Peace With God

Q: What does the Bible say about peace with God?

The Bible teaches that through faith in Christ, we are justified and have peace with God (Romans 5:1). The concept of peace with God is rooted in the understanding that through faith in Jesus Christ, believers are justified and reconciled to God. Romans 5:1 states, 'Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.' Before faith, individuals were enemies of God, but through the work of Christ, who made peace through His blood (Colossians 1:20), believers are now welcomed into a state of harmony and reconciliation with God. This transformation is essential to the believer's identity and experience in the kingdom of God, which is characterized by righteousness, peace, and joy.

Q: How do we know the peace of God is true?

The peace of God can be known through the assurance of Christ's presence and the comfort it brings to our hearts (Philippians 4:7). The peace of God is a profound assurance that comes from knowing Christ. Philippians 4:7 describes it as the peace of God that surpasses all understanding, guarding our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. This peace is not contingent upon external circumstances but is rooted in the believer's relationship with Christ. As believers experience trials and tribulations, it is this inner peace that maintains their calmness of spirit and allows them to navigate life’s challenges with confidence. The peace of God is a mark of the Holy Spirit’s work within the believer, affirming their secure position in Christ and providing an unshakeable foundation amidst life's uncertainties.

Q: Why is living in peace important for Christians?

Living in peace is crucial for Christians as it reflects the character of Christ and promotes unity among believers (Romans 14:19). The importance of living in peace among Christians is emphasized in Romans 14:19, which encourages believers to pursue the things that make for peace and to build one another up. Peace is not merely the absence of conflict but an active pursuit of unity and love that reflects the nature of Christ. This pursuit fosters a supportive community where believers can grow in faith, encourage one another, and effectively testify to the gospel. A peaceable spirit is a reflection of Christ’s love and grace and is essential for maintaining the body of Christ in harmony, thus glorifying God through our relationships and conduct.

Q: What does the Bible say about the peace of God ruling in our hearts?

The Bible encourages believers to let the peace of God rule in their hearts, which fosters unity and thanksgiving (Colossians 3:15). Colossians 3:15 instructs believers to 'let the peace of God rule in your hearts,' signifying its crucial role in the life of a Christian. This peace helps to maintain harmony within the church community and serves as a guiding principle for our thoughts and actions. The rule of Christ’s peace enables believers to respond to one another with grace and love, prioritizing the collective well-being over personal grievances. When the peace of God reigns in our hearts, we become instruments of His will, promoting love, understanding, and a spirit of gratitude towards one another. This disposition not only benefits individual believers but also enriches the entire body of Christ.

