Inigo Montoya Series: Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Anger

Justin Peters

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Be angry and yet do not sin. Don't let the Sun go down on your anger

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He didn't fall Inconceivable you keep using that word.

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I don't think it means what you think it means Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is

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Justin Peters I hope that you and yours are doing well today when I thank you very much for watching this video

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This is the third installment of my Inigo Montoya series Verses of scripture that are very often quoted yet Tragically very often almost always taken out of context and I've got a number more of these coming

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I apologize that it's been a few weeks since I've done one of these Just a lot of irons in the fire here, but many more of these to come so Ephesians 4 26

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Be angry and yet do not sin. Don't let the Sun go down on your anger well -known verse you keep using that verse but I do not think it means what you think it means and now the way that We have most often heard this taught is that if you have a little tiff or spat with your spouse

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Then y 'all need to be sure that you kiss and make up and make sure everything's okay before you go to bed at night

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Don't let the Sun go down on your anger now I will not argue that that is probably pretty good marital advice undoubtedly it is

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But I would argue that that is what this verse is talking about That is not at all what this verse is talking about So let's look at this a little bit more carefully and I think this will this be a real encouragement and a challenge for you

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When you look at this in the English be angry and yet do not sin Now in your

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English Bibles that word yet is italicized or it should be But and when you see an italicized word in your

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English translations and by the way use a Literal word -for -word translation stay away from the paraphrases

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Go with the King James New King James English Standard Version the New American Standard Bible, which is my go -to preaching version translation

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Stay away from the paraphrases The message is garbage. But anyway, maybe that's another video

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That word yet is italicized and when you see an italicized word what that means is is that that word is not in the original

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Manuscripts, it's not in the Greek in this case because we're in the New Testament. So this literally says

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Be angry Don't sin Don't let the Sun go down on your anger

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That word yet is not there. So be angry do not sin Now think about this logically if That word be angry in the in the

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Greek. It's actually a second -person plural Imperative and what that means is is it's actually a command

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Be angry. It's a command to be angry now if it is a command to be angry

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Then by definition, whatever this anger is It must not be inherently sinful because if it was sinful, well, there wouldn't be a command to do it

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So this anger whatever it is and the object of anger. It cannot be inherently sinful

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So if it's not inherently sinful Why does it matter if the

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Sun goes down on it or not? What if it's not sinful it should be okay So let the

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Sun go down on it and let it come up the next morning and go down again the next day if it's not sinful so Why do you have to get rid of this anger before the

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Sun goes down if it's not? sinful Well, I would submit to you that the object of this anger in Ephesians 4 26

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It's not your husband's not your wife. It's not the kids not the dog the object of this anger is sin

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Is sin in other words be angry at sin

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Don't let the Sun go down on that Anger now that phrase don't let the

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Sun go down What Old Testament? Event does that bring up?

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Images in your mind of or you know, what what what story does that remind you of don't let the Sun go down on your anger

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Well, it brings to mind Joshua's long day Right in Joshua chapter 10

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And of course this is in black and white because this was long before color cameras were invented you see but Joshua's long day when

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Joshua leading the Israelites went to war against the Amorites and all the other heights that they fought back in the

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Old Testament As long as the Sun didn't go down. They were victorious against their enemy

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Hmm. So in other words be angry at your sin

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Don't let the Sun go down on that anger in other words

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Be angry at your sin Stay angry at your sin

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Don't you dare let the Sun go down on that anger you be angry at sin and stay angry at sin

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Does that kind of blow your mind? Well for a little bit more evidence in support of this, let's look at the surrounding two verses look at verse 25

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The Apostle Paul says therefore laying aside falsehood. So there we see right there.

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There's sin Falsehood lying that is sin laying aside falsehood speak truth each one of you with his neighbor

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For we are members of one another Be angry Don't sin

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Don't let the Sun go down on your anger and look at verse 27 and do not give the devil an opportunity

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When is it that the devil has an opportunity in our lives? It's when we're no longer at war with our sin when we're not angry with our sin now

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I'm going to throw something else at you The Bible has the New Testament employs two primary words to describe anger that are rendered as anger and their basic forms are or gay and thomas or gay and thomas or gay refers to a

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Deep -seated settled disposition against anger

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Or of anger rather I should say a deep city seated settled disposition of anger

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That remains and it never subsides. Okay, so it's just there thomas is an explosive Outburst of anger an explosive outburst of wrath.

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That's thomas think of it in this way Picture Mount St. Helens. Remember that I remember

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I can still remember being in grade school First for maybe second grade anyway 1980 and date myself a little bit but I can remember hearing about Mount St.

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Helens and the explosion and then later seeing it on television and you've probably seen those videos

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So think of or gay as the massive pool of magma that lies underneath Mount St.

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Helens or any volcano this massive pool of magma that is just boiling and roiling

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But it's just there that's or gay thomas is

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The eruption thomas is the explosion. It's an outburst of wrath

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But it's over after you know a few minutes The word that Paul uses here.

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Guess which one it is. It's not thomas. It's or gay the deep -seated settled disposition of anger

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In other words Paul is saying Be angry at your sin have this settled disposition of anger at your sin

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And don't you dare let the Sun go down on that anger be angry

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Stay angry at your sin And dear friends that is what we must be doing as Christians.

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We must go to war Against our sin. We must do what Paul says in Romans chapter 8 verse 13.

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He says put to death the deeds of the body as the Puritan preacher

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John Owen says Do you mortify do you make it your daily work be always at it whilst you live?

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cease not a day from this work be killing sin or it will be killing you as Christians we're to be angry and we're to stay angry

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We're to go to war against our flesh go to war against our sin because when we're not at war

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With our sin when we become passive when we become complacent about sin

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When we're no longer at war with it That's when as verse 27 says the devil gets an opportunity

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All right So does that kind of surprise you probably didn't expect me to hear

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Expect to hear me tell you to be angry and stay angry, but I am be angry stay angry at your sin

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Go to war With your sin with sin in general We are to always be at war with our flesh be at war with the sin that so easily

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Entangles us be at war with it because when we're no longer at war with our sin

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That is when the devil has an opportunity in our lives. That is when we are most susceptible to Temptation that leads to sin and leads to not only our harm but bringing reproach on the name of Christ Okay All right, dear ones be angry and stay angry

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Thank you very much for joining me until our next time together May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and the fellowship of his