WHY IS GOD SO ANGRY? (5 OF 26)
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Why Is God So Angry? (5 of 26)
Series: Romans:The Gospel of God
Jonathan McLeod
Romans 1:24-32
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator (vv. 24-25).
A FOOLISH EXCHANGE
People have made a foolish exchange. They have exchanged the Creator for created things (v. 25), thinking that these things can make them happy. C. S. Lewis writes,
Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
We were made to know God. And if we never find him, our search for happiness will end in disappointment.
[Read Romans 1:18-32.]
God ''gave them up'' (vv. 24, 26, 28). He allowed them to do what they wanted to do. The result was ''all manner of unrighteousness'' (v. 29).
GOD'S ANGER
Verse 18 says, ''The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteous-ness of men.'' Why is God so angry?
When we hear the word ''wrath,'' we often think of someone who has an anger issue (i.e., someone with a short fuse). But God doesn't have a short fuse. In Exodus 34:6, God proclaims to Moses that he is ''a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.'' God is slow to anger.
God's wrath is his righteous anger (i.e., a right kind of anger) over all sin. God is angry only when it's right to be angry. There are times when anger is right (i.e., appropriate, fitting) and indifference is wrong. It's right to be angry when an evil act is committed (e.g., this ...
Series: Romans:The Gospel of God
Jonathan McLeod
Romans 1:24-32
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator (vv. 24-25).
A FOOLISH EXCHANGE
People have made a foolish exchange. They have exchanged the Creator for created things (v. 25), thinking that these things can make them happy. C. S. Lewis writes,
Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
We were made to know God. And if we never find him, our search for happiness will end in disappointment.
[Read Romans 1:18-32.]
God ''gave them up'' (vv. 24, 26, 28). He allowed them to do what they wanted to do. The result was ''all manner of unrighteousness'' (v. 29).
GOD'S ANGER
Verse 18 says, ''The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteous-ness of men.'' Why is God so angry?
When we hear the word ''wrath,'' we often think of someone who has an anger issue (i.e., someone with a short fuse). But God doesn't have a short fuse. In Exodus 34:6, God proclaims to Moses that he is ''a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.'' God is slow to anger.
God's wrath is his righteous anger (i.e., a right kind of anger) over all sin. God is angry only when it's right to be angry. There are times when anger is right (i.e., appropriate, fitting) and indifference is wrong. It's right to be angry when an evil act is committed (e.g., this ...
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