Our text is found in Hebrews
chapter 10, if you would like to turn there. Hebrews chapter 10. Everything about the gospel,
about our gospel, is contrary to the flesh in every way. When
we have problems in life, we try to solve those problems by
doing something. We try to fix them. We try to
work to correct issues. We're constantly battling life, if you want to
put it that way. We wake up and we have struggles and trials
that we go through each day. And in our mind, we try to come
up with a solution by fixing it. But the gospel is, that doesn't
apply to the gospel. Everything about the gospel is
that it's all of the Lord. It's all of what he has done.
And doing anything pertaining to the gospel as any part of
your salvation is actually detrimental. It's the opposite of helping.
It makes it worse, infinitely worse. It's called iniquity.
It's called iniquity. And there's nothing we can do
to fix that sin problem, nothing. You tell the flesh, well, there's
nothing you can do to fix it, and the flesh thinks that that's
foolishness, because we always fix things, don't we? Our children
come to us with problems, we try to fix the problems. In our
marriage, we have problems, we try to fix the problem. Our car
breaks down, we try to fix the problem. But when it comes to
God's salvation, we cannot fix our sin problem, no matter what
we do. No matter what we do. They that
are in the flesh cannot please God, period. period. This is why it is a fearful thing
to fall into the hands of the living God. And that's what he
says here in our text. Let's read this. Hebrews 10, 28 through
31. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two
or three witnesses. Of how much sore punishment,
suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden underfoot
the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith
he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the
Spirit of grace. For we know him that hath said,
Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the
Lord. And again, the Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful
thing to fall into the hands of the living God. We deceive,
our hearts are deceitful as we know, but we most deceive, everyone
deceives themselves in thinking they have all the time in the
world. Most people don't think about death. They just don't
think about death until they become sick or diagnosed with
something, then they think about death, but most people, Do not
think about death. You know who does think about
death? The Lord's people. The Lord's people think about
death. Because we know that it's appointed unto man once to dine
after this judgment. We don't have all the time in
the world. David said, my times are in thy hand, O Lord. Every
second that's ticking is ticking because the Lord has caused it
to be thus. We are born dying creatures. We're born sinners. And unless
the Lord causes us to come to the knowledge of the truth, we
can't fix our sin problem. No matter what we do, we make
it worse. And so it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands
of the living God. We have an appointed time of
death, an expected end, a God with whom we must face. The scripture
said it is appointed unto man, wants to die, and after this,
the judgment. After this, the judgment. Why is it fearful to fall into
the hands of the living God? Well, he's not talking about
falling into his hands as in trusting him for salvation. That's not what he's talking
about here. He's not talking about leaning on the Lord for
help. He's not saying, you're saying
save me and you fell into his hands that way. No, this is not
what's being said here. This word signified to be arrested.
By justice as a criminal. That's what it means to be arrested
by justice as a criminal So you're found guilty and you fall into
his hands guilty. That's what's being referred
to here And we are guilty aren't we of trespass transgression
and equity I And then if we don't come to the knowledge of Christ
by grace alone, we have to stand before him in judgment. There
is no help, there is no escape, there is no hiding from him,
there is no rescue then. Everything I've said thus far
is to prepare us for the remedy, the remedy. It's a fearful thing
to fall into the hands of a living God. Our only hope is that the
Lord Jesus Christ fell into the hands of the living God on our
behalf, on our behalf. It's a fearful thing to stand
before, to fall in the hands of living God because he's holy,
he's righteous, he's right, and we're not, we're false and full
of sin. We would not have an advocate. Jesus Christ is the
only advocate. We would not have a mediator.
Jesus Christ is the only mediator. That's what the scripture says.
The only mediator between God and man. The man Christ Jesus.
Why is it fearful? Three reasons. There's no escape
falling into the hands of the living God. Without Christ means
there's no escape, there's no hiding, and there's no remedy.
Men live foolishly not thinking about death. I talked to someone
recently, and they said, I know I told you all about the book
before. The woman, How to Not Die, was the title of the book.
And it's a bestseller by New York Times. I thought, well,
that's silly. But I was talking to somebody the other day, and
they were explaining to me, I believe they were 87 years old,
87 years old. And he says, yeah, I can still
run marathons, and I can still do this, and I'm still in great
health. I'm just, you know, talking to,
I think he thinks he's gonna live forever. I mean, I really,
that's the way that it came across to me. Like, he's not going to
die. He's happy with his life, he's, I lived a good life, I'm
loving life, I'm just gonna keep going. But there's a time appointed
for everyone to die. And after this, the judgment.
