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Main Point: God’s wrath is terrifying but COMPLETELY avoidable!
Two questions we need to work through today:
What does God’s wrath look like—how do we know if we are under the wrath of God?
Review
What should our response be to the revelation of God’s wrath and what causes it to fall upon us?
Review of Last Week:
God’s wrath is poured out in response to three categorical rejections:
Outright Rejection: Those who reject God without merit to do so—proud defiance
Humanistic Thought/Philosophy: Those who argue/reason away God’s—man’s broken perception outweigh God’s instruction
Idolatrous Pleasure: Those who pursue creation above the Creator—idolatry
A Word of Warning:
I’ve heard some teaching propose that America is under the wrath of God.
This assessment is based upon two conjunctive lines of thought from this passage:
America actively rejects God in all three categories (outright, philosophically, & idolatrously).
America appears to have been given over by God into:
Spiritual/Moral Defilement
Consumed with Shameful Passions
Debased and Bankrupt Thinking
Before we move into the what the wrath of God looks like, we should understand the following:
Wrath is the NECESSARY response of a perfect, righteous, and loving God towards sin.
Perfect:
The perfection of God results in a pushing away and purging of evil from His presence.
The purging of sin is what we refer to as wrath
Righteous:
Righteous:
The righteousness of God demands that ALL sinners face the consequences for ALL sin—God cannot allow a single sin to go unaddressed and unpunished
The righteousness of God demands that ALL sinners face the consequences for ALL sin—God cannot allow a single sin to go unaddressed and unpunished
The punishment for sin is what we refer to as wrath
The punishment for sin is what we refer to as wrath
Loving:
The love that God expresses within the Trinity, and then towards humanity, demands that he defend and avenge those who have been wronged, harmed, and defamed through sin!
God defending and avenging Himself is what we refer to as wrath
God defending and avenging those whom He loves is what we refer to as wrath
The Greatest Enemy and Contradiction to the Gospel is Human Righteousness (Dr.
John Murray)
Enemy:
When we think we are righteous (right) we think God is unrighteous (wrong)
Either God is right and we are unrighteous —or—
Either God is right and we are unrighteous —or—
We are righteous and God is not
Why?
Because what the scripture reveals about God and about us stands in direct opposition to what we think about ourselves and God!
Contradiction:
When we think we are righteous, we have no need of Jesus
The Bible tells us that we are sinners
The Bible tells us that we are sinners
The Bible tells us that Jesus came to save sinners
The Bible tells us that Jesus came to save sinners
When we operate under “human righteousness” we ABSOLUTELY CONTRADICT the Lord’s instruction to us
Question: WHAT DOES THE WRATH OF GOD LOOK LIKE?
First, the wrath of God is marked by God surrendering you—He literally lets go of you!
“Gave them up” (ESV) = GK paradidomi
Think about it, God lets go of you and allows you venture away from Him permanently!
What do we defiantly walk into when God lets go of us?
When God lets go of someone, He allows that person to rebelliously descend into rampant degradation within three areas:
Deliver
Hand over
Second, the wrath of God allows rampant degradation in three areas:
Extreme Spiritual/Moral Defilement
Consumed by Shameful Desires
Debased and Bankrupt Thinking
Extreme Spiritual/Moral Defilement
Romans 1:
The Greek word used for “impurity” is the word akatharsia
Rampant Impurity
The plain meaning of the word is simply to be dirty, unclean, filthy, and/or foul.
However, when applied to a person, this word takes on a completely different connotation; it refers to:
Moral Vileness/Depravity
Ritual/Ceremonial Uncleanliness
Holistically—it means to be Corrupted
When used by Paul, we can summarize his assessment in the following: GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO A CORRUPTED AND UNCLEAN HEART!
How can we say God gave them up to an unclean heart?
The text seems to have the soul in view based upon the fact that impurity is often applied to ceremonial purity (religious)
For a person to be religiously unclean today, we would say they are lost.
For we are either a new creation in Christ—made clean—or we are not!
The heart (the inner man) is the primary source Impurity within the Bible =
In the Bible, the Heart is considered the center of the person (who they are/the whole person)—it is what identifies the person (the mind, the body, the intellect, and emotions).
In short, if the heart is bad the whole person is bad—the term we use is lost/unsaved
The Bible uses the soul
Jesus said ALL uncleanness flows from the heart of a person ()
Look at what the Bible says about the heart from the negative:
Jesus said ALL uncleanness flows from the heart of a person ()
Before the flood, man’s heart continually thought of evil ()
Jesus said we think about evil in the heart ()
Look at what the Bible says about the heart from the positive:
We are to guard our hearts because everything flows from it ()
We are to guard our hearts because everything flows from it ()
Our hearts show us what we value ()
Our hearts show us what we value ()
The pure in heart will see God ()
God pours his love into our hearts ()
A synthesis of this information means: The heart is either good or bad—and you can tell by how you live!
When God gives our hearts over to impurity, this means our hearts do not belong to Him! Why?
Because Salvation is permanent!
Salvation is permanent
Jesus says no one can snatch us out of God’s hand ()
Those who believe in God have eternal life ()
Those who believe in God have eternal life ()
The Holy Spirit seals us into salvation ()
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