Upside Down Living #10 - Cool Headedness in a Time of Hot Headedness
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Dr. Kurt Bjorklund looks at Matthew 5:21-26, Jesus' words about murder and anger, presenting three instances of runaway anger that we see in our lives and how Jesus' words seem upside down 2000 years ago and today.
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Welcome to Orchard Hill. It's great to be together in the Strip District, Butler County, Wexford, and Online, wherever you are, or however you're listening this weekend. It's great that we get a chance to be together. Hey, just a couple things. We have Life Groups kicking off for the fall. So, if you haven't been part of a group, we have groups that are meeting virtually and in person. There are lots of great opportunities to be connected. And with so much going on, this is a really important time to be connected somewhere. So, check with your campus team or check online. There are different ways that you can get connected. Also, just want to remind you the Midweek Devotionals have kicked off again on Wednesday nights. You can watch that live 8:30 pm, Wednesday nights, or you can check it out later the next day or sometime in the days following. We also have a new podcast that we're calling Perspectives. It's a great way just to engage with some important conversations of our time.
So, let's pray together and we'll jump in. Father, thank you for a chance to gather. And God I ask today that you would just speak as you do week after week, Lord, that my words would reflect your word, in content, tone, and in emphasis. And we pray this in Jesus name, amen.
So, I'll show you a picture of something. Just take a look at this ramp here for a second. And this is a ramp that was probably common if you grew up in the 2000's. You may have seen this or maybe played with one. I saw something that somebody wrote about this. This guy said, when I was eight years old, my parents bought me and my older brother, a kicker ramp from Sam's Club, hence the picture. If you came of age in the early 2000’s and attended an X game event or beat Tony Hawk's Pro Skater one through four in four days, you know exactly the one I'm talking about. Then he says this, I immediately set up the ramp to jump the lawn on my bike, but I also had the brilliant idea of performing a no hander. It's a move I've successfully done dozens of times on my PS2. While executing the jump, I walked my bike a good distance away from the ramp, surely enough that it would be that I could clear the lawn. I hopped on the bike and took off on the ramp. Once my front wheel cleared the lip of the ramp, I let go of the handlebars. Then I crashed my chest into the handlebars as the bike hit the concrete. I flipped over the front tire and watched upside down as my own bike without me rode over my face. I started to dry heave and ran inside crying while my brother suffered a hernia from laughing at me so hard.
Now the reason I read this is because this is an absolute disaster that he didn't think would have any negative consequence. Anybody else could see that coming. And here's what we're talking about this weekend and that is the issue of anger. Jesus addresses it in Matthew chapter five, verses 21 through 26. And when he addresses the issue of anger, he addresses it in a way that puts it in a larger context. But one of the things that that's true about anger is so often, we don't think that anger will have a negative consequence. But Jesus paints a picture here of our anger being a bigger deal in our lives and having bigger consequences than we want to think that it does. In other words, we're the kinds of people who could be running down this ramp, getting ready to jump, saying it's no big deal when the disaster could be just around the corner.
Now, we've called this series Upside Down Living and the reason we've called it this is because Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, which is what we're studying, consistently takes things that we think, and he turns them upside down. And when we talk about anger, this is one of those things that we tend to think is not that big of a deal. That it'll be okay if I have a little bit of runaway anger. It will be maybe something that will fuel passion, that it's really not that big of a problem. But as Jesus addresses this, he says, I want you to know that whenever you're angry, it's the same as murder. That's what Jesus says. I mean, that's a big claim to say, you're driving down the road, you get honked off at somebody and you're like, ah, that it's the same as if you'd killed the person. That's what Jesus says.
Now, murder is different than all killing. In other words, killing, we would typically say in the church, from study of Scripture, that killing in war, killing in self-defense, even capital punishment, are not the same as murder. And Jesus isn't equating anger to those kinds of things. He's saying anger is the same deal as murder. That's what Jesus says. And here's why this is important. Because what he's saying is whenever you want to hurt somebody, you murder them. That you murder people when you want to hurt them, when you want to hurt them with your words, when you want to say something about them to somebody else so that they suffer something, whenever you inside just have that little seething moment that says I hope they pay for what they did. He says, I want you to know that's the same thing as murder in your life.
