The Gospel of God: Wrath and Truth

Hope Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem Sermons

Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 1:18-32 “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.” Richard Neibuhr’s famous definition of American liberal Christianity “The picture of Jesus as the coming Judge is the central feature of another absolutely vital and non-negotiable Christian belief: that there will indeed be a judgment in which the creator God will set the world right once and for all. The word judgment carries negative overtones for a good many people in our liberal and postliberal world. We need to remind ourselves that throughout the Bible, not least in the Psalms, God’s coming judgment is a good thing, something to be celebrated, longed for, yearned over. It causes people to shout for joy and the trees of the field to clap their hands. In a world of systematic injustice, bullying, violence, arrogance, and oppression, the thought that there might come a day when the wicked are firmly put in their place and the poor and weak are given their due is the best news there can be. Faced with a world in rebellion, a world full of exploitation and wickedness, a good God must be a God of judgment.” N.T. Wright, Surprised By Hope “In Christ alone! – who took on flesh, Fullness of God in helpless babe. This gift of love and righteousness, Scorned by the ones He came to save: Till on that cross as Jesus died, The wrath of God was satisfied – For every sin on Him was laid; Here in the death of Christ I live.” Stuart Townsend and Keith Getty, “In Christ Alone”The post The Gospel of God: Wrath and Truth first appeared on Hope Church PCA.