Invitation

Recently I came across this sentence in my ESV study Bible:

"Every instance of the wrath of God against sin,
and his punishments of sin,
looks forward to the wrath
that was poured out on Christ on the cross."

Coming as it did after several years of exposure to Christ-centered preaching and the narrative/historical approach to preaching, this one sweeping sentence stated in a few words a key that promises to open up the Bible in passage after passage. Finding it there at the beginning of my new study Bible has given me the idea to just start reading the Bible and examine "every instance of wrath of God against sin, and his punishments of sin" and see if it is so.