Apr. 13, 2025

Grow Up!

Anger Control

Primary Text:  James 1:19-20     

Last Teaching:  Grow Up! – Self-Control

1)  Temperance

Galatians 5:22-23:  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.  Against such things there is no law.  

2)  Godly Lives

Titus 2:11-13:  For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.  It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ….  

This Week’s Teaching:

1)  Unruffled

1 Corinthians 13:4-5:  Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  

DQ 1) What most often “ruffles your feathers”?  Why?

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2)  Slow to Anger

Numbers 14:13, 17-18:  Moses said to the Lord…, “Now may the Lord’s strength be displayed, just as you have declared: ‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion.  Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.’” 

Psalm 86:15:  But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.  

DQ 2) What does it mean that God is slow to anger?
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3)  Provoked to Anger

1 Kings 11:9-10:  The Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.  Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the Lord’s command. 

2 Kings 17:16-18:  They forsook all the commands of the Lord their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole.  They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal.  They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire.  They practiced divination and sorcery and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, provoking him to anger.  So the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them from his presence. 

DQ 3) What provokes God to anger?  Why?

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4)  Righteous Anger

Mark 3:1-6:  Another time he went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there….  Then Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?”  But they remained silent.  He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.”  He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.  Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus. 

DQ 4) Why was Jesus periodically angry with the Pharisees?  

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5)  Do Not Sin

James 1:19-20:  My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. 

Ephesians 4:26-27:  “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.  

DQ 5) Are you slow to become angry?  If not, why?  

DQ 6) Does your anger cause you to sin?  Why?

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