WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:10.320 Well that's you know when Chris isn't here, just don't no that was really great, thank you. 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:11.279 Welcome. 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:12.960 I greet you in the name of my Savior. 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:13.919 You gotta hold it up. 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:14.880 Oh sorry, yeah, yeah. 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:15.359 Thank you. 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:15.759 Thank you. 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:16.719 Remind me. 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:19.199 You don't have to I'm gonna poke you every time. 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:19.839 Yeah. 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:22.640 Um I'm glad you're here. 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:24.879 Yes, it's nice to be here. 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:25.359 Yeah. 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:30.480 So I was on the couch this time last week and said, I'll try to get up and go to church. 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:32.159 And I go, You look bad. 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:32.880 Yeah, she did. 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:33.759 Stay put. 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:34.719 You look you're sick. 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:37.840 She got up Tuesday morning and was 100%. 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:41.759 But she was sick last than three days before. 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:49.840 Um I'm just thinking about those songs that just can let us in. 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:57.439 That was a good word. 00:00:57.759 --> 00:00:59.679 I'll just I'll leave it at that for today. 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:01.840 Um, real quickly, I've got an announcement. 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:03.600 I don't want Tommy getting mad at me. 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:07.840 Um this is the same announcement from last week. 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:18.879 This Saturday, this coming Saturday, June the 3rd, the Christ Community Church Children's Summer kickoff will begin from 1 to 3 p.m. 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.799 at the Greenfield Arena, and that's in Midtown. 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:28.079 There will be games and activities and all kinds of fun things for the kids. 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:41.840 So parents, I encourage you if you have a child in uh Morgan and Hannah's uh uh world, uh go and participate in this from 1 to 3 next uh Saturday that's in Midtown. 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:48.159 If you want to know more information, go find Morgan and Hannah back in the where the where their classes are and they can tell you all about it. 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:49.439 And I'm sure they'll send some emails. 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:53.920 Yeah, you'll get emails and regular old lap mic. 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:55.519 Good old fashioned lap mic. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:56.719 Let's see how that works. 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:03.840 I'll get that. 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:56.400 Very first time in the Bible, he describes himself and he reveals some of the qualities that reflect who he is. 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:23.199 And these five qualities in particular were so significant, so important to the Bible authors, the rest of the Bible authors after Moses, that they quoted these five phrases, words, terms, qualities more times in the rest of the Bible than any other verses in the Bible. 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:27.360 It's the most repeated two verses in the entire Bible. 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:37.840 And so it just communicates how the Bible authors saw these qualities and their passion for us to get. 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:49.919 That this is when you think of God, when you look at God, when you behold God, these are the qualities that you're gonna first and foremost witness. 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:53.680 These are the qualities that are gonna drive how he relates to us. 00:03:53.919 --> 00:04:03.599 And actually, the way this is written, all of the other qualities that God possesses flow out of these five. 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:08.560 These are the foundational core qualities of who God is. 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:12.479 I've said it every week, and I've got to say it again. 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:31.279 It's very important that we recognize that God shared these five qualities, these five attributes that reveal who He is, with His people at a very dark time. 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:34.160 You would think it would be when they did something great. 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:36.160 That's when God would share these five. 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:50.079 But it was at a moment in their journey with Yahweh where they had just denied Yahweh, betrayed Yahweh, rejected Yahweh, rebelled against Yahweh. 00:04:50.240 --> 00:05:03.920 And in that moment of pain, in that moment of hurt in the heart of God, what flowed out was this statement. 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:19.199 Yahweh, Yahweh, a God of compassion, a God of grace, slow to anger, and abounding in covenant love and faithfulness. 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:27.199 So it's very important that we see when God said this, at our worst, not at our best. 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:32.560 Two weeks ago we looked at the first quality or attribute, compassion. 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:34.480 Very unique word. 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:40.079 It's the Hebrew word for a mother's womb. 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:59.040 And uh the idea that is communicated from a Hebrew mindset, uh, when it uses this word womb, God is trying to show us that when He thinks of us, He feels, it's an emotional word. 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:08.399 He feels about you, He feels about me like a mom feels about a newborn baby. 