Embracing Emotions: Managing Anger with God's Guidance
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"Every one of us has emotions, right? So the next four or five weeks, however long we're in the series, it's talking to you. Everyone's got emotions. Some people are more emotional than others, right? Some people feel their emotions so much more. I'm not a very emotional person. My emotional track is pretty steady. I don't get too high. I don't get too low unless the Cowboys are just terrible. Then I start to amp up a little bit. I'm kind of right in the middle, right? I don't get too high and low. But some people, they are just more emotional the way God made them. That's okay. Some people, some of you guys in here, you can express your emotions with words really good. Others of us, can't. We don't know how to use words to explain our emotions. That's not because you're a kid. It's just the way that you're wired. But we all have emotions. That's number one. Here's the second thing. And this is important. God created you with emotion." [00:03:59] (51 seconds)
"because they make life richer imagine life if you never experienced love not so great imagine life you never experienced joy or happiness imagine life if you never had this this emotional sense of satisfaction you accomplish something right well those emotions are the good emotions we're able to understand them and feel them because we actually have the flip side of those sometimes the harder emotions the sadness the disappointment things like that they help us feel the good emotions even better so one every one of us has emotions two god gave you emotions here's the third thing i think i'm putting in this order i remember how i said them when you're at this stage in life your teen years adolescent life emotions you have way more words for emotions than you did when you were a kid like when you were a kid you had you were sad you were angry you were joyful the movie's called inside out that's made for kids right there's these five emotions but but when you ask a kid you might go hey, how do you feel? And they go, sad. And that's all that a third grader might be able to explain. You're in the stage of life right now where sad isn't just the word. You might be lonely. You might be disappointed. You might be embarrassed. And you've got a much wider range of emotions." [00:04:53] (76 seconds)
"When you have emotion that you keep stuffing and stuffing and stuffing, if you don't process it like that balloon, it's going to pop and you know it. You know it's coming. They wouldn't have kept going at some point. They'd have been like, no, no, because they know it's going to explode in their face. God gave you emotion. You're experiencing emotions in ways that you've never experienced before. And if you don't learn how to process them, they pop. Bad things happen. And so that's what we're going to do for the next couple of weeks. We're going to look at some of these healthy emotions." [00:08:08] (31 seconds)
"When I talk about healthy emotion, would you, and be honest, raise your hand if you would have come in tonight saying that anger is a healthy emotion? A couple of you? Most of us wouldn't, right? We're like, no, anger. Can't be healthy. Anger is something that God gave you and you feel it when you sense injustice. So if, let me, I'm just going to, I'm going to get a radical crazy thing. Like if you're walking down the street and I've actually seen this before." [00:09:22] (31 seconds)
"Because your emotions, when you start feeling emotions, anger, joy, love, sometimes that emotion shuts off our rational thinking, right? So when I get angry, I respond out of the emotion. That's why I have to learn to control it. But look at what Jesus says. Matthew 5, verse 21. He says," [00:12:39] (23 seconds)
"like ang not murdering somebody that's the bare minimum but you should do better than that you are striving to not be angry with people and the word here is like an unbridled fury that's what it means it's kind of this anger that's out of control that it causes me to call someone names causes me to to react in my anger and sin and so jesus knows that this anger gets out of control and it actually leads to murder or it leads to murderous words or it leads to murderous attitudes even if you don't really murder somebody hatred right anger out of control leads to hatred and this idea of murder you don't you don't murder somebody unless you've got hate major anger things like that but it happens um and so what jesus wants you to see is hey it's not good enough just to be like i didn't murder somebody what we are as believers is trying to control that anger so it doesn't turn into this this unbridled fury that puts us in a bad spot with the Lord right so we control anger so it doesn't turn into hatred look two more verses and then we're gonna talk next steps first John chapter 420 I'm just gonna put up on a screen I can read it from there here's John says he says if someone says I love God" [00:13:30] (73 seconds)
