But this evening if you will turn with
me to Matthew chapter 5 picking it up
tonight in verse 21 and Actually, we're gonna
cover a number of verses here.
So this will really be something if this
really happens and Matthew 5 you have heard
that it hath been said by them of
old time thou shall not kill And whosoever
shall kill shall be danger of judgment But
I say unto you that whosoever is angry
with his brother and without a cause shall
be in danger of the judgment News whoever
shall say to his brother at Raqqa shall
be in danger of the council But whosoever
shall say thou fool shall be in danger
of hellfire Therefore if thou bring thy gift
to the altar and there remember us that
thy brother hath ought against thee Leave there
thy gift before the altar and go thy
way First be reconciled to thy brother and
then come and offer thy gift Agree with
an adversary quickly whilst thou are in the
way with him lest at any time the
adversary deliver thee to the judge and the
judge deliver thee to the officer and Thou
be cast into prison Verily I say unto
thee thou shall by no means come out
thence until thou hast paid the uttermost farthing
Father we thank you for your word and
Lord.
We ask that tonight you would open it
to us And Lord, I'm sure that made
most of us we'd sit here.
Well, I've never killed anyone feel comfortable now
But Lord, we ask that you would take
these scriptures apart for us.
And as you do it take our heart
apart Open it up in such a way
as things that you want to break through
of your love Your wisdom your goodness to
us your mercy Lord that We could find
herself walking out of here a little different
because of you and your word So we
ask that you would take it and minister
to us for father.
We ask it in Jesus name.
Amen well, this scripture we're looking at here
tonight is kind of Jesus's little short course
on anger management and And dealing with with
anger.
It's a obviously a rather huge issue Now
I'm sure one of the wonderful things being
a pastor here is always being able to
minister to a congregation of fully sanctified people
But I do know any of you by
do any of you know or have you
met people that are angry ever have anger
if you see so you can take this
and write it down and share it with
him and I'm sure that'll you can find
people where this thing like this will be
appropriate But as we look at this We
always have to kind of back up a
little bit because I hope as everyone understands
by now with a sermon the mount Is
that the beatitudes are the foundation of it?
In other words, we never go anywhere whenever
we're building through this sermon the mount it
always goes back to the beatitudes It's the
foundation upon which the entire message is built
upon to pick up in any part of
the message Any part at all and then
just go say this is how you ought
to live is totally biblically irresponsible as well
as impossible To do the only way that
any of the sermon the mount can ever
be fulfilled in Anyone's life is to the
degree that we understand and experience the beatitudes
and of course in the beatitudes But now
I hope you remember well that by then
when we exceed no one have experienced the
beatitudes those are really the keys you might
say to the restored life of regenerated life
in Christ a changed life a transformed life
an exchange life a Victorious Christian life, whatever
there's a you know, call it whatever you
want it But essentially in the beatitudes is
where I am giving up my life my
right to reign my throne My kingdom and
I'm turning it over to Jesus to say
would you like this life?
I've got the body and that's in the
heartbeats and the blood flows, but that's about
all that really works, right?
And then if you want it, you can
have it I want to present my body
to you a living sacrifice that you would
take it and fill it and use it
live in it Empower it lead it guide
it do what you would would and what
you will with it that hopefully is what
the Christian life is All about and what
we all desire and there in the beatitudes
were poor in spirit We mourn we meet
if he produces a meekness before God and
we're filled with him And then that fullness
results in a merciful person that is pure
in heart and a peacemaker The one that's
when they're persecuted they rejoice in it they
don't care they become the salt of the
earth and they're the light of the world
and then as you recall as we in
the last couple weeks have looked at as
Jesus in the law and Only to go
back, you know to that enough to say
that in the last couple weeks We celebrated
this wonderful funeral service.
You might say for a former husband Mr.
Law for those of us over those who
were with us, of course for that And
as we went to this funeral service that
I suppose that there's Anybody who marries mr.
Law, I suppose there's there's two wonderful days
in their life the day they marry him
because they married the ideal man and then
there's the day they bury him and Which
is if anything more exciting the day they
married him they thought this is absolutely wonderful
But if they thought it was exciting to
marry him I'm sure they're even more elated
the day they actually have the funeral Instead
of wearing black and weeping this person at
this funeral is wearing white and rejoicing most
wonderful day in all of their life For
as you recall, we look there at the
law and the law is something there that
it curses you if you're wrong The law
is something there that cursed is everyone that
continueth not at all that is written in
the law both to do them So every
time we ever fail every time we fall
short The law convicts us it condemns us
it It curses us as Paul says in
Romans 7 verse 10.