Now, you may rightly ask the question, well, wasn't Jesus angry? Didn't Jesus have that whole thing where he took a whip and he cleared out the temple and whipped the tables clear? And doesn't Ephesians 4:26 say that we are to be angry and not sin. So, isn't anger at least on some level an okay emotion? Well, yes, anger can be a positive thing because anger can give us a warning sign of protection about something that we need to make sure that we're paying attention to. But here's the thing. When we start talking about Jesus being angry and saying we can have righteous anger like Jesus, here's what's impossible for most of us to do. That is to have anger with the same character, with the same clarity, and with the same control that Jesus Christ had. In other words, for me to say, because Jesus was angry that I can have unchecked anger and not think that I'm going down a ramp and into a jump that's uncontrolled is foolishness.
In 2013, there was a legal case where a group of gun advocates advocated for the concealed carry laws to be extended to blind people. Saying the blind people needed to have concealed carry options as well as people who weren't blind. And the courts actually agreed. The court said yes, the concealed carry permit thing extends to people who are visually impaired. Now, the reason I bring that up is I can't imagine that the legal sense and common sense there were that different and yet, that's sometimes exactly how we can approach anger. Saying, you know what, wherever my anger goes, it's an okay thing.
Now, in order to understand what Jesus says in Matthew chapter five, verses 21 through 26, about anger, I want to just go back to a little bit of what we talked about last weekend. And this is verse 20. This is Jesus. He says, "For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven." And the reason that I want to frame this is I believe that chapter five verses 17 through 20, frame everything that comes after it in chapter five of Matthew.
And here's why I say that because Jesus is talking about self-righteousness. His point here isn't to say, let me give you some tips on how you can do a better job managing anger. Let me give you some tips on how you can stay married. Let me give you some tips on how you can handle lust. Let me give you some tips on how you can be truthful. Let me give you some tips. That's not his point, his point isn't to say, here's some moral improvement for you. His point is rooted right here where he says, I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you'll never enter the kingdom of heaven.
And then he goes and he gives six different examples where he says you've heard it said, and then he says something that either is a direct quotation of the Old Testament or a summation of the Old Testament or things that were generally accepted by the scribes and the teachers of the law. And he gives an example. But even a verse before verse 20, we see this, he says, "Therefore, anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commandments and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever practices these and keeps them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven." And what Jesus is doing here is he's using words and phrases that his listeners would have known. And some people have called this the light and the heavy commands. And he says, if you basically take these commands and make them light, then you're going to be called light. If you take them and make them great, you'll be called great or heavy.
And what the Pharisees did, was they would often have all these debates about the commands. And they would say, here are the important commands. Here are the things you must do. And then they had the lighter commands that were negotiable. And so, Jesus comes along he says, hey, you've heard about all of this, but I tell you, unless you go way past the Pharisees then you won't enter the kingdom of heaven. And then he says this, he says, you've heard it said, "You shall not murder." He starts with a clean, clear easy command in the sense of you don't have to be particularly religious or Christian to go, yeah, that's a good thing for human flourishing, don't murder. Right? And then Jesus says, "But I say to you," and in verse 22, he says, "if you're angry with your brother, then you're guilty of breaking the law." So, what he does is he takes these heavy and these light command ideas, and he says, I want to tell you that your righteousness has to be way bigger than you even think. You can't simply say, I didn't murder therefore I'm good. He says, if you're angry, then you have broken the law of God. That's what he says.
Now, some scholars have come along or some transcribers of the original text, I believe. And the Old King James says, if you're angry without cause, and you may say, okay, if I have an NIV, or an ESV, mine doesn't say that. And that's because most scholars think that what happened was some scribes came along and said this is too demanding. So, we have to insert the phrase without cause into the original manuscripts. I didn't think I talked this much about manuscript stuff today but let me just go on a geek moment here. So, if you know you're not interested, come back in about two minutes. Okay, this is a good time if you're watching at home to fill up your coffee and come back.
