Wrath (Gr.) parorgismos; indignation, wrath, exasperation

TITUS 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

Angry: (Gr.) orgilos prone to anger, irascible

BLIND.BARTIMAEUS 57-0301 E-23 Jesus, with His head back, walking on, and the priest screaming at Him, making fun of Him, others crying, "Hosanna."... But did you notice, the whole burden of all the world rested upon Him? Calvary, dark hours in Gethsemane laid before Him. And, oh, as He went, He never noticed their scoffing.

You know, when someone says something evil about you, and you want to take it up and get angry about it, that shows that you haven't went quite deep enough yet with God. Big men don't do those things. That's what made Him God to me. He was big. He didn't have to notice their little scoffing. He had a purpose. He had a work to do, and that was to fulfill what God had sent Him to do. And He was determined to do it. He didn't care what anyone said.

MANIAC.OF.GADARA 54-0720A 102 I can see him go down, and here's the story. I can see him look around. "Well, the landlord had done put his wife out. Poor little thing, she prayed all the time, maybe, for him to be healed. Come back, his little children, when they'd see him coming they'd run and hide and everything. His poor little wife would have to get out of the way, 'cause he's bad. He come in, he tore up the place. That's the way a drunkard does, or demon possessed: run into one of these temper fits and kick everything around the house. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, that even belong to church and maybe on the deacon board.

ROMANS 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

According the Bible, when an individual continually gives himself over to a particular sin (habit) he eventually becomes bound by that sin. (Someone who drinks all the time: a drunk; Someone who lies all the time: liar)

As he trains his heart to respond in that way, his life becomes increasingly dominated by this characteristic and the effect is an adverse effect on those around him. (spouse, parents, siblings, work, church, community)

Prov. 22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: 25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

DOOR.TO.THE.HEART 60-0312 E-36 ... You was given five senses. But them five senses, your intellectuals, was never given to you to lead you. The six sense, which is faith, was given to you to lead you. That's the six sense; that is the super sense. It leads you.

QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS 59-1223 475-36 It's not the man. When you see a person like that, don't never think that it's the man; it's the devil that's in the man. Now, that maniac on the platform that night was going to kill me up in Oregon... That man, when he come to me, instead of him spitting in my face and calling me a snake in the grass before nearly ten thousand people; well, it wasn't the man. He's a man that eats, drinks, sleeps, perhaps with a family, and loves, just like I am or you are. But it was that devil in him that was doing that.

And you never cast a devil out by the wrong attitude. It takes love to do that. And love is the most powerful force that there is in the world. Now, if you notice, a devil is always hate. Hate is of the devil. And when people hate someone, remember it is a terrible devil to despise or dislike. You mustn't do that.

They are hurt, bitterness, anger, stubbornness, and rebellion.

PROVERBS 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Spawned by an offense, a sense of hurt (real or perceived). Parents often do something (sometimes unknowingly) to a child and his mental and emotional response produces hurt. These hurts can be the seed that causes a root of bitterness.

2. Bitterness

HEBREWS 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Everyone has to respond to hurt: either to forgive or to overlook,

or to realize that the offense was not wrong!

DISCRETION (Gr.) sekel prudence, good sense, insight, understanding

But when someone rehearses this offense over and over and over, reviewing the thing it cultivates the seed of a hurt that matures into a root of bitterness.

I Cor. 13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Prov. 29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

Not talking about a momentary reaction to something, but rather a pattern, a characterization of that person. Not being a prophet, It is a habit that is learned, Sometimes we have angry children because they had angry fathers! Family should never be afraid to come to father and mother, even when they are in trouble.

EPHESIANS 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN 33-4 …But we're talking about Holy Spirit temperance. That means how to control your tongue, not be a tattler; how to control your temper, not fly off every time anybody speaks cross to you. Oh, my. Boy, a lot of us are going to fall off 'fore we get started, aren't we? Then we wonder why God's not in His church doing miracles and things that He used to do.

