before you had ever done anything bad, you were an object of God’s wrath. We’ll find out later why that is true. But for now, that is the bad news. We are familiar with the well-worn good news/bad news jokes. The bad news comes last, and it’s always worse than the good news. But the Bible reverses this sequence. It tells us the bad news that we are in trouble with God, and then it tells us the good news that God has provided a solution that far surpasses our problem. Three times in his letters the