A Calm and Biblical View of Anger
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2018
- Honestly, I think this is some pretty basic stuff that many believers have ignored.
Surveying some Bible passages on the topic of anger and how we ought to handle it. Specifically, we are told not to bottle it up and not to let it out. But if that's the case, how are Christians supposed to deal with anger? The biblical answer is to "put it off".
In other news, here is a link to my recent talk with atheist Skylar Fiction on moral issues and the Bible. • A Conversation With MI...
I don't know how to thank you Brother Mike for this amazing sermon. I struggle with anger and as a born again christian it always leaves me feeling defeated and guilty. I'm almost in tears writing this. You tackled all the issues i had in a way that i didn't expect. May God bless you and your family. I hope i can share this message effectively with my mum who's English isn't as good as mine. Oh before i forget, when you said you used to struggle with anger too i was so shocked cause of your calm spirit which i admire so much already. It gave a new hope of Christ's transformative power. i want to also look more like Christ and less like my past self. God Bless
Amen! You took the words right out of my mouth, thank you for your comment. I completely agree! I continue to struggle with anger even after being saved. It's an internal battle and ongoing journey to look more and more like Jesus and less like our old selves. We are a NEW creation in Christ! He will be with us every step of the way. God bless you. 💗
Yes I struggle too! Wish I had been changed radically when I became reborn. I hate my sinful nature! God bless!
And I find comfort seeing your comment because it’s spot on. If I could change one thing about myself it would be anger. Sure giving it to Jesus tonight. How has your anger been? God bless
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Amen! Like you are speaking for me too. I pray you will be healed and that you will now you are forgiven and you have a new life in Christ. You ARE free and Jesus loves you so much. We have a different captain now, a different King, a good Shepherd! I pray your heart and your mind will be completely made new, that God will change it and use your situation for good! I pray everyone around you will see how God has changed you and will long for God too! I pray you will find rest and peace and love and selfcontrol at His feat ❤❤ in the name of our Lord Jesus!
Thank you for speaking the Word of truth and giving it to me. I’ve been angry since 2 years old. 50’s now and certainly need to be humbled to seek the Lord about my stubborn proud angry resentful bitter malicious wrathful heart. O God help
You just showed me what’s going on with me, I’m filled with malice! Ohh Jesus I commit myself to you make me more like you take my malice and fill me with the love you have for ALL people. Fill me with your Holy Spirit!
This was a very challenging message for me, it made me aware of how I so often either overlook the sinfulness of my anger or try to justify it. You've given me plenty of Proverbs to meditate on, thank you Pastor Mike and may The Lord continue to bless your ministry.
This was amazing and I needed this. I'm a new Christian and anger is my weakness.
Mike, i just recently found jesus, while your apologetics got me to think deeper and brought me from agnostisism to christianity, your ministry and teaching of the gospel is changing my life in amazing ways. You are incredible thank you so much for what you do in the name of the Lord. I love you brother.
49:00 this is why I keep listening. Even if in one while video, one nugget unseats an old bad theology I was taught, it helps me reestablish biblical truth rather than how I was raised. In “forgive and forget” I was certainly taught you can’t bring it up, can’t “remember it”. Of course that’s practically impossible, but it also creates a great difficulty to get out of abusive situations because then you can’t identify unhealthy and dangerous patterns. I think “forgiveness” had been defined to me, bit by bit, as dismissing and forgetting, no repentance required. That’s not even Gods standard of forgiveness, how could He require it to be ours? Now, in Christ, I can not respond from anger, I can not hold a grudge, but I can also say “because of these repeated, consistent, unrepentant behaviors, I have to let X person out of my life for my health and protection of those around me. (Or many other applications, like actually holding ministers or false prophets accountable.)
