H.H Pope Tawadros II preached his weakly sermon at Wednesday meeting this evening from the Papal residence in Cairo. It was aired exclusively through Cristian’s channels and C.O.C channel that is affiliated to the church’s media center via internet without any audience.
The sermon was titled by “Stop being angry” as a part of his series of musings that H.H presents threw out Psalm 37, as H.H talked about the importance of the Farewell virtue which is one of the Holy Spirit fruits. He presented a number of examples from the Holy Bible and the church’s saints whom have achieved Farewell.
H.H started from the beginning of September a new serious of sermons in his weekly Wednesday’s meeting throw out Psalm 37 titled by “Lessons of Wisdom” and the “Stop being angry” subject is the seventh lesson in this serious.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. One God. Amen. May His grace and mercy rest upon us, from now and forevermore. Amen.
Sermon Highlights:
~ Wisdom lesson #7: Cease from anger
~ Why do people become angry? – 2 reasons: physical illnesses and spiritual illnesses
~ 4 spiritual illnesses leading to anger: pride, hardness of heart, jealousy, and ignorance
~ 2 types of anger: unacceptable and acceptable anger
~ Negative consequences of anger: physical and spiritual
~ 3 cures for anger: patience, humility, and gentle responses
~ Review of Psalm 37 wisdom lessons so far:
1-Do not fret over evildoers – do not be jealous or envious over them, and he repeats this lesson three times
2-Trust in the Lord
3-Dwell in the land
4-Guard the faithfulness
5-Delight in the Lord
6-Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him – wait patiently on the Lord, wait for Him.
Introduction
Let us continue our contemplations on the wisdom lessons found in Psalm 37. This is the seventh in our series of wisdom lessons from Psalm 37, and if you are someone who wishes to be wise and live your life according to wisdom, read this Psalm regularly and apply it in your life; study and learn its statements, teachings, and lessons.
Psalm 37
1Do not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity.
2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land, and cultivate faithfulness.
4Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.
5Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.
6He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
7Rest (be still, wait) in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.
8Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; do not fret—it only causes harm.
9For evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.
10For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more; indeed, you will look carefully for his place, but it shall be no more.
11But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
The grace of God the Father be with us all. Amen.
Introduction
Psalm 37 is a Psalm of David and it is known as being a Psalm that contains much wisdom, and how wonderful it is for a person to be wise because a person only lives once – one life – and so it is fitting that a person spend this life living by wisdom. It used to be supposed that wisdom came with age and so only the grey-haired could be wise, but in reality, wisdom is a blessing of God and God grants it to people. But wisdom is also a skill that a person practices as well as a personal attitude towards life; that a person takes an attitude of learning from the great school of life.
We have already covered six lessons and today we will cover the seventh lesson. They say that worry is the opposite of wisdom, and so instead of living your life in worry, take the wisdoms of this Psalm, put them into practice in your life, and as I have told you before, please read this Psalm over and over again, regularly, and be instructed by it.
Wisdom lesson #7: Cease from anger
Today’s lesson comes from verse 8, it says, “Cease from anger and forsake wrath; do not fret – it only causes harm.” To cease from anger means to stop being angry, but what is anger? Anger is an emotional state that involves a sense of nervousness and a loss of control over oneself, during which a person’s voice may raise, the mind may become distracted or confused, may start to think wrong thoughts and either say or do wrong things, may begin to develop feelings of hatred, may begin to speak profanity, and it may even reach the extent of physical violence. And so the state of anger does not at all glorify a person and it also takes him right out of the realm of wisdom and sensibility.
The Holy Bible is full ofstatements and verses about the sin of anger, for example, in the Epistle of Jacob (James) in the New Testament it very clearly states, “For the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God” (Jam 1:20); very clear. And in the Book of Proverbs it says, “Anger slays even wise men” (Prov 15:1 BST) meaning that even if a person is wise but falls into the snare of anger, he will lose his wisdom and will suffer the regret that follows, of “Why did I do that?” Also, in the Book of Ecclesiastes is says, “Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools” (Eccl 7:9).
Additionally, the sayings of the Church fathers are filled with statements on anger and reactivity because they are states that show up repeatedly in one’s life. Listen to these beautiful statements from St. Mari Isaac on anger: “A heart in which anger is at work will be void of virtue.” Anger and virtue, the two do not go together.
Another father says, “He who cannot control his tongue during a moment of anger will not able to overcome any small sin.” During moments of anger a person loses their ability to self-control and becomes so unaware, to the point that he will even later deny what he said. For example, you may later say to him, “You said this,” but he will say, “No, I did not say that.” Why? Because [in his anger, he had] lost control over the words coming out of his mouth and over his own tongue.
