{"id":10690,"date":"2023-11-06T05:52:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T11:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.servias.org\/?p=10690"},"modified":"2023-11-05T05:54:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T11:54:03","slug":"what-is-wrath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/servias.org\/?p=10690","title":{"rendered":"What Is Wrath?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Six Things You Need to Know About God\u2019s&nbsp;Wrath<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wrath of God is: \u201cHis steady, unrelenting, unremitting, uncompromising antagonism to evil in all its forms and manifestations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. The anger of God is not like our anger.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we speak about the wrath of God, remember that it is the wrath&nbsp;<em>of God.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>So everything we know about God\u2014he is just, he is love, and he is good\u2014needs to be poured into our understanding of his wrath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The words \u201canger\u201d and \u201cwrath\u201d make us think about our experience. You may have suffered because of someone who is habitually angry, loses his temper, or flies into a rage. Our anger can often be unpredictable, petty, and disproportionate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although these things are often true of human anger, none of them are true of the anger of God. God\u2019s wrath is the just and measured response of his holiness toward evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. God\u2019s wrath is provoked.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The anger of God is not something that resides in him by nature; it is a response to evil. It is provoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bible says, \u201cGod is love.\u201d That is his nature. God\u2019s love is not provoked. He does not love us because he sees some wisdom, beauty, or goodness in us. He loves you because he loves you, and you can never get beyond that (Deuteronomy 7:7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But God\u2019s wrath is different, his holy response to the intrusion of evil into his world. If there was no sin in the world, there would be no wrath in God. So the Bible\u2019s teaching about the wrath of God is different from ancient mythologies, gods who run around frustrated and fuming. God\u2019s anger is his settled resolve that evil will not stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. God is slow to anger.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why does God allow evil to continue in the world? Why does he not wipe it out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God holds out the offer of grace and forgiveness in Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:9). People are coming to him in faith and repentance every day, and God patiently holds open the door of grace. The day of God\u2019s wrath will come, but God is not in a hurry to bring it because then the door of grace will be closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. God\u2019s wrath is revealed now.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How does God reveal his wrath when sinners suppress the truth about him, exchange the truth for a lie, and worship created things rather than the Creator? God gives them up (Romans 1):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Therefore, God&nbsp;<em>gave them up<\/em>&nbsp;in the lusts of their hearts to impurity (1:24).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For this reason God&nbsp;<em>gave them up<\/em>&nbsp;to dishonorable passions (1:26).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God&nbsp;<em>gave them up<\/em>&nbsp;to a debased mind (1:28)<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One writer states, \u201cPaul is not teaching that one day God will punish Roman civilization for its vice and decadence. On the contrary, the vice and decadence are themselves God\u2019s punishment\u2026Their punishment&nbsp;<em>was<\/em>&nbsp;their greed, envy, strife, deceit, violence and faithlessness.\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openthebible.org\/article\/six-things-you-need-to-know-about-gods-wrath\/#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a>&nbsp;When we see the moral fabric of our culture being torn, then as Christian believers we should cry to God for mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. God\u2019s wrath is stored up.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whole Bible story leads to a day when God will deal with all evil fully, finally, and forever. This will be the day of wrath, when God will recompense every evil and bring to judgment every sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God will do this in perfect justice. The punishment for every sin will match the crime. When the judgment is done, every mouth will be stopped because everyone will know that God judged in righteousness and justice. Then God will usher in a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the home of righteousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. God\u2019s wrath is on sinners.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In John 3:36, he does not say, \u201cThe wrath of God will come on [the disobedient].\u201d He says, \u201cWhoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God&nbsp;<em>remains<\/em>&nbsp;on him.\u201d It is already there. Why is it already there? By nature, we are children of wrath (Ephesians 2:3). It is the state in which we were born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What, at the end of the day, is the greatest human problem? It is not that we are lost and need to find our way on a spiritual journey. It is not that we are wounded and need to be healed. At the core of the human problem is that we are sinners under the judgment of God, and the divine wrath hangs over us unless and until it is taken away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How God\u2019s Wrath Is Removed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bible speaks about God\u2019s wrath being poured out at the cross: \u201cI will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you\u201d (Ezekiel 7:8). This takes us to the heart of what happened there: The divine wrath toward sin was poured out on Jesus. He became the \u201cpropitiation\u201d for our sins (Romans 3:25), which means that the payment for our sins was poured out on Jesus at Calvary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t ever get the idea that God loves you because Christ died for you. No, it\u2019s the other way round. Christ died for you because God loved you! He loved you even when you were the object of his wrath! God so loved the objects of his wrath that he spent the wrath on himself at the cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outpouring of God\u2019s wrath was the greatest act of love this world has ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hope for sinners is that between us and the wrath of God stands the cross of Jesus. Sin was laid on Jesus and the Divine wrath toward it was poured out, spent, and exhausted in the darkness of Calvary. And when it was done, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, \u201cIt is finished!\u201d The wrath of God that will one day be poured out on all sin was spent at the cross with regard to all who are in him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Christ rose from the dead, and he stands before you today, a living Savior! He offers to you the priceless gift of peace with God. He is ready to forgive your sins and fill you with his Spirit. He is able to save you from the wrath and reconcile you to the Father. He has opened the door of heaven, and he is able to bring you in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Things You Need to Know About God\u2019s&nbsp;Wrath The wrath of God is: \u201cHis steady, unrelenting, unremitting, uncompromising antagonism to evil in all its forms and manifestations.\u201d 1. The anger of God is not like our anger. When we speak about the wrath of God, remember that it is the wrath&nbsp;of God.&nbsp;&nbsp;So everything we know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love","category-prophetic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10691,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions\/10691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}