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ter the ministry: The truth is, half of Gods word is law, The Gospel without promise of retribution is emascuated. It is not only theological mistake it is not a Gospel The text proclaims that there is wrath with God, and there are scores of Scripture passages speaking of the wrath of God and many of them are in the New Testament.
 What Is the Wrath of God?
 When the ancients saw the noun. tains that are now the witnesses of the wrath of man against man rocking and reeling, they said the gods were mad. But we cannot so think of the wrath of God. That wrath is real in- tignation against it's object, and this indignation carries with it the idea .hat the object of the wrath will be rne subject of Gods opposition. The wrath of God is always based on jus tice and reason that take into account the rights and prerogatives of men as moral agents. Yet. Gods own char acter for holiness and justice will be ''AiHANotCu nIoltNtl udJ Ut LNc tience of man with such a statement.
 Whatsoever man soweth, that shall he also reap"-no limitation or modi- fcation.
 The Wrath of Gcd Against All Sinful
 Men.
 We know God hates iniquity and all evil deeds, but it is a more serious matter for us to note that the prepon- derance of scripture testimony is that the wrath of God is against sin ful men and logically so. Sin is an abstract thing, and cannot be in itself the subject of the execution of jus tice, but the sinner can be. Jesus told Nicodemus that the wrath of God abode on sinning man. Paul told the Ephesian and CoIossian Christians that the wrath of God would come on the children of disobedience He told the Thessalonians that the day is com ing when Jesus Christ will be revealed from heaven taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
 Wrath Provoked, Slow In Develop
 ment, and Fearful in Visitation.
 There are three things concerning the wrath of God that should be care fully noted: First: The wrath of God can be provoked or called out. The lsraelites provoked the wrath of God repeatedly and plaques broke out on them. In the second Psalm men were urged to kiss the son lest he be an- gry and they perish from the way when his wrath was kindled but g. little. The wrath of God will never be manifested without the positive act of man calling it out, or provoking it, and one of the strongest evidences of the love of God is that his love has been frequently provoked and was most mercifully restrained. Second ly: The wrath of God is slow in it's development. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plen- seous in mercy" One of the minor prophets teaches almost exactly the same thing, saying: Turn unto the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness" Thirdly: The wrath of God is fearful in it's visitation. The time comes when kindness, merciful indulgence and longsuffeIfag, are at an end and the most terrible judg- ments fall. This was illustrated in the destruction of the race by the Hood, by the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, by the plaques on Egypt, by the wholesale destruction of many or the enemies of Israel. Not less fearful, indeed rather more so, will be the awful visitation of Cod s wrath Ill the future as indicated in 2 Thes- falonians 1:7-9.
 Thank God there is a ruruge, for as Paul teaches by the Holy Spirit. that being now justified by the blood of Jesus Christ, we shall be uaved from wrath through him.
 II ever in the history ot the world the attention of man ought to be called to the wrath of God, it is now when the wrath of man against man man so glorited by himself as to be almost god-is manifested with a bitterness and hellish hstA as never before.
 In the awful experiences ;n the war swept regions there 's st,nethi.2 >I the wrath of God.
 Men have forgotten Gc5 arS .. is making himself known ia wrath.
 John the Bap.ists are needed to erge men to fee from the wrath to come