right?

1123
00:40:42,275 --> 00:40:43,952
And our love waxes and wanes.

1124
00:40:43,952 --> 00:40:45,746
Our joy waxes and wanes.

1125
00:40:45,746 --> 00:40:47,268
But not Jesus.

1126
00:40:47,268 --> 00:40:49,214
He was constantly, perpetually

1127
00:40:49,214 --> 00:40:50,975
filled with the Holy Spirit

1128
00:40:50,975 --> 00:40:53,105
and the fruit of the Spirit was joy.

1129
00:40:53,105 --> 00:40:56,444
So He was perpetually joyful

1130
00:40:56,444 --> 00:40:59,260
just by clear inference.

1131
00:40:59,260 --> 00:41:01,204
John 15:11, He says to His disciples,

1132
00:41:01,204 --> 00:41:02,978
"These things I have spoken to you

1133
00:41:02,978 --> 00:41:04,875
so that My joy may be in you

1134
00:41:04,875 --> 00:41:07,201
and that your joy may be made full."

1135
00:41:07,201 --> 00:41:09,395
If He wasn't a consummately joyful man,

1136
00:41:09,395 --> 00:41:13,148
He couldn't have filled 
His disciples with joy.

1137
00:41:13,148 --> 00:41:15,537
No doubt they took that as a blessing.

1138
00:41:15,537 --> 00:41:18,521
They asked Him to teach them to pray

1139
00:41:18,521 --> 00:41:20,019
because they saw Him praying,

1140
00:41:20,019 --> 00:41:22,913
and they said I want to pray like Jesus.

1141
00:41:22,913 --> 00:41:26,002
No doubt they beheld His joy.

1142
00:41:26,002 --> 00:41:27,453
And when He said

1143
00:41:27,453 --> 00:41:28,738
I want My joy to be in you,

1144
00:41:28,738 --> 00:41:30,107
they would have taken that

1145
00:41:30,107 --> 00:41:31,166
as a great blessing

1146
00:41:31,166 --> 00:41:35,488
because they saw Him 
as so perpetually joyful.

1147
00:41:35,488 --> 00:41:41,114
(Incomplete thought)

1148
00:41:41,114 --> 00:41:44,724
His lifestyle points to joy.

1149
00:41:44,724 --> 00:41:46,553
Luke 7 tells us, "For John the Baptist

1150
00:41:46,553 --> 00:41:48,702
has come eating no bread

1151
00:41:48,702 --> 00:41:50,125
and drinking no wine

1152
00:41:50,125 --> 00:41:51,559
and you say He has a demon.

1153
00:41:51,559 --> 00:41:53,277
The Son of Man has come
eating and drinking

1154
00:41:53,277 --> 00:41:54,793
and you say, 'behold, 
a gluttonous man

1155
00:41:54,793 --> 00:41:55,989
and a drunkard, a friend

1156
00:41:55,989 --> 00:41:57,567
of tax collectors and sinners.'"

1157
00:41:57,567 --> 00:41:59,887
Jesus' lifestyle was contrary to John.

1158
00:41:59,887 --> 00:42:02,298
John was given as that last

1159
00:42:02,298 --> 00:42:03,759
Old Testament prophet,

1160
00:42:03,759 --> 00:42:05,776
a lifestyle of austerity.

1161
00:42:05,776 --> 00:42:07,509
He's dressed in camel's hair.

1162
00:42:07,509 --> 00:42:13,408
He's eating, as one of 
my inner city people said,

1163
00:42:13,408 --> 00:42:16,696
honey-coated cockroaches

1164
00:42:16,696 --> 00:42:18,648
out in the wilderness.

1165
00:42:18,648 --> 00:42:21,170
And it was very austere, somber.

1166
00:42:21,170 --> 00:42:22,398
Not Jesus.

1167
00:42:22,398 --> 00:42:23,894
He's eating. He's drinking.

1168
00:42:23,894 --> 00:42:27,584
He's enjoying the amenities of life.

1169
00:42:27,584 --> 00:42:28,763
Different lifestyle.

1170
00:42:28,763 --> 00:42:31,479
And when He explains why,

1171
00:42:31,479 --> 00:42:32,605
He gives this reason.

1172
00:42:32,605 --> 00:42:34,681
He says, "The attendants of the bridegroom

1173
00:42:34,681 --> 00:42:35,897
cannot mourn as long as

1174
00:42:35,897 --> 00:42:37,882
the bridegroom is with them, can they?

1175
00:42:37,882 --> 00:42:39,395
But the days will come 
when the bridegroom

1176
00:42:39,395 --> 00:42:40,800
is taken away from them,

1177
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,244
and then they will fast."

