The When we talk about God it is a whole lot easier to talk about things like his

love and his grace than to talk about his wrath or his judgment.

But if we're going to really understand that the gospel is good news,

we have to first understand the bad news that we are up against.

Today on Truth for Life,

Alistir Beg is teaching from Romans chapter 1,

we're looking at verse 18. The scriptures are unashamed from beginning all the way to the end to say that God is provoked to anger by the rebellion of his creation.

We go back to the opening verses of Genesis and to Genesis three and eventually Adam and Eve are

banished from the garden the garden the entry way into the garden is now protected

by a fiery sword oh you say what a dreadful thing to do. Oh no God was only

given and what they had already chosen because remember they had already hidden

from God. They hid from God, they suppressed the truth about God, and they were

banished by God. Now we cannot dodge this. The stubbornness of God's people, you read of it in the

exodus all into Deuteronomy, take for example Sodom and Gomorah. What is Sodom and Gomor? Apart from the expression of the

wrath of God against the fact that those whom he has made, made to love him, made to know him, made to serve him.

They decided we will love ourselves, we will not serve you, and we will do whatever we want.

Now what do you want? Indifferent to that? An indifferent

God? Oh that's okay whatever you want to do. How could that be an expression of love? No, he loves them so much, so as not to tolerate that, so as to explain how important it is.

Now, Paul here in Romans is dealing with this very expressly. When you

think about all of the fears, all of the anxieties, all of the neurosis of our contemporary world. And you realize that on that

great day when the Apostle John gets a glimpse into the future. And he describes this

amazing picture how how when the books are opened and the final judgment

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