Angry Like The Messiah
a
lot of the ideas for this teaching are from
“Hope
has two beautiful daughters;
their
names are anger and courage
Anger
at
the way things are
and
Courage
to
see that they do not remain as they are.”
~~~~~
I
present this to you... because in listening to someone recently...
she
was telling me how she felt so bad for being so angry...
and
I said...
“What
if it is righteous anger?”
That was something to think about.
**
And
then I have been listening to someone in a very “unjust” job situation... where people don’t care of the outcome for
the children... they are just getting
by...
and
realized I wanted this person to go do something about it....
And
then I got a picture from Olivia who is at the National Gifted Conference...
and the list describing adults who are “gifted” it says...
“As
they get older, they:
are more likely to be idealists,
impatient, and dissatisfied.
are more likely to reach higher levels
of moral development.
are
more intense and more sensitive.
search
for consistency and ‘universal truths’ in themselves and their environments.”
And
I sort of wonder here.... how does
having spiritual eyes wide open and
understanding more Truth - have to do with this?
Does
this knowing more Truth - cause this
impatience and dissatisfaction... ?
Opposed
to being a zombie sheeple?....
What
if people of faith rise up and start walking in defiant faith...
that
calls ourselves and the situations around us into accountability....
and I guess the bigger question...
What
if this is ANGER....?
and
what if this anger is not just okay but necessary?
What
if we could stop being sorry that we are angry and
really get a handle on it?
**
Ephesians
4:26 p
886
Be
angry, but sin not: let not the shemesh go down upon your wrath.”
“Yahusha’s
anger salts the earth. Without the salt
of Yahusha’s anger, people accept what’s unacceptable. We allow what we shouldn’t allow. We don’t make changes we should make. We deceive ourselves into thinking that
corruption doesn’t need to be opposed.
We leave it to YHUH. We stay
hands-off. Conveniently, we take
ourselves off the hook. When we lack
Yahusha’s anger, we allow evil to prevail.”
“As
Christians, we’re commanded to be earthy - like salt. Salt is so down-to-earth that it refuses
to cave in to the fallen human tendency
to deny truth rather than face it.
Salted anger is not afraid. It
assumes responsibility. It motivates us
to confront things we wish did not exist.”
“Salt
is gritty. It’s an irritant, yet
medicinal. Yahusha’s anger was
medicinal. It was irritating and gritty
precisely because it was salted by truth.
Salted
anger makes people well enough - spiritually healthy enough to stop denying
truth.
The
salt of righteous anger is needed in this world because the world is a
dangerous place.
Deliver
us from evil we pray.
The
salt of Yahusha’s anger is Yah’s gift to help deliver us.”
~
“Salt
preserves the truth of the difference between right and wrong.
Salted
people remember that right is better than wrong.
Salted
individuals have truth in their inmost parts.”
What
does the Word say about salt?
John
14:6 - truth
Numbers
18:19 - covenant of salt - melach
Matthew 5:13
Mark
9:49-50
Luke
14:34
Colossians 4:6
James
3:12
“Salt
of the earth” = “those who fear YHUH are the CONSCIENCE of the earth.”
“salt
is only salty when it is truthful.”
“Salt
is salty. It isn’t bitter or sour or
sweet. It isn’t mean (as bitterness and
sourness are), and it isn’t nice (as churchy sweetness pretends to to be). Salt is powerful enough to heal a giant wound
or melt a glacier.
Too
much salt is ruinous - bad taste...
It
can show us our sin so we can teshuvah ....
Ephesians
4:26 - step away from our anger
“Godly
anger takes a rest. It regularly
rests. If it is fighting a long term
battle against a behemoth, godly anger may pick up again in the morning, but as
soon as evening comes, it resets again.”
“All
old anger is sinful.
Only
fresh anger can be godly.”
Anger
is like manna.
Overnight
it rots.
It
turns rancid in a matter of hours.
In
other words, every kind of anger is perishable.
Another
way to say it is that sinful anger is acid and goldy anger is soap.
Acid
and soap both burn skin.
Thus,
both need to be rinsed off. Forgiveness
is a rinse. It washes off all anger
removing the burn of acid and soap.
Resentment
never has a rightful place. Resentment
is essentially fleshly. Fleshly anger
forgets that vengeance belongs to Yah.”
Not
about attacking people...
