A few minutes ago it was blowing wind and sleet. Now the sun is shining. It’s the time of year where if you don’t like what the weather is doing, just wait a few minutes. It’ll change.
Lots of work out there waiting for me. Blessings again on your day.
There are many who misrepresent Jesus as being someone who was always kind and soft and loving. Here we see Him clearly angry. That’s right. Jesus gets angry. But this is no impulsive out-of-control irrational anger. It is a godly anger. It is righteous anger.
More important than seeing Jesus’ capacity for anger is to understand what causes His anger. Make no mistake about it, nothing ticks Him off more than hypocrisy, pride, rebellion, and legalism. If we had time we could launch a study to substantiate that. We see Him here facing all those attitudes in this confrontation with primarily Pharisees. And we see them so absolutely consumed with their rejection and hatred of Jesus that they depart the scene of this miraculous demonstration of Jesus’ deity and go out to plot His murder. That really doesn’t make any good sense! It’s much closer to insanity than objectivity! Nevertheless, that mindset is still very common today. Their anger was irrational and unjust. Jesus’ anger was deliberate and just—it was godly anger directed at evil.
May I suggest that you do everything you can to avoid the failures of the Pharisees (hypocrisy, pride, rebellion, and legalism) like you would avoid a black mamba. Solomon spoke of the foolishness for one to provoke the anger of a king (Proverbs 16:14). How much more the King of kings?!.