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00:00:01 [Applause] [Music] today's reading passage is taken from the book of matthews chapter 5 verses 21 21-26 you have heard that it was said to the people long ago you shall not murder and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment but i tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment again anyone who says to a brother or sister raqqa is answerable to the court and anyone who says you fool will be in danger of the fire of hell therefore if you are offering a gift at
00:00:44 the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you leave your gift there in front of the altar first go and be reconciled to them then come and offer you a gift settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court do it while you are still together on the way or your adversary may hand you over to the judge and the judge may hand you over to the officer and you may be thrown into prison truly i tell you you will not get out until you have paid the last penny
00:01:16 this is the word of god thank you hi good morning everyone can you hear me loud and clear good thanks for the wave ulam all right um today we're going to go on topic and i hope you're not looking like tigers this morning that you didn't wake up on the wrong side of the bed and you're angry with me okay so yeah i see some smiles thank you um today we're gonna talk on a topic dealing with anger and um it's it's quite an interesting topic because um i'm not a morning person and i wake up in the morning and i feel like this
00:01:50 like i'm a tiger wanting to pounce on people and my wife has to deal with it for for so long uh but i'm going to show you from scripture and and we read just now about anger and what what god is jesus directly said about it so i'm going to do a little bit of a test this morning ken i'm gonna show you some pictures and you're gonna react so on your zoom right there's a reaction that uh button you click on the reaction and if you you you're gonna tell me whether you feel angry or you feel love when you see the
00:02:21 pictures can no other feeling are not about cute not about uh sad no other feelings i want you to if you're angry you raise your face up and then you show me an angry face if you love it then you react you press the reaction button and put a love can can alright yeah first picture are you ready this one good i see a lot of loves coming up anybody angry with this picture cute right i saw this picture i couldn't tahan i want to squeeze in malaysia what do we say guram new you know okay are we ready second picture huh
00:03:05 okay must wait for the loves to go away are you ready how about this one what do you feel angry or love good i see a lot of loves how come god thumbs up love love i wish i could grow old in my wife and still look at her like that so lovingly all right and yeah good so most of you feel love i'm quite sure that you're emotionally healthy now you can be defined what love is how about this one does this make you angry or love oh or this yeah i see some fish coming up yeah some people are angry but still smiling
00:03:51 i don't know how you do that but here we go double pockets you know it hurts me so much right especially right this one i at least got this called khan parking lot some of them double parked right but the lots are empty you know have you seen that before like that hurts me even more you know like wow i tell you uh this makes me angry like man okay let's try the next one this one does this make you angry or feel love some feel love for some of us they are ocd right this picture makes us angry can you tell
00:04:30 me why because there's just one sweet there that is mismatched can you see that that green one there this one irritates me like mad how many people are you are like me ocd you cannot stand this sweet being wrong here some of you put love you know because your love sweets you only see the sweets for people like me we see this out of place how could you do that that's sacrilegious do you see that do you see that some of you don't notice it at all right yeah but some people really if i don't pasta how could you do that
00:05:14 you just miss this sweet how could you and so you might get angry or you might love this because all you see is sweets internet and some of you have a sweet tooth especially my children now oh they love their sugar do you love your sugar so it depends on perspective isn't it how you see this and then some of you might feel angry or feel like how about this one do you feel angry or do you feel love some of you give different face now different reaction he's so cute that you want to not love him but he's angry obviously right
00:05:54 if your children turn to you and give you this kind of face after you do something what would you feel so you're laughing hello i'm asking you for two reactions only angry or love no no no angry how about this one this one's quite easy how many of you feel good thank you i'm sure you love this one hi you're so cute i tell you right i see a lot of loves thank you thank you how about this one then what does this make you feel when you see a picture like this oh yes i see some fists coming up right for some of you you're like
00:06:34 military things and you like guns and all those kind of things you might feel loved for this but i think for most of us if we see things like this if we see war happening we feel angry inside isn't it how about this one how does this make you feel yep i see some fists going up the rest of you no feeling come on i hope you're emotionally healthy to tell if you see someone getting bullied like that i hope it burns something in your heart and you feel angry how about this one this is a picture of a sex slave
00:07:14 do you feel just sad or do you feel angry when you see a picture like this does it burn in you something that you feel angry about how about this one do you know what happened in atlanta recently right where this man if you didn't see the news there was this man this white male that went into went on a shooting spree and out of the people that he killed six of them were asian women and he it was an intentional thing for him to victimize asian women and he went around shooting and he killed six of them