I’m glad to hear this! Mike is a great teacher and honestly those are hard to find these days! We need to base how we live off of the Bible and not what men say. Even pastors and teachers can be wrong. So we should always go back to the Bible but sometimes it’s hard for us to understand the lesson which is why I’m thankful for teachers like Mike! I’m so happy to hear this helped you brother! Keep it up and may the Holy Spirit guide you in life! I’ll keep you in my prayers! If you could pray for me too it’s be appreciated! There are definitely things in my life I need to cut out to follow Jesus better. Praise God and have a great night! 🙏🙏🙏
I’ve recently started weening myself off of an anxiety medication and I Now get frustrated and angry very quickly and I HATE IT. I’ve been praying but it’s not going away. It’s a battle to say the least and I must get it dealt with because it’s impacting my walk with Jesus
Dear Lord, please help jeff walk with you in the spirit. Please help them everyday to rely upon your grace and your mercy and to try again. Please grow your fruit of gentleness and self control in him in your perfect timing. Thank you for your word. Amen.
@@kaymojil7669 thank you. I appreciate your prayers so much
That definition of malice convicted my heart. I will be praying to see everyone the same and not have my view skewed.
This was so helpful. I didn't realize I had "anger issues" but my very strained issue with one of my parents has really shown me my heart. I have repented and prayed for God to guide me to please Him with how I manage my emotions. I will definitely be meditating on these scriptures. The Word of God has ALL the answers! And you're right, Mike, the calling is HIGH when it comes to self-control.
Running into this video was an answer to my prayers. I bottle it all up and didn't even realize it was malice. For the last few years, I have been praying and praying about anger toward some people. I had been praying for these people a little bit here and there, but it didn't occur to me to pray for them every time I felt anger. Since hearing this video, I've been praying for these people whenever I feel anger or hard feelings arise. It's truly helping and is the answer to my prayers. I'm so grateful for the wisdom in this video. Thank you!
God is using you in an amazing way. Your honest and sincere relationship with the Lord is evident and very refreshing. May you stay strong and continue your race with perseverance. Thank you for your strong biblically based answers to some tricky teachings. I am driven to live for Christ and to be pleasing to Him and your teaching has helped me see where I have glazed over some life issues that are indeed important
This applies to anxiety too I think. Thank you so much for what you do Mike. The gentleness you speak with is good, I grew up with an abusive father so sometimes when men speak harshly or simply emphatically I feel fear and anger. I want to run away or I assume they are wrong because I am afraid, and I have to fight those assumptions. Watching sermons was difficult for a very long time. It still is sometimes with the loud ones. I have never had this problem with yours. Thank you.
Made a huge error yesterday and because of my anger almost threw away a company I’ve built for 20 years. Needed to hear this message like I need air. Ty Mike.
Hello! Me finding this four years later because I deal with anger. Thank you for this video!
Yeah, me too. I'm going to be doing a lot of praying because of malice.😮😳😎
I have a lot of self hate and anger tours myself. It plays a big part in my relationship with my child, and partner. I’m embarrassed and shamed for it, and is something I hope the lord can take away.
Me too
Thanks for not just saying "don't, don't, don't"... you encourage people to acknowledge, slow down, pray. We can take heart and take action!
I remember when I was unsaved I was so wrathful toward other people, whether it were a neighbor or family member or friend. One of the most humiliating and embarrassing examples I remember is: I was 16 years old, driving too fast in the neighborhood, and it made a dad very concerned. (I can understand why, he wanted to protect his children)... he proceeded to follow me home and block me in my driveway to yell at me to slow down. Instead of replying kindly, I (being a carnal wicked person) yelled at him, cussed him out with the worst things I could think of and I’m pretty sure I had no feelings of remorse for what I did.. I don’t even know what he said in response but it certainly made things 100x worse. I praise God that He saved me despite my many failures like the one I just described, and that He saved me and countless others from the grip of sin.
It will never fail to amaze me how God our Father, the effectual working of the Holy Spirt, can transform a wretched person by giving them a new heart, and cause them to repent and hate the sin they once loved... I thank The Father for salvation by the shed blood of Christ Jesus.
I've watched this honestly at least 5 more times after the live stream. This is probably my favorite of all your videos I've watched because of how helpful it was in my personal walk with the Lord. My anger was really affecting me and I signed up for a few online Christian counseling sessions hoping that would help, but she (counselor) never brought up the Bible at all and just told me I need to make time to relax after work and I'll be less angry. It didn't help at all. I found real, biblical help in this video- and it gave me hope that I can change with God's help. I soo wish you did online counseling!! I can't thank you enough for doing this topic, at just the right time. It's already helped me so much.
oh no.... did u pay for that course? if yes, it's waste of money
@@blessme7853 Thankfully I didn’t! It was a free trial.
