WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.400 Hello, I'm Bradley, and welcome to Sundance Formation. 00:13.400 --> 00:17.560 This podcast is a collection of sermons preached at Paradise Valley Christian Church over 00:17.560 --> 00:23.400 the last few decades, specifically preached by my grandfather Albert Allen. 00:23.400 --> 00:27.720 Al was a geologist in Casper, Wyoming and a minister at Paradise Valley Christian Church 00:27.720 --> 00:29.840 for nearly 50 years. 00:29.840 --> 00:32.400 He has since retired from preaching. 00:32.400 --> 00:35.840 These sermons were originally recorded to cassette tapes. 00:35.840 --> 00:40.480 I began this project when his basement flooded, and I found boxes of waterlogged tapes among 00:40.480 --> 00:42.280 his belongings. 00:42.280 --> 00:46.680 I select each episode by randomly pulling a tape to restore from the box, so they will 00:46.680 --> 00:50.080 be a scattershot of topics and years. 00:50.080 --> 01:01.080 I do my best to clean up the audio where possible. 01:01.080 --> 01:05.120 You're listening to Episode 2, Anger. 01:05.120 --> 01:24.200 This episode was recorded in April 1996. 01:24.200 --> 01:28.480 And you notice the beautiful things that Ray talked about, the fragrance of beauty by 01:28.480 --> 01:29.480 Love Lockman Weaves. 01:29.480 --> 01:34.560 We're just one of our outstanding speakers and many people said this is really a lady 01:34.560 --> 01:39.880 worth hearing, and her subject tonight will be the Anchor of Hope, which I think would 01:39.880 --> 01:44.800 be wonderful for every Christian family, whether your family or not. 01:44.800 --> 01:49.720 Hope is an anchor, and it is a regional meeting. 01:49.720 --> 01:54.600 There'll be several churches here tonight, so please come back six o'clock, and I pray 01:54.600 --> 01:56.920 that you enjoy that immensely. 01:56.920 --> 02:00.960 I would like to talk about something that's always bugged me a little bit. 02:00.960 --> 02:04.800 Once in a while, I guess we all should preach on the thing. 02:04.800 --> 02:08.320 We like to preach on our strengths, but we should also preach on our weaknesses from 02:08.320 --> 02:12.640 time to time, because that at least applies to one person that's here, and that's that 02:12.640 --> 02:14.320 word which is anger. 02:14.320 --> 02:20.560 I wasn't raised a Christian, and I'll tell you what, I knew a lot of anger in our life. 02:20.560 --> 02:24.560 Wonderful family I had, but anger is out there in the world. 02:24.560 --> 02:27.120 Anger as far as the Bible is concerned is the word orge. 02:27.120 --> 02:34.800 We get the word orge from it, passion, uncontrolled emotion. 02:34.800 --> 02:41.360 We know that there's a biblical application of passion, and also one not biblical, and 02:41.360 --> 02:45.120 one is justifiable, and the other is non-justifiable. 02:45.120 --> 02:50.360 I think I'll quote something that is really worth remembering about this single problem 02:50.360 --> 02:56.320 that I think becomes a problem to many of us, and that's in Ephesians 4-26, be ye angry 02:56.320 --> 03:01.360 and sin not, let not the sun go down on your wrath. 03:01.360 --> 03:04.640 Remember that Roger said that's what his grandma told him when he got married. 03:04.640 --> 03:09.920 That's the one thing he ought to hold in his marriage life, was just don't go to bed hating 03:09.920 --> 03:15.000 each other, fussing with each other, and arguing with each other, and I believe it was good 03:15.000 --> 03:20.760 advice, be ye angry and sin not, for anger builds up, and every day, every day as it 03:20.840 --> 03:26.720 builds up, it becomes more of a problem, and it is an orge, an orge within us that brings 03:26.720 --> 03:33.720 on a frenzy, and I find that in marriage problems there are such tremendous angers which are 03:33.720 --> 03:39.640 expressed, and as long as there are anguished relationships between us, they'll never be 03:39.640 --> 03:42.200 love, and they'll never be peace. 