The love of God makes escape from the wrath of God by sacrificing the son of God to vindicate the righteousness of God because people have sinned and trampled the glory of God.

Why must we never turn away from Christ and His finished work?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper opens Hebrews 10, 26 to 31 to stress

the serious consequences of abandoning the gospel. This sermon was originally preached at

Bethlehem Baptist Church on April 13, 1997. If in the real world that we live in, there is such a reality as divine judgment and vengeance and wrath, then surely love and honesty and wisdom would all include warnings of danger and not just promises of blessing.

We live in a very strange time.

Strange age, it seems to me.

I puzzle over it many weeks.

On the one hand, all around us is agony and catastrophe and tragedy and suffering and violence of every kind.

And we see it in pictures in the newspaper.

We see it every evening on the television news.

And those who have thoughtful minds and large minds know that we are seeing the barest tip of an iceberg of hatred and greed and hostility and violence, not to mention

massive suffering, starvation and poverty, and the status of tens of

thousands of refugees.

And on the other hand, we don't want to hear about this.

We don't want to hear about this or any other bad news.

We are in America a soft people.

We're soft people.

Most of the world deals with death minus morphine every day in the most horrid forms. Most of the world does.

We gag at a dead dog.

And we get angry if 9-1-1 takes five minutes instead of three minutes.

We are soft and we are presumptuous.

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