Sermon Tone Analysis

*The Holy Wrath of God*

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Have you ever said or heard people say that they are saved?

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Have you ever thought about what they mean?

What are we or they saved from?

*We are saved from the Wrath of God.*

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*Romans 5:* 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

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*In order for one to understand salvation one must first understand what they are saved from.*

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*Since God saved me 4 years ago I have not heard a single sermon on the wrath of God.*

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*Gods wrath is to be feared, however it is also very beautiful.*

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*There are many people and even preachers who are ashamed or even deny the wrath of God.

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*All many preachers say is God loves you.*

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*(So today we will by the grace of God we will look at the Holy Perfect Wrath of God.)*

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*-Pray for Grace to do this correctly-*

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*We will just skim the surface, because God is uncomprehendable.

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*Wrath*- As an attribute of God is the doctrine that God intensely hates all sin.

*(God intensely hates all sin)*

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*Attribute-* one of the wonderful and lovely perfections of the divine character of God.

Why is it, important to study Gods attributes*?

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*It is important because this is a means to know Him.*

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*We will now look at some scripture that talks about Gods wrath.*

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*Gods wrath or anger is mentioned more than Gods love.*

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*Remember Jonah and Nineveh.*

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*God was going to destroy Nineveh and He sent Jonah to tell them.*

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*Jonah’s message from God was not smile God loves you.

Yet that is all we hear today.*

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*About 150 years later Nineveh went back to their old ways and God passed judgment on them.*

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*Nahum 1:1-8* An oracle concerning Nineveh.

The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.

God's Wrath Against Nineveh

2 The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; \\ the Lord is avenging and wrathful; \\ the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries \\ and keeps wrath for his enemies.

\\ 3 The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, \\ and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.

\\ His way is in whirlwind and storm, \\ and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

\\ 4 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; \\ he dries up all the rivers; \\ Bashan and Carmel wither; \\ the bloom of Lebanon withers.

\\ 5 The mountains quake before him; \\ the hills melt; \\ the earth heaves before him, \\ the world and all who dwell in it.

6 Who can stand before his indignation?

\\ Who can endure the heat of his anger?

\\ His wrath is poured out like fire, \\ and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.

\\ 7 The Lord is good, \\ a stronghold in the day of trouble; \\ he knows those who take refuge in him.

\\ 8 But with an overflowing flood \\ he will make a complete end of the adversaries,  \\ and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

*John 3:36** **Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.*

*Psalm 7:11 (KJV) \\ 11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.*

*(again) Wrath*- As an attribute of God is the doctrine that God intensely hates all sin.

Some of you may say “no God is love” You are correct to say God is love, However because God is love He must hate what opposes Him.

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Many people are ashamed of this side of God, however God is perfect and so His wrath is perfect.

If God did not hate sin He would not be perfect.

*Example German soldiers under Hitler*

There is no blemish in God, not the slightest defect, nothing wrong at all with His Holy hatred of sin.

In fact if God was indifferent to sin there would be a blemish in His character.

Because God is Holy, He hates all sin: and because He hates all sin: His anger burns against the sinner every day.

*Have you ever heard people say “God hates the sin but loves the sinner?”*

Listen to this verse again.

*Psalm 7:11 (KJV) \\ 11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.*

If you are not in Christ, Gods anger burns against you everyday.

This should be a very fearful thing.

You should tremble.

The very fact that you do not tremble and fear Him, shows that His wrath is being revealed right know in you.

*The Wrath of God is two fold*.

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The wrath of God is revealed now from heaven.

*(Romans 1:18)*

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

2.      There is a wrath to come.

*(Revelation 6:15-16)*

15 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

*I.                   **First we will talk about the wrath of God revealed*.

*1.      *God’s wrath is a present reality.

God’s wrath is displayed every moment of everyday.

*Romans 1:18* For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

So the wrath of God is reveled now.

*What or who is the wrath of God revealed to?*

*all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men*

So who is unrighteous and without godliness.

*Romans 3:10-11* says “None is righteous, no not one, no one understands, no one seeks for God.

Therefore the wrath of God is revealed to every man outside of Christ.

We where all there at one time, or we are now out side of Christ.

There are only two types of people in this world.

Those who have been reconciled to God by Christ alone, or those who are enemies of God, whom the Wrath of God is revealed and awaits.

*Example In testimonies people say now I have a relationship with God.*

*We have from birth had a relationship with God, Children or enemies.

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*Which are you?*

This should be a very scary thing.

*Example -* People suppressing the truth.

(golfers & kids blaspheming God on you tube)

* Where can we see the wrath of God? *

The wrath of God is an attribute that can not be denied.

*One place we can see evidence of Gods wrath is in all the cemeteries.

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*People die everyday, every minute, and maybe every second.*

God’s wrath was 1st revealed when the sentence of death was 1st pronounced, the earth cursed and men driven out of earthly paradise.

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*Explain -* Tell about fall of man and creation.

The same creation that declares Gods existence and His Glory also declares that God is the Enemy of sin and the avenger of the crimes of men.

*Nahum 1**:*.4

He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; \\ he dries up all the rivers; \\ Bashan and Carmel wither; \\ the bloom of Lebanon withers.

\\ 5 The mountains quake before him; \\ the hills melt; \\ the earth heaves before him, \\ the world and all who dwell in it.

6 Who can stand before his indignation?

\\ Who can endure the heat of his anger?

\\ His wrath is poured out like fire, \\ and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.

-We can not even conquer creation yet we shake our fist in God’s face everyday.