God Takes Sin Personally

"Ah, I will ease Me of Mine adversaries, and avenge Me of Mine enemies!" (Isa. 1:24).  Human justice is to be meted out by juries of men and by judges, uncolored by personal feelings. Not so with God! As is not the case in human courts, it is the Judge Himself who has been wronged. It is His light that has been refused for darkness.  It is His salvation, and that by His Son's blood, that has been despised.  And it will not be justice merely, but the infliction of penalty by an outraged Being whose Name is Love, now aroused to righteous fury commensurate with the measureless guilt of the hideous haters of His holiness, the despisers of His mercy – it will be by the Hand of the Judge of all, Himself, that wrath will fall upon the guilty.

     As for the "great" pulpiteers of Christendom, the favorites of the rapidly apostatizing denominations of this day, the men who, by their ecclesiastical politics or personal ability, of so-called "scholarship," are "outstanding" and yet deny or ignore the wrath of God – fear them not! They are false prophets, prophets of "peace," – which can only be found in the shed blood of the Redeemer: the blood which they do not preach.

     Oh, that Day! that Day! – for these lying preachers of "peace, peace," who have said, "God is too good to damn anybody." And shall God, in that Day, refuse to remember the agonies of His Son on the Cross?  Shall He change that holy hatred of sin, wherein He forsook Christ and spared Him not? – all because miserable guilty Universalists, Unitarians, Millennial Dawnists, "Modernists," "Christian (!) Scientists (!)" – all the fawning "Hush, hush" preachers, have promised to men "a God that would not show wrath against sin!" A God who would indeed "spare all, – yea, probably, even Satan, finally!"

     Let this awful word Wrath settle into the conscience of every soul; for God hath spoken it!

     And every Preacher and every Prophet of God has warned of it: Enoch (Jude 14-15); Noah (2 Pet. 2:5); Moses (Deut. 32:35); the Psalmists, the Prophets (for example, Isaiah, all of chapters 24 and 34); the Lord's forerunner, John the Baptist, with his "flee from the wrath to come"; the Apostles, from Romans to Revelation; and the great Preachers and Evangelists of the Christian centuries, the men who have won souls... all have told of man's guilt and danger, of the coming judgment, and of the wrath of God upon the impenitent and unbelieving.

William R. Newell, Romans Verse by Verse, 1938, Moody Press, pages 41-42