Anger is always described as being one of two kinds: either acceptable or inacceptable anger, but in general, anger is always to be rejected and is an unfavorable trait altogether. Take anger out of your life and do not let it even be found in any of your responses.
Why do people become angry?
Let us begin by asking: why do people get angry? Or, what causes a person to become angry? A person becomes angry for many reasons, let us look at some of these reasons.
1-Physical reasons
The first set of reasons that cause a person to become angry have to do with the body, for example, maybe for reasons of physical illness, bodily exhaustion, irregular glandular secretions, advancement in age, the narrowing of arteries and capillaries which limits the blood flow and proper oxygen supply throughout the body, and this limited circulation can, in turn, cause a person to become impatient and so on, or an elevation or changes in the blood-hormone levels. These are some of the various physical reasons that can cause a person to become angry, and so one must be aware of this.
2-Spiritual reasons
And although anger may be the result of physical illnesses, it can also be caused by spiritual illnesses. The first spiritual condition that causes a person to become angry is, without a doubt, pride.
1-Pride
Pride includes things like a sense of self-aggrandizement, arrogance, and one’s thinking that he or she is better than others. You may remember when Jesus rebuked the scribes and Pharisees in the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 23 saying, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you did this and that,” and so on. They were not able to bear these rebukes. Why not? Because of their pride; they thought they were so good.
A proud person is one who seeks honor from others. His ego is before him at all times. We can say that pride is the reverse of what the prophet David said in Psalm 16: “I have set the LORD continually before me” (Ps 16:8). The proud person says, “I have placed myself before me at all times!” That is what he worships, himself. This is the condition of a proud person, or else where do the tyrannical, the cruel, the domineering, the power-hungry, and those who are always in a state of anger get it from? All of this comes from an inflated ego.
Let me remind you of an example from the Old Testament Book of Esther; Haman. Haman attended the banquet held by Queen Esther, but he felt that he was the guest of honor, and when you read the Book of Esther you can see that he was drowning in pride, just drowning in his own pride.
And just as soon as he left the banquet, Haman ran into Mordecai, a simple palace guard, and Mordecai did not bow down to him. So Haman became very, very angry, and went home with this anger and called his family to himself. And he went on talking about all of his riches and glory and greatness and favorable status with the king, and how he had just attended the royal banquet, but he made a very strange statement, he said, “Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate” (Esth 5:13). Haman was saying that all of the greatness and riches that he had were on one hand, but to see Mordecai sitting at the king’s gate and not have him bow down to him, that was another story!
This situation caused Haman to be in a state of great anger or even worse, a state of infuriation, and so his wife suggested that he build a tall cross of wood, 80 cubits high, and crucify Mordecai on it. It says, “Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, ‘Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go merrily with the king to the banquet.’ And the thing pleased Haman; so he had the gallows made” (Esth 5:14)
And in the state of anger, hatred, resentment, and revenge that Haman was in, he did in fact build this cross, but God had a different plan, and in the end we see that the cross that was built for Mordecai to be crucified upon, Haman himself was crucified upon it. And so it was in this way that Haman’s pride and resentment came to an end.
And so the first spiritual cause for anger is pride, which is why as we will see in our lesson next week, the eighth lesson, that it will talk about the opposite of the proud, that is, the meek, saying: “11But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.” And so here is the answer as to how to cease from anger, it is to be meek.
2-Hardness of heart
A person’s heart can sometimes become filled with cruelty; it can become hardened and thus lose its sensitivity or ability to feel. This reminds us of the time of Pharaoh, Moses, and the liberation of the people, and how despite the fact that God loves all people, but when God’s love came to Pharaoh’s hardened heart to soften it, like water to mud, the hard heart became even harder.
And here I want to remind you of the purpose of short, or arrow prayers. Whether prayed during our collective Church prayers or during our individual prayers, short or arrow-prayers, such as “Lord have mercy … Kyrie eleison” – are repeated many times so that a person would persist in filling their heart with mercy because, “There will be no mercy for those who have not shown mercy to others” (Jam 2:13).
Hardness of heart leads a person to be continually predisposed to over-reactivity, to speaking hurtful words, to insulting others, to not consider the words coming out of his mouth nor being in control of them, to accusing others and scolding them, and yet all the while, he never feels nor is even aware that he is doing any of this!
