Welcome [music] to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, January 27th. Uncontrolled [music] fiery emotions can be devastating. Learn to understand them and find relief in the danger of anger. On today’s [music] podcast, >> we know that all the way back in the beginning of the scriptures, the first family in the Bible, what happened? Cain became angry.

And God said to him, you know what? What are you angry about? And so we see the result of uncontrolled anger in the very first family. It caused the death of his brother. Uncontrolled anger is a very dangerous form of anger. What did he say? He said, “Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away. deal with it along with all malice and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other just as God in Christ Jesus has forgiven you.

Now, God gives us lots of warnings. Let me just take you through a few uh verses in the Proverbs. I won’t take you through many, just a few, just to let you know that there are over 300 passages of scripture in the Bible about um anger. And I just want to begin with one here in Proverbs chapter 14.

And I want you to notice the same word in several of these verses. And I want you to tell me what it is. All right? Proverbs 14 29. Listen to this. He who is slow to anger has great understanding. But he who is quick-tempered exalts folly, foolishness. That is actions and conduct that are unwise. That’s what folly is. All right.

Turn if you will to the 15th chapter and uh look if youth verse. A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but the slow to anger pacifies contention. That is, you know, uh if he’s slow to anger, some of you’ll be able to deal with that. 16th chapter and the 32nd verse. He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty. And he who rules his spirit than he who captures a city.