He says the commandment which was ordained to
life.
I Found to be unto death Paul said
they're the thing that should have given me
life if nothing was ever wrong with the
law Remember, it's wholly just and good the
thing though that if I could fulfill it
would give me life also, because I could
not gave me death and therefore been nothing
wrong with it, but because I failed and
I Yeah, and I fell they fell short
therefore The only hope now is that the
law could be removed and there as we
looked at it in the last couple studies
We went through that we had this wonderful
funeral in a sense the last couple studies
But now after the funeral is over.
What do I now do?
How do I now live?
When I go back home What do I
do there?
There's no more.
Mr. Law, you know telling me You know
how to live and who's there the one
who had it all the house in perfect
order Every call the clothing was perfectly ironed
and pressed and everything not a speck of
dust in.
Mr Law's house.
Remember we saw that but now that mrs.
Law she finally is buried.
Mr. Law and she now gets to come
home And now what what do you do?
How do you now live?
And I suppose that there's two ways That
I think most people live when they discover
as a Christian that the law is dead
and they're no longer under the law And
that is there's one of two responses One
of them is they no sooner leave the
cemetery and they come home and they're so
happy They once again to get rid of
the law They now celebrate their new freedom.
They now celebrate their new discovery of grace
by immediately Trashing the house You know in
a sense they now are just so excited
that this house that was built by them
and mr Law that was perfectly maintained nothing
out of order everything in its absolute place
now They're so excited.
They get to home go home and they're
so sick and tired of this perfectly ordered
Legalistic life that they could never live up
to anyway, they're so excited that it's over
And now they just love to go home
and just tear the place apart They love
to just walk into that closet in a
sense There were every one of the you
know, the coat hangers are two inches apart
All down the whole thing and every garment
is perfectly pressed and creased and everything in
there is absolutely flawless And they just look
at this law this legalistic life and they
look at it and say They start grabbing
stuff off and they just throw it in
a pile on the floor and they shove
the coat hangers over and say Always wanted
to do that You know in a sense
they're so excited about it They look at
the sock drawer and they pull those open
and every sock is all in its color
Whether it's formal or whether it's you know
Everything's all categorized or if it's casual attire
or everything else and they just pick it
up and they just throw socks around Pull
them apart and they just you know mismatch
them or whatever else and put them on
in different pairs You know or whatever one
on one foot and the other on the
other and they just walk around They're so
excited with their buttons done wrong And they're
how did himself all wrinkled and creased and
they walk around this house where there was
never a speck of dirt You're always in
fear of it and they go out in
the garden fill the wheelbarrow full of dirt
and come in and just trash They go
into the kitchen pantry and open it up
where every box and every can is all
categorizes the type of food and Alphabetically ordered
and they just shove it on the floor
and let it go and they sell is
wanting to do that They order pizza Over
the phone and then they eat it and
throw it on the floor.
They never been so excited In one sense
because they're now free from the law No
one there to condemn them No one there
to give him any guilt any longer and
now they can walk around town and they
don't have to be Clean and they can
be smelly if they want they can wear
the mismatched clothes and they can let everybody
know I'm not under law anymore I'm under
smelly now or whatever else but it's something
there, but there's this great Liberty that a
lot of people have They love to demonstrate
there's no more condemnation the guilt is gone
the fear is gone the judgment is gone
And they seem to love it for a
time Then secondly, though, there's another way you
can handle it, which is what I believe
Jesus here is talking about That is on
the way home from the funeral They get
married to another that's what do you recall
Paul told us back in Romans 7 for?
When he said wherefore my brother and ye
are also become dead to the law by
the body of Christ that ye should be
married to Another even to him who is
raised from the dead that ye should bring
forth fruit unto God Paul here tells us
he says the only way that mr.
Law is gonna die and stay dead The
only way you're really gonna be free from
him is that you are that is that
he's got to die Because the law is
he says there you are become dead to
the law by the body of Christ That
is Jesus when he hung on the cross
for you He now what the law once
was he now becomes it he replaces it.
We've been through that in the past weeks
but there is something when now I look
there and I'm dead to the law because
Jesus Christ is alive and He is there
and he is real and I'm married to
another Even here unto him that is raised
from the dead that we should bring forth
fruit unto God and here Paul says Essentially
the only way I'll ever really be free
from the law is By a union and
communion with Christ and we went through this
as well You'll recall somewhat at the moment.
I forsake the Union and the communion.
