DAILY TRUTH - Uprooting Bitterness
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The root of bitterness is not merely being sinned against by others, it is pride. It is a combination of sin and arrogance. Jonah was a man of pride and arrogance, but he was not one of them. He was one of the first to sin against God.
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us to recognize when it comes to that particular sin of bitterness a few things i might say one
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bitterness has the potential as the author did the hebrews instructs us to defile many
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so bitterness is not a sin that will simply affect yourself but it will affect others
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it is an infectious sin it is a sin that will quickly spread and disease a whole crop
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a whole congregation can ultimately be destroyed by one root of bitterness
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that's one aspect of the sin of bitterness but another is this often we attempt to assuage our
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own consciences by justifying our bitterness, saying, the reason I'm bitter is because of the
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great atrocities that have been committed against me by others. And there's a partial truth in that.
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Most people who are bitter, it is in part due because of the sins of others committed against
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them. But others sinning against you in and of itself alone, if that's all that takes place,
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it is not enough to produce bitterness. Bitterness does not come merely by being
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sinned against by others. It is always a mixture of being sinned against by others coupled with pride.
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hot spirits i believe it was matthew henry who once said this hot spirits come by high spirits
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and what he's saying is that to be angry right and that's the question that the lord asked jonah
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do you do well to be angry pro tip almost always the answer is no do you do well to be angry
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and what matthew henry in his commentary on the book of jonah is getting at is
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that high spirits are what lead towards hot spirits hot spirits speaking to anger
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to be hot in your anger the opposite of the character of god not slow to anger
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but quick in your retaliation quick in your indignation and what matthew henry is saying
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is that in the case of jonah hot spirits are not merely produced by others harming you
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but others harming you coupled with your own high spirits, that is, lofty pride, arrogance.
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There are people who can be sinned against in terrible ways and yet not grow bitter.
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Because although they were wronged terribly, they are people who do not think highly of themselves,
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not more highly than they ought. They are people who do not possess these hot spirits because they
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possess by the grace of God low spirits. It's not just being sinned against. It's being sinned
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against with pride. It is the prideful man who, when sinned against, will quickly ignite in anger
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towards those who sinned against him. This is Jonah. And Jonah had, make no mistake, he had in
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fact, been sinned against. And not just that someone didn't invite his kid to their birthday
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party. No, he had been sinned against by the Assyrians ramping up their pre-invasion attacks
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into the northern tribes of Israel. And likely, if not family members, at least acquaintances or
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friends that he knew had been taken captive or even harmed or brutally murdered by the Assyrians.
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not to mention the Assyrians they also ruined Jonah's perfect prophetic record
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his whole profession his whole career had been flawless God's going to expand this border right
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God's going to give you a house he's going to give you a car he's good and it's actually true
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right this is a prosperity preacher's dream right Benny Hinn would kill for this you know I mean
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this is like I'm going to tell people that if they do this they'll be rich and for the first
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time, I won't be lying. Right? This is a nice gig. And then all of a sudden, oh, but that other
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prophet that came before me, he prophesied some bad things, like Assyria taking over us things,
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and that's now coming to pass. Oh, man. The Assyrians are hurting people that I love.
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this golden age of the 80s and the 90s. We're all making just tons of money selling our kids
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and grandchildren, you know, their future, you know, on a raft down a river. And now we're
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going to have to pay the piper. Isaiah's prophecies are now coming to pass. Those Assyrians can't
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stand them. I had a good thing going that ruined it. Jonah was sinned against, but he wasn't old
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sinned against. He was arrogant. He was prideful. He was petty. He probably, like many of us,
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