God seemed to overlook the sinned of man in the centuries before the cross.

It looked maybe as if sin was tolerated, but it was just piling up.

You know the damn broke, the one day it broke at Calvary, it broke on Christ and drowned

him in all the sieve sin, a little break again, and it'll drown all those men who are not

in Christ.

Welcome to Grace To You, with John MacArthur, I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

If you scroll through various Christian websites, you'll come across numerous articles about

the loving, compassionate side of God's character.

However, look for descriptions of God's wrath, his hatred and judgment of sin, and odds

are you won't find very much.

With that in mind, John MacArthur is going to break the silence on today's Grace To

You and take you into one of the Bible's key passages about the wrath of God.

John calls this study Wicked World, Angry God.

And when you see just how lost in sin, mankind really is, as today's lesson will show you,

you'll appreciate God's loving plan of salvation in a new and profound way.

So here's John with today's message.

I wonder in all of the times that you have presented the gospel to somebody, how many times

did you introduce it by saying, by the way, did you know that the wrath of God is revealed

against your ungodliness?

From Paul's perspective, fear becomes the first pressure applied to evil men.

Let them know about the wrath of God.

Now admittedly, the wrath of God is a hard subject, and I am not here to tell you that

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