“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...
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