But here's the issue. When you have a manuscript, some people say the King James is the only version because it came from an earlier manuscript they think or a better text. But that's actually completely false. And people who say that know nothing about textual criticism, in all reality. Because what happened was, we found more and more manuscripts in the years that followed that all pointed back to the same original text. And how textual criticism works is that you take generally the shorter text and the more difficult text, and you say that's likely the original text because usually an editor or a scribe came along and said, oh, I'm going to add something to it. So the King James text, based on an earlier text that didn't have some of the text, added the without cause and likelihood because somebody was sitting there going, how could it be that if you're angry, that that it's the same as murder, because sometimes I'm angry, and I have good reason to be angry. But Jesus didn't give us that out. And that's the point. That's the point of the terrible criticism. So, if you got your coffee, come on back now.
Here's the issue. And that is, Jesus is not saying that you and I can be angry as long as we have a cause. And so, here's where I'm trying to think about this in terms of self- righteousness, and that is, anger is really having a self-righteous view of events and opinions that says I'm right, and you're not. I'm right - you're not. As soon as we start to go down that path, what we can do is then we can start to get angry about what we're right about and say somebody else isn't right. And then we start to get angry. And as soon as we do that, what we're doing is we're crossing that line.
I was talking with Josh Thomas earlier. Josh is the person who runs our video if you don't know who Josh is. So, if you're watching online, he's often the person responsible, if not entirely the person responsible for the video quality that you see. And he was telling me about an experience that he has in his family. He has a couple daughters, three of them to be exact, and a wife. And he has been watching Frozen II. And as he was watching Frozen II, and they've watched it numerous times, there's a scene where the little fire salamander starts a fire, but his daughters and his wife all insist that it's a gecko. I'm using this by the way with his permission. And he said that it can't be a gecko, it must be a fire salamander. And they have this big disagreement. He says, it gets to the point where he starts to get angry. Like, no, I'm right, you're wrong. This is a fire salamander. Now, I'm not suggesting that Josh is guilty of murder here. But what I'm saying is Jesus wants us to understand that even what seems to us to be innocuous anger is actually a spiritual problem. That's what Jesus is driving it.
In James chapter four, verse one, we see this and that is we have a reason that we have quarrels. This is what it says, "What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desire, the battle within you?" In other words, what James is saying, is that the reason that we end up in disagreements is something inside of us. You see, anger is actually a secondary emotion. It reveals something that we're angry about. Here's what James is saying, when you have arguments and disagreements and quarrels, what you tend to do is you tend to think, well, here's what the issue was. In fact, if you think about what the issue was, you'd say, well, here was my last fight. Here's my last quarrel. But what James does is he says, why do you have these fights and quarrels? It's because of your desires.
In other words, the reason that we end up getting angry is there's something that we want that we didn't get. There's something that we thought we had to have that was kept from us. And so, we end up getting angry and it ends up being an issue that is personal. In other words, the reason ultimately, that you're angry, that I'm angry, is because something happens that we say, I need to be right, you're not right, or I need something from this that you're not giving me. And that's why we end up being angry. And so, whenever we have a self-righteous view of our own rightness with events and opinions, what happens is it can spill into an unrighteous anger.
But that's not the only thing that we see here. That is, we can have a self-righteous view of importance. And what I'm referring to here is this little phrase where he talks about this in Matthew five and he says, when you call somebody Raca, is how it's transliterated. Here's what we see. Verse 22, "But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister[a][b] will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’" Now the reason that Raca is here, a word that we don't use in English, and it's not translated to an English word is because the translators again decided that Raca as just a transliteration would be better as the insult. And what the insult basically means is empty head, fool, or idiot. But what this is basically doing is it's saying you're so dull, that I don't even need to interact with you or talk to you in any way, shape, or form. And what this is, it's dismissing people basically. It's saying if at first, it's being angry, because of opinions here, it's saying, I have a self-righteous view of my own importance. So, I'm important and you're not is what you were saying here. And what we're doing when we come to this point is, we're expressing this sometimes with eye rolls. Sometimes By just simply ignoring somebody, or sometimes it's with a dismissive word or comment to say, you're not important to me, and you don't matter to me.