Anger
in Scripture
David killing Goliath
Queen Esther
Anger
not always needed... Yahusha never preached/ taught in anger to the multitudes.
If
we don’t know Yah we can’t trust him....
...
when do we trust Him enough to stop sinning?
Where
is integrity?
“It’s
impossible for any of us to be a faithful friend unless we love each other
enough to disrupt each other’s worst sin patterns.”
John
8:32
the
more you know the truth - the less you will feel “compelled to resort to sinful anger in
self-defense.”
“Sinful
anger extinguishes love, godly anger ignites it.”
How
to live:
Ephesians 4:24 - new self
Ephesians 4:25 - speak truth.
Ephesians 4:26 - be angry and do not sin
Not
be angry:
James
1:20
Matthew 5:22
James
1:20 - anger of andros = human
anger is human not godly... fallen
anger about sin... when we are grumpy ... fallen anger is
loveless.
sinful anger can’t achieve
righteousness of Yah
Matthew 5:22 - senseless violence stems from
sinful anger in the heart
orge (ore’gay) = anger that can be sinful or godly.
Ephesians 4:31 orge - = simmering anger -
stop it.
Pharisees were angry Mark 3:5 because Yahusha healed on Shabbat-
Be
angry (orgizesthe) and yet do not sin - Ephesians 4:26
godly
orge and sinful orge
ANGER
= strong feeling of displeasure, great annoyance or antagonism
“Anger
is complex because it’s always tied to something underneath.
Anger
is not a prime number, so to speak.
There is always something more basic under anger, such as envy or guilt
or embarrassment or fear or wounded pride or jealous love. That’s why anger is broadly known as a
secondary emotion, not a primary emotion.
Physical
health is negatively effected by being angry... heart, digestion, headaches,
skin, sleep, depression, anxiety, .... unaddressed anger.
“Every
time the Bible says Yahusha was angry, he’s the only one who was.”
“in
every situation that drew out Yahusha’s anger, he alone had the sensibilities
to salt the situation with the ANGER OF REAL LOVE.”
“Love
your enemies, Yahusha said. Thus he
loved them with the love of godly anger.”
- “thus he loved them by surprising them with grace.”
Nobody
ever criticized him for it.
Godly
anger = a form of moral authority. =
rests on truth that is transcendent. ...
when anger has moral authority - it displaces selfish pettiness and
revenge. Moral anger is deeply
principled. It understand that right and wrong aren’t washed away by shades of
gray. Moral anger holds high standards
and refuses to lower them. It’s
commanding. It’s relentless. It prevails.
It dares to promote God’s standards.
It stands like steel. It isn’t
tossed by waves of self-preserving doubt or philosophical winds of
deception. It acts out of genuine love
for Yah. Thus moral anger trumpets one
main thing: the unrelenting truth that
Yah is faithful.”
Yahusha
wants us to rely on YHUH’s integrity.
He
was unwilling to compromise his own integrity.
he
was never dishonest.
honesty
= ability to trust Yah.
Yah
sent his spirit to convict the world of sin so that we might turn to Yah and be
transformed.
Yahusha
“was offensive precisely because he spoke the truth in love. Speaking the truth in love is offensive to
those who do not love the truth. Love
itself is offensive to those who aren’t honest enough to accept that love
inherently is truthful.”
**
15 Stories of Yahusha’s Anger:
1. Yahusha confronted the Pharisees
Mattityahu 23:2-6
Mattityahu 10:34-38
Mattityahu 3:10-12
Mattityahu 23:13-32
“he
was so truthful, so politically incorrect toward the Pharisees that he threw
them under the bus, by broadcasting their sins in broad daylight.” 23:2-6
2.
Yahusha
rebuked a demon in the temple
Luke 4:35
to rebuke = epitimesan = to “beat
back” - strong word that connotes the idea of anger.
He didn’t explain to the demon nor did
he say why the demon couldn’t announce who he was.... just was angry and
ordered it out.
3
and 4. Yahusha rebuked a fever and
rebuked demons
- Peter’s mother in law - fever.. Luke
4:39
- Luke 4:41 rebuked demons
(2-4 all rebuking anger that resulted in
deliverance)
5. Yahusha rebuked the storm Mark 4:37-41 and Luke 8:23
“when people focus on power rather
than truth, inevitably they feel intimidated.”
He never said “I am the power”. He said, I am the truth John 14:6... Truth sets people free. Truth puts everything into right perspective.
