1. Knowing God
He is Judge

2. Knowing God: He is judge
Genesis 18:25 – "Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?"

3. Knowing God: He is judge
Characterizing God’s judgments:
1. God sees and knows all things
Proverbs 15:3 – "The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good."

4. Knowing God: He is judge
Characterizing God’s judgments:
1. God sees and knows all things
2. God weighs human actions in the balances of justice
I Samuel 2:3 – "Talk no more exceedingly proudly; let not your arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed."

5. Knowing God: He is judge
Characterizing God’s judgments:
1. God sees and knows all things
2. God weighs human actions in the balances of justice
3. God rewards the good and punishes the bad
Hebrews 11:6 – "He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."

6. Knowing God: He is judge
Characterizing God’s judgments:
1. God sees and knows all things
2. God weighs human actions in the balances of justice
3. God rewards the good and punishes the bad
Psalms 7:11 – "God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day."

7. Knowing God: He is judge
Scripture paints a fearful and horrifying picture of God's justice:
Nahum 1:2,3,6 – "God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengence on His on His adversaries, and He reserveth wrath for His enemies. The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: The Lord hath His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet. Who can stand before His indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by Him."

8. Knowing God: He is judge
Scripture paints a fearful and horrifying picture of God's justice:
Isaiah 13:9 – "Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: And He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it."

9. Knowing God: He is judge
Scripture paints a fearful and horrifying picture of God's justice:
John 3:36 – "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: And he that believeth not the Son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."

10. Knowing God: He is judge
Scripture paints a fearful and horrifying picture of God's justice:
Romans 2:5 – "But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God."

11. Knowing God: He is judge
I. The Purity of God’s Wrath
Jeremiah 17:9 – "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: Who can know it?"
₋ God's anger is pure and untainted by sin
₋ God's wrath is an expression of His holiness and justice

12. Knowing God: He is judge
I. The Purity of God’s Wrath
Isaiah 45:21 – "And there is no God else beside me; a just God and Savior; there is none beside me."

13. Knowing God: He is judge
II. The Revelation of God’s Wrath
₋ God's wrath is revealed from Heaven
Romans 1:18 – "For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in righteousness."

14. Knowing God: He is judge
II. The Revelation of God’s Wrath
₋ God's wrath is revealed from Heaven
II Corinthians 5:21 – "For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him."

15. Knowing God: He is judge
II. The Revelation of God’s Wrath
₋ God's wrath is revealed from Heaven
Psalms 7:11,12 – "God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. If He turn not, He will whet His sword; He hath bent His bow, and made it ready."

16. Knowing God: He is judge
II. The Revelation of God’s Wrath
₋ God's wrath is revealed from Heaven
₋ God will settle all accounts in His time and way

17. Knowing God: He is judge
III. The Object of God’s Wrath
Romans 1:18 – "For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness."
₋ God's wrath is against sin
₋ It is the one thing that keeps us from entering into His presence

18. Knowing God: He is judge
II Thessalonians 1:8,9- "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power."