COLOSSIANS 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

1. Lack of Marital Harmony

2. Maintaining a Child Centered Home (Prov. 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

3. Disciplining while angry.

4. Having a Double Standard and Being inconsistent with Discipline.

5. Being Legalistic.

6. Not Admitting you are wrong and asking for forgiveness

7. Perfectionism and being too controlling.

8. Comparing Your Children to Others.

9. Failing to Keep Promises.

10. Not taking time to talk and Encouraging Children.

11. Chastening in front of others.

12. Not enough Freedom/Too much Freedom.

13. Abuse

14. Name calling, Scolding

15. Favoritism (Elder Prodigal Son)

LUKE 15:27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. 28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

Means insubordination. Precedes full blown rebellion. A stubborn person feels he does not need to be taught or corrected because he believes he has become the master of his own destiny.

I SAMUEL 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Stubborn: (Heb.) patsar to push, press, to be insolent, display pushing (arrogance, presumption)

FATHER.THE.HOUR.HAS.COME 56-1002A …Asa got a disease in his feet, and he died with it, because he did not ask the Lord for Divine healing; he just went to the doctors alone. He wouldn't ask the Lord; he was too stubborn. And he just got to a place where he just begin to listen to some modernistic views and didn't believe maybe, or didn't believe the Lord healed, so he didn't consult the Lord nothing about it. Thought, "Well, my doctors can help me; there's no need of asking anybody else." So the Bible said he slept

EXAMPLE: II KINGS 1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that [was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.

BALM.IN.GILEAD 59-0614 10 It wasn't because there wasn't a God in Israel. Neither was it because there wasn't a prophet in Israel. But it was the king's stubbornness and his hatred for the true prophet of Israel. It wasn't because that God hadn't supplied the remedy. It was because that he was too stubborn, and he didn't like Elijah, because Elijah had predicted all the evil that happened to his father. Therefore, he had created by the habits of his home to hate the man of God, to despise him and reject him.

II KINGS 1:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.

QA.GOD.BEING.MISUNDERSTOOD 61-0723E 605-47 Stubbornness is not of God. And now, the only way to get away from that is you have to have faith to overcome that, that's if you are a Christian. You are a son or daughter of God, whichever you may be, and you'll never be able just to stand and rebuke it and rebuke it and rebuke it. It's just like tantalizing a rattlesnake; he's laying there ready to bite you. If you'll just ignore him and walk away from him, he can't hurt you. See?

So when you feel that you got a stubborn spirit, lay the thing on the altar, and believe God that the thing is dead and you'll never have it no more, and go on and don't even pay any attention to it no more, and the thing'll leave you. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you; that's "get away quickly." So that would be my advice how to overcome it. We overcome the Devil by faith. That's what we overcome all evil, is by faith.

Gone beyond anger and has become the proverbial fool. A fool and a rebel in the Bible are basically the same thing.

Always right in their own eyes:
Prov. 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

Quick to vent criticism and lies about others:
Prov. 10:18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

Gives full vent to his anger:
Prov. 29:11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.

A smart mouth usually gets him into trouble:

Prov. 18:7 A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul.

1. The best way to deal with rebellion is to prevent it:
Prov. 22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

2. And the second best thing to prevent it is to deal with the anger part of things.
Eccl. 7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

NUMBERS 25:3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.

The anger of the Lord was meant to destroy something, not someone.

UNITED.UNDER.ONE.HEAD 58-0326 35 You might be filled with a bunch of malice. You might be filled with a bunch of prejudice, so full that you can't even set and hear one sermon preached. You might be filled with a lot of hatred. You despise everybody that don't agree with you. You might be filled with a lot of nonsense too. You might be filled with a lot of Arthur Godfrey's dirty jokes, so much that you think, you won't go to church on Wednesday night or something. …But you're filled with something. And your own life bears you record of what you're filled with. "By their fruits you shall know them." You're filled with something. You might be filled with a bunch of laziness, just too lazy to do anything about it. E-36 Well, you don't have to be that way. Christ died that you might be cleansed from all of those things.