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:16.399 That's how, and when we're at our worst, how does God feel about me when I have had the worst week of my life? 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:23.279 I've yelled at Shirley, I've treated my daughter terribly, I've been a jerk and a rear-end all week. 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:25.519 How does God feel about me? 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:30.959 He feels about me like a lady feels about her newborn baby. 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:42.240 Second word that we looked at was the word graciousness, and we're moving up now, we're moving from a lady's womb to our eyes. 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.759 It's a word, the word graciousness or grace. 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:50.879 It carries the idea of view, how you view something. 00:06:50.959 --> 00:07:01.759 And it's the choice to see or view something with value, with beauty, with significance. 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:18.000 The idea being that God wants us to know that when he sees us, what he sees is a person of value, a person of potential, a person of beauty. 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:24.160 And if you want to know more about those things, go to our website, pull up those last two lessons, and you can listen to them. 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:24.639 They're good. 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:25.759 You'll like them. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:38.720 Um today we're gonna look at a third quality that God wants us to know about Himself, and that is His declaration that I am slow to anger. 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:47.519 Um, just for what it's worth, it was a big deal to all these Bible scholars that I studied all week long. 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:58.160 This isn't, this word or this phrase, slow to anger, is not so much a quality as it is a response. 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:04.800 God is compassionate, God is gracious regardless. 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:29.680 That's what flows out of him, but he is slow to anger, and that carries with it this idea that when he witnesses things that impact him with anger, he is slow to respond, he is slow to react. 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.279 Um let me let me ask you a question, friend. 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:33.519 Okay. 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:35.919 Just an opinion. 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:57.919 Um speaking about Americans, you think more Americans, when they think of God, if they believe in a God, do they lean toward God being angry or loving? 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:06.559 When they when they when the when they have the image of God, is it more an angry king or Santa Claus? 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:10.000 Um Grandaddy kind of. 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:10.879 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:25.039 Um, so I have been thinking about this question, and I think I'll answer it, but I think that our response to that question is how our own, based often based on our own circumstances. 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:32.559 So if things are going well for me, I view God as benevolent and loving and good and you see what I'm saying? 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:33.440 Things are going well for me. 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:33.759 Yeah. 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:51.759 But if things are going badly for me or things are fall falling apart just a little bit, or I really want something to happen that doesn't happen, then maybe I would view God in a different light based uh with some anger or with some dissatisfaction or some sort of tyrant or whatever, based on my own circumstances. 00:09:52.159 --> 00:10:01.759 So your experience is gonna, your, your, the, your present circumstances are gonna determine whether you view him as nice and sweet and kind and loving or mean. 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:02.320 Yes. 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:07.200 But those circumstances and our reaction to them often is very fickle. 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:11.200 You know, one minute I'm happy, and the next minute I'm completely in despair. 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:13.519 And that there's a pr that's pretty fickle. 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:18.240 So having said that, I think most people, I think most people view God as loving. 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:24.799 Well, according to polls and surveys, you're right. 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:30.080 Most people in America would lean toward a view of God. 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:34.559 If there is a God, he would have to be a person that is loving. 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:37.919 Nice, kind, compassionate. 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:45.840 But when asked why you think that, they have no basis other than it just should be that way. 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:52.879 He should be loving, he should be nice, he should be kind, therefore I believe he is. 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:59.840 But they have no basis for that other than just their hope or their desire. 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:01.519 I find that interesting. 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:04.000 All right, English teaching lady. 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:06.480 Um, figures of speech. 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:08.000 I'm gonna give you a little quiz. 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:08.639 Okay? 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:09.039 Okay. 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:16.799 When I use the phrase or you hear the phrase break a leg, what what does that communicate? 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:25.279 So it's a theatrical uh call to an actor to to actually do the opposite of what it says. 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:26.559 That's kind of funny, right? 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:27.679 So don't break a leg. 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:29.039 Do well on stage. 