1178
00:42:42,244 --> 00:42:44,902
And He talks about the fact that He's come

1179
00:42:44,902 --> 00:42:46,735
to bring new wine.

1180
00:42:46,735 --> 00:42:49,198
In other words, this 
isn't the time for fasting.

1181
00:42:49,198 --> 00:42:50,630
This is the time for feasting.

1182
00:42:50,630 --> 00:42:51,812
The Bridegroom is here!

1183
00:42:51,812 --> 00:42:52,591
Jesus has come!

1184
00:42:52,591 --> 00:42:54,247
He's come to bring in a new order.

1185
00:42:54,247 --> 00:42:55,489
He's come to declare good news

1186
00:42:55,489 --> 00:42:57,423
and set the captives free.

1187
00:42:57,423 --> 00:42:58,947
The fullness of time has come.

1188
00:42:58,947 --> 00:43:00,241
God has sent forth His Son.

1189
00:43:00,241 --> 00:43:01,893
This is feasting time.

1190
00:43:01,893 --> 00:43:04,274
This is not fasting and mourning time.

1191
00:43:04,274 --> 00:43:06,667
So His very lifestyle -

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00:43:06,667 --> 00:43:09,350
for which He was wrongly criticized

1193
00:43:09,350 --> 00:43:10,772
by His enemies -

1194
00:43:10,772 --> 00:43:14,026
was one of joy.

1195
00:43:14,026 --> 00:43:15,700
In John 4:32-34,

1196
00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:17,670
He's dealing with the rich, young ruler.

1197
00:43:17,670 --> 00:43:20,895
The disciples have gone into the city
to get food; they come back.

1198
00:43:20,895 --> 00:43:22,997
And they're concerned 
that He got His share

1199
00:43:22,997 --> 00:43:25,628
from McDonald's or Wendy's or Chick-fil-a.

1200
00:43:25,628 --> 00:43:27,462
Chick-fil-a. Sorry.

1201
00:43:27,462 --> 00:43:29,719
And what does He say?

1202
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,935
My food is to do the will 
of Him Who sent Me.

1203
00:43:32,935 --> 00:43:34,296
Food is a delight, isn't it?

1204
00:43:34,296 --> 00:43:36,054
We've enjoyed wonderful food here.

1205
00:43:36,054 --> 00:43:37,438
Men, you who prepared,

1206
00:43:37,438 --> 00:43:38,358
thank you.

1207
00:43:38,358 --> 00:43:39,562
Wonderful food.

1208
00:43:39,562 --> 00:43:41,522
Food is not like cardboard to us.

1209
00:43:41,522 --> 00:43:43,097
We enjoy food.

1210
00:43:43,097 --> 00:43:44,794
And God has given us taste buds.

1211
00:43:44,794 --> 00:43:46,891
He didn't have to have it that way, right?

1212
00:43:46,891 --> 00:43:48,904
He could have put it here

1213
00:43:48,904 --> 00:43:51,395
like we fuel up our gas tank.

1214
00:43:51,395 --> 00:43:53,729
But He gave us taste buds,

1215
00:43:53,729 --> 00:43:55,190
so we not only get nourished,

1216
00:43:55,190 --> 00:43:56,279
but we enjoy it.

1217
00:43:56,279 --> 00:43:58,009
My food, He said,

1218
00:43:58,009 --> 00:43:59,641
My delight is to do the will

1219
00:43:59,641 --> 00:44:00,705
of Him Who sent Me.

1220
00:44:00,705 --> 00:44:01,621
And what was that?

1221
00:44:01,621 --> 00:44:03,098
I've come to seek and to save

1222
00:44:03,098 --> 00:44:06,296
that which was lost.

1223
00:44:06,296 --> 00:44:08,032
In Luke 10:2-21,

1224
00:44:08,032 --> 00:44:09,429
Jesus' disciples return from

1225
00:44:09,429 --> 00:44:10,403
a missionary trip.

1226
00:44:10,403 --> 00:44:12,088
And remember how they're rejoicing

1227
00:44:12,088 --> 00:44:14,786
because the demons are subject to them?

1228
00:44:14,786 --> 00:44:16,563
He corrects their perspective.

1229
00:44:16,563 --> 00:44:18,962
"Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this -

1230
00:44:18,962 --> 00:44:21,056
that the spirits are subject to you -

1231
00:44:21,056 --> 00:44:23,049
but rejoice in..." what?

1232
00:44:23,049 --> 00:44:24,776
That your names are written,

1233
00:44:24,776 --> 00:44:26,387
recorded in heaven.