"or if you notice it when it's happening write it down and over a week or two you start writing down these things hey here's what my trigger was and what you begin to see is hey this thing or this person might be what triggers me to anger and now you can control the anger rather that control you there's a story of a guy one of the gives any names Justin Boone who's 27 years old he got arrested for fifth -degree assault so what happened is this guy's at a bus stop and the witnesses said there's that there's a lady she's 59 years old and this guy who's 27 is getting irritated by this lady by what he deems as her being disrespectful to him that's what the witness has said they didn't say much else what was happening but this 27 year old guy feels disrespected and he goes up and punches the 59 year old woman in the face so she she goes down there's a guy that's another 63 year old guy that's kind of there he sees that he sees the injustice he gets up to confront the guy who's just punched him and that guy has like this packet of like a folder and stuff and when he hits the older guy the packet falls everywhere papers go everywhere and this guy takes off and runs away please come they're interviewing the witnesses" [00:17:09] (72 seconds)
"things like that. And that's where the witness has said, you know, yeah, he's responding, he's acting like he's being disrespected. Here's the crazy thing, how they caught him. Because nobody knew who he was or anything like that. But when he hit the guy with a folder in his hand and the papers went everywhere, they collected his papers and everything, his name and address was all on them because it was the paperwork that he was taking with him at that moment to his anger management class. There you go, right? He's on his way to anger management and just freaks out and hits this lady. Now here's the thing, what if, what if he was able to identify, when I feel disrespected, I get angry, right? That's what the witness has said that he was speaking. What if he had been able to identify that when I feel like somebody's disrespecting me, I get angry and the lady says something, we can rewind back in time, the lady says something and he feels like it's disrespectful and he says maybe something to her. Whatever he said, the witness has gone, now that's disrespectful and he identifies the trigger. And now that he identifies the trigger, he realizes, oh, this is making me angry. And now he has the option to control his anger and walk away or let his anger control him, right? That's why identifying the trigger matters." [00:18:21] (75 seconds)
"because you begin to control your anger rather than control you. Here's the second thing. Hit that next one up there. The next step is letting go of grudges. If you start identifying what triggers you, you might find certain people that show up over and over again. This person makes me mad every time. And now anger has got a control of you and that person. And that may need to be something that you walk with the Lord and go, hey, I don't know what it is in the past. And maybe you need to do some deep dive. Maybe you need to talk with a mentor, a counselor. Maybe you need some time praying to ask the Lord, why is this grudge there? And it probably won't take you long to go back to what it is." [00:19:36] (40 seconds)
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"because they make life richer imagine life if you never experienced love not so great imagine life you never experienced joy or happiness imagine life if you never had this this emotional sense of satisfaction you accomplish something right well those emotions are the good emotions we're able to understand them and feel them because we actually have the flip side of those sometimes the harder emotions the sadness the disappointment things like that they help us feel the good emotions even better so one every one of us has emotions two god gave you emotions here's the third thing i think i'm putting in this order i remember how i said them when you're at this stage in life your teen years adolescent life emotions you have way more words for emotions than you did when you were a kid like when you were a kid you had you were sad you were angry you were joyful the movie's called inside out that's made for kids right there's these five emotions but but when you ask a kid you might go hey, how do you feel? And they go, sad. And that's all that a third grader might be able to explain. You're in the stage of life right now where sad isn't just the word. You might be lonely. You might be disappointed. You might be embarrassed. And you've got a much wider range of emotions." [00:04:53] (76 seconds)
"When you have emotion that you keep stuffing and stuffing and stuffing, if you don't process it like that balloon, it's going to pop and you know it. You know it's coming. They wouldn't have kept going at some point. They'd have been like, no, no, because they know it's going to explode in their face. God gave you emotion. You're experiencing emotions in ways that you've never experienced before. And if you don't learn how to process them, they pop. Bad things happen. And so that's what we're going to do for the next couple of weeks. We're going to look at some of these healthy emotions." [00:08:08] (31 seconds)
