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In the summer when I was in college. I worked in a hospital outside of Pittsburgh and after
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work every day I would drive to downtown Pittsburgh to pick up my mother from work and drive her
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home
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the liberty bridge and enter into these tunnels that went under Mt Washington called the
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Liberty Tubes narrow lane tunnels
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You go through the tunnels and after you come out of the tunnels, the thing widens into
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six lanes
and if you came out of the tunnel in the left
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lane of the tunnel you had to turn left and if you came out of the tunnel into the right
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lane of the tunnel, you could not turn left
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You were not allowed to get into the left turn lane
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one hundred yards up in front of me so I darted into the left lane where I wasn't supposed
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to go and just as I got to the light it turned red and I had to stop
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I looked at my rear-view mirror and there was a policeman who was standing at the edge
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of the tunnel
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He was a motorcycle cop and he was overweight and he saw me make this darting move into
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the left lane and he started running towards my car and I could see him
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I could see his face getting redder and redder and the steam coming out of his ears and he
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came up to my car and took his fist and pounded it on my roof of my car
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I opened the window and he said, "What do you think that you're doing?”
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He was enraged
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The first verse that came into my mind was "A soft answer turneth away wrath "
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I came up with the softest gentlest reply I could ever do and I said, I'm very sorry
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officer
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I should not have done what I did
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He was not prepared for that
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He just started sputtering and finally he looked at me in disgust and he says. "Oh
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all right
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Just don’t do it again " and he turned around and walked away
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I thank God for the wisdom of the scriptures that allowed me to escape the policeman's
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wrath
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We all experience the consequences and the effects of human anger
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is so powerful and so real and so pervasive with our culture that you would think we would
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have a better handle on our understanding
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Yet, it seems as though we don't understand very much about anger
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Yet. the scripture is by no means silent on this matter of anger
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I'd like to turn your attention for a moment to the New Testament to the fourth chapter
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of Paul's letter to the Ephesians
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Beginning with verse 25
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Ephesians 4 25
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1 he apostle writes these words, 'Therefore,-putting away lying, let each one of you speak
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truth with his neighbor
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For, we are members of one another
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Be angry and do not sin and do not let the sun qo down on your wrath nor give place to
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the devil
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Now here Paul addresses this difficult problem of anqer and he does it in a rather unusual
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way
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The opening statement that he gives with respect to anger is this "Be angry "
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If I had just read this passage to you and I said did you know that the Bible tells
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you to be angry"?
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I think you wouldn't believe me. but here the apostle actually states in a positive
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imperative way. "Be angry"
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What's he saying, here"?
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It's really not an injunction that we should be characterized as angry people
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That's not the point of this, but what he is realizing and acknowledging is that inherently
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and intrinsically, anger is not a sin
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Anger in and of itself is not a sin
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If it were a sin inherently, then that would mean two things immediately
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One that God is evil and two that Christ was a sinner because we know that it is part
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of the character of God for Him to express His wrath
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We see occasions in the New Testament particularly in the episode of Christ cleansing the temple
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where He fashioned a whip out of ropes and went in there and turned over the tables and
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drove the moneychangers out of the temple and Christ was angry
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He was visibly angry with what was going on
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Now, we have a phrase that we use to describe that particular type of anger, which we call
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righteous indignation
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anger, it was a manifestation of righteous indignation or righteous anger, but our episodes
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of anger are not always quite so righteous
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Sometimes we are angry without just cause, vhich again Jesus warned against in the sermon
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on the mount
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Again. Paul is saying here be angry
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There's nothing wrong with inherently being angry, but anger is such a dangerous and volatile
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human emotion that many, many, many times when a person is in a state of anger that
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anger becomes an occasion for sin
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What does it mean to lose one's temper?
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and anger can cause the loss of self-control and provoke us to behave in ways that are
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destructive and harmful to ourselves and to other people
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Paul says be angry but he doesn't leave it at that
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He says be angry, but sin not
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In the wisdom of the apostle, he understood that anger becomes the occasion for all kinds
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of wickedness
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Then he adds another injunction to this be anary, but don't sin in your anger or sin
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not and don't let the sun go down on your anger
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Now that’s a metaphor of course
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What is the apostle saying when he says don't let the sun go down on your wrath?