1234
00:44:26,387 --> 00:44:28,190
And then it says,

1235
00:44:28,190 --> 00:44:30,921
"At that very time, He rejoiced greatly

1236
00:44:30,921 --> 00:44:32,217
in the Holy Spirit."

1237
00:44:32,217 --> 00:44:33,655
I think that's the only time

1238
00:44:33,655 --> 00:44:35,267
where it says specifically

1239
00:44:35,267 --> 00:44:37,377
that Jesus rejoiced,

1240
00:44:37,377 --> 00:44:40,320
and He rejoiced greatly 
in the Holy Spirit.

1241
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:41,607
And why did He rejoice?

1242
00:44:41,607 --> 00:44:43,161
"I praise You, oh Father,

1243
00:44:43,161 --> 00:44:44,363
Lord of Heaven and earth

1244
00:44:44,363 --> 00:44:45,914
that You've hidden these things

1245
00:44:45,914 --> 00:44:47,250
from the wise and prudent,

1246
00:44:47,250 --> 00:44:49,395
and revealed them unto babes.

1247
00:44:49,395 --> 00:44:50,866
For so it was well pleasing

1248
00:44:50,866 --> 00:44:52,172
in Your sight."

1249
00:44:52,172 --> 00:44:54,088
He breaks out in praise to His Father.

1250
00:44:54,088 --> 00:44:55,453
What is He delighting in?

1251
00:44:55,453 --> 00:44:58,205
The Father's purposes to save

1252
00:44:58,205 --> 00:45:03,179
those who are humbly dependent upon Him.

1253
00:45:03,179 --> 00:45:06,368
In Matthew 25, Jesus tells a parable

1254
00:45:06,368 --> 00:45:09,140
about a man who goes on a journey

1255
00:45:09,140 --> 00:45:11,301
and trusts talents to his servants.

1256
00:45:11,301 --> 00:45:12,938
When he comes back,

1257
00:45:12,938 --> 00:45:14,486
and the servants have done well

1258
00:45:14,486 --> 00:45:15,643
with those talents,

1259
00:45:15,643 --> 00:45:16,810
what does he say?

1260
00:45:16,810 --> 00:45:19,748
Enter into the joy of your master.

1261
00:45:19,748 --> 00:45:21,106
He's the Master.

1262
00:45:21,106 --> 00:45:22,975
He's the One Who has gone away.

1263
00:45:22,975 --> 00:45:26,585
He's going to bring them into His joy

1264
00:45:26,585 --> 00:45:30,816
because He is joyful.

1265
00:45:30,816 --> 00:45:32,746
One more, Hebrews 12:2.

1266
00:45:32,746 --> 00:45:35,106
Some of you have quoted 
it to me this week.

1267
00:45:35,106 --> 00:45:37,272
"Who for the joy set before Him

1268
00:45:37,272 --> 00:45:38,848
endured the cross..."

1269
00:45:38,848 --> 00:45:41,077
despising, thinking little of, the shame.

1270
00:45:41,077 --> 00:45:43,018
And that joy, brothers,

1271
00:45:43,018 --> 00:45:45,517
was not only the joy of being relieved

1272
00:45:45,517 --> 00:45:47,836
from His earthly suffering;

1273
00:45:47,836 --> 00:45:50,758
it was the joy of being rewarded

1274
00:45:50,758 --> 00:45:52,824
with what God had promised Him.

1275
00:45:52,824 --> 00:45:56,045
Isaiah 53 - He will see 
the travail of His soul

1276
00:45:56,045 --> 00:45:57,923
and be satisfied.

1277
00:45:57,923 --> 00:46:00,113
I didn't do this for nothing.

1278
00:46:00,113 --> 00:46:02,870
I did this to be the mediator

1279
00:46:02,870 --> 00:46:05,383
between My holy Father and sinful men.

1280
00:46:05,383 --> 00:46:09,567
I did this to purchase a people.

1281
00:46:09,567 --> 00:46:12,224
And the joy He anticipated

1282
00:46:12,224 --> 00:46:13,514
would have included,

1283
00:46:13,514 --> 00:46:15,720
as a result of My suffering,

1284
00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:18,114
a multitude that no man can number

1285
00:46:18,114 --> 00:46:19,645
will be brought with Me

1286
00:46:19,645 --> 00:46:23,224
to enjoy My presence forever.

1287
00:46:23,224 --> 00:46:25,552
So, Jesus was a man of joy.

1288
00:46:25,552 --> 00:46:29,776
What was the source of His joy?

1289
00:46:29,776 --> 00:46:31,891
Brothers, focus on this.

1290
00:46:31,891 --> 00:46:33,935
The source of Jesus' joy

1291
00:46:33,935 --> 00:46:38,708
had everything to do with 
the salvation of sinners.

