In I Thessalonians 5:9 God makes one of the
most comforting and truly significant promises to the born-again child of
God: "For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation
by our Lord Jesus Christ".
This great promise of deliverance from
the wrath of God is repeated in Romans 5:9: "Much more then, being now
justified by His Blood, we shall be saved from (the) wrath through
Him." This word 'wrath' is defined as
"the strongest of all passions...a settled abiding condition of mind" by Vine in
his Expository Dictionary. This attitude of anger does not manifest itself in
uncontrollable, impulsive outbursts, but instead is a thought out resolved
attitude resulting in calculated responses of vengeance through acts of judgment
when God is the one demonstrating the wrath..........
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