Death by Love: Letters from the Cross (RE: Lit: Vintage Jesus) by Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears

Author:Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears [Driscoll, Mark J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Religion, Christianity, Inspirational, Christian Theology, Christian Theology - Christology, Christology, Soteriology, Christian Theology - Soteriology, Religious aspects, Christian Ministry, Religion - Theology, Jesus Christ - Crucifixion, Suffering, Theology of the cross, Preaching, Salvation (Theology), Suffering - Religious aspects - Christianity
ISBN: 9781433501296
Publisher: Crossway Books
Published: 2008-09-30T07:00:00+00:00

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have been poured out on you. Like your father, you are a sinner who admittedly looked at pornography, had sex with girlfriends, and were unjustly violent on more than one occasion where you beat people just because they got on your nerves. In addition, though you admit to never hitting your wife, you agree that you have verbally and emotionally assaulted her in anger, beating her with your tongue instead of your fists, which makes you a guilty sinner along with your dad.

The truth is that everyone but the sinless Jesus merits the active wrath of God. Subsequently, none of us deserves love, grace, or mercy from God. An example of this is the rebellious angels who became demons, who are not given any chance of salvation but are only guaranteed the active wrath of God (2 Pet. 2:4). Joining demons, sinful people who fail to repent will have God's wrath burning against them forever (Deut. 32:21-22; John 3:36; Eph. 5:6; Rev. 14:9-11). The place of God's unending active wrath is hell, which Jesus spoke of more than anyone in the Bible. Hell is an eternal place of painful torment akin to taking a beating, getting butchered, and being burned by Jesus (Matt. 8:11-12, 29; 13:49-50; 18:8-9; 24:50-51; 25:41,46; Mark 1:24,5:7; 9:43-48; Luke 12:46-48; 16:19-31; Rev. 14:10).

However, God's active wrath is diverted from some people because of the mercy of God. This is made possible because, on the cross, Jesus substituted himself in our place for our sins and took God's wrath for us. Two sections of Scripture in particular speak to this matter pointedly:

Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him [Jesus] from the wrath of God. (Rom. 5:9)

You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. (1 Thess. 1:9-10)

Scripture uses the word propitiation to designate how Jesus diverts the active wrath of our rightfully angry God from us so that we are loved and not hated. This word summarizes more than six hundred related words and events that explain it. The American Heritage Dictionary defines propitiation as something that appeases or "conciliates an offended power," and "especially a sacrificial offering to a god." Many Christians

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