Note: the progress and measure of growth of God’s operation and process of spiritual brokenness in the life of a believer is known and seen through his reaction, response to his critics and attitudes towards his slanderers and haters. Sometimes, the people of the world quickly jump into conclusion that someone is not a good Christian because he is angry, he should always be a dumb lamb, and never a roaring lion; but our Lord Jesus is both the Lamb and the Lion, the sacrificial Lamb and the furious temple cleanser. The answer to the question of showing anger in the kingdom depends on what is the situation and how we’ve been led by the spirit of God to react.

Anger is one of the damnable works of the flesh, but can also, though not always, be a prompt reaction of the spirit of God if he is grieved continually in us by the same person or people. Are we not commanded as believers not to become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another, and provoking one another? You can provoke other Christians by your continual and deliberate foolishness. Galatians 5:26.

Some people are just like the odious woman which the earth cannot bear when she married, always provocative and quarelsome, irritating and unmannered. What do you do with such people, – will you learn their ways and get a snare to your soul? Will you flee to the desert or into the wilderness to find rest for your soul? Proverbs 30:23.

There is a righteous anger with many solid scriptural grounds and reasons to use anger and to justify angry resistance of an emotional reaction from a born again spirit filled believer who  expresses his disaproval against an ungodly cause after much tolerance and warnings for a change, – after much patience and forebearance. You have the right to be angry, but be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Ecclesiastes 7:9.

The conversion of sinners is the joy of heaven, and should not be our grief, but pleasure and celebration. The brethren at Jerusalem were at first wrongly and fautly angry,  embittered, contended and dissapointed that Peter went in to eat with the Gentiles; but after they were throughly informed of the whole situation from the beggining to the end, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. Acts11:18.

As soon as the people of Ninevite received the warn­ings from God through prophets Jonas, they believed the preach­ing: they responded instantly and pos­i­tively. They fasted, repented and turned to God for mercy and sal­va­tion, – and the Lord repented of the evil he thought to do against the entire nation, and turned away the fierce­ness of his anger to destroy them. 

The envi­ous, self­ish and wicked prophet Jonah became angry against God for restraining and with­drawing divine wrath, pun­ish­ment and destruc­tion he proph­e­sied and pre­dicted. Jonas desired to die than to see God spar­ing the pen­i­tent Ninevites in mercy, by for­giv­ing and extend­ing their exis­tence as a nation.

Afterward, God com­forted Jonah, but rea­soned against him for his evil –heart, base­less and thought­less anger over his deci­sion to turn away his judge­ment, wrath, pun­ish­ment and destruction away from the pen­i­tent and repen­tant sin­ners of Ninevite…. but it dis­pleased Jonah exceed­ingly, and he was very angry. And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my say­ing, when I was yet in my coun­try? There­fore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gra­cious God, and mer­ci­ful, slow to anger, and of great kind­ness, and repen­test thee of the evil. There­fore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, take my life from me; for it is bet­ter for me to die than to live. Then said the Lord, doest thou well? Was your anger jus­ti­fi­able: are you angry for the right cause? Jonah 4: 1 – 4.

Satan,for his envy against God and man, uses anger as a weapon of massive destruction against God’s creation and mankind. Revelation 12:12. God, being compassionate, just and righteous, demonstrate discontentment through anger for judgement. Anger is part of God’s divine nature meant to show the awfulness of his power whenever the occassion demands to show forth his righteous judgement and retribution against the wicked. God is slow to anger does not means that God cannot be angry; it only takes much time before he angrily react. When once he is angry, who can stand? Psalms 76:7. Psalms 103:8.

God’s anger is righteous and holy, angry with the wicked everyday. Psalms 7:11-13. God is loving, peaceful and forgiving: yet, he can be dreadful in anger than the roaring of a lion; more than the shaking  of the earth or the strike of tornado.  His wrath is fierce, cruel and it burns like fire. The bible declares it as a fearful and agonizing thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews 10:31.  

God’s wrath shall come and the day is com­ing when he shall  release his full wrath or the cup of his indig­na­tion upon the world of the ungodly sin­ners in which the heav­ens shall pass away with a great noise, and the ele­ments shall melts with fer­vent heat, the earth also and the works therein shall be burned up. 2 Peter 3:10 – 12. Rev­e­la­tion 14:10.

