It's not popular to talk about the wrath of God. Even in Christian circles, we want a God who is like us and who makes us feel good about ourselves.

However, if God is holy and just as the Bible teaches,

then it's only reasonable that he would punish sin and judge those who rebel against

him. Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast,

the latest sermons from teacher, author, and pastor

David Platt delivered weekly.

As always, you can find thousands of more free resources at radical dot ed and in today's

new sermon from Psalm 78 David Platt reminds us that God's wrath is one of his many

perfections in the greatest news in all the world

is that God has sent his own son to take the wrath that we deserve by dying on

the cross. Here's David Platt with a new sermon titled

behold his wrath from Psalm 78. Don't miss our secret church 18 update at the very end of this episode.

Here's Dave.

Well if you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does that you can look on with,

let me invite you to open with me to

Psalm chapter 76. I had a whole introduction written out for this sermon but

yesterday in my quiet time I was in Jose chapter 10 book that talks a lot about God's judgment upon sin and

sinners and I read verse 12 where Jose says to God's people he says

break up your fallow ground for it is the time to seek the Lord that he may come

and reign righteousness upon you.

And as soon as I read that verse, I was immediately reminded of revivals I've read about in church history where that particular verse was prominent when God just broke up the hearts of his people in fresh, unexpected ways.

In the middle of worship, people just would fall on their faces, convicted of sin, confessing their sin, crying out for God's mercy,

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