July 24, 2022
(Proverbs 25:28 TEV) If you cannot control your anger you are as helpless as a city without walls, open to attack.
(Proverbs 12:16 NLT) A fool is quick-tempered, but a wise person stays calm when insulted.
The Story of an Angry Man
_____________ anger.
(Exodus 2:11-12 NIV) One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
________________ anger.
(Exodus 11:8 NIV) All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that I will leave.” Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.
_____________ anger.
(Exodus 32:19 NIV) When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain
_____________ anger.
(Numbers 20:10-12 NIV) He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank. But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”
An act of ___________ stems from ____________.
Disobedience _____________________________.
Forgiveness doesn’t ________________________.
(Deuteronomy 3:25-26 NIV) Please let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.’ But the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the Lord said to me, ‘Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.
Overcoming Anger
Calculate the ____________________.
(Proverbs 29:22 NCV) An angry person causes trouble, and a person with a quick temper sins a lot.
Look past their _______________________.
(Proverbs 19:11 NIV) A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense.
Think _____________________.
(Proverbs 13:16 GNT) Sensible people always think before they act.
(Proverbs 29:11 NLT) A fool gives full vent to anger, but a wise person quietly holds it back.
Ask for ______________________.
(Psalm 141:3 NCV) Lord, help me control my tongue; help me to be careful about what I say!
(James 4:1-2 NIV) What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.
Base your ______________________.
(Proverbs 29:25 MSG) The fear of human opinion disables you; but trusting in God protects you from that.
(Matthew 5:48 MSG) Grow up. You’re kingdom subjects. Now live like it. Live out your God-created identity. Live generously and graciously toward others, the way God lives toward you.