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:31.120 I hope you don't break a leg. 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:31.519 Okay. 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:32.799 Uh so it's a good luck thing. 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:33.279 Okay. 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:36.879 So it would be to wish my own, Justin? 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:38.399 Okay. 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:44.399 Um it's it's a it's to break a leg in a theater world would be to wish somebody good luck. 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:44.879 Yes. 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:45.200 Okay. 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:45.600 Yes. 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:45.840 Okay. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:46.080 Yes. 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:48.559 Yeah, because you're not supposed to say luck and stuff in the theater. 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:52.320 Yeah, that is actually to say luck is bad luck, but okay, yeah. 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:58.559 Um how about uh a long I've had a long day. 00:11:59.039 --> 00:11:59.679 What does that mean? 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:00.639 Pooped. 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:06.240 You've had a the day has fe felt longer than the 12 hours or whatever you have in it. 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:06.559 Okay. 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:10.159 And uh or it's been a hard day, or it's been an exhausting day. 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:15.919 But in reality, days aren't longer or shorter, they're 24 hours, every one of them. 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.720 But we say we've had a long day. 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:22.559 Communicating that it's been a hard, difficult, commanding day. 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:24.559 Yeah, longer than the norm. 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:24.960 Okay. 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:26.720 You're walking on thin ice. 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:28.159 You better watch out, boy. 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:28.559 Okay. 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:30.799 I don't walk on thin ice. 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:32.799 Yeah, like you know. 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:33.519 Yeah, yeah. 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:35.759 If you could fall through, this is be careful. 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:37.840 Danger's danger, danger, yeah. 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:38.320 Okay. 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:42.799 Um, he's got John Rimmers has got heart. 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:43.759 What am I saying? 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:44.799 He's a nice guy. 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:45.840 Yeah, nice guy. 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:46.240 What else? 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:46.639 Could it be? 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:54.000 Sturdy, strong, like like dependable, okay, um forthright. 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:55.120 Okay, okay. 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:57.279 You can call on him in time of need. 00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:57.759 Okay. 00:12:57.840 --> 00:12:58.080 All right. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:12:58.879 Good heart. 00:12:58.960 --> 00:12:59.440 Good heart. 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:02.720 Uh you're she's pushing his buttons. 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:04.159 Annoying him. 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:04.639 Okay. 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:06.159 Like like poking somebody. 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:08.240 Nancy is pushing Chuck's buttons. 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:09.200 Well, she does. 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:09.519 Okay. 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:10.159 Okay. 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:15.919 Um Tim is bugging Esther. 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:17.600 Never. 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:28.240 Um, you know, annoying, like, you know, like doing that one thing that everybody that she knows he that he knows she hates, and doing it anyway on purpose. 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:28.480 All right. 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:29.200 Just to be funny. 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:29.519 Okay. 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:30.000 Or whatever. 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:32.639 Last week Ashley was under the weather. 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:33.600 She didn't feel good. 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:34.399 She didn't feel good. 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:35.279 But it's funny, right? 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:37.200 Because it has nothing to do with weather. 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:37.919 Yeah, yeah. 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:39.039 Well, actually, all of these. 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:41.919 None of them didn't have a bug, you're not an insect. 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:42.879 All of these, yeah. 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:44.480 And I'm going somewhere with this. 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:48.240 Um knock on knock on wood. 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:49.840 Yeah, it's like a good luck thing. 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:51.039 I don't want that to happen. 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:52.320 It's like a ward off. 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:53.840 Ward off bad thing. 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:55.440 I'd be interested to know where that came from. 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:56.000 Yeah, me do. 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:58.879 Ward off the the spirits or the bad stuff or whatever. 