Ezekiel 5:13a (NIV) – Then My anger will cease and My wrath against them will subside, and I will be avenged.
Big Thought: Knowing the just love of God in the Bible either elicits or .
1. Our understanding of God is directly impacts what we .
So working backwards:
a. Our are influenced by what we God to do or not to do.
b. What we God to do or not to do is driven by who we God to be.
c. Our of who God is should be driven by , but is often driven by other .
2. Who is ?
a. God is .
Exodus 34:14 (ESV) – For you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
b. God is .
Romans 12:19 (ESV) – Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
c. God is .
Romans 2:5 (ESV) – But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Ephesians 2:1-3 (ESV) – And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience – among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
d. God is to anger.
Exodus 34:6-7 (ESV) – The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.
e. God is great in .
Ephesians 1:19-20 (ESV) – And what is the immeasurable greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His great might that He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,
f. God is .
3. What should I expect from God?
a. If you choose to who God is from Scriptures and either don’t believe Him or believe other sources, then…
1) His .
2) The of His anger.
3) His wrath poured out like .
b. If you choose to God as revealed in Scripture and in Him, then…
1) His .
2) His .
3) His and .
4. So, what do you ?