In view of divine fiery indignation which shall devour his adversaries, the bible commands us to implore heaven for continous grace each day, whereby we may serve him acceptably with reverence and divine fear, because our God is a consuming fire. At the end, God shall reveal and vindicate his holy anger and judgment in divine vengeance for retribution against the children of wrath, the world of unrepentant sinners for rejecting his love and redemptive substitute and sacrifice  for sin and salvation in Christ Jesus — in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. 2 Thessalonians 1: 8 – 9. Hebrews 12: 28 – 29.

As God is slow to anger, believer should also be slow to wrath because car­nal anger and the wrath of man do not work the right­eous­ness of God. James 1:20.

To become angry because we couldn’ t get our wrongful or rightful opinion accepted is a prideful anger, it is foolish, punishbale and damnable. Proverbs 12:16. It is important to know when and how to use your anger to accomplish divine purpose and the righteousness of God. To know when and how to be angry proportionately without sinning – whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause is in the danger of the judgment. Matthew.5: 22.

How can we be angry without allowing the sun to go down on our anger so that it turns not to resentment or malice which is the root of bitterness and spiritual defilement to open door for Satan into our lives?

Our Lord did not outrightly condemns anger, but that he said, whosoever is angry against his brother ‘without a cause’. There ought to be a biblical ground and justifiable arguement before we can react angrily against someone or something: if not so, it is a sinful and baseless anger. Nursing or keeping anger in the heart without resolving the issues with the offender is a sin. If we refuse to let go the matter when and after expressing our displeasure at the offense commited against us, it becomes a stumbling block against us before God: an entanglement and ensnarement of the spirits of malice, hatred, worldly– hearted pride, grudges, murmurings, continual disputes and strife in an unforgiving heart.

The Lord taught us on ‘absentia forgiveness’. Mark.11:25. This means that before the offender is brought to the knowledge of his offence to tender or not to tender his apology, we should forgive. We should have to forgive our offender when we come before God to pray, if we have anything against any, lest our wounded and offensive spirit stands as a barrier against our prayer – let all bitterness, and wrath and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ sake hath forgiven you. Ephessians.4: 31-32.

A prudent man covers shame. Proverbs 12:16. We must be care­ful not to allow any root of bit­ter­ness or any mat­ter or rela­tion­ship with anyone to dis­rupt our sweet relationship and daily fel­low­ship with God. Though, we may be fault­less and guiltless of any wrong ­do­ing toward our brother or sis­ter, we should not leave any matter unsetteld before we continue our daily oblations before God: there­fore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and remem­ber that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go, and be rec­on­ciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Matthew 5; 23 – 34.

Love is not eas­ily pro­voked, but it can probably be pro­voked. 1Corinthians 13: 5.  To avoid it”s provo­ca­tion, the unruly should be warned (1 Thes­sa­lo­ni­ans 5:14) while the heretic be admon­ished twice before rejec­tion. Titus 3:10-11.

In Mark chapter 3 verses 1-5, we read the narration of the man with a withered hand who expected to receive healing from the Lord on the Sabbath day against the oppositions of the hypocrite Pharisees attempt to obstruct Jesus to heal the man on the holy day. Instead of them to implore Christ for the healing of their poor neighbour, they instead did what they could to hinder his healing by intimidating Christ as a Sabbath breaker, if he should heal him on the day of sabbath.  For their hypocrisy and inconsideration to common sense, as Christ clearly says that  it is good to save life than to destroy it on the Sabbath day, the Lord looked upon them and was upset – angry for the hardness of their hearts. Verse 5.

The angry countenance of Christ against the crowd and against the Pharisees trying to oppose the healing of the man was a sort of ‘you guys should back off from intimidating me from doing the right thing, though it was a Sabbath day’. Such a frown look of displeasure, that says, I’m taking full responsibility for any consequence of my good work; nonetheless, I must do this good, come what may. The angry countenance (frown) of Christ was the emotional and motivational power to stir up the courage to restrain the crowd from intimidating him from doing the right thing for the man in need of healing – And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodias against him, how they might destroy him Verse. 6.

Before God, an angry coun­te­nance is jus­ti­fied in the face of any com­pro­mis­ing oppo­si­tion or propo­si­tion from the ene­mies. It can help to gain psy­cho­log­i­cal advan­tage, – to take our stand for resistance, and to do the right thing; refused to be intim­i­dated and influ­enced or diverted from doing the will of God.   