I'll revert back to the law I'll gravitate
back to it down.
I'll go back into its power and its
view But here Paul says therefore what it
is.
That is that is I'm in Christ.
I married unto him in a sense I'm
yielded to him.
My heart is open and being taken over
by him That is how it works and
then the desire as Paul says there he
says that we should bring forth fruit unto
God Now as I come home leave the
funeral give my life to Christ and then
I bring him back home It is for
the desire Lord all those things that I
once dreamed of doing when I married.
Mr. Law All the things that never really
happened this wonderful life that was once promised
to me at the altar once before and
Now for the first time the power to
live it is there Before there was just
the law the order to live it, you
know the responsibility to live it but no
power to live it Just simply you got
to do it And if you don't I'll
condemn you but now in Christ there is
somebody that he comes into my life and
sets you away and as he as he
takes it over and he lives within it
That I may now bring forth fruit unto
God because now through Jesus all of the
the lessons and all of the growth and
all the Experiences that happened through the Beatitudes.
My life was given up.
I yielded it.
I buried it Jesus there comes in and
he fills me and he gives me a
heart that's merciful.
He gives me a heart that is pure
He gives to me a heart that becomes
a peacemaker and now that he comes in
through the experience of the Beatitudes Now I
have the love Now I have the power
of the Holy Spirit Now I have the
capacity to fulfill all the things that mr.
Law once ordered and wanted but never helped
me do Now I have one who is
there as If to say remember what you
once wanted the life you longed once to
have Now you can You see in a
sense.
That's the jest of where Jesus left us
off in the previous verse back in verse
20 When Jesus said therefore I say in
you that except your righteousness Shall exceed the
righteousness of the Scribes and the Pharisees.
You'll in no case enter in the kingdom
of heaven Jesus there when he says yes,
we'll leave the law behind Then it's you're
gonna be free from it, but don't think
you can now go home and trash the
joint Actually, Jesus said if anything the standard
that you once thought was to be met
and you couldn't even meet it now Not
only with me.
Will you meet it?
You'll beat it and you'll love it Here
Jesus as if now he is telling us
Hey remember all the wonderful things you once
dreamed of living and of Experiencing the life
and the quality of life that you once
thought you could have and hope for but
you never could attain well, guess what here
I am and I'm gonna give it to
you and I'm gonna help you have it
and it's gonna surpass anything you've ever known
I'll do it all and you see that's
the result of the Beatitudes That's the result
when I've I've given my life over and
said Jesus.
Would you please live within me?
And as James kind of it's interesting.
I love it in James.
He calls the gospel the law of Liberty
It's an interesting phrase there but in a
sense he says that when a person comes
to Christ there is a standard But it's
one of Liberty that happens in Christ because
he can fulfill it all but now turning
to our text tonight We have here Jesus
in a sense taking us back home where
we failed and Where we couldn't keep up
the standards and he is telling us there
in a sense listen, if I am now
the delight of your heart and you're filled
with me and You again, you're merciful and
you're pure and I and you're a peacemaker
You've given me your heart in your life
You let me make you the salt of
the earth in the light of the world.
These are things that are happening Then he
tells us here.
He says I want to tell you what
will happen if somebody's fully surrendered So he
says in verse 21 He says you have
heard that hath been said by them of
old time thou shalt not kill And whosoever
shall kill shall be in danger of the
judgment But I say unto you that whosoever
is angry with his brother without a cause
Shall be in danger of the judgment and
whosoever shall say to his brother Raqqa shall
be in danger of the council and but
whosoever shall say thou fool shall be in
danger of hellfire Here essentially Jesus doesn't throw
out the old standard and you say forget
all of this What he does is if
anything you would read this and say sounds
to me like he raised the standard You
have heard that hath been said by them
of old time thou shall not kill well
I haven't splattered anybody's blood against the wall.
I Haven't killed anybody now all of a
sudden though He goes and he turns inside
the heart and he says listen if you're
angry with your brother, you're guilty of killing
Oh, you maybe don't have a gun in
your hand You maybe actually haven't pulled the
trigger the bullet hasn't entered his body, but
the internal mechanism that's required Do you know
to kill anger?
Hatred fool Those things.
Oh, you know, you're letting those mechanisms start
going within you here Jesus is wanting to
take us out of the superficial structure of
the law and say if I want to
take you into the internal heart.
I want to go all the way into
your heart So you're just not stopping yourself
from doing what you want to do.
