(Clip) Can a Believer Get Angry — Zac Poonen

Accepting God's Revelations in Scripture

And for what I saw in scripture, it's absolutely amazing. There are many things which You miss in scripture if God sees that he shows you something in scripture, and you don't accept it. Subsequently God showed me the truths about overcoming sin.

Loving the Truth and Desiring Salvation from Sin

Romans 614 was in my Bible. From 1959, but I never understood it till 1975 or 76. Many many other things like that love the truth. The second thing mentioned in second Thessalonians 2 is to be saved so I must love the truth which relates to my personal life and to the Word of God and Secondly, I must have a desire to be saved from sin.

Deception and the Prosperity Gospel

If I don't have a passionate desire to be saved from sin, I will be deceived and when I look around it. The Christians who I believe are deceived the preachers who I believe are deceived preaching a wrong gospel of prosperity and healing.

I can see one thing common about all of them. They don't have a passionate desire to be saved from all anger. You know, they don't want to come to a life where they never get angry. They don't believe it's possible.

Jesus as the Word Made Flesh

They teach what the psychologists say there's a anger has got some good functions and things like that. I'll tell you something about anger if you want to know. To me Jesus is the perfect example. He's the word made flesh.

So if you can't understand the word written down in the Bible. Compare it to the word made flesh and you will see I see what in Jesus life about anger. Whenever people did anything against him personally, he never got angry.

Jesus’ Restraint Under Personal Insults

You could spit on him. You could call him the devil you could say what you like. You're an illegitimate, you know, they even called him an illegitimate child. You know that verse in the Bible it says we were not born of fornication.

In brackets like you have you seen that verse? Yeah, they they said all types of things against him. He never got offended. Never got angry. So I learned one thing any anger because of I get hurt. Somebody said something against me or did something against me or did not do something which I expected them to do is sin.

Righteous Anger Against Religious Exploitation

But I see Jesus getting angry. When he saw people making money in the name of religion. Oh How angry. God he made a whip and chased them out. Another time he sees the Pharisees not allowing a man with a withered hand to be healed and says in Mark chapter 3 He was angry when I see people exploiting others.

Anger at Leaders Who Hinder Liberation

And not allowing them to come to the Liberty in Christ. I must get angry. So I learned two things about anger from Jesus. One if people make money in the name of religion in Christianity, I must get really angry with them.

If I don't get angry and I can sit and watch that television program where people are some preacher is swindling for people of money. I'm not Christ-like. I must get angry when I see it and I must expose it.

And secondly, if I see people not allowing others to be liberated like the Jesus saw the Pharisees not allowing this withered man with the withered hand to be healed. I must be angry with such leaders, I Never see Jesus angry with adulterous is Other five times divorced Samaritan woman or the murderer on the cross.

Compassion for Those Who Fall into Sin

Never angry. With people who fall into sin always compassionate seeking to lift them up. Angry with religious hypocrites who were trying to swindle poor people of their money in the name of God or Who were not allowing people to be liberated so that's as far as anger.