Power untied to truth is rogue. Thus,
when anger is oriented around power, not truth, anger itself is rogue. Having a wounded pride is not a legitimate
reason to be angry. Human pride
lies. It deceives itself into thinking
that I am greater than I am. So Yah
opposed the proud - James 4:6 , 1 Peter 5:5
6.
Yahusha
rebuked Yaakov (James) and John. Luke
9:52-56
James and John were so insulted by the
way people treated them, they plotted to annihilate a whole village...they had paid attention and believed their
Teacher when He said “nothing will be impossible for you” Matthew 17:20... they believed they could call fire down
from heaven... BUT they seriously missed
the point... they were given license to
move mountains.. not so they could destroy a whole village of people... His
point was to inform them of the power of their faith if they put their faith in
Yah and His agenda.
“Godly
anger lobbies for God’s agenda....
sinful anger is all about self.
So
in this rebuke - Yahusha not only saved the Samaritans.. but he saved two of
His disciples....
Godly
anger corrects sinful anger.
Yahusha
let them know (2 Tim 4:2) what kind of spirit they were functioning in - because they didn’t know themselves.
Romans
12:19 “Vengeance is Mine”
7.
Yahusha’s
cleansed the temple... John 2:15-17
“He was “consumed with zeal for his
Father's house” John 2:17
John 2: 15... he made a scourge of
cords and drove them all out.... poured out the money ... overturned the tables
of the money changers.
He did it all by himself...
singlehandedly ... “almost instantly, Yahusha got the wrong people out and the
right people in....and the blind and the lame poured in... and children
too... Matthew 21:12-15
8.
Yahusha
became indignant at his disciples...
Mark 10:13-16 ...
Little kids were coming to Him...
“Why was Yahusha having so much
fun?!” “He gets carried away you
know...”
“indignant” = aganaktasen (from the
root aganakteo) which literally means “to have much grief”
He
didn’t yell - he corrected them...
9.
Yahusha
rebuked Peter
Yahusha’s love was truthful - not
polite. (NOT “nice christian” :) )
He wasn’t selfishly ambitious... it
wasn’t about making himself look good - it was always only about making Yah look
good... to please Yah.... that’s all...
“He wasn’t trying to win the shallow
favor of shallow people, he was free to love them instead. He regarded people’s souls. He was interested in their destiny. He cared about the condition of their
hearts. He wanted people to have
abundant life, and since that can only happen when people trust Him... He
coached the disciples and the Pharisees alike to stop committing the sin of
doubting God.”
Matthew 16: 22-23
Mark 8:33
sinful
anger doesn’t listen...
Godly
anger isn’t sidetracked... it overlooks ingratitude and sets its face like
flint toward restoration.
Yahusha
didn’t rebuke him in private... “instead of saving Peter’s face, he rebuked him
face-to-face. ... so everyone learned...
at the same time...
Peter
had a problem listening... we all do...
selective hearing.... jump to conclusions... especially when we feel
threatened personally.
His
heart was wrong.. His heart was almost right... but still it was WRONG. It was awful to think of Yahusha being
killed.... he failed to listen because
he failed to be respectful enough to listen... that is the nature of sinful
anger - it is disrespectful.
Yahusha
wasn’t one -upping Peter... he was forwarding the interests of Yah. Godly anger champions the values and
interests of Yah. It upholds
righteousness and love.
and
look what happens next... he is angry with Peter... and then back around to the
crowd... and he says...
Matt
16:24-26
but
that is not all - he assured them AND Peter that justice was imminent and that
Yah is interstedin justice and right rewards.
Matthew 16:27-28
Peter
was threatened by Yah’s plans... Yahusha
took security in them... He knew that
everything works out best when it’s Yah’s plans...
10.
Yahusha raged
at the tomb of Lazarus
He raged, he wept and he raged again!
John 11:1-16
He
could have come... and saved him.
He
could have come and restored him before they stuck him in the tomb....
It
was dangerous to go to Bethany.... .. they would have to go through Judea...
this was nearly a suicidal idea... so the disciples were relieved..
but
then 2 days later - Yahusha suddenly announces - they are going to Bethany!
The
disciples were thinking practically - of keeping their Rabbi alive and Yahusha
was thinking of visiting a dead guy!
“so
that you may believe” - that’s how Yahusha responded!
