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Introduction and Review
1 To Absorb The Wrath of God
If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die.
And if God were not loving, there would be no willingness for his Son to suffer and die.
But God is both just and loving.
Therefore his love is willing to meet the demands of his justice.
This is really at the heart of the Gospel.
The wrath of God and the love of God.
Its at the cross where the two intersect.
In order for us to understand this we have to know some things about God.
Who is He and what is He like?
Otherwise this makes no sense to us, Jesus suffering and dying.
The cross is unintelligible to us apart from an understanding of who God is.
Can’t God just forgive our sins without the cross?
Paul says the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing.
Who are they?
The unsaved, the unbelievers.
If we say that Jesus died on the cross for our sins it has some huge implications, and we need to understand what they are.
If we say that Jesus died on the cross for our sins it has some huge implications, and we need to understand what they are.
I believe this above all else is where we must begin.
To make sense of the cross, and really the whole reason for Christ’s coming we need to understand some things about God.
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He is holy and just
Definition of Holy:
Set apart, separate.
Morally perfect and pure.
There is no other being like God.
Isaiah
In God’s holiness and perfection He is just and righteous.
This means that God cannot tolerate sin.
All sin is in opposition to God, it is an offense to Him.
Sin is personal to God.
As one theologian said “we don’t just sin into thin air.”
We can’t even begin to fully understand how offensive sin is to God.
We like to think of “small” sins as less serious ones.
Small meaning not really that big of a deal.
Rom
So… just one single sin is worthy of death, death in hell forever.
That may seem severe or extreme but it’s only because we don’t understand fully who God is.
sin is not small, because it is not against a small Sovereign.
The seriousness of an insult rises with the dignity of the one insulted.
The Creator of the universe is infinitely worthy of respect and admiration and loyalty.
Therefore, failure to love him is not trivial—it is treason.
It defames God and destroys human happiness.
So the seriousness and severity of the punishment for sin in is direct proportion to the level of dignity to the one who is sinned against.
Some years ago someone asked R.C Sproul what he thought was the biggest issue in the church today and he said “We don’t know who God is.”
We forget just how holy righteous, and perfect God is.
His ways are not our ways.
Not only is a correct understanding of who God is necessary for us to fully embrace Christ and His substitutionary work on the cross but for us to live and think correctly.
This means that sin and the need for redemption is universal.
All of mankind is under the just judgement and wrath of God outside of Christ.
This is a result of the fall.
This may seem strange to us to say that we deserve to go to hell.
Would we say that?
In the final analysis it’s really the only thing you could say that God owes us, punishment.
In the end we aren’t judged by our standards, but Gods.
Rom
You don’t earn a gift right?
Otherwise its not a gift.
This is how how Christmas is celebrated is so backwards.
“Be good or you don’t get a present” If being good is the basis for gifts, than they aren’t gifts, they would be rewards right?
Okay, so we might say if sin equals death than being good, or not sinning, equals heaven.
Romans 10
No one does good?
We cannot earn our way to heaven and we cannot atone for our own sins.
psalm
This is why we need a savior.
How does the death of Christ display or show God’s righteousness?
Since God is just, he does not sweep these crimes under the rug of the universe.
He feels a holy wrath against them.
They deserve to be punished, and he has made this clear: “For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23).
“The soul who sins shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4).
There is a holy curse hanging over all sin.
Not to punish would be unjust.
The demeaning of God would be endorsed.
A lie would reign at the core of reality.
Therefore, God says, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them” (Galatians 3:10; Deuteronomy 27:26).
But the love of God does not rest with the curse that hangs over all sinful humanity.
He is not content to show wrath, no matter how holy it is.
Therefore God sends his own Son to absorb his wrath and bear the curse for all who trust him.
“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us” (Galatians 3:13).
God does not just excuse our sin, not at all.
He deals with our sin and thus vindicates His holy justice.
This is the meaning of the word “propitiation” in the text quoted above (Romans 3:25).
It refers to the removal of God’s wrath by providing a substitute.
The substitute is provided by God himself.
The substitute, Jesus Christ, does not just cancel the wrath; he absorbs it and diverts it from us to himself.
God’s wrath is just, and it was spent, not withdrawn.
Salvation and eternal life is a gift and the only way to receive this gift is through faith.
Trusting in Christ and all that he’s done.
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