ANGER MANAGEMENT - Kenute P. Curry

ANGER MANAGEMENT

Kenute P. Curry

Ah! Who hasn't been there? We have all been caught in the clutches of anger at one time or another. Release it to Jesus. He sure can handle it.

Luke 15:11, 13

1. BETTER TO LIVE IN THE WILDERNESS, THAN WITH A NAGGING, HOT-TEMPERED WIFE (Proverbs 21:19). DO NOT MAKE FRIENDS WITH AN ANGRY MAN; DO NOT BE A COMPANION OF A HOT TEMPERED MAN (Proverbs 22:24). ONE’S LIFE THAT IS RULED BY TEMPER STIRS UP CONFLICT, AND INCREASES REBELLION (Proverbs 29:22).

Psalm 4:4; Ecclesiastes 7:9; Isaiah 12:1; Matthew 5:22; Ephesians 4:26; Colossians 3:8

2. WE ARE TO REMOVE ALL BITTERNESS, ANGER, AND WRATH FROM AMONG US (Ephesians 4:31).

3. THE LANDOWNER AGREED TO PAY THE LABORERS A DENARIUS A DAY FOR WORKING IN HIS VINEYARD. HE STUCK TO HIS WORD, AND PAYED THEM A DENARIUS WAGE FOR A DAY. WHEN THE FIRST LABORERS CAME, THEY EXPECTED TO RECEIVE MORE THAN THE OTHER LABORERS. IF WE WERE ONE OF THOSE EARLY LABORERS, MOST LIKELY, WE WOULD HAVE FELT ANGRY IN HAVING TO BEAR THE BURDEN OF THE DAY IN THE BURNING HEAT. IF WE HAD BEEN ONE OF THE ELEVENTH HOUR LABORERS, MOST LIKELY, WE WOULD HAVE FELT HAPPY AND THANKFUL TO BE COMPENSATED IN THIS WAY FOR WORKING ONE HOUR. THE LANDOWNER WAS NOT UNFAIR. HE WAS ACTING GRACIOUSLY TO THOSE WHOM HE OVERPAID (Matthew 20:1-16).

4. YOU ARE A SON, AND HEIR OF GOD, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST (Galatians 4:7).

5. AS HEIRS, WE RECEIVE AN INHERITANCE:

A. WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD (Romans 11:33).

B. REDEMPTION AND FORGIVENESS OF SINS (Ephesians 1:7).

C. UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST (Ephesians 3:8).

D. STRENGTHENED WITH HOLY SPIRIT POWER (Ephesians 3:16).

E. INCREASE TO ALL OF OUR NEEDS (Philippians 4:19).

F. LOVE AND FULL ASSURANCE OF UNDERSTANDING (Colossians 2:2).

Romans 8:16-17

6. GOD CHOSE THE POOR OF THE WORLD TO BE RICH IN FAITH, AND HEIRS OF THE KINGDOM (James 2:5). THE RICH ARE NOT TO BE ARROGANT, AND SET THEIR HOPE ON WEALTH; BUT ON GOD (1 Timothy 6:17).

7. IN THE COMING AGES, GOD WILL DISPLAY THE IMMEASURABLE RICHES OF HIS GRACE TO US THROUGH CHRIST JESUS (Ephesians 2:6-7).

Unsolidified anger gets us nowhere. We are only hurting and making ourselves miserable. Jesus’ love is the cure for this. Take it to Him brothers and sisters. He understands, and who better to talk to than the One who loved us so much that He gave His life for us!

February 20^th 2014

©2014 Kenute P. Curry. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible, © 1979, 1980, 1982, 1990, by Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

JOHN MacARTHUR – The MacArthur Study Bible, New King James Version (Nashville, Tennessee:  Word Publishing, a division of Thomas Nelson Inc. 1997)

HCSB STUDY BIBLE – Holman Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, Tennessee: Holman Bible Publishers 2010)