This is what the Bible means when it says God does not wink at sin.

He is too holy to even look at evil.

What is it that makes us think that the only way God can be good

is if he gives us everything that we want and never says no to our behavior

and never exercises judgment or wrath.

When we look at the Scriptures, the manifestation of God's wrath,

the manifestation of God's judgment are always seen in the context of the character of God

which character is good.

It is because he is good that he is wrathful.

It is because he is good that he exercises judgment

because being good, he loves goodness and he hates evil.

But we aren't good in the way that God is good

and because he is not like we are winking at our sin,

we attribute to him in a slanderous way a deficiency of goodness in his own character.

I remember when I was in Europe studying, doing my doctoral work over there

and grappling every day with the subtleties and nuances of the Dutch language.

It was difficult enough learning the words of this strange vocabulary

with their strange sounding vowels and all the rest.

But as anyone knows who has tried to master another language,

one of the most difficult aspects of learning a foreign language is learning the idioms,

the little expressions or sayings that people have in other languages.

And I was reading a book, a theology book,

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