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Authors: Todd Friel
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because of His loving nature. These two attributes collided most powerfully in one location: the Cross.
How much does God hate sin? He crushed His own Son. The sinless Son of God was credited with your sin and God poured out His fury on His beloved Son because Jesus had been credited with your sin.
How much does God love you? He crushed His own Son on your behalf that you might be forgiven.
God’s wrath and love are most vividly on display at the Cross. If you ever doubt God’s settled anger at sin, look at the Cross. If you ever doubt how kind, good, and loving God is, look at the Cross.
Jesus’ brutal death on the Cross is God’s greatest and clearest demonstration of His wrath and love.
A Shadowy Picture
Over two thousand years before God’s wrath and love collided at the Cross, the Bible records a shadowy picture of His anger and mercy: Noah’s ark.
The people of Genesis 6 were sinning continually and God’s anger reached the point that He determined to destroy the entire world with a flood.
The Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them” (Gen. 6:7).
There we see God’s anger. Here we see God’s kindness:
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch (Gen. 6:13–14).
God promised to destroy the earth with a flood, but He also provided a way of escape — a great big boat. God commanded Noah to do two things:
1.Build an ark to provide an escape from the waters of judgment.
2.Preach repentance to the “continually evil” sinners.
God didn’t just get annoyed one day and open up the floodgates. Instead, He commanded Noah to call men to repentance for 120 years! Now that is patience. That is love.
Success Rate: 0
After 120 years of faithful preaching, Noah had zero converts. Not one person took him up on God’s offer to escape the wrath to come by entering the boat. Only Noah, Mrs. Noah, and three little Noahs and their wives entered the boat.
So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed it behind him (Gen. 7:15–16).
God opened up the heavens and released the fountains of the deep. As promised, God destroyed every human and animal that was not in the ark. But God did not kill everyone; He saved those who believed in Him. It was only eight people, but He still saved people.
God judged the world in righteousness and showed mercy at the same time. The water was God’s instrument of judgment; the ark was God’s means of rescue.
More than an Ark
The New Testament Book of 1 Peter 3:18–22 tells us that Jesus is like that ark. Noah’s ark is a shadowy picture of Jesus and His work on the Cross.
> The ark saved people from God’s judgment; Jesus saves people from God’s judgment.
> Those who were in the ark were spared from death; those who are in Jesus are spared from eternal destruction.
> The ark saved. Jesus saves.
More than Pitch
God commanded Noah to “cover the ark inside and out with pitch” (Gen. 6:14). The ark was made watertight by covering it internally and externally with this waterproof substance. It is the word “pitch” that leads us again to Jesus.
According to Strong’s Concordance , the Hebrew word for pitch is kaphar and it means “to cover, purge, make an atonement, make reconciliation.” Kaphar is used 70 times in the Bible to mean “atonement” as it relates to blood
How much does God hate sin? He crushed His own Son. The sinless Son of God was credited with your sin and God poured out His fury on His beloved Son because Jesus had been credited with your sin.
How much does God love you? He crushed His own Son on your behalf that you might be forgiven.
God’s wrath and love are most vividly on display at the Cross. If you ever doubt God’s settled anger at sin, look at the Cross. If you ever doubt how kind, good, and loving God is, look at the Cross.
Jesus’ brutal death on the Cross is God’s greatest and clearest demonstration of His wrath and love.
A Shadowy Picture
Over two thousand years before God’s wrath and love collided at the Cross, the Bible records a shadowy picture of His anger and mercy: Noah’s ark.
The people of Genesis 6 were sinning continually and God’s anger reached the point that He determined to destroy the entire world with a flood.
The Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them” (Gen. 6:7).
There we see God’s anger. Here we see God’s kindness:
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch (Gen. 6:13–14).
God promised to destroy the earth with a flood, but He also provided a way of escape — a great big boat. God commanded Noah to do two things:
1.Build an ark to provide an escape from the waters of judgment.
2.Preach repentance to the “continually evil” sinners.
God didn’t just get annoyed one day and open up the floodgates. Instead, He commanded Noah to call men to repentance for 120 years! Now that is patience. That is love.
Success Rate: 0
After 120 years of faithful preaching, Noah had zero converts. Not one person took him up on God’s offer to escape the wrath to come by entering the boat. Only Noah, Mrs. Noah, and three little Noahs and their wives entered the boat.
So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed it behind him (Gen. 7:15–16).
God opened up the heavens and released the fountains of the deep. As promised, God destroyed every human and animal that was not in the ark. But God did not kill everyone; He saved those who believed in Him. It was only eight people, but He still saved people.
God judged the world in righteousness and showed mercy at the same time. The water was God’s instrument of judgment; the ark was God’s means of rescue.
More than an Ark
The New Testament Book of 1 Peter 3:18–22 tells us that Jesus is like that ark. Noah’s ark is a shadowy picture of Jesus and His work on the Cross.
> The ark saved people from God’s judgment; Jesus saves people from God’s judgment.
> Those who were in the ark were spared from death; those who are in Jesus are spared from eternal destruction.
> The ark saved. Jesus saves.
More than Pitch
God commanded Noah to “cover the ark inside and out with pitch” (Gen. 6:14). The ark was made watertight by covering it internally and externally with this waterproof substance. It is the word “pitch” that leads us again to Jesus.
According to Strong’s Concordance , the Hebrew word for pitch is kaphar and it means “to cover, purge, make an atonement, make reconciliation.” Kaphar is used 70 times in the Bible to mean “atonement” as it relates to blood
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