What does it mean that God is wrathful?

God is wrathful means that God is holy and righteous in His opposition to sin and evil. His wrath is not like sinful human anger, but His perfect justice against all ungodliness and unrighteousness.

Is the wrath of God only found in the Old Testament?

No. The wrath of God is revealed throughout Scripture, including the New Testament. Romans 1:18 teaches that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness.

How does the cross display God’s wrath and mercy?

The cross displays God’s wrath because Jesus Christ bore the punishment sinners deserve. It also displays God’s mercy because through Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, sinners who repent and trust in Him are forgiven and reconciled to God.

Why should Christians find comfort in God’s righteous justice?

Christians can find comfort in God’s righteous justice because the Lord sees every wrong, knows every heart, and will judge all evil perfectly. Believers do not need to seek revenge because vengeance belongs to the Lord.

How should believers respond to the wrath of God?

Believers should respond to the wrath of God with reverence, worship, gratitude, and deeper trust in Jesus Christ. For those who are in Christ, there is now no condemnation.

God Is Wrathful: Trusting His Righteous Justice

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God Is Wrathful: Trusting His Righteous Justice

God is wrathful, and this biblical truth helps Christians understand His holiness, justice, mercy, and grace more clearly. In this episode of New Age to Christ, Doreen Virtue explains why the wrath of God is not like human anger, but His holy and righteous opposition to sin and evil.

New Age to Christ helps women who have come out of New Age spirituality grow in biblical truth, discernment, prayer, and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

In this episode, Doreen Virtue reflects on the wrath of God as a holy and righteous attribute of His character. Many who come out of New Age spirituality were taught a shallow view of God as love while missing His holiness, justice, mercy, grace, and wrath. But Scripture reveals the whole character of God.

Doreen explains why God’s wrath is not like human anger, how the cross displays both God’s justice and mercy, and why Christians can trust the Lord when they are wronged or when evil appears to prosper.

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Episode Highlights

Why God’s wrath is an essential attribute of His character
How New Age spirituality often distorts the love of God
Why God’s wrath is revealed in both the Old and New Testaments
How the cross displays both God’s justice and mercy
Why Christians can trust God when they are wronged
How the fear of the Lord leads to wisdom, worship, and peace

Key Scripture

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men…”
Romans 1:18

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
Romans 8:1

The Wrath of God and the Hope of the Gospel

The wrath of God is not sinful human anger. God’s wrath is His holy and righteous opposition to evil. Because God is perfectly holy, He must judge sin. This truth shows us the seriousness of sin and the greatness of the gospel.

God is wrathful, but His wrath is never unjust, uncontrolled, or sinful. His wrath is holy justice against evil, and this makes the gospel of Jesus Christ even more glorious.

Jesus Christ bore the wrath sinners deserve. Through His sinless life, sacrificial death, burial, and bodily resurrection, all who repent of their sins and trust in Him are forgiven, adopted into God’s family, and freed from condemnation.

For the Christian, the wrath of God does not lead to despair. It leads to worship, reverence, gratitude, and peace. We can trust the Lord when we are wronged because He sees all things, judges righteously, and will make all things right in His perfect will and timing.

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Doreen Virtue

Doreen Virtue holds a Master’s degree in Biblical & Theological Studies with highest honors from Western Seminary (56 units / 2021), and an MA in Counseling Psychology from Chapman University. Prior to being saved by God‘s grace and mercy in 2017, Doreen was a psychotherapist specializing in women’s issues, rated in the top 15 most influential living spiritual teachers by Watkins, and the top selling new age author in the world. She was born and raised in new thought churches which she attended for 33 years, before segueing to new age and Wicca in 1991 while touring with a mind-body-spirit conference organization. Before her salvation, Doreen frequently appeared on Oprah, CNN, The View, Coast to Coast and other liberal secular media. After the Holy Spirit convicted her of her sins, while she read Deuteronomy 18:10-12, Doreen repented and gave her life to Jesus as her Lord and Savior. Doreen has been helping professing Christians to identify and avoid new age and new thought deception. Doreen volunteers in discipling women who’ve been saved out of New Age in a private Facebook group. Doreen was a speaker at the Answers in Genesis 2025 women’s conference at the Ark Encounter. She has been featured on American Gospel 3, American Gospel TV, Daily Wire, Moody Radio, Spillover, Christianity Today, Cultish, New York Magazine, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, Servants of Grace, and other Christian media.

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