And the only hope that we have is to be found in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Not having our own righteousness,
which is of the law, but having his righteousness. Righteousness
by faith. There's only one or two ways
that you will face the Lord when you die. Only one of two. There
isn't three or four or five, there's only one of two ways.
Either being perfectly righteous because you've been conformed
to the image of Jesus Christ, or dead and trespasses and in
sin still. Either the Holy Spirit arrests
you now, arrests you now, by bringing you to the knowledge
of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving repentance and faith, or you
will be arrested in judgment when you stand before God, having
to give account of every deed, whether it be good or whether
it be evil. And if that be the case, there's no escape. There's
no place to hide, and there's no one to rescue you. Men do not love this truth by
nature. They don't like to face the reality
of time's going to end. This world's going to burn up
with a fervent heat. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the
Lord's word shall not pass away. Men don't want to think about
that, but it's going to happen. You remember whenever, think
about this, how much do people hate the truth? Well, the Lord
Jesus Christ performed all those miracles. He told them, he said,
you hate me because I tell you the truth. That's why you hate
me. That's the reason that you hate me. I'm telling you the
truth. And that's the truth. They hated him, didn't they?
In so much, you remember on the day where he was going to be
crucified, He said it was a customary at this time that they would
release a prisoner. So they could have asked for
the Lord Jesus Christ and they would have released him. But what did
they cry for? Barabbas. Now I want to remind
you that Barabbas was a murderer. He was guilty of terrible acts. And yet, because they hated the
truth, they would rather have Barabbas. Would rather have Barabbas
than the truth, the murderer. And that's us by nature. That's
us by nature. Away with this man, let his blood
be upon us and on our children. And it certainly will be if we're
not found in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now no one can fully grasp the
terrors or the gravity of standing before God. We're mortal, we
don't understand, only brave understand anything spiritual
is by faith. But when we stand before him one day, if it's in
judgment, there'll be no help. There'll be no aid. It'll be
you and God, and that's it. And it'll be an account of everything
you've done. Now, the good news of the gospel is that if you're
in Christ, he took that judgment in your place. He bore your sin
and his body on the tree so that when he fell into the hands of
the living God, God judged him, took vengeance out upon him.
He satisfied justice for you so that whenever you stand before
him, you'll have an advocate, you'll have a mediator, and you
will be declared as perfectly righteous because of what Christ
has accomplished. How sad the soul that hears the
words depart from me. I never knew you. I never knew
you. There's no escape, there's no
hiding, and there's no rescue. But there is hope for the Lord's
people. In the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, what
he accomplished on the cross, there's no other name given among
men whereby we must be saved. There is a remedy. There is a
balm in Gilead, the scripture says. There is hope. unto salvation, not because of
what we've done, not by works of righteousness, which we have
done, but according to his mercy. He chose to save some people. He chose to give them eternal
life before time ever began. He chose to make them the very
righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. And did he do it? Yes, he did. That was why he
came. Call his name Jesus, for he shall
save his people from their sin. It's a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of the living God, because if you do, you're
not in Christ. You're not in Christ. Justice
will be served. But if Christ Jesus fell into
the hands of the living God on your behalf, there's only peace
and hope and joy and love and all the benefits of the Father
unto his people. That's what remains for us. No
more wrath. Wrath's been satisfied. No more
justice. Justice been satisfied. No more
judgment. No more judgment, the sin has
been put away. He is the hiding place of his people. Stand before him, you have a
hiding place. Moses said, I want to see your glory, Lord. Show
me your glory. And the Lord said, no man can
look upon me and live, but there is a place nigh unto me. It's his right hand, isn't it?
That's how close it is, his right hand. There's a place nigh unto
me, but I have to put you there, Moses, you can't get there. And
that is so true for you and I, we cannot put ourself in Christ,
he must do it. And if he certainly does, we'll
see his glory. We'll see his glory, what the
Lord has accomplished for his people. He's the substitute surety
of his elect. He's rescued. I said before,
there's going to be no rescue if you stand before the Lord
without Christ. He is the rescuer. He is salvation. He saved his
people from their sin. He's rescued his chosen people
from hell and from death and from grave, from sin and Satan. He's done it all. He's done it
all. The sin that separated us from
God is gone because of his perfect sacrifice. It's gone. He made
it vanish. The Lord said, the Lord laid
upon him the iniquity of us all. He put them away. He bore them
in his body on the tree, putting them all away. And either we
died in him, either we died in him when he died by his doing,
by his choice, or we will die forever. We will die forever. If we died in him on the cross
of Calvary, then we're gonna live. Scripture says our life
is hid with Christ in God. And if that be the case, we're
gonna live forever, eternally, by the finished work of Christ.