I Want to go in and stop you
from being what you would be without me
This is what the Christian life is fundamentally
all about not just stopping the you know
The behavior that I'm inclined to do but
change the inclination The soul rework my internal
mechanism my internal heart and this is the
outworking of the indwelling Essentially that's been happening
in the Beatitudes finding myself saying Lord held
me with this And so here is Jesus
comes as I've turned to him and I've
said you're my Savior You died on the
cross for me you set me free from
the law by your body on the cross
You rose and now I can be married
to another even in him that is risen
from the dead You're alive your Lord your
master.
I give you my life.
Hopefully that that's what we all want Hopefully
that's why we're here tonight.
I want Jesus to be my master.
I wanted to be my Lord.
I wanted to be my king and here
Is if somebody has that not only we
don't just go around killing people when I
we did hopefully we we don't do that
But here Jesus is saying if I am
truly your Lord and your king Not only
I don't want you to go around killing
people.
I don't want you to go around angry
at people.
I Want to deal with that anger.
I don't want you going around looking at
people as Raqqa, which means worthless fellow How
many worthless people have you seen today?
Don't raise your hand.
I Assume you had to get here by
car and all the worthless people seem to
be on the road at one time somehow
another and They seem to gather there somehow
another and that's why I walk everywhere.
No, I don't but the But or we
look at somebody and we say they're a
fool Here Jesus He says I want to
do such a work within your heart that
I can take out that heart that looks
at people and says they're worthless says the
fools says they're no good and Because you
see Jesus there if we got to stop
this We got to stop you being angry
You know and he says you're angry at
your brother without a cause now I realized
the moment I say that all of us
feel okay Okay, because I don't know about
you, but I everybody I've ever been angry
at there's been a cause Everybody I don't
just get angry for no reason at all.
There's always a reason the idiot did something.
That's you know And I don't just walk
up to some nice person and they get
angry at them but when that nice person
steps in front of me and cuts me
off now, there's a cause you see and
So so often we have this great tendency.
We love that without a cause we'll get
back to that Hold on to that note,
but here Jesus essentially He's looking at us
and these he's saying if you're going to
bring forth fruit unto God as we've as
Paul tells us that we would Bring forth
fruit.
I'm alive Lord.
I want you to take my life.
I give it to you my Lord You're
my master.
You're my king.
That's what the Beatitudes.
That's what we dealt with there Hopefully every
one of us our struggle tonight isn't do
I want him to be my lord?
We hopefully every one of us do I?
Would hold love to think every one of
us Lord.
I want you to be my lord.
I want you to be my king I
want to be my master.
The problem is is you're not it's obvious
asked my wife, you know, or ask anybody
There's a lot of evidence out there This
says I fall short, but it isn't for
lack of wanting it It's the lacking in
how to achieve it and Maintain it.
I get these little spurts of it now
and then and I'm doing fine Until some
worthless fellow comes along and then it's gone
You see here Jesus is wanting to say
if you if you look at the world
and you think there's worthless people in the
world You're gonna be in trouble Because you
see Jesus.
I don't see anybody worthless.
I died from all If you think that
there's fools in the world and you're dealing
with them, we're in trouble now, I don't
get me wrong I'm sure there's fools in
the world, but the attitude of a Christian
and there's worthless people in the world We
just don't know which ones they are In
our attitude our heart is to look and
realize though.
There are fools the Bible talks about them
They are there but the attitude of the
child of God's heart ought to be one
there saying Lord I want not just you
within my life I want you within my
heart and within my attitude and within my
relationships and how I even perceive people to
be and Jesus saying there well if you
look at people and they're worthless or they
are fools and you're your job is to
separate them and evaluate them You're gonna be
in trouble But a person there that has
experienced The Beatitudes and this is what again
the whole sermon is all about if somebody
has experienced the Beatitudes Remember in the Beatitudes
a transformed life an Exchanged life.
I gave up mine and took his I
gave up my values my heart I want
his and they've been traded in my life
has been traded with Jesus Christ And now
it is something there that we're to look
there and it people and realize Lord.
I'd ever want to be angry without a
cause and In order to understand this is
a little while I wouldn't think we need
to back up just a little bit again
But there we got to realize that the
greatest desire of the Christian The greatest desire
we ought to have is that Jesus would
be gaining control over all of our heart
All of our mind all of our life
all of our emotions all of our behavior
all of our reactions Lord I want you
entirely to transform and take my life.
