Participants: Pr. John Lomacang
Series Code: ASHF
Program Code: ASHF000153A
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00:21 Welcome once again. 00:23 If you're joining us from here in the United States 00:24 or around the world, thank you for taking the time 00:27 to join us for our Bible study here at A Sharper Focus 00:30 at the 3ABN Worship Center, 00:32 also the Thompsonville Seventh-day Adventist Church. 00:36 Tonight, we're going to finalize, 00:37 I believe because we just have three questions remaining. 00:40 We're going to finalize our topic 00:42 The Truth about Jesus, 00:44 and then we're going to begin a practical series. 00:46 Because, you know, in some of the areas 00:48 of practical living, 00:50 we can sometimes find difficulty. 00:53 And we're going to begin tonight 00:54 with the topic entitled Dealing with Anger. 00:57 Dealing with Anger. 00:58 How do you deal with that? 01:00 You know, the Bible talks about anger 01:01 or being angry over 150 times, 01:05 and so therefore, it's a very important topic. 01:07 What happens when Christians get angry? 01:10 We're going to talk about that tonight. 01:11 But before we go any further, 01:13 and I'll tell you how to get a copy of the lesson, 01:14 let's begin with a word of prayer. 01:17 Loving Father in heaven, 01:18 thank You for the opportunity of opening Your Word. 01:22 Thank You for being with us and guiding us. 01:24 Strengthen our hearts as we study Your Word. 01:27 And also send Your Holy Spirit to connect our minds and hearts 01:31 over the airwaves. 01:33 And strengthen us, Lord, to walk in the path 01:35 that You reveal to us. 01:37 We pray in Jesus' name, amen. 01:41 Now everybody should have lesson 36 and 37 01:45 because we're going to begin with number 25 on lesson 36, 01:49 and we'll begin all fresh on number 37. 01:51 Here's the website to go to get a copy 01:53 of the lesson tonight. 01:55 Go to ASF.3ABN.org 01:59 and download lesson number 36 and 37. 02:02 If you already have 36, 02:03 we're just on the last three questions, 02:06 and then we're going to begin on lesson number 37. 02:10 That is ASF.3ABN.org. 02:13 Also, at that website, 02:14 you can get a copy of the prior lessons, 02:16 all the way from one to the present, 02:18 and then the past videos, 02:20 and the past Bible studies are also listed there. 02:23 If there's anything that we can do 02:25 to enhance your Bible study, 02:26 there's a link also where you can send questions 02:28 and also prayer requests. 02:30 Well, before we go any further, what do we do next? 02:34 We sing our theme song. 02:35 Let's sing our theme song tonight, Victory in Jesus. 02:46 I heard an old, old story 02:50 How the Savior came from glory 02:54 How He gave His life on Calvary 02:57 To save a wretch like me 03:01 I heard about His groaning 03:05 Of His precious blood's atoning 03:09 Then I repented of my sins 03:13 And won the victory 03:16 O victory in Jesus 03:20 My Savior, forever 03:24 He sought me and bought me 03:28 With His redeeming blood 03:32 He loved me ere I knew Him 03:35 And all my love is due Him 03:39 He plunged me to victory 03:43 Beneath the cleansing flood 03:47 I heard about a mansion 03:50 He has built for me in glory 03:54 And I heard about the streets of gold 03:58 Beyond the crystal sea 04:02 About the angels singing 04:06 And the old redemption story 04:09 And some sweet day 04:11 I'll sing up there 04:13 The song of victory 04:16 Key change. 04:17 O victory in Jesus 04:21 My Savior, forever 04:24 He sought me and bought me 04:28 With His redeeming blood 04:32 He loved me ere I knew Him 04:36 And all my love is due Him 04:40 He plunged me to victory 04:43 Beneath the cleansing flood 04:47 He plunged me to victory 04:51 Beneath the cleansing flood 04:57 Amen. 05:00 Tonight, our topic is, let's say that together, 05:02 The Truth about Jesus. 05:03 The Truth about Jesus. 05:05 We've been walking through some of the major prophecies 05:09 about the life, the ministry, the death, the resurrection, 05:15 and the work that Jesus is doing 05:16 in the heavenly sanctuary. 05:19 In the past, we did a topic on the sanctuary altogether 05:21 and His ministration there. 05:23 But we've been looking at these prophesies 05:26 for one major reason, to confirm His divinity. 05:30 Who is Christ? 05:31 Is He in fact the Christ? 05:33 You know, there are millions of people today among, 05:37 I would say, in the Jewish community 05:38 that have denied the very Messiahship of Christ. 05:43 And they say they're waiting for the Messiah. 05:46 There are those that have said Jesus has come 05:49 but because of their misunderstanding 05:50 of His ministry, 05:52 they're waiting for the sacrificial system 05:53 to begin all over again. 05:55 And there are many that believe that just before Jesus comes, 05:58 they have to go to Jerusalem. 05:59 Or in some case, 06:02 among those who are privy to the message of ISIS, 06:07 they believe they need to go to Syria, 06:09 that's why Syria is such a focal point 06:11 waiting for the Messiah to come. 06:13 But the truth about Jesus is important to understand 06:16 because when we understand what was prophesized 06:18 in the Old Testament 06:20 and we see what was fulfilled in the New Testament, 06:22 then we can know that the past and the present makes sense. 06:26 Amen? 06:27 So let's begin tonight, we'll dive right into our topic 06:30 on question number 25. 06:33 Question number 25. 06:35 And this is concerning the betrayal of Jesus. 06:39 Let's look at that together. 06:43 "Concerning the betrayal of Jesus, what was prophesied?" 06:48 Let's go to Psalm 91. 06:50 I'm using my new Bible, the Remnant Study Bible. 06:54 Psalm 41, sorry about that. 06:57 Psalm 41. 06:58 I looked right at it and said Psalm 91. 07:01 I was so in a hurry to say I'm using my new Remnant Bible. 07:06 I had a New King James Version 07:08 but it was an old New King James Version, 07:10 and some of the words were changed in that 07:12 to bring it up to date. 07:13 So now I'm up to date. 07:16 Psalm 41. 07:18 You know, very few books in the Bible, 07:20 like the Book of Psalms, 07:23 really talk about the life of Jesus. 07:25 You find Psalm 41, 42, 43, 44 bring out amazing prophecies 07:30 concerning the life of Jesus. 07:33 Now this one, Psalm 41:9, 07:36 talks about the betrayal of Jesus. 07:39 Now long before this betrayal was actually occurred, 07:42 the Bible talked about 07:43 how that betrayal will take place. 07:45 Here it is, 07:46 let's read the first one together 07:48 from the screen. 07:49 Are you ready? 07:50 Let's look at the screen together. 07:52 The Bible says, "Even my own..." 07:54 Come on, let's put some strength. 