Topic: Angels of light
Text: Ephesians 4:25-32

Satan is adept at making counterfeits. He counterfeits every good thing God makes. Currency counterfeiters works very hard to ensure perfect deception by making the fake money look very much like the real one. Is the same case with Satan when he propagates his own gospel, he backs it up with the Bible. We would look at some of the Bible passages Satan often uses to send people to hell. Ephesians 4:26, “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.” Satan loves to use this passage to confuse people that what the Bible really means here is that they can be angry only they should not prolong the anger. He knows too well that a five-minute anger can spoil all that a man has spent thirty years building up. Satan has deceived many with this Scriptures.

Once, while conducting a prison fellowship, I met a brother who was serving a life sentence for slapping a person to death in anger. That anger did not last till the second day, not did it last for five minutes. Yet, in the split seconds that it lasted, he became a murderer. There are many verses of the word of God that admonishes us not to be angry at all. One is in Ephesians 4:31: “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.”

Also, Proverbs 14:17 says, “He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.” Proverbs 16:32 says: He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.” Again, Ecclesiastes 7:9 admonishes us: “Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.” Anger is temporary madness. Anger is terribly bad and it spoils a lot of things. Satan knows that when you are angry, there is nothing you cannot say. He knows that whatever comes out of your mouth is recoded in heaven. He knows about Matthew 12:36: “But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account therefore in the Day of Judgment.” Why then does the Bible tell us be angry but not to sin: When is it allowed for a child of God to be angry?

This is when he comes across someone blaspheming the Almighty God. This is because you know that what such a fellow is doing constitutes an affront to the Almighty. At such times, you can rise up to defend the glory of God.

Memory Verse: Ephesians - “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.”