Thank you so much for this lesson, Mike. I have listened to it again and again over the past week as I’m processing the heavy impact anger and its attendant sins have had on my life, and this lesson has been both convicting and healing for me.
This is going to be a weird analogy, but your lessons sometimes serve for me as a kind of spiritual ipecac syrup. Whenever I have gotten hold of some bad theology or discovered some cognitive dissonance over a long-held mistaken belief, I liken it to spiritual food poisoning, making me feel miserably sick almost on a physical level. But listening to your thoughtful examinations helps me cleanse out the bad and “settle my stomach,” so to speak, so I can be nourished with the biblical truth. Odd analogy, I know, but your teaching has been very valuable for me and I wanted to share that. Thank you.
Holding in anger without knowing how to channel it into something less destructive can cause major mental and emotional issues. How are we supposed to handle the anger if we aren’t allowed to feel it? It hurts and poisons is from the inside out but no one ever taught me how to manage my anger or how to deal with it. I’m struggling with this as a woman in my mid thirties.
Me too
We must come to Christ !
Same 😢
Thank you, I needed this tonight I’m fighting every day to walk with Christ as closely as I can God is Good all the time and he helps me with so much I can’t thank you enough for this message Mike truly has blessed me and helped me in my walk with Christ.
2021 and this video is still touching lives. Thank you for staying obedient and allowing Holy Spirit to work through you.
This teaching is an answer to my recent prayers
Thank you, i am trying to handle my anger better
And im a long time Christian
Thank you Mike! We learn a lot with your explanation of scripture. God bless you and your family! ❤️🙏
Thank you so much Mike for this video. Throughout my life I’ve struggled with anger,but more recently, it’s been boiling over into rage, and I don’t know how to deal with it since it’s seems so off and on 😞 however when you look online for resources on “anger management” you get so many answers like: hit a punching bag, scream into your pillow, etc. All of these “solutions” seem like things that would feed the anger or develop unhealthy habits for coping with it. I really appreciated hearing the verses you compiled together and how you pulled Colossians 3:8 apart and broke it down. ❤️
I'm going through the same thing. When you're saved and you act worldly (in this case anger) you feel wrong. Sins weight heavy on the saved. I pray that your anger will be overcome.
I JUST WANTED TO TELL U HOW MUCH I LOVE ALL YOUR VIDEOS. SUCH A JOYFUL THING TO SEE A TRUE BIBLE-BELIEVING CHRISTIAN. GOD BLESS YOU AND KEEP IT UP. YOU ARE REFRESHING.
I need prayer on my anger I had trauma as a child watching my father be angry and hit us now I'm going threw the same things
I needed to hear this 🙏
God bless you.
I’ve always been very conflict avoidant and it meant I constantly got steamrolled by users and abusers. These days I refuse to be bullied, which often means that I’m physically shaking when I have to stand up for myself, and it very much enrages people when they can’t control my thoughts and opinions. I’m not looking for a fight and I don’t want to lose relationships, but sometimes the other person is relentless and exhausting. I just want to not have to deal with the world.
Thank you Teacher and Brother. God knows how much you have helped me.
I've been listening to the living waters podcast a ton lately, they are such a great resource for Godly wisdom! Awesome that you are working with them
Hi Mike! Thanks for this study! Perfect timing! A learned a couple of new things! I'm gonna have to listen to this a second time. God Bless!
So much conviction @ 26:30, but then, "they honked at me, so I'll honk back.. for extra longgg". That's literally what brought me to study this topic and your video today. Happened down the beach front just a few hours ago. I'm struggling with pure rage lately, I was ready to chase that person down and with convincing justification start a fight with them. The thoughts were insane, I mean I'm kinda insane in regards to my anger atm.
Anyway, how ironic.