1292
00:46:38,708 --> 00:46:40,841
His time was a time of feasting

1293
00:46:40,841 --> 00:46:43,411
because He had come to set sinners free.

1294
00:46:43,411 --> 00:46:46,062
He delighted to do the Father's will

1295
00:46:46,062 --> 00:46:47,884
which was for Him to seek and save

1296
00:46:47,884 --> 00:46:49,021
that which was lost.

1297
00:46:49,021 --> 00:46:50,807
He told His followers to rejoice

1298
00:46:50,807 --> 00:46:53,005
that their names were written in Heaven.

1299
00:46:53,005 --> 00:46:55,546
He rejoiced in the Father's 
sovereign, good pleasure

1300
00:46:55,546 --> 00:46:57,420
to reveal saving truth to those who

1301
00:46:57,420 --> 00:47:00,524
like infants sought help from God.

1302
00:47:00,524 --> 00:47:01,832
Oh, I didn't mention this,

1303
00:47:01,832 --> 00:47:03,662
but He identifies with the lost sheep

1304
00:47:03,662 --> 00:47:04,781
and the lost coin

1305
00:47:04,781 --> 00:47:07,899
and the lost son of the 
parables of Luke 15, right?

1306
00:47:07,899 --> 00:47:10,915
He was rejoicing in 
the salvation of sinners

1307
00:47:10,915 --> 00:47:12,558
for which He was being accused.

1308
00:47:12,558 --> 00:47:14,059
And He tells those parables.

1309
00:47:14,059 --> 00:47:15,429
A man lost a sheep,

1310
00:47:15,429 --> 00:47:17,188
and he rejoiced when he found it.

1311
00:47:17,188 --> 00:47:18,398
A woman lost a coin.

1312
00:47:18,398 --> 00:47:20,047
She rejoiced when she found it.

1313
00:47:20,047 --> 00:47:21,554
A man had a lost son.

1314
00:47:21,554 --> 00:47:22,926
And oh, did he celebrate,

1315
00:47:22,926 --> 00:47:25,390
when that son returned.

1316
00:47:25,390 --> 00:47:27,779
Guess who the celebrating woman,

1317
00:47:27,779 --> 00:47:29,511
shepherd, and father is?

1318
00:47:29,511 --> 00:47:30,718
It's Jesus!

1319
00:47:30,718 --> 00:47:33,164
Who rejoices over the salvation

1320
00:47:33,164 --> 00:47:36,282
of that which was lost.

1321
00:47:36,282 --> 00:47:38,016
And He anticipates the joy

1322
00:47:38,016 --> 00:47:42,823
of being glorified in Heaven.

1323
00:47:42,823 --> 00:47:44,911
The joy of Jesus

1324
00:47:44,911 --> 00:47:47,780
springs from His contemplation

1325
00:47:47,780 --> 00:47:50,178
and anticipation of the solution

1326
00:47:50,178 --> 00:47:52,583
to the fall which He came to bring.

1327
00:47:52,583 --> 00:47:53,991
Do you see why I'm saying

1328
00:47:53,991 --> 00:47:55,468
that the emotions of Jesus

1329
00:47:55,468 --> 00:47:58,001
have everything to do 
with biblical theology?

1330
00:47:58,001 --> 00:48:01,089
His grief and compassion

1331
00:48:01,089 --> 00:48:03,381
was due to His observation

1332
00:48:03,381 --> 00:48:06,515
of the effects of the fall.

1333
00:48:06,515 --> 00:48:09,157
What is, in light of what was.

1334
00:48:09,157 --> 00:48:12,364
His anger was born of His recognition

1335
00:48:12,364 --> 00:48:15,299
of the source of the fall: sin and Satan.

1336
00:48:15,299 --> 00:48:17,976
His holy joy was born

1337
00:48:17,976 --> 00:48:20,989
of His contemplation and anticipation

1338
00:48:20,989 --> 00:48:24,047
of the solution to the fall

1339
00:48:24,047 --> 00:48:27,227
that He came to bring.

1340
00:48:27,227 --> 00:48:30,366
And so, not only was He grieving

1341
00:48:30,366 --> 00:48:31,584
and compassionate;

1342
00:48:31,584 --> 00:48:33,420
not only was He angry,

1343
00:48:33,420 --> 00:48:35,571
but He was filled with joy,

1344
00:48:35,571 --> 00:48:37,162
because as He came

1345
00:48:37,162 --> 00:48:39,195
and as He witnessed the ravaged landscape

1346
00:48:39,195 --> 00:48:41,858
and the effect of sin 
upon the hearts of men,

1347
00:48:41,858 --> 00:48:44,297
He said it's not going to stay that way.

