A continuation of a study of 10 attributes of GOD.

1. ATTRIBUTES OF GOD
LESSON 7
THE WRATH OF GOD
Ptr. J. F. Smith, D.Min.
Faith Missionary Church & Bible Institute,
Gruetli-Laager, TN, USA
jerryfranksmith@gmail.com

2. Wrath [defined]
Carries the impression of anger, indignation, vengeance,
rage, and fury
• Anger : Associated with fire, Psalm 21:9
• Indignation : Associated with fire, Isaiah 30:27
• Vengeance : Recompense of evil, Ps 149:7, De 32:41
• Rage : Violent anger, Job 40:11
• Fury : A storm of anger, Isaiah 59:18

3. What is the wrath of GOD?
• The holiness of GOD in action
• The holiness of GOD responding to sin
• The holiness of GOD avenging His
offense
What offense?

4. The works of the flesh
Galatians 5:19-21
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations,
wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings,
murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:
These things are an offense and insult to
GOD’s holiness!

5. What’s worse, unless they repent,
people are storing up wrath
Romans 2:5-6
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart
treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of
wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of
God;
6 Who will render to every man according to his
deeds:

6. GOD’s Wrath
1. Is real
2. Is just
3. Is coming
4. Was satisfied for every believer

7. GOD’s Wrath
1. Is real
2. Is just
3. Is coming
4. Was satisfied for every believer

8. Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth
in unrighteousness;
revealed : made known and open

9. How has it been revealed?
1. In degradation of man (Romans 1:18,24,26,28)
2. In hell (Psalm 9:17)
3. In the Gospel (Luke 13:5, Joh 10:28, 1 Cor 15:17-18)
4. In prophecy (Psalm 21:9, Revelation 20:14)

10. 1. Revealed in Degradation of Man
Romans 1:24,26,28
24 ...God also gave them up to uncleanness...
26 ...God gave them up unto vile affections...
28 ...God gave them over to a reprobate mind...
GOD’s passive wrath upon man.

11. 2. Revealed in Hell
Mark 9:43
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is
better for thee to enter into life maimed, than
having two hands to go into hell, into the fire
that never shall be quenched:
Hell is the image of GOD’s wrath

12. 3. Revealed in the Gospel
John 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath
everlasting life: and he that believeth not
the Son shall not see life; but the wrath
of God abideth on him.

13. 4. Revealed in Prophecy
Psalm 21:9
Thou shalt make them* as a fiery oven in the
time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow
them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour
them.
*them : the enemies of GOD

14. Colossian 1:28
[Christ] Whom we preach, warning every
man, and teaching every man in all wisdom;
that we may present every man perfect in
Christ Jesus:

15. The LAKE OF FIRE is a testimony of
GOD’s holiness, righteousness,
and wrath
(Rev 14:11, 21:8)
HEAVEN is a testimony of GOD’s
grace, mercy, and love…
(Rev 21:3-4)

16. GOD’s Wrath
1. Is real
2. Is just
3. Is coming
4. Was satisfied for every believer

17. Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men …

18. Romans 1:21-32
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God …
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the
creature more than the Creator …
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections …
27 … men with men working that which is unseemly …
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity;
whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful:
32 … not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

19. All mankind is under GOD’s wrath
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom also we all had our conversation
in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and
were by nature the children of wrath, even as
others.

20. GOD’s Wrath
1. Is real
2. Is just
3. Is coming
4. Was satisfied for every believer

21. GOD is angry with the wicked
Psalm 7:11
God judgeth the righteous, and God is
angry with the wicked every day.
If they do not repent, they are storing up
wrath: gigil

22. Sometimes we save up our anger
and then let it out
It is the same with GOD, except GOD is
holy and just in His wrath
And, He is longsuffering
(1 Peter 3:20, 2 Peter 3:9,15)

23. GOD’s anger is SLOW but TERRIBLE
Psalm 103:8
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow
to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
But it must end.

24. Isaiah 13:6-13
6 ...the day of the LORD is at hand
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
8 ...
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh…
10 ...
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will
lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 ...
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of
her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce
anger.

25. Vengeance is mine …
Romans 12:19
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves,
but rather give place unto wrath: for it is
written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay,
saith the Lord.

26. Revenge is a popular theme

27. Revenge is a popular feeling

28. When we take vengeance ourselves, we are placing
ourselves in GOD’s rightful place.
We are making ourselves as GOD.
Hebrews 10:30
...Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense,
saith the Lord.
Deuteronomy 32:35
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence...

29. Romans 12:18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in
you, live peaceably with all men.
Jesus Christ, our Example, showed us how
to handle evils and insults
1 Peter 2:23
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again;
when he suffered, he threatened not; but
committed himself to him that judgeth
righteously:

30. GOD’s wrath is sure
Hebrews 2:3
How shall we escape, if we neglect so
great salvation

31. Revelation 16:1
And I heard a great voice out of the
temple saying to the seven angels, Go
your ways, and pour out the vials of the
wrath of God upon the earth.

32. No one can escape it
Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I, even I, am he, and there
is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal: neither is there any
that can deliver out of my hand.

