Don't Be Angry

"Jesus did not argue."

ALL THE devil’s got is lies because the substance of all things comes from God, and God has removed all of his substance. He has no form, no shape, except what he lies to obtain. And no voice except what he deceives in order to use. He sees the fall of man and feeds his ego upon it, but he has no force any more for God has removed the stroke of sin from us. All men who will believe in Jesus Christ’s death and Resurrection are set free from sin and are shown the truth of God.

There is no truth in Satan, but he believes the lies he sustains. He has no joy, no peace, no fruitfulness. Those come from the life of God which fills the Son and flows from the Father through the Spirit. To have anger is to exchange joy for lust, for selfishness and self-survival. It wishes ill of others at their expense and seeks to uplift one’s position through pride and arrogance, in itself a lie. For anger produces nothing but destruction.

“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44)

Anger, voiced as criticism, as offense, is the absence of God’s life. It is what is left with joy removed. Joy can only be obtained and sustained through Jesus Christ. Anger justifies itself, a lie of epic proportions. It sides against God, even if its argument appears to be God’s. Jesus did not argue. He spoke truth and truth stands on its own because it is God’s. It is just. Anger is unjust, and some in the church body choose anger in the guise of righteousness in order to correct doctrines of men

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22-23).

There is no person capable of stating truth outside of the presence of God in the Holy Spirit, and He never —NEVER— judges men. He points men to Jesus (John 14:17, 26). Jesus is Judge, as has been stated in the Word, and the time of judgment is not yet. What, then, is this the Spirit speaks among us, as prophecy, as words of wisdom or knowledge, as interpretations of tongues? These are meant to correct and to encourage with gentleness and godliness. Anger has no godliness in it but is a stage for wrath, and wrath is unreasonable and ungodly.

“But those who speak clearly the truth about God communicate to others the healing Remedy to sin—for their strengthening, encouraging, and comfort.” (1 Corinthians 14:3, Remedy)

“Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.” (1 Corinthians 14:12)

“But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;” (Colossians 3:8-9)

We are not meant to separate from one another, but to be united. The Spirit’s words should unite us, bring hope to us, and encourage us toward belief in God’s faithfulness, in His goodness. There is no position, not one, which justifies our hatred between family members. Every child of God is a brother or sister of all other children of God. Any person who believes in Jesus is as much surrounded by God’s presence as every other man or woman of God. Their denomination does not exclude them, even if certain doctrines they have reasoned out are incredibly wrong.

Right and wrong come from the Word of God, and wisdom and revelation of it from the Holy Spirit, not from us. Ordination, ministerial status, and calling does not give the right to criticize, but are instead positions men to wash feet. Just as Jesus, the Christ, there to die and rescue all mankind, washed the feet of His disciples to set an example. We are not children through social status, but because of grace. It is the devil that tries to elevate and lower to divide, and division, confusion, and strife, are all his work meant to destroy (1 Corinthians 14:33; James 3:16).

We are, through Jesus, lifted higher to sit beside our King in heavenly places. We should act like it, with as much care and gentleness, kindness and love as He displays still to us.

PAUL ON HIS BEHAVIOR BEFORE CHRIST:
“People have told you how I used to behave when I practiced the Jewish religion. They told you that I continually did very harmful things to the groups of believers that God established, and they told you that I tried to get rid of those people.” (Galatians 1:13 T4T)

PAUL ON PETER’S BEHAVIOR, AVOIDING GENTILES:
“This is what happened: Peter went to Antioch and started eating regularly with non-Jewish believers there. Later there were certain Jewish believers who came to Antioch who claimed that James, the leader of the congregations in Jerusalem, had sent them. But when those certain men came, Peter gradually quit eating with the non-Jewish believers and would not associate with them. He was afraid that the Jewish believers from Jerusalem would criticize him for associating with non-Jews. Also, the other Jewish believers who were in Antioch [SYN] acted ◄insincerely/in a way that they knew was not right► along with Peter. The result was that they convinced even Barnabas to stop associating with the non-Jewish believers!” (Galatians 2:12-13 T4T)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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