03:42.200 --> 03:48.480 And I suppose that one of marriage's big problems is when two people become angry with one another, 03:48.480 --> 03:53.400 and the emotion takes over the intellect and the will and the scriptures and the commandments 03:53.400 --> 03:55.280 that need to be made. 03:55.280 --> 04:02.240 You see that I have a rather homely external physiognomy, I've had my nose crushed a number 04:02.240 --> 04:07.160 of times, I understand what anger does to you, you can get your lips rearranged by being 04:07.160 --> 04:12.240 angry with the wrong person, and if not you're still going to pay a terrible price, whether 04:12.240 --> 04:17.720 you get hurt or not on the outside, you still will be hurt on the inside. 04:17.760 --> 04:22.160 I read a scripture and it relates to Jesus from Psalms 2 verse 11, you know we began 04:22.160 --> 04:27.800 talking about Jesus very early in the Old Testament, it says, kiss the son, s-o-n, kiss 04:27.800 --> 04:36.800 the son lest he be angry, and you perish from the way when his wrath is handled but little. 04:36.800 --> 04:40.680 Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. 04:40.680 --> 04:46.360 Now what he's really saying there, kiss the son lest he be, God expects attention, the 04:46.360 --> 04:52.400 son expects the kiss, a holy kiss of course, God expects to be love, God wants to be love 04:52.400 --> 04:57.120 and that makes him angry, and I tell you in a marriage relationship if that love is not 04:57.120 --> 05:02.240 exchanged there will be anger, and where there is anger there is no peace, it will never 05:02.240 --> 05:03.240 come. 05:03.240 --> 05:10.360 And he says, kiss the son lest you perish from the being in the way when his wrath is there, 05:10.360 --> 05:15.120 but just a little bit, blessed are all they that put their trust in him. 05:15.120 --> 05:19.360 Don't trust in your emotion, don't trust in your anger, don't trust in your lack of 05:19.360 --> 05:27.280 intercession, but really trust in him, and that then will save you from the sacrifice 05:27.280 --> 05:30.160 of your terrible emotions which well up within us. 05:30.160 --> 05:35.360 He doesn't want a Judas kiss, we've talked about that, he wants a kiss of surrender. 05:35.360 --> 05:39.880 Now in Jonah 4 verse 9, I remember and of course the very reason that this little church 05:39.880 --> 05:44.920 is alive is its mission, it's not popular, but who really cares? 05:44.920 --> 05:49.160 We don't care whether the world likes it or not, or even if all of us like it, that's 05:49.160 --> 05:53.960 still the thrust of the church is to read out to the lost, if you really love something 05:53.960 --> 05:57.640 you'll reach out to them to save them, and I think that's what the church should do. 05:57.640 --> 06:03.160 And remember when he said to Jonah, go on to that great city, that city called Nineveh, 06:03.160 --> 06:08.240 and preach unto it that which I have bid thee to preach, and he went about did it. 06:08.240 --> 06:14.360 And you know, he saved them from their sins, he convinced thousands of people that they 06:14.360 --> 06:20.000 needed to repent and come back to the Lord God Almighty, and they were saved, that was 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 their salvation. 06:21.000 --> 06:25.000 But can you, no matter what this, I kind of believe he must have been a man my age by 06:25.000 --> 06:30.720 then Jonah, I don't really know, but you know kind of a cantankerous old grumpy guy, you 06:30.720 --> 06:33.080 know, and guess what? 06:33.080 --> 06:39.600 He wasn't satisfied that over 120,000 babies had been saved, you know, he said, well they 06:39.600 --> 06:42.320 don't know their left hand from the right hand, that sounds like teeny-boppers, but 06:42.320 --> 06:47.200 I think it's more properly addressed to kids, little kids, little babies for that matter, 06:47.200 --> 06:48.200 see. 06:48.200 --> 06:55.000 And that old man, set out there to see God's condemnation and wrath come down on this tremendous 06:55.000 --> 06:59.080 city, said it would take a month to walk around the outside of the perimeter of that great 06:59.080 --> 07:00.200 city. 07:00.200 --> 07:07.640 And I'm convinced that just sheer cantankerousness and anger on the inside made this man do some 07:07.640 --> 07:09.480 things that he ought not to have