1. Welcome
Evans Church of Christ

2. 1 Cor. 13:13

3. “Is not easily provoked”
A More Excellent Way
Pt. 7 - Good Temper
“But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.” Cor. 12:31
Love
“Is not easily provoked”

4. Philippians 1:9-11
9.And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
10. that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ,
11. being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.”
Be over and above, in excess, excel

5. 1 Cor. 13:4-8a Description of Love
4. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
5. does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6. does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7. bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8. Love never fails.

6. Love 1 Cor. 13:4-8a Description of Love Guilelessness Patience
Kindness
Generosity
Humility
Courtesy
Unselfishness
Good temper
Guilelessness
Sincerity
Spiritual strength
Open-Mindedness
Optimism
Faithfulness
Loverly

7. “Is not easily provoked” KJV
A More Excellent Way
Pt. 7 - Good Temper
“Is not Provoked” NKJV
“Is not easily provoked” KJV

8. Other Translations Love has a good temper
Is Not Provoked - Is not Easily Provoked
“Is not touchy” = Phillips
“Not quick to take offense” = NEB
“It is not irritable or resentful” = ESV, RSV
“Is not easily angered” = NIV
“It is not quickly made angry” = BBE
“blaze out in passionate anger”= WNT
“Is not quickly provoked” = Darby’s
Love has a good temper

9. Meaning of “Provoked” To have a somewhat Greek Sharp smell To irritate
Rouse to anger
Touchy
Chip on shoulder
English
To incite to anger
Incense, vex
James 1:19 “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”

10. He was quickly provoked

11. Prov. 16:32 “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”
Job 5:2 “For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.”
Prov. 14:17 “He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.”

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13. Prov. 14:29 “He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.”
Prov. 19:11 “The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.”
Ecl. 7:9 “Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.”

14. Righteous Indignation-Right kind of Anger
Jesus
Matt. 21: and John 2:15
Went into the temple
Overturned tables of moneychangers
Drove them out of the temple
Righteous anger - protect what is righteous
Paul provoked in Athens - Acts 17
Oppose sin and stand against it

15. How To Control Our Anger
Eph. 4:26 “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:”
Not sinful to be angry
Anger leads to foolish actions
Get over your anger
Eph. 4:27 “nor give place to the devil.”
TCNT “And give no opportunity to the Devil.”

16. How To Control Our Anger
Colossians 3:8 “But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.”
Put off and get away from
Not impossible

17. How To Control Our Anger
Ephesians 4:31-32
31. “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
Put away anger and wrath
Love will drive them away

18. How To Control Our Anger
Eph. 4:26 = when angry be careful
Col. 3:8 = put off wrath
Eph.4:31-32 = put away wrath and anger
add kindness and tenderheartedness
Love has a good temper
because it is not easily provoked !

19. Love Love is not isolated from emotion.
Our responsibility to control our emotions.
Don’t allow anger to control us.
We must control our anger.
Love

20. Ecclesiastes 7:9 “Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.”

21. “Is not quickly provoked”
A More Excellent Way
Pt. 7 - Good Temper
“But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.” Cor. 12:31
Love
“Is not quickly provoked”

22. Love 1 Cor. 13:4-8a Description of Love Good temper Guilelessness
Patience
Kindness
Generosity
Humility
Courtesy
Unselfishness
Good temper
Guilelessness
Sincerity
Spiritual strength
Open-Mindedness
Optimism
Faithfulness
Loverly

24. Sermon by Arthur Pigman
Evans Church of Christ
515 Gibbs Road
Evans, Ga
Sunday Evening Sept. 8, 2013