Either our lives are hid with Christ or we will stand naked,
without hope, without strength, without ability, without a friend,
without an advocate, without a mediator, without a hiding
place, no escape. The writer said, how shall we
escape if we neglect so great salvation? How? There is none. There is no escape if we neglect
so great salvation. Lord had to teach Adam and Eve
after they had sinned in the garden, they came to the knowledge
of good and evil and that knowledge passed on generation to generation.
We have knowledge of good and evil because of what they did.
The problem is, and I'll say what we started out saying, is
we think we can fix it by nature. I'm not as bad as this person.
I'm not as bad as that person. I'll do this, and I don't do
that. But that's not true. Everything that we do, it just
adds to the iniquity that God has us charged with. So Adam
and Eve, that's exactly what they did. They said, we can fix
this. We can sow fig leaves together. That's what they said. And they
did. So they covered up, and then they hid. And the Lord said,
Adam. And he had to answer. Lord knew
where he was. But the Lord said, where are
you? Where art thou, Adam? I love that. He made Adam respond,
didn't he? He made Adam confess. I'm over
here. He knew where he was. He said, who told you that you
were naked? Did you eat of the tree? Drew
another confession, didn't he? He knew he ate the tree. He's
God. But he made him confess, yes, I have sinned. The Lord
said, well, those fig leaves ain't gonna work. Not before
my presence, no. It's gonna take the blood and
it's gonna take the lamb, the covering of the lamb, or you
will not have any hope of standing before me. And it's just what
it is today, isn't it? If we are going to be found righteous
before God, it takes the blood, it takes the lamb, the covering
of the lamb. Otherwise, we have no righteousness
before God, none. I'm sure Adam and Eve explained
this very well to Cain and Abel. You know they would, of their
sons. Cain didn't want to hear it. He thought it was foolishness.
He thought, I can do my own thing to get God's approval. I can
bring something that I made. Look how good my vegetables are,
my fruits, my labors of my hand, the work that I've done. And
it's all a picture of works religion. That's all that it is. But he
brings that before the Lord, and the Lord said, he was displeased
with Cain and Cain's sacrifice. It wasn't just the sacrifice,
but Cain himself. That's the issue, isn't it? If
the Lord sees sin upon us, he's displeased with us. That sin
has to be gone. And what happened? Well, the
jealousy of Cain overtook him, and he killed his brother Abel,
who was pleasing to the Lord. And that's what men will do in
false religion. They will kill those who are accepted by God.
They hate the gospel. They might not kill them physically,
but they will in their heart. I know some people that's killed
me in their heart. People that just didn't like what I had to
say about the gospel. And that's okay. The scripture says, don't
marvel when they hate you. It's not you that they hate,
it's me. They hated me first. So Cain slew his brother. Did
that fix it? Was he accepted by God then?
No, he was cursed for the rest of his life. Can't fix it. Can't
fix it. God's holy. He demands blood.
He demands the sacrifice of the person, the Lord Jesus Christ,
to put away sin. Nothing you and I can do can
put away our sin. That's why it's a fearful thing
to fall in the hands of the living God. Remember the story about Achan
over in Joshua chapter 7 the children of Israel had just marched
around Jericho and the walls had fallen down and the Lord
said don't touch anything. Whoever touches anything treasure
spoils or anything it's sacred it's consecrated unto me. It's
he'll be accursed. He'll be accursed. Well, somebody
did. His name was Akin. He didn't
obey the word of the Lord. He said, I'm going to get some
of this glory myself. I've got a wedge of gold and
some silver here and a nice coat. I'm going to take this. Nobody
will miss it. It's free. It spoils. I deserve this. He
took the glory of the Lord, and he hid it in his tent. I'm going
to take this, and I'm going to hide it down on the earth. Nobody's
ever going to know about it. God knows. God knows your heart
and my heart, whether or not we're taking glory from his son
and hiding it down deep inside. He knows whether we're honest
about it or not. He knows whether we're honest about it. Well,
what happened? Well, they were going to go up
against AI, a city, and Joshua said, they scouted it out, and
they told Joshua, well, we're going to have to send everybody.