An angry coun­te­nance and indig­na­tion can be employed and it can be help­ful to resist a slan­derer or a back­biter, and to stop them from impli­cat­ing or draw­ing us into any sin­ful and un-​necessary dis­cus­sion about oth­er people — when some­one say some­thing detract­ing, slan­der­ing, or speak­ing ill about a per­son not present, we have the right to get angry, or frown to show dis­ap­proval and dis­taste against such behaviour. To tell the backbiter to stop run­ning oth­ers down before us; but try to meet the other per­son face to face, and to set­tle any mat­ters, if there’s any, between themselves…..the north wind dri­ves away rain: so doth an angry coun­te­nance back­bit­ing tongue. Proverbs.25: 23.

The backbiter not only stabbed others to death behind them, but they also destroys you while you accepted to listen to their half truth or falsehood story. Don’t be angry against any man in the defense of another until you found out the whole truth. Do not take up a reproach against your neighbur to be true until you investigate, certify and verify the matter. Because of a gift or favour received or expected to be received, never jump into any false or neg­a­tive emotional con­clu­sion to react against anyone in favour of the other, lest you be defiled and punished for what you knows nothing about. Strive not against a man with no cause, if he has done thee no harm. Proverbs 3:30.

Analysing the tone of Jesus explaina­tion or response to a ques­tion in Matthew chap­ter 20 verses 15 where he spoke about the para­ble of the employer and the employee which work for just an hour for a favourably equal amount of salary with those which has worked the whole day, for being chal­lenged by one of the work­ers for what seems to be injus­tice in pay­ment, but responded, Is it not law­ful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is your eye evil because I am good? It sounds like an angry but a reasonable answer to defend his right to use or give his money to any one, even if they have not wrought an hour of service for him. When you answer the wicked and unreasonable people with such a tone, they are quick to judge and condemn you of anger, but such is the only way to easily put to silence the ignorance and unreasonable arguement and mental disturbances of wicked souls around you.

There is a kind of justifiable anger in the sight of God from a wise and reasonable child of an irresponsible parent; otherwise, the scriptures will not commanded you not to provoke your children to anger through your hypocritics ways of life but demanding them to do better. Parents should do the talk and live by godly examples to encourage their children – fathers, provoked not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged from obeying and honouring you. Colossians 3: 21.

How forcible are right words? Job 6:2.

The book of Job Chapter 32 verses 1-5 recorded the righteous and justified wrath demonstrated by Elihu: then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God, – also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he. When Elihu saw that there was no genuine answers coming from the three friends of Job to disprove him before God, then his wrath was kindled. Elihu’s anger was a justifiable one of the stirring up of the Spirit of understanding ready to burst out with force out of the belly of him that is full of words before the babblers which must be put to silence.

An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked. The sin­ner and his iniq­ui­ty is an abom­i­na­tion to the just, the same way the sin­ners hate the right­eous and the paths of right­eous­ness. Proverbs 29:27. If we have no plea­sure in the ways and works of sinners, we are to make the difference clear by standing up­ and speaking out for truth; oth­er­wise, we are not walk­ing in the light, and are not dif­fer­ent from them.

God is angry at sin because his eyes are purers than to behold it. If God is not pleased with sin, why should we show our approval and tolerance of it to sinners? Tolerance and love has nothing to do with us calling evil good, bitter for sweet – Woe unto such deceptive believers. Isaiah.5:20. Though a fool mock and takes a great delights at sin; yet should it be a grief to the soul of the righteous, – love rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in truth. Yet, it appertain to the believers to show or express holy indignation, emotional and verbal disapproval of non– compliances and holy detestation to ungodliness and rebellious deeds in the defence of the word and will of God.

We read about Lot while he sojourned in the land of Sodom showing disgustion at their homosexuality and lesbianism lifestyles. Dissassociate himself, he showed his dissaproval of the ungodly acts of his friends and neighbours, and it was counted to him as righteousness: and God delivered just Lot, ‘vexed’ (angry) with the filthy conversation of the wicked: for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, ‘vexed’ his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds. Proverbs 10:23. 2 Peter 2:7- 8.

