H O L I N E S SPart IV

The Wrath of God

The Wrath of God

• Romans 1:16-23 -- 2:1, 2• How can people understand anything about

love if they don’t understand God’s hate?• How can we understand grace if we don’t

understand law?• How can we understand forgiveness if we

don’t understand sin?

The Wrath of God

• God’s attributes are balanced in His divine perfection…just as He totally loves, so He totally hates. – Hebrews 1:9

The Wrath of God

• Psalm 2:1-6• Psalm 76:6-9• Psalm 78:49• Psalm 90:7• Isaiah 9:19• Jeremiah 7:20• Ezekiel 7:19

• John 3:36• Ephesians 5:6• Colossians 3:6• II Thessalonians 1:8

Note these scriptures regarding judgement and wrath of God:

The Wrath of God

• God is a God of wrath…God is a God of anger.• The bad news God hates.• The good news God loves.– Ephesians 2:1, 2

• We are all children of wrath under the judgement of God.

The Wrath of God

• What is God’s wrath like?• God is angry in a holy way.– John 2:14-16

• The greatest demonstration of the wrath of God was Calvary’s cross.

Scriptures

Romans 1:16-2316 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Romans 1:16-2319 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Romans 1:16-2322 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

Romans 2:1,21 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things

Hebrews 1:99 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions

Psalm 2:1-61 Why do the nations rage,

And the people plot a vain thing?2 The kings of the earth set themselves,

And the rulers take counsel together,Against the Lord and against His

Anointed, saying,3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces

And cast away Their cords from us.”

Psalm 2:1-64 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;

The Lord shall hold them in derision.5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,

And distress them in His deep displeasure:6 “Yet I have set My King

On My holy hill of Zion.”

Psalm 76:66 At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,

Both the chariot and horse were cast into a dead sleep.7 You, Yourself, are to be feared;

And who may stand in Your presenceWhen once You are angry?

Psalm 76:68 You caused judgment to be heard from heaven;

The earth feared and was still,9 When God arose to judgment,

To deliver all the oppressed of the earth.

Psalm 78:4949 He cast on them the fierceness of His anger, Wrath, indignation, and trouble, By sending angels of destruction among them.

Psalm 90:77 For we have been consumed by Your anger, And by Your wrath we are terrified.

Isaiah 9:1919 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts The land is burned up, And the people shall be as fuel for the fire; No man shall spare his brother.

Jeremiah 7:2020 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place—on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be quenched.”

Ezekiel 7:1919 ‘They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the Lord; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.

John 3:3636 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

Ephesians 5:66 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Colossians 3:66 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience

II Thessalonians 1:88 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 2:1, 21 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience

John 2:14-1614 And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. 15 When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. 16 And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!”