1348
00:48:44,297 --> 00:48:45,956
I've come to change it.

1349
00:48:45,956 --> 00:48:47,270
It's going to be different.

1350
00:48:47,270 --> 00:48:48,691
It's going to be made new.

1351
00:48:48,691 --> 00:48:51,333
I've come to bring a new order.

1352
00:48:51,333 --> 00:48:53,212
He came to bring it incrementally.

1353
00:48:53,212 --> 00:48:55,147
First, by initial salvation -

1354
00:48:55,147 --> 00:48:57,538
justification, progressively 
by sanctification,

1355
00:48:57,538 --> 00:48:58,523
but one day,

1356
00:48:58,523 --> 00:49:01,066
there's going to be a new 
heavens and a new earth

1357
00:49:01,066 --> 00:49:02,997
in which only righteousness dwells.

1358
00:49:02,997 --> 00:49:05,030
Where there will no 
longer be any mourning

1359
00:49:05,030 --> 00:49:07,997
and any tears and any grief and any death.

1360
00:49:07,997 --> 00:49:09,898
The first things will have passed away.

1361
00:49:09,898 --> 00:49:12,360
And so, He had joy,

1362
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:13,837
because He knew,

1363
00:49:13,837 --> 00:49:17,351
what was and what is

1364
00:49:17,351 --> 00:49:19,039
is not going to stay that way.

1365
00:49:19,039 --> 00:49:21,894
I've come to change it.

1366
00:49:21,894 --> 00:49:24,271
And so brothers, the 
only question that remains

1367
00:49:24,271 --> 00:49:28,407
is what joy is expected of us?

1368
00:49:28,407 --> 00:49:30,518
If that was the joy of Jesus -

1369
00:49:30,518 --> 00:49:32,675
everything swirled around His Father's

1370
00:49:32,675 --> 00:49:33,760
plan of salvation.

1371
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:34,736
Did you catch that?

1372
00:49:34,736 --> 00:49:36,516
Every time He had joy,

1373
00:49:36,516 --> 00:49:40,295
it had something to do with salvation.

1374
00:49:40,295 --> 00:49:42,778
What does that tell us?

1375
00:49:42,778 --> 00:49:45,569
That if we are to grow in Christlike joy,

1376
00:49:45,569 --> 00:49:48,755
our joy in the things of salvation

1377
00:49:48,755 --> 00:49:51,652
needs to increase.

1378
00:49:51,652 --> 00:49:53,526
There are many things to give us

1379
00:49:53,526 --> 00:49:54,947
joy and pleasure.

1380
00:49:54,947 --> 00:49:57,571
And we are not ascetics.

1381
00:49:57,571 --> 00:50:00,267
We are to enjoy every good gift

1382
00:50:00,267 --> 00:50:02,525
our Father gives us.

1383
00:50:02,525 --> 00:50:05,909
Enjoy a happy marriage if 
God has given you one.

1384
00:50:05,909 --> 00:50:08,490
Enjoy a loving wife.

1385
00:50:08,490 --> 00:50:10,552
Enjoy your children,

1386
00:50:10,552 --> 00:50:12,788
especially when they obey.

1387
00:50:12,788 --> 00:50:14,417
Children, make your parents happy

1388
00:50:14,417 --> 00:50:16,377
by obeying them.

1389
00:50:16,377 --> 00:50:18,818
A fulfilling job brings us joy.

1390
00:50:18,818 --> 00:50:20,685
A favorite hobby brings us joy.

1391
00:50:20,685 --> 00:50:22,710
Some of you guys really get into shooting.

1392
00:50:22,710 --> 00:50:23,915
Some of you love hunting.

1393
00:50:23,915 --> 00:50:25,101
I love fishing.

1394
00:50:25,101 --> 00:50:29,052
All kinds of hobbies we're given to enjoy.

1395
00:50:29,052 --> 00:50:30,765
We can enjoy music,

1396
00:50:30,765 --> 00:50:32,607
whether you play or just listen.

1397
00:50:32,607 --> 00:50:33,847
We enjoy good friends.

1398
00:50:33,847 --> 00:50:35,002
We enjoy good food.

1399
00:50:35,002 --> 00:50:36,871
But brothers, increasingly,

1400
00:50:36,871 --> 00:50:39,606
what should be our greatest joy?

1401
00:50:39,606 --> 00:50:44,946
The things of Christ and His salvation.

1402
00:50:44,946 --> 00:50:46,450
Regeneration.

