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11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,[a] against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Ephesians 6:11-13 NKJV (From Biblegateway.com)
 
 
A question for you.  How much does God tolerate sin?
 
How much do you think?  A little bit maybe?....
 
Ok.  So God hates sin.  How much?
 
Look at the cross.  It will tell you (but we do not have the ability to hate to the level that God hates sin).
 
So.... Anger.
 
Let me give you some regular scenes that happen in our life.
 
Someone says something - we do not like what they said - we get angry
 
Someone behaves badly towards us - we don't like it - we get angry
 
Someone treats us with disrepect - we don't like it - we get angry
 
We tell someone to do something - they don't listen to our advice - we don't like it - we get angry
 
Another question?
 
Who's 'we' in those scenes?  Who's the 'we' who is getting angry?
 
Who is the 'I' who is getting angry?
 
Is it simply 'I' and that's it?
 
Or is it 'I' but not I, but Christ who lives in me who's getting angry?
 
'it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.' Galatians 2:20
 
You see, I know that I have spent most of my time living as 'I' - the flesh.
 
We need to have our 'I' be Christ living in us.  Our 'I' - our flesh is to be lived by faith in the Son of God.
 
Let's look at those regular scenes again (or maybe just one of them)
 
Someone behaves badly towards us - we don't like it - we get angry.
 
Do you know what....?  Get angry.
 
Christ in You will probably get angry.
 
Why?
 
You are facing someone who God created and that person's behaviour is clearly being governed by either a power, principality, mindset, demon, whatever....
 
Get angry.
 
Can you see that this is a different kind of anger.
 
Our anger here is that we have come into contact with the thing we hate and the thing that we hate is affecting the way the person is behaving towards us.  The thing is ungodly.  Hate it.  Be angry. 
 
Are you just going to stand there, feel sorry for your self and let that evil thing continue to manipulate that person?  Or are you going to engage in some proper anger? 
 
In faith, have Christ who lives in you, deal with it / them.  Speak to it.  Tell it in Jesus' Name to get out!  Get angry.  Christ lives in you now and nothing that opposes Him will overcome Him.
 
When someone is offensive towards us, there is far more going on than an opportunity for our feelings to be hurt.  Far more.
 
Do not be angry with the person - that is an 'I' - flesh response.  Love the person.  Love the person so much that the righteous anger in you rises because of this ungodly thing that is manifesting itself in the other person's behaviour.
We have a choice.  We either get angry because our flesh feels offended / hurt / whatever when someone behaves offensive towards us.
 
Or we get angry because we are disgusted that some ungodly, wretched piece of filth has made itself resident in the person we are speaking to - How dare it!  How dare it place itself within one of God's creation.  We have been equipped and armoured to be ruthless and merciless against these things that aim to imprison God's creation.
 
Jesus Christ came to free God's creation at the greatest price that could ever be paid and this 'thing / things' is coming against that.  Get angry.
 
'Yes, but it hurts when people are offensive towards me'.
 
Yes... it does.  Therefore: put your armour on.  Clothe yourselves with Christ.  By the Holy Spirit kill the flesh - for it is the problem here.
 
We have a choice:
 
Respond out of 'i' - the flesh.
 
Respond out of 'I' - Christ who lives in me.
 
Who are you concerned about honouring?
 
Your flesh
 
or God?



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A DIFFERENT KIND OF ANGER (Ephesians 6:11-13)