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How is one's understanding of God's wrath related to one's understanding of God's Grace - Give scripture references?In: New Testament
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The purpose of the wrath of God is to fear to Him. God is a loving and merciful God but there is a day of judgment and He can take away everything from you at any moment. Think of a child, if you're the parent and you love them don't you discipline them? The same, God is the Father. Every time you sin does God release his wrath? No. That is the grace of God. How many times do you make the same mistake over and over, or disobey God again and again yet He continues to forgive and give you chance after chance?
God's grace is the absence of His wrath. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah. (Genesis 18:20-33 & 19)Sodom and Gomorrah (a city) had become so full of sin that God told Abraham to take his family and leave there because He was going to destroy it. Abraham said to God if he could find 50 people that are righteous in the city would God spare it for their sake? God agreed. Then Abraham said what if it is less what if he finds 45 would He spare the city? God agreed. Abraham continued to do this until it got all the way down to only 10 people. If Abraham could find only 10 righteous people in the city would He spare the city and God again agreed.
God is a gracious God. He would have spared Sodom and Gomorrah that was horrible, disgusting, full of sin and impurity in every way if only 5 righteous people lived there, for their sake. The city was so bad that not even 5 could be found (besides Abraham's family) and God destroyed it.
Some references below to God's wrath:
http://wiki.answers.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles+12:7&version=NIV1984
When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: "Since they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them but will soon give them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.
http://wiki.answers.com/passage/?search=Job+19:29&version=NIV1984
you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment. "
Grace means nothing without its alternative. In order to appreciate the grace, or undeserved favour; you need to appreciate the power of God's anger as well.
The wages of sin is death, and none of us knows when our time is. The fact that you do not drop dead this instant and are instead given a chance to return to the right path is one example of grace tempering wrath.
God's grace is the absence of His wrath. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah. (Genesis 18:20-33 & 19)Sodom and Gomorrah (a city) had become so full of sin that God told Abraham to take his family and leave there because He was going to destroy it. Abraham said to God if he could find 50 people that are righteous in the city would God spare it for their sake? God agreed. Then Abraham said what if it is less what if he finds 45 would He spare the city? God agreed. Abraham continued to do this until it got all the way down to only 10 people. If Abraham could find only 10 righteous people in the city would He spare the city and God again agreed.
God is a gracious God. He would have spared Sodom and Gomorrah that was horrible, disgusting, full of sin and impurity in every way if only 5 righteous people lived there, for their sake. The city was so bad that not even 5 could be found (besides Abraham's family) and God destroyed it.
Some references below to God's wrath:
http://wiki.answers.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles+12:7&version=NIV1984
When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: "Since they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them but will soon give them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.
http://wiki.answers.com/passage/?search=Job+19:29&version=NIV1984
you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment. "
Grace means nothing without its alternative. In order to appreciate the grace, or undeserved favour; you need to appreciate the power of God's anger as well.
The wages of sin is death, and none of us knows when our time is. The fact that you do not drop dead this instant and are instead given a chance to return to the right path is one example of grace tempering wrath.
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