“The Wrath Of God Is Revealed”

Romans 1:18

Yes the God of heaven is a God of wrath. In a generation which has given itself unashamedly to the gods of greed, ambition, sex, pride, and self-will, the church mumbles on about the love, tenderness, goodness, kindness, and grace of God. We rejoice that "God is love", and that there is forgiveness with him that he may be feared. But, we dare not fail to warn perishing sinners that God is also a God of wrath, that he is angry with the wicked every day, and that he will by no means clear the guilty. Read your Bible through again. The prophets and apostles, and Jesus Christ himself, pressed upon men the terror, fury, and eternality of God's wrath.

The wrath of God is revealed in every man's conscience by nature, so that they are without excuse. The wrath of God is revealed in history. Go and ask those who have perish ed under God’s wrath whether God will punish sin... Adam…Cain…Noah's generation...Sodom and Gomorrah...Pharaoh...The Sons of Korah...Judas...Jerusalem. The wrath of God is revealed at Calvary. Go to Mt. Calvary, and behold the God-man as he is made to be sin for us. Hear him cry, under the terror of God's wrath, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" I say, the wrath and justice of God were more fully displayed in the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ than would have been possible if all the world had perished in hell.

Hell is a place of eternal wrath reserved for God's enemies, where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. All men by nature are sinners perishing under the wrath of God. You do not need to do anything to go to hell. You are condemned already! The only thing that keeps you out of hell for one moment is the mere good pleasure of God. What will you do when God ceases to restrain his wrath! "Who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? Who can stand before his indignation?"

Is the sinner, then, without hope? No! Blessed be His name, God is willing to show mercy to perishing sinners for Christ's sake: Upon the merits of his Son's satisfactory redemption, God in justice, will forgive sin. Flee away to Christ! Seek his grace! Believe his gospel! Sue for mercy! Why will ye die?

Don Fortner