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Wrath Absorbed

Romans 8:11Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,

I. God does condemn .

Although God is a God of love, and a God who delights to show mercy, He is also a just God, and He
must condemn sin.

Psalm 7:11 - God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses His wrath every day.

II. This condemnation is upon every person outside of Christ.

Joh 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not
see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

Every person born in this world starts out under the condemnation of God.

A. The final display of condemnation is Hell.

Matthew 5:29 - 29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is
better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into
hell.

Revelation 20:15 15If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was
thrown into the lake of fire.

Everyone deserves to go to Hell. For many this is how their sin will be punished. But this
verse tells us that God does remove His condemnation from some.

III. Christ is the reason why condemnation is lifted .

Joh 3:18 Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is
condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Joh 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has
eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

IV. Being in Christ is how our condemnation is removed.

God places us in Christ When we place faith in what He did on the cross.

1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
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There are two points that need to be made about this.

A. Christ’s death absorbed all of God’s wrath for sinners.

Romans 3:25 25God presented Him as a sacrifice of atonement,1 through faith in His
blood. He did this to demonstrate His justice, because in His forbearance He had left the
sins committed beforehand unpunished—

Looking at Romans 3:25, notice first who it was that put Christ on the cross. The Jews
and the Romans were only the instruments. It was the Father who put the Son on the
cross.

1. The Father put the Son on the cross.

Isaiah 53:10 10 Yet it was the LORD's will to crush Him and cause Him to suffer, and
though the LORD makes His life a guilt offering, He will see His offspring and prolong
His days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

Acts 2:22-23 22"Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a Man accredited by
God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through Him, as
you yourselves know. 23This Man was handed over to you by God's set purpose and
foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put Him to death by nailing Him to
the cross.

Acts 4:27-28 27Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the
people[a] of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you
anointed. 28They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.

The death of Christ was not a plan B. God had planed the death of His Son even before
He created the world.

Revelation 13:88All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names
have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the
creation of the world.

So the death of Christ was not something that God planed after Adam sinned. As a matter
of fact believers name were written in the book of life before God even created the world.

Revelation 17:88The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of
the Abyss and go to his destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not

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Romans 3:25 Or as the one who would turn aside his wrath, taking away sin,(NIV
footnote).
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been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when
they see the beast, because he once was, now is not, and yet will come.

God had the entire plan of salvation in place, the death of His Son, which included the
way that He was going to die, and who it was that was going to place His Son on the
cross, as well as who was going to believe.

Now if this is the case, and I believe that the Bible makes it very clear that it is, we can be
confident that God will never turn anyone who comes to Christ for salvation.

Why, because it was His plan. You can’t even desire salvation unless God awakens your
heart to desire it!

Romans 3:11 11there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

This means that no one seeks God naturally. We are born with the inclination to run from God
rather than to Him. That means that if anyone has a desire to be saved, God is working in
them.

2. This atoning sacrifice is appropriated by us sinners through faith in His

blood .

The blood of Christ, referring to His death, is to be the object of our faith by which the atoning
sacrifice of Christ is credited to our account.

a. The blood of Christ purifies us from all sin.

1 John 1:7 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one
another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

b. The blood of Christ cleanses our consciences from

defilement.

Hebrews 9:14 14How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to
death, so that we may serve the living God.

c. The blood of Christ gives us the confidence to enter into

the presence of an infinitely Holy God.

Hebrews 10:10 10And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the
body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For those who wory about weather they have sinned past the point of forgivness, or that
they have fallen so short that the blood of Christ isn’t for them:

1. No one is worthy of God’s love, that’s why salvation is by grace.

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2. Jesus died for sinners. If you’re a sinner you qualify.

3. To “my sin is too great for the blood of Christ,” is arrogant. What you are realy saying
is,” there is a power greater than God’s power, my sin.” This minimizes the power
of the atonement.

Romans 5:20 20The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin
increased, grace increased all the more,