Anger has become so normal in today’s world that many Christians don’t even recognize it as a threat anymore. But Scripture speaks very differently. The Bible doesn’t treat anger like a personality issue, a temperament struggle, or a justified reaction. It treats anger like a deadly spiritual plague.

And the truth is blunt:

Anger survives wherever the ego lives.
Anger dies wherever pride is crucified.

If you want freedom from anger, you don’t start by fixing your emotions — you start by killing the thing that feeds them: your ego.

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1. Anger Is Not a Small Problem — It Is a Spiritual Cancer

The world treats anger like it’s natural. They say:

• “Everyone gets angry.”

• “You have a right to be offended.”

• “If someone disrespects you, you defend yourself.”

But Scripture exposes anger for what it is:
a work of the flesh (Galatians 5:19–21).
A thief of peace.
A doorway for the enemy.

Anger is a plague… a destroyer of peace… a deadly poison.

The Bible warns the same:

“Everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment.”
(Matthew 5:22)

This is serious.
Anger is not “just who you are.”
It is not “just part of being human.”
It is not “justified because they mistreated me.”

Anger is a spiritual foothold (Ephesians 4:27)
that can quickly become a spiritual stronghold.

Left unchecked, anger becomes bitterness,
bitterness becomes hatred,
and hatred, Jesus says, is murder of the heart (Matthew 5:21–22).

Anger doesn’t stay small.
It grows roots.

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2. Why Do We Get Angry? The Root Is Pride

This is the part nobody wants to admit, but every believer needs to face:

Anger is almost always the ego screaming.

We get angry because our pride was touched:

• “How dare they speak to me like that.”

• “I deserve better.”

• “I’m not going to let them disrespect me.”

• “They don’t appreciate me.”

• “They embarrassed me.”

• “They ignored me.”

All of that comes from the same place: self-importance.

The transcript said it perfectly:

“It is pride that causes us to be offended…
It is pride that tells us we are entitled to respect.”

Your anger is not about what they did.
Your anger is about how big you think you are.

But Jesus says:

“Learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart.”
(Matthew 11:29)

God doesn’t want you to “express yourself.”
He wants you to crucify yourself.

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3. The Only Way to Kill Anger Is to Kill the Ego

You’re not going to defeat anger by:

• counting to ten

• avoiding people

• ignoring your feelings

• pretending you’re calm

• forcing yourself to “be patient”

Those are surface Band-Aids.

The flesh must be crucified, not managed.

Galatians 5:24:

“Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”

To crucify anger, you must crucify what gives anger life —
your ego, your pride, your self-centeredness.

You are not entitled to honor.
You are not entitled to comfort.
You are not entitled to recognition.
You are not entitled to be treated perfectly.

As the sermon said:

“You are nothing but a sinner saved by grace.”

The more you accept this truth,
the less anything can offend you.

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4. Insults Are Not Attacks — They Are Blessings

Jesus shocks our flesh by saying:

“Blessed are you when people insult you… because of Me.”
(Matthew 5:11)

Blessed.

Why?

Because insults are opportunities to kill your flesh.

Every offense is a mirror showing you how alive your ego still is.

This is why Christ, when mocked, spit on, beaten, and humiliated, did not retaliate:

“He opened not His mouth.”
(Isaiah 53:7)

He was not defending an ego —
He didn’t have one.

When someone insults you, you are to remember Christ’s response:

• He didn’t fight back.

• He didn’t defend Himself.

• He didn’t seek revenge.

• He didn’t demand His rights.

• He didn’t protect His pride.

He humbled Himself (Philippians 2:7–8).

When you humble yourself, anger dies.

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5. It’s Often the Small Things That Reveal the Big Problem

We think anger is only about big fights, arguments, betrayals.

But anger usually shows up in the small:

• someone cuts you off in traffic

• someone speaks with the wrong tone

• someone forgets a favor

• someone walks past without greeting you

• someone posts something online you don’t like

• someone inconveniences you

Small irritations reveal a big ego.

These “little angers” are often more dangerous because they feel justified and go unnoticed.
They fester quietly until they grow into bitterness and spiritual rot.

God’s warning is clear:

“Do not let the sun go down on your anger.”
(Ephesians 4:26)

Because if you let anger sleep in your heart,
it wakes up as bitterness.

And bitterness spreads like poison.

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6. Anger Cannot Survive Where the Holy Spirit Reigns

Self-control is not achieved by willpower.

It is fruit —
fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22–23).

Where the Spirit governs, anger dies.
Where the flesh governs, anger thrives.

The sermon said it powerfully:

“You cannot control anger by sheer willpower…
It is only by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Walking in the Spirit looks like:

• dying to yourself daily (1 Corinthians 15:31)

• surrendering your right to be offended

• letting God defend you

• choosing forgiveness instantly

• choosing humility over self-protection

• remembering the cross before you react

• living aware that you deserve nothing but have been given everything in Christ

When your heart is set on Christ,
people can no longer shake you.

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7. Peace Comes Only When Pride Dies

You cannot have anger and peace in the same heart.

One will choke the other.

The sermon reminds us:

“True peace is not found in circumstances…
It is found in walking in the Spirit.”

Peace is not the absence of conflict —
it’s the absence of ego.

Jesus slept during storms.
Why?
Because His peace was not earned — it was His nature.

When you die to your pride,
storms can rage around you but not in you.

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8. Forgiveness: The Final Death Blow to Anger

Jesus told Peter not to forgive seven times, but:

“Seventy times seven.”
(Matthew 18:22)

Forgiveness is not optional.
It is proof that the ego is dead.

A Christian who refuses to forgive has not understood the cross.

We have been forgiven more than anyone could ever do to us.

Forgiveness doesn’t excuse their sin — it frees you from anger.

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9. Becoming Childlike: The Death of Ego

Jesus told His disciples:

“Unless you become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
(Matthew 18:3)

Children don’t carry ego.
Children don’t demand honor.
Children don’t replay offenses.
Children don’t hold grudges.

When you become childlike,
you become unoffendable.

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10. The Final Truth: You Can’t Kill Anger Until You Kill Yourself

Not physically.
Spiritually.

Jesus said:

“If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself.”
(Luke 9:23)

Denying yourself means:
denying your ego, your pride, your “rights,” your self-importance.

A dead man cannot be offended.
A crucified ego cannot feel insulted.
A humble heart cannot be provoked.

When self dies, Christ lives.

And when Christ lives fully in you,
anger has no oxygen left.

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Conclusion: Anger Dies Where Christ Reigns

If you want victory over anger, the solution is not psychological — it is spiritual.

It is not emotional management — it is self-crucifixion.

It is not about trying harder — it is about surrendering deeper.

Anger is the fruit of a living ego.
Peace is the fruit of a crucified ego.

So here is the simple truth:

Kill your ego → Kill your anger.
Kill your pride → Find peace.
Kill yourself (spiritually) → Let Christ live in you.

This is the path of the Spirit.
This is the way of Christ.
This is the freedom every believer is called to walk in.