Don't Let The Sun Go Down While You Are Angry (Ephesians 4:25-32)

Summer Worship Series, Sunday August 23, 2020

Under the Sun Series, Week 11, Don’t Let The Sun Go Down While You Are Angry

Readings for this Week:

First Lesson: Deuteronomy 6:1-12: When the People of Israel entered into the Promised Land, they were to hold fast to the commands God had given them and to put them into action.

Second Lesson and Sermon Text:  Ephesians 4:25-32. The Apostle Paul shares with the Christians in Ephesus a number of practical ways to put their faith into action through sanctified living.

Gospel:  Matthew 5:21-26.  In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus urges his followers to control their anger and to seek reconciliation.

Sermon:  Don’t Let the Sun Go Down While You are Angry: Ephesians 4:25-32.

Today’s sun reference in the Bible is also used in marriage advice, “do not let the sun go down while you are angry." (Ephesians 4:26) While not a hard and fast rule, it is a blanket statement based on common sense. It is generally not good for anger to last for a prolonged time.

Don’t give the Devil any extra opportunities to shipwreck our faith. The Devil wants nothing more than to trip us up so that we revert back to our sinful self.

Jesus gives us, though faith, a new self that is free from sin and its dreadful curse. We have his promise of forgiveness. This is not the only thing God has done for his sanctified children. As God’s love is continually given to us in Christ, so we mirror that frequency by continually treating our neighbor with that same love.

If we minimize the opportunities to sin and remain standing in Christ, we will also be encouraged to treat our brothers and sisters in the faith in the same way that God has treated us in Christ with his love.

Pastor Tim Patoka