31, Paul commands the putting away of sinful anger. 27, Paul commands against sinning in your anger. 27-“Be angry and do not sin.” Here anger is not called sin but it can lead to sin. There are two kinds of anger here: sinless anger and sinful anger. His wife said, “Now that we have a contract, I will force myself to drop the use of force,”-apparently that means to no more than once a week. The contract they signed says that she cannot beat him more than once a week, and if she does it spells out the consequences which are going to her parent’s house for three days. When they get in a disagreement, his wife uses her skill to beat him up. Zhang is very competitive and “never wants to lose an argument.” He says the only problem is that his wife knows kung fu. Zhang, from Chongqing, China, signed a contract that allows his wife to beat him once a week. Now Paul applies this Psalm to folks who get angry with others in church.
The LORD has put more joy and peace in his heart (vv. So David now tells his godly hearers to be angry, but do not sin. But David declares that the LORD hears the godly when he calls (v. People have accused him falsely of some wrongdoing (v. In Psalm 4, David is distressed about the false accusations of others. Paul quotes from Psalm 4:4, “Be angry, and do not sin.” We need to understand Psalm 4 so that we can know why Paul used it. Do = “Be angry” Don’t = “do not sin do not let the sun go down on your anger.” Reason = “give no opportunity to the devil.” This time, Paul’s format is reversed-Do, Don’t, and Reason.
“Be angry and do not sin do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil” (Eph.
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