done. 07:09.480 --> 07:15.920 He waited for God's lightning and thunder and God's great vindication on those people 07:15.920 --> 07:19.280 who had already turned from their wicked ways. 07:19.280 --> 07:25.080 You thought, I'd have been happy if I'd have preached to sermon where 120,000 mamas and 07:25.080 --> 07:29.560 daddies had been converted to the commandment and to the will of God. 07:29.560 --> 07:32.880 That doesn't seem to satisfy even some people, does it? 07:32.880 --> 07:34.600 And listen to what he said. 07:34.600 --> 07:39.160 God brings him a gourd, a great, he ought to have brought him a gourd, he ought to hit 07:39.160 --> 07:41.800 him in the gourd with a gourd. 07:41.800 --> 07:48.160 He brought him a great green tree filled with fruit and it shadowed him in the hot sun 07:48.160 --> 07:52.600 and it protected him from the drying and desiccation of the wind. 07:52.600 --> 07:56.360 And he sat there in his grumpy attitude and listened to this. 07:56.360 --> 08:01.240 God said to Jonah, do us thou well to be angry for just a gourd? 08:01.240 --> 08:02.440 The gourd's destroyed. 08:02.440 --> 08:03.440 The gourd dies. 08:03.440 --> 08:08.400 He takes away his little comforts while he's watching people get ready to die. 08:08.400 --> 08:12.080 And he said, yes, I do well to be angry. 08:12.080 --> 08:13.720 How could you say that to God? 08:13.720 --> 08:15.600 God, what are you chastising me for? 08:15.600 --> 08:17.520 I'm doing the right thing to be angry. 08:17.520 --> 08:19.960 Can't you see, God? 08:19.960 --> 08:21.360 Maybe his face got a little red. 08:21.360 --> 08:22.880 Do you suppose that it did? 08:22.880 --> 08:28.320 That's one sign that you're losing your emotions and that the orgy is working within you. 08:28.320 --> 08:31.240 The orgy or frenzy of emotion is working within you. 08:31.240 --> 08:37.840 I do well to be angry and listen to this guy. 08:37.960 --> 08:39.160 He doesn't care about God. 08:39.160 --> 08:42.000 Apparently he says, even to the death. 08:42.000 --> 08:46.160 And otherwise, if it kills me, I'll still believe that. 08:46.160 --> 08:47.000 Have you ever heard that? 08:47.000 --> 08:49.600 Even if it kills me, well, it may do that. 08:49.600 --> 08:52.440 120,000 babies, they were worth saving. 08:52.440 --> 08:54.440 God has always known when to stop. 08:54.440 --> 08:57.480 Trouble with anger is it's so hard to stop. 08:57.480 --> 09:01.640 And once you pick a fight, friend, it's hard to finish it sometimes, isn't it? 09:01.640 --> 09:07.280 And just the very steps of the process of anger just keeps going on like a juggernaut, 09:07.880 --> 09:11.640 and it doesn't seem like the breaks are readily available. 09:11.640 --> 09:15.080 Jeremiah 312 says, this is an attribute of God. 09:15.080 --> 09:17.160 He knows when to stop with anger. 09:17.160 --> 09:20.200 Return thou back, sliding Israel. 09:20.200 --> 09:21.280 Sound like a backslider. 09:21.280 --> 09:22.800 Do we have any backsliders here today? 09:22.800 --> 09:29.480 Oh, I don't want your hands, but I suppose every person here has backslidden in some aspect of his spiritual life. 09:29.480 --> 09:31.840 Do you really want God to stay angry with you over that? 09:31.840 --> 09:32.800 Oh, I pray not. 09:32.800 --> 09:34.800 I know that you really don't want that. 09:34.800 --> 09:36.480 Return thou back, sliding Israel. 09:36.480 --> 09:41.480 Sayeth the Lord, and I will not cause my anger to fall upon you, for I am merciful. 09:41.480 --> 09:46.000 Sayeth the Lord, and I will not keep anger forever. 09:46.000 --> 09:51.920 My Uncle Percy and Aunt Elder, I'll swear to Elder, I'll swear they were still arguing 09:51.920 --> 09:57.760 after living together for 45 years over the first 26 seconds of their wedding. 09:57.760 --> 10:01.440 They're still at it, still at it, and they won't let it die. 10:01.440 --> 10:05.680 And I think they're going to be angry about small things all the days of their life. 10:05.680 --> 10:07.520 And I'm not even sure they do love each other. 10:07.520 --> 10:09.880 Some, well, those old couple, they still love each other. 