00:07:59 and you know what the police officer that over the news said the police officer over the news said this he said that the shooter was having a bad day and so the asian community was very angry and they went to the streets and say just because you have a bad day you can go around targeting asian women woman intentionally and that this is not a racist crime he's just having a bad day when i heard the news i was fuming inside i was angry inside but according to what we read just now is it okay to be angry what should we be
00:08:47 angry about how do we deal with anger is anger good or bad see we just had baptism last week um we still just had um uh easter last week and do you know that for many people uh in the early church in the first hundred years near maybe until the first 400 years um you cannot partake in communion neither can you pray together like when we have our corporate prayer until you get baptized and they were looking forward to easter because that's when they get baptized and after that baptism it will be the
00:09:25 first time they taste communion after two years of catechism it will be the first time they get to pray for others and that is because baptism for us is a mark that we have entered the kingdom of god baptism becomes for us something and jesus was dealing with this right off the bat the whole beatitudes the whole thing that that that matthew was teaching about was about the kingdom of god and this kingdom was supposed to be a kingdom of love right and god's rulership right was one that was a rulership of love but israel was
00:10:10 looking for a different type of kingdom they wanted a king that would come wage war on all their enemies wipe them out and make them the chosen nation jesus we just heard last week what came and said i declare to what i came not to what abolish the law but to see it fulfilled so what he was going to do right after he shared this beatitudes and then he talked about the law was he was going to share about the ten commandments one by one and he was going to bring it to the next level and this was the part where he talked
00:10:48 about murder not really anger murder and anyone who murders will be subject to judgments he's talking about the ten commandments one of the ten commandments is that thou shalt not kill thou shall not kill he's referring to this and the way he speaks this way is because the jews already know that commandment you anyone who murders will be subject to judgment but i tell you anyone who's angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment anyone who says to a brother sister raka is answerable to court anyone who says you
00:11:26 fool will be in danger of the fire of hell so to me in my mathematical mind he basically said if you say you fool raka you have disdain contempt or you insult someone that that's basically what a word means or you have anger it equals to what murder right wha is that what jesus is saying is that what's he trying to say it was so clear that you can see because of the many repeated words that he was talking about whoever does not deal with anger properly or deal with murder whatever the case is i'm going to bring
00:12:05 it out to you so that you understand we'll face judgment and this judgment is no small deal it's what face the fire of hell was god i get angry with that driver that double park am i going in at risk of going to hell or not is that what jesus means that we should not get angry so a lot of people have used this in the past i i grew up um in church and uh i am i i i always thought of myself as short tempered because people around me will always tell me i'm short tempered you have to deal with your anger you
00:12:44 have to deal with it because you are going to be judged by god if you don't you will go to hell that's the basic feeling i had all my life until i married my wife and i'll tell you the story a bit later okay but here it is it is no small deal okay that god was saying that you're bringing the law thou shalt not kill and then he's relating it to anger right what does that mean what is it so important about this and then the next part of it he goes even deeper therefore if you're offering your gift
00:13:26 leave your gift that means right how you handle your anger also affects your worship that means if you have anger you come to church you feel angry against someone you look at pastor leon and you cannot stand his face he looks like a tiger and you want to bite him means your worship is affected the bible says here you have to go and deal with it first otherwise you cannot worship and many of us i don't know about you lah i remember there are many times uh especially when i'm gonna preach right god will put an event right right before
00:14:09 the day before or in the morning when i go to church just for me to get angry when you know really test my patience i don't know why that happens but oftentimes i find myself in a place that i have to deal with the anger inside otherwise i can't worship but what is the deal with anger is angry anger being angry wrong hear this does god get angry that's the question first i think if god says anger is wrong then he would not get angry the jesus that we know the picture of this white man that's always so peaceful
00:14:46 and so serene is the jesus we knew but we know through scriptures that jesus got angry right how many of you know that jesus got angry we also know god got angry he got angry with the israelites when he sent them into exile was he was doing it because he was angry so anger is not the issue here these are all the many many verses that god actually either was angry or was dealing with anger so obviously this topic is very important in the bible and so if you want to understand what god is trying to deal with