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Anger, as I said in and of itself may be a legitimate righteous emotion but so easily
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For example bitterness resentment harboring grudges
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All of these things flow out of anger that has never been dealt with, where the sun goes
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down on it
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The sun sets on that anger and we carry over the anger to the next day and to the next
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week or perhaps our entire lives
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Many of us walk through this world filled to the brim with anger that's never really
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been dealt with
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You've heard of guys who are angry young men or people that seem to be explosive in their
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temperament
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Walking through their lives is like walking through a minefield
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You're afraid to step without looking where you step
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You have to walk on eggshells around them because they're so explosive
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They're so temperamental
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There's so much anger in them
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They never dealt with the anger in the first place
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The sun set on that anger and that anger, then began to eat away at their insides to
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become bitterness and resentment and producing an attitude of grudge and hostility
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That happens and we've all experienced it and we've all known people who seemed to be
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perpetually angry about this or the other
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Incapable almost of smiling
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We see this in the criminal world at times unbelievable hostility
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Recently in the United States a man was convicted in Texas for the torturing death of a black
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man that he tied to the back of his truck and drove for three miles while this man was
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alive until the man perished
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There was no remorse
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Instead just bitter coming from the convicted killer's mouth as he was led away in manacles
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to the prison door
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ven after this terribly incredibly wicked act of destruction of another human life
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The ower of anger can bring down nations
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It ruins families
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It destroys marriages
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It's very important for the Christian to understand the nature of anger and how to deal with anger
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One of the principle things is not to allow the sun to go down on your anger
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say to the world that we've never had a word of disagreement between us in that time but
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that would be a lie
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Two people I don't care who they are cannot live together in a married state for a long
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time without having disagreements and without provoking one another to anger
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In fact there's nobody in this world that can make me more angry than my wife
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Why?
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There's nobody who means more to me in this world than she does and no one who knows me
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better than she does and she knows how to turn my switches anytime she wants to
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She has no fear in my anger because if I'm angry she can laugh at me because she knows
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I can't sustain it
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I don't know how many times I've gone to bed at night saying, I'm going to stay angry and
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I'm not gonna get over this and I'm gonna make her pay and all of that
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Then I hear don't let the sun go down on your wrath and I say well I can't do that
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This is a thing that we all have to deal with, I'm sure, but again the heart of it I think
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is understanding the nature of anger in the first place
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We all need to ask ourselves from time to time what makes you angry?
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Certain things that might anger me wouldn't bother you at all and things that bother you
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That’s just the way it is
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We're just built different and we have different reasons for responding the way we do to certain
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things
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most common causes for anger and though I'm distinguishing among three and in one sense
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they’re all variations of the same thing, the first one is what I’m going to call disappointment
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Mow do you handle d sappo ntment'
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How do you handle disappointment?
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This is one of the most difficult things for children to learn how to deal with, is disappointment
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"Mom can I stay over at Blake's house tonight?"
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"No, son
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We have things on in the morning
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There's not gonna be enough
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he wanted to do something, he had plans to do something he had hopes to be able to do
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something and these hopes had now become an expectation and the expectation was not realized
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and the result was anger
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And here’s the axiom people disappoint people
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us and if we fail to meet their expectations if we let them down Isn't that a strange
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phrase, let them down?
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When we are unhappy, we're said to be low and when we're happy and exalted, we're said
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to be high
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Here we are happy as clams and all of a sudden somebody lets us down
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Somebody fails to meet our expectations
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When that happens, we had expected one thing we got something else in its place, we're
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Now. closely related to disappointment is its twin, which I call frustration
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It's one thing to hope for something, have it not come to pass, you’re a little bit disappointed
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but you're not angry yet
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Then same thing happens the next day or the next day and day after that and pretty soon,
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you're frustrated
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You want to see how that works?
