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To: Mr. Silverback
Jesus was sinless, He never "lost His temper" for Pete's sake!
 
Oh??
 
Matthew 21:12
 Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.
 
Mark 3:4-5
 4.  Then Jesus asked them, "Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they remained silent.
 5.  He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.
 
Mark 11:15-16
 15.  On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves,
 16.  and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.
 
John 2:13-17
1 3.  When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
 14.  In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
 15.  So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
 16.  To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!"
 17.  His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me."
 
Ephesians 4:26-27
 26.  "In your anger do not sin" : Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,
 27.  and do not give the devil a foothold.
 
Hebrews 3:7-11
 7.  So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, 
 8.  do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert,
 9.  where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.
 10.  That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, `Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.'
 11.  So I declared on oath in my anger, `They shall never enter my rest.'"
 
Hebrews 4:3
  Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, "So I declared on oath in my anger, `They shall never enter my rest.'" And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world.

38 posted on 03/06/2004 10:26:27 AM PST by Elsie (When the avalanche starts... it's too late for the pebbles to vote....)
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To: Elsie
Me: Jesus was sinless, He never "lost His temper" for Pete's sake!

You: Oh??

There is a very large difference between being angry and "losing your temper." Losing your temper is when you lose some or all control of yourself and the anger is running you instead of motivating you. It is part of what Paul was addressing when he wrote, "In your anger, do not sin." (Ephesians 4:25, quoting Psalm 4:4)

41 posted on 03/07/2004 3:47:24 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Pre-empt the third murder attempt-- Pray for Terry Schiavo!)
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