“No problem buddy have a great day”, that’s Awsome! I want to try that, I will try that
Unfortunatly I gave in to anger today... I feel so sorry...
LORD, please forgive me
Mike. I really appreciate this content on anger, even though it’s from years ago. Bible is timeless. Thank you.
Quibble: you responded to a wife about dealing with an angry husband that has anger issues. While your response was solid, you might have missed the part of encouraging her to examine her own heart. It felt like you were giving her a free pass or that it would be simple for her to quickly realize if she was contributing to the situation. Women have a very different style of anger than men on average and this issue (anger) is super easy to hang on men as if it’s only a male issue. And wouldn’t we say that in the complexity of a marriage relationship that it is a rare situation that both husband and wife are not in some way culpable. I feel pretty strongly about this but completely open to any push back.
Mike, once you have kids then preach to me about controlling anger 🤣
Thank you for this great video! I'm actually going to show this to my 12 and 10 year olds as apart of our daily devotional 😊 We are all working on ourselves.
Literally watching this right now to try and be a better mother when upset haha.
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Good word for changing the monologue in head great practice I have pinned it to my heart Lord help me by Your Spirit in that moment.
I really needed to hear this today! Thank you Mike for your obedience. Lord Christ thank you for the love you give to us, a love we don’t deserve. 🙏🏽🎚️
This is such a blessing! Thank you Mike!
Thank you for this honest and direct teaching. You have given much food for thought.
I always go back to this video and it blesses me every time. It’s hard but God’s Holy Spirit helps us to be more like Him:
I'm a new Christian. Problem is, I get angry pretty quickly and am very prone to being stressed, and swearing. I am really trying. I was doing well for a while, but I've been the most hateful and angry than I've been in a long time today. I need to help myself.
Me too,this is a hard subject😊😊
I've been praying so much about this the past few weeks and I'm still no better, I ask for Gods help and I try to be slow to anger but it's like every time I do this it blows up in my face.
it’s ok. it truly is a process, so pls don’t be discouraged. ill pray for you too.
you continue to pray. it is not in vain, pls keep going. it will change things, even if we don’t see it yet. Gods Word specifies to always pray, and we know God is faithful and so loving, He won’t ignore a prayer but instead will heal and develop our character, however that may look.
make sure you read the Bible on anger and pray those scriptures over yourself. don’t condemn yourself in prayer but repent and talk about yourself in a loving, Christlike way. Christ never looks at you harshly; that means we don’t have to look at ourselves like that either.
you’re not condemned for your anger by God. He knows why you may get angry, and He wants to heal that part of you. God loves you so much that He just wants you to go to Him like His child, bc you are.
🤍🤍 i hope this helps you
@@kpoparid It does help, I remind myself at least I'm not the same as I was a few years ago.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and scriptures.
I needed to hear this so much. I struggle with anger and this has helped me to focus now on overcoming it completely. God bless you!
Well Jeez, I feel like you are SPEAKING TO ME. I battle so much with being easily angered.
So convicted!!
Thank you for the breakdown.
Thank you so much Brother Mike
Thanks for creating this video, Mike.
This was so needed I love how you explain the passages ❤ thank you
This was absolutely amazing . I love you . Thank you .
This was extremely Helpful, thank you so much Mike.
Wow. Needed this. Thank you Mike.
Thanks for dealing with this important topic. Great broadcast.
Thank you for this video!! I love these videos. Keep them coming 😊🙏💖
I am new to your channel. I ❤the scriptures you used to go into detail about anger because we experience anger but need to know to cope with our emotions and response to anger.
thankyou for this!!! i was really dealing with my anger towards family, love ones, i just can't handle and this really opens my eyes in other ways that I didn't even know or imagine about, I'm really blessed to hear this, you are blessed shalom ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
This has really blessed me, Mike. There are a couple of select people in my life that really makes me show my anGRR.
I watched the debate you had with Skylar and I thought you did great! Especially when the conversation went onto slavery. I’ve seen your stuff on a biblical understanding of slavery before but seeing it stand up so well to active scrutiny was amazing to see! Thanks for everything you’re doing Mike. God bless you.
