Earlier this evening, I had a privilege to hang out with some college students and have a Q&A session on some theological topics. Questions such as: "Does God care about the details in our lives" to "Is the Lord's Supper literally Christ's body and blood" and "Is the God of the Old Testament the same God as the New Testament" provided great discussion, and more importantly, time diving through scriptures to base our stances on the Word of God, and not just mere opinion. I truly love spending time with these students, and I am so proud of the heart they have for the Gospel. Toward the end of the last question, I shared my thoughts on the wrath of God, Old Testament covenant vs. New Testament propitiation, and so forth, and as good as I tried to explain what I thought the scriptures were teaching us about what Calvary did to change our relationship towards God. Tonight I came home and tried to wrap my mind around exactly what God was trying to communicate, and I came across this paragraph that summed it up so beautifully...
"The doctrine of the propitiation is precisely this: that God loved the objects of His wrath so much that He gave His own Son to the end 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
Such a wonderful thought, such a glorious hope, such an undeserved love...
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