10:09.880 --> 10:12.000 I'm not sure about that at all. 10:12.000 --> 10:15.560 Anger has just kind of taken over and become a lifestyle for them. 10:15.560 --> 10:18.000 They're tending to keep anger forever. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.280 Jesus said the same thing too in Matthew 5, verse 22, 10:21.280 --> 10:24.840 whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause. 10:24.840 --> 10:27.760 Now, there is a cause to be angry with your brother. 10:27.760 --> 10:31.960 He says, without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment, 10:31.960 --> 10:37.680 but in whoever shall say to his brother, Ra'cha, which is another way of saying airhead, 10:37.680 --> 10:41.120 empty head, fool is another word. 10:41.120 --> 10:44.680 He'd be careful about calling a brother a fool. 10:44.680 --> 10:45.680 Be very careful. 10:45.680 --> 10:49.400 Well, it goes on to affirm that, see. 10:49.400 --> 10:53.720 He says, for they shall be in danger of the counsel of God, 10:53.720 --> 10:59.760 but whoever shall say thou, fool, shall be in danger of hellfire itself. 10:59.760 --> 11:04.760 How often we've heard those harsh expletives to even someone who's ostensibly in the same 11:04.760 --> 11:08.480 faith we are, essentially in the same church that we are. 11:08.480 --> 11:12.080 It is a sin to be angry against your brother. 11:12.080 --> 11:13.720 You know how I know that? 11:13.720 --> 11:21.560 Let me think of some great family relationships and see if there's any anger between them. 11:21.560 --> 11:23.840 Jew and a rat. 11:23.840 --> 11:24.840 Family, aren't they? 11:24.840 --> 11:26.680 Is there any hatred? 11:26.680 --> 11:28.120 Is there any anger there? 11:28.120 --> 11:29.120 Why, I think so. 11:29.120 --> 11:35.560 Serba, Serbia, Croatia, Grosso, Ventura, Hugo Mana, whatever that area is. 11:35.560 --> 11:39.080 My children are living now 200 miles from it. 11:39.080 --> 11:44.360 Do you really believe they had to go back 758 years to find something to be angry enough 11:44.360 --> 11:47.800 to kill each other, feeling good about it? 11:47.800 --> 11:49.520 That's what angry does, see. 11:49.520 --> 11:56.960 Anger after 758 years comes to the forefront and death, and our own boys may be involved 11:56.960 --> 12:00.800 in their anger so far, far away from our shore. 12:00.800 --> 12:07.080 And when I think of Christian-Christian relationship, how many people were tortured to the death 12:07.080 --> 12:11.080 in the name of Jesus by Christians? 12:11.080 --> 12:19.120 Some say three and a half million, and that's the most concerning, and some say 150 million 12:19.120 --> 12:20.120 people. 12:20.120 --> 12:24.040 And I don't honestly know if one happened, that's all that really matters. 12:24.040 --> 12:27.920 The second thing I'd bring to your occasion is to be slow to anger. 12:27.920 --> 12:30.680 Yes, I believe there is a time to be angry. 12:30.680 --> 12:31.880 I'll mention it in a minute. 12:31.880 --> 12:37.000 Be slow to anger, and that's in Ecclesiastes 7, verse 9. 12:37.000 --> 12:42.080 Be hasty not, be not hasty in the spirit to be angry. 12:42.080 --> 12:45.280 In other words, it's a spiritual thing, this anger, isn't it? 12:45.280 --> 12:47.400 Oh, I know it's physiological. 12:47.400 --> 12:54.000 The heart beats, the capillaries dilate, that's why the face is turned red. 12:54.000 --> 12:59.400 Emotions rise, the pituitary juices spread through the body because power and swiftness 12:59.400 --> 13:04.320 and strength is needed here, see, to justify the anger, because you get angry, someone 13:04.320 --> 13:08.280 gets angry back at it, you'll be defending yourself, if nothing else. 13:08.280 --> 13:12.520 And it has a lot to do with the mind, this business called anger, doesn't it? 13:12.520 --> 13:14.080 Very much to do with the mind. 13:14.080 --> 13:19.120 Titus 1, 7 says, for an elder is not to be soon angry. 13:19.120 --> 13:21.720 Now we have some elders that get red face. 13:21.760 --> 13:25.760 Chuck Tinney is one of my best friends in the work of the Kingdom of God, and I know 13:25.760 --> 13:30.400 that wasn't while his face gets red, but I want you to remember the next time that you 13:30.400 --> 13:36.320 see Chuck Tinney is lost his emotions because he's angry. 