Coming Wrath

 Sin is offensive to God. Never mistake the fact that God hates sin to mean that God hates sinners. Just read [Rom 3:22] and [Rom 6:23] to see otherwise. God loved sinners enough to send Jesus to make atonement for people's sin. [Rom 5:8] Don't miss this truth. God's love is beyond description. There is a limit to His love. Should a person spurn His love and offer of forgiveness and repeated help in salvation rejecting the sacrifice of Jesus there is only one fate certain. WRATH! 

Wrath can be defined as extreme anger. The Bible is filled with stories about the love, compassion, mercy, and grace of God. To be honest, there are also stories where God poured out wrath. God is very patient, but He does get angry. He does store up that anger to be poured out in wrath against people who reject Him repeatedly and refuse to obey His laws. 

In the past God has poured out His wrath against individuals like Pharoah in Exodus and against nations like Egypt, Moab and Philistines. His wrath was poured out once on the entire planet and human race in Genesis 6 with a flood. God takes holiness seriously. He also takes sin seriously. Serious enough that He sacrificed His Son to redeem people. 

A holy God has to deal with sin. He would not be just if He turned a blind eye and let people do whatever they wanted. He warned in His word that people are held accountable for their actions. [Heb 9:27] Sin must be punished. That is justice. Even in justice God offers mercy. None of us could ever have lived up to the standards set forth by the Old Testament law. We needed mercy. God had to satisfy His just nature and punish sin while also demonstrating His love and compassion. Jesus satisfied the justice of God by dying for sins. He substituted for us taking what we deserved and offering forgiveness that we did not deserve. [II Cor 5:21]

No matter how many warnings God offered in the past and is still offering today, there are many who ignore and brazenly bull their neck and stubbornly do whatever they want. For such people I write again that wrath is coming. I plead with you to wake up and turn your life over to Jesus pleading for His mercy and forgiveness. For any who do not listen, there will be a pay day someday. A day when God calls people to account and passes the sentence of condemnation in His wrath. I don't want to see people get caught up in the coming wrath. [Col 3:5-6]