I love this..Thank you so much.
great message...….thanks so much, Mike !
This is priceless information. Ty so much. Bless you.
This is so needed! Praise Jesus.. In these times we need to put off all ungodliness and put on Christ
Great message!
The things that anger God-wickedness, rebellion, injustice-should also anger us. Paul tells to “abhor what is evil, and cling to what is good” (Rom. 12:9).
Consider the following Biblical data: The Bible tells us that God is angry with sinners (Isa. 34:2), and He becomes angry with His people when they dishonor Him (Deut. 1:34, 37). Jesus, our perfect example, experienced anger at the hardness of people’s hearts (Mark 3:5). Paul commands the Ephesians, “Be angry and don’t sin” (Eph. 4:26a). If God experiences anger, it cannot be an inherently sinful emotion. Since the Spirit inspired Paul to command believers to be angry and not to sin, it must be possible.
Nika Davidhizar thank you.
Thank you Mike. This is an area of struggle for me and I appreciate the wise council. As you were going through those scriptures, I was reflecting on how those non-application of those scriptures has lead to the attitudes and perspectives common today. You see a great many people who are angry at the world and looking for reasons to rage and when that rage is directed your way, especially when it is undeserved and unprovoked, it tends to invoke anger in you, just as the proverb says. In times past the display of anger in public was highly frowned upon and this had a dampening effect on how much anger spread. I must learn to use soft words, as you did in your example.
September 2023, thank you 🙏🏻 this is really needed for me in the season I am right now!
great topic and very helpful because we all struggle with anger even when we don't realise it.. God can help us put out the raging flames of unrighteous anger and return to us peace for agitation , love for malice, and healing for injury.
Amen brother, keep teaching! Praise God for what this teach today, 9/9/2023, has done for my wife and I. Roger
God bless you Mike! Im new to this channel. I actually went back to Christ about a month ago. And my friend got me into your channel. I loved your debate on the ressurection! Keep up the good work brother!!
This is awesome, thank you so much! I needed this!
Anger is a hard one for most of us, me especially! I need to listen to a lot more of these type of videos.
This is so deep, I’m going to listen to this every night, I feel why couldn’t I have seen this years ago, it’s not going to be easy but it’s a deadly game against the devil
Wow! Really great message you've helped me so much!!
Was struggling with a bit of anger but this really helped me calm down. I thought about, am I actually hurt physically or is it just my pride that is actually hurt instead of me myself. While I am an individual with a healthy amount of self-esteem I’m also an individual who prides himself on not letting his ego take control and dictate my actions. Really helped with this message thank you.
The red light in the background is so fitting for this video 😊Thanks for making this.
As a follower with anger issues from combat I'm always on the look out for Bible solutions...thanks
Thankyou for your service. But you have a right to be angry, im.glad you're hee.
Here😊😅😅
I'm so angry I came across this video, but very grateful to you, I pray the Lord will help me on this one..
Hi pastor Mike, first thank you for answering my question, second you pronounced my name just fine. ( I like the french pronunciation better then English).
Normally I am sleeping during the podcast but happen to wake up and log in on this topic, which is one I needed to hear about. God Bless you.
Another sermon everyone should hear
Thank you so very much 😊🙏
I gots me many, many angers. Saved & sober 5yrs, so I deal with it differently. Repentance a daily thing.
Thanks Mike winger!
@Mike Winger; I watched the video with you and Skylar....I commend you on your patience as at one point I was shouting for him to shut up and quit interrupting you. But, I think his Ephesians 1:11 verse was from the Good News Translation. And yes, translations are important. Thank you for all your teaching.
I’m so angry 😡 right now because this applies to me ❤
I agree! This is awesome 😇
Thank you.
This is a keeper
Timely. This just happened with someone I've shared a pattern with (cycle of sweet and salty) after being away for a good spell of time. He's a first crush and lifelong friend.
Even though I quickly repented, and wrote an apology-poem, no less, I'm sure this will be so fruitful in its entirety.
I'm so Holy Spirit convicted for not having resembled Christ's character, because of a situational habit. I definitely could use more thoughtfulness and righteous patience. 🙏 Christ is King!!! ✝️
I got angry at my brother's nurse because of the Cvid protocol in the ICU. Thank you God and Mike for this video.
