1. Welcome

2. How to Control Your Anger
“Not Easily Provoked”
1 Cor. 13:5
How to Control Your Anger

3. “is not easily provoked” 1 Cor.13:5
Love
“is not easily provoked” 1 Cor.13:5
Anger
To arouse to a feeling or action
To incite to anger
ESV “it is not irritable or resentful”
BBE “it is not quickly made angry”

4. “is not easily provoked” 1 Cor.13:5
Love
“is not easily provoked” 1 Cor.13:5
Anger
Murders
Abused family
Road Rage
262 Times

5. Commit to Controlling Anger
“An angry man stirs up strife, And a furious man abounds in transgression.” Prov.29:22
Anger problem ?
Determined by the way we feel
We can control our anger

6. I count the cost of Anger
“A hot-tempered man stirs up strife” Pr.15:18
“He who has a quick temper displays folly” 14:29
“A quick-tempered man acts foolishly” Pro.14:17
“He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind.” Pro. 11:29 D
anger

8. Anger Resentment, wrath, indignation, fury, rage
“A strong feeling excited by real or supposed injury; often accompanied by a desire to take vengeance, or to obtain satisfaction from the offending party.”

9. Think before throwing a Tantrum
“A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.” Pro. 29:11 ESV
Keeps under control
Child needs correction = “time out”
“When you get angry, count to ten. When you are really angry, count to a hundred.”
“Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.” Pr. 19:11 ESV
Delay
Jefferson

10. Need to communicate my Anger
"Be angry, and do not sin” Eph. 4:26 NKJV
Is all anger sin? NO !
“A fool vents all his feelings, But a wise man holds them back.” Pro. 29:11 NKJV
Psychologists tell us to get it off our chest !
Problem – it does not work !

11. Must Retrain my Mind
“be transformed by the renewing of your mind” Romans 12:2
The way you act is determined by the way you feel.
Feelings are changed by your thinking !
Transform = “metamorphoo” - change

13. Associate with people who manage their anger
“Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn his ways and get yourself ensnared.” Pro. 22:24-25
Anger is contagious
Fellowship with friends who know how to manage their anger

14. How to Control Your Anger
“Not Easily Provoked”
1 Cor. 13:5
How to Control Your Anger
Jesus
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you.” John 14:27

15. “Not Easily Provoked” Control my anger It is costly to get angry
Think rather than throw a tantrum
Communicate my anger
Retrain my mind
Associate with people who manage anger

17. Nelson Chapel Church of Christ
5039 Six Mile Road
Maryville, Tn
August 12, 2018
Sermon by Arthur Pigman
2705 Druid Hill Dr.
Maryville, Tn
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