Another example of pride from the Old Testament is found in the story of Nabal (1 Samuel 25). Nabal was the husband of Abigail. He was a rich man who had thousands of flocks, but his heart was hard and he was foolish – the word ‘Nabal’ even means ‘foolish’! The prophet David was on the run and had around 600 people with him, at this same time, Nabal was celebrating a happy occasion – the shearing of the sheep’s wool. When the wool is sold, it brings in a good deal of income, and so this was a blessed time for Nabal.
It says, “While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep” (1 Sam 25:4), and so David sent messengers to Nabal saying, “You are now enjoying a time of celebration and feasting, could you please send some provisions for me and those who are with me?” (cf 1 Sam 25:7), but the foolish Nabal replied to David’s servants saying, “Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who break away each one from his master. Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men when I do not know where they are from?” (1 Sam 25:10-11). Very foolish, a very foolish response, and this very foolish response caused David to become angry and begin to prepare himself and his men to travel to Nabal and kill him. But as we will see later on, Abigail made her appearance and was able to absorb David’s anger.
But this is the hardness of heart, and that is why when we are raising our children we have to pay attention to this point, that if my son or daughter is showing signs of stubbornness, hardness of heart, or an inability to apologize to others, I must pay attention to these things before they grow and anger become part of his or her lifestyle.
3-Jealousy
A third spiritual cause for anger is jealousy. Jealousy is always born out of comparisons; when a person compares him or herself to someone else, for example, “I am better than him … I am not as good as she is … Why can’t I be like him,” and so on.
Do you remember Saul and David? Saul was a king and David was just a young lad – a very big difference between the two, but when David defeated Goliath with the sling (1 Samuel 17) and the woman started singing a song comparing Saul and David and giving greater praise to David, Saul became jealous.
Goliath had been challenging “the armies of the living God” (1 Sam 17:26). It says, “When David was returning from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women had come out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with musical instruments. So the women sang as they danced, and said: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.’ Then Saul was very angry, and the saying displeased him; and he said, ‘They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?’ So Saul eyed David from that day forward” (1 Sam 17:6-9).
And so as the women sang this song in celebration but as soon as Saul heard the words “Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands,” he began to be jealous of David and started to become very angry, even to the point of trying to kill David. Wickedness began to form within Saul’s heart, and from that point on he began his many attempts to kill David.
Know that God is the Doer of Good, the Ruler over all, and that nobody can take away anyone else’s good; that is not possible. Just look at the birds of the air and the fish of the sea; God sends their food to them all. And so it is with us, only our part is to persevere and to depart from any source of jealousy.
And so when raising our children, we should be very careful not to praise one child more than other, or to give more attention to one child because they are behaving well or because they are cuter or prettier and so neglect the other. I plead with you to be very careful about this, because jealousy can also be born out of errors in how we raise our children.
And because jealousy is such a major cause of anger, David warns us about it three times in this Psalm when he says “Do not fret,” because in Arabic, ‘fretfulness’ and ‘jealousy’ are the same thing. And so, in verses 1, 7, and 8, David is telling us to not be jealous:
v 1: Do not be jealous because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity.
v 7: Do not be jealous because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.
v 8: Do not be jealous – it only causes harm.
Do not be jealous, lest you fall into the snare of anger. Another example of this is the older son in the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15). He was doing just fine until he heard that his father had killed the fattened calf in celebration of his younger brother’s return. In Jewish tradition, a family would fatten a calf specifically to be slaughtered at the wedding feast of the eldest son, and so to the elder son, this was a direct attack on what was rightfully his.
The father even tried to soothe him by assuring him “Son … all that I have is yours” (cf. Lk 15:31), but jealousy had already blinded him and made him so angry that he refused to go in to the house and join the celebration. Jealousy is bitter, and that is why you must be very watchful over yourself lest jealousy cause you to fall into the anger trap.
4-Ignorance
Pride, hardness of heart, jealousy, and the fourth spiritual reason that leads to anger is ignorance. In the Book of Ecclesiastes it says, “Anger resides in the bosom of fools” (Eccl 7:9), and so it is as if ignorance is flying above and it lands right on the bosom of an angry person, polluting his or her thinking, their heart, and their emotions. And that is why when someone does not know what is causing a problem – he is “ignorant” to its cause – he will become angry, and his anger will also lead others to confusion or “ignorance,” because they do not know why he is angry.
Also, when someone is ignorant they become helpless, which will also lead them to become angry because they feel that they do not know how to respond or what action to take, and the result is that he falls into the snare of anger and ends up losing much.
These are the reasons and causes that lead to unacceptable anger, now let us look at a form of anger that is sometimes called “acceptable” anger.