This has been very helpful Mike.
I had a rift with my boss today and
I want to keep my job. Lol 😀 seeing that I will retire in 8 months.
Thanks for the ammo!
I will use it on myself...sparringly😇👍mercy me!
Thanks Mike this teaching made me think about my own issues. Sometimes we don’t look at ourselves honestly. I do want to ask how do you get angry without sinnin?
I see myself as someone who is glacially slow to anger, but when it finally comes it is volcanic. It does do damage and I’m not proud of it.
People in vulnerable positions in life have to deal with not only being slighted but having years of hard work being undone in front of them by people who think they won’t fight back.
So you forgive it and move on, only to have years of hard work undone again by people who again think you won’t fight back.
So, in my experience, being calm and controlled may avoid division and damage, but it won’t save you from losing everything over and over again.
Give it to God, He will repay. Do what Christ called us to do, be blameless in those situations. Pray for them, love them, know that He is Sovereign and whatever was being undone, perhaps wasn't meant to work. Maybe He's leading you in a new direction and using said person to lead you to where you're suppose to be.
7 The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters. 9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:7-11 really blows me away flat out saying we should rather be wronged than wrong. That doesn’t mean self defense. But we know that God is the one who justifies and repays. There could be a reward in Heaven for enduring a certain earthly trial order of trials.
We have been washed- we have been freed- we can’t hold other people to the same standard if they’re walking around dead in their sins. It’s so sad they don’t know.
Hey Mike, I greatly appreciate your videos; you rock as a teacher, mate.
So, I'm one who's always trying to justify and excuse others; it's sort of a natural (I guess 'initial' is a better word) posture I have toward ppl. I get used to injustice toward me but there's a desire to call them higher. I can usually put up with this a lot longer than I can than when I see injustice done toward others. When seeing injustice done toward other ppl, I get angry and think rationally about how to proceed. My anger isn't a leading thing as though I'm trying 'get back at them,' but there's this, for lack of better words, 'dissatisfied judicial-ness' that resembles bridled, exacted anger. Is that wrong of me to feel that displeasure at injustice?
My anger isn't abt the person as much as it is abt the issue at hand. I think logically and am led by reason, but I still get angry. I find it hard to forgive apart from the face of anger/displeasure, otherwise, it's mere excusing and passivity and neglect. Like, I can pity someone and long for them to come to repentance, but by the same token their actions are their actions. It's like me pitying those inclined to vengeful murder, but angry at the fact THAT they murder: it doesn't change my posture toward them but I would definitely put them in jail. (Like David being forgiven, but not having his child live. Or like Jesus flipping tables and cracking whips, but out of a place of compassion for the ppl's hearts toward God, and zeal for his house. Or like the disciples being told to now carry weapons bc of the coming injustice/danger.)
Sometimes, I leave the situation. Sometimes, I choose to suffer the injustice. Other times, I fight. All of these out of compassion and being displeased. I've found that compassion can lead to turning the other cheek as well as just violence. Is it possible for men to have the anger of God? Was Paul not upset and torn when writing to Corinth? Or should this displeasure fizzle out into sadness and pity and grief only (on my end), while leaving justified anger to God?
PS: I don't know if you have an in depth study on Hebrews in the coming years, but if it got added to the list, I wouldn't complain haha
I'm only angry when someone makes me mad :)
I’m 19 with temporal adhd It’s hard I get very dark thoughts I get aggressive I wanna fight I NEED GOD💯🥺
I had a church leader tell me “ you have no right to be angry for anything because Jesus never got angry when He was crucified”. All things come full circle though because I recently repeated her words to her when she called me about something she was going through.
Remind her that Jesus flipped tables and used a whip on the money changers in the temple... you can be angry without sinning
At 20:00 you’ll be surprised how many married couples go to bed angry mad at each other. When I hear the lose your salvation crowd saying losing your salvation is easy I say then you better not go to bed mad at your spouse in that case. We not perfect we gonna slip this examples is the lost overlooked.