00:15:28 and why he says and equates being angry with murder we need to go back to the text itself see anyone who is angry with a brother or sister anyone who says to a brother or sister if you come to an altar and you remember that you have something against her brother or sister or a brother sister has something against you the issue was what god was talking about be reconciled to them settle matters quickly do it while you're still together the issue was it was a matter of relationships you see in worship worship is a matter
00:16:12 of relationship god's relationship with us matters and we go back to the story you know why the doubt shall not kill was taken first and this story was shown there the first relationship that was broken in the bible that you saw was done by what act an act of anger do you remember it cain got angry with who he wasn't angry with his brother at first he was angry with god and then he was angry till he committed murder if you do not deal with anger correctly anger ultimately leads to broken relationships and today i think
00:17:04 we can learn from scripture about what dealing with anger is and how to deal with anger so what is jesus trying to say anger is not directly the problem we should get angry people believe judgment was only due to the law for it was said it was only meant for criminals so what happens is that the israelites at this point was saying i'm angry with the samaritans i'm angry with the gentiles i'm angry with my roman oppressors that is not a sin it is only when i commit murder that it is a sin now jesus
00:17:46 levels this up and says look jewish people your anger has come to a point where you're ready to dismiss other people's relationship that i've called you to you're ready to dismiss the gentiles you're ready to dismiss so many people and so the people believe that their intention and their hatred for other people was not wrong and if they show anger towards these people it was not wrong in fact we know right in our nation that we have certain brothers and sisters that believe in the religion religion that if you have neat that
00:18:26 means you have intention to do something it's not a sin until you act upon it now jesus was bringing this up and saying this no it is not just when you act it out if you have any intention to destroy the relationships that i've called you to it is wrong people believe as long as they don't commit the crime they are innocent but jesus is saying anger dealt wrongly is murder so what jesus is trying to say and you can see very clearly hostility whatever hinders community whatever destroys relationship
00:19:09 equals judgment that's what that scripture means second small hostility or big hostility is the same that means if you have small anger and it hinders your relationship with someone or whether you actually take out a knife out of anger and kill someone it's the same third whatever hinders love is not acceptable he was trying to talk about the kingdom of god he was trying to say that my kingdom is a kingdom of love and here it is people were still thinking that i can love but i can be angry at someone
00:19:57 i can love but i can still not like the gentiles i can love but i can still be racist and it's so funny and it's so so i won't say funny i was so ironic how today people can say that they love but not accept one another so the whole passage was actually to talk about the antithesis of love the first commandment is what everybody knows the first commandment what's the first commandment you shall love the lord your god with all your heart with all your soul in all your mind you shall not make any images graven images and
00:20:42 then it comes to this third law if i remember correctly suddenly my brain is not working very well but to this law thou shalt not kill why because if you're angry with someone you do not truly love them hostility and hindrance to community is not just judgment it brings judgment because it's murder and so in some ways if you've seen your scripture if you read this portion they will put a subtitle a heading there that says murder instead of angry isn't it or dealing with anger because what is happening here is that
00:21:26 we are murdering murdering what relationships hostility and anger that is acted out murderous relationship even if you do not act it out and physically hurt someone how many of you i know this i i don't know i don't know if this is just a particular chinese problem but i'm chinese and i've seen so many families where they're angry with each other until their relationship as family members doesn't matter anymore the past chinese new year i don't know how many of you were kind of sad because you can't go to your
00:22:10 different relatives my relatives are in bido and singapore and i couldn't meet them and i'm really sad but also during chinese new year so many things come out the hurts the past and you can see certain angry family members with each other because of the relationship i don't know about you but i see that so happen often until a chicken rice stall right brother and brother cannot deal with the eat and then they break up then one chicken rice stall by the end of the road and then the other one by the end of the road and
00:22:41 then they're both selling chicken rice and then we are all fighting which are nicer but to me i'm hurt when i see those stories or hear the stories because it is a result of anger that murdered the relationship and separate the relationship and god was saying this our separation from god or each other is not something god takes lightly it is a big deal getting angry is not the problem but this is a big deal so i think we need to learn from scripture how does god handle anger in a good way we have established that he
00:23:24 gets angry isn't it but he doesn't get angry in a bad way most of us when we get angry it ends up being something bad so let's try to learn from scripture how god deals with anger the first thing we can learn is god's anger is not unreasonable it's not unwarranted not arbitrary passion but a result of his conflict between holiness and sin when i was i would promise you i'll talk about the story with my wife and me i i i all my life i always always taught myself as an impatient short-term person