I Want a life that lives in your
power knows your presence Experiences your plan it
fulfills your will And in this process as
Jesus is taking over my life as he's
leading it as he's guiding it Something there
that's important for me is that I allow
Jesus Christ to become more important to me
than anything in anybody That I want the
Beatitudes in my life to be more precious
to me than any trial than any person
than any problem Than any event than any
any struggle than any trial or anything that
can ever come my way It ought to
be something there that I want Jesus Christ
as Lord of my life more than I
want to deal with anything else That's one
of the great tests.
I suppose of Lordship and when I can
sit there and say Lord you and having
fellowship with you and communion with you is
more important than if my wife got dinner
on the table in time Having fellowship with
you is more important than if my husband
came home on time Having fellowship with you
staying in union with you is more important
than if then than if my children Cleaned
up their room or not after I told
him ten times to do it Has staying
in the Beatitudes staying with you as King
and as Lord and as master of my
life is more Important to me than then
dealing and having to solve the guy that
cut me off on the freeway and to
deal with him You See all these things
that happen that get me angry So often,
you know where life is fine, and I'm
in fellowship II and I love the Lord
But then my wife doesn't do something or
your husband doesn't do something or your children
you told him clean your room clean your
room and it didn't clean the room and
somehow or another something there Got more important
and you're angry You're angry at a human
being you're angry with the trial you're angry
with the problem you're angry with somebody and
all of a sudden holding on to that
anger and coddling that anger and Directing that
anger and focusing that anger is more important
than communion with Christ That's the issue So
often we get there to where we give
our life to him.
We we love him He's powerful.
He's wonderful.
He fills us He takes us over and
then we get around a world with people
and people let us down They promise us
stuff and they don't do it They this
is gonna happen and we we talk to
the tour this morning.
Yes, honey I'm gonna make you a wonderful
dinner tonight It's gonna be absolutely tremendous and
yet there next scene Oh, she gets talking
on the phone with her girlfriends and one
thing goes to another and all of a
sudden you walk in the door And there
she's all And you're mad and that's righteous
anger somehow another So we think or he
promised you this he would do this or
again you tell your children How many times
are we angry and we're there looking at
our children wanting to grab them and we're
picking up and we're so mad Say what
have I got to tell you?
What am I gonna do to you to
get you to clean your room?
You Know when the veins come out of
things we figure if something happens and and
that is righteous anger This is the type
of anger this child needs They need to
see blood vessels pulsating out They need to
see this normally attractive woman turned into an
absolute animal You know in front of them
and now maybe they'll clean their room And
we think that what we couldn't do with
one behavior anger will help achieve And all
of a sudden achieving that becomes more important
communion with Christ More important than walking with
him more important than his life and his
power We go to work and man We
are outperforming everybody in the office But the
economy is tight and they've got a downsize
and the next thing you know, they're the
office manager He lets me go and he
keeps the guy that sells the least but
he plays golf with him and I'm mad
You know you did this isn't fair.
This isn't right.
And if ever anybody's got a right to
be mad, this is it And we find
a reason to be mad we justify it
somehow and This is you know, and so
easily that this happens so easily in life
I'm told I don't even know what all
these they're melancholy personalities, or I don't know.
I've never studied him I'm just told I'm
a cleric.
I don't even know what they are type
a Yeah, I don't know what that is.
But a sounds good to me.
It's better than D or F, you know
or anyway, but the But today I but
I I can be intense and I can
be aggressive And I could be somebody there
that somehow another I can be driving down
the road and somebody doesn't even necessarily do
something to me They can do it to
some melancholy person, but somehow another well, it's
my personality type to say hey Somebody needs
to walk out for that chicken melancholy person
and help them out and deal with this
and you're angry You can go you can
decide I got to deal with this but
in the process You off you go and
you're angry But it's anger without a cause
And for that you'll pay a price You're
Jesus if you're angry, we'll talk about what
a cause is in a moment But first
I think when most of us would stop
and we realize Anything that brings me out
of communion with Christ is an anger.
That's not a cause That's an anger that
we're apart of it's without a cause it
has no right to happen When I prize
my communion my fellowship with Jesus more than
any problem any event on this planet anything
anybody can do When I want to stay
with him any anger that that you know
That would then shove me out of that
that's anger without a cause When time in
the Old Testament David you may remember there
was a fellow named Nabal.
He'd actually saved him and his men He'd
done him a great service later on David
needs some ask him a favor and Nabal
snubbed him and he said hey am I
supposed To take care of every renegade around
here He just snubbed David.
That's all he really did.
He just snubbed him David got so mad.
He orders 400 of his men and he
says I'm gonna kill him and he's got
his men They're heading out to go kill
this guy and incidentally the guy's name was
Nabal which means folly I mean you think
hello a guy, you know what?
