The Righteous Anger of God
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Because God is a righteous Judge, He is angry with the wicked every day (Ps. 7:11). In this episode, R.C. Sproul explains why this wrathful indignation is justified.
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| 0:00.0 | If you are not a Christian, God is angry with you, and not only is he angry with you, |
| 0:08.0 | but he's angry with you every day. |
| 0:12.0 | Friends, I don't like to have people mad at me, but can you imagine what it would be |
| 0:19.4 | like to have the God of heaven and earth angry with you? |
| 0:28.4 | A perfectly holy judge of all of the world who is incapable of being angry about evil |
| 0:38.7 | could not possibly be good. |
| 0:43.0 | God's anger, as we say, is righteous indignation, and it is an appropriate response to the reality |
| 0:52.4 | of injustice. |
| 0:54.9 | It is injustice that angers God, and it is because he is just, it is because he is righteous, |
| 1:03.3 | it is because he is holy that he has wrath. |
| 1:09.5 | Now the Scriptures repeatedly declare that God himself is slow to anger. |
| 1:16.1 | He's not a hothead. |
| 1:18.9 | He doesn't come up with unprovoked fury. |
| 1:23.6 | He is slow to reach the boiling point. |
| 1:27.6 | This is part of his forbearance, and of his graciousness, and of his long suffering |
| 1:32.8 | with our wickedness. |
| 1:35.1 | And yet the Scriptures say to us here something that we must not overlook to your friends. |
| 1:41.3 | God is a just judge, and God is angry with the wicked every day. |
| 1:52.8 | If you are not a Christian, if you have not made peace with God, if you are still estranged |
| 2:00.4 | from God, if you have never been reconciled to God, then you must hear these words that God |
| 2:08.3 | is angry with you. |
| 2:10.6 | And not only is he angry with you, but he is angry with you every single day. |
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