26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
When I read this
passage the Question that comes to my mind when is God angry?
Sin
is what God is angry about. It means that he has made a provision for escaping
from his anger, the sacrifice of his Son in the place of sinners. The love of
God provides escape from the wrath of God by sacrificing the Son of God to manifest
the glory of God in forgiving sinners. That's the gospel. The Gospel of Jesus
Christ - the essence of Christianity - makes no sense at all apart from the
wrath of God. If there is no wrath and no judgment to escape, then Christ was
sacrificed in vain.
17 For God did not send his Son into the
world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever
believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands
condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and
only Son. 19 This is the
verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead
of light because their deeds were evil. John
3:17-19
But
he did not die in vain. He died so that you and I and anyone who believes on
him might be saved from the wrath of God and have everlasting life. So, neither
his love, nor his wrath are the whole story of what God is like. He is both,
and they are not coordinate - they are not of identical importance - because he
has made a way for sinners to escape his wrath and enjoy his love. His glory
shines most brightly not in the fire of his wrath, but in the bright, warm,
peaceful breezes of his love above an infinitely deserved destruction.
The Son of God has laid his life down for you to receive as
your substitute. You have come under the sway of many sanctifying influences.
Do not trample the Son of God or make light of his blood or insult the Spirit
of grace that is blowing over your soul even now.
Believe in Jesus live in Grace and continue to ask the help
of the holy spirit if you struggle with sin in your life
Amen.
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