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:01.840 Another one, although it doesn't have words to it, is when people go. 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:04.320 You ever seen people do you know? 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:08.480 It's to like shoe off the evil spirits on the left, right? 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:11.120 So it's shoe off the bad luck. 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:11.440 All right. 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:13.039 The juju, the bad juju. 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:13.679 Yeah. 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:14.159 Okay. 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:15.600 Uh last one. 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:16.159 Okay. 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:21.279 Um Aunt Linda is nosy. 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:23.039 What is that? 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:24.480 What am I saying? 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:26.399 Aunt Linda. 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:33.919 Um, she um pokes around in in places that are none of her business. 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:34.320 Okay. 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:35.279 But not Aunt Linda. 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:36.240 I would never do that. 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:36.879 Okay. 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:38.879 No, not Aunt Linda, of course not. 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:39.279 Okay. 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:42.159 All right, but but again, it really didn't have anything to do with these phrases. 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:43.120 It has nothing to do with the numbers. 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:48.000 None of these phrases, the words don't reflect the meaning. 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:52.720 They've just over time become a part of our language, our culture. 00:14:52.960 --> 00:15:02.320 But they act, if somebody a thousand years from now or if somebody from another culture found these phrases, they go, what do those phrases have to do with the meaning, right? 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:08.080 Um, so I'm gonna talk about, actually, we're gonna talk about nosy. 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:17.200 In Hebrew, nosy communicates something totally different than butting your nose into somebody else's business. 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:19.840 Um, but that's what we're gonna talk about today. 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:31.759 Uh the way that in Hebrew you would say slow to anger is that you are long of nose. 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:34.240 Or you have a long nose. 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:44.399 If I said if I said Terry has a long nose, what I'm saying by that phrase is that you are patient. 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:49.919 Long suffering, which, boy, isn't that an ironic person? 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:56.399 Anyway, uh, you're long suffering, you're patient, you're slow to anger. 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:00.080 It's long of nose or uh, yeah, yeah. 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:14.159 You get it's it was such a common phrase in the Hebrew language that if you just mentioned the word nose, you immediately associated it, unless you added the word long, you associated it with anger. 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:21.120 To be nosy was meant you were angry, you were an anger or a short-tempered person. 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:24.799 Slow to anger, patient, long-suffering. 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:29.279 They all would be communicated with the phrase long of nose. 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:36.720 To say that a person is angry, you would say their nose burns hot. 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:38.559 I like that. 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:50.639 And it would be, obviously, that one makes a little sense because to say your nose burns hot, what you're saying is you the way you look, your your countenance, your expression, you look angry. 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:52.320 That's what they were trying to say. 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:54.159 Uh we have similar phrases. 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:57.600 You're red-faced, you're hot under the collar. 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:07.039 Um, but in Hebrew, the the idea is you if you use the word, and we would say that, whoo, man, did that get that customer walked in the store and he was hot. 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:10.319 We would understand, oh, he's mad, right? 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:28.240 So we we do the same thing in English in some ways, but um, in English, uh uh the word, uh the word the idea of anger or temper or wrath, just so you know, because sometimes people will come ask me things like, now what's the difference in anger and wrath in the Bible? 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:30.480 Not a one blessed difference. 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:34.240 One's not worse, uh, less or more in the Bible. 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:41.519 Wrath and anger, same, same, they just use different words to translate the same idea so they don't repeat the same word over and over and over again. 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:42.000 Yeah. 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:48.640 So anyway, um the two main Hebrew words for anger are heat and nose. 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:54.960 So to say hot nosed means you are angry or you're hot-tempered, okay? 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:56.640 Um, give you some examples. 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:00.079 This is a very common phrase, runs through the Bible. 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:03.200 Um when Mrs. 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:05.039 Potiphar told Mr. 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:16.559 Potiphar that Joseph had uh come on to her, um, it says that Potiphar was long in nose. 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:19.279 He was angry. 