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Intro
Today we will wrap up our study in the series titled “Who we worship”
Our goal has been to take a look at the scriptures and to identify attributes of God as He has revealed Himself to us.
I hope that you have found this study as beneficial as I have.
I can honestly say that I am coming out of my time in this study with a renewed spirit and a deeper knowledge of the God that we serve.
I hope you recall that we began this series looking at , which records a conversation and events that took place between God and Moses, it records that:
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We understand that we face this question as Christians, but we need to know that this question is not new.
Marcion - sought to remove the Hebrew scriptures from Christianity.
More recently, a famous preacher, Andy Stanley said that
“Christians need to unhitch the Old Testament from their faith.”
So much of this line of thinking comes from a misunderstanding of the wrath of God.
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What was read this morning came from
The scripture leave no doubt that God’s wrath is real.
It is as real as His love and his grace and his mercy.
Defining Wrath
The two words used in the OT translated as wrath is ‘ap and Khay-maw
‘ap is an interesting word because it actually is related to the noes/ specifically the nostrils.
The idea is that of passion or rapid breathing through the nose, flaring of the nostrils.
Khay-maw is the idea of Heat, wrath, anger, indignation, or Hot Displeasure.
New Testament the word for wrath in the Greek is orge
The first point is that the wrath of God is absolutely real and spoken about in both the New and Old testaments.
God is unchanging in His righteousness and what he has revealed about himself in the Old Testament, still holds true in the new.
But of critical importance is to not attribute our anger to being equivalent to God’s.
Perhaps the closes we can get is in the relationship we have with our children.
We love them, we care for them, we are interested in them, and we want them to be good citizens and great servants for Christ.
of Course that means when they mess up, we discipline them, and sometimes this involves a preceding emotion of anger, that Satan can use to twist discipline into sinfulness if we let him.
But we discipline out of love, to correct, to help them get back on the right track.
It seems to me that this is love is what motivates the wrath of God.
HIS WRATH, HIS ANGER, HIS INDIGNATION IS OCCASIONED BY MANKIND PARTAKING IN EVIL AND REJECTING HIS WAYS.
THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE MISS! GOD’S LOVE SERVES AS THE PROPER CONTEXT TO UNDERSTAND HIS WRATH.
Where so many people such as Marcion and others see God’s wrath and his love as mutually exclusive, they are actually mutually inclusive!
God’s wrath and anger are not subject to our human passions, and are not equivalent to revenge.
As long as we try to force our emotion of anger and wrath onto God, Our understanding will always be skewed and will result in our trying to change the scriptures or a rejection of God himself
People will say, if God is all loving then why does He punish people by sending them to Hell?
A better question is ho
But it comes from God’s Holy Righteousness as an outpouring of his Justice and his requirement to judge sin.
God is righteous, He is the most perfect and Holy Judge.
He is Just and fair.
If he chose to overlook sin and be indifferent to it He would no longer be fit to be called the righteous judge.
Story out of Virginia of 19 year old who assaulted a 14 year old and recieved no jail time.
Read the comments and the theme that is repeated over and over is that the Judge is not fit to serve on the bench.
Why?
Because justice was not served.
In the same way, God must be Just as the judge of over all things.
He can not, will not, and never will be impartial when it comes to evil and our role as humans in it.
This combined with the love that he has for us makes him the Father of orphans ans widows, the one who stands on the side of the oppressed, the Father who suffers due to the steadfast love that he has for us.
Sin invokes God’s wrath.
So God is righteous and just and he is the father of steadfast love.
He desires a relationship with us, He wants to forgive us of our trespasses, so what did he do?
He showed us in the most personal, wonderful way possible what he was willing to do to reconcile mankind back to himself.
THE CROSS - Wrath fulfilled
God sent Christ, and Christ came willingly, to endure the punishment for the sins of the world so that His Justice could be fulfilled and that we could be reconciled back to him.
This is called in an unspeakable or indescribable gift.
But what really proves that this was the work of God is the resurrection of Christ.
If Christ had died and stayed in the tomb, then as Paul says “our faith would be in vain and we would be of all most to be pitied.”
We would have no hope.
But Christ was raised out of that tomb, and sits today at the right hand of God, having paid our debt in enduring the wrath that we deserved.
The event of the Cross shows us that divine wrath and divine love are intertwined.
That God so loved and so loves the world that He made a way for those who choose can be reconciled with him.
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That’s the good news of the Gospel.
The question that I have for you this morning is “Have you accepted God’s free gift of Grace?”
Scripture tells us repeatedly that God is slow to anger, that he is patient, that he waits for those to come to Him.
Is he waiting for you this morning?
There is a time coming when the time fo
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