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Watch an infant
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toddler and they'll have round holes and square holes rectangular holes and triangular holes
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and the child has a little wooden mallet and he has these little blocks that are round
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oput the square peg in the square hole, the round peg in the round hole
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Now, I’ve sat and watched little infants playing these games for long periods of time and be
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absolutely amazed at their patience, initially where you see the little child pick up the
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square peg and try to pound it in a round hole
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Once it doesn't go, he doesn't give up
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He’ll hit it again, he'll hit it again and you watch him but you know what's gonna happen
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You know what's gonna happen
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n a few moments he keeps doing that pretty soon he starts wailing
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He throws the mallet kicks the bench scatters the blocks
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Why?
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He's frustrated
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He failed to achieve his goal
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Now, hockey is a sport that is different from other sports
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Some fans say that they went to a prize fight and in the middle of it a hockey game broke
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out
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Hockey is more about fighting than any other sport but we frown upon fighting in other
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professional sports
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It's a terrible thing to see a fist fight break out on a baseball field or a basketball
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game or in a football game, but sometimes you will see fisticuffs erupt in a major league
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Let's take football for example
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You've seen may lays and brawls break out on the football field
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Let me tell you this you almost never see a fiqht break out in a professional football
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game
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These are highly disciplined professional athletes who are engaged in physical contact,
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that they've learned how to handle and adjust to
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T hroughout the whole game you almost never see a fight break out in the first quarter
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or in the second quarter or in the third quarter
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I'll tell you when they erupt
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When one team realizes that it no longer has any hope of winning the game
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When they’re frustration level of failing to achieve their desires and their goals become
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so intense, that that frustration erupts in expressions of anger and in violence
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If you see somebody who's angry you might want to check and see what was the goal or
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the desire or the hope that they had'?
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The dream of their life that wasn't realized that left them in a state of frustration
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disa ointment, which then turned to rage
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These are two of the most frequent causes of anger there is
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Now. the third cause of anger is really still part of the same theme
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I want to focus on this because this is the essence of it
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Pain or hurt
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When somebody walks up to you and slaps you in the face chances are that's gonna make
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you mad
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It hurts to be slapped across the face
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Somebody knocks you over causes you to scrape your knees that might make you angry because
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physical pain, but we all know that there are other kinds of pain besides physical pain
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The person who hurts your feelings who insults you who slanders you who gossips about you
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injures your reputation, injures your name
provokes pain in your life
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The person who treats you out of your rnone in a business deal has inflicted pain on you
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That pain is transferred into anger
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Notice that all three of these involve some kind of pain
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Disappointment is painful
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Frustration is painful
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Being slandered is painful
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Jesus was angry at what He saw happen to His Father’s house because it pained Jesus to
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see His Father's house which was to be a house of prayer turned into a house of merchandise
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and Jesus expressed His anger that grew out of His pain
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I can't think of any kind of anger that isn’t rooted in some kind of pain
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Why is that important to understand that"?
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Well, in understanding my own anger and certainly in understanding somebody else's anger particularly
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if they’re angry at me it goes a long way if we can discipline ourselves to look past
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the anger to the pain
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If somebody comes up to you and says to you, "I am really mad at you " what's your normal
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reaction'?
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You're gonna be defensive
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You're not going to be sympathetic
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You're going to be uncomfortable or if somebody comes up to you and says, "I'm really hurt"
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Why are you hurt?
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"Well, because of something you said to me the other day"
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How are you going to respond to that'?
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If I realize that I have hurt somebody my basic human response to that is to want to
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brm healing, is to want to bring soothing salve to get rid of their pain
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I don’t want to hurt people
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Do you?
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I don't want to inflict pain on other human beings
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If somebody comes to me and says to me "I'm really hurting ’’ I say why
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''Well, it’s because of something you said "
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Then I all of a sudden start getting mad at myself instead of that person, but if a
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person comes on to me in rage. I don't want to hear it
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If they become abusive. I don’t want to listen to them because now they’re inflicting pain
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on me and I don't understand it
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Angry responses provoke angry responses until that anger begins to escalate and a war starts
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Where, if we can just get past the anger and look behind the anger look underneath the
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anger to see where the pain is because it's always there
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It is always there
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A person may feel pain in an unjustifiable
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As I said, people have unrealistic expectations
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Somebody might come up to me and say, "I'm mad at you "
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Why are you mad at me?
