Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus.
Why did Jesus have to die? Did he live and die and rise again just so he could be our "co-pilot?" In John's gospel we see that Jesus didn’t come to be our handyman, or our co-pilot. He came to rescue us from judgement and suffering beyond anything we can comprehend--from the cup of God's wrath. If we misunderstand what Jesus came to do, we will miss enjoying the deep security that he intends us to have. Or, even worse, we might miss the good news of the gospel message altogether. In this passage, we see two necessary truths about the good news of God's wrath-- Our sin is serious, but the Savior is generous.
“God’s wrath is God’s war of love against everything gratuitously hurtful. God’s love would not be love if it did not work to remove all that ungraciously hurts. The wrath of god … proves the love of God.” — Dale Bruner
“The doctrine of propitiation is precisely this: that God loved the objects of His wrath (the world) so much that He gave His own Son … that He by His blood should make provision for the removal of His wrath. It was Christ’s so to deal with the wrath that the loved would no longer be the objects of wrath, and love would achieve its aim of making the children of wrath the children of God’s good pleasure.”—John Murray
“God’s wrath is God’s war of love against everything gratuitously hurtful. God’s love would not be love if it did not work to remove all that ungraciously hurts. The wrath of god … proves the love of God.” — Dale Bruner
“Jesus fulfills and reveals the true nature of God’s anger. At the cross, God’s anger and God’s love meet together to rescue humans and provide them life on the other side of death … Instead of thinking, “I’m bad, and God is holy, so he has to kill me unless I believe in Jesus,” we look at it this way: If we continue in sin instead of accepting the gift of grace and eternal life offered freely to all through Jesus, God hands us over to the self-destructive path that ultimately ends in death. But our fate is something we ultimately choose ourselves.” - -Tim Mackie
The Good News of the Empty Cup
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/good-news-god-hates-sin/
