Hafa Adai Agape and Anger - PowerPoint Presentation

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Hafa Adai

Agape and Anger

Part

II

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Not Irritable

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things (1

Cor

13:4-7)ESV

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Not Easily Provoke or Irritated

parorgízō

(from 3844 /

pará

, "from close-beside" and 3710 /

orgízō

, "become angry") – properly, rouse someone to anger; to provoke in a way that "really pushes someone's buttons," i.e. to "really get to them" in an "up-close-and-personal" way (because so near, literally "close beside").

Provoked

or

Irritated

Definition of Irritated:

showing or feeling slight anger;

annoyed.

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The face!

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Irritator (Carnal Beast)

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God’s Heart: Give Grace not Face!

Yet

he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath. Ps

78:38

But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. Ps

86:15

The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. (Ps 145:8)

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Anger is Reversible

My anger was unreasonable,

My anger was invincible.

My anger was uncontrollable,

But still very reversible.

Anonymous

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John the Apostle

Agape and Anger

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What name would Jesus give you?These are the twelve he appointed: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter), James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name

Boanerges

, which means “sons of thunder”), Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of

Alphaeus

, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot (Mark 3:16-18)

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John’s Immaturity

They (John and James) replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory.”

“You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”

“We can,” they answered.

Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared.”

When the ten heard about this, they became indignant with James and John. Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:38-45) A dispute also arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest (Luke 22:24)

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The Apostle of Wrath

As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” But Jesus turned and rebuked them. Then he and his disciples went to another village.

(Luke 9:51-56

)

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John: Call Down Fire

Been with Jesus (Heal, fed and compassion to all)

Response did not equal crime

Racism, social prejudice, generational hatred (today)

Condition by Social/ Childhood/ Cultural Stereotypes

Sodom and Gomorrah

Call down from Heaven destruction (view of God)

God is God of Judgement and Division

Jesus Rebuked them (Passionately Wrong)

That’s not my Father!

John’s view of God was Anger/Wrath not Agape

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The Path to Agape!

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil

desires.

For

this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;

and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;

and

to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection,

love (agape).

(1 Peter 1:3-7)

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John’s Agape Grade Chart (Every Effort)

Faith: Yes (without Knowledge/understanding)

Goodness: No (Influence by World)

Knowledge: No (around Jesus didn’t know him)

Self Control: No (live by worldly Impulses)

Perseverance: No

Godliness: No (wrong image of God)

Brotherliness: No (About Him)

Agape: No

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Emotional and Spiritual Maturity

Agape and Anger

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Who Wrote this?

Agape and Anger

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Stop Hating!We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

1

John

4:19-21

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Jealousy and Unity

For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.

1 John 3:11-12

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Words of Love and Reconciliation

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth

1

John

3:16-18

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Beware, There will be Trouble!“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

(

John 16:33)

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A Command to Agape over Impulses (No)

“A

new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another

.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another

.”

(John 13:34-35)

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Apostle of Anger to Agape

The Apostle of Love

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The Apostle of Love

Few men knew Jesus of Nazareth as well as John did. A mutual understanding and respect for the unselfish love of God bound their relationship. Jesus had special love for John, perhaps because John had such an abiding reverence for the godly love exhibited by His Master. Beyond this special relationship, some of John's personal traits may well have made him an easy person to love.

We've learned that, early in the life of John, Jesus nicknamed him a Son of Thunder. John's writings, however, reveal a completely different man. John changed his outlook as he followed in the footsteps of his Master, listening and heeding His

teachings

(Ucg.org)

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Obsessed with Agape!

(John 13:23; John 19:26; John 20:2; John 21:7; John 21:20).

The one he loved!

The Gospel of John mentions Love/Agape more than Matthew, Mark and Luke of Combined.

1 John mentions Love/Agape more than any other Epistle in the New Testament.

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Apostle of Suffering

In the decade of the 90s, John, though getting on in years, was still teaching and ministering in Asia Minor. During the Christian persecutions under Emperor Domitian (81-96), he was banished to the island of Patmos, in the Aegean Sea. Ucg.org

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John’s Last Home

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Son of Thunder’s Last Words!

I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. (Rev 1:9)

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John’s Agape Grade Chart (Every Effort)

Faith: Yes

Goodness: Yes

Knowledge: Yes (knew the Word)

Self Control: Yes (Turned Anger to Agape)

Perseverance: Yes (Cross and Persecution)

Godliness: Yes (Knowing the Heart of God)

Brotherliness: Yes (Agape One Another)

Agape: Yes (Apostle of Agape)

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Communion

Agape Transference

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Know Agape, Give Agape!(?)

Dear

friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

This

is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

No

one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us

. (1 John 4:7-12)

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Crucify our Impulses/Sin (Cross)

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is

love {Agape},

joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. Gal 5:19-26

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Death to the Dinosaur: Irritator