Wisdom & Emotion: Anger

Christ Restoration Church Sermons

selected passages from Proverbs
November 17, 2024
preached by Pastor Doug Cooper
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“A man who does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.”

~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), American minister, social reformer, and speaker

“It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.”

~ C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British writer and lay theologian

“The anger of man and the anger of God takes Jesus to the cross.”

~ Paul David Tripp (1950-present), American minister and writer

“The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.”

~ John Piper (1946-present), American theologian, pastor and writer

“Both God’s love and God’s wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax – in the cross.”

~ D.A. Carson (1946-present), Canadian theologian and writer

“When we lift up our eyes and look on the cross we find the final persuasion that God is gracious towards us. How can he be against us when all His wrath against us fell upon Christ? How can He fail to care for us when He gave the only Son He had for our sake? How can we doubt Him when He has given us evidence of His love sufficient to banish all doubts?”

~ Sinclair Ferguson (1948-present), Scottish theologian, minister, author

Sermon Passage

selected passages from Proverbs (ESV)

Proverbs 12

²⁵ Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down,
but a good word makes him glad.

Proverbs 14

²⁹ Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
³⁰ A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh,
but envy makes the bones rot.

Proverbs 15

¹⁸ A hot-tempered man stirs up strife,
but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Proverbs 16

³² Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 19

¹¹ Good sense makes one slow to anger,
and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 29

¹¹ A fool gives full vent to his spirit,
but a wise man quietly holds it back.
²² A man of wrath stirs up strife,
and one given to anger causes much transgression.