Devoted to the Propagation and Defense of New Testament Christianity
VOLUME 18
November 24, 1966
NUMBER 29, PAGE 5b

Anger

James Brand

To the Ephesians brethren Paul wrote, "Be ye angry, and sin not, Let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil," (Eph. 4:26-27).

Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind. When we are angry we say and do things which, after we have lighted the lamp again and see the damage done, bring sorrow and regret. We may apologize, but we can never undo the damage once done.

Paul wrote, "Let all bitterness, and wrath and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice." (Eph. 4:31).

When anger takes possession of the mind, it takes possession of the body also for he who controls the mind controls the body. And a body controlled by anger is an irresponsible thing robbed of much of its coordination and the larger part of its efficiency.

When anger upseats reason upon the throne and assumes the position of dictator, man becomes a destructive agent only; and is wholly incapable of doing anything that is constructive.

Drunkenness is perhaps the only thing that can make a man as irresponsible as anger; and drunkenness so weakens the body that man is not as great a menace to society when drunk as he is when mad.

Paul admonished, "But now ye also put off all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth." (Col. 3:8).

So it is, "Be ye angry, and sin not: Let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil," (Eph. 4:26-27).

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