- Emotionally react
- Bring it to the Word of God
- The wrath of God
Romans 1:18-20 // The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
- God’s wrath is a part of His character.
- You cannot put God’s characteristics into human understanding.
- Human Wrath: Emotional response that is irrational, uncontrolled, and cruel.
- God’s Wrath: Righteous opposition to evil and those who choose it.
- The opposite of wrath is not love, it is neutrality.
- How do we better understand God?
- Speculation - Us guessing who God is.
Revelation - God revealing who He is.
- General Revelation - Common and available to all people
Special Revelation - Available to all some
- The number one attribute of God mentioned in Scripture is His holiness.
- Romans 1 - Passive
Romans 2 - Active
Romans 2:5 // But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.
Romans 1:21-25 // For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
- Two most important questions you’ll ever need to answer: Who is God? Who am I?
- Love and wrath were shown at the cross.
Romans 2:1, 5-6 // You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. 5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.
Romans 3:23-25 // for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished
