Why Such Severe Wrath? The Unfathomable Cost of the Cross

When we speak of the coming judgment - a raging fire that will consume the enemies of GOD a sobering question arises: Why? Why would a God of love unleash such total, inescapable wrath?

The sermon delivers a thunderous answer: Because of the unimaginable cost of the salvation that was rejected. - (Get the whole Sermon here- https://youtube.com/live/FlQhyBpCIgs)

Jesus Christ did not come as a mere prophet or a good teacher. He came as the full embodiment of the GODhead. Colossians 2:9 declares, "For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form." The entire Trinity Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, was present in the person hanging on the cross. This is the Creator of all things, in whom all things hold together (Colossians 1:17), allowing Himself to be pierced, crushed, and despised.

He was the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15), yet He had no beauty or majesty that we should look at Him. He was a man of suffering, familiar with pain, and we considered Him punished by God (Isaiah 53:3-4). The Almighty packaged Himself in humility and offered Himself as the sole sacrifice for sin.

This is the crux of the matter. GOD cannot understand and He will not tolerate the belittling, mocking, or casual rejection of such a sacrifice. To trample the SON of GOD underfoot and treat the blood of the covenant as an unholy thing is to invite the fullest measure of divine fury (Hebrews 10:29). The severity of the wrath matches the supreme value of the Gift that was scorned.

The cross is both the ultimate measure of GOD's love and the ultimate standard of His justice. To ignore it is to choose a collision with that justice.

Reflect today: Have you truly grasped the value of the Gift? Or have you been treating the blood of Jesus with indifference? We MUST Repent and cling to that cross it is our only shelter from the coming storm.