07:56 "Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, 08:01 who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me." 08:05 Now we're reading that, that's not the fulfillment, 08:08 that's the prophecy. 08:09 So David, the Psalmist, long before Jesus arrived, 08:14 hundreds of years before Jesus arrived, 08:18 it was prophesied 08:19 exactly how Jesus would be betrayed. 08:22 Now let's go to Luke 22. 08:24 Luke 22. 08:27 And we're going to look at verse 47 and verse 48. 08:31 You find a lot, the word fulfilled. 08:34 Matter of fact, 08:36 if you put the word fulfilled in the Bible, 08:38 you find 112 references to the word fulfilled. 08:41 And when you scroll down 08:42 and you go to the New Testament, 08:44 many of those words that were fulfilled 08:47 were fulfilled in the life of Christ. 08:50 So we're going now to... 08:52 What book did I say? 08:54 Luke 22:47-48. 08:59 Wow, this Bible is brand new. 09:02 I've got to mark it up like my old one, 09:05 got to transfer my notes. 09:07 That's going to be a fun thing to do. 09:09 Here it is. 09:11 And the pages are so close together, 09:14 which is not a bad thing. 09:16 Okay, here we are, 09:17 Luke 22:47-48. 09:23 All right, here it is. 09:25 And this is in fact entitled 09:26 The Betrayal and Arrest in Gethsemane. 09:30 Okay, let's look at verse 47. 09:32 It says, 09:33 "And while He was still speaking... 09:37 a multitude, 09:40 behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, 09:45 one of the twelve, went before them 09:48 and drew near to Jesus..." 09:50 And did what? 09:51 "To kiss Him." 09:53 And then the Bible says in verse 48. 09:54 But Jesus said to him, 09:56 "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a..." 10:01 What? 10:02 "With a kiss." 10:04 Now what was the purpose of this meeting? 10:08 Instead of Judas saying, 10:10 "You're the One or He's the One", 10:12 he wanted to make it look like 10:14 he was meeting his master with affection 10:16 because the Bible says they greeted each other. 10:18 In the Middle East, it's not unusual 10:19 for men to kiss men. 10:21 And in some cases, you know, the Bible says, 10:24 "Greet your brethren with a holy kiss." 10:26 But they kissed on the lips in that generation. 10:30 And we wouldn't think about doing that in America. 10:32 Amen? 10:36 You guys are pretty quiet. 10:39 I wouldn't kiss another man on the lips, amen, Yanick? 10:42 Amen. 10:44 In South Africa, in unusual places, 10:48 they do that, it's cultural. 10:50 So when the Bible says, 10:52 "Greet the brethren with a holy kiss," 10:53 that's exactly what they meant. 10:55 But I would just like to make it a record, 10:59 not me. 11:02 But Judas met Jesus and he drew near to kiss Him. 11:06 And then in that kiss, he marked Him. 11:10 He marked Him as the one that he was going to betray. 11:14 Now as you write the answers down, 11:17 let's go to Psalm... 11:20 We went to Psalm 41 and Luke 22, 11:22 so concerning the betrayal of Jesus, what was prophesied? 11:25 What two things can you put in the Psalms 41? 11:28 What can you put there? 11:32 A familiar friend. A familiar friend, exactly. 11:36 Not only a familiar friend, but what was Judas? 11:40 He was a disciple, he was the treasurer. 11:44 He was the treasurer. 11:46 And one of the reasons why Luke 22 happened, 11:50 Judas had witnessed Jesus on many occasions get away 11:53 when the mob came to arrest Him, 11:55 when they tried to corner Him, 11:57 when they tried to arrest Him in His early ministry. 12:01 There are instances in the Bible where it says, 12:03 "They sought to grab Him, 12:05 and Jesus just disappeared from their midst." 12:07 The Father, the Holy Spirit took Him away. 12:10 And there were other times that he sought to... 12:12 They sought to betray Him, but He said to them, 12:14 "My hour has not yet come." 12:16 So there was a determination 12:18 as to when these things were going to occur. 12:20 But here, you see clearly in Luke 22:47-48, 12:25 what would you put there? 12:26 He betrayed Him with a what? 12:29 He betrayed Him with a kiss. 12:31 Wow. Wow. 12:35 Hidden messages in that. 12:37 Okay, now let's look at another aspect. 12:41 You know, what amazes me when I looked at these, 12:43 and there are easily a number of amazing prophecies 12:48 as I look as a matter of fact. 12:51 As I look in Matthew 2, 12:55 you find all through Matthew, 12:59 you find, wow, so many times you find the word fulfill. 13:03 Let's look at one very quickly. 13:05 Go to Matthew 13. I want you to see this. 13:08 Matthew 13, just to show you that 13:11 this word fulfill was very much 13:14 a part of the New Testament. 13:17 What was talked about in the old 13:19 was fulfilled in the new. 13:22 Matthew 13, and let's start with... 13:26 I'll read from verse... 13:29 Let me go down to verse 14, so I'll start with verse 10. 13:34 Matthew 13:10. 13:37 It says, "And the disciples came 13:38 and said to Him, 13:40 'Why do You speak to them in..." 13:43 What? 13:44 "In parables?' 13:45 And He answered and said to them, 13:47 'Because it has been given to you 13:50 to know the mysteries, 13:51 or the secrets of the hidden truths 13:54 of the kingdom of heaven, 13:56 but to them, it has not been given.'" 13:58 Now why do you think that was wonderful? 14:01 Because... 14:02 Keep this in mind, 14:04 if the betrayers of Jesus 14:05 had known what He was going to do, 14:06 they would have been able to make plans. 14:09 So Jesus hid His mission in parables. 14:12 Parables and prophecies are similar in that sense. 14:16 Prophecies are symbolic, parables are hidden messages. 14:20 And a lot of times, the symbols and the parables are explained 14:24 like the Rich Man and Lazarus, 14:25 like the parable of the Wheat and the Tares, 14:27 the parable of the Sower. 14:29 They are all explained. 14:31 And look at verse 12. 14:32 It says, "For whosoever have, to him, more will be given, 14:37 and he will have abundance. 14:39 But whoever does not have, 14:41 even what he has will be taken away from him." 14:44 Now you might read that and think, 14:48 "Is Jesus talking about taking away 14:49 material possessions?" 14:51 Absolutely not. 14:52 He was talking about the knowledge 14:54 that the people of His day had. 14:55 And let me give you an example. 14:57 The Jews had a lot of knowledge. 14:58 They had knowledge of Jesus for over 1,000 years, 15:01 almost 2,000 years, they had knowledge. 15:03 But because they rejected the Messiah, this is powerful, 15:06 because they rejected the Messiah, 15:09 there would be no further revelation to them. 15:11 So what they had will start disappearing. 15:15 The understanding they had met a wall 15:17 when they rejected Jesus. 15:19 But for those who did not reject Jesus, 15:21 like the disciples accepted Him, 15:23 now all of a sudden, 15:24 what they had started increasing. 