HAPPY GILMORE
A STUDY OVER THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT: PART XII (TOPIC: ANGER)
INTRO: Talk about any incident in Happy Gilmore, tons of anger stories here (my favorite is the one in which Adam Sandler gets knocked out by Bob Barker…the Price is Wrong Bob).
BIBLE VERSE: Matthew 5:21-22
You have heard that is was said to an older generation, “Do not murder, and whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.” But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults a brother will be brought before the council, and whoever says “Fool” will be sent to a fiery hell.
1. RAGE ANGER (WILDFIRE):
BIBLE VERSE: Ephesians 4:31
You must put away every kind of bitterness, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.
THUMOS: Paul uses the word Thumos, which in English means rage! And rage explodes like a wildfire.
WILDFIRE EXAMPLE: The Summer 2008 California Wildfires (Northern CA Lighting Series):
“The fires broke out after three years of below-normal rainfall dehydrated much of California’s forests and woodlands, making them prone to wildfires. Spring 2008 for California was the driest on record for many locations; for example, San Francisco registered only 0.007 inches (0 cm) of rain out of a normal of 6.18 inches (16 cm) from March to May.[4][6] As vegetation turned into bone-dry tinder in early June, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a statewide drought for the first time in over a century.[7] Dry thunderstorms and lightning, rarely seen on the California coastline in June, rolled onshore on the weekend of June 20 - June 21. The storm unleashed 25,000 to 26,000 dry lightning strikes across Northern and Central California, igniting more than 2,000 fires.[8][9] The same thunderstorms also caused fires in Oregon.[10] High daytime temperatures facilitated the spread of the fires and the number of wildfires skyrocketed in the days after the thunderstorm.[4]
A heat wave commenced on July 7, with temperatures in inland locations, such as the Central Valley soaring above 115 °F (46 °C). Lake Berryessa recorded a high temperature of 126 °F (52 °C), prompting weather agencies like the National Weather Service to issue high fire danger warnings.[11] These near to record-breaking temperatures concerned many firefighters, who feared that the high heat, low humidity, and high-elevation winds could make firefighting more strenuous.[12][13]”
Overall, over 1.5M acres were lost to the blazes, have to go back the “Great Fire of 1910” dubbed the “Big Blow-Up or the Big Burn” to have a fire of a larger scale (burnt up Montana & Idaho, 3M acres).
Transition: And I have seen homes and families burnt up because of the same type of burning.
WILDFIRE: Wildfires begin in dry places, at the same time, rage erupts in dry places and in dry people. If someone is only getting a sprinkle of God’s wisdom, a sprinkle of God’s love, I will show you a person who could become a wildfire.
Chinese Proverb: The Emptier the Pot, the quicker the boil. For someone to fly into rage quickly and repeatedly, the more empty they are spiritually (this is very, very general, but holds great truth).
Proverbs 14:17
A quick tempered man does foolish things.
2. HIDDEN ANGER (VOLCANO):
BIBLE VERSE: Ephesians 4:26b
Do not let the sun go down when you are still angry.
PERORGISMO: Literally means, hidden anger. But hidden anger, perorgismo anger can become thumos in a hurry. It burns sort of like a volcano.
VOLCANO: Mount St. Helen’s:
“Mount St. Helens is most famous for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, at 8:32am PDT[1] which was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways, and 185 miles (298 km) of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing the elevation of the mountain’s summit from 9,677 feet (2,950 m) to 8,365 feet (2,550 m) and replacing it with a 1 mile (1.6 km) wide horseshoe-shaped crater.[2] The debris avalanche was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.9 km3) in volume. The Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument was created to preserve the volcano and allow for its aftermath to be scientifically studied.
As with most other volcanoes in the Cascade Range, Mount St. Helens is a large eruptive cone consisting of lava rock interlayered with ash, pumice, and other deposits. The mountain includes layers of basalt and andesite through which several domes of dacite lava have erupted. The largest of the dacite domes formed the previous summit, and off its northern flank sat the smaller Goat Rocks dome. Both were destroyed in the 1980 eruption.
Shaken by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, the north face of this tall symmetrical mountain collapsed in a massive rock debris avalanche. Nearly 230 square miles (600 km2) of forest was blown down or buried beneath volcanic deposits. At the same time a mushroom-shaped column of ash rose thousands of feet skyward and drifted downwind, turning day into night as dark, gray ash fell over eastern Washington and beyond. The eruption lasted 9 hours, but Mount St. Helens and the surrounding landscape were dramatically changed within moments.”
You want to know why some people get real frustrated, I mean extremely angry at a church leader or pastor from time to time? Let me explain it to you this way.
The Washing Machine: All washing machines have a host of different cycles, different processes of cleaning dirty clothes. Though there is bleach, fabric softener, rinse, water, etc, there is one thing that it must have, and that is it must have an AGITATOR. The agitator makes sure dirty clothes become clean. God is the holy agitator, he aggregates dirty lives and wants them to become clean. Now, does everyone want their lives to become clean?
5 TESTS OF ANGER: So here are the 5 tests to tell whether or not our anger is sinful anger.
A. Is it anger directed towards a person?
B. Is it anger without a justifiable cause?
C. Is it anger that seeks vengeance?
D. Is it anger that is cherished?
E. Is it anger that has an unforgiving spirit?
VERSES ABOUT WHAT WE SAY, OUR ANGER:
#1: James 3:9-10
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.
