1 00:00:00,552 --> 00:00:03,345 Many times we think of anger as selfish 2 00:00:03,345 --> 00:00:04,810 and a destructive emotion 3 00:00:04,810 --> 00:00:07,442 that should be eradicated from our lives altogether, 4 00:00:07,442 --> 00:00:09,980 but the fact is Jesus got angry 5 00:00:09,980 --> 00:00:11,050 when men were hard, 6 00:00:11,050 --> 00:00:12,731 when men were unbelieving, 7 00:00:12,731 --> 00:00:14,370 unfeeling, unsympathetic, 8 00:00:14,370 --> 00:00:17,701 and especially when they dishonored His Father. 9 00:00:17,701 --> 00:00:21,544 The Apostle Paul could say to the Galatians 10 00:00:21,544 --> 00:00:23,650 at a time when they were being duped 11 00:00:23,650 --> 00:00:25,193 by false teachers, 12 00:00:25,193 --> 00:00:27,982 "I wish those who unsettle you 13 00:00:27,982 --> 00:00:30,812 would emasculate themselves." 14 00:00:30,812 --> 00:00:33,481 Emasculate? 15 00:00:33,481 --> 00:00:35,451 Brace yourselves. 16 00:00:35,451 --> 00:00:37,529 Thayer's Greek Lexicon says, 17 00:00:37,529 --> 00:00:39,661 "cut off your privy parts." 18 00:00:39,661 --> 00:00:41,464 You say, "well, I never!" 19 00:00:41,464 --> 00:00:42,467 Well, that's right. 20 00:00:42,467 --> 00:00:45,211 You've never been stirred up like Paul has 21 00:00:45,211 --> 00:00:47,450 when somebody comes in with teaching 22 00:00:47,450 --> 00:00:49,522 and is trying to lead people away 23 00:00:49,522 --> 00:00:52,266 and possibly to their damnation. 24 00:00:52,266 --> 00:00:53,391 And he gets stirred! 25 00:00:53,391 --> 00:00:55,261 And he knew what that word meant. 26 00:00:55,261 --> 00:00:57,511 And he used it in mixed company. 27 00:00:57,511 --> 00:00:58,600 Why? 28 00:00:58,600 --> 00:00:59,942 Because he was angry. 29 00:00:59,942 --> 00:01:01,217 And he was stirred up. 30 00:01:01,217 --> 00:01:03,821 And when people came with false doctrine 31 00:01:03,821 --> 00:01:05,531 he got that way. 32 00:01:05,531 --> 00:01:07,514 And there are some things as Christians 33 00:01:07,514 --> 00:01:10,101 that are worth getting bent out of shape about 34 00:01:10,101 --> 00:01:13,090 and worth getting stirred up about. 35 00:01:13,090 --> 00:01:15,641 Unfeeling people are called calloused. 36 00:01:15,641 --> 00:01:18,511 Unfeeling people are Gentile-ish, 37 00:01:18,511 --> 00:01:19,751 not Christian. 38 00:01:19,751 --> 00:01:21,199 Passionless people, 39 00:01:21,199 --> 00:01:22,694 passionless Christians 40 00:01:22,694 --> 00:01:24,501 are pathetic Christians. 41 00:01:24,501 --> 00:01:26,241 There are things in this world 42 00:01:26,241 --> 00:01:28,203 worth getting stirred up about. 43 00:01:28,203 --> 00:01:29,670 There is darkness out there. 44 00:01:29,670 --> 00:01:30,940 There is wrong out there. 45 00:01:30,940 --> 00:01:32,410 There is evil out there. 46 00:01:32,410 --> 00:01:34,191 There are people taking advantage 47 00:01:34,191 --> 00:01:36,221 and there are devilish doctrines. 48 00:01:36,221 --> 00:01:38,043 And there are people trying to deceive 49 00:01:38,043 --> 00:01:39,402 our brothers and sisters 50 00:01:39,402 --> 00:01:40,661 and deceive your children. 51 00:01:40,661 --> 00:01:42,402 You know when you've seen Mormons 52 00:01:42,402 --> 00:01:43,581 and Jehovah's Witnesses 53 00:01:43,581 --> 00:01:45,169 walking around your neighborhood. 54 00:01:45,169 --> 00:01:48,282 That's worth getting bent out of shape about. 55 00:01:48,282 --> 00:01:50,795 On a regular basis, I come up there - 56 00:01:50,795 --> 00:01:52,030 Clark Street, 57 00:01:52,030 --> 00:01:53,621 right to Martin Luther King 58 00:01:53,621 --> 00:01:55,881 and I look across and on that wall 59 00:01:55,881 --> 00:01:58,133 is this Catholic picture. 60 00:01:58,133 --> 00:02:00,651 And I'm confronted by it all the time. 61 00:02:00,651 --> 00:02:02,351 And Mary is big. 62 00:02:02,351 --> 00:02:03,760 The "Queen of Heaven." 63 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,711 She's got this little, pathetic infant in her arms. 64 00:02:07,711 --> 00:02:11,153 And Jesus is just emasculated of all of His majesty. 65 00:02:11,153 --> 00:02:12,780 And I think of the day - 66 00:02:12,780 --> 00:02:14,696 that day of mercy that we heard about - 67 00:02:14,696 --> 00:02:16,072 when Jesus Christ comes 68 00:02:16,072 --> 00:02:17,947 and all the idols come crashing down. 69 00:02:17,947 --> 00:02:21,448 That wall is going to come crashing down. 70 00:02:21,448 --> 00:02:24,011 And you ought to get stirred up about these things. 71 00:02:24,011 --> 00:02:26,324 And when Jesus Christ is dishonored, 72 00:02:26,324 --> 00:02:28,529 we ought to be, brethren. 73 00:02:28,529 --> 00:02:34,764 Do you feel a fire arise in your own self over sin? 74 00:02:34,764 --> 00:02:36,221 Brothers and sisters, 75 00:02:36,221 --> 00:02:39,021 you ought to be angry. 76 00:02:39,021 --> 00:02:42,882 Those of you that struggle with sexual sin, 77 00:02:42,882 --> 00:02:46,500 you ought to be angry over yourself. 78 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:50,622 There's things worth getting stirred up about. 79 00:02:50,622 --> 00:02:52,451 And Paul says be angry. 80 00:02:52,451 --> 00:02:54,450 And if we're going to be like Christ, 81 00:02:54,450 --> 00:02:56,121 then let us be like Him. 82 00:02:56,121 --> 00:02:59,621 If we're going to be like God and put on that new man, 83 00:02:59,621 --> 00:03:01,322 there should be things 84 00:03:01,322 --> 00:03:04,150 that make that fire arise within us. 85 00:03:04,150 --> 00:03:06,374 Now let's talk about the bad anger... 86 00:03:06,374 --> 00:03:08,921 This excerpt is taken from the full sermon: 87 00:03:08,921 --> 00:03:10,843 Good Anger & Bad Anger 88 00:03:10,843 --> 00:03:12,123 by Tim Conway. 89 00:03:12,123 --> 00:03:13,783 To hear the rest of the message, 90 00:03:13,783 --> 00:03:15,982 visit Illbehonest.com.