God’s Two-fold Nature

1. God’s Two-fold Nature EssentialMoral Eternal Holy Unchangeable Good Self-Sufficient Faithful All-Powerful Righteous All-Knowing Just All-Present Pure

2. God is Just and Good JUST Fair & Impartial GOOD Merciful, Kind, Gracious

3. God & Man’s Essential Attributes GodMan Eternal Created Unchangeable Changeable Self-Sufficient Needy All-Powerful Powerless All-Knowing Ignorant All-Present Limited

4. God & Man’s Moral Attributes GodMan Holy Unholy Good Evil Faithful Unreliable Righteous Immoral Just (equitable) Unjust Pure (undiluted) Diluted

5. The Wrath of God Hebrews 12:28 Let us be thankful and worship God with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

8. Propitiation Shield

9. Propitiation • The act of appeasing a god or deity who is angry with us. • The turning away of wrath by an offering. • Mending a relationship with someone who is angry with you.

10. Fahrenheit Degrees of Heat • Typical House Fire 1800 • Nuclear Blast 1832 • Marum Volcano 2,283 • Space Shuttle 5,000 • Sun’s Surface 10,000 • Sun’s Core 27 Million

11. The Wrath of God in Isaiah Isaiah 13:9 See, the day of the Lord is coming — a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger — to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.

12. The Wrath of God in Isaiah Isaiah 34:2 The Lord is angry with all nations; his wrath is upon all their armies. He will totally destroy them, he will give them over to slaughter.

13. The Wrath of God in Psalms Psalm 76:7 You alone are to be feared. Who can stand before you when you are angry? Psalm 7:11 God is angry with the wicked every day.

14. The Wrath of God in Romans Romans 2:5-8 Because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God "will give to each person according to what he has done." To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.

15. The Wrath of God in Colossians Colossians 3:5-6 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.

16. The Wrath of God Revelation Revelation 6:16-17 They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?"

17. The Wrath of God Revelation Revelation 19:11-13 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.

18. The Wrath of God Revelation Revelation 19:14-16 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

19. The Wrath of God in 1st Thessalonians 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation (Propitiation) through our Lord Jesus Christ.

20. Rom 3:21-26 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. NKJV

21. Propitiation Scriptures Heb 2:17-18 Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted. NKJV

22. Propitiation Scriptures 1 John 2:1-2 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. NKJV

23. Propitiation Scriptures 1 John 4:9-11 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. NKJV

24. A.W. Tozer on the Mercy of God “As judgment is God’s justice confronting moral inequity, so mercy is the goodness of God confronting human suffering and guilt.” The Knowledge of the Holy

25. A.W. Tozer on the Mercy of God “No voice would be raised to celebrate [God’s] mercy of which none felt the need. It is human misery and sin that call forth the divine mercy [of God].” The Knowledge of the Holy