Believer is the light of the world, he not only to shine as an exam­ple, but should also advo­cate for Christ against any open sin in the church in an holy anger as Phin­heas, the son of Eleazar, demon­strated his zeal for God before the con­gre­ga­tion of the chil­dren of Israel to show how others should fear God, and defend the holi­ness of the God of Israel. He picked up a javelin, and went after the Israeli man who brought a Mid­i­ani­tish woman into the camp in the wilder­ness to com­mit for­ni­ca­tion in the pres­ence of his brethren by killing both of them, and it was counted for him as righteousness, not seen as a murderer. While the other twenty three thou­sands minus one were com­mit­ting for­ni­ca­tion in the street of Moab under every green tree, Zimri was hardened in sin to bring the strange woman into the camp, where the pres­ence of God and his ark dwelled for sinful sexual gratification. The bold move and the right­eous ges­ture of Phine­has to kill Zimri with javelin for com­mit­ting such degraded act before the con­gre­ga­tion of taber­na­cle, averted the hot anger and dis­plea­sure of God which should have fallen greatly upon the whole congregation of the chil­dren of Israel to destroy them. 

Today, we are not to kill or mur­der any sin­ner by sword or gun in revenge for God, but to sep­a­rate from them, after warn­ing them of the impend­ing eter­nal judge­ment. Though they will give us and call us strange  and worldly unbib­li­cal gram­mat­i­cal names such as homo­pho­bia or big­otry, let us know for sure that God will hold us account­able, if we are not con­sume by the zeal of his house, to stir­r up the holy anger against the des­e­cra­tion of his holy tem­ple such as our Lord demonstrated in the cleans­ing of the tem­ple at Jerusalem.

We become spir­i­tu­al accom­plices and enablers by not speak­ing up against sin and unrighteousness of men, guilty and shall be condemned of the same sin of Prophet Eli  for the iniq­uity he knew some­thing about and do nothing to distance himself from it with no frown­ing, but con­tinue to tol­er­ate in his wayward children.

Sometimes, anger could be good, righteous, holy and useful, if we are led and opened up to the spirit of God for it’s godly purpose and use, and would not allow carnal sentiment of perception of false tolerance  of love to get over us. Had Samson shown furiousity at the betrayals and unsuccessfull murder attempts from the unfriendly requests to show and reveals where his power lies, his soul should not have been vexed unto death by the frustration and quest of Deliah to destroy him. This is the godly and righteous anger than can work the righteousness of God in you. Had Samson use this type of anger to stop Delilah, she could not had stopped Samson from fulfilling his destiny to the end, but he allowed her to cut his life short, destroyed his ministry and destiny, being a foolish gentle man. As a child God, you have the right to walk away, to show anger at anyone who stands to destroy the will and purposes of God, his godly and righteous cause in your life. As you are slow to wrath, but moved at the right time by the Spirit of God to show the lion of Judah residing in you, such anger must works to produce the righteousness of God in you. James1:19-20.

Sometimes, we have to forsake wrath for God to get angry for our defense and revenge. Psalms 37:8-10. We forbear threatenings and being rash, living peacefully with others without rage, rancour, rioting, contentious or rampage spirit as seen in the life of patriarch Isaac in the land of the Philistines; though he forgave them, but finally expressed his anger and dissapointment of their evilness against him after God sudued his enemies before him, – then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hun­dred­fold: and the Lord blessed him. And the man waxed great, and went for­ward, and grew until he became very great: for he had pos­ses­sion of flocks, and pos­ses­sion of herds, and great store of ser­vants: and the Philistines envied him. For all the wells which his father’s ser­vants had digged in the days of Abra­ham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.And Abim­elech said unto Isaac, go from us; for thou art much might­ier than we. And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the val­ley of Gerar, and dwelt there. And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abra­ham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abra­ham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.And Isaac’s ser­vants digged in the val­ley, and found there a well of spring­ing water.And the herds­men of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herds­men, say­ing, the water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him. And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, for now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruit­ful in the land. And he went up from thence to Beer­sheba. And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abra­ham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and mul­ti­ply thy seed for my ser­vant Abraham’s sake. And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s ser­vants digged a well. Then Abim­elech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuz­zath one of his friends, and Phi­chol the chief cap­tain of his army. And Isaac said unto them, where­fore come ye to me, see­ing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? And they said, we saw cer­tainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee noth­ing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the Lord. Gen­e­sis. 26:12 -29.

Part two – The Unjustified, sinful, ungodly and condemnable anger