I don't know what his mother they I
mean they had some insight.
Oh The kids a fool.
Let's call him Nabal I mean, but his
name and then but Abigail Nabal's wife Here's
that her that now David is coming to
kill her husband because he was not polite
to him.
He's kind of nasty David is so out
of fellowship and he's so hostile.
He's so angry.
It just swept over his being he runs
I'm gonna kill the guy and as he's
on the way isn't Abigail meets him She
says David you want to do this?
God has wrapped you up in a bundle
of life and do you want to one
day look back and have this man's blood
on?
your hands Is this the way that that
God has taught you to live and to
walk with people and she calms him down?
And he realizes he was totally out of
control he left communion he left fellowship He
left the right Union with God and he's
out there under his own power and he's
about to do a terrible foolish thing in
his anger That's anger without a cause How
many times is somebody snub us somebody put
us down somebody take a cheap shot totally
unfair totally Unrighteous or whatever else and all
of a sudden we're angry and we're gonna
get him That's anger without a cause Moses
for 40 years.
He led the children of Israel around in
the circle You know that in the wilderness
and they were a miserable bunch of people
They were always murmuring Murmuring it's God murmuring
against Moses and they're all the time belly
-achin.
They're never grateful Never happy about anything.
I mean they beg there and he said
Moses, you know Why have you brought us
out in our cattle here to die in
a wilderness?
You know get nothing with this man a
give us some quail and so Moses not
only to give him quail But he gave
him so much quail That the Bible says
that they ate it until it was coming
out of their nostrils.
Now.
I don't know how much quail That is
but it's got to be a lot of
quail But then I mean I did there's
a point to where I don't think I
think honey You've had enough, you know or
something, but they but were they happy were
they grateful?
No Not for anything no matter what he
did.
It was never enough for these people They
come around and they're thirsty and they they
murmured against God and the murmuring is Moses
Wherefore you brought us our cattle out here
to die a thirst.
They tell him the same routine again Would
to be that we died in the way,
you know in Egypt I didn't just leave
us there We remember the leeks and the
melons and the onions and the garlic that
we did freely eat in Egypt It's leeks
melons onion garlic sounds enough to make you
pretty sick.
But anyway, they they wanted it in here
Moses just listens for 40 long years to
this Finally they come in they're doing it
again Moses goes before God and And there
God still lovingly mercifully gracefully he tells Moses
Moses I want you to go and speak
to the rock Water will come out.
We'll take care of their knee Moses did
the right thing.
They were angry.
He's tired of it He goes to God
God calms him down a little bit But
he gets back and he sees these people
and he's so angry at him He's so
upset that he breaks communion with God takes
his rod smite the rock twice He says
you generation of rebels.
Why chide you against God and chide you
against me.
He just loses his temper Water still came
graciously out of the rock.
God met all the people's needs But afterwards
he took Moses aside in his anger And
he said Moses because you have not sanctified
me among my people.
You will not go into the land Your
anger just kept you out of communion with
me Fellowship with me You after all these
years of all we've had you've seen me
face to face.
I've spoken to you as to a man
I've given you communion in union with me
Psalm says good mode to the Lord made
known his ways unto Moses his acts unto
the children of Israel They Israel knew his
activities God Moses knew and made God tick.
He knew his ways.
He knew him and he knew him well
and Yet there is he had this wonderful
communion one day He chose to break communion
not sanctify and represent God and just to
let his own temper go That's anger without
a cause is justifiable as anybody else any
committee I suppose of human beings would look
at somebody and say hey, come on Who
wouldn't get mad at that after 40 years?
Do you want to take it?
Could you do it?
So Often, you know maybe somebody else does
something or your wife let you down or
your husband let you down to your kids
do it and we're they're All angry and
we want to look there and say you'd
be mad too It was only natural And
there's the problem Anybody would have done it.
No Jesus would Because he's supernatural and through
the Beatitudes.
So are you and so am I and
He looks there and he says if you
give me your heart I can take the
gun out of it I can take the
anger out of it, but it's taken out
by having fellowship with me living in communion
with me Letting me fill your heart.
Letting me fill your life And there it
is something when we look there and we
determine within our heart Lord most all of
my anger.
