Rage & Grace

There are things in this life that make us mad and angry. They are our hot buttons and when pushed can get us going from 1 to 60 in a second. Some people have more buttons than others, we call them hot-heads. I saw one video on You Tube of a hothead, who, after his mom deleted his online gaming account, went up to his room and went nuts. He was flailing about, bouncing on the bed and screaming. He almost looked demon possessed. Sometimes we have so much rage built up, that we just freak out and go nuts. We lose control.


Rage is defined by dictionary.com as angry fury or violent anger. Now rage is an extreme form of anger, but we typically even look at anger as a negative thing. We think that anger is sin, and it's never what God wants. He never wants us to get angry.


But did you know there was a time when Jesus got angry? You might even say He flipped out. But wasn't He sinless? How can Jesus, who loves everyone, flip out, and how was it not sin? Tomorrow night we continue our series on The Life Of Christ, looking at John 2:13-17 to figure out what made Jesus flip, how it was not a sin, and what is OK for us to be angry about.