13:36.320 --> 13:40.240 He's a man of God, and it shows, and what a blessed thing he has met. 13:40.240 --> 13:43.480 But it isn't easy for him, it isn't easy for anyone else, is it? 13:43.480 --> 13:45.840 Get angry, you respond. 13:45.840 --> 13:47.680 God's attribute is that very thing. 13:47.680 --> 13:53.120 Psalms 103 verse 8 says, the Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenty is 13:53.120 --> 13:54.520 in his mercy. 13:54.520 --> 13:57.000 That's an attribute of God, isn't it? 13:57.000 --> 14:02.040 This anger, this vindication, judgment, see, vengeance is God's. 14:02.040 --> 14:04.280 It's not ours, it's not our business. 14:04.280 --> 14:06.360 And I believe this works on kids today. 14:06.360 --> 14:11.880 We've been talking, it's been a family theme these last few weeks and months, and particularly 14:11.880 --> 14:12.880 this weekend. 14:13.040 --> 14:18.600 How good it is that Christians can live together to mutual advantage. 14:18.600 --> 14:23.040 I really believe it works on kids and in the family, not just on moms and dads, but on 14:23.040 --> 14:24.040 the family. 14:24.040 --> 14:31.640 Fathers, you provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. 14:31.640 --> 14:37.560 You know that a lot of people, maybe they don't even hit their kids, would be offended 14:37.560 --> 14:39.920 at the violence of spanking. 14:39.920 --> 14:44.400 But by the same token, could be violent with the mouth and be angry and constantly stirring 14:44.400 --> 14:48.640 up even their own children so that their own kids get discouraged. 14:48.640 --> 14:51.520 They don't ever let that happen. 14:51.520 --> 14:53.400 Always angry at your children. 14:53.400 --> 14:56.440 You'll never have a happy relationship if that's the case. 14:56.440 --> 15:00.640 There'll be a sweet blessing when you laugh together, when you play together, when you 15:00.640 --> 15:01.920 love together. 15:01.920 --> 15:04.720 That's what life is really all about. 15:04.720 --> 15:09.720 And I don't want any of us to ever have to say, my relationship to my children is an 15:09.720 --> 15:10.720 angry one. 15:10.720 --> 15:15.120 And I've heard people say, if I can get this kid out of my house, I'm tired of the 15:15.120 --> 15:16.120 furor. 15:16.120 --> 15:18.320 That ought not to be. 15:18.320 --> 15:19.320 That ought not to be. 15:19.320 --> 15:23.280 And we're here at the church to show them there's a better relationship with your kids 15:23.280 --> 15:24.280 than that. 15:24.280 --> 15:25.280 Very great. 15:25.280 --> 15:27.800 And the last thing is this. 15:27.800 --> 15:28.800 There is a righteous anger. 15:28.800 --> 15:32.000 Now, just be careful here. 15:32.000 --> 15:33.960 There is a righteous anger. 15:33.960 --> 15:38.720 I really believe the church hasn't exercised very much of it. 15:38.720 --> 15:44.560 I think recent decisions politically are appalling when it comes what you can do to 15:44.560 --> 15:52.760 a child in its trimester in destroying it physically as it emerges from its mother. 15:52.760 --> 15:53.760 And that angers me. 15:53.760 --> 15:58.840 And my face gets red, and I don't know how long to be quiet about this and how long 15:58.840 --> 16:05.400 should the church remain angelically pristine, untouched by the affairs of that kind of 16:05.400 --> 16:12.520 lecherous murder by swine-ish people who have no goodness in their heart. 16:12.520 --> 16:19.280 I tell you one of the things which I see that the world needs to see, I saw last Wednesday. 16:19.280 --> 16:21.840 I may share this with you. 16:21.840 --> 16:27.000 There in that beautiful spring afternoon, we said goodbye to a little baby that didn't 16:27.000 --> 16:29.120 quite come to full term. 16:29.120 --> 16:31.200 This is so personal, but it's so touched me. 16:31.200 --> 16:38.120 I want to share that if the world could have seen that exquisite, loving little Rosewood 16:38.120 --> 16:45.320 casket carved by a daddy who was crushed, instigated by a mama who was crushed with 16:45.320 --> 16:48.520 the loss of their little one. 16:48.520 --> 16:54.920 And if we could just show the world this is how much a baby should be loved. 