Just send 2,000 or 3,000 men. It'll be fine. We'll take care
of them. They're not big. That's what happened. They went
off to battle against them, 3,000. They had to tuck tail and run
because AI pursued them and had killed 36 men. The reason was,
is the Lord's hand was not upon them. Lord's hand's not upon
them. If you're guilty, if you're guilty
of sin, the Lord's hand's not upon you. The sin has to be gone. The only way that they could
have victory over Ai is the sin has to be taken out of the camp.
And the Lord tells Joshua, line up the people, bring houses and
tribes, each man, and he revealed who it was. And it said they
captured Achan. And he said, give God the glory.
What have you done? And he said, well, it's true,
I coveted those things, and I took them and I put them in a tin.
And that's what all men do by nature, is we covet God's glory. We covet God's glory by nature. The flesh wants to be seen. The
flesh wants to be recognized. The flesh wants to be worshiped.
Worshiped. Only the Lord's people worship
him. Only the Lord's people see that,
not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name be all
glory and honor and power and praise. Well, they took the wedge,
and the silver, and the cloak, and they took Achan, his entire
family, all his flocks and herds, and they stoned them, and they
burnt them with fire. And that's a picture of the wrath and judgment
of God. It's the judgment of God that's going to happen to
every person who says, away with this man. Let his blood be upon
us and on our children. Away with this man. Give us Barabbas.
No, I'm gonna take the spoil for myself. I'm gonna covet this
glory myself. I gotta have something to do
with salvation. I want a little part so I can get some glory.
I gave my heart to Jesus. That's what a lot of people say.
And they're just taking those spoils, the glory of God, and
they're twisting it into a lie. What about somebody that tried
to do a good thing in disobedience? His name was Uzzah. The ark of
the Lord had been taken from the children of Israel. And you
can imagine, they had no way to worship. That's how they would
worship. They had no worship. David found out where the ark
was. The Philistines had brought it back. And David said, let's
go get it. That seems like a logical thing
to do, right? Let's go get it. Problem was, he wasn't a Levite.
He wasn't a Levite. He was of the tribe of Judah. He wasn't a Levite. Well, they
go down there, and it's on a cart. First of all, it wasn't supposed
to be on a cart. It was supposed to be carried
with staves by the Levites. Two staves running all the way
through, two men in the front, two men in the back. No, they
propped it up on a cart. What is that a picture of? That's
a picture of men propping up the gospel, not honoring the
gospel, preaching it clearly. It's helping it out. The Lord doesn't need our help,
does he? Does not need our help. And so what happened? Well, as
they were traveling with this cart with the ark on it, it began
to fall. And Ezra thought, oh no, the
ark of the Lord is going to fall. I better help. I better help. And he retched up and touched
it and God killed him instantly. Why? Because he disobeyed the
word of God. You are not allowed to touch
the ark, it's holy. It's holy, and if we stand before
God without having the shed blood of Christ, having been washed
in the shed blood of Christ, we will be unholy, standing before
the holy God. And the same death that came
to Uzzah, to Achan, that will be what is due us by the law. That will be what is due us by
justice. That will be the standard that God is going to say, depart
from me. Can't have part with God if I
have sin. God's holy and demands perfection.
And so what happened? They let it park there. I believe
it was six months. They left it there out of fear. David,
David said, well, let's not just, just leave it six months. And
then he began to long to worship again and said, well, let's go
get it. But this time let's do it the right way. Let's honor
what the Lord said. And they take the Levites and they carry
it properly. And every six steps they sacrificed
unto the Lord. What is that a picture of? Six
is the number of man. They were, Repenting every six
steps. Lord, we aren't even worthy to
carry this. It's our place of worship. That mercy seat represented
the Lord Jesus Christ. It's a holy thing. It's a holy
thing. And if we discredit the Lord
Jesus Christ by adding to or taking away from his finished
work, our end will be the same as Akin, as Cain, and as Uzzah. He will not give any of his glory,
any. any of his glory to anyone else. None can rescue out of his hand
by force. He's on the present, so you can't
escape him. None can rescue out of his hand,
and you can't escape him because he's everywhere all the time.
