Romans 2:5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

'Hardness' -callousness, stubbornness.

'Impenitent' -unrepentant.. heart that refuses to change its attitude towards sin and God. Some people try to cover over sin by saying, 'I'm just set in my ways'. God says, if you know what's good for you, you had better get 'un-set'.

'Treasurest' -to amass or reserve, accumulate. Every rejection of God's goodness only accumulates more wrath.

"Accumulating wrath it went. Pile upon pile it grew. Until the day of reckoning when it had become one vast treasure of wrath! Devouring, boiling, consuming wrath! judicial, not vindictive."

Some people accumulate treasure in heaven (Matthew 6:19 ff); others only accumulate 'wrath'.

'In the day of wrath' -such. day exists! And the 'no-hell' people are dead wrong. Such. day will contain 'wrath'.

'Righteous judgement of God' -one cannot honestly look Jesus in the eye and say that hell is 'unjust'. Eternal punishment is many things, Paul says here, that such is 'righteous'.

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