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Now, I'm afraid this has the potential to upset some of you and so before you scream and turn me off, let me make an explanation after I make my statement. Here it is. You serve an angry God. You cannot escape the revelation of the anger of God in scripture.
Was That Just the Old Testament God?
Now, some people say, "Well, yes... no, wait a minute, Paul. I get that, but that's the Old Testament God. The Old Testament God was an angry dude, but not the New Testament God. The New Testament, we get Jesus." Well, except when you get to the first chapter of Romans and it says in verse 18, "For the wrath of God [anger] is being revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth."
You see, here's what you need to understand, that the anger of God is, in ways, the hope of the universe. You see, if God weren't angry with sin, angry with evil, angry with injustice and murder and thievery and racism and corruption and adultery, if God wasn't angry, there would be no moral restraint in the universe. None. Any hope of morality, any hope of justice, any hope of those things being solved rest in the anger of God against sin.
In fact, you could argue that if God weren't angry with sin, there would have been no cross. It's the inability of God to make peace with evil, the unwillingness of God to make peace with evil, the constant anger [of] God that drives Him to send His Son to save us from our sins and, ultimately, to redeem the universe He's created. You see, God's anger isn't the embarrassing uncle of His characteristics that you should hide from the rest of the family.
Now, why am I talking to you about this? Because I think that almost everyone I know, somehow, some way, has an anger problem. We need to understand anger biblically if we're going to understand that problem; and I want to say this. I'll talk about this more, but this may shock you. God doesn't want you un-angry.