But one of the things that we know from Scripture is that all people are created in the image of God. Meaning every person is valuable in the sight of God and that the people who want to reflect God in this world will say every person matters. And what happens way too often in our world, is we get in groups and out groups where we say, the people that are like me and that I like, they're the important people. And the people that aren't like me, and I don't like, they're the people that aren't important. And so sometimes it isn't an act of anger, it's just an act of dismissal. That simply says, this is how I'm going to show my disdain, and how I'm going to show myself to think more of myself.
I was thinking about this. And sometimes you might say, well, but you don't know the person that I'm around, how hard they are to be around, and I just sometimes need to say, leave me alone. And I was thinking about that if I shake this bottle really hard, then I open the bottle and take a drink, I haven't changed anything about what's inside the bottle. All I did was shake it. It's still water. And what happens outside of us is something that may shake us, but what comes out of us is what's actually inside of us. And what Jesus I believe is doing here so beautifully is he saying, you think with your heavy and light laws that if you don't kill somebody that you're okay before the law, but I'm telling you, if you're angry with your brother, if you dismiss your brother, your sister, that you're still guilty. And then he takes it one step further, and that is he says this in verse 22, "and anyone who says you fool, will be in danger of the fire of hell."
And here, I believe what he's pointing at is a self-righteous view of character. And this is where we say, I'm good, I'm moral, and you're not. And the reason I say this is the Greek word here that used is the word "moray," and it has the idea of some somebody who isn't just a fool, and this is part of the problem sometimes with the translation, but somebody who's a morally deficient person. That's the idea here. And so, the insult is you're empty, and you're insufficient. You don't matter to me, and you're a person who's a scoundrel. You're somebody who's a bad person. That's in essence what he's saying here. And here's why I say this. This is Deuteronomy 21, verse 18, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the Septuagint, uses Greek words, and so sometimes a way to understand a Greek word is to look back at how it was used.
And here's how it's used in verse 18, of Deuteronomy 21. "If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son, who does not obey his father and mother, and will not listen to them, and they discipline him," and then it goes on. But do you hear the word stubborn, rebellious will not obey? That's the range of some of the word choice that's used here. And here's, again, why this matters. Because what is being done here, what Jesus is driving at, is that whenever you start to make moral judgments about other people, and you start to say, they're a bad person, and here's how I know they're bad, what you're doing is you're taking a self-righteous view of your own righteousness, your own goodness, and you're saying they're the problem in this world.
Now, sometimes, you might not be wrong. And sometimes there might be tangible things that you can point to. But here's what's important, that you point to something tangible not to the person. Do you see the difference? In other words, it's okay to say that action right there is wrong, that's poor. But if you don't have a specific action to point to, and you just start throwing bombs kind of saying, well, that person's bad, this person's bad. What you're doing is you're taking a self-righteous view of your own character and of the character of somebody else and it's exactly what Jesus was talking about here. Exactly what he was saying, in this moment.
I read what one pastor wrote, author wrote, and I'm not going to name this pastor, because I don't want you to conflate what he said here with any backstory. But he said this, he says, "If you think that God's primary goal for you is that you'd be a moral example of goodness, rather than a trophy of grace, you'll never be honest about your deepest sense, struggles, and secrets. Ever. You'll always feel the pressure to pretend you're better than you are." Then he said a little later, "I hope I'm transparent enough about my struggles with sin that the Pharisee will question my salvation, and the broken will find me a friend. Do you hear the difference between you devoid of morality, person you? And that kind of a statement.
Let me just push on this in a way here. If you ever find yourself shading the truth a little bit to make yourself look better, it may not even be something significant, it might be as simple as you know, your spouse says something and you say, oh yeah, I did this, this and this, and you'd really just done half of it or something, and you just want them to think ah, yeah, you really pulled your weight today. Alright? And if you ever find yourself doing something like that, what happens is internally you tell yourself well, I had good reasons. And I didn't really lie, I just exaggerated, and I was going to do it. I'm doing it and I'm a good person. And we give ourselves all of these rationales if you catch somebody else doing that. What do we do? They're a liar. They lie. They're liars. Why is that? It's because we take this self-righteous view.
