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wrath."
Don't allow your anger to go past
sundown. Read on to verses 31-32:
Did you ever realize the depth of truth
in Matthew 11:29, when Jesus said,
"
Learn of me"? We first have to come
to Him
to learn of Him.
What is meekness? It is gentleness. It's
also one of the fruit of the spirit listed
in Galatians 5:23. The Bible states that
Moses was the meekest man in the
world at that time, which was
one of
the main reasons God called him!
Walking in the fruit of the spirit
produces holiness. Jesus, the holiest
man who ever lived on this planet
was, and is, the meekest man who
ever walked the face of the earth. That
does not mean that He was never
angry. Remember when He, in anger,
turned over the money tables in the
Temple (Mark 11:15)?
Let's look at Ephesians 4:26:
31 LET ALL BITTERNESS, AND WRATH,
AND ANGER, AND CLAMOUR, AND EVIL
SPEAKING, BE PUT AWAY FROM YOU,
WITH ALL MALICE:
32 AND BE YE KIND ONE TO ANOTHER,
TENDERHEARTED, FORGIVING ONE
ANOTHER, EVEN AS GOD FOR CHRIST'S
SAKE HATH FORGIVEN YOU.
26 BE YE ANGRY, AND SIN NOT: LET NOT
THE SUN GO DOWN UPON YOUR
WRATH.
Be angry! But it doesn't stop there.
The rest of that verse says: "…
and sin
not. Don't let the sun go down on your
There is the fruit of the spirit again. It says
to
be kind to one another, forgiving one
another. That's meekness. Praise God!
Notice how chapter 5 starts:
1 BE YE THEREFORE FOLLOWERS OF
GOD, AS DEAR CHILDREN.
"[You] be therefore imitators of God as
dear children;" = "
and WALK IN LOVE, as
Christ also has loved us (verse 2)." Now
read verse 30:
30 FOR WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY,
OF HIS FLESH, AND OF HIS BONES.
We—you and I—
are members of His Body,
of His flesh and of His bones. Remember
now, we are
"learning of Him." Jesus
conquered sin, sickness and death, ONCE
AND FOR ALL and gave everyone who
believes on Him the right to walk in
