1 00:00:20,910 --> 00:00:21,730 I'm going to talk a little bit about 2 00:00:21,730 --> 00:00:24,150 what I'm going to talk about today, and 3 00:00:24,150 --> 00:00:33,310 then 4 00:00:33,310 --> 00:01:01,770 I'm going 5 00:01:01,770 --> 00:01:10,000 to talk a little bit about what I'm 6 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:10,100 going to talk about today, and then I'm 7 00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:37,640 going to 8 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,980 talk a little bit about what I'm going 9 00:01:39,980 --> 00:01:40,080 to talk about today, and then I'm going 10 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:49,920 to talk a little bit about what I'm 11 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,220 going to talk about today, and then I'm 12 00:01:53,220 --> 00:01:53,860 going to talk a little bit about what 13 00:01:53,860 --> 00:01:55,260 I'm going to talk about today, and then 14 00:01:55,260 --> 00:01:56,680 I'm going to talk a little bit about 15 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:58,200 what I'm going to talk about today, and 16 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,180 then I'm going to talk a little bit 17 00:02:01,180 --> 00:02:01,680 about what I'm going to talk about today, 18 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,600 and then I'm going to talk a little 19 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:05,700 bit about what I'm going to talk about 20 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:07,820 today, and then I'm going to talk a 21 00:02:07,820 --> 00:02:08,340 little bit about what I'm going to talk 22 00:02:08,340 --> 00:02:08,919 about today, and then I'm going to talk 23 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:09,019 a little bit about what I'm going to 24 00:02:09,019 --> 00:02:09,119 talk about today, and then I'm going to 25 00:02:09,119 --> 00:02:09,219 talk a little bit about what I'm going 26 00:02:09,219 --> 00:02:09,319 to talk about today, and then I'm going 27 00:02:09,319 --> 00:02:09,419 to talk a little bit about what I'm 28 00:02:09,419 --> 00:02:09,519 going to talk about today, and then I'm 29 00:02:09,519 --> 00:02:09,619 going to talk a little bit about what 30 00:02:09,619 --> 00:02:09,719 I'm going to talk about today, and then 31 00:02:09,719 --> 00:02:09,819 I'm going to talk a little bit about 32 00:02:09,819 --> 00:02:09,919 what I'm going to talk about today, and 33 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:21,700 then I'm going to talk a little bit 34 00:02:21,700 --> 00:02:28,620 about what I'm going to talk about today, 35 00:02:28,620 --> 00:02:28,720 and then I'm going to talk a little 36 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:29,080 bit about what I'm going to talk about 37 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:29,360 today, and then I'm going to talk a 38 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:29,920 little bit about what I'm going to talk 39 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:35,500 about today, and then I'm going to talk 40 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:36,300 a little bit about what I'm going to 41 00:02:36,300 --> 00:02:39,940 talk about today, and then I'm going to 42 00:02:39,940 --> 00:02:40,040 talk a little bit about what I'm going 43 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:08,040 to talk about today, and then I'm going 44 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:08,140 to talk a little bit about what I'm 45 00:03:08,140 --> 00:03:09,220 going to talk about today, and then I'm 46 00:03:09,220 --> 00:03:09,920 going to talk a little bit about what 47 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:34,420 I'm going to 48 00:03:34,420 --> 00:03:37,580 talk about today, and then I'm going to 49 00:03:37,580 --> 00:03:38,960 talk a little bit about what I'm going 50 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:39,700 to talk about today, and then I'm going 51 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:39,900 to talk a little bit about what I'm 52 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:41,880 going to talk the general rule. 53 00:03:43,060 --> 00:03:45,620 Anger we see much of in our so 54 00:03:45,620 --> 00:03:51,280 -called enlightened times, smoldered in resentment, inward irritation, 55 00:03:51,820 --> 00:03:56,780 hidden malice, uncontrolled and senseless violence and destruction, 56 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,520 all of which in spite of modern sophistication 57 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:05,320 is classified as sin, S-I-N, sin, 58 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,780 a word embedded in the indestructible word of 59 00:04:09,780 --> 00:04:14,920 God, sin, or if you will, you prefer 60 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:19,560 another contemporary description, rebellion to the love and 61 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:21,240 constructive will of God. 62 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,180 But the wording of our text, Be Ye 63 00:04:25,180 --> 00:04:27,560 Angry and Sin Not, would seem to indicate 64 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,660 that sometimes anger is not sin, and for 65 00:04:31,660 --> 00:04:34,060 revelation on this we must turn to our 66 00:04:34,060 --> 00:04:37,960 perfect example, the Lord Jesus Christ, the head 67 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:38,700 of the church. 68 00:04:39,940 --> 00:04:42,700 And we must ask ourselves if he, the 69 00:04:42,700 --> 00:04:46,400 sinless saviour, was ever angry in his life 70 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,920 on earth, and the answer is, oh yes, 71 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:53,060 indeed, several times and on several famous occasions. 72 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,560 But let me hasten to add that where 73 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,080 anger in man is mostly born of human 74 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,040 passion, anger in Christ is always born of 75 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:04,480 a spiritual principle. 76 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:06,500 Remember this, please. 