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And you're receiving this message because you

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opted in to be encouraged. I'm thinking today

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of 1 Thessalonians 5, 9. Just singling out this

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one verse. 1 Thessalonians 5, 9. It says, For

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God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining

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salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. So,

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wrath is not anger. It's not God being ticked

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off at us or He's mad at us. Rather, wrath is

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opposition. Wrath is when someone is violently

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opposing your current course of action, or maybe

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even your existence in some case. And that's

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not what God made us for. If you're hearing this

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message today, it's because the gospel was ordained

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to take root in your life. That Jesus Christ,

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as the Son of God, was ordained to be your Savior,

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to save you from your sins. to empower you to

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walk a life and a life more abundant. That's

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what he came for. We were not destined for wrath,

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not for the opposition of God. When we do things

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against ourselves, God loves us, and then wrath

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comes in, and it stops and works against our

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present course of action. When we do things ungodly,

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then God, by his very nature, must resist. And

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God's whole creation is designed to resist ungodly

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behavior. There are a lot of people that figure

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out how to manipulate creation and get away because

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of its fallen nature with doing the foolish things

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that they want to do. But they only get away

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for a while because they're destined for wrath.

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And we are not destined for wrath, but rather

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for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus

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Christ. Enjoy that salvation that has been made

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available to you and know that God is for you,

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not against you.