1403
00:50:46,450 --> 00:50:47,572
I don't know about you,

1404
00:50:47,572 --> 00:50:50,165
but nothing brings me greater joy

1405
00:50:50,165 --> 00:50:52,608
than to witness the new birth.

1406
00:50:52,608 --> 00:50:54,525
As I've heard some of your stories -

1407
00:50:54,525 --> 00:50:55,971
out of darkness into light.

1408
00:50:55,971 --> 00:50:59,426
And you know, if you're not a Calvinist -

1409
00:50:59,426 --> 00:51:01,749
I use that word here.

1410
00:51:01,749 --> 00:51:03,527
I don't use that in Lancaster County.

1411
00:51:03,527 --> 00:51:05,540
But I use it here because it's shorthand -

1412
00:51:05,540 --> 00:51:06,579
we know what we mean.

1413
00:51:06,579 --> 00:51:08,866
Unless you believe in 
the sovereignty of God,

1414
00:51:08,866 --> 00:51:10,661
you're going to rob yourself of joy.

1415
00:51:10,661 --> 00:51:12,507
I meet with an elder from a church,

1416
00:51:12,507 --> 00:51:14,300
and he said his church needs reform.

1417
00:51:14,300 --> 00:51:15,680
He said 10 or 11 years ago,

1418
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:16,819
I gave my testimony,

1419
00:51:16,819 --> 00:51:18,373
and it was a glorious testimony.

1420
00:51:18,373 --> 00:51:20,205
The people kind of just sat there.

1421
00:51:20,205 --> 00:51:21,769
If it's a matter of, well, good,

1422
00:51:21,769 --> 00:51:23,885
I'm glad you made your decision for Jesus.

1423
00:51:23,885 --> 00:51:25,359
That's nice.

1424
00:51:25,359 --> 00:51:27,676
But if we understand that salvation,

1425
00:51:27,676 --> 00:51:30,913
regeneration is a 
supernatural work of God;

1426
00:51:30,913 --> 00:51:32,668
that the lightning of God's grace

1427
00:51:32,668 --> 00:51:34,271
has struck down in this place.

1428
00:51:34,271 --> 00:51:35,816
I want to take my shoes off.

1429
00:51:35,816 --> 00:51:38,832
I'm on holy ground when 
I hear a testimony.

1430
00:51:38,832 --> 00:51:40,735
God has visited you.

1431
00:51:40,735 --> 00:51:42,390
The eternal God has chosen you.

1432
00:51:42,390 --> 00:51:43,518
Jesus died for you,

1433
00:51:43,518 --> 00:51:44,945
and the Spirit of God has come

1434
00:51:44,945 --> 00:51:46,152
and regenerated you.

1435
00:51:46,152 --> 00:51:48,853
That's a work of supernatural grace!

1436
00:51:48,853 --> 00:51:49,946
Some of us were there.

1437
00:51:49,946 --> 00:51:51,732
Many of us were there for the birth

1438
00:51:51,732 --> 00:51:53,400
of our children.

1439
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:54,443
That's wonderful.

1440
00:51:54,443 --> 00:51:56,080
But there's nothing like the joy

1441
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:56,947
of the new birth.

1442
00:51:56,947 --> 00:51:58,918
The miracle of God's regenerating grace.

1443
00:51:58,918 --> 00:52:00,688
That ought to rejoice our hearts

1444
00:52:00,688 --> 00:52:03,169
supremely above everything else.

1445
00:52:03,169 --> 00:52:05,978
And then, to see our 
brothers and sisters grow.

1446
00:52:05,978 --> 00:52:07,254
Remember what John says?

1447
00:52:07,254 --> 00:52:08,886
I have no greater joy than this,

1448
00:52:08,886 --> 00:52:10,346
than to hear of my children -

1449
00:52:10,346 --> 00:52:11,639
his spiritual children -

1450
00:52:11,639 --> 00:52:13,354
walking in the truth.

1451
00:52:13,354 --> 00:52:16,378
And then the joy of 
anticipating eternal joy.

1452
00:52:16,378 --> 00:52:17,589
No matter what heartaches

1453
00:52:17,589 --> 00:52:18,922
and what sorrows

1454
00:52:18,922 --> 00:52:20,023
we have in this life,

1455
00:52:20,023 --> 00:52:21,706
they should never crush us.

1456
00:52:21,706 --> 00:52:23,817
Because Paul has said all the suffering

1457
00:52:23,817 --> 00:52:25,713
of this present time is not worthy

1458
00:52:25,713 --> 00:52:27,162
to be compared to the glory

1459
00:52:27,162 --> 00:52:30,065
that shall be revealed in us.

1460
00:52:30,065 --> 00:52:31,946
How will it be that our joy

1461
00:52:31,946 --> 00:52:33,274
more and more comes to be

1462
00:52:33,274 --> 00:52:34,719
in the salvation of God?

1463
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:36,637
Again, as we immerse ourselves

1464
00:52:36,637 --> 00:52:38,018
in the Scriptures.

1465
00:52:38,018 --> 00:52:40,456
And you see this amazing plan of salvation

1466
00:52:40,456 --> 00:52:43,376
begun with that little 
glimmer in Genesis 3:15.

1467
00:52:43,376 --> 00:52:45,385
Continued as God chooses Abraham

1468
00:52:45,385 --> 00:52:47,273
and makes out of him a great nation.

1469
00:52:47,273 --> 00:52:48,938
And then, raises up prophets

1470
00:52:48,938 --> 00:52:50,461
to announce this coming time.

1471
00:52:50,461 --> 00:52:52,182
Then you come to the new covenant,

1472
00:52:52,182 --> 00:52:54,200
and you see the fulfillment of all of that

1473
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:55,476
in Jesus Christ.

1474
00:52:55,476 --> 00:52:57,102
And you see all the dimensions

1475
00:52:57,102 --> 00:52:58,228
of His salvation.

1476
00:52:58,228 --> 00:53:00,278
Salvation accomplished on the cross.

1477
00:53:00,278 --> 00:53:01,611
Salvation applied.

1478
00:53:01,611 --> 00:53:03,385
And you study the various doctrines

1479
00:53:03,385 --> 00:53:06,177
of redemption and propitiation

1480
00:53:06,177 --> 00:53:08,630
and regeneration and justification

1481
00:53:08,630 --> 00:53:10,512
and sanctification and adoption...

1482
00:53:10,512 --> 00:53:12,504
and you understand more and more

1483
00:53:12,504 --> 00:53:14,425
of the many facets of God's salvation.

1484
00:53:14,425 --> 00:53:15,488
You marvel in it.

1485
00:53:15,488 --> 00:53:17,606
And it becomes the most marvelous thing

1486
00:53:17,606 --> 00:53:20,611
and the source of our greatest joy.

1487
00:53:20,611 --> 00:53:22,004
And so brothers,

1488
00:53:22,004 --> 00:53:23,509
to grow into the joy of Jesus,

1489
00:53:23,509 --> 00:53:25,005
we need to be in the Word

1490
00:53:25,005 --> 00:53:26,715
and we need to be learning more

1491
00:53:26,715 --> 00:53:29,007
about this great salvation,

1492
00:53:29,007 --> 00:53:30,926
and we need to be praying to God,

1493
00:53:30,926 --> 00:53:32,128
"Lord, help me.

1494
00:53:32,128 --> 00:53:34,662
Help me to enjoy all of your good gifts,

1495
00:53:34,662 --> 00:53:36,865
but help me supremely to enjoy

1496
00:53:36,865 --> 00:53:39,814
the things connected with Your salvation."

1497
00:53:39,814 --> 00:53:41,353
One parting word,

1498
00:53:41,353 --> 00:53:43,525
and I just thought of it earlier.

1499
00:53:43,525 --> 00:53:44,981
Where are you going to find

1500
00:53:44,981 --> 00:53:46,063
that growing enjoyment

1501
00:53:46,063 --> 00:53:48,925
of God's saving work?

1502
00:53:48,925 --> 00:53:50,701
Not likely as you're off isolated

1503
00:53:50,701 --> 00:53:52,504
as a Christian,

1504
00:53:52,504 --> 00:53:54,540
but as you're gathered in a body

1505
00:53:54,540 --> 00:53:56,548
in the church.

1506
00:53:56,548 --> 00:53:57,997
Doesn't Psalm 11 say

1507
00:53:57,997 --> 00:54:01,607
in God's presence is fullness of joy.

1508
00:54:01,607 --> 00:54:04,194
Where is God specially present now?

1509
00:54:04,194 --> 00:54:05,772
He's omnipresent.

1510
00:54:05,772 --> 00:54:07,966
But where does God hang out,

1511
00:54:07,966 --> 00:54:10,200
if I can say that reverently?

1512
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:11,703
The church.

1513
00:54:11,703 --> 00:54:14,554
The local church is the household of God.

1514
00:54:14,554 --> 00:54:15,988
That's the place where God

1515
00:54:15,988 --> 00:54:18,927
wants to manifest His special presence

1516
00:54:18,927 --> 00:54:21,795
among His people.

1517
00:54:21,795 --> 00:54:23,267
And it's in the church

1518
00:54:23,267 --> 00:54:25,406
that you get the fullness of joy,

1519
00:54:25,406 --> 00:54:28,035
because that's where the 
Word is being preached.