77 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:10,020 For example, in Mark 3, Jesus faces a 78 00:05:10,020 --> 00:05:12,200 man with a withered hand on the Sabbath 79 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:12,600 day. 80 00:05:13,380 --> 00:05:16,100 He also faces the Pharisees who had withered 81 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:19,620 religious hearts, whose only gripe in order to 82 00:05:19,620 --> 00:05:22,680 trap him was the piffling preservation of a 83 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:23,560 calendar day. 84 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:24,900 Read it sometime. 85 00:05:25,620 --> 00:05:28,400 The Lord Jesus looked round about them with 86 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,340 anger, being grieved at the hardness of their 87 00:05:31,340 --> 00:05:33,760 hearts, and said, Is it a day to 88 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,300 save lives or to destroy them? 89 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,120 Then he healed the poor wretch, but marked 90 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,060 the principle behind his anger, the constructiveness. 91 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,280 Again in Matthew 23 and John 2, respectively, 92 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,300 we find him blasting these same Pharisees as 93 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:56,840 hypocrites, tombs covered with whitewash. 94 00:05:57,020 --> 00:05:57,860 What a description! 95 00:05:59,180 --> 00:06:02,480 For their high religious profession and their low 96 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:07,160 irreligious practices, Jesus burst forth with anger. 97 00:06:08,180 --> 00:06:11,220 And the usual money changes in the temple, 98 00:06:11,820 --> 00:06:14,080 when in anger he took a scourge and 99 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,540 drove them out of the temple, crying in 100 00:06:16,540 --> 00:06:19,700 John 2, My house shall be called a 101 00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:22,580 house of prayer, but you have made it 102 00:06:22,580 --> 00:06:25,440 a house of merchandise and a den of 103 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:25,980 thieves. 104 00:06:27,140 --> 00:06:29,560 Surely as we witness what is going on 105 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,220 within the established church in our day, God's 106 00:06:33,220 --> 00:06:36,160 challenge of righteous anger should become a major 107 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,360 issue in national life. 108 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,100 For the church political is loud in telling 109 00:06:42,100 --> 00:06:44,160 the world where it is going and how 110 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:44,800 to go. 111 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:48,400 A bombshell for my Lord. 112 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,420 Does the organized church with all its millions 113 00:06:52,420 --> 00:06:56,700 of hungry, few worshippers any longer know where 114 00:06:56,700 --> 00:06:58,340 it is going? 115 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:07,660 Malcolm Muggeridge, that inimitable British satirist, recently wrote 116 00:07:07,660 --> 00:07:10,860 the most extraordinary thing about human beings is 117 00:07:10,860 --> 00:07:13,900 the fact that they pursue ends which they 118 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:17,280 know to be disastrous and turn their backs 119 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,920 on ways which they know to be joyous. 120 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:21,500 How true, how true! 121 00:07:22,860 --> 00:07:25,620 Then why in God's name does the church 122 00:07:25,620 --> 00:07:28,160 armed in the pulpit with the Holy Gospel 123 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:33,000 concentrate on humanity's salvation through Christ? 124 00:07:33,300 --> 00:07:34,320 Why does it not? 125 00:07:34,900 --> 00:07:39,720 And cease dabbling as amateur psychiatrists on humanity's 126 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,240 problems in a knowledge that when Christ came 127 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,660 to earth, he did not bother with externals, 128 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,800 but he went straight to the heart, the 129 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:54,040 evil sinful heart of man to make it 130 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,100 pure in the new birth. 131 00:08:01,420 --> 00:08:04,600 Beloved, we must have good people before we 132 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,440 can have a good nation. 133 00:08:08,540 --> 00:08:11,320 And let me drop another thought right here. 134 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,960 It is not buildings that make slums and 135 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:19,420 sorrow. 136 00:08:20,340 --> 00:08:23,820 It is people who make slums and sorrow. 137 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,920 People in need of our Savior. 138 00:08:29,060 --> 00:08:31,799 Does all this mean there is then no 139 00:08:31,799 --> 00:08:32,940 hope or way out? 140 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:35,460 Oh, not in my Bible. 141 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,960 What I'm trying to imply is that we 142 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,760 as believing Christians should actively hate wrong deeply 143 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,740 because we love the right so deeply. 144 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:48,540 But we're not going to be worth our 145 00:08:48,540 --> 00:08:50,980 salt if we merely warm a pew for 146 00:08:50,980 --> 00:08:55,200 one hour on Sunday morning, very often listening 147 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:56,540 to religious drivel. 