00:24:04 and i need to deal with this i need to deal with this and when i got married to my wife my wife said something like this to summarize the long story short okay after a few years of our marriage uh i i brought this up to her again i said i'm such an angry person i'm so sorry that you have to deal with this and she said no i think you're the most patient person i've ever known then i'm like huh you're crazier how can it be me patient because all my life everybody tells me that i have to deal with anger and i'm
00:24:38 wrong and she said this your anger is not unreasonable it's not unwarranted but it's very passionate and you have so much things that you see wrong with this world that it urges you to see that the world is hurting it hurts you and i realize all this time i've been angry because i see all these things and i just don't know how to control it and so then i learn these things god's anger does not result in us destroying relationships when i was an angry short-tempered person and people told me this all i did was
00:25:18 hide away to my corner and say oh don't trigger me don't trigger me you know um but what god wanted me to do was to love others all these times when i i felt these feelings it was because i felt what god was passionate about what god wanted to do and so when i go to a mall you know i was a 12 year old kid i would walk in a shopping mall i hate going shopping because i would walk there and if i see that auntie come and sell shoes tissue to me and then she has she cannot walk i would run to the corner of the mall
00:25:55 and cry because it makes me so angry why i deserve to have two feet two hands and praise the lord and i don't even take it seriously and this auntie has to go through that and i couldn't understand this passion this anger that it was in me you know i i've i go down to the stores that day and i went to buy eggs my mom told me to buy eggs so i went and buy x and then i went to and there was speed 99 there and then there was kk mark there and then there was some other stores that looked more well to do then i saw this
00:26:38 store with it was pretty run down and out it overtook me i said are you putting okay let me try to go look for x from there so in the end i went there i asked for eggs i picked up the eggs paid the money it was so overpriced that my heart was like you know how am i paying so much for for just 10 eggs but then anyway i felt okay we're supporting you know people are going through hard times now i've got to do this and i i bought the eggs i went home then my mom said when she opened the eggs to cook she was
00:27:14 like oh these eggs are so not fresh then i told mom my mom i just couldn't take it i couldn't take it that everyone would walk into speed mud or walk into kk mud would walk into all these ones that look better but this person would have not and because he has not enough business his eggs are not fresh obviously and of course uh it was really sad these things urge me these things make angry and all this was to feel me to love others but i didn't know that all this anger seems to put a void between me and my
00:27:49 relationships when actually it's supposed to fuel me to love to reconcile so god's passion the first thing we can learn is the god passion leads to what compassion in isaiah 30 verse 18 he says and the lord said i will cause my goodness to pass in front of you and i will proclaim my name the lord in his your presence i will have mercy on whom i will have mercy and i will have compassion on whom i worth i have compassion in matthew 9 36 one of the most one of the most favor famous verses he says when he saw the crowds what did he
00:28:32 see he had compassion for them because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd jesus was angry he was obviously angry that the people were helpless they were like what they were like sheep without a shepherd they were lost but he did not take his passion we know that we're passion of christ we've seen it i love that movie and when i see the passion of christ it makes me tears and i see how god was so passionately loving us but he did not act out a passion alone he act out of compassion
00:29:12 passion must be accompanied by compassion and that's what i learned i was horribly passionate but i was horribly uncompassionate and if you want to deal with anger if you want to love people the way god loves people the first thing you have to do is not just know that and i know in first baptist we have a lot of passionate people because we receive comments about my sermon all the time we receive comments about whether the service was good or not but what about compassion have you ever had compassion on those
00:29:50 who preach god's word have you had compassion on those who serve you they week in week out i know some of you do but if you move to anger are you this service are you do not just act out of passion oh you misspelled this word wrongly you know you are these lyrics were you how many of you are moved to compassion second god's anger led to love in the parable in luke 14 15 to 23 it says this when one of those at the table with him heard this he said jesus blessed is the one who eats in the feast of the kingdom
00:30:36 jesus replied a certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests at that time the banquet he sent his servants to tell those who have been invited come for everything now is ready but they all made excuses the first said i have bought a few and i must go see it please excuse me another said i've bought five yoke of oxen and i'm on my way to try them out please excuse me still another i got married so i can't come obviously all valid reasons isn't it the servant came back and reported this
00:31:12 to his master the owner of the house became very angry here it is you know obviously the master of the house is who god isn't it and god is saying he was very angry because we rejected his invitation so what did he turn and do goku throw away this banquet now no this is how the story goes he says what go out quickly he says this in fact quickly quickly do this into the streets and into the alleys of the towns and bring in the poor the crippled the blind and the lame sir the servant said what you ordered
