Youth Sunday Youth Preacher Tyler Collins Is It OK to Be Angry December 29 2019

You’re asking your partner for the 3 rd time to please make sure they put the laundry away and for the third time they’ve made an excuse to why they didn’t do it then all of a sudden you feel something in your chest. You feel you blood boiling and then you realize you’re angry! Anger it’s something we all have. We all have emotions, happiness, sadness, excitement etc but most importantly anger. Now is anger okay? People ask that question to themselves every day is this worth getting angry over or why am I mad? To be 100 percent honest it’s a hard subject to grasp in my opinion in John 2:13-16 it says

21 id the uttermost farthing. “ God is telling us that if we have anger for all the wrong reasons it will end it bad fate and fortunes. There’s plenty of instances of god getting mad I. The Bible from Jonah to the way the Egyptians treated the Jews, however it is okay to be angry if it is justified. Another example For instance. In John 2 13:16 it says” When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” when Jesus flipped the merchants tables In Jerusalem he was angry because merchants were making a holy place become filled with people who were more about wealth and robbing people rather than worshipping god. God had a reason to be angry and he was angry because it was justified but does that make it okay? In Ephesians glad warns us “Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.” God tells us to exile hate from our souls yet Jesus had anger so is it okay? That’s a question that may never be answered. Anger cause many problems in life from lost friendships to lost spouses. In psalm 55:3 it says because of what my enemy is saying,

    because of the threats of the wicked;

for they bring down suffering on me

    and assail me in their anger.” Waning anger causes division in life because people listen to other people’s opinions rather than trust their own or God’s! Finally in Ephesians 4:26 it says

 “In your anger do not sin”[a]: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,” in my opinion this means that it’s okay to be angry just don’t sin while you are angry and don’t

live every life being angry because at the end of the end of the day you have so much to be grateful for thank you amen