Get nasty

GET NASTY!!!!

A great line we learned from my bachelor party.

The start of my bachelor party we went golfing.

This was Jason Sleight, Dan Urbon, Carey Allen, Chad Boone and myself. (Memory is a little off so I don't remember if I added another person or someone is missing).

There was a group that started ahead of us that middle morning looked like they were already kicking a couple of drinks back.

We were warming up behind them when one of them calls, "Alright everyone together."

They all untied and put their fist together and yelled, "Get Nasty!"

At this point, we did all we could from laughing.

Four grown men get together and yell get nasty on a golf course.

This has been a running joke for Jason and myself for the past eight years now.

It could be an answer to almost any question.

I could ask Jason, "I was thinking about buying a car, what do you think."

His response, "Get Nasty!"

Or he could ask me, "What would be a good theme for youth group this year?"

My response, "Get Nasty!"

It's universal.

When yelling it, there is a feeling of anger or hostility or immense laughter.

Sometimes you yell this when you're angry.

A true or false question I often ask (When going through life of Christ with students) is does Jesus get angry?

The answer: true.

Jesus gets angry over what's wrong and looks for change.

Why would Jesus be angry?

The Temple (God's holy place in the Old Testament) became a selling point.

People went to the Temple to buy and sell things there.

There were money changers who wouldn't take certain money and overcharge for a transfer from one money source to another (Like Canadian dollars to US dollars) to put in the offering at the Temple.

This frustrated Jesus and he overturned the tables.

He said to the people in Matthew 21 verse 13…

"It is written," he said to them, "My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers."

Jesus backs up what he says by using a verse from Jeremiah 7:11 with den of robbers.

The people were ruining God's house and he wasn't happy.

I don't think you can overturn table with a smile on your face.

You get mad about certain things, in other words Jesus Got Nasty!

He tells them why he isn't happy with them.

This makes some of the corrupt leaders really mad.

Jesus comes in there and changes the way they are doing things, they aren't happy with it.

Here goes a question, are we allowed to be or get angry today?

Is that ok?

If Jesus did it are we allowed to do it?

I think the major difference is why Jesus got mad and angry.

He was mad and angry over what when on in the Church of the time.

A lot of times we get mad and angry over the littlest of things.

We try to justify why we are angry but honestly we do it for the wrong reasons.

The only reason Jesus got mad and angry was because of the wrong that was in God's place of worship.

Other then Jesus getting frustrated with the disciples or mad at the corrupt religious leaders, this is the only time you see him mad.

Sometimes there is wrong that is going on in the Church, God gives us the Matthew 18 way of handling it.

Yet there are sometimes you have to announce the wrong that happens in the Church to the people. This is part of the step.

You have to ask yourself, is this something Jesus would be mad about in the Church today?

We all GET NASTY, at some point.

I am guilty of being angry more then I should be and I have no reason to be.

Once every while we are justified with what we do or say.

Other times we need to leave and look for forgiveness.

What do you think?

Jesus had a right to be angry about what he was angry about, do we?

Have a great day.