16:54.920 --> 17:00.600 This is how much the tiny child should be cared for and embellished with. 17:00.600 --> 17:06.680 And it was such an inspiring thing to me to see the joy of love and the tears and sorrow, 17:06.680 --> 17:15.640 yes, but also how wonderful God's people are to their children and to the we ones. 17:15.640 --> 17:20.080 Let's show the world that if we have to be angry, let's show them that, that this is 17:20.080 --> 17:26.680 the way to treat our little guys coming to see us and to be visited from heaven. 17:26.680 --> 17:32.760 Mark three, five, Jesus manifested this in his anger. 17:32.760 --> 17:40.560 And when he had looked around about on them with anger, being grieve for the hardness 17:40.560 --> 17:47.040 in their hearts, being grieve for the heart, what it was, he healed somebody on a religious 17:47.040 --> 17:48.040 day. 17:48.040 --> 17:53.080 A man with a crooked arm, a crooked arm means you starved or you had to beg or you didn't 17:53.080 --> 17:54.080 lead a good life. 17:54.080 --> 17:56.120 You couldn't have a family. 17:56.120 --> 18:00.240 And Jesus healed a withered arm and they got upset. 18:00.240 --> 18:01.940 They got torn apart. 18:01.940 --> 18:07.840 They began to tear at him in his philosophy, you've done something called work on a religious 18:07.840 --> 18:08.840 holiday. 18:08.840 --> 18:15.000 I prayed to God that God could restore all the broken hearts and the crippled arms and 18:15.000 --> 18:18.000 the hurt emptiness that's within us. 18:18.000 --> 18:20.360 But there's always someone with such a blue nose. 18:20.360 --> 18:23.240 They have to say, oh, we're not in the business for that. 18:23.240 --> 18:25.480 We're exactly in the business for healing. 18:25.480 --> 18:26.480 Are we not? 18:26.480 --> 18:28.360 And let's not be angry about that. 18:28.360 --> 18:33.440 Now in verse four of Mark three, he had said these words, is it lawful to do good on the 18:33.440 --> 18:34.440 Sabbath day? 18:34.440 --> 18:36.000 Now he asks us some questions. 18:36.000 --> 18:38.840 Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath day? 18:38.840 --> 18:41.000 Well the answer would have to be yes, would it? 18:41.000 --> 18:42.000 Or to do evil? 18:42.000 --> 18:43.480 Well the answer would have to be no. 18:43.480 --> 18:48.840 Now what did these great malady wonders who had to say in criticizing Jesus for healing 18:48.840 --> 18:53.920 a crippled man, here's what they said, but they held their peace. 18:53.920 --> 18:55.920 And I wrote this down so I'd say it right. 18:55.920 --> 19:02.240 They were silent over the truth and the truth was a crippled man's arm was healed and he 19:02.240 --> 19:04.880 was restored to life. 19:04.880 --> 19:09.340 And they loud mouthed against the truth. 19:09.340 --> 19:13.460 They loud mouthed against the wrong thing. 19:13.460 --> 19:18.040 They spoke up on behalf of the thing which was stupid and didn't make any sense and which 19:18.040 --> 19:21.040 actually made Jesus angry. 19:21.040 --> 19:23.940 And what a sermon that would make, wouldn't it? 19:23.940 --> 19:29.140 Jesus said this in John two, fourteen, fifteen, and when he had made a scourge of small cords 19:29.140 --> 19:35.720 he drove them all out of the temple and the sheep and oxen and poured out on the money 19:35.720 --> 19:40.660 changers and over through their tables. 19:40.660 --> 19:43.100 And someone says, oh Jesus was a violent man. 19:43.100 --> 19:48.740 And it says the small cords, I actually wove a little whip out of small cords. 19:48.740 --> 19:53.100 I took some small strings and put them together and it was such a squirrely thing. 19:53.100 --> 19:56.700 I looked at myself doing it in the mirror and it was that thing. 19:56.700 --> 20:01.140 It says Jesus was violent with strings. 20:01.140 --> 20:07.980 Jesus didn't kill anybody or mutilate anybody or hurt anybody at all. 20:07.980 --> 20:13.380 He was almost an effeminate thing just and the coward ran. 20:13.380 --> 20:17.660 Cowards run a lot and spend their life doing it. 20:17.660 --> 20:19.780 I'd like to close with this thought. 