00:31:58 has been done but there is still room then the master told the servant go out to the roads and the country lanes and compel them to come in so that my house will be full i tell you not one of those who were invited will get to taste my banquet here in the story the the master of the banquet could have chose very well right to turn his anger and says nobody wants to come to my party that's it i'm not going to hold it and this is the story of what jesus did what god the father out of his love did instead
00:32:36 of getting angry alone he turned that anger and said it's okay go quickly and show that love to those that are poor crippled lame and unable then this story was saying also go to the streets and go through what was god referring to he was referring to the gentiles he was referring to the people that we so easily dismiss as needing to be loved god turns his anger into love and i thank god for that but mark this the story also tells that his anger is not to be trifled with if you reject god's invitation of love
00:33:21 you are cast out you are judged third thing that you can do is that god's protectiveness led to jesus in exodus when we read the ten commandments he says what you shall not bow down to any of them or serve them for i the lord your god am a jealous god visiting the iniquity of the fathers of the children to the third to the fourth generation to those who hate me but showing state fast love to a thousand for those who love and keep my commandments god loved us so much that he gave his only son what does that mean
00:34:02 he was angry with sin but he loved more and in his protectiveness he gave jesus christ so god found the reason to love and to be thankful and to show compassion and it was through jesus christ and i'm gonna give you an illustration later to make it make sense to you i learned this recently when i was preparing this sermon but remember this god will not tolerate murder murder equals anger that results that is the result of self let's go to this why do we get angry a lot of people get angry right or people that are
00:34:46 dealing with anger or people who have anger issues or people like me would say it is our right to be angry but i think we need to move to ask the question is this our god-given right to be angry did god give you that passion that anger that love for those things that you have to deal with it yes most of the time we actually have things to be angry about because this world is broken this world is in pain and if it does not cause you to be angry i think that's a problem if you see six asian women being killed
00:35:22 and you think nothing of it something is wrong but how you act of it is important so the first thing that we how do we how do we deal with anger the first thing is we must not let it murder our relationships do not murder does not just refer to do not physically go and kill someone the law that was given at this the ten commandments was that was given us was saying that because of anger because of anything we are murdering relationships left and right we are dismissing people from the gospel left and right
00:36:00 instead of seeing that there are people worthy being of being loved because of anger we have always thought that we are better than others and so the bible says in ephesians 4 26 it's so simple be angry but do not sin do not murder that's the thing if you do not deal with anger it will end up with you committing sin or committing murder if you do not deal with your anger you cannot reconcile with the person that you're supposed to love and you know that to be true isn't it i have struggled you have struggled we all have struggled
00:36:43 to some extent where we have been angry and then it is so difficult how many of you in your anger goes to your wife i love you come kiss me come hug me most of us say i need some space i need some time and perhaps that's not what god wants in our anger do not sin second is very clear do not let the sun go down when you're angry and if you go back to this text that i have brought out and many of them that i've read the point is what settle this quickly god said right as the preparer of the banquet he
00:37:25 straight away says do this quickly for all of you who have been holding out on reconciliation because of the anger that you have inside it is time to settle this and settle this quickly i know some people take it literally that you're angry and then the sun goes down then therefore you should not be angry don't hold your anger on me until the next day the point is not to literally take it that way but if you can do it that's even better but the point is settle things quickly i don't know about you but i
00:38:02 have been a pastor for almost 20 years now and i've seen relationships relationships and relationships and funerals where they say they regret because there was no closure and they never settled it quickly enough and i'm telling you church if you have anger that has stopped you from settling your relationships it's time to put that apart and change it just the way god did and love be quick to listen slow to speak and slow to anger whether your anger is reasonable whether your anger is warranted whether your anger is out of
00:38:42 passion for what is good listen first speak slowly and be slow to anger and the only way to do it is to do the three things god did was to let the spirit clothe him with love to let the spirit clothe him with compassion and let the spirit clothe him with thankfulness and i could learn this and i can understand how this is because this picture speaks a thousand words to me this is my son levi and this is my daughter lisa um obviously i love them right i love them with all my heart with all my soul and