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'Because I called your office and wanted to play golf with you and your secretary said
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you were too busy and I'm really ticked about
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I'm sorry, I don't want to offend you. but whatever gave you the idea that you could
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just call my office and have my secretary
schedule a golf game with you?
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You maybe wanted that and you expected your desire to be fulfilled but you had no right
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to have that expectation
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Sometimes we create our own pain and we create our own anger by illegitimate expectations
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but still it's important for us to understand it so that we can understand our own anger
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and understand the other person's anger
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They had an expectation
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Maybe it was a legitimate expectation and I failed to meet their expectation and the
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weight of responsibility is on my head
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We actually do offend people and there's a distinction between giving offense and taking
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offense
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Sometimes we take offense when no offense has been made and people will take offense
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at us when we have done nothing to offend
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That's also part of human nature, but when a person is offended they are hurt and often
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the response to the pain is anger
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We need to understand that
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We also understand the way anger works in relationships and families and homes, the
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A couple of kinds of anger that I want to talk about briefly are those two types of
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anger that I call situational anger and misdirected anger
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hese also are closely related
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Let's see how they're related
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Let's take misdirected anger
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A guy comes home from the office
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He’s had a bad day
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he walks into the house and he says to his wife. "Honey. I've really had a bad day darling
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and I hope you'll help me get over it
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That's not usually the way it works
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Rather he comes in kicks the dog, starts yelling at his wife and creates havoc in the
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household because he's had this buildup of frustration and anger all day
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Now he can't afford to let it out to his boss or to his employees at work, so he stores
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it up and brings it home and pours it out on his dog. on his kids or on his wife
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That happens every day in America
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The misdirected anger or its close relative, what I call situational anger where we blame
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people for things that are not caused by people, but by accidents or something
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and drops in the dirt and gets ruined because the dog ran to or something, so you start
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veiling at each other about the curtains being ruined when neither one of you was at fault
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It was the situation that was difficult for everybody involved
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You watch what happens when people are held up in traffic where the situation is frustrating
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getting mad at each other, start blowing their horns at each other and start fighting with
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each other because the situation is so frustrating and disappointing
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We need to be alert to that to note situational anger when it comes up and to make sure that
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when we are angry that it's directed in the right place and that it’s controlled with
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the right moderation
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Different ways that the Bible says that we ought to deal with anger and ways not to deal
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are known for having a short fuse that we are to be people who have the gift and the
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fruit of the spirit, one of which is self-control
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We discipline ourselves not to react in rage every time we’re disappointed or injured or
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wounded or hurt
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we then become people who are terrified to express anger at all and then we begin to
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repress it and store it up and end up exploding
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This happens all the time, where you see somebody overreacting to a situation
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Why is that the case?
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back falls and that stored up anger comes bursting forth and we need to be careful about
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ourselves
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I remember my wife and I had been married for ten years and we were having an argument
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one day in our kitchen in Boston and I had a glass of diet Coke in my hand and in the
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Shattered the glass in a million pieces and my wife started to laugh
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I said, what are you laughing at?
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She says, "At last"
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I said what do you mean at last7?
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She said
Before I was a Christian. I was known as a hot head
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I was in fights all the time and I was always getting mad and the first thing I was convicted
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of when I became a Christian was that volatile temper and I said I can’t be like that
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I tried to live a life without ever expressing anger and she said, "ten years, I can never
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She said. "You finally did
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She said "I'm so glad
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It was healthy
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Not that I recommend that you throw glasses at the wall and break them in your house
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I'm just saying there can be a dangerous pattern of storing up anger and never dealing with
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it because it's going to come out
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It’s going to come out usually in a destructive
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If we are to be people who deal with this difficult problem of anger, we need the wisdom
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of God and we need the wisdom and the patience to look for the pain because it's a whole
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lot easier to respond to pain than it is to respond to anger
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