Passing Off the Hot Potato
Here comes a three point sermon. (I'm sure there is a verse in the Scripture that insists that all good sermons have three points.) This one is from Ephesians 4:26, 27. "In your anger do not sin:…" "…Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,…" "…and do not give the devil a foothold." Okay, I admit that the second phrase is a continuation of the first. But it does add some new information so we'll count it as a separate point. Of some consolation is the information that it is possible to be angry and not sin. That shouldn't be rocket science because God has been known to become angry, and Jesus got more than slightly annoyed in the Temple. God's anger was always directed against sin, a good point to remember when tempted to lose our tempers over things that might cause us to sin but are, in themselves, not sinful. Let's imagine that something legitimately sinful has caused us to be angry. The second phrase reminds us that pr...