How are my names Father Mike Schmitz and this is a sense of presence.

So we want recently put out on the internet a question of what do you want Father Mike

to talk about or answer any questions and so someone said a couple of people I think

they've asked this question before and people ask it all the time.

How come the God, the God of the Old Testament seems so much more harsh and judgmental and

oriented towards justice than the God of the New Testament who seems more kind and gentle

and merciful and I think great question.

There are two reasons for this.

One is you haven't read your Bible.

That's why I have me go kind of, I mean I'm saying this tongue in cheek and I'm saying

this like just kind of poking fun so keep please take my sarcasm with a grain of salt.

I am poking fun but whenever anyone says the God of the Old Testament seems more kind

and gentle or opposite, harsh judgmental etc and then the God of the New Testament who

is kind and gentle and merciful, they've just basically said they have not read their

Bible because or at least they haven't paid attention to the Bible because it is absolutely

fundamentally obviously clear that in the Old Testament God reveals himself yes to be clearly

communicating to his people what right and wrong are and that there's a consequence

for choosing right and consequence for choosing wrong but he also reveals his heart to be

the heart of someone who loves the heart of a God who is long suffering, the heart of

a God who lets himself get beaten up by his people who turn away from him.

I mean not only are there so many Psalms about God's heart, there reveals his heart that

being again long suffering patient forgiving.

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