And here's again, what I think Jesus is driving at and why this matters to you and to me, in this season of our world. There are a lot of people getting hot and fired up about a lot of things and Jesus says, I want you to understand that your anger, you're dismissing of people, you're judging people's morality to their core, rather than looking at yourself, is missing me. And notice what he says that you'll be in the danger of the fire of hell. I mean, Jesus doesn't like just say, hey, this is a small problem. I mean, he brings hell into it. This is Jesus. This isn't me. I didn't like, look at this and say, let me talk about hell today. Where can I get it in? This is right in the text. Jesus says that hell is at stake.
And here's why again this matters. What Jesus is not doing is saying here is how you can improve your life. Now, don't misunderstand me. If we take Jesus words, we will improve our life, but his point is not to get better at managing your anger so you have a better life. His point is that no matter how well you think you do, you don't do well enough and therefore you need a savior, and you need somebody in your behalf. That is what Jesus was talking about when he said unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees, what he was doing was he was saying, your righteousness won't be enough. The only way it will surpass it is if you go to the righteousness of Jesus Christ rather than to your own. And what he's going to do over these next six sections, and we're only spending a few weeks on him, but what he's going to do is he's going to take issues and say, let me show you that you're not as good as you think you are. And that all of your self defense mechanisms are not enough. And here again, this is why it matters. Jesus is saying, it's only when you realize that he came to fulfill the law on our behalf, that you will have some freedom from this and be able to make positive change.
You see, Jesus went to the cross so that you and I, who cannot keep God's law, can be made right, can be declared righteous by God because of what Jesus Christ has done. And it's an access through our faith in Jesus Christ. That's the only way that we access it. And what happens is, when we understand how forgiven we are, then we will forgive because forgiven people forgive people. When we understand how much grace we've been given, then we'll extend grace because grace is something that we've experienced. When we haven't experienced grace, when we haven't experienced forgiveness, when we're demanding that everybody lives by this law in such a way that they are justified by it, then we miss it.
Now, don't misunderstand me. I'm not suggesting that God's law doesn't matter. In fact, I'm suggesting the exact opposite. It's actually people who insist on keeping the law as a means to rightness with God who diminished the law because they have to bring it down to a standard they can keep. What I'm saying is God through what Jesus does here, extends the law makes it bigger than we like it to be, so that we can't possibly get there. Now, that doesn't mean that we don't work at it that we don't try to deal with our anger. It doesn't mean anything like that. What it means is that we recognize our desperate need for a savior. And when we start to address anger in our lives, we can do it, not so much from a sense of saying, I have to do this so I can get in heaven or avoid the fires of hell, I do this as one who has been forgiven and therefore I can forgive, as one who's been given grace, therefore I can give grace.
Now Jesus doesn't stop just with this statement about hell. Here's what he says, right after this in verse 23, "Therefore, if you're offering a gift at the altar," and now he gets into his, how do you actually make a change, says "if you're offering a gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift in front of the altar. First go be reconciled to them and then come and offer your gift." And Jesus is very simply saying, don't come and worship me. Worship God the Father. Don't claim the power of the Spirit in your life while you have relational turmoil. Because all relationships are ultimately in the context of worship. And so what Jesus is saying is I want you instead of coming and being like, I love Jesus, Jesus is great and I hate this person, he's saying, go get that worked out.
Now, clearly, Romans 12 says that, "Live at peace as far as it's possible, as much as it depends on you with everybody." Sometimes some people don't want peace. Sometimes people will say, look, don't come talk to me again, I don't want to have a conversation. I don't want peace. Some people will be so abusive in the way that they'll deal with you, that it isn't wise to even go and try to be reconciled. And I don't think Jesus is making a statement that has that much definitiveness as much as what he's saying is, don't come and be like, I'm all about Jesus while being at odds with his children. Notice the brother-sister language here.
And you know, if you're a parent, you get this. I have four sons. And if somebody came to me and said, you know, I love hanging out with you and your wife, but could you just like, get your kids out of the house? Because they really annoy me. I hate hanging out with your kids. Your kids are just people I don't like it. Do you know what would happen? I'd be like, no, no, no, that doesn't work. You're not going to hang out with me and exclude my kids. Jesus is saying something like that right here.
