Paul is not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

He is utterly and absolutely eager to preach Jesus Christ,

and even though it is a stumbling block to the Jew

and foolishness to the Gentile,

the gospel is still the power of God and the salvation to all that believe,

and Paul is not hesitant to preach it.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Today, John begins a study that's going to show you what Scripture says

about an aspect of God's character that is often misunderstood,

ignored, and even denied by some people.

Namely, God's wrath.

John calls this study Wicked World Angry God.

John, if there's one thing that even unbelievers tend to agree on,

it's that God is a God of love.

The idea that He's also a God of wrath, that's not quite so widely embraced.

But why is the notion of an angry God so quickly dismissed, not only by unbelievers,

but even by so many professing Christians?

Well, I think there's a theological answer to that question,

and the theological answer would be that people think that unbelievers are going to be saved

if the gospel is presented in an inoffensive, attractive way.

It's part of the legacy of an Armenian theology that is incipiently woven into the fabric

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