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Hostility
Most of us get angry when we see someone cheated out of an opportunity or robbed of their liberty. When we watch the news and see men released from prison after serving decades on bogus charges, our sense of justice is disturbed. When people are
prosecuted
without reason and unreasonably
persecuted
we get angry.
Everyone has a breaking point. Even Jesus himself, usually soft-spoken and philosophical in his demeanor, became angry when he saw the money changers in the temple. He turned over tables and shouted, "It is written that my father's house is the house of prayer, but ye have turned it into a den of thieves."- He was visibly angry.
There was never another occasion when he showed so much rage, but on that day the presence of so much sin, made him angry. Sin pushed his buttons.
Even in our anger, however, we must not sin. We must channel our anger into godly responses and resistance to sin that promote Godly principles