Manipulative Anger Exposed!

Manipulative anger is a common method of making someone feel guilty for two reasons, one is to get their victim to think they were wrong, after all, someone got angry so someone must have made them angry, and two,to silence their victim for future discussion.

If we feel guilty for speaking our mind, we might stop speaking truth that they don't want to hear. These tactics work, just look at our culture, most people are frightened little rabbits, shaking in fear, to voice an opposing opinion or truth. Even avoiding at all costs any discussion about Christ or the Bible.

God's people are bold as lions, they are accused of many things to foster silence in them, but if we are led by the Holy Spirit of God, we are not intimidated by these fleshly manipulative outbursts of anger, they merely show us what is inside the perp.

The guilty person will blow up in anger or run away to hide when corrected.

Proverbs 28:1
"The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion."

Matthew 10:22
"And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved."

The person who was unaware of their sin but have a sense of righteousness, will be ashamed, desiring to be cleansed through confession of that sin and restoration with those they have offended, especially God.

Ephesians 5:20-28
"20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself"

A guilty person will avoid all contact with the things of God, embarrassed to speak of Him or engage in conversation about Him.

Jeremiah 8:12
"Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD."

A humble contrite person will love discussing the things of the Lord.

Proverbs 29:23
"A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit."

Psalm 51:17
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise."

Proverbs 8:11
"For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it."

James 1:5
"But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him."

Which one do we want to be? The humble who loves God more than life itself, or the one who thinks they have all the answers and resists instruction and correction?