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:36.720 Um when Moses, I don't know at which time, I forgot uh at what number, but at some point when Moses kept coming into the throne room of Pharaoh with the next plague, it says that Pharaoh became long of nose at Moses. 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:44.240 Um another one, oh, oh, when Israel kept whining and complaining and all that. 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:50.240 Finally, the Bible says that Moses became long of nose. 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:52.720 I mean, I mean, uh hot of nose. 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:54.480 I'm so sorry, hot of nose. 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:58.799 He became, he didn't become long of nose, he became hot in his nose. 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:03.440 He was fierce, and that's when he hit the rock with the with the staff. 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:05.039 The staff, thank you. 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:15.039 Uh David, when he was came to give his brothers some food when the brothers were in the war against the Philistines, and David's, uh David was asking about Goliath. 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:18.319 Uh, what kind of reward do you get for killing Goliath and all that? 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:26.480 The Bible says that David's older brother became hot in his nose toward David. 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:30.960 Go back home and take care of those few little sheep that you're responsible for. 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:31.440 Okay? 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:32.799 We've got hot headed. 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:33.440 That's kind of a good idea. 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:36.000 Yes, yes, oh no, it's exactly the same idea, yes. 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:38.319 In Proverbs 19, it says this. 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:46.160 In your Bibles, it says, a person's wisdom makes him slow to anger. 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:53.920 But what it really says in Hebrew is a wise person has a long nose. 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:56.240 Isn't that nice? 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:58.400 I like that, I like that imagery. 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:09.359 Um just so that you understand that in Hebrew language, the nose or your temperature has to do with anger. 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:18.720 And if you've got if you're if you're if it takes a long time for your nose to become angry, that means you're patient. 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:20.240 You're long-suffering. 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:21.440 Does that make sense? 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:22.720 Yeah, okay. 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:29.279 Um, truth be told, the Bible says many times. 00:20:29.519 --> 00:20:34.880 Not a dozen, not two dozen, not three dozen, way more. 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:46.319 I didn't count them, but I would say well over a hundred times for sure, if not 200, the Bible says that Yahweh's nose burned hot. 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:50.880 And we don't like that idea, do we? 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:53.359 That's a difficult idea. 00:20:53.519 --> 00:21:13.119 In fact, I would say that there are probably realistic, in the in the, you know, just being transparent, in my dealings with people, you know, people will ask these questions, where did Cain get his wife, or did Adam have a belly button, or, you know, how you know the days of creation or the flood. 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:16.000 But at the end of the day, people don't care about those things. 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:18.960 They just ask them because they want to, they just want to get into an argument. 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:26.559 But they don't, nobody stays up at night wondering or worrying about where Cain got his wife. 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:28.319 No. 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:49.839 But I would suggest to all of us that there are few issues in the Bible that genuinely and deeply bother them more, bother people more, than this idea that God is angry. 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:51.680 We don't like that. 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:58.319 That that goes against well, Americans think at the end of the day, God is nice and happy and kind. 00:21:58.640 --> 00:21:59.759 He's this benevolent God. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.960 Grandfather type figure, and he doesn't get mad. 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:14.240 And yet the Bible, way over a hundred times, if not double that, it says that God's nose burned hot. 00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:20.799 It's a huge problem, especially the younger the generation is, the bigger a problem that is. 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:36.799 And it's because, and I think it has to do to some degree with our experiences, if you grew up in a home where there was a lot of anger, we recoil to think that God would possess that quality. 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:38.799 And maybe the opposite's also true. 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:44.880 If you grew up in a home where there was never any anger, maybe we recoil at the idea that God could get angry. 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:45.680 I'm not sure. 00:22:45.839 --> 00:23:03.440 But we associate anger often with not getting your way, being capricious, rash, expressing your anger in inappropriate ways, losing control, or abuse. 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:12.160 Many of us grew up in homes where anger led to different uh forms of abuse. 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:20.480 Um, when I think of anger, uh I think of uh the movie Tombstone and Wyp getting mad. 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:22.960 You don't want him getting mad. 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:24.400 That's no good. 