"For Thou hast possessed my reins; Thou hast covered me
in my mother's womb. I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made; marvelous are Thy works;
and that my soul knoweth right well."
(Psalm 139:13-14)
"We should never be angry but at sin, and this should always be that
which we oppose in our anger. And when our spirits are stirred to oppose
this evil, it should be as sin, or chiefly as it is against God. If there be
no sin and no fault, then we have no cause to be angry; and if there
be a fault or sin, then it is infinitely worse as against God than it is
against us, and therefore it requires the most opposition on that account.
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"And He declared to them: "It is written: 'My house will be
called a house of prayer.' But you are making it a den of robbers."
(Matthew 2:13)
Berean Study Bible
Persons sin in their anger when they are selfish in it; for we are not to
act as if we were our own, or for ourselves simply, since we belong to God,
and not to ourselves. When a fault is committed wherein God is sinned
against, and persons are injured by it, they should be chiefly concerned,
and their spirits chiefly moved against it, because it is against God;
for they should be more solicitous for God's honor than
their own temporal interests."
Above quotations taken from the sermon,
"The Spirit of Love:
The Opposition of an Angry or Wrathful Spirit."
By Jonathan Edwards
(1703-1758)
American Revivalist preacher
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