An Angry Man, Part 2
ROMANS
12:19
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place
unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay,
saith the Lord.
Vengeance of the
Lord:
given to destroy the enemies of the Lord.
Mic.5:15
And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen,
such as they have not heard.
NAHUM 1:2
God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and
is furious; the
LORD will take
vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his
enemies.
Isaiah 63:1-6
The time of judgment against the enemies of the Lord, the
despiser, the rejectors.
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.
COD
59-1223 475-36 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, and 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.
STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN 62-1014M 33-4 …We come to
temperance. Now, you've had faith first. You have to have that
to begin with. Then you add virtue to your faith, if it's the
right kind of virtue. Then you add knowledge, if it's the right
kind of knowledge. Now, you're going to add temperance.
Temperance
doesn't mean: stop drinking alcohol here either. No, no.
Temperance doesn't mean alcoholic cure, not in this case. This
is Bible temperance, Holy Spirit temperance. That's just one of
the lust of the flesh. 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? See? Then we wonder
why God's not in His church doing miracles and things that He
used to do.
33-6 See, add
these things. ... Temperance, how to answer in kindness when
wrath is spoke to you. Somebody say, "You bunch of holy-rollers
down there." Don't jump out and roll up your sleeves now. See?
Not that, but talk with godly love. Temperance, kindness, is
that the way you want to be? When you're riled upon, rile not
back. Let Him be your Example. When they said, "If Thou be the
Son of God, turn these stones into bread," He could've done it
and show He was God; but He had temperance. When they called Him
Beelzebub, He said, "I forgive you for it." Is that right? They
pulled handfuls of beard out of His face, and spit in His face,
and said, "Come down off the cross." He said, "Father forgive
them; they don't even know what they're doing."
David,
Abigail & Nabal
I
SAMUEL 25:2
And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel;
and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and
a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. 3 Now
the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail:
and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful
countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings;
and he was of the house of Caleb. 4 And David heard in the
wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
Churlish:
(Heb.) qasheh: hard, cruel, severe, obstinate, difficult,
fierce, intense, vehement, stubborn, stiff-necked.
Where Does Anger
Come From?
Prov.
15:2 The tongue of
the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth
out foolishness.
I PETER 3:4
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is
not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit,
which is in the sight of God of great price.
The “ heart” as
defined in the Bible almost always refers to the hidden man, the
real you. It is the inner life that one lives before God and
himself; a life that is unknown by others because it is hidden
from them. There also is a relationship between what is in this
“heart” and what expressions we make.
If a pitcher is
filled with good things, good things will come out.
If a pitcher is
filled with water, water would come out of the spout.
If a pitcher is
filled with oil, oil would come out of the spout.
If a pitcher is
filled with arsenic, arsenic would come out of the spout.
If a child’s
heart is filled with foolishness, foolishness would come out of
his mouth.(Prov. 12:23)
If a child’s
heart is filled with deceit, lies would come out of his mouth.
(Prov.
12:20)
If your heart is
filled with pride, pride would come out of your mouth (Ps.10:4
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not
seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
DANIEL 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in
pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his
glory from him:
If your heart is
filled with anger, it is also reasonable to expect that anger
would come out of your mouth.
PROVERBS
26:24
He that hateth dissembleth (disguises) with his lips, and
layeth up deceit within him; 25 When he speaketh fair, believe
him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. 26 Whose
hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed
before the whole congregation.
Unlike the
contents of the pitcher, the contents of the heart cannot be
seen by man, only God can know the heart. We can only get an
idea of what’s in your heart by what comes out!
INDICTMENT
63-0707 33-3 And look at that little old ill-famed woman;
... She was morally wrong, of course; no one would endorse that.
The laws of God condemn that. God don't judge you upon what you
are. He judges not how big you are or how little you are; He
judges your heart: what you want to be. And she didn't want none
of that stuff--that was just flashed before her; that's what she
wanted. No matter what she was then, she was ready to come. God
judges the heart. Man judges the outward appearance.
I
SAMUEL 16:7 But the
LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the
height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD
seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward
appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
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;
Bitterness:
(Gr.) pikria
bitter gall, i.e extreme wickedness, a bitter root, and so
producing a bitter fruit. Mererrah, denoting "that which is
bitter" hence the term is applied to the "bile" or "gall" (the
fluid secreted by the liver), from the intense bitterness, Job
16;13, 20:25; it is also used of the "poison" of serpents, Job
20:14, which the ancients erroneously believed was their gall.
Gall mingled with the wine offered to our Lord at his
crucifixion, and refused by him, would be an anaesthetic, and
tend to diminish the sense of suffering.
Ending:
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 of that, you won't go to church on
Wednesday night or something. You might be filled with Elvis
Presley's rock-and-roll. That's true. 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.
36 Well, you
don't have to be that way. Christ died that you might be
cleansed from all of those things |