Slow to Anger | God Has a Name E4

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

"We think of God's love and God's anger as at odds with one another. That's because we don't understand God's love or God's anger."

John Mark challenges our perceptions of God, both the God who is always angry and the God who never gets angry, by showing in the Scriptures how God is both patient and wrathful, and why both are important for our understanding of who God is and what that means for us in our lives.

Key Scripture Passages: Exodus 34v6-7, Matthew 21v12-14, James 1v19-20, 5v7-8

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0:00.0	Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast. I'm Strawn Coleman, your host and part of the teaching team here at practicing the way.
0:12.0	Each week on this podcast we share a teaching from John Mark or other trusted voices in the formation space.
0:19.0	And it's great to have you with us.
0:21.0	Today John Mark continues to challenge our assumptions
0:24.9	about God in the Old Testament by exploring his nature of being slow to anger. God
0:32.2	he tells us is neither the easily angered authority figure many assume
0:36.4	he is, nor the placid version we tend to create in reaction. As you listen you may like to ask which belief do I live out of more
0:46.7	that God is always angry never angry or slow to anger. He is John Mark.
0:54.0	Hey, if you don't have a Bible, put your hand up in the air.
0:59.0	If you do turn to Exodus 34, second book in Genesis, Exodus 34.
1:08.9	It's great to be back.
1:09.7	I was in the UK last weekend,
1:12.0	and visiting churches and church leaders over on the nation
1:16.6	that we are no longer under their control which is awesome but I will admit they have a
1:22.4	lot of great things like transit.
1:24.2	Anyway, that's a whole other tangent.
1:26.1	But great trip over there.
1:27.7	It's amazing to see how the UK churches are working out the marriage of the Bible and the Holy Spirit.
1:35.0	That sad to say is foreign on US soil.
1:38.0	In America, for the most part, you have Bible churches that are kind of all about the Bible and teaching and the sermon and the mind and then you have Holy Spirit churches that are all about kind of the heart and worship and we just believe that God created both the mind and the heart, am I right?
1:54.8	And those things were never supposed to be separated.
1:59.0	And I think we as a church, I would argue, lean more towards kind of the Bible side, but there's so much
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