15:27 So to him who had much, 15:29 more will be given because they accepted Him, 15:32 He was the open door. 15:33 The Jews shut the door on themselves. 15:35 He said, "I came to my own, and My own did not..." 15:37 What? 15:39 Did not what? "Didn't receive Me." 15:40 So the knowledge they had, He shut it off. 15:43 So they had a lot, and all of a sudden, 15:45 their knowledge just began to dissipate. 15:47 And they thought, "Wait a minute." 15:48 So when they rejected the Messiah, 15:50 everything that He would have revealed to them, 15:52 started being revealed to the disciples. 15:54 That's what it talked about. 15:55 So look at that again. 15:58 "For whoever has, to him, more will be given, 16:02 and he will have abundance. 16:04 But whoever does not have, 16:06 even what he has will be taken away from him." 16:09 And look at verse 13, it says, 16:11 "Therefore, I speak to them in..." 16:13 What? 16:15 "Parables because seeing they do not see, 16:21 and hearing they do not..." 16:22 What? 16:24 "Hear, nor do they understand." 16:26 And this is the part that's significant 16:28 about the word fulfilled. 16:31 In verse 14, "And in them, 16:33 the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says..." 16:38 Speaking of His own people. 16:39 "Hearing, you will hear and shall not understand, 16:43 and seeing, you will see and not perceive." 16:47 Why? 16:48 "For the hearts of His people have grown..." 16:50 What? "Dull." 16:51 He's talking about His own people. 16:53 "Their ears are hard of hearing." 16:56 And look at this. 16:58 "And their eyes, they have closed." 17:01 He didn't close their eyes. 17:03 The Messiah was standing right there, 17:05 and they refused to accept Him. 17:06 He said to them, "You spend a lot of time 17:08 searching the Bible," 17:09 but the Bible points to me, John 5:39. 17:12 Finishing the text, it says, 17:14 "Lest they should see with their eyes, 17:16 and hear with their ears, 17:19 lest they should understand with their heart 17:23 and turn so that I should heal them." 17:27 So you find over and over, 17:28 there are so many other instances 17:30 in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John 17:31 that the word fulfilled is used 17:33 because the Bible talks about... 17:34 These things were mentioned in the Old Testament. 17:36 You know what amazes me as we read that passage, 17:39 Isaiah the prophet, prophesied 17:42 that the people of Jesus would reject Him when He came. 17:49 That's amazing to me. 17:51 Now if you have on... 17:52 Let's put on our theology hats. 17:53 You ready? 17:55 Get your hats on. 17:56 Get your hat on, Norick, put your theology hat on, 17:58 Caperna. 18:00 There was a particular prophecy 18:01 in the Bible called the 70 weeks. 18:04 How many years was that? 18:07 Four hundred and ninety years. 18:09 Now the reason why 18:11 Jesus was still speaking to the large, 18:15 to the multitudes at large 18:16 is because He was still giving them time 18:19 to reverse their blindness. 18:21 He spoke to the Jews in John 8, and He said to them, 18:26 "Are you a slave?" 18:27 He said, "We've never been a slave." 18:29 He said, "If you're a sinner, you are a slave." 18:32 Then He said... 18:34 They talked about the bread that Moses gave them 18:37 in the wilderness. 18:38 And here is Jesus, He said, 18:40 "I am the bread that came down from heaven." 18:42 They're looking right at them, 18:43 "Seeing, they will see and not perceive, 18:47 hearing, they will hear 18:48 and they won't even understand." 18:50 So He gave them a message over, and over, and over again. 18:52 And even after He finished His ministry 18:54 and went to heaven, He said to the disciples, 18:57 "Go first to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." 19:01 Go to them, get... 19:02 They have a little bit more time left. 19:04 They got three and a half years left out of 490. 19:09 They've got this much time left. 19:10 "Go to them first." 19:11 He didn't want to reject them. 19:14 They rejected Him. 19:16 And what happened as a result of the rejection, 19:18 the gospel went on to the gentiles. 19:20 And who are we? 19:22 The gentiles. 19:24 I said this on a program once and somebody wrote me a letter 19:26 and said, "You are not Israel." 19:29 I am not Israel. 19:30 We are spiritual Israel. 19:32 Say that together, we are what? 19:33 Spiritual Israel. 19:35 Because one of the dangers they had was they thought 19:37 because they were born in as a Jew 19:41 that they were automatically saved. 19:42 They kept boasting, 19:44 that's why the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus 19:46 was given to these rich men. 19:48 Why were they rich? 19:49 They had rich food, that is the Word of God, 19:52 they had the understanding, but they rejected that. 19:54 They boasted of their diet, their feast days, 19:58 all the Sabbath stuff they kept, 19:59 all the knowledge they had that God had given them 20:02 throughout the centuries, but they wouldn't share it, 20:05 and the door closed on them. 20:07 Seeing they didn't see, 20:09 hearing they did not understand. 20:11 Wow. 20:13 Let's look at question number 26. 20:16 Wow. 20:18 Question number 26. 20:22 Here it is. 20:24 "The Bible predicted the price of the betrayal of Jesus? 20:28 The Bible predicted the price of the betrayal of Jesus?" 20:33 All right, let's look at that together. 20:35 Matthew, matter of fact, let's go to Zachariah first. 20:39 Let's go to Zachariah first. 20:41 I don't believe I gave this slide to the guys 20:43 that are at the graphics, but let's go to Zachariah. 20:46 Zachariah 11, okay? 20:50 Let our Bibles speak for us. 20:52 Here we are. 20:53 Okay. Okay. 20:57 Zachariah 11:12. 21:06 Wow. Okay. 21:12 And it reads thus far, "Then I said to them, 21:17 'If it is agreeable to you, 21:20 give me my wages, and if not, refrain.' 21:25 So they weighed out for my wages..." 21:28 Let's say those together. 21:29 "Thirty pieces of silver." 21:33 Thirty pieces of silver, they weighed it out. 21:38 Wow. So let's write that down. 21:44 What did Zachariah referred to these wages as? 21:50 I gave you the answer. 21:54 My question should have been, 21:55 "What did Zachariah call these thirty pieces of silver?" 21:58 He called them what? 21:59 Wages. Wages. 22:01 Let's say it together, wages. 22:04 The wages of sin is what? 22:06 Death. Wow. 22:07 So let's put that down. 22:09 Zechariah 11:12, "Wages", wages. 22:13 Now let's go to Matthew 26 to see the fulfillment. 22:20 Zachariah was long dead and gone 22:23 by the time this was fulfilled. 22:26 Okay. Okay. 22:29 Matthew 26. 22:32 Wow, this Bible has a really nice feel to it. 22:35 I'm going to make this my new Bible. 22:38 Well, it is my new Bible. 