He says in that verse, "The discretion of a man deferred his anger and it is his glory
to pass over a transgression."
You know what that says?
It's saying there that we don't have to get mad every time someone around us commits a
transgression.
You know, what God is telling us is that we'll be less angry as people if we can learn to
just overlook certain transgressions and not just every time anybody makes the smallest
mistake we're just, "Ahh!"
You know, just get mad, blow up.
You know, we just need to let things go sometimes.
You know, I mean, choose your battles.
So you know, people sometimes they get mad about silly things.
You know, it's like the old saying goes, "There's no use crying over spilled milk."
You know, you spill the glass of milk and all of a sudden there's a bunch of screaming.
You know, that's soon angry.
I mean before the puddle has even formed and we're already, you know, there's already screaming.
I mean, God's saying, you know, rule your spirit, pass over a transgression.
You know, get your spirit under control.
Don't become angry at the drop of a hat.
You know, there's anger that's justified, you know, get mad at sin.
Get mad at false doctrine, but don't get mad, you know, over such little things and don't
get mad so quickly at the people around you.
Stay calm is what the Bible is saying.
Control yourself, okay?
It says in chapter 22 verse 24, do you see how much there is in the book of Proverbs?
I mean, we're jumping all over Proverbs.
Look at Proverbs 22 verse 24.
It says, "Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not
go lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul."
So the Bible's teaching in this scripture that being a really angry person, a really
furious person all the time, that rubs off on the people around you.
And God's even warning us, you know, not to make friends with people that are really angry
people because we will learn that.
I mean, that will be something that will become a part of our life.
And again, anger's not always wrong, but it often is wrong, and there's a lot of anger
in the New Testament that God's telling us to get rid of.
There's a lot of anger in the book of Proverbs that he's telling us is the wrong type of
anger.