I want to point out a major philosophy that's taught in Star Wars that seems to have permeated
our culture and permeated Christianity.
And it's not coming from the Bible, it's actually coming from Buddhism and other false religion.
But one of the major themes of Star Wars is this idea of the Force and that there's the
dark side of the Force, you know, beware of the dark side.
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
You know, so I went on to a website that had the transcript of all the movies where it's
just the text, you know, so I don't have to sit and watch the movie.
So here's all the text and I just searched the word dark side and I found some of the
quotes about this that I remembered.
Listen to this, this is going to be from Yoda, okay?
And I'm not going to do the Yoda voice because I don't, everybody wants it, I don't know.
I do a lot of impressions, alright people, but I don't, I can't do this one, I'm sorry.
But he said, you know, Yoda says, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force, but beware
of the dark side, anger, fear, aggression, the dark side of the Force are they.
So you know, according to Star Wars, oh man, just stay away from anger, stay away from
fear, that's a ticket to the dark side, okay?
Then you know, Obi-Wan Kenobi came out, he said, Luke, don't give in to the hate, Luke,
that leads to the dark side.
And then, you know, the Emperor, this is from Return of the Jedi, you know, the Emperor,
when he's dealing with Luke Skywalker, he says, you know, good, I can feel your anger.
Take your weapons, strike me down with all your hatred and your journey toward the dark
side will be complete.
So according to Star Wars, basically, if Luke Skywalker, you know, kills the evil Emperor
who's like blowing up whole planets or whatever and just killing billions of people, then
he's giving in to the dark side, because any anger, any fear, any hate, oh that's the dark
side.
Good, use your aggressive feelings, boy, let the hate flow through you.
Jesus Christ himself, and the Bible says of Jesus that the Spirit was not given by measure
unto him.
I mean, in him dwelled all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and the Bible says that
he was anointed with the oil of gladness above all his fellows.
So he had the ultimate Holy Spirit anointing on his life while he walked and talked on
this earth.
And why did he have that ultimate Holy Spirit anointing?
The Bible says because he loved righteousness and hated iniquity.
Therefore God anointed him with the oil of gladness above all his fellows.
That's why Jesus Christ had such anointing.
He was filled with the Holy Spirit 24-7.
He walked in the Spirit, in the power of the Holy Spirit, the Bible's clear on that.
But look at Mark 3 verse 5 about Jesus, it says, and when he had looked round about on
them, with anger being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, stretch
forth thine hand, and he stretched it out, and his hand was restored whole as the other.
Did Jesus have a right to be angry here?
Absolutely.
Was he filled with the Spirit?
Was he godly in this anger?
What about when he preached in Matthew 23?
You can feel the anger in that chapter.
I mean, he is rebuking and harshly criticizing the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the lawyers,
and there's anger there.
But it's a righteous anger.
It's a godly anger.
In fact, there's even a command in scripture, Ephesians 4-26, that starts out with these
words, be ye angry.
Be ye angry and sin not.
Now if anger were a sin, that verse wouldn't make any sense, because how could you be angry
and sin not if all anger is sinful?
Obviously it's possible to be angry and not sin.
Then he explains how, let not the sun go down on your wrath.
So we're not to harbor anger.
We're not to hang on to anger and be angry from day to day.
There's a time to get angry, but then it's time to put that aside, go to bed at night,
wake up, and start a fresh morning.