33. GOD’s Wrath
1. Is real
2. Is just
3. Is coming
4. Was satisfied for every believer

34. The Cup of Salvation (Ps 116:13)
The Cup of Wrath (Jer 25:15)
Two Cups

35. Christ drank the cup of GOD’s
wrath meant for us
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye
ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall
drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I
am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
C/w Jeremiah 25:15, Isaiah 53:11

36. GOD judged Christ to be sin for us...
Matthew 26:39
And he went a little further, and fell on his face,
and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be
possible, let this cup pass from me:
nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
C/w 2 Corinthians 5:21

37. What are we SAVED from?
1 Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven,
whom he raised from the dead, even
Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath
to come.

38. Deliverance from the final wrath
Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by
his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through him.

39. There is only ONE WAY anyone
can be SAVED from GOD’s WRATH
that is sure to come
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the
truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me.

40. Isaiah 5:25
For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.

41. There are certain theological terms
associated with deliverance from GOD’s
wrath through Christ
1. Propitiation
2. Atonement
3. Reconciliation

42. 1. Propitiation
(Payment)
GOD’s wrath toward sinners was poured out on
Christ, and His wrath was appeased toward sinners
by Christ’s sacrifice.
The blood of Jesus Christ was shed for us.

43. Propitiation
1 John 2:2
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for
ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Enough payment for the whole world if
needed.

44. Christ became sin for us
2 Corinthians 5:21
For he hath made him to be sin for us,
who knew no sin; that we might be made
the righteousness of God in him.

45. Christ was condemned for us
Romans 8:3
For what the law could not do, in that it
was weak through the flesh, God sending
his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh,
and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

46. 2. Atonement
(Peace)
Colossians 1:20
20 And, having made peace through the
blood of his cross…

47. Christ’s sacrifice brought
peace between GOD and us
Romans 5:11
And not only so, but we also joy in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we
have now received the atonement.
“the chastisement of our peace was
upon him” (Isaiah 53:5)

48. 3. Reconciliation
(Return to a right relationship)
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to
himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the
ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world
unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them;
and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

49. GOD’s enemies returned to GOD’s
favor
Romans 5:10
For if, when we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much
more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his
life.
Like Adam before the Fall.

50. GOD’s wrath, is also the Lamb’s wrath
Revelation 6:16
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall
on us, and hide us from the face of him
that sitteth on the throne, and from the
wrath of the Lamb:
BUT...

51. FLEE from GOD’s wrath
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the
Pharisees and Sadducees come to
his baptism, he said unto them, O
generation of vipers, who hath
warned you to flee from the
wrath to come?

52. Flee to Jesus Christ
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to
them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit
Acts 16:31 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
thou shalt be saved

53. What is our response to
the wrath of GOD?

54. May it move us to be more
thankful.
1 Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he
raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered
us from the wrath to come.

55. May it move us to be more
reverent.
Hebrews 12:28-29
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot
be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may
serve God acceptably with reverence and godly
fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

56. May it move us to praise Him
more.
Revelation 19:1
And after these things I heard a great voice of
much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia;
Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power,
unto the Lord our God:

57. May it move us to rejoice more.
Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his
people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants,
and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and
will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
Romans 15:10 And again he saith,
Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.

58. May it move us to reject evil.
Jude 23
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the
fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
1 Peter 1:15 But as he which hath called
you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner
of conversation

59. May it move us to care more.
Mark 12:31
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none
other commandment greater than these.
♫ People need the Lord... ♫

60. When we share the Gospel, what do
we share?
2 Corinthians 5:11
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord,
we persuade men...
terror : the awesomeness of GOD’s majesty

61. Do we ignore the terror of GOD?
Luke 12:5
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall
fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed
hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say
unto you, Fear him.

62. GOD’s wrath glorifies GOD
Romans 1:16-17
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ:
for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one
that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the
Greek.
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed
God brings glory to Himself when He exercises His
wrath.

63. GOD cannot ignore sin
Sometimes we do not want to deal with it.
But GOD must.
It is His holy character.

64. We must remember that GOD is not
ONLY love
He is also holy
Hebrews 12:29
Our God is a consuming fire
Hebrews 10:31
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the
living God

65. The wrath of GOD is not something for
Christians to be ashamed of
• It is not something to hide about GOD.
• Yes, it is frightening to think about.
• But, it is necessary to know about.
Why necessary?

66. END OF LESSON 7
QUIZ TIME

67. What is the wrath of GOD?
• The holiness of GOD in action
• The holiness of GOD responding to sin
• The holiness of GOD avenging His
offense

68. GOD’s Wrath
1. Is real
2. Is just
3. Is coming
4. Was satisfied for every believer

69. Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven...

70. The LAKE OF FIRE is a testimony of
GOD’s holiness, righteousness,
and wrath
(Rev 14:11, 21:8)
HEAVEN is a testimony of GOD’s
grace, mercy, and love…
(Rev 21:3-4)

71. Vengeance is mine …
Romans 12:19
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves,
but rather give place unto wrath: for it is
written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay,
saith the Lord.

72. The Cup of Salvation (Ps 116:13)
The Cup of Wrath (Jer 25:15)
Two Cups

73. There is only ONE WAY anyone
can be SAVED from GOD’s WRATH
that is sure to come
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the
truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me.

74. Isaiah 5:25
For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.

75. When we speak of GOD’s wrath, there
are words for believers associated with
deliverance from GOD’s wrath
1. Propitiation
2. Atonement
3. Reconciliation

76. END of LESSON 7
The WRATH of GOD
NEXT:
Lesson 8
The MERCY of GOD