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This is On Target with Vince D'Acchioli. I believe anger is our built-in mechanism to deal with fear. If you apply the right rules to our anger, we can effectively deal with fear. The Bible says to be angry and do not sin. The idea that we are going to be angry, but we should not sin.

So anger is going to happen. Here's the key. Anger properly managed is the key to freedom from fear. By the way, that's a pretty scary guy right there on the screen. I just need to tell you that.

Anger properly managed is the key to freedom from fear. But typically there are three things we do when we get angry. Let's talk about them. We either internalize our anger, which hurts us. We vent our anger, which oftentimes hurts other people.

Or we can do the right thing and control our anger. In Proverbs 19 and 11 it says, listen, a man's wisdom gives him patience. It is to his glory to overlook an offense. You know what that means, Christian? Learn to become unoffendable.

The word there, overlook, is the Hebrew word, abar. It literally means to pass over or to move beyond.