20:19.780 --> 20:21.660 You know what? 20:21.660 --> 20:23.860 Take great care. 20:23.860 --> 20:30.860 Make sure it's a very noble and great cause if you get angry for a cause. 20:30.860 --> 20:35.460 But there are some cause worth getting angry about. 20:35.460 --> 20:41.900 I believe with all of my heart that it's alright to be angry when you see unrighteousness 20:41.900 --> 20:47.460 uncorrected and I really believe that the world can be healed by the manifestations 20:47.460 --> 20:53.340 and the teachings which we have through the love of Jesus Christ in his body. 20:53.340 --> 20:56.780 You know, I don't know. 20:56.780 --> 21:03.380 I think of the wounds that we often give each other in anger and listen to this. 21:03.380 --> 21:08.580 It was called the wounded Cheyenne's Prayer and it touches my heart, pierce you then my 21:08.580 --> 21:09.580 heart. 21:09.580 --> 21:11.700 I bleed just as well as thee. 21:11.700 --> 21:18.740 The blood that coarses there runs deep but just as free and be careful of your aim. 21:18.740 --> 21:22.580 In hatred the victim dies by foe or friend. 21:22.580 --> 21:27.380 The arrow's path is rarely seen and the wound occurs at either end. 21:27.380 --> 21:32.820 And like the bird with a broken wing the good I so often would in offering you my heart 21:32.820 --> 21:38.540 is so often misunderstood and a river carves two mountains so call back the bitter wind 21:38.540 --> 21:44.140 that blows so cold between us and forever let's be friends. 21:44.140 --> 21:48.780 Rattle the dried husks of fall of flowers and golden trees in doubt and share the roars 21:48.780 --> 21:54.820 of warmth and smoky fires before the winter's silvered shroud. 21:54.820 --> 22:00.260 And I think James says it this way, three, nine and ten. 22:00.260 --> 22:08.940 We use our tongues to give thanks to our Lord and our Father and also to curse other people 22:08.940 --> 22:14.860 who are created in the likeness of God. 22:14.860 --> 22:20.340 And I just breathe this little prayer because anger sometimes destroys this. 22:20.340 --> 22:27.940 God spare me if I've wounded a fellow warrior in the faith and teach me to resist your enemies 22:27.940 --> 22:35.780 O God and love your children and love your babies. 22:35.780 --> 22:47.260 If someone here needs a church home, if someone here needs to make a confession of their faith, 22:47.260 --> 22:51.380 if there's someone here that's never been born again of the water and of the Spirit, 22:51.380 --> 22:56.260 the Bible way, I don't care what anybody else does. 22:56.260 --> 22:58.500 I don't care what anybody else does. 22:58.500 --> 23:03.580 We must just determine what it is that we must do and you sitting there must determine 23:03.580 --> 23:06.180 what it is that you must do. 23:06.180 --> 23:10.500 If you need someone to pray with you and to study with you and things like that, we'll 23:10.500 --> 23:12.420 do the best we can. 23:12.420 --> 23:14.700 We have so many sick. 23:14.700 --> 23:21.020 We have so many hurt and so few hands to do the healing and to do the running and to do 23:21.020 --> 23:22.020 the walking. 23:22.020 --> 23:29.100 Particularly if you need a home, a place to put your little family and push against the 23:29.100 --> 23:32.700 onslaught of what's coming in the world. 23:32.700 --> 23:38.220 If you want a buddy, if you want a friend, if God's kingdom cannot provide that, we're 23:38.220 --> 23:41.420 not being the kingdom of God. 23:41.420 --> 23:43.700 If you need a church home, you come forward. 23:43.700 --> 23:48.420 I don't care if you're from Africa, I don't care if you're from Asia, I don't care if 23:48.420 --> 23:53.340 you're from Honey Suckle or wherever it is you might be, you do need a home and you 23:53.340 --> 23:57.700 do need to work with the people of God and to be protected and to be blessed by those 23:57.700 --> 23:58.700 people. 23:58.700 --> 24:01.700 Let's stand as we sing our hymn of invitation, what number it is. 24:18.420 --> 24:25.420 Let's sing our hymn of invitation, what number it is you might be, what number it is you might 24:48.420 --> 24:55.420 be, what number it is you might be.