Just and faithful is his name. He can't be bribed. Remember
what the people say that stand before him. Lord, we've done
all these wonderful works in thy name. cast out demons, we've
fed the homeless, we've done this and we've done that. And
it doesn't matter when it comes to the things of the Lord. He's
just and he's holy. He's just and he's holy and you
can't bribe him with your works. We can't. He can't be bought
off. That means that there would be
a substitution for the blood of Christ is what that means.
He can't be bought off by you and I. Can't be bought off. He will not share his glory.
He's immutable. Means it doesn't change. He's
unalterable. He's the living God. He's the
living God. In opposition to the deities,
the false deities of this world and of man, he's the living God. All the other gods are dead,
aren't they? There's no other God besides him. There's no other
God that can, that exists, period. But there's nothing, no other
that can speak to the winds and the waves and they obey. There's
no one that can, no one else that can speak the light into
existence or the earth into existence. There's no one that can form
man out of the dust of the ground and breathe into his nostrils
and man become a living soul. He's the living God that did
all this. It's a mortal man, he's expressed
to us, and we don't understand this word. We try to understand
it, but eternal, the word is eternal, eternity. How are you
going to explain that? Well, you would say forever and
ever and ever, but you'd have to continue to say forever and
ever and ever and ever until, well, forever. It's hard to explain,
isn't it? How are you going to explain
that? Well, that's him. He's forever and ever. and ever,
he's eternal. He's from everlasting to everlasting,
he never had a beginning, he never had an end, and to stand
before him without Christ as your advocate, without Christ
as your mediator is certain damnation. Him being eternal declares the
duration of the sinner's punishment, has to be an eternal punishment. Nevertheless, I love the nevertheless
of the gospel. But God, who is rich in mercy,
but God, when you were dead in trespasses and in sin, hath he
quickened us together with Christ? But God, nevertheless, he is
seated on the throne as the successful redeemer of his people. Come
what may with all the fear that, and we live in a society that
loves to fear monger, they just do. Everything you see on, if
you have any joy at all or any peace and happiness, turn the
news on for about 10 minutes, you'll lose it really quick.
Everything's about fear and it's about being afraid and we have
a resting place, brethren. We have a hiding place. We have
one that has redeemed us from our sin. It is a fearful thing
to fall into the hands of living God, but if we're in Christ,
we don't have to fear that because he did it for us. He did it for
us. God who is rich in love, his
great love where he loved us. He quickened his people when
we were dead in trespasses and sin. While we were yet sinners,
Christ died for the ungodly. He didn't do it whenever you
got your life straightened out. He didn't do it whenever I started
living right or I stopped this and started this. He didn't do
it whenever it was convenient for me. When I was a sinner,
when you were a sinner, Christ died for the ungodly and he made
them godly doing so. He made them godly. We are the
ungodly, other than He is in every way, unable to please Him,
unable to approach Him, unable to, if you were to, this is,
can come across as sarcastic, I guess, but if you knew that
you had to find the Lord, I had somebody the other day tell me,
he's like, I found Jesus. I didn't know He was lost, is
what I told him. If you had to find Him, where would you find
Him? Couldn't. He has to find me. I'm the one
lost. He has to find you. You're the
one lost. And he does for his people, doesn't he? Now the believer's
most fearful thing is that he would leave us to ourself, our
own devices, our own deceitful heart. Lord, don't leave me to
myself. Don't allow me to fall into your hands, the living God,
the hands of justice and judgment. That scares me. That's the fearful
thing, being left to myself. But thank God all that the Father
gave to Christ. What did he say? All that the
Father giveth me shall come to me. He that cometh to me I'll
in no wise cast out. Of all that you give me, Father,
I've lost none. I like that number, don't you?
Zero. Haven't lost a single one of
them. He won't lose one of them either. Why? Because he keeps
them. He keeps them. We are saved by grace, we are
called by grace, we are kept by grace, because the Lord Jesus
Christ fell into the hands of the living God. Let's read verse
30 again. For we know him that has said,
vengeth, belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And
again, the Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing
to fall into the hands You notice that last part of the sentence
there in verse 30 says, the Lord shall judge his people. The Lord
judged his people on the cross of Calvary in Christ. He was
bearing our sin on the cross. The scripture says he was made
to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him. And in doing so, He took all
the sin that we had and He put them away. He judged us in Christ
on the cross. And then we died in Christ. That was the penalty. That was
the penalty for all our sin. We had to die and we died in
Him. And then we were resurrected in Christ to walk newness of
life. That's what baptism represents.
