DWELL – WEEK 7

When Wrath is Met With Mercy

NOVEMBER 16, 2025

Four Acts

1. 1. God’s kindness
   2. Man’s rebellion (man’s response to God’s kindness)
   3. God’s wrath (God’s response to man’s rebellion)
   4. Atonement (God’s response to God’s wrath)

1. GOD’S KINDNESS

2. MAN’S REBELLION (man’s response to God’s kindness)

3. GOD’S WRATH (God’s response to man’s rebellion)

EXODUS 32:7-10 – And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. 

8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ ” 9 And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. 10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.”

4. ATONEMENT (God’s response to God’s wrath)

EXODUS 32:30-32 – The next day Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” 31 So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Alas, this people has sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves gods of gold. 32 But now, if you will forgive their sin – but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.”

Kapar (כָּפַר)- make atonement, make amends, pardon, release, appease, forgive, i.e., remove the guilt from a wrongdoing for any length of time.