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:39.759 Um, we think of uh Jack Reacher, John Wick, John McLean, uh Rooster Codburn, you know, we think of these people that when they get mad, it is a bad deal for everybody around us. 00:23:40.960 --> 00:24:00.880 Because those people, when they got mad, it didn't go well for anybody, um, we don't like the idea that God would get really angry, that he would become genuinely hot in his nose. 00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:15.759 And that really goes back to the reality, the fact that we as a society have been influenced much more by the Greek culture than we have by the Bible culture. 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:29.680 Um, in the Greek culture, they had anger was an emotion that they acknowledge, but it was a lower emotion. 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:40.880 If you looked at their gods, they had a hierarchy of gods, and the lower on the chain the god was, the more often they got angry. 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:50.559 The higher up on the food chain the god went, the less he got angry, to the point that their greatest gods never got angry. 00:24:51.680 --> 00:25:01.680 Anger was a was a base, carnal, be-team type emotion. 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:06.640 Emotions were bad, intellect was good. 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:15.920 Whereas in a Hebrew mindset, anger is really not portrayed in a negative light very often. 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:20.720 Uncontrolled anger was, but not anger. 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:25.599 Anger was rarely, if ever, portrayed in a negative light. 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:33.119 It was just an emotion that loving, healthy people possessed. 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:58.559 And I would appeal to us as we look at this a little more this morning, we need to be very careful about projecting onto the Bible and onto God our view of anger, what we think about anger, whether our how we feel, whether it's appropriate, inappropriate, whether it's good or bad, whether it's a good emotion or a bad emotion. 00:25:58.799 --> 00:26:04.480 We can have our opinions and our views, but at the end of the day, we need to be very careful about projecting that. 00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:11.039 The Bible, as I've said to you all many, many times, the Bible does not present to us the God we want. 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:15.759 He presents, the Bible presents to us the God that is. 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:20.720 God is a loving, healthy person. 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:39.680 And what the Old Testament would portray or declare is that anger is an emotion that we feel when someone we love is harmed, or they harm someone else. 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:46.240 If my child, who I love, harms someone, that makes me angry. 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:52.799 If someone harms my child that I love, that makes me angry. 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:53.839 We understand that. 00:26:54.079 --> 00:27:00.000 Or if my child harms herself, that makes me angry. 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:25.519 Now I can pretend it doesn't, but at the end of the day, according to the Old Testament, anger is just one emotion that I experience when I witness someone I love being harmed or harming another or harming themselves. 00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:44.559 God, because he is loving and healthy, when he sees me or he sees you harming another, harming ourselves, or being harmed, that makes God angry. 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:48.160 That's what the Old Testament would present to us. 00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:58.960 Um, he gets angry when those he loves are harmed, whether they're harming themselves or others. 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:03.039 God is impacted emotionally by evil. 00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:19.519 But never once would the Bible present or even suggest that God's anger was ever rash, inappropriate, capricious, selfish, or abusive. 00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:20.960 Yes, ma'am. 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:23.200 And to that point, um, it's interesting. 00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:27.359 I'm sitting here thinking that we don't want, I should just speak for myself. 00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:36.720 I don't want God to be angry or act in an angry way, even if it's just towards, well, of course it's just, towards me. 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:38.480 I don't like that. 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:41.599 I want mercy and grace when it has to do with me. 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:52.480 Uh but when I see something somewhere else happening, we're quick, aren't we, to say, well now, why is God let why does God let that happen? 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:55.200 I'm angry with him because he lets that happen. 00:28:55.599 --> 00:29:00.079 So there's there's a capriciousness in the way we we see that. 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:01.279 I think, you know. 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:01.680 Yes. 00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:04.240 Um But God is never capricious. 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:22.000 It's never, he's never inconsistent, he's never random, he's never rash, he's he gets angry and he expresses anger, but it's always in a consistent, dependable, predictable way. 00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:39.839 Um the Bible says that God is slow to anger, and what that really communicates is that God gives people lots of warnings and lots of chances before he gets angry. 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:41.440 Let me give you two examples. 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:43.200 Exodus 15. 00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:55.039 Bible says, Lord, you sent forth your wrath against Egypt and consumed them like stubble. 00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:58.559 He got angry with Egypt. 00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:05.440 But it was after eleven warnings and eleven chances. 00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:08.079 He didn't just, well, they're ticking me off. 00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:09.359 Lightning bolt. 00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:10.960 No. 00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:35.759 It was, he literally sent someone personally to beg them to stop this evil, wrong, destructive behavior, and he sent this person eleven times to warn them and gave them eleven chances before his anger was expressed toward Egypt. 