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the anger of man
Doesn’t work the righteousness of God. Said James, the brother of Jesus. The brother of Jesus: a man who grew up with Jesus as his brother. Imagine growing up with Jesus as your brother. Would it be easy? Your mother hid secrets in her heart about her firstborn son, your elder brother. He stays behind in the temple because he believes it to be his father’s house and sends the family into a worried frenzy. In Mark’s gospel the brothers of Jesus seek to do an intervention, thinking he’d gone mad. In John’s gospel one of the brothers of Jesus sarcastically urges him to go to Jerusalem where all the would-be prophets make a name for themselves. So perhaps by personal experience James understood that the anger of man doesn’t work the righteousness of God. Do we?
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