Well, what is the difference between unholy anger and holy anger?

And does that difference have any application to our own lives?

This is the question today from a listener named Renee.

Pastor John, hello, and thank you for taking my question.

I hear the phrase righteous anger use a lot, but I'm not 100% clear on what that looks

like or what makes anger righteous or sinful.

I understand that we are to fill anger towards sin.

Jesus overturned tables in his anger, but I don't think we should respond to sin by breaking

things.

So how does righteous anger play itself out for the Christian?

What does it look like towards people, towards sin, and towards the devil himself?

Well, I was much more optimistic about a righteous place for anger when I was 30 than I am now.

I have seen the destructive power of anger in relationships, especially marriage, to such

a degree over the last 40, 50 years that I am far less sanguine about so-called righteous

anger than I once was.

Anger is not just a relationship destroyer, it is a self-destroyer.

It eats up all other wholesome emotions.

If it is not dealt with, it consumes everything in its past and leaves a woman or a man with

nothing but bitterness and anger.

They are not capable of any other emotion.

It is either silence or anger, and it is a horrible development.

Therefore, the overwhelming message of the New Testament is, this is Colossians 3.8, put

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