Acceptable Anger
We cannot say that anger is ever acceptable, but if we can ever say so, there is an anger that we can call “wise wrath, for the sake of God.” For example, you may recall when Moses and Joshua came down the mountain and with them the two tablets of the Law, and Moses heard the people at the foot of the mountain singing and saw that they had made a golden calf and were worshipping it.
The people had forgotten about God, and a situation like this demanded Moses’ rage or anger, and so it tells us, “When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it” (Exo 32:19-20). And so as we see here with Moses, there is a right anger that serves to accomplish God’s [Will], but I want you to know that common or everyday anger is sinful and does not glorify God, as St. Jacob (James) tells us in his Epistle, “For the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God” (Jam 1:20).
Cease from anger. If you wish to be wise, cease from anger – anger at home, anger at work, anger in your Church-service work, anger in your personal life. Anger is a bad habit; cease from it. And interestingly, both the plant and animal kingdoms do not get angry, but the human is so often possessed by the emotion of anger along his journey of life.
Negative consequences of anger
1-Physical consequences
The state of anger begets many negative physical consequences, and possibly very dangerous or critical ones. For example, anger leads to high blood pressure, which can in turn lead to many other, endless conditions of illness, even nervous conditions such as worry and stomach ulcers. It can also lead to diabetes and obstructions in breathing; these are all consequences of anger. And so anger can leave physical scars in a person’s life, as well as chronic exhaustion.
A person who is calm greets everything with serenity and meekness, while on the other hand, a person who is always angry is reactive and nervous, and is always suffering from various physical conditions, like insomnia (inability to sleep) and arrhythmia (irregular beating of the heart), and so on.
2-Spiritual consequences
In addition to negative physical effects, anger also begets negative spiritual effects. Because anger is the doorway to many other sins, a person who falls into the sin of anger will have entered into a realm of many other sins, like using curse words, hurting others verbally, hardness of heart, judging others, mistreating others or being unfair, hatred, adversity with others, risk-taking, physical violence, and even murder.
We hear about all of these sins and all of these crimes – may the Lord protect you – and how that when a person comes back to their senses, they become afflicted with a severe case of regret and ask themselves, “How did I ever do that?” Do you want to know how? It is because the moments of anger [you felt] led you to fall into the anger snare, and so you committed this or that great sin or crime.
Furthermore, an angry person does not benefit from prayer nor from fasting nor from any other spiritual practice. It is said that the prayer of the angry person is like a seed on a rock. If you put a seed on a rock, what can it ever accomplish? It will not be able to establish roots nor grow a stem nor be able to grow at all. It will be fruitless. St. Mari Isaac said, “He who fasts his mouth from physical food but does not fast his heart from anger and resentment and his tongue from vanities, his fast is in vain.”
The cure for anger
Now that we have discussed the causes, conditions, and consequences of anger, let us turn to something positive and speak about how to cure anger. How can we cure anger? If I am a person who is easily angered, how can I heal myself from this condition?
Of course if there are physical illnesses resulting from or leading to anger, like the ones we discussed earlier, for example, if there are issues with the heart or the mind or the nervous system and so on and they are treatable, they should be treated, however, what we are concerned with in this part of our talk is spiritual cures for anger, specifically 3: patience, humility, and gentle responses.
1-Forebearance (patience)
One of the nice things about our Church is that we pray a section of Scripture from the Epistle to the Ephesians every morning in the Agpeya Baker prayer. In that prayer, St. Paul the apostle says, “I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all” (Eph 4:1-6).
He asks them to be longsuffering and to bear with one another, because forbearance (patience) is the first cure for anger. Also in Romans 15:1, he says it in a very nice way, there St. Paul says, “Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak and not to please ourselves.” There are some people who are weak and we ought to be patient with them.
You may have heard me say this before, that anger is like fire, and you cannot put out fire with fire, you cannot put our anger with anger. Instead, to put out fire you need water, and as water puts out fire, so you, O person who is strong, you must bear the weakness of the weak, [in this case, the angry person].
St. Anba Anthony said, “Imitate the Lord Christ, whom when He was cursed did not curse.” Every harsh word a person endures forms a crown for him or her; the crown by which you will enter heaven is formed out of your patience towards others.
And a very important virtue that factors into your patience with others is the virtue of giving them the benefit of the doubt. For example, if someone is angry, you might say yourself, “It’s okay, maybe they are not feeling well … maybe they are tired … maybe the situation was too difficult for them to bear,” and so on, but you are to remain calm.
And by the way, anger is contagious, so your calmness will help to absorb the state of anger the other person is experiencing [and thus stop it from spreading], and so this is a very important thing for you to practice in your life: bear the weaknesses of others, give them the benefit of the doubt, and you will find that the spirit of anger will depart from those persons before you, whether at your work or in your home or church or community, or wherever else the issue may be.
