How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #9: Avoiding Anger (Ecclesiastes 7:9) This lesson deals with the subject of anger. Everyone experiences anger the difference is how we handle anger. Even though most of the time anger does cause us to sin, anger itself is not sin. Note that...
In Matt 14:25-31, when the disciples were in a ship in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves, Matt 14:24, Jesus went to them walking on the sea. When they saw him, they were troubled and they cried out for fear. Jesus responded, “Be of good cheer; it is...
Ecc 7:7-10 is a passage that contains great lessons for rulers. These lessons for rulers are: Oppression maketh a wise man mad, Ecc7:7. One of the greatest cases of oppression in the Bible took place in Egypt when the Jews were made slaves, Exodus 3:9. The Pharaoh who ruled Egypt...
Bitterness Ephesians 4:29-32 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malica: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. Corrupt communication- any conversation that does not edify...
In many cases, depression is something you can address spiritually and practically rather than chemically, through anti-depressants. You can often make changes in your spiritual life that will improve your emotional and mental health. Furthermore, if depression is exacerbated by your lifestyle and diet, you can make the necessary lifestyle...
Slow to Wrath Jas. 1:19 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO There are three things you need to be slow to do. You must be slow to anger, slow to speak and slow to wrath. We are going to study each of these today since more Christians are troubled by these three things...
Anger is a natural emotional response, as are other emotions like sadness, and joy, and loneliness, and fear, etc. According to Paul, it is possible to be angry and sin not, Eph 4:26. However, more times than not, anger is a loss of temper, and therefore sin. And because it...
In four verses in Proverbs, we find the expression, “stirreth up strife”. Strife is agitation, contention, opposition, or quarrel in your relationship with someone else. Whenever you find strife in any relationship, you should look for the underlying cause. You can have strife in your marriage, in your family, among...
There are some things that don’t go away on their own and God doesn’t deliver you from them. You have to put away these people or things in your life. Put away: A wicked person – 1 Cor 5:13. In the context of v.11, we are not to keep...
VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS SERMON AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS SERMON We learn much about human nature and the reactions of people from reading the Bible. And we shouldn’t ignore these things when we’re preaching just because they don’t move us to a particular response at the time. The inspiration of...
