Angry and meek.

Anger is in our society one of the unspeakable emotions. Anger, particularly male anger, is seen as controlling, abusive. Verbal aggression is seen as aggression.

And action against others is seen as wrong. The narrative of this society sees these actions as abusive and intolerant: that Jesus is evil. He is supposed to be meek and mild

He is supposed to be emasculated, a pussy. He is not.

John 2:13-22

¹³The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. ¹⁵Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!” ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.” ¹⁸The Jews then said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?” ¹⁹Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” ²⁰The Jews then said, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?” ²¹But he was speaking of the temple of his body. ²²After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

Now, Jesus would have been arrested for disturbing the peace, interrupting commerce, and hate speech he despised the temple, and was rude to shopkeepers). The underlying exploitation of certification — would be left unquestioned.

But our society is fallen.

we need to reclaim anger. Godly anger causes change. If we are not angry with the sins that beset us, we will nto change, we will nto want to give them up, for we do not account them as evil.

Evil should make us furious: hating evil is our duty.

Not tolerating it.

Within the church, there should be anger. Anger at our own wrongdoing. And anger’s cousin, grief, at the evil we have done.

The fact this is not allowed — is not the work of the Holy Spirit, but of the Spirit of the age, which lulls us into torpor, removes us from the marketplace, lest the commerce in those vices that destroy the souls of man is interrupted.