22:40 I got so many Bibles. 22:43 Okay, Matthew 26, 22:45 we're going to look at verses 14 and 15. 22:50 I got to come up with a new marking plan 22:52 so that my colors can mean something. 22:55 Have you ever taken your pen and just underlined stuff in 22:57 any color, didn't really matter? 22:59 I got to put a good one together 23:00 for my new Bible. 23:02 Here it is. Matthew 26:14-15. 23:05 Here it is. 23:07 "Then one of the twelve called Judas Iscariot, 23:12 went to the chief priests and said, 23:16 'What are you willing to give me 23:18 if I deliver Him to you?'" 23:20 Very quickly, how did he deliver Him to him? 23:23 With a kiss. 23:25 "And they counted out to him..." 23:26 What? 23:28 Together, "Thirty pieces of silver." 23:32 That's the fulfillment, and that's the prophecy. 23:35 So put that together... 23:37 Put that together, and you'll clearly see 23:40 what Zachariah prophesied. 23:42 Now you've got to really... 23:45 For that to happen, for the exact amount to happen, 23:48 somebody might say $29.95, $35, $40, the generalization, 23:53 but see how accurate prophecy is. 23:55 Zachariah was inspired by the Holy Spirit 23:58 who told them what would happen at the time. 24:00 And when you think about it, 24:01 one of the disciples betrayed His own Lord. 24:05 So it's possible that those who followed the Lord 24:08 are not necessarily walking with the Lord. 24:12 That's exactly what the case was when it came to Judas. 24:15 Judas was there for financial reasons. 24:17 And he betrayed the Lord. 24:20 I don't know if I had said this, 24:21 but Judas had seen the Lord 24:24 free Himself from so many prior examples, 24:26 of prior attempts to arrest Him that he thought, 24:31 "This is a great opportunity to make some money." 24:33 He's going to get away anyway, and if He gets away, 24:35 I'll have 30 pieces of silver. 24:38 And what happened is this time, He did not get away. 24:43 This time it ended up being his betrayal. 24:46 And you know what happened afterward? 24:47 What did Judas do with that money? 24:49 Do you remember? 24:53 He threw it away, he dumped it. 24:55 In an attempt to say, 24:58 "It wasn't supposed to go this way. 25:00 I was supposed to get my money, 25:02 but He was supposed to get away." 25:04 See, so here's the point, you can play with the Lord 25:06 so often until one day it's irreversible. 25:10 Wow, wow, that's scary. 25:14 The wages that he... 25:16 He was going after money, 25:20 and he betrayed the Lord for 30 pieces of silver. 25:24 You know, even if it was gold, 25:26 there was no price that we should even try 25:29 to sell the Lord for. 25:32 Yeah, you can't... 25:33 Because the wages of sin is what? 25:34 Death. 25:36 And what did Judas eventually do? 25:38 He hung himself. 25:40 The shame of betraying his Lord, boy, I tell you, 25:46 Bible says, "Woe to the man by whom the Lord has betrayed, 25:50 it was better that he had not been born." 25:53 Wow, and Judas knew that. 25:56 He knew that, but he didn't think 25:57 he would be the one. 25:59 But, you know, there was a point 26:00 at which he could have repented it not going forth 26:03 when they were having the last supper. 26:07 And he said, "The one who dips his hand with Me, 26:09 he's the one who's going to betray Me." 26:12 And the question started to come in, "Is it I? 26:14 Is it I?" 26:15 They start looking around the room, and Judas was like, 26:19 "I'm not going to ask that question." 26:21 Because he knew it was him. 26:22 And then He set His eyes on him, He said, 26:25 "What thou doest..." 26:26 What? "Do quickly." 26:28 And Judas got up and left. 26:30 That was that pivotal moment where Judas could have said, 26:33 "I'm not going to do it." 26:35 Wow. 26:37 The point of no return. 26:39 Wow! That's amazing. 26:41 That is amazing. 26:42 Let's go to 27. So write these down. 26:45 Zachariah, the wages, and then Matthew 26:14-15, 26:49 thirty pieces of silver, 26:52 betrayed for the price 26:57 and a life. 26:59 And now number 27, number 27. 27:03 Okay, "How does the Bible 27:06 confirm the Lamb-like nature of Jesus?" 27:11 How does the Bible confirm the Lamb-like nature of Jesus? 27:17 And I say Lamb-like, He's the lamb, right? 27:21 But being called the Lamb as the Bible prefigured Him 27:26 in the sacrifices of the temple services... 27:31 To be called a lamb and not have a lamb-like nature 27:36 wouldn't really identify you as a lamb. 27:38 So to be called a Christian and not have a Christian nature 27:42 is to not identify you as a Christian. 27:43 So not only is he called the Messiah or called the lamb, 27:47 but he should have a lamb-like character, right? 27:51 Would a lamb bite you? 27:55 I've never heard of it. 27:57 Would a lamb growl? 28:00 Would a lamb chase you? 28:03 I don't know too much about lambs, 28:04 so I won't answer that one. 28:07 But I know a goat would. 28:10 Would a lamb butt you or a goat? 28:14 A goat will butt you and knock you out. 28:16 I have a story that goes along with that. 28:18 Good friend of ours in California, 28:21 they had a tall goat. 28:22 I've seen goats in different sizes. 28:25 And this was a tall goat. 28:27 And they tied him in the center of their yard. 28:29 He was their natural lawnmower. 28:33 He ate the lawn 28:35 wherever his rope could carry him. 28:37 And when I went to visit them, they had a perfect circle 28:42 because the goat was... 28:43 They put the pole in the center of the lawn, 28:47 and they put the chain on the goat, 28:48 and he could cut... 28:50 I saw him eating, 28:51 and he was stretching his head to get to the end of that. 28:54 There was more grass beyond that, 28:55 but he couldn't get any further. 28:57 So they had this perfect circle. 29:00 Well, the owner went out there one day, 29:03 and he made a mistake, 29:06 and bent over to pick up something on the grass. 29:09 And the goat thought, "Oh, you want to play?" 29:13 And he knocked his owner out. 29:16 He rammed him with his horns, knocked him out. 29:19 He thought he was playing. 29:21 He woke up to the goat licking him on his face like, 29:24 "Did I hurt you?" 29:26 So a goat would do that but not a lamb. 29:30 The nature of Jesus is not fierce, 29:34 not combative, not vicious, 29:39 but in every way, just like a lamb. 29:42 Look at the prophecy of that, Isaiah 53. 29:45 Isaiah 53. That's why it's amazing. 29:50 When Jesus comes back, you find Him in Revelation 6. 29:55 The people that are not His are saints, 29:59 they're going to be running from Him, 30:01 and they're going to... 30:02 Well, I won't tell you, let's read this first. 30:04 Okay, here I am. 30:07 Isaiah 53, there I am. 30:13 And I'm going turn to that, going to loosen up these pages. 