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Many misunderstand God’s wrath. In this lesson you’ll learn that God’s wrath is an response to our sinfulness and an expression of his love so that we can be saved. This is revealed most clearly in the coming of Jesus. This lesson was inspired by Jim McGuiggan’s “The Dragon Slayer”, chapter 4: Averting the Wrath of God.
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Jesus Who Delivers Us
From the
Wrath to Come
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1 Thessalonians 1:10;帖 撒 羅 尼 迦 前 書 1:10, NT p. 356
Is God an ANGRY God?
Are you afraid of God?
Is God anANGRY GOD?
Is God anANGRY GOD?
Jehovah, Jehovah, a God . . . slow to anger . . . who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” Exodus 34.6-7, 出埃及 34.6-7, OT p. 138-139
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Is God anANGRY GOD?
Jehovah, Jehovah, a God . . . slow to anger . . . who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” Exodus 34.6-7, 出埃及 34.6-7, OT p. 138-139
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Is God aLOVING GOD?
Is God aLOVING GOD?
Is God aLOVING GOD?
Is God aLOVING GOD?
God is love.
1 John 4:8, 约翰一书 4.8, NT p. 423
Is God aLOVING GOD?
God is love.In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:8-10, 约翰一书 4.8-10, NT p. 423
Exploring theWRATH OF GOD
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Judah
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Jonah
Jonah 1; 约拿书 1 OT p. 1478
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Nineveh
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”
Jonah 1:2; 约拿书 1:2 OT p. 1478
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Nineveh
“Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
Jonah 3:4; 约拿书 3:4 OT p. 1480
Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
“Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
Jonah 3:4; 约拿书 3:4 OT p. 1480
Why would God want to save these evil people from His wrath?
Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
“Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
Jonah 3:4; 约拿书 3:4 OT p. 1480
“who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth”
1 Timothy 2:4; 提摩太前书 2:4 NT p. 365
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Nineveh
“Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
Jonah 3:4; 约拿书 3:4 OT p. 1480
“not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”
2 Peter 3:9; 彼得后书 3:9 NT p. 417
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Nineveh
“When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.”
Jonah 3:10; 约拿书 3:10 OT p. 1480
Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
“When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.”
Jonah 3:10; 约拿书 3:10 OT p. 1480
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Nineveh
“And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
Jonah 4:11; 约拿书 4:11 OT p. 1481
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Nineveh
About 100 years later . . .
Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
Jehovah is a jealous and avenging God; Jehovah is avenging and wrathful; Jehovah takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.
Nahum 1:2-3; 那鸿书 1:2-3 OT p. 1494
Reconstruction of Nineveh’s Adad Gate
Nineveh
Jehovah is a jealous and avenging God; Jehovah is avenging and wrathful; Jehovah takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. Jehovah is slow to anger and great in power,and Jehovah will by no means clear the guilty.
Nahum 1:2-3; 那鸿书 1:2-3 OT p. 1494
Mount Carmel
Israel
Mount Carmel
Israel
“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.”
Hosea 11:1; 何西阿书 11:1 OT p. 1446
Mount Carmel
Israel
“The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.”
Hosea 11:2; 何西阿书 11:2 OT p. 1446
Mount Carmel
Israel
“Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them.”
Hosea 11:3; 何西阿书 11:3 OT p. 1447
Mount Carmel
Israel
“I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.”
Hosea 11:4; 何西阿书 11:4 OT p. 1447
Mount Carmel
Israel
“They shall not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.”
Hosea 11:5; 何西阿书 11:5 OT p. 1447
Mount Carmel
Israel
“The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels.”
Hosea 11:6; 何西阿书 11:6 OT p. 1447
Mount Carmel
Israel
“My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.”
Hosea 11:7; 何西阿书 11:7 OT p. 1447
Mount Carmel
Israel
“How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.”
Hosea 11:8; 何西阿书 11:8 OT p. 1447
Mount Carmel
Israel
“I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.”
Hosea 11:9; 何西阿书 11:9 OT p. 1447
Judah
Jeremiah 18:1-12; 耶利米书 18:1-12 OT p. 1232
Judah
“If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.”
Jeremiah 18:7-8; 耶利米书 18:7-8 OT p. 1232
Judah
“And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it.”
Jeremiah 18:9-10; 耶利米书 18:9-10 OT p. 1232
Judah
“Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem:‘Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds. ’”
Jeremiah 18:11; 耶利米书 18:11 OT p. 1232
Judah
“But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
Jeremiah 18:12; 耶利米书 18:12 OT p. 1232
Judah
“Yet you, O Jehovah, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
Jeremiah 18:23; 耶利米书 18:23 OT p. 1233
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What have we seen?
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God’s wrath is real.
Exploring theWRATH OF GOD
God’s wrath is real.
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men”
Romans 1:18; 罗⻢马书 1:18 NT p. 265
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God’s wrath is personal.
Exploring theWRATH OF GOD
God’s wrath is personal.
“Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them”
Exodus 32:10; 出埃及 32:10 OT p. 135
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God’s wrath is discipline.
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God’s wrath is discipline.
“O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath!”
Psalm 38:1; 诗篇 38:1 OT p. 874
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God restrains His wrath.
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God restrains His wrath.
“For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.”
Isaiah 48:9; 以赛亚书 48:9 OT p. 1158
Why did Jesus Come?
Why did Jesus Come?
“but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.”
Romans 5.8-9, 罗⻢马书 5.8-9, NT p. 270
Why did Jesus Come?
“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
John 3:17, 约翰福音 3:17, NT p. 165
Why did Jesus Come?
“and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.”
1 Thessalonians 1:10, 帖撒罗尼迦前书 1:10, NT p. 356
Why did Jesus Come?
“For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ”
1 Thessalonians 5:9, 帖撒罗尼迦前书 5:9, NT p. 360
Why did Jesus Come?
“knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.”
1 Peter 1:18-19, 彼得前书 1:18-19, NT p. 408
Will you turn backto God today?
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Understanding our Salvation
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Jesus who Delivers Us from the Wrath to Come1 Thessalonians 1:10
Compiled and Presented by:Dave Stewart
2014 April 6www.churchofchristmiranda.com
Synopsis: Many misunderstand God’s wrath. In this lesson you’ll learn that God’s wrath is an response to our sinfulness and an expression of his love so that we can be saved. This is revealed most clearly in the coming of Jesus.
This lesson was inspired by Jim McGuiggan’s “The Dragon Slayer”, chapter 4: Averting the Wrath of God.
“Let all that you do be done with love.”
"Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.”