What 2 things come out of your mouth?
#2: Proverbs 19:11
A person’s wisdom makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
What is one characteristic of a person with wisdom?
#3: James 1:20
For human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.
What is accomplished by human anger?
#4: Proverbs 15:1
A gentle response turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.
What is the best way to turn away anger?
#5: Psalm 37:8
Do not be angry and frustrated! Do not fret! That only leads to trouble!
What other emotion tends to join up with anger?
#6: Proverbs 14:29
The one who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.
What happens to someone with a quick temper?
#7: Jeremiah 25:37
Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste, by the fierce anger of the Lord.
Does God get angry?
Transition: The Incredible Hulk: Talk about David Banner & The Incredible Hulk. The Hulk is a superhero because he correctly uses his anger to go after bad people doing bad things. Now, I am not suggesting that we turn green, get tons of muscle mass, suddenly grow our hair long, but somehow have our jeans still fit, and start throwing around cars. But there is a type of anger that is actually very very good.
3. HOLY ANGER (HATE SIN):
BIBLE VERSE: Ephesians 4:26a
Be angry and do not sin.
(which of course means that it is possible to be angry and not in sin)
WARNING LIGHT ON THE CAR: Maybe you are like me, you are driving your car, and the warning light goes on that you are low on gas. So, being a guy, what do you do? Right, keep driving. Then keep driving some more. Have you ever run out of gas? Yeah, me too, pretty dumb huh?
Well, anger acts as the warning light. You have gotten angry over something, and most people lash out. The better thing to do is ask yourself why you are so angry. God gave us a blinking yellow light called anger, and it means “PROCEED WITH CAUTION.”
BIBLE VERSE: Matthew 21:12-13
Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all of those who were selling and buying in the temple courts and turned over money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. And he said to them, “It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you have turned it into a den of robbers.”
JESUS & THE MONEY CHANGERS:
Temple Area: Key point here, what is the point of the synagogue, the church? What is the main purpose? It is to be used for prayer, it is to be used for people connecting to God. But instead, it was used to better the men who ran businesses near it.
Anger: Was Jesus angry? He absolutely was here. He threw the bankers tables, tossed the cash, grabbed a whip and snapped at people and at their animals. According to Luke 19 he had just gotten done weeping not so long ago and now his emotions have swung the full pendulum. It was awesome, holy anger!
Selling Doves: Why doves? Because doves were used in the temple sacrifices. But by who? Doves were used as sacrifices by the poorest people, not those who have great or mediocre wealth. So let me ask you a question, what is the price of a hot dog at Busch Stadium? So what do you think the price of a dove was in the temple area? See, not only was Jesus angry at the business, he was angry at who was getting ripped.
Den or Robbers: There is a two fold message here for the religious hierarchy. First, they were ripping off people financially. Then, they were ripping them off spiritually. That is an incredible NO-NO in God’s eyes.
CLOSE: In the movie Happy Gilmore, the woman manager asks Gilmore “What’s this I hear about you breaking a rake and throwing it in the woods?. Gilmore responds, “What? I didn’t *break* it, I was just testing its durability, and then I *placed* it in the woods because it’s made of wood and I just thought he should be with his family.” Though the line is very funny, in all actuality, it is a lie. And yet our anger and lies have continually thrown our good testimonies away, lets not lose our Christian walk in the woods.
Sources:
Edwards, Darron. The Danger of Anger. United Believers Church, Missouri Baptist: August 2001.
Freeman, Jason. Being Good and Angry. Independent Bible: February 2005.
Newland, Melvin. Overcoming Anger. Christian Church, Oklahoma: October 1990.
Wikipedia.com Keyword: Mount St. Helen’s.
Wikipedia.com. Keyword: Summer 2008 California Wildfires.
NAME: ________________________
HAPPY GILMORE
A STUDY OVER THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT: PART XII (TOPIC: ANGER)
BIBLE VERSE: Matthew 5:21-22
1. RAGE ANGER (________________):
BIBLE VERSE: Ephesians 4:31
You must put away every kind of _____________________, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.
THUMOS: ____________________________________________________________________________
WILDFIRE: ___________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
Proverbs 14:17
A ______________ ________________________ man does __________________________ things.
2. HIDDEN ANGER (______________________):
BIBLE VERSE: Ephesians 4:26b
Do not let the __________ _________________ _________________ when you are still angry.
PERORGISMO: ________________________________________________________________________
VOLCANO: ___________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
WASHING MACHINE: ___________________________________________________________________
5 TESTS OF ANGER: So here are the 5 tests to tell whether or not our anger is sinful anger.
A. Is it anger __________________________________?
B. Is it anger without ____________________________?
C. Is it anger that _______________________________?
D. Is it anger that _______________________________?
E. Is it anger that has an __________________________?
#1: James 3:9-10 What 2 things come out of your mouth? _________________________________
#2: Proverbs 19:11 What is one characteristic of a person with wisdom? _______________________
#3: James 1:20 What is accomplished by human anger? ________________________________
#4: Proverbs 15:1 What is the best way to turn away anger? _______________________________
#5: Psalm 37:8 What other emotion tends to join up with anger? __________________________
#6: Proverbs 14:29 What happens to someone with a quick temper? __________________________
#7: Jeremiah 25:37 Does God get angry? _______________________________________________
3. _____________ ANGER (HATE SIN):
BIBLE VERSE: Matthew 21:12-13
_____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________