What makes god angry

Its standard was looked upon as an idolatrous symbol by the Jews. Indeed, one of the Jewish revolts had been sparked when Pontius Pilate brought the images of the Roman eagle into Jerusalem. Four-footed Animals. This progression begins with God and ends with man bowing down to a snake.

When the Israelites had come out of Egypt and encamped at the foot of Mount Sinai , they entered into the sin of idolatry as they fashioned for themselves a golden calf.

Crawling Creatures. The Egyptians worshiped all sorts of animals of both the higher as well as the lower orders. They held all sorts of insects and crawling creatures to be sacred symbols of their gods. An understanding of this progression will teach us several things about the way man is.

Why does idolatry exist? It exists because man realizes that God exists. And when he turns away from worshiping the true God, then he feels compelled to make up a replacement and to worship that replacement. Idolatry therefore becomes a psychological necessity for one who has rejected God. He did not begin with animism and work his way up through polytheism to monotheism. The opposite is true. Man began with the knowledge of God. But the knowledge of God was so uncomfortable to man in his sin and rebellion that man turned away from God and sought a more comfortable god of his own making.

MY god certainly is not like that! It is just the opposite. Idolatry makes God angry. And not just the kind of idolatry which makes a statue of a man or a bird or a cow or a creepy crawly. All idolatry makes God angry.

Even the sophisticated and subtle kinds. After all, there are many things that WE do that God also calls idolatry. Paul says in Colossians that greed amounts to idolatry. Because it involves putting something besides God as first place in your life. Is God first place in your life? Does He hold the pre-eminent position in all that you do and in all that you are?

If not, then you are engaged in idolatry. And that makes God mad. The good news is that you need not experience the wrath and the anger of God. He has prepared a way of escape. That way is through repentance and faith in His Son. God sent His Son to be the answer to His anger.

Lessons Learned. Return to Stevenson Bible Study Page. About the Author. Romans God gets angry. A jealous and avenging God is the Lord; The Lord is avenging and wrathful. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, And the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.

In whirlwind and storm is His way, And clouds are the dust beneath His feet. Lessons Learned Divine revelation is sufficient. God has revealed himself to man so that he is left without excuse. Human sin is deliberate. Men deliberately turned away from God and resolved not to know Him. Human development is downward. Man is not getting better and better. He is de-evolving into a being less than what he was created to be. Human evil is progressive. Sin begets sin which begets more sin.

Wrath revealed. Psalm and Proverbs tell us that God rebukes the arrogant for they are cursed ones who wander from his commandments. They are disgusting and exceedingly offensive in the sight of the Lord and they will not go unpunished. Arrogance can easily come from thinking that your superior talent, wisdom, intelligence, wealth, or charisma whether real or imagined , makes you more worthy than another person.

Malachi describes in detail what God has in store for the arrogant. For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant proud, self-righteous, haughty , and every evildoer shall be stubble; and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Humility is controlled confidence! Our confidence must always be controlled. There is a thin line between confidence and arrogance and even the best of us cross that line from time to time.

It is best to receive nourishment, guidance and direction from The Word; that we might obtain the necessary correction needed to stay on the proper course the narrow path. Pride is the silent killer of the church because it often goes unnoticed by others. Pride may go unnoticed by others, but it does not go unnoticed by God; He looks at the heart and discerns the true motives behind all we do.

The quickest way to promotion in the kingdom of God is down humility and the quickest way to failure is up pride. If you are good at what you do, allow others to say so. God will openly exalt those who are consistently faithful. A Lying Tongue. The second thing our passage lists is a lying tongue. The devil is a liar and the father of lies. You and your words are one entity. If you constantly speak lies, it is an indication your heart is not filled with the truth i.

Let that sink in. You will be justified or condemned by the words you speak. So often we fail to appreciate how morally repulsive and intolerable sin is in the sight of our holy God. Differing weights and differing measures—both of them are detestable to Jehovah. These proverbs remind us that there is no part of life that is exempt from the concern and the lordship of Christ: there can be no division of life into the religious and the secular.

When the Lord beholds unscrupulous, unjust, deceitful practices—lying to a client, cheating at school, stealing from an employer—He regards them as a detestable offense against His own moral integrity and His righteous standard of justice.

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous—both of them are detestable to Jehovah. This proverb is speaking about a total inversion of justice, a total disregard for righteousness. By way of example, consider the case of Ahab and Naboth, where the wicked queen Jezebel coerced the leaders of the community to abuse the justice system by bringing false accusations against Naboth so that he might be executed and his prize vineyard might be taken over by king Ahab who coveted it 1 Kings For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.

So they are without excuse. Hebrews , KJV But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Romans , ESV For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. John , ESV In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.

Romans , ESV Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Genesis , ESV The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.