30:16 Isaiah 53:7, here it is. 30:21 The Bible says, "He was..." 30:22 What? 30:23 "Oppressed, and He was afflicted. 30:25 Yet He..." 30:26 Did what? 30:28 "Opened not His mouth, 30:30 He was led as a lamb to the slaughter 30:34 and as a sheep before its shearers is silent. 30:39 So He opened not His mouth." 30:43 You know, I heard looking into a little bit about a lamb, 30:47 one of the reasons why it's easy to shear a lamb, 30:49 you know what a shearing is? 30:50 Take that scissors, and they just... 30:52 Can you imagine trying to shear a goat? 30:59 You better be really good to shear a goat. 31:02 Try to cut your dogs hair? 31:04 It's a difficult thing. 31:06 Lest, of course, you have a great relationship. 31:09 But a lamb, there's something about a lamb 31:12 when he's laid on his back 31:14 that he just completely surrenders. 31:18 So all they do is they lay the lamb on his back, 31:21 and he lays there like, "This is it." 31:25 And they just shave his hair off. 31:28 They do it... 31:29 I mean, you should... 31:30 I'm not telling you to do this, but on YouTube 31:32 they show how easy it is. 31:33 They just take a nice shaver... 31:34 And today, I mean, back in the day, 31:36 it was a shearer. 31:38 It wasn't a shaver, electricity. 31:40 So they would take that, they cut close, 31:42 and it would be like they just peel this wool off. 31:45 And then he'd run out and go eat more grass 31:47 and go eat whatever until it grows back again. 31:49 But when they laid him on his back, 31:51 he just kind of gave in. 31:54 And it says, they don't start yelling 31:56 and trying to scratch you. 31:58 It says, "He did..." 32:00 What about His mouth? 32:01 "Didn't even open His mouth." 32:02 Didn't say, 32:04 "This is not supposed to be this way." 32:05 If lambs fought really hard, 32:08 we really wouldn't have as much wool today 32:11 as we do have. 32:12 We were in New Zealand, and we were there... 32:15 We went a few times, but the first time we went 32:17 to New Zealand, they had 3 million people 32:22 and 90 million sheep. 32:27 Can you imagine that? 32:28 So we went to a sheep farm, 32:31 I guess that's what they call it, 32:32 a sheep farm. 32:35 Man, it was... 32:38 If those were wolves, we'd be in trouble. 32:41 But you could just walk right in the middle of them, 32:43 and they just. 32:45 So you could touch them, you could feed them, 32:49 they're just so peaceful. 32:50 That's how Jesus is, peaceful, not combative. 32:54 He came to show the nature of the Father. 32:57 There was a song years ago. 33:01 They used to call it "Jesus, Meek and Mild". 33:03 I forgot the earlier lyrics to that. 33:05 But gentle, gentle Jesus meek and mild, 33:09 little poem about Jesus. 33:10 Yes, He is, praise the Lord for that. 33:12 So the Bible, Isaiah 53, 33:14 what are the two things that identify 33:16 with the lamb-like nature of Jesus? 33:18 Write those down. 33:20 What are the two things that this text brings out? 33:25 He opened not His mouth, 33:27 and He was silent before His shearers. 33:32 Wow! 33:33 This is interesting. 33:34 Now let's go to Matthew 15. 33:40 Mark 15:4-5, 33:45 the nature of Jesus. 33:49 Mark 15:4-5, for the fulfillment. 34:08 Okay, here we are. 34:15 This is Jesus in the presence of Pilate. 34:21 "Then Pilate asked Him again..." 34:25 Matter of fact, I want to read verse 1, 34:28 and when I get to verse 4, bring it up on the screen. 34:31 I got to go and just... 34:32 I want to put the context together. 34:34 Mark 15:1, "Immediately in the morning, 34:38 the chief priests held a consultation 34:40 with the elders and scribes and the whole council. 34:44 And they found, and they bound Jesus, 34:48 led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate." 34:51 Now if Jesus didn't want to be bound, 34:54 could He have stopped them? 34:57 He could have stopped them with the thought. 34:59 The ropes could have gotten off of Him and bound them, 35:02 but He didn't use any of His divinity. 35:05 He was led as a lamb... 35:06 Notice, this is the leading as a lamb to the slaughter. 35:09 They led Him, He let them bind Him. 35:13 Then verse 2, "Then Pilate and ask him," 35:17 in verse 2, 35:19 "'Are you the king of the Jews?' 35:21 He answered and said to him, 'It is as you say.' 35:25 And the chief priest accused Him of many things, 35:30 but He answered nothing.'" 35:32 You know how hard that is? 35:35 You know how hard that is to be accused 35:37 and say nothing? 35:40 Lord, help me to get there. 35:42 Amen? Amen. 35:44 That's some growth we still have to do. 35:47 Now verse 4 and 5, bring this up. 35:50 "Then Pilate asked Him again saying, 35:54 'Do you answer nothing? 35:57 See how many things they testify against You!' 36:01 But Jesus..." 36:02 What? 36:04 "Still answered nothing, so that Pilate marveled." 36:09 He said, "Wow, who's this guy?" 36:12 And, you know, when Pilate... 36:15 What did Pilate eventually try to do? 36:21 He tried to wash His hands 36:23 when he had the power to release Jesus. 36:25 He looked at Him, 36:27 he was hoping that they would... 36:28 That Jesus would give him some indication 36:30 that he was either innocent of these things 36:33 or guilty of these things, 36:34 but He was so peaceful in the midst of this tribunal. 36:38 He was so peaceful in the midst of those 36:39 that were persecuting Him, 36:41 accusing Him of all kinds of things, 36:43 and just human nature alone would have been, 36:46 you know, some of us would have said nothing 36:47 but would have been visibly shaken. 36:49 But I could guarantee you, Jesus wasn't visibly angry. 36:52 He didn't stand there with His anger seething. 36:55 He didn't have an angry face, He was as a lamb. 36:58 He had to have that kind of disposition 37:00 in order for Him to be Jesus 37:04 meek and mild, lowly Jesus. 37:07 So the answer is there. 37:08 So as we look at this, 37:10 we're going to wind up on this particular point. 37:11 We looked through a number of prophecies. 37:14 To be particular, 37:16 we looked at about maybe 20 of them or 15 of them. 37:18 If you missed the earlier parts of lesson number 36, 37:22 I recommend that you get that and look at the prior videos 37:26 about this particular topic on the truth about Jesus. 37:30 We covered many things, 37:31 not just the prophecies of Jesus, 37:33 but His work, His ministry, His life, 37:36 all those that identified the truth about Jesus. 37:40 I hope you really enjoy that. 37:42 We serve the Lamb. 37:44 Matter of fact, I want to end with this text. 37:45 Go to Revelation 6, 37:47 since we're talking about the lamb, okay? 37:53 Let's go to Revelation. 37:54 And when I say end, the program is not done yet, 37:56 so don't rush, don't get off your couch, 37:58 don't close your Bible. 38:00 Okay. 38:05 Revelation 6, and we're going to look at verse 16. 