Proverbs 29:22

An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins.

Proverbs 14:17

A quick-tempered man does foolish things...

James 4:1-2

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.  

Anger is more about you than it is about them

Matthew 16:21-25

From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to you!"

Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! (notice language here)

You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men."

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

1. Deny yourself

Psalm 37:4

Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

2. Take up your cross –

Jesus is very possessive…he wants all of you

1 Corinthians 15:31

I die every day...

3. Follow me

Matthew 16:25

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.