What Should Make Us Angry? - Tim Conway

Many times we think of anger as selfish

and a destructive emotion

that should be eradicated
from our lives altogether,

but the fact is Jesus got angry

when men were hard,

when men were unbelieving,

unfeeling, unsympathetic,

and especially when they
dishonored His Father.

The Apostle Paul could
say to the Galatians

at a time when they were being duped

by false teachers,

"I wish those who unsettle you

would emasculate themselves."

Emasculate?

Brace yourselves.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon says,

"cut off your privy parts."

You say, "well, I never!"

Well, that's right.

You've never been stirred up like Paul has

when somebody comes in with teaching

and is trying to lead people away

and possibly to their damnation.

And he gets stirred!

And he knew what that word meant.

And he used it in mixed company.

Why?

Because he was angry.

And he was stirred up.

And when people came with false doctrine

he got that way.

And there are some things as Christians

that are worth getting bent
out of shape about

and worth getting stirred up about.

Unfeeling people are called calloused.

Unfeeling people are Gentile-ish,

not Christian.

Passionless people,

passionless Christians

are pathetic Christians.

There are things in this world

worth getting stirred up about.

There is darkness out there.

There is wrong out there.

There is evil out there.

There are people taking advantage

and there are devilish doctrines.

And there are people trying to deceive

our brothers and sisters

and deceive your children.

You know when you've seen Mormons

and Jehovah's Witnesses

walking around your neighborhood.

That's worth getting
bent out of shape about.

On a regular basis, I come up there -

Clark Street,

right to Martin Luther King

and I look across and on that wall

is this Catholic picture.

And I'm confronted by it all the time.

And Mary is big.

The "Queen of Heaven."

She's got this little, pathetic
infant in her arms.

And Jesus is just emasculated
of all of His majesty.

And I think of the day -

that day of mercy that we heard about -

when Jesus Christ comes

and all the idols come crashing down.

That wall is going to come crashing down.

And you ought to get
stirred up about these things.

And when Jesus Christ is dishonored,

we ought to be, brethren.

Do you feel a fire arise
in your own self over sin?

Brothers and sisters,

you ought to be angry.

Those of you that
struggle with sexual sin,

you ought to be angry over yourself.

There's things worth
getting stirred up about.

And Paul says be angry.

And if we're going to be like Christ,

then let us be like Him.

If we're going to be like God
and put on that new man,

there should be things

that make that fire arise within us.

Now let's talk about the bad anger...

This excerpt is taken
from the full sermon:

Good Anger & Bad Anger

by Tim Conway.

To hear the rest of the message,

visit Illbehonest.com.