Here's one of my concerns just right now. We're living in a time where COVID has scattered people and in church that's happened. And for some of you, you should not come back to church right now because you have co-risk factors in terms of in-person. Some of you that day may be coming, and some of you it's already come for. But here's my concern. And that is what happens when we sit at home and partake via video is, we start to treat church like a consumer item rather than a community. This is what Jesus driving at. It's designed to be community. We're designed to experience it in relationship with others and be an expression of God in the community in which we're planted. And so what happens is when we're all scattered, and again, I'm not suggesting that wasn't right or good or that that your time might be here yet, but what I'm saying is, is there's a danger that we start to treat everything like a consumer. Because we can sit and look at the TV and say, you know, what, do I like this today? Do I not like it? Is that song good? Or is it a little long? Is this message done yet? Maybe I'll check out because I know how he's going to land the plane, kind of a thing. And what happens is we stop the context of relationship.
Jesus says this as well in Matthew five, verse 25, "Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison." And so, Jesus wisdom is to say, go deal with this now because the longer a conflict grows, the more difficult it will be to ever resolve that conflict. And to be reconciled means to take two things that were antagonistic and bring them together. And so, Jesus says, do what you can to bring together the broken relationships.
You know, so many of our relational challenges would be solved if we would resolve to talk to people instead of about people. In other words, if we would just simply say, I'm not going to talk about this situation to somebody else, I'm going to talk to the person who I'm struggling with. Jesus is saying I want you to know that if you end up in a place of anger and broken relationship, that is ultimately a problem. Now you may say, okay, but if I'm forgiven, then what's the big deal? Is it really that big of a deal? Well, in Ephesians chapter 4, verse 26 says this, "In your anger, do not sin. Do not let the sun go down while you're still angry." And then it says this verse 27, "and do not give the devil a foothold." So, anger and the devil having a foothold are tied together in these two verses. And so, it's possible to be angry and not sin, but then it says, don't let the sun goes down. In other words, same kind of wisdom Jesus gives which is deal with it now, but it says don't give the devil a foothold. Here's the problem if you say I'm forgiven, it's no big deal. I just have this one person I can't get along with or this one person I'm angry with, or this one issue that I can't give up. Here's the issue, you're giving the devil a foothold in your life.
When I was growing up, I had an older sister who was way tougher than me during my early growing up years. And so, what I would do is I irritated her as I would run back to my room, slam the door, close it, lock it, so she couldn't beat me up. And what happened was, she would chase me and what we learned and you know, any kid knows this, is she would try to put her foot in the door and stop me from closing the door because if she could get the foot in the door, she could open the door and she could beat me up.
And here's what Ephesians is saying. Be careful with anger, because it is letting the devil have a foothold in your life that will cause all kinds of issues. It will cause bitterness and resentment. And what happens when you become bitter is you become a critic, and you can't love somebody, when you're a critic of somebody. You can't choose to say, I'm going to keep a record of wrongs and I'm going to love. First Corinthians 13 says, keep no record of wrongs. You can't love somebody while you're keeping score of the ways that they've done you wrong, hurt you, made you angry, and annoyed you. Jesus is saying, know that there's a spiritual price. There's an ultimate spiritual price if you don't come to Jesus, but there's a spiritual price for letting anger be a part of your life. And the only ultimate solution is to say Jesus fulfilled this law for me. Therefore, since I've been forgiven, much I can forgive.
Now certainly, again, this doesn't mean that you don't confront, you don't challenge, that you don't talk about what's hard, but what it means is that you will say very simply, this is not something I'm just going to leave unchecked in my life. I'm going to bring it to God to Jesus and through the power of the Holy Spirit, I'm going to live differently than the culture around me. I'm going to be upside down.
Father, we thank you that your words speaks so clearly to our lives. And God, I pray that for any of us who maybe today, we've recognized that our anger has been an issue, that you would first help us to run to your son Jesus Christ as our Savior by acknowledging our sin to you. And God, secondly, that you would help us to bring our anger under your control. That by your spirit, you would bring change to this area of our lives. That we would recognize that it's a secondary emotion where we're not getting what we think we want and we would surrender our self-worship that demands that it's right, that demands it's made much of, that it's important, it demands that it's morally superior, and instead, worship you. And we pray this in Jesus name, amen.