38:08 Actually, 38:10 since this is the second coming, 38:12 let's look at verse 14 down to 16. 38:20 The Bible says in verse 14, 38:22 "Then the sky receded or split apart 38:26 as a scroll when it is rolled up, 38:29 and every mountain and island was..." 38:30 What? "Moved out of its place. 38:34 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, 38:38 the commanders, the mighty men, 38:41 every slave and every free man, 38:45 hid themselves in the caves 38:47 and in the rocks of the mountains." 38:49 Just to pause on the phrase "slave". 38:51 You know, we're living in 2016, these are modern times. 38:54 But I was surprised at the news, 38:57 I was watching maybe last week or the week before, they said, 38:59 "Do you know that there are more slaves today?" 39:02 There are more slaves today. 39:05 In various areas, 39:06 there are people that are held as slaves 39:08 to produce garments in some foreign countries, 39:11 slaves in factories, 39:12 there are people sold into the sex trade. 39:15 There are people that are... 39:17 That's why I believe it's India. 39:20 They're making it almost impossible 39:21 to adopt a child 39:23 because many of the children that were adopted in India, 39:25 and many of these foreign countries, 39:27 they were taken with the intention... 39:29 The people said, "Well, we're going to give them 39:30 a new home or wonderful life. 39:34 When they traced it, it was a sad story. 39:37 It was quite a dark place that these children ended up. 39:40 There are more slaves today than in the time of slavery, 39:44 you know, 70, 80 years ago. 39:46 And I'll tell you, it's global. 39:49 It's global. 39:50 So when you see the text, it says, 39:51 "Every slave and every free man." 39:53 When Jesus comes back, 39:54 they're going to be slaves of all kind, 39:57 all nationalities, 39:58 but look at the verse that we're going to point at. 40:01 And it says in verse 15, 40:02 "And they hid themselves in the caves 40:04 and in the rocks of the mountains." 40:06 And notice this. 40:07 "And said to the mountains and the rocks, 'Fall on us, 40:11 hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne 40:14 and from the wrath of the Lamb! 40:17 For the great day of His wrath has come 40:21 and who is able to stand?'" 40:23 So the Lamb 40:25 slain from the foundation of the world, 40:27 Revelation 13, 40:29 the Lamb who was led to His persecution 40:34 and to His death, and didn't open His mouth, 40:36 didn't fight to free Himself. 40:38 The Lamb will come back one day. 40:40 Let me encourage you not to just learn 40:42 about the prophecies of the Lamb 40:44 but to accept the Lamb as your Savior. 40:46 Amen? 40:47 So that when He comes, we will be in the right group. 40:50 We'll be coming... 40:51 If we're in the mountains, we'll be coming out, 40:53 we're not running in. 40:54 Praise God for that. 40:56 Let's go to the next slide. This is very interesting slide. 40:58 I want to emphasize this point. 40:59 Our next topic we're dealing with 41:01 is lesson number 37 and notice this. 41:03 Let's bring the slide up. 41:05 We're talking about dealing with what? 41:07 Dealing with anger. 41:09 Now what prompted me to cover this topic is... 41:12 That's a pretty interesting picture there. 41:15 Man, I'll tell you, 41:16 there's amazing stories about things that happen 41:18 when people get angry. 41:20 I remember the story about the guy 41:21 who woke up in the morning and some 41:22 unusual incident happened in his home, 41:24 kicked the dog, and it just went downhill from there. 41:28 And so many programs on television talk about anger. 41:32 What do they suggest 41:33 when you can't control your anger? 41:35 What do they call it? 41:36 Anger management. 41:39 There are many people that don't know 41:40 what to do with their anger. 41:41 And as I mentioned to you just a moment ago, 41:44 when the Bible talks about anger or being angry, 41:46 it mentions that over 130 times 41:49 about anger in the Old Testament. 41:51 As a matter of fact, trivia, are you ready? 41:55 Who was the first one in the Bible 41:58 that allowed his anger to lead him to murder? 42:02 Cain! Cain. 42:04 And the Lord looked at him, He says, "Why are you angry?" 42:10 Just a brother. 42:11 He just had a brother, 42:12 a mother, and a father, he said, 42:14 "Why is your countenance downcast? 42:17 What's your... 42:18 What's wrong with you?" 42:20 And then we read about... 42:21 The Bible says, 42:23 "The blood of your brother crieth to me 42:25 from the ground." 42:27 Did the Lord know what happened? 42:29 And also, you read the story of Jonah, 42:31 we're going to just bring out a couple of examples. 42:33 Jonah, we call him the reluctant evangelist. 42:37 The Lord said go to Tarshish, go to Nineveh, 42:41 he went to Tarshish instead. 42:43 Nineveh was in one direction, Tarshish, try to say that, 42:47 was in a completely different direction. 42:49 He went down to the sea coast, 42:53 went down to the port and paid, 42:56 for the fear went down into the ship. 42:58 What happens when you're running from Jesus? 43:00 Your life goes down, down, down. 43:03 And then a great storm hit the boat, 43:06 and they were wondering, 43:07 "What's the storm was all about?" 43:09 These mariners, these fishermen, these sailors, 43:12 these mariners, 43:14 they had thought we've never been in a storm this way, 43:16 and finally Jonah said, "I'm the reason." 43:18 They throw him overboard, he gets swallowed by a fish, 43:21 ends up at Nineveh, preaches a sermon, 43:25 and the city repents, 120,000 people. 43:28 And he sits there says, 43:31 if I had 120, 000 converts with one sermon, 43:34 would you be happy? 43:36 He hated Nineveh so much, 43:37 he wanted to see Nineveh destroyed. 43:39 And the Lord... 43:40 So he sat under a tree, and the sun rose up, 43:44 and the tree dried up. 43:46 And there was Jonah sitting in the hot sun 43:48 angry at the tree. 43:50 And the Lord says, "Jonah, what's your problem?" 43:53 He's angry at the tree. 43:56 He's angry at the people that repented. 43:59 And the story of Jonah, 44:02 only four verses, only four chapters, sorry, 44:04 only four chapters deal with the story of Jonah. 44:07 But Jonah's major downfall was disobedience and anger. 44:11 Didn't want to do God's will, reluctantly did it, 44:14 God converted that city. 44:18 And the last thing we hear about Jonah was he was angry. 44:21 Story kind of ends after Jonah's anger. 44:23 So let's talk about dealing with anger, 44:25 this topic of anger 44:27 because Christians do get angry. 44:29 Do we get angry? 44:31 Okay, we get angry. 44:33 Sometimes we get angry during the week, 44:36 very few Christians get angry on Sabbath morning. 44:40 Exactly. 