God in the Hands of Angry Sinners

7 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief sermon, the speaker challenges the traditional view that the Father poured out divine wrath on Jesus at the crucifixion, a perspective that he says splits the Trinity and portrays God as an angry judge. He argues that such a model makes the Father fundamentally unlike the Son, leaving the Holy Spirit’s role ambiguous. Instead, he proposes that the cross should be understood not as sinners facing an angry God, but as the Son of God willingly surrendering himself into the hands of angry, deluded humanity. This self‑surrender reflects the oneness of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, meeting humanity at the depth of its delusion and bringing light that unites. The sermon thus reframes atonement, critiques Trinitarian division, and emphasizes divine solidarity with sinful humanity.

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if it wasn't so serious that we actually have been taught, and we have tried to believe, that the Father poured out his wrath toward us on Jesus on Calvary's Hill. We split the Trinity. The Father is so thoroughly unlike his Son that Jesus can become sin and the Father can't look at it. And what's the Holy Spirit doing in there? Siding with Jesus? Siding with the Father? Trying to hold the two together? You know, it's like, whoa, just completely backwards. Upside down, backwards. It's that the cross is not about sinners in the hands of an angry God. It's about God, the Son, in the hands of angry sinners. It's the self-surrender of the Son of God God in his oneness and at oneness with his Father in the Holy Spirit to us in our insanity, in our delusion, which is dastardly conceived and exploited in us. And he gets to the bottom of the delusion by submitting and surrendering himself to us. And that's where he meets us, at the bottom of the abyss of our delusion. That's where the light shines and unites.