It's without a cause No justification for it
not as a Christian And when we find
ourself looking at that and wanting to deal
with that here Jesus he says to him
there and he says if you don't control
your anger and You're gonna find yourself in
trouble For he says in verse 25 He
says agree with an adversary quickly While thou
art in the way with him lest at
any time an adversary Delivered the end of
the judge and the judge deliver the end
of the officer and I'll be cast into
prison Verily I say to thee thou shalt
by no means come out thence until thou
has paid the uttermost farly Here is Jesus
said listen if you don't deal with your
anger, and if you think people are fools
and they're worthless He says I'll tell you
what'll happen He says you're going you're going
jail in a sense He says first of
all is he said when you do this
and you and you let things go out
of you get out of control Agree with
an adversary quickly Agree with that person that
you have heard or you've been angry with
and and and do it quickly Sometimes I
see people they get mad and they stay
mad And then they only get madder and
then they sometimes even forget why they're mad,
but they still keep it up anyway That's
a terrible shape to be in here He
says agree with an adversary quickly another place
the Bible says don't get alone Don't let
the Sun go down in your wrath when
you're angry Don't let it get out of
hand Don't let the Sun go down on
your wrath one of the things my wife
And I agreed kind of in our marriage
and on is that it pretty much with
this So there's a struggle or there's something
going on.
We won't let the Sun go down on
a wrath Determined that many years ago.
I remember one time though I Was upset
with I can't remember why all I know
is I was right.
That's the only thing I've known for sure
but anyway the So I decide I'm gonna
go sleep on the sofa So I go
and I'm sleeping on the sofa it's out
there and lights are all out and After
I lay there for a little while.
I hear the door kind opens.
I hear a little voice is a little
reminder voice Don't let the Sun go down
on your wrath very sweetly said I'm still
I'm upset I'm thinking about that for a
moment, and I lay there for a couple
minutes, and then I said back I Said
I didn't get mad till after the Sun
went down so I figure I got till
tomorrow night That's a true story, I'm sorry
it is I Think I lay there for
a few hours and finally snuck back up
You know or him but the but one
of the things if you just decide God
if I do lose it I want to
get it back right now.
I want to get it back quick because
I'll tell you here Jesus says if you
don't if you don't agree.
He said you'll end up in court They'll
turn you over the judge the judge will
send you take you to you'll be in
court and then from court You'll go to
prison And I'll tell you I believe this
always happens always There's something there.
I don't know if you've ever noticed one
way or another this always happens Have you
ever noticed how sometimes you're not right?
Do you get angry you lose it or
you're upset?
You walk out the door You're mad at
your wife.
You're going to work, and you do you
shut the door you in the car and
you drive down the road and You left
mad you left angry And then the next
thing you know you go to court You
you know you're literally you're driving down the
road and you're in the judge has already
picked you up in the end You're going
to court because you're already presenting your case.
You're driving down the road Thomas that woman
I don't know what the world she thinks
she said what what kind of a fool
does she think I am I don't have
to Put up with that kind of stuff.
I told her and she didn't be it
and then we're talking There's nobody in the
car nobody listening But we're carrying on we're
presenting our case.
We're sitting there in court.
We got picked up.
We got hauled in and say all right
Tell me your side, and then we are
we're rehearsing it over and over And we
can't hear it.
We're talking to ourself care plenty of Carrying
out the case presenting our argument, then you
get to working and spend the day in
prison all day out of fellowship No power
no life dried up Prison cell whatever you
get it's a morsel and then you by
the time you come home you pay the
uttermost farthing to get out You are in
so much trouble You know now you come
home, and the house is cold and the
food is cold and looks are cold in
your money All right Just let me out
of this well I don't know what I
can't remember you know or you know what
did some so often You will pay You'll
pay in communion You'll pay in the loss
of fellowship with the Lord as if Jesus
is just sitting there in the car Why
you're going to work say boy that was
a smart thing you told her wasn't that
that was really yeah Wait a minute Lord
hold it just a minute Well, I don't
know where you were when this was going
on, but that woman needed it I tell
you she needed it She's even messing with
my head for a little while and finally
Somebody had to put their foot down, and
it's me you know or whatever else Oh
really tell me all about it meantime there
the life is gone the power is gone
in Meantime no matter what it is you're
there talking women who needs women And the
world did you make women for what's a
man to do?
I'll tell you I think you could give
the woman the entire galaxy, but somehow another
if I forgot Pluto I'd be Dumbo.
You know or whatever else on the thing.
I'd miss something you can't give them enough
You can't make them happy you can't live
with them You can't live without them, and
you're running off in meantime the Lord is
sitting there And he said you could live
with them if you were filled with me
And you were merciful and you were pure
in heart and you were a peacemaker And
you knew what it was even if you
were persecuted to do it joyfully And if
she was wrong you still determined I don't
care my fellowship and my communion with Jesus
is more important than any misunderstanding.