44:44 Do we get angry with our relatives? 44:47 With our friends? 44:50 Our spouses? 44:54 Yes. 44:55 Anger is a natural reaction. 44:59 Let me tell you why it's natural. 45:01 If the Lord didn't want us to get angry, 45:02 He wouldn't even create 45:04 the ability to get angry, right? 45:07 So we have that ability to get angry. 45:09 Let's look at some of these things. 45:11 Question number one, 45:13 question number one, and here it is. 45:17 "What does the Bible reveal about God's anger?" 45:22 Ooh, God's anger? 45:25 Let's go to Psalm 103, 45:27 and we're going to look at verse 8 and 9. 45:31 God's anger, 45:33 Psalm 103:8 and 9. 45:39 Hmm, this is a beautiful passage by the way. 45:44 Okay, let's look at verse 8 and 9. 45:46 Here it is. 45:50 Verse 8 reads as follows. 45:53 It says, "The Lord is..." 45:56 What? 45:57 "Merciful and..." 45:59 What else? 46:00 "Gracious." What's the next word? 46:02 "Slow to anger and abounding in..." 46:06 What? "In mercy. 46:09 He will not always strive with us 46:12 nor will He keep His anger..." 46:14 For how long? "Forever." 46:16 So does He get angry? Yeah. 46:19 How many people keep their anger 46:21 for a long time? 46:24 What's your... 46:25 You still... 46:27 "Yanick, you still upset about that? 46:28 When did it happen?" 46:30 I've had some people say, "I'm angry." 46:32 And they tell me their story, and I say, 46:34 "When did that happen?" 46:35 And they mentioned it to me, and I said, "Are you serious? 46:39 How many years was that?" 46:41 There were some people, we met a few days ago, 46:42 we were down in Tennessee, 46:44 and we met a security guard at one of the plants there. 46:50 I want to be very general about it. 46:52 And it was... 46:55 We identified ourselves, I left my business card, 46:57 they said, "Who are you?" 46:59 And I said "Well, I'm a pastor. 47:00 Here's my card." 47:01 "Oh, you're an Adventist pastor." 47:03 He said, "I used to go to the Adventist church." 47:06 "Used to?" 47:08 "Yeah, I used to, but I had a bad experience. 47:10 Made me really angry. I don't go anymore." 47:14 "How long has it been?" 47:15 "Oh, it's been about..." 47:20 And he tried to come up with it. 47:22 But I was so glad when I said, "Are you serious? 47:24 You haven't been that long." 47:25 He said, "No, no, really, 47:26 I don't go to that one anymore, but I do go." 47:28 I said, "Ah! 47:30 I feel better." 47:31 You know, he said, 47:33 "I don't go to that one anymore, 47:34 but I still go." 47:35 I said, "Okay" 'Cause I said now... 47:37 I said, "Who we're looking for may not be here today, 47:39 but we may have come 47:40 just to tell you need get back in church." 47:43 And he was kind of sheepish about it. 47:46 And we've traveled, and we've heard people. 47:47 We were in South Dakota many years ago, 47:50 is that where the four heads of the presidents are? 47:51 South Dakota. 47:53 We were there for their 50th inauguration... 47:55 For the inauguration that never happened after 50 years, 47:57 and I was invited to sing, 47:59 and President Daddy Bush was there, 48:01 and we went there and didn't know why. 48:04 It was an interdenominational group, 48:05 and I was singing a song "God Bless USA". 48:08 And they said, "When you sing, just look forward, 48:10 don't look up, the jets are going to fly over, 48:13 the Red Baron's going to fly over, 48:14 the F-18s and the B-1 bomber. 48:17 And I want to look so badly, 48:18 but he said, "Don't look up 48:20 because the president's going to be watching you, 48:21 all the color guards are there. 48:23 But the days before in practice, 48:25 we met four Adventists that had left the church. 48:30 And we said, "Now we know why we're here." 48:33 And when we heard their reasons. 48:35 One left because the pastor got him upset, 48:36 and she played the organ. 48:38 She hadn't been back for nine years. 48:40 And since he's... 48:41 Oh, these are serious things. 48:43 And since she's married, her husband didn't go back. 48:46 And then the other one was a Sabbath school teacher 48:47 at the same church. 48:49 And she got offended by something that was said 48:50 to somebody else about her, she left. 48:53 And I thought... 48:54 And so we visited them at their house 48:56 and got to know them better, and they told us their story. 48:59 And as they were telling the story, 49:04 you could almost see their faces 49:06 kind of like saying, "Really? 49:08 Is that it?" 49:10 And they had that look, and I said, 49:11 "Honestly, it's been a long time. 49:14 It's time for you to go back." 49:15 And I still have the letters in my file to this very day. 49:19 All three of them, it was a number of months later 49:21 they wrote us back. 49:22 And they said, "We're back in the church." 49:24 And the one that was playing the organ, she said, 49:25 "I'm playing the organ again." 49:27 But they dealt with their anger. 49:29 See anger is a self-destroying attitude. 49:35 Anger destroys the person 49:37 who is angry more than the person we're angry with. 49:41 That's why I look at this slide. 49:42 I've of kind of done something little different, 49:44 look at the slide. 49:45 So you might write this down. 49:47 Write this down under point number one. 49:49 Here it is, bring it up, bring the slide up. 49:51 Be slow, bring up my slide for me. 49:54 Be slow to anger. 49:57 Be what? 49:59 Slow to anger. 50:01 Be slow because that's what Jesus is, slow to anger. 50:07 And don't keep your anger forever. 50:09 That's why that picture was significant. 50:11 He has a piece of tape over his mouth 50:12 because you know what, 50:14 people that are angry 50:15 shouldn't speak when they're angry 50:17 because the worst words come out when you're angry, 50:21 because the worst thoughts... 50:22 Or like, the thoughts are like the engine 50:24 that's revving in the background 50:26 and if you just release the brake 50:29 and put that thought in gear, 50:31 you'd run somebody over emotionally. 50:34 And emotionally, sometimes people say... 50:37 Have you heard that phrase years ago, 50:38 "Sticks and stones may break my bones..." 50:40 What? 50:42 "Words will never harm me." 50:44 That's not true. 50:45 Words are so damaging, today, 50:46 they have an anti-bullying law which... 50:50 When I was growing up, when we were growing up, 50:52 kids were ruthless, 50:53 but we didn't have an anti-bullying law. 50:56 So let's exemplify the character. 50:58 So what does the Bible reveal about God's anger? 51:00 What did you write down? 51:02 He's slow to anger, He's merciful, 51:04 He will not keep His anger forever. 51:07 Let me encourage you, 51:08 if you're angry about something, 51:09 learn how to deal with that anger. 51:11 If you're a person that tends to lose your temper, 51:15 pray for God to get that temper under control 51:18 because we fly off our handle. 