Thomas
announces... lets go so we can die with him!.... he didn’t trust....
he
trusted the power of the Jews more - to kill ...
Nobody
in the story trusted Yahusha.
John
11:17-32...
“this
sickness is not unto death”
the
sisters meet Yahusha and they are mad....
John
11:33
English
translation - “deeply moved in spirit”
Original
Greek however says enebrimesato (from embrimaomai) which literally means “to
snort with anger like a horse, or to rage.”
Yahusha was “raged” -
Same
word is used in Mark 14:5 - when the people were angry with the woman who “wasted’ costly perfume...
John
11:38 same word
11:33
he raged inwardly - in spirit
11:38
he raged inwardly - in himself.
Why
was he in raged and also weeping...
maybe
because they were angry at Yah for letting Lazarus die..
People
get mad at God for “letting” people die
and
in 1 Corinthians 15:56 Shaul says
“The
sting of death is sin”
Doesn’t
this sound backwards?
He
is saying death has a stinger - it is sin.
Everyone
was stung with selfish dissatisfaction in the God who let Lazarus die. Nobody believed that Yahusha has said to them
plainly. All of them complained. All of them lost hope. All of them resigned themselves to defeat.”
“The
death of Lazarus made mourners faithless, and their faithlessness made them
blind.”
“No
one had eyes to see what Yahusha was doing because no one had ears to hear what he
had said. In plain, straightforward
language, Yahusha had pre-announced, “This sickness is not unto death.”
NOT.
HE
said “NOT”
death
and unbelief had stolen their ability to hear...
Yahusha
gets led to the tomb and
there
HE starts to cry...
and
the others stopped crying...
saying
things like - he could have saved him but he didn’t...
What
if Yahusha wasn’t crying because Lazarus was dead... but instead ... because He
knew what it was like to leave the Presence of Yah in heaven.... and now he was going to do that to his
friend...
Plus
Lazarus was going to have to die again....
So
there they all are - standing in front of a cave with a big stone...
What
did they expect to happen?
Jews
knew you didn’t mess with dead bodies... you know the word “unclean” comes up
very fast...
and
Martha broached the subject - telling Yahusha - about the body
stinking....
Can
you picture this??
As I see it Yahusha SPOKE UP... with AUTHORITY...
and
said... “Did I not say to you, if you
believe, you will see the glory of YHUH?”
John 11:40
and
some must have gotten organized to move this big stone...
And
then Yahusha began to pray...
John
11: 41b-42...
not
a petition but a word of thanksgiving!
this
was doubt-free confidence...and it had to bring conviction to at least Mary and
Martha and the talmidim.
They
had to see a difference between the faith they had and the faith of Yahusha!
John
11:43
Yahusha
rages against death and unbelief because He is a friend of sinners... he sees death and unbelief as enemies. Death is what steals life away and unbelief
is what steals faith.
These
things steer people away from TRUTH.
11. Yahusha reproached his disciples
Mark
16:6
women came to the tomb.. Mary
Magdalene came to the tomb... and the disciples wouldn’t believe them...
They had seen Yahusha raise Lazarus
but still they couldn’t believe... that Yahusha would do what he said he would
do...
They
are alone eating.. and Yahusha “pops in”... and the first thing he does is to
reproach them!
Mark
16:14
12.
Yahusha
rebuked a demon in a boy
Matthew 17:14-21
“How long should I put up with you?”
Yahusha was ANGRY ... he didn’t just
expose the demon - but he was angry and and sincerity of faith...” He faith-ed
it out!”
“Faith in the form of confidence and
authority drives them out. Faith not in
oneself, but in Gods love. Faith
animates a person to be angry to the point of exercising sacrificial love. Sacrificial anger - that’s the kind of anger that brings
healing.”
Matthew 17:22-23... Yahusha had faith to rebuke the demon ,faith to rest assured that
his not-so-impressive disciples could move a mountain by faith themselves, and
faith to trust in YHUH even thought Yah had planned for Yahusha to be delivered
into the hands of murderers.” ...
that is demon moving faith!!
13.
Yahusha was
angry with the pharisees in the Temple.
Healing the guy with the withered hand
on Shabbat.... the set up...
Mark 3:3-5
Matthew 12:11-12
Yahusha looked around at them “with
anger” (met’ orges), “grieved” at their
hardness of heart.
Angered
by their legalism that rendered them compassionless....
