🩸 James 1:19-20 | The Anger Jesus Absorbed

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Today, we’re tracing the phrase in our memory verse from the Old Testament through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

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Know ____, ___ ________ ________: let _____ ______ __ _____ to ____, ____ to _____, ____ to ______;

for the anger of ___ does ___ _______ the ____________ of ___.

James 1:19-20

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"Slow to anger" isn’t a phrase that James invented. It’s one that God used over a thousand years earlier to describe himself.

When Moses asked to see God's glory, this is what God said about his own character:

That line became God's signature and Israel repeated it for centuries:

So when James tells us to be slow to anger, he is calling us to look like the God who made us.

And in Jesus’ life and ministry, we get to see God embody these characteristics while walking this earth.

Jesus was patient with his often-confused disciples, with crowds that only wanted things from him, and with the men who would eventually kill him.

And when Jesus did get angry, his anger was righteous. Consider when Jesus flipped a table in the temple while consumed by zeal for his Father’s house.

Or in the gospel of Mark when Jesus confronts the Pharisees for their hard-hearted legalism, because they cared more about protecting their man-made Sabbath traditions than about showing mercy to a suffering man.

Jesus’ anger grieved over sin and never once sinned.

He is the only one whose anger produced exactly what verse 20 says ours cannot: the righteousness of God.

We cannot manufacture that righteousness, least of all by our anger. So God produced it for us:

The slow-to-anger God didn't excuse sin. Rather, he poured out his righteous anger that we deserved on his own Son.

So the fight to be slow to anger is bigger than self-control.

It is the slow work of growing to look like your Father, who has been patient with you for years.

And your Savior, who absorbed the anger you deserved to receive.

The more clearly you see God’s infinite patience with you, the more it will grow in you toward other people.

You have been on the receiving end of God's patience. Now it’s your turn to extend it.

Name one person you have been quick to anger with: a spouse, a kid, a coworker — whichever name that came to mind just now.

This week, give them the patience God has given you. Hold your tongue. Listen first, talk second.

Pray 🙏

Father, you have been patient with me for years, slow to anger every time I deserved otherwise. Thank you for laying my sin on Jesus instead of on me. Give me your patience for ________, and let the way I treat them start to look like the way you have treated me. Amen.

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Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

James 1:19-20