Sermons on Severity

The Kindness and Severity of God   Introduction:  I want to speak to you today from Romans 11, verse 22: “Consider therefore the kindness and severity (sternness in NIV) of God:  severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness.  Otherwise, you also will be cut off.”  When Paul speaks of the kindness and severity of God, he clearly does so within the context of God’s dealings with the Jewish people.   This text comes near the end of a three-chapter parenthesis…