51:20 You know, sometimes I'm talking to people... 51:24 Let me not talk about other people, 51:26 let me just say myself. 51:30 Confession is good for the soul, 51:32 heart and the repute. 51:33 I've been in positions before where I was so internally upset 51:36 that while the person is speaking, 51:38 my kettle is boiling. 51:41 Have we been there? Oh, yes. 51:43 And you can't wait till they take a breath 51:45 so you can insert 51:47 into that quarter of a second space 51:50 exactly what you want to say. 51:52 You're waiting for that breath. 51:54 And that's why some people when they're angry, 51:56 they don't take a breath because they know that 51:58 when you insert into there, it's going to go on. 52:01 Have you ever been so angry that you go home 52:02 and you think about what you didn't say? 52:05 If I see them again... 52:07 And you have another fight. 52:09 These are afflictions that even Christians deal with. 52:12 You got to be like Jesus. 52:13 You've got to be like who? Jesus. 52:15 Anger could destroy congregations. 52:20 Oh, man, anger. 52:23 And the Bible says in the last days, 52:25 "One of the signs of the last days, 52:26 the nations are angry." 52:29 Is our world angry? 52:31 Are the nations angry? 52:34 Is America angry? 52:36 Let me leave it there. 52:39 I choose not to date this program. 52:43 Okay, let's go to the next one. 52:46 Pray for God to help you deal with your anger 52:49 because it could destroy families terribly. 52:52 People slam doors and break stuff 52:53 that they can't put back together, 52:56 you know, throwing stuff out the window, 52:58 smashed the television, 52:59 kick their foot through the door. 53:01 I made my comment, do I keep going? 53:03 Rip up stuff that they can't put back together. 53:05 Anger, I'm thinking of all these instances, 53:07 wow, anger is terrible. 53:10 Let's go to the next one, number two, number two. 53:14 "What kind of emotional disposition 53:17 should we have towards anger?" 53:20 What kind of emotional disposition 53:22 should we have towards anger? 53:26 Psalm 145:8. 53:29 Since we're in Psalm, let's look at that. 53:33 Psalm 145:8. 53:40 Okay, here it is. 53:43 This is kind of reiteration, but we're going to cover 53:45 a couple of other things in this area. 53:47 The Bible says, "The Lord is..." 53:49 What? 53:51 "Gracious and full of compassion." 53:54 Next three words, "Slow to anger..." 53:57 And what else? 53:58 "Great in..." 53:59 What? "Mercy." 54:01 Now let me point out something, 54:02 you don't really know why people get angry. 54:05 I've had people get angry with me 54:06 in a position as a pastor. 54:08 I always say, and I've learned... 54:10 I mean, I've grown, 54:12 I have come to the place where I have said, 54:14 and in many cases, I've been right, 54:16 but in some cases, 54:18 in some cases and very rare cases, 54:20 it's been like, "Really? 54:22 Did you get angry over that? 54:24 You must have missed what I said before that." 54:26 Sometimes people will hear a sermon, 54:28 I'd say something in the sermon, 54:29 and that's all they will hear, 54:32 and they won't come back to church. 54:33 And they'll come up with this crazy concept 54:37 that I don't like a certain kind of vehicle 54:39 because I mentioned it in my sermon. 54:40 My whole point was, "You can't drive to heaven no matter 54:42 what kind of vehicle you have." 54:44 But slow to anger, gracious, full of compassion, 54:48 so let's write that down. 54:49 What kind of disposition should we have towards anger? 54:53 We put down slow but be full of compassion, 54:56 be great in mercy 54:58 because angry people hurt people. 55:04 Hurting people hurt people. 55:07 Angry people sometimes build their own jail, 55:10 and they lock themselves in, and they refuse to get out. 55:14 And I think sometimes it is 55:16 because pride keeps some people angry 55:20 until they feel justified. 55:25 You know, angry people sometimes 55:26 want to be vindicated. 55:28 They want somebody to say, "You're angry for good reason." 55:31 Not always the case. 55:33 You don't always have the right reason to be angry. 55:35 Sometimes you could be angry for the wrong reason. 55:37 But because you came up with the idea to be angry, 55:39 then all of a sudden, you want people to vindicate, 55:41 "Yes, Yanick, you are good at being angry." 55:43 No, be full of compassion, be gracious, 55:46 put yourself in the other person's position and realize. 55:49 So here's my point, look at the next slide. 55:52 Don't let anger become your first reaction. 55:57 Look at that slide. 55:58 Don't let anger become your first reaction. 56:02 Can you bring my slide up for me there? 56:05 Don't let anger become your first reaction. 56:08 Because when anger is your first reaction... 56:11 Don't let anger become your first reaction. 56:14 When anger is your first reaction, 56:16 sometimes, to some people, that's your last reaction. 56:20 Because I tell you sometimes we could blow up on people, 56:23 and while we're exploding, 56:27 they just turn around and just walk away, 56:30 don't want to talk to us anymore. 56:32 And I also found this out, as a pastor, 56:36 I was talking about this 56:37 at Southern University just a few days ago. 56:40 And I said to one of the students. 56:43 We were talking about... 56:44 I forgot what the topic was, but we're saying. 56:47 You know, I said, "As student, you guys could lose your temper 56:51 in this cafeteria and get into a yelling match, 56:55 and you could apologize tomorrow, 56:56 and people will forgive you. 56:58 But if I got angry 57:00 and blew my temper in your cafeteria, 57:03 you know, they'll say, 'Isn't that guy from 3ABN? 57:06 Isn't that Pastor Lomacang? 57:08 Oh, I'm not watching 57:10 that network ever again.'" 57:14 You know, certain people can't afford to get angry. 57:17 So, you know, what happens when we're angry, 57:19 we go home and say, "Lord, I'm angry, help me with it." 57:22 Because we all, at one point or another, 57:24 get angry, isn't that right? 57:26 But don't let anger become your first reaction. 57:29 Analyze the situation, 57:32 find out where that anger is coming from, 57:33 find out what the purpose of your anger is, 57:36 and don't let it become the master over you. 57:39 So write that third point down 57:40 under number two or second point. 57:43 Don't let anger become your first reaction. 57:46 Friends, we're going to continue 57:47 in this very practical topic, 57:49 invite your friends to be a part of it 57:50 because we know 57:52 that if it doesn't make sense right now, 57:53 just keep studying God's Word, 57:54 one day, it will come into A Sharper Focus. 57:58 God bless you. |
Revised 2018-08-29