1520
00:54:28,035 --> 00:54:30,487
That's where people are being converted.

1521
00:54:30,487 --> 00:54:33,111
That's where people are growing in grace

1522
00:54:33,111 --> 00:54:35,351
and encouraging one another 
in the grace of God

1523
00:54:35,351 --> 00:54:37,560
as they anticipate the joy of heaven.

1524
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:38,905
So, if you want to maximize

1525
00:54:38,905 --> 00:54:40,712
your Christlike joy,

1526
00:54:40,712 --> 00:54:42,739
be part of the family of God

1527
00:54:42,739 --> 00:54:45,028
in and through which

1528
00:54:45,028 --> 00:54:47,022
the great work of salvation

1529
00:54:47,022 --> 00:54:49,399
is taking place.

1530
00:54:49,399 --> 00:54:51,765
Well, brothers, as I close,

1531
00:54:51,765 --> 00:54:56,062
my hope is that we have 
been exposed this weekend

1532
00:54:56,062 --> 00:54:58,916
to an area that is 
not given much attention.

1533
00:54:58,916 --> 00:55:01,187
That was my reason 
for choosing this subject.

1534
00:55:01,187 --> 00:55:03,692
I realize I'm talking to well taught men

1535
00:55:03,692 --> 00:55:05,342
from well taught congregations.

1536
00:55:05,342 --> 00:55:07,416
And I thought, well, what can I bring you

1537
00:55:07,416 --> 00:55:09,527
that perhaps you haven't heard as much of,

1538
00:55:09,527 --> 00:55:12,594
and not repeat things 
you've already learned.

1539
00:55:12,594 --> 00:55:15,539
And I trust that this has opened your eyes

1540
00:55:15,539 --> 00:55:18,033
to a dimension of life we need to be

1541
00:55:18,033 --> 00:55:18,878
concerned about.

1542
00:55:18,878 --> 00:55:21,046
And I hope that as you 
read your Bibles now,

1543
00:55:21,046 --> 00:55:22,168
you'll be looking more

1544
00:55:22,168 --> 00:55:24,566
at the emotional life of Jesus.

1545
00:55:24,566 --> 00:55:26,183
When I went to seminary,

1546
00:55:26,183 --> 00:55:27,805
I worked to support myself

1547
00:55:27,805 --> 00:55:30,523
at a post office delivering mail

1548
00:55:30,523 --> 00:55:32,589
through my seminary years.

1549
00:55:32,589 --> 00:55:34,497
And I'd never noticed mailboxes before.

1550
00:55:34,497 --> 00:55:36,269
But after working at the post office,

1551
00:55:36,269 --> 00:55:38,257
all of a sudden I'm noticing mail boxes

1552
00:55:38,257 --> 00:55:39,324
all over the place.

1553
00:55:39,324 --> 00:55:41,111
And having been exposed to this theme

1554
00:55:41,111 --> 00:55:42,389
of the emotions of Jesus,

1555
00:55:42,389 --> 00:55:44,804
hopefully the emotions of Jesus

1556
00:55:44,804 --> 00:55:46,840
will jump out at you on the page

1557
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:49,793
more so than in the past.

1558
00:55:49,793 --> 00:55:51,599
I'm going to close with a benediction

1559
00:55:51,599 --> 00:55:54,009
from 1 Thessalonians 5:23,

1560
00:55:54,009 --> 00:55:57,397
which calls us to 
whole-souled sanctification,

1561
00:55:57,397 --> 00:55:58,860
which includes our emotions.

1562
00:55:58,860 --> 00:56:00,397
So brothers, why don't we stand.

1563
00:56:00,397 --> 00:56:02,264
Unless there's anything else, Michael,

1564
00:56:02,264 --> 00:56:04,165
I'll dismiss us with the benediction.

1565
00:56:04,165 --> 00:56:06,578
There may be some instructions.

1566
00:56:06,578 --> 00:56:09,297
"And now may the God of peace Himself

1567
00:56:09,297 --> 00:56:11,823
sanctify you entirely,

1568
00:56:11,823 --> 00:56:14,199
and may your spirit and soul

1569
00:56:14,199 --> 00:56:16,256
(including your emotions)

1570
00:56:16,256 --> 00:56:18,396
and body be preserved complete

1571
00:56:18,396 --> 00:56:20,347
without blame at the coming

1572
00:56:20,347 --> 00:56:22,218
of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1573
00:56:22,218 --> 00:56:24,492
Faithful is He Who calls you,

1574
00:56:24,492 --> 00:56:26,854
and He also will bring it to pass."

1575
00:56:26,854 --> 00:56:28,626
Amen.