"When I talk about healthy emotion, would you, and be honest, raise your hand if you would have come in tonight saying that anger is a healthy emotion? A couple of you? Most of us wouldn't, right? We're like, no, anger. Can't be healthy. Anger is something that God gave you and you feel it when you sense injustice. So if, let me, I'm just going to, I'm going to get a radical crazy thing. Like if you're walking down the street and I've actually seen this before." [00:09:22] (31 seconds)
"Because your emotions, when you start feeling emotions, anger, joy, love, sometimes that emotion shuts off our rational thinking, right? So when I get angry, I respond out of the emotion. That's why I have to learn to control it. But look at what Jesus says. Matthew 5, verse 21. He says," [00:12:39] (23 seconds)
"like ang not murdering somebody that's the bare minimum but you should do better than that you are striving to not be angry with people and the word here is like an unbridled fury that's what it means it's kind of this anger that's out of control that it causes me to call someone names causes me to to react in my anger and sin and so jesus knows that this anger gets out of control and it actually leads to murder or it leads to murderous words or it leads to murderous attitudes even if you don't really murder somebody hatred right anger out of control leads to hatred and this idea of murder you don't you don't murder somebody unless you've got hate major anger things like that but it happens um and so what jesus wants you to see is hey it's not good enough just to be like i didn't murder somebody what we are as believers is trying to control that anger so it doesn't turn into this this unbridled fury that puts us in a bad spot with the Lord right so we control anger so it doesn't turn into hatred look two more verses and then we're gonna talk next steps first John chapter 420 I'm just gonna put up on a screen I can read it from there here's John says he says if someone says I love God" [00:13:30] (73 seconds)
"or if you notice it when it's happening write it down and over a week or two you start writing down these things hey here's what my trigger was and what you begin to see is hey this thing or this person might be what triggers me to anger and now you can control the anger rather that control you there's a story of a guy one of the gives any names Justin Boone who's 27 years old he got arrested for fifth -degree assault so what happened is this guy's at a bus stop and the witnesses said there's that there's a lady she's 59 years old and this guy who's 27 is getting irritated by this lady by what he deems as her being disrespectful to him that's what the witness has said they didn't say much else what was happening but this 27 year old guy feels disrespected and he goes up and punches the 59 year old woman in the face so she she goes down there's a guy that's another 63 year old guy that's kind of there he sees that he sees the injustice he gets up to confront the guy who's just punched him and that guy has like this packet of like a folder and stuff and when he hits the older guy the packet falls everywhere papers go everywhere and this guy takes off and runs away please come they're interviewing the witnesses" [00:17:09] (72 seconds)
"things like that. And that's where the witness has said, you know, yeah, he's responding, he's acting like he's being disrespected. Here's the crazy thing, how they caught him. Because nobody knew who he was or anything like that. But when he hit the guy with a folder in his hand and the papers went everywhere, they collected his papers and everything, his name and address was all on them because it was the paperwork that he was taking with him at that moment to his anger management class. There you go, right? He's on his way to anger management and just freaks out and hits this lady. Now here's the thing, what if, what if he was able to identify, when I feel disrespected, I get angry, right? That's what the witness has said that he was speaking. What if he had been able to identify that when I feel like somebody's disrespecting me, I get angry and the lady says something, we can rewind back in time, the lady says something and he feels like it's disrespectful and he says maybe something to her. Whatever he said, the witness has gone, now that's disrespectful and he identifies the trigger. And now that he identifies the trigger, he realizes, oh, this is making me angry. And now he has the option to control his anger and walk away or let his anger control him, right? That's why identifying the trigger matters." [00:18:21] (75 seconds)
"because you begin to control your anger rather than control you. Here's the second thing. Hit that next one up there. The next step is letting go of grudges. If you start identifying what triggers you, you might find certain people that show up over and over again. This person makes me mad every time. And now anger has got a control of you and that person. And that may need to be something that you walk with the Lord and go, hey, I don't know what it is in the past. And maybe you need to do some deep dive. Maybe you need to talk with a mentor, a counselor. Maybe you need some time praying to ask the Lord, why is this grudge there? And it probably won't take you long to go back to what it is." [00:19:36] (40 seconds)
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