Buried with Him in baptism, risen again to walk anew. The Lord judged his people on
the cross. He thirsted. He thirsted so you would never
have to thirst. Remember, he said, I'm thirsty. We'll hear
that the next hour. He said, I thirst. He thirsted so that
you would never have to thirst. The fountain of living water
thirsted so his people could have full access to the life-giving
water who is the Lord Jesus Christ. He hungered so that you and I
would never hunger. The bread of life is sufficient. We're
going to take the elements second hour, Lord's table. The bread
of life is sufficient to meet every need that we have. To give
us life, it's the Lord Jesus Christ, isn't it? He suffered
our death. He bled and died in our room
instead. He fell into the hands of the
living God so that you and I would never have to see the flaming
eyes of God in judgment. He endured the full wrath of
his father, the full penalty for justice to be satisfied.
He endured it until finally he cries out through the darkness,
it is finished. Every person that he died for
at that moment made the perfect righteousness of God. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus. There's no condemnation. There
is nothing to fear. We have the boldness by his blood,
the full confidence of his finished work, the full confidence of
what he accomplished. We have boldness to enter in
to the very presence of God, to cry out for mercy, to cry
out for grace. He delights in showing mercy
to his children, doesn't he? The fearful thing is being left
to our sin. The glorious truth is they don't
exist anymore. That's the fearful thing, being left to my sin.
Lord, you leave me to myself, and I just have to stand before
you, not having your righteousness? I'm in trouble. I'm in trouble,
and I deserve that. I deserve to not have your righteousness. If it's gonna be given to me,
it's gonna be given all of grace. I don't deserve heaven. Not on
my merits or works. The Lord says, what sin? I put
them all away. Enter in, thou good and faithful servant. Good
and faithful servant? Yeah, you've never sinned one
time. Never sinned one time. Oh, wretched man that I am, the
Lord's telling me, never sinned a single time. It's not possible
for you, the Lord's people, to fall into the hands of the living
God in judgment because there's no more sin. Christ put it all
away. We have a scapegoat. one that
bore our sin. We have a hiding place, the cleft
of the rock, the Lord Jesus Christ. We have the one who rescued us.
And one day because of his glorious work, we will hear, enter in
thou good and faithful servant. There'll be no judgment there.
He was judged. We were judged in him on the
cross. So when we get there, the judgment has already happened.
Men, I remember in religion, men would say, well, you better
Be careful what you're doing, because the Lord's watching you.
Remember those bracelets that came out, WWJD? You remember
those things? Everybody had those. What would
Jesus do? And men wore them as an indicator of being religious,
first of all. But second of all, what they were saying was, is
you're going to have to stand before God, and you're going to have
to give an account of everything that you've done. Now, that is true if you're
not in Christ. But the religious would even
make it sound like you still had to give an account after
you went through their ceremonial whatever and said you were saved.
But here's the good news of the gospel. There is no more judgment
for the children of God. Somebody said, well, I really
messed up. And I think that the Lord is angry at me. He's pouring
his wrath out on me. No, there's no more wrath for
the children of God. Circumstances are going to happen
that's overwhelming. And even me and we're talking about how
COVID The coronavirus that affected everybody. They said, that's
the judgment of God. That's the wrath of God. This
hurricane that came through, I heard somebody say, well, if
we'd been living right, the Lord wouldn't have caused this to
happen or allowed this to happen. It's our fault. That's the judgment
of God. No, it's not. No, it's not. The judgment of God is best seen
on the cross of Calvary when the Lord executed his justice
on his son. When he saw sin upon him, he
said, Awake, O sword, smite the shepherd. That's the wrath of
God. Hell, the eternal hell is the
wrath of God. No, not these humanitarian things
that we see, not the wrath of God. That's why it's a fearful
thing to fall into the hands of the living God. But thanks
be to God, we have the victory through Christ Jesus who overcame
death, hell, and the grave, who satisfied the law's demands,
who put away the sin of his people. Now he's seated as a successful
redeemer. We don't have to fear anymore. We don't have to fear
anymore. Let's pray. Father, we are thankful
for your word. We pray that you would bless
it to our understanding for your glory in Christ's name. Amen. Let's take a break.