God’s Wrath: Romans 2-3:1-20
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Overview
Barnhouse continues his reflection on the consequences of sin in Part Two, God’s Wrath. Covering Romans 2-3:1-20, Barnhouse distills the essence of these chapters thusly: “The object of these chapters… is to go from the fact that all men are sinners to the terrible consequences of that fact. We must see that the inevitable result of our sinfulness is the certainty of God’s judgment upon all unrighteousness.” Included are messages entitled “God’s Standards Manifest,” “The Power of Faith in Life,” “Circumcision,” “Righteousness Without Works,” and 22 others. Though discussion of these topics, Barnhouse hopes that his readers “may know how crooked [mankind] really is, and may turn from the folly of self-effort to the reality of faith in Christ.”
Top Highlights
“Thus in contrast it is that though a man may think that his case would be hopeful, as it might if brought before a human tribunal, it will be seen to be utterly hopeless when brought before the tribunal of God. For at the divine court there will be no human code of judgment, and in order that this may be forever clear the code by which God will judge His creatures is now declared.” (Page 4)
“Man is a darkened being, he knows little of the world, and least of himself. I know not myself, and God forbid that I should.’” (Page 14)
“God owes absolutely nothing to man. But God has continued to pour out His blessings upon man.” (Page 24)
“the inward conformity to truth that stamps the whole life with its nature. It is” (Page 117)
“This should be a searching, solemn word to every one of us. If you find no joy in the study of the Word of God, if you do not wish to listen to His voice, cry unto Him to circumcise your ear, to destroy, if need be, every interest that would distract your attention from hearing His voice. The Lord Jesus Christ cries out, it is recorded three times in one Gospel and four times in another, ‘Let him that hath ears hear;’ while eight times the same warning is given in the book of Revelation. Let him ‘that hath an ear hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.’ Today we must cry out, ‘Lord circumcise my ears, that I may hear.’” (Pages 137–138)
- Title: God’s Wrath: Romans 2-3:1-20
- Author: Donald Grey Barnhouse
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Publication Date: 1953
- Pages: 292
Donald Grey Barnhouse (1895-1960). Probably the best known and most widely followed American Bible teacher during the early middle decades of this century. Born in Watsonville, California, he gained his training in a broad variety of institutions including Biola, Princeton Seminary, Eastern Seminary, and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1927 Barnhouse accepted the pulpit of Tenth Presbyterian Church in downtown Philadelphia, and it was from this church, where he continued the rest of his life, that he built his national and international empire. As early as 1928 and continuing through most of his career he spoke over radio networks of up to 455 stations, using the Bible expository method of teaching. The popularity of these broadcasts and later telecasts led to many invitations to conduct Bible conferences, and the increasing demand of these conferences led him, after 1940, to be absent from his pulpit six months a year. Also serving as an outlet for his sermons, Bible studies, essays, and editorials were the two magazines which he founded and edited, Revelation (1931–49) and Eternity, which continues to the present.
Barnhouse’s theology was an eclectic yet independent mix of dispensationalism, Calvinism, and fundamentalism. As a dispensationalist he developed elaborate eschatological schemes, yet he departed significantly from much dispensationalist teaching. His fearless and brusque attacks upon liberal Presbyterian clergymen led the Philadelphia Presbytery to censure him in 1932, yet he opposed the fundamentalist concept of separation, and in his later years gradually grew more mellow in his relations with the Presbyterian Church and the National Council of Churches.
