15.What did God swear in His anger?

"They shall not enter my rest."

It is possible for God to become angry. God has love for His creatures. He also can exercise anger, as we learn from the flood of Noah, from Sodom and Gomorrah, from the ground opening under Korah, Datham and Abiram, and from the blessings and curses that the Lord taught to Israel (Deuteronomy, Chapter 28).

One of the most destructive errors of our day is the overemphasis on God’s love. God’s love and mercy can be seen in true perspective only when viewed against the backdrop of His fiery wrath.

Those who state that God is capable only of love know neither the Scriptures nor the Lord. God was angry because of the perversity of the Israelites. They would not learn. At every turn of the trail they wanted to stone Moses and Aaron for one reason or another.

God is capable of making decisions. God can be provoked. If God deals with your heart to be saved, or to be baptized in water by immersion, or to speak in tongues, or to prophesy, or to do something or say something, and you keep delaying to do it because of unbelief or disobedience, God will become angry. He will not help you enter your inheritance as He would have if you had been willing and obedient. You will dwell in spiritual dryness. God’s first and best plan for your life may never be realized.

Israel was turned back into the wilderness. Esau changed his mind about his birthright, but it was too late! Too late! How terrible are the words too late!

Will it be true of you or me that one day the gates of glory will close in our face and we will understand that we decided to serve God too late?

It is good to fear God and to fear the consequences of disobeying His love.

Let us reason: if God has given us His only Son, if God has allowed His Son to be spit on and murdered by men for our salvation, should we not run to that salvation?

Should we not give our life in attendance on that salvation?

Should we not believe that God will help us in all matters of our life since He has given His Son for us?

Will not God be angry if we play lightly with the things of Christ and not seek the will of God diligently?

To reason in this way is sound, it is wise, it is pleasing to God.