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What Does The Bible Say About Anger?
August 24, 2019

Three weeks ago in my hometown of El Paso, Texas, a person who drove more than ten hours opened fire in a Walmart that I have shopped at many times. In an online posting minutes before the attack, hate was the root cause. Last week we studied hate and learned there is never a reason to hate a person. We learned that evil, acts of evil, are to be hated. Because we live in a time where hate is confused with anger, this week we will see what the Bible says about anger. For all who are suffering, there are no words I can write to comfort those who have suffered so much. First and foremost anger is to be without sin. It is also to be short-lived. Anger is to be resolved before the day is finished. When angry, we must guard that we do not give the devil a foothold in our mind. We are to replace evil and sin with good. We are to be kind to each other and quick to forgive each other. We are all human.

Ephesians 4:26-32
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

When we are angry it is important we resolve our anger, because the anger of man does not create the righteousness of God, even when we are angry because we see sin. Being kind, tenderhearted and forgiving will leaed us more quickly to God's righteousness.

James 1:19-20
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Anger is a choice. We choose to be angry. No person, event, or action makes us angry. We surrender ourselves to raw emotion, and raw emotions can be ugly.

Proverbs 14:29
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Because hate can grow from anger, we must guard against hate. We are not to sin with anger. Anger is to be short-lived, and we must grow in the spirit so that we become slow to anger.

All verses are from the King James Version.
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