LifeBridge Church
God's Response to Sin:
1. Wrath
2. Justice
3. Love
4. Mercy
Big Idea:
At the cross Jesus took God's wrath upon himself and satisfied his demand for justice.
Deuteronomy 32:16 ESV
Joshua 23:16 ESV
Exodus 34:6-7 ESV
Psalm 78:38 ESV
Psalm 103:10 ESV
John 3:36 ESV
Romans 2:5 ESV
Justice:
Rendering to an individual the due consequences of their actions.
“Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful. That is the important paradox. As there are plants which will flourish only in mountain soil, so it appears that Mercy will flower only when it grows in the crannies of the rock of justice.”
- C.S. Lewis The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
Deuteronomy 16:20 ESV
Psalm 33:5 ESV
Genesis 2:17 ESV
Romans 6:23 ESV
Leviticus 17:11 ESV
Hebrews 9:22 ESV
Romans 3:21-26 ESV
Questions:
1. Why couldn't God just forgive?
2. Is the cross a form of "cosmic child abuse"?
So What?
1. God's wrath was directed at me; Jesus took it for me.
2. God's just judgment was directed at me; Jesus took it for me.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV