(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) Again, if you're quick to be angry, you're going to make mistakes. You're going to deal foolishly. And this has to do with a lot of emotions, not just anger. If you allow yourself to just be really fearful, if you allow yourself to just be influenced by too much emotion when you make decisions, it's going to cause you to make bad decisions. When you're extremely angry, that could cause you to make a bad decision if you act too quickly. It's the same way with a lot of other emotions. So you need to be able to, and if you're soon angry, there's a difference between, because if you allow it to build up, you're already going to be thinking about how you're going to be able to deal with it when it gets to that point. But if it's just one moment I'm not angry and the next moment I'm angry, now you're making decisions on the fly. But if you're being long suffering, okay, you're building up, just like the Lord's saying, we see many examples of God warning people, sending his prophets and going, okay, look, you guys are sitting, you're doing wickedness. Think about Jonah, yet 40 days and the Lord's going to overthrow an end of them. He knows what he's going to do and they've been being wicked and sinful and God's been long suffering with them. And it's just building and building and building to the point where God's about to destroy the whole city. He's about to bring his wrath down and he warns them saying, hey, if you keep this up here's what's going to happen. But see, they listen. And that's the good news for Nineveh is that they heard, they repented, they got right with God and God didn't destroy their city. But that's an example of how God is able to, you know, when it's necessary, he has wrath and it's righteous anger and it's righteous wrath, but he's not just every single, any little thing that, that, that is wrong. He's just flipping out about, and again, apply that to ourselves. That's how we ought to be. Proverbs chapter 21, actually turn to Proverbs 22, Proverbs 21, I like this verse. Proverbs 21, 19 says, it is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a contentious and an angry woman. So ladies, especially if you're looking to get married, you know, it's, the Bible says it's better for men to just go off and be alone somewhere. Like I'd rather just be off alone by myself in the wilderness than to be with a contentious, a contentious means just always trying to fight and an angry woman. Men don't want to be around that at all. And the Bible is even saying, Hey, it's better. It's better just to go off and go be alone for awhile. If you've got a woman who's just being contentious and angry. Not good attributes, obviously. I don't want to get too far into that this morning though, but it, it popped up as one of the anger verses and I, and I kind of wanted to throw that in there. Verse number or excuse me, chapter 22, where I did look verse number 24, the Bible reads, make no friendship with an angry man. So this is someone who is characterized by being angry, right? Someone who is quick to anger. Someone who has these attributes that we already saw are bad attributes. Make no friendship. Don't be friends with someone who's just real quick to, to be angry, angry man. And with a furious man, thou shalt not go look at verse 25, lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul. So when you have friends, when you become friends with people, they rub off on you, right? Their traits, you pick up on their traits, good and bad, right? They influence you. Your friends are always going to influence you on how you behave. I see it with my children. I've seen it myself. Friends that I've had over the years, you pick up little things that they say, you pick up some of their attributes, you know, the way that they deal with things. And then, and vice versa, people, it's just the way that God built us, even socially, when we interact with each other, you pick up different things from people. So when you're making friends with people, you see that someone's just an angry person. Don't be friends with them. I could think of someone specifically that's a really angry person. And anytime this person spends time with other people, those other people end up becoming more like them and getting more angry. And it's not a good thing and it's a fact and it happens. So you need to be aware when, you know, when you're making friends, you see something like this, an attribute, you know, that's going to make you an angry person. Just don't be friends with people like that.