We're having right now I don't want to
give it up and When we find that
what we want more than anything in the
world is the Beatitudes in our life And
the Lord puts us out into a world
where he lets people cut us off on
the road He lets miscommunication happens in marriage
He gives us children that need discipline and
need direction and have a tendency to fail
All there in the midst of all of
this where hopefully we look there, and we
still say I still want the greater I
Want the Beatitudes I want communion more than
I want any of this stuff I Want
heaven more?
Than any trial than any person than any
event let the guy cut me off.
I'm not gonna go to court over this
I'm not gonna die and you'll be the
guy that's angry and has to deal with
it God changed my heart changed my life
take this weapon out of me You see
when we find ourselves I don't want to
you know find myself with my children to
where they see an angry person They may
see discipline, and I mean there are all
sorts of other than but they don't need
it in anger And we're there when we
realize anger is there's something there it takes
us over It makes us its chief victim.
We think we're messing with other people with
anger, but in reality Jesus said you just
imprisoned yourself You just walked away from communion
you it could have face-to-face relationship
with God I could reveal the ways in
the heart of heaven to you, but you
chose to go out and smite the rock
You chose to walk away and your anger,
and you got to kill somebody you've got
to tell somebody you got to give him
a piece of your mind and When we
decide Lord I'm tired of giving people a
piece of my mind, and I'm tired of
having to deal with them and think I
can correct them anyway I need your love
I Need your fullness, and I want your
fullness more than the world's emptiness and therefore
when the emptiness of the world is around
me and the struggles and the failures of
men and women in life I Want you?
More I want to see you One time
Sherlock Holmes And what's his friend dr.
Watson They're out on a camping trip together.
They had a nice meal, and then they
retired for the evening Fall asleep But then
hours later all of a sudden Watson there
he he feels you know they're Sherlock Holmes.
They're jabbing him in the side Watson wake
up wake up He wakes up Home says
to him Watson Look up What do you
see?
And he looks up and he says oh
my I see millions of stars Beautiful beautiful
sky in the universe Home says to him
he's angry.
He's uptight.
He's frustrated.
He says and just what do you deduce
from that?
Well he ponders for a moment.
He said well He said first of all
he says well Astronomically I see that there's
Millions of stars There's out there absolutely millions
of galaxies potentially billions planets and he says
Astrologically I see that Saturn is in Leo
Meteorologically I see I think we'll have a
nice day tomorrow Horologically I say it's probably
about 330 in the morning And theologically I
can see that God is all-powerful Rules
his vast universe and that we are but
a small insignificant part of it He turns
over and Holmes is still angry, and he
says why Holmes.
What do you deduce?
Holmes there is still fuming and he looks
at him.
He says Watson you idiot Somebody has stolen
our tent But you know Some people all
they see is the immediate and what is
wrong in the immediate and that'll make you
mad Somebody who doesn't see the immediate they
see the heavens they see God they see
his love and they want to know him
there That's what they focus on they don't
see the little stuff around you But so
often the person there that we look at
our life And it's the guy ahead of
us there on the road or it's the
the person around us Or it's this child
today that let me down or didn't obey
or it's the wife or it's the husband
Or it's the person I work with and
we're so focused on the immediate who stole
my tent It's all I know is somebody
stole my tent and for that we'll lose
all perspective of the eternity We'll lose perspective
a union and communion and fellowship with God
We'll lose the reality of what we could
have But when we find we live in
a world that's empty and people are stealing
tents all day, and if you're gonna get
mad Jesus said you got to give it
up You got to let it go He
says therefore if I bring the gift of
the altar and there remember us that they
brother hath the God death ought against thee
You know tonight as we close In fact,
I'd like the worship team to come out.
We're just gonna close with this one him
or one chorus together but Tonight maybe you
know you're angry It's you just don't know
what to do with it Part of you
you love the Lord Means a lot to
you love his power You know what it
is to come and be filled and yet
you go to work or you go home
or you drive or you?
Live around and you lose it in years
of the year dry.
Oh God, where did the fellowship go?
Lord so often he says you got angry
You decided that some person or some event
or some problem or some trial or something
else was more important than me And nothing
is more important and all let those events
go on and I'll let you be angry
and I'll let you think it's all With
the cause until you realize the real cause
is you lost communion you walked away and
When I am more precious to you than
any of those the union or the anger
will go Who's the most precious