The Old Testament tells us that “God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore” (1 Kg 4:29) – largeness of heart, because a narrow heart is not able to bear much.
When speaking to the people of Corinth in his Second Letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul the apostle told them, “Open wide your hearts” (2 Cor 6:13), so you also, let your heart be wide open so that you may be able to comprehend the situation and be able to support the [angry] person, as needed.
Of course none of us are angels and every person has weaknesses and troubles, and so we all need to be able to understand and comprehend one another. If we are able to do this, we will have a sense of restful peace within our hearts and the [troubled] one who is before us will experience, for a short while, a conviction from their conscience, but then they also will experience restfulness of heart, and he or she may even end up completely cured from the spirit of anger. And so the first spiritual cure for anger is patience or forbearance towards others.
2-Humility
The second spiritual remedy for anger and for bringing about the spirit of peace, is humility. A person’s humility. Someone once said, “Humility is a land able to bear all trees,” and all virtues.” Your humility can help solve the problem that is before you; your calm facial expressions and gentle demeanor can help you solve any problem that may face you.
A mother was helping her son do his homework and whenever he would not understand she would shout at him, so he asked her, “Why are you shouting at me?” She said, “So that you can understand!” He said to her, “And do you think that when you shout at me I will understand? I will not understand.” She asked him, “Why won’t you understand?” His response was very strange indeed, he said to her, “Because when you shout at me, you look ugly.”
His mother’s face was the first face he ever saw, and so when the boy sees his mother’s face smiling, it gives him a sense of great comfort and assurance, but when she yells and becomes angry, in that state her face is transformed and becomes, to her son, a frightful face, a terror, and that causes him to not be able to understand [his studies]. The mother who told me this story said that she never does that anymore, but that she always tries to avoid shouting and keep a smile on her face at all times. Smiling is a form of humility.
Humility is a very important thing for you to practice because it will help you control yourself and stay calm, it will help you discern how to speak and how to rightly respond. Also, a person who is humble will not be a cause of aggravation or a provoker to others, because when people are in a state of anger, they will sometimes bring up the weaknesses or failures or sins of the other person, or they may not show them respect, and then anger increases, but a humble person avoids all of this completely, and keeps his tongue sweet, which brings me to the third cure for anger, which is, a gentle response.
3-A gentle response
Your gentle responses and kind words can affect others very positively; your words can bring others rest and joy. Without a doubt, an angry person is an ill person and he needs a cure, a spiritual cure. As an ill person, an angry person does not need to be punished or to be additionally wounded verbally. If you are dealing with an angry person, this is a person who is already hurt, so you don’t hurt him even more but rather, you should seek ways of how you can comfort him.
We all know the verse that says, “A gentle answer turns away wrath” (Prov 15:1) – keep this verse before you at all times. A soft word, a nice compliment, a nice comment, any of these can turn away anger and get rid of it. Truly, a gentle answer turns away anger, and so put this before you as a very powerful and effective way to cure anger. Remember how in the story of Nabal and David, Abigail’s approach absorbed David’s anger and altogether put it out.
David was on his way to Nabal, Abigail’s husband, with the intention of killing him, but this is what it tells us Abigail did: “Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already dressed, five seahs of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys. And she said to her servants, ‘Go on before me; see, I am coming after you.’ But she did not tell her husband Nabal” (1 Sam 25:18-19), and then, “Now when Abigail saw David, she dismounted quickly from the donkey, fell on her face before David, and bowed down to the ground. So she fell at his feet and said: ‘On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity be! And please let your maidservant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant’” (1 Sam 25:23-24).
She spoke to him with gentle words and soothed his anger, then presented him with her gift. You have to be wise, and wisdom demands that a person have a sweet tongue and gentle words. Let your words be as if mixed with oil, because oil is a softener. And a person’s words must be seasoned with salt, rightly seasoned words, just like when we eat food that has just the right amount of salt, it tastes very delicious.
Conclusion
Always avoid the raising of the voice and always speak with a calm voice. Let your words always be said with a smile. Cease from anger, this is the seventh wisdom lesson that saint David the prophet teaches us. Stay away from anything that would provoke anger, either in you or in someone else. And maybe the most important lesson within the lesson of ceasing from anger is that you do not be jealous. Stay away from jealousy because “Jealousy is a monster which firstly creates and then kills itself” (William Shakespeare).
“8Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; do not fret—it only causes harm.”
To our God be all the glory and honor, from now and forevermore. Amen.
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