148 00:08:57,620 --> 00:08:59,900 Be angry and sin not. 149 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:03,700 Let's be good and mad. 150 00:09:04,700 --> 00:09:08,360 Let the world see a militant church singing 151 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,060 and acting the hymn onward, Christian soldiers marching 152 00:09:12,060 --> 00:09:16,560 unto war, war for righteousness sake in these 153 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:18,200 desperate days. 154 00:09:19,380 --> 00:09:21,980 Tell that man in the pulpit of yours 155 00:09:21,980 --> 00:09:24,740 if he fails to glorify Christ that he 156 00:09:24,740 --> 00:09:27,920 would be better sweep in gutters honestly. 157 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:33,100 Listen, beloved, if the Bible holds out no 158 00:09:33,100 --> 00:09:37,500 hope for our nation, now dabbling in witchcraft 159 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:40,300 and astrology to the tune of 40 million 160 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:44,340 citizens a day, then America has no future 161 00:09:44,340 --> 00:09:47,800 and our country will soon need a new 162 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,020 Gibbons to write the decline and fall of 163 00:09:51,020 --> 00:09:54,380 the United States of America, God forbid. 164 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,560 Something quite a number in our land would 165 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:02,020 find acceptable to their distorted taste. 166 00:10:02,900 --> 00:10:06,680 But thanks be unto God, there is hope. 167 00:10:07,660 --> 00:10:09,940 And my time being up on this tape, 168 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,220 you will find that hope in Psalm 77. 169 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:15,860 Read it tonight before you go to bed 170 00:10:15,860 --> 00:10:19,280 and let us as Christians rise up as 171 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:21,860 we feel the tang of it in our 172 00:10:21,860 --> 00:10:25,860 very souls and lift the cross high when 173 00:10:25,860 --> 00:10:29,720 we come to verses 10 to 14. 174 00:10:30,260 --> 00:10:33,920 The Lord be with you and bless your 175 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:39,540 spirit and make you in these days gospel 176 00:10:39,540 --> 00:10:42,520 fearless for the Lord. 177 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:50,840 Let me read the 77th Psalm referred to, 178 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:54,600 and I trust it will bring to your 179 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,020 heart the thrill it brought to mind. 180 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:03,120 Psalm 77, the chief musician. 181 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:09,680 I cried unto the Lord with my voice, 182 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,280 even unto God with my voice, and he 183 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:13,540 gave ear unto me. 184 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:16,460 In the day of my trouble, I sought 185 00:11:16,460 --> 00:11:17,040 the Lord. 186 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:20,580 My sore ran in the night, and ceased 187 00:11:20,580 --> 00:11:20,860 not. 188 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,980 My soul refreshed to be comforted. 189 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,000 I remembered God and was troubled. 190 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,640 I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed. 191 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,820 Thou holdest mine eyes waking. 192 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:37,100 I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 193 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,880 I have considered the days of old, the 194 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:42,540 years of ancient times. 195 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,220 I called to remembrance my song in the 196 00:11:46,220 --> 00:11:46,520 night. 197 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,600 I commune with mine own heart, and my 198 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,680 spirit made diligent search. 199 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:56,260 Will the Lord cast off forever, and will 200 00:11:56,260 --> 00:11:57,980 he be favorable no more? 201 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,480 Is his mercy clean gone forever? 202 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,160 Doth his promise fail forevermore? 203 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,260 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? 204 00:12:09,340 --> 00:12:11,900 Hath he in anger shut up his tender 205 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:12,540 mercies? 206 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,980 And I said, This is my infirmity. 207 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,080 But I will remember the years of the 208 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:20,740 right hand of the Most High. 209 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,020 I will remember the works of the Lord. 210 00:12:24,980 --> 00:12:28,080 Surely I will remember thy wonders of old. 211 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,900 I will meditate also of all thy work, 212 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,840 and talk of thy doings. 213 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:38,160 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary. 214 00:12:38,940 --> 00:12:42,280 Who is so great a God as our 215 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:42,920 God? 216 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:47,240 Thou art the God that doest wonders. 217 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:54,000 Thou hast declared thy strength among the people. 218 00:12:55,600 --> 00:13:02,140 You will remember that Wesley and Whitfield and 219 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:10,180 his brother Wesley, who wrote the hymns, led 220 00:13:10,180 --> 00:13:15,620 England into such a spiritual awakening to prove 221 00:13:15,620 --> 00:13:20,040 this psalm, that it saved the mother country 222 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:24,460 from the ravages of the French Revolution. 223 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:29,700 God give to us in America that glorious 224 00:13:29,700 --> 00:13:30,480 experience.