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:55.839 Second Chronicles 24, the prophet says, God sent numerous, or actually the word is multiple, multiple prophets to warn his people and lead them back to himself, but they paid no attention. 00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:57.599 What happened? 00:30:57.759 --> 00:30:59.839 They were taken into Babylonian captivity. 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:16.720 But it was after multiple prophets were sent by God to warn multiple opportunities, multiple chances to stop this harmful behavior to themselves and to one another. 00:31:17.440 --> 00:32:07.039 The Bible, this was one of the most interesting things that I learned in this study for y'all and for myself, and that is that there are exceptions to what I'm about to say, but I would be so bold as to say over 90% of the time, when the Bible tells us that God got angry and punished, over 90% of the time, almost always, there are a few exceptions, I yield, but almost always, what it says is God got angry, he got hot of nose, and he turned the people over to their own desires. 00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:13.920 He gave them over to what they wanted most. 00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:24.000 Perfect example is if you read the book, those of you that are reading through the Bible with me, we read through the book of Judges over and dang near every chapter. 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:26.079 Not every chapter, but dang near. 00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:37.599 What it says is the people of God rejected the Lord, turned away, and sought the gods of the people that lived around them. 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:41.359 And at some point the Bible would say, God got angry. 00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:50.079 And when God got angry, he turned them over to the people who worshiped those gods. 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:53.440 He gave, you want, you want to be like these people? 00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:55.279 You want to worship their gods? 00:32:55.440 --> 00:33:03.759 He gave, God did nothing but give them what the people wanted themselves. 00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:06.960 I find that very interesting. 00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:09.200 The same with the Babylonian captivity. 00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:22.960 What it says, the Babylonian captivity, we see it as God got mad at Israel's continual idolatry and finally he had enough, and he said, Babylon, you come and destroy Israel. 00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:28.559 That's what most of us that have read the Bible several times, that's the conclusion we draw. 00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:30.799 That is not what the Bible says. 00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:38.799 What the Bible says over and over and over again, you have continually sought the gods of Babylon. 00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:43.359 You've continually sought to make treaties with the people of Babylon. 00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:44.480 You want that? 00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:46.079 You don't want me? 00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:48.559 You don't want a relationship with me? 00:33:48.799 --> 00:33:52.799 You don't want to love me and trust me and go through life with me. 00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:59.759 I will turn you over to what you have wanted all along. 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:01.839 Romans chapter 1. 00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:17.760 Paul says, God's wrath is displayed against humanity by handing them over to their own destructive desires and actions. 00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:20.480 That's a powerful statement. 00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:21.760 Listen to it one more time. 00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:23.599 That's worth hearing twice. 00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:36.480 God's wrath is displayed by handing people over to their own destructive desires and actions. 00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:44.559 He follows up in Romans 2 by saying, you are storing up wrath for yourself. 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:46.000 You're storing it up. 00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:47.920 I'm not storing it up. 00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:58.480 You're storing up wrath for yourself by rejecting God's forbearance, his patience, and his kindness. 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:07.119 I wanted us to realize today that, well, I say, I don't want anything. 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:28.960 It's important that we be reminded that when God reveals to us for the first time who he is, he starts off by telling us, when I think of you, when I what I feel for you is what a mother feels for her child. 00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:40.159 When I see you, when I view you, I see something of value, something of beauty, something of potential. 00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:56.159 But because I love you and I love the people around you, when y'all harm each other and wrong each other, and when you harm and wrong yourselves, it makes me mad. 00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:00.400 Well, just like that makes me mad. 00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:07.119 Um it makes me angry, just like every mother or father in this room. 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:09.360 This is not new information. 00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:13.840 This is not a new experience that you've never known before. 00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:29.360 Of course, when we witness our child harming themselves or harming another or being harmed, it fills us with an emotion that the Bible would describe as anger. 00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:46.320 I do think it's very important to remember, though, that at the end of the day, God's anger always yields to his grace, his mercy, and his compassion. 00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:59.760 Romans 3 says that God, I'm sorry, God's wrath and the payment for our sin were poured out on God's Son. 00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:08.719