I think most of us know that anger takes many forms. In fact, anger wears many faces. Anger is an emotion

that's interwoven in many aspects of our lives. Anger ranges from a slight irritation to a full-blown, uncontrollable rage.

But I need to haste to say that all unrighteous anger, listen carefully, all unrighteous anger.

You say, is there a righteous anger? Yes, I'm going to come to that.

All unrighteous anger stems from pride and self-righteousness. When someone criticizes

whether fairly or unfairly, really in the end doesn't make any difference.

Or when we get overlooked or feel being undermined, this all stems from prideful anger, self-righteous anger, and it must be nipped in the bud and placed in the wounded

side of Jesus. Can I get an amen? How? By openly confessing it and asking for God's strength

to repent of it. Remember I said, he already took all of our sins

on the cross, on his body. See, the sooner you do this, the better off you are. Because of the seriousness

of that issue of anger, I personally believe, this is why our Lord Jesus Christ starts with

that commandment, thou shall not murder. He starts with it because it's a very serious issue.

Three things I want to show you here from these verses. Matthew 5, 21 to 26. In verses 21 and 22, he says that anger destroys, that destroys the

person who's angry. Secondly, in verses 23 and 24, he says, anger, desecrate your worship.

And thirdly, he is saying anger devastate relationships. First of all,

anger turns on the angry person and destroy him or her. Here's what Jesus said. You have heard

it said, you shall not commit murder. But I say to you, now, I want you to miss,

and now most of you have not missed this, but some of you may have, so I want you to listen

carefully. You have heard it said, that's what my father said, but I say to you, you notice

the equality between the Father and the Son,

God the Father and God the Son are equal.

They have coexisted before the foundation of the earth.

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