He
healed on Shabbat. And
the pharisees were thrilled - they had
Yahusha now!
None
of the Pharisees were impressed with the great miraculous healing... they were
blinded by their sinful anger...
Mark
3:6 - the Pharisees went out then to plot how they could kill Yahusha!
Perhaps
Yahusha was angry at the Pharisses... because in violating this man... and ignoring
his need - they were violating themselves
- or ignoring their own needs for healing.... and they didn’t pick
healing... they could have, but they did not.
14.
Yahusha raged
when he healed a leaper
This
might be the most interesting anger of our Master...
Mark
1:40-45
The
big deal isn’t that Yahusha said he was willing to heal... the big deal is that
he TOUCHED the leaper!!
According
to Torah - physically touching a leaper makes one unclean.
... He risked being a social outcast.
Yahusha
raged as he sent the leaper way.
Most
English translations of the Greek omit the 2 Greek words that signal to us the
presence of Yahusha’s anger...
Our
Scripture says in verse 41 “moved with rachamim” (mercy) and
New
American Standard says “moved with compassion”...
But
the ancient Greek says two different things...where the translators have written
... “moved with compassion or mercy”...
Some
of them say splanchnistheis = “moved with compassion”
and
some say
orgistheis
= “being angry”
It
is easier to think it was “angry” and changed to “compassion” than the other
way around...
There
is a rule in translation - and that is - to assume the more difficult reading
is the true one...
Also
in Mark 1:43 - “strictly ordered” - was actually embrimaomai ... and remember that means “to snort like a
horse”... “to rage”
What
if Yahusha not only healed he leperacy - but he healed the man emotionally as
well?...
and
how did this man respond? Many teach he
was grateful...
but
if he was grateful, why would Yahusha rage?
he was disobedient
he did not keep it
confidential - he announced it
he did not show himself to the priest
and he did not offer the sacrifice
that Moshe commanded... in
Leviticus 14.
It looks like maybe this guy went and
bragged....
15.
Yahusha
reproached the 3 cities where people responded to his miracles with nothing but
sighing yawns of faithlessness.
reproach = to express disapproval or
anger about something. .. blame, chide, reprimand, and upbraid.
Greek
for reproach = “oneidizo”... this is in the Sermon on the Mount where
Yahusha says “Blessed are you when people reproach (oneidizein) you and
persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, on account of
me. Matthew 5:11
Bethsaida, Chorazin and Capernaum
Matt
11:21-23, 28-30.
Perhaps
the people in these cities were people like us - at least those of us who like
to live in denial and not face our pain.
If
we have too much pride we expose our vulnerability. Then their dishonesty blinded them. ... and when spiritually blind - we can’t see
Yahusha’s miracles!
These
cities refused to understand that
Yah
is greater than the tragedies in our lives.
He
is greater than our sins.
He
is greater than our pain.
He
is greater than our most devastating losses.
Interesting
that Peter and Andrew were from Bethsaida (Matt 4:19),
Phillip
was from Bethsaida (John 1:43)
follow
me . Matt 9:9
“Come
to me Yahusha said to us today... if we go to him, he will give us life-giving
faith and life-giving hope that can not disappoint. Hope gives people rest, even in our pain and
tribulations. We can rest when we are hopeful b/c hope points us a way to something
greater than ourselves. hope turns our
attention to Yah.”
(summary)
YHUH
calls us to reign WITH HIM!
We
see that clearly in the Word..
We
are called to be a kingdom of PRIESTS.
That
means... HE - the CREATOR OR THE UNIVERSE...
THE
SOVEREIGN OF ALL - calls you and calls
me a PRIEST!
We
are called to REIGN... to take authority - to walk in righteous anger - that is
not about raising myself up and me being ‘right’
but
it is about having the courage.
Better yet, having a faith so strong that you are done playing "nice."
And having so much audacity - to be angry when things are not okay with YHUH!
And
loving people around us enough to speak truth!
We
are called to REIGN
to
walk in HIS AUTHORITY....
and
that means how we think matters...
positive
or negative
and
what we tolerate and what we turn our heads from
and
what we DECLARE... and what we have the courage to walk in righteous anger -
MATTERS....
The
Alohiym of EVERYTHING - of ALL -
INVITES
US TO REIGN WITH HIM...
May
we walk in our authority and
do
it well.
Sh’ma
Yisrael
Amein
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