WINDSOR FULL GOSPEL MISSION CHURCH
Small GROUP BIBLE DISCUSSION ANSWERS
Purpose Driven Life: What on earth am I here for?
Day 3 (B): Guilt Driven Life 1.1) When is the last time you blow up your anger or resentment? 1.2) To whom did you do that? Individual answer 1.3) What was the cause of your anger? Individual answer 1.4) Are you still keeping your anger or resentment? Individual answer 2.1) What will cause people to be angry or resentful? Trauma or loss of our important value: pride, reputation, expectation, hope, money, and opportunity 2.2) How does the past anger become the driving force at the present time? The spirit of dislike, hatred, and revenge will captivate you in your thought. You will have a negative attitude toward the offender in talk, emotion, and behavior. 2.3) How do you treat your anger? 2.4) How long do people clamp up anger and resentment in their hearts? As long as pain from their emotional hurt or trauma lasts 2.5) What will happen if you keep clamping up your anger? (Job 5:2) 2.6) What is the mechanism of blowing up anger? Initially anger can be withheld by the intellectual and will power. However, beyond a certain threshold, the surge of anger could not be no longer suppressed or withheld by the will power and blown up like a volcano. 2.7) What will happen if you once blow up? It is difficult to have a damage control, because you have hurt other person. You end up to apologizing to the person who you have hurt. He/she may or may not forgive you. 3. How should we treat our anger? We should understand the spiritual root of Anger. It comes from the unbelief of God who is in charge of our lives. 4.1) What is the meaning of Matthew 10:29? 4.2) What is the meaning of “seeing no one” in Exodus 2:12? Moses forgot God was watching, who is in charge of every events and allowed what was happening to Hebrews in
4.3) Why does God allow any situations to tempt us of our angers? (Galatians 5:24) God reminds us that my old nature ( pride, the love of money, security in job etc) is still actively alive, while I confessed that my old nature was crucified together with Jesus. 4.4) What is the meaning of anger? (1 Peter 2:21-23, Romans 12:19) There is revenging spirit in anger. This is evidence of unbelief. God is only the righteous God who will judge us. We have no right to judge or revenge others. We trust God who judges us righteously. 5. How to digest anger?
1) Clamping up in our hearts (storage undigested)
2) Blowing up
You may blow up with a small trigger incident to cause greater harm to yourself and others.
Your spirit is not free and imprisoned in the unforgiving spirit bondage.
Your sins will be not forgiven and your prayer will be not answered
Your spirit, mind, and body become unhealthy
You are burdened with stress
1) God knows our emotional weakness and understand our anger. But God wants us to digest our anger in a healthy way before going to bed (Ephesians 4:26).
2) We should not controlled by the past event (Philippians 3:13). Past is gone. We cannot remain in the past.
3) We should go back to remember the past event and analyze the event under the light of God’s will until we find the hidden God’s blessing in it and we are able to give thanks to God (Genesis 45:7-8).