00:39:32 sometimes they do things that make me angry but you know their cute face makes it so hard to be angry for very long after after i have to discipline my son not out of anger but i have to discipline my son he will come to me and then he'll look papay i know you love me i know you discipline me because you love me i will try not to do it again and you know the anger that is in me right dissipates very quickly and that's how the father in heaven looks at us and our sins and all the things when he he sees us you know
00:40:17 he he hates the sin he's angry with all the things that's going around the world if you are angry with what's happening around if you are angry with the corrupt politics the things that are just unjust trust me god is more angry than that but what did he do with his anger he sent his only son and when god looks at all our relationships our broken relationships our sin he does not look at it and then he look at it and then say oh i'm going to punish them all so this is where i learned my lesson god looks at jesus
00:40:57 just as the way i look at my children and when i look at my children my anger dissipates and when the father in heaven looks at jesus you know what's his reaction love isn't that powerful that's the story of our gospel when you look at someone down the street and when you get angry with that double parker i know most most of us the first word come on the mouth oh yeah dude this all those words come up it's because why just think of it if that double parker was my son how would i react that i love
00:41:48 if that double parker was someone i love how would i react if that someone was jesus how would i react anger i think for so long a father's love you know a father would get jealous and would get angry we teach our children all the right things or all those kind things and we get angry when he does the wrong things it's all out of love but if we show him anger all the time what will he grow up to be he'll grow up to be bitter he grew out to be probably as angry as we are isn't it but i think it's time for us to react
00:42:40 like god the father and when we look at our sons or daughters or people around us and when we look in love we can deal with the anger john 3 verse 16 says for god so loved the world that he gave his only son if whomsoever believe in him shall not perish but have eternal life we know that verse of wealth but what feared that god was angry god was jealous god said i'm not going to let the devil have a hold on them these are my children i love them so much and so i'm going to love is our anger shown to love or to destroy
00:43:21 because god had every right to destroy us out of his anger god at every right to destroy the entire human race but he chose in that moment to look at one person and said that person reflected jesus christ he was righteous and he saved noah he chose not to look for oh yeah noah so many thoughts ayah don't deserve it he saw noah and who did he see he saw jesus his son being sacrificed for it it's our anger is our anger a loving anger does he feel love even does the others feel loved even when they know we are angry
00:44:09 second compassion that whole rainbow story was talking about this in isaiah 54 7 8 it says this for a brief moment i forsook you but with great compassion i will gather you in an outburst of anger i hid my face from you for a moment but with an everlasting loving kindness i will have compassion on you says the lord your redeemer am i filled with just passion or is it with as much compassion am i responding to show you my passion or am i responding in showing you my compassion when people see my response action or
00:44:54 reaction do they see the compassion of christ and lastly to deal with anger we need thankfulness in psalms 145 8-9 it says the lord be gracious and merciful slow to anger and great in loving-kindness the lord is good to all and his mercies are all over his works how many times have we looked at what god has created and we say oh thank you god for creating this beautiful sunset and thank you god for creating this thank you god for this and then the anger seems to dissipate isn't it most of the time we are angry people
00:45:36 because we are not truly grateful for what jesus has done for us it's my anger because i'm truly grateful for what jesus has done it's my anger because i count my blessings is my anger because or is my anger because i lost sight of what i need to be thankful for so to brothers sisters let me invite you to deal with anger and not leave it to a point where it murders the relationships we're called to do today we're going to give in our offering about community care and giving money is not enough god has called us to deal with our anger
00:46:22 inside deal with our racism you know how many times i say this but i believe the church are absolutely racist because we are the ones that talk about other race and stigmatize them oh these one bad drivers this one bad attitude this one lazy out of anger instead of love and i want you to prepare yourselves even as we sing this song and we reflect on god's true love and true giving of himself and ask ourselves have we let our anger murder the relationships that jesus has called us to or are we going to reconcile and settle
00:47:08 this quickly because god has called us to be a light to be a salt to be the very embodiment of the law of love the kingdom of love that he has called us to and brother sisters i know you can because the holy spirit is there where you are right where you are i know some of you can sense him right now and it's time to commit commit to be a people that will deal with the anger the way god has dealt with his anger to choose love to choose to have compassion and choose to be thankful as we sing this song and before i ask
00:47:45 you to respond i want you to take this song sing those words deep in your heart and then after that we're going to come back and we're going to respond together can we do that let's sing this word 10 000 reasons the second verse it says yo rich in love and you're slow to anger your name is great and your heart is kind for all your goodness i will keep on singing 10 000 reasons for my heart to find may you find all you need in christ alone
