Romans 8:1"Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death."
Believers, in Christ Jesus, will suffer afflictions, but not by the hand of God' s wrath! For such abiding eternal wrath was vindicated and satisfied by the mouth of Jesus, who fully drank of the cup of Divine wrath, to subside and appease God's wrath in His shed blood!
The sufferings and afflictions we endure now, this side of Heaven, are set in motion for us to seek and find the Love of God's discipline of Love constantly embracing us in our sufferings that we may with Joy see the heavy weight of His love smashing our light and momentary afflictions and sufferings to His mighty presence to be with the believer that I may see His intimate union and abiding fellowship with me in the flames of afflictions eating with Jesus and supping with Him in the furnace of sufferings for the Joy of enduring unto Everlasting life in the realm of the light His heavenly Kingdom! For my soul will never be famished and suffer want of His presence, as King Solomon in Proverbs 10: 3 prophesized, "The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked."
And John Gill in his commentary, states whatever we suffer does not arise from the wrath of God,
"they that fear the Lord shall not want any good thing; at least whatever they may suffer this way does not arise from the wrath of God, nor does it nor can it separate from the love of God and Christ, Job 5:20. Moreover, the souls of such shall not be famished for want of spiritual food; shall not have a famine of the word and ordinances; their souls shall be fed, as with marrow and fatness, with the finest of the wheat, and with honey out of the rock: the church, though in the wilderness, is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, Revelation 12:14;"
However, the wicked, will always be in want, no matter the abundance of what they swallow down by their greed, never satisfied by the goods of this life, always a restless wanderer never at rest for their soul does not find rest in God, nor have they placed full confidence and trust in the efficacy of Jesus' shed blood, for the wrath of God constantly abides on them!
John Gill, words it very graphically, that The Lord will make them throw up whatever they swallow down by their greed that they suffer constant want and hunger that will never be satisfied!
"but he casteth away the substance of the wicked; that which is got in a wicked way; as sometimes he causes it to diminish by little and little; at other times he forcibly and suddenly drives it away, and causes it to take wings and fly away; though it has been swallowed down with great greediness and in great" abundance, he makes them throw it up again, and casts it out of their belly, whether they will or not, so that it does not profit them, Job 20:15.
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