Last Tuesday morning on I-65 here in Williamson County, a mild-mannered, easy-going, Christian man, flew into a fit of road rage. The episode sent another driver to Vanderbilt Hospital in critical condition. The incident got the father of three arrested and put in jail and tied up rush hour traffic for more than two hours.

Anger – rage, wrath, hostility, hate – it's never very far away from any of us. You can find a 100,000 books and articles at Amazon.com to help you deal with it. The Bible is full of it and no one can walk the road to Calvary without facing it. So, we complete this series of sermons on Extreme Spiritual Makeovers by confronting the most deadly of the deadly sins – Anger.

I. THE AUTHORITIES ARE ANGRY

It is anger that eliminates the opposition. “Then the chief priests a…