Fool Hot Heads

Bears
Our God has a lot to say about “fools” in His Word: Over 70 mentions of fools are sprinkled through the Scriptures. God doesn’t want us to act the fool!
 
One of the characteristics of fools is that they have irrational anger. Proverbs 17:12 warns: “Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool and his folly.” In other words, fools are less rational in anger then wild bears!
 
I have watched sports with interest for many years. At least two trends seem obvious: Now the athletes are bigger and stronger and more athletic and some of them are way more crazy in their rage over things that aren’t that big of a deal!
 
Today’s athlete-fool often throws embarrassing temper tantrums that reveal immaturity and narcissism.
 
Of course you don’t have to be a prima donna sports star to act like a fool: Any Christian who walks according to the flesh and not controlled by the Holy Spirit can easily be irrational in anger. Don’t be that Christian.


I’M MAD

Yamacraw HouseThis is a 5000 square-foot house. It sits on a large ocean front lot at the eastern edge of the city of Nassau, Bahamas.

 
Please notice that all of the windows have been smashed by persons throwing rocks. Please notice the wrought  iron front gates have been intentionally bent over by vandals. I am sure that there is also a great deal of malicious damage on the inside.
 

This is someone’s property. You don’t have to live in a house for it to be property which you own.

Even if it is not a private homeowner’s due to a possible foreclosure, it is someone’s property. Perhaps a bank’s or a deceased person’s estate’s.

Of course God is not against individuals owning property either in the Old or the New Testaments.

I believe that this kind of ugly disrespect makes God mad too.

WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) bracelets used to remind believers to check their behavior against their Lord’s.

That’s fine and dandy.  But John 2:13-16 is in the biblical record!

“And the Passover of the Jews wasn’t hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers seated.
And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the moneychangers, and overturned their tables; and to those who were selling the doves He said, ‘Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house the house of merchandise’ “.

As scourge was a weapon. It inflicted pain.

WWJD? Sometimes get extremely & righteously angry!

With Jesus’ Love,
Pastor Rob Elliott



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