Those chosen, choice, peculiar
people, that holy nation, that royal priesthood, that's who
we're talking about. The kingdom of God is not meat
and drink. It's not diet and duty. It's
not just doctrine. It's not being accurate on all
of the old patterns. It's not meat and drink. What
is it? The kingdom of God is righteousness. Of course not
ours, but His. But He is in us. Righteousness. And peace. Righteousness and peace. And
joy in the Holy Spirit. That's the kingdom of God. Righteousness. and peace and joy in the Holy
Ghost. I said Wednesday night or Thursday
night down at Pikeville, a man can preach truths and not preach
the truth. And a man can hold to an accurate
system of doctrine and not love Christ and not know And this
is what Paul is saying here. The kingdom of God is not accuracy
and meat and drink. It's righteousness. Clothed in
His righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. And he,
look at verse 18, for he that in these things, in what things? In righteousness, peace and joy.
He that in these things, serveth Christ. He serves Christ in these
things, righteousness, peace, and joy. He is acceptable to
God and approved of men. He'll be heard. He'll be a blessing
to people. He'll be used of God to bless
people. Let us therefore, us, these are
believers to whom he's writing, let us therefore Let's follow
after these the things that make for peace. Let's follow the things
that make for peace. And the things wherewith one
may edify another. Now, by the gospel of God's grace, all of us here have learned something
of peace with through our Lord Jesus Christ. The scripture tells
us that. Don't turn to it, but Romans
5.1 says, Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with
God. We know something about that. Peace with God. We were enemies. We were strangers. God was angry with us in our
wickedness. But now we're at peace in Christ. Peace with God. Our Lord Jesus
Christ, through his blood and his righteousness, has made peace
with God. Let me just turn quickly and
read this to you. Listen to what it says here in
Colossians. It pleased the Father that in Christ should all fullness
dwell. And having made peace through
the blood of his cross, by Him to reconcile all things to Himself. By Him, I say, whether they be
things in earth or things in heaven. And you and I that were
at one time alienated and enemies in our minds by wicked works,
yet through Christ He hath now reconciled us in the body of
His flesh through death to present us holy, unblameable, unreprovable
in his sight. I love that gospel. I love it
as much now as the first time I ever heard it. I rejoice in
it more now than I rejoiced in it then. I delight to preach
it. I never want to stand before a group of people and not talk
about ruin by the fall, redemption by the blood, and regeneration
by the Holy Spirit. Peace with God. Peace with God. We've learned something about
that by God's grace. We recall it and we rehearse
it. And Paul said to preach these
things to you over and over and over again. It's not tiresome
to me. It's not grievous. And for you it's good. Alright,
secondly, and by His grace we know something about the peace
of God. I've preached here on assurance. I've tried in the past several
years from the word of God to give us all some assurance. I
have had preacher friends in the past who just wouldn't let
anybody have any assurance. They're always wanting folks
to look in here, examine themselves, examine your profession, examine
your doctrine, examine your feelings, examine your Decision, examine,
all this sort of thing. You look to Christ. That's where
you'll find your assurance. You're not going to find any
assurance in a profession or a doctrine or a decision or a
feeling. You'll find your confidence and assurance in Christ. And
the more you look away from this old heart and feeling and those
things, the more assurance you're going to have. And we know something
about that peace. Our Lord Jesus said this. He
said, I leave with you. Peace, my peace, I give unto
you. Peace of conscience, peace of
heart, peace of mind, my peace I leave with you. Not as the
world give it, the world can't give you any peace. So let not
your heart be troubled and neither let it be afraid. I give you
my peace. And then Paul wrote this, listen
to this, over in the book of Ephesians chapter 2 verse 12. He said, at that time, you were
without Christ. You were aliens from the commonwealth
of Israel and strangers from the covenant of promise, having
no hope without God in this world. But now, in Christ Jesus, you
that were at one time far off are made nigh by the blood of
Christ. That's peace with God. For He is our peace. He is our
peace. Christ is my peace. who hath
made both one Jew and Gentile, and hath broken down that middle
wall of petition between us, and abolished in his flesh the
enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, to make
in himself of those two one new man, so making peace, and that
he might reconcile both Jew and Gentile unto God in one body
by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby, and came and
preached peace to you that were far off, and to them that were
not, to the Gentile and to the Jew, both. For through him, we
both, Jew and Gentile, through Christ, have access by one Spirit
unto God. He's our mediator. That's what
you were praying about. I've got to have a mediator.
And if I do, I have peace. I finally found an answer. I
gave it to you some time ago. Some of you may not have been
here. I kept hearing this preacher
say on television, he was talking about people being sure they
were saved. Are you sure you're saved? Are
you sure you're saved if you're here tonight? This is what he'd
say. I'm not asking. He'd say, if
you're here tonight, And you're as sure for heaven as if you
were already there. Raise your hand. Well I knew
something was wrong with that. But yet I had some assurance
and I had some confidence in Christ. But that's not the way
I would have put it. I finally found out how to put
it. If you're as sure for heaven because Christ is already there. Not because you're there. You're
not there yet. You're there in Him representatively.
But our forerunner has entered within the veil, and we're sure
he's our surety. And that's what he's saying here.
He's our peace. I have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ, and I have the peace of God, and peace of
conscience, and peace of heart, so that I can say with Paul,
who can lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It's God that
justifies. Who is he that condemns? It's
Christ that died, yea rather is risen again, who is also ascended
into heaven, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes
intercession for us, who can separate me from the love of
God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Alright, peace with
God through Christ. I had nothing to do with him.
The peace of God reigns, let peace reign. reign in your hearts. And so we know that, the peace
of God. So, we love the doctrine of peace
with God and peace of God through a good hope in Christ Jesus.
But there's a third area in which joy and peace, and throughout
these scriptures and scriptures that I'll read in a moment, there's
another area where joy and peace is prominently dealt with Just
like it is here in verse 17, Romans 14. The kingdom of God
is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy. There's a
peace here he's talking about that's a calmness of spirit. There's a peace between brethren. There's a peace in the kingdom
of God. There's a peace in the home. It's a quietness of spirit, it's
a calmness of spirit, it's a rest and a peace which is able to
accept the providence of God and equips us to walk daily in
peace and live together in peace. Now someone wrote this, it's
highly inconsistent. highly inconsistent for a person
to profess peace with God and not have peace with his brother.
That's highly inconsistent. It's highly inconsistent for
a man to talk about the peace of God reigning in his heart
while that heart is constantly at war with others, constantly
void of peace. That's inconsistent. And that's
what we're talking about. Now let me, you just hold the
text there and let me read you some scripture on this particular
thing that I'm talking about here. This peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ. That's settled. There's a peace
of God that I have because He's my mediator. But then there's
a calmness of spirit. Let me read you a poem I found.
I was studying this subject and I looked up something on this
subject in this old hymn book. Horatio Bonar wrote these words. Now this was a man who knew God,
a man who loved God, a man who preached the gospel. You fellas
have read Horatio Bonar, one of the great preachers of bygone
days. Listen to what he wrote. Calm
me. C-A-L-M. Calm me, my Lord, and
keep me calm. Let your outstretched wing be
like the shade of a soothing palm beside a desert spring. Lord, keep me at peace, though
loud and rude the sounds my ears do greet. Calm me in my closet's
solitude and calm me in the busy street." See what he's saying? I know
what he's talking about. Settle me down. Give me peace in the
hour of health. Give me peace in my hour of pain. Give me peace in poverty and
wealth. Give me peace in loss or gain. Calm me, my Lord, and keep me
calm. Softly resting on thy breast. and comfort me with word and
psalm, and bid my spirit rest." That's what I believe he's talking
about here. The kingdom of God is just not meat and drinks.
It's not just having the answers. It's not being able to argue
a good position. It's not just being able to recite
the doctrine. Like Barnard said at 2.30 in
the morning coming down the stairs on the top of your head. It's
having peace, not only with God, not only the peace of God as
far as redemption is concerned, but the peace of God which is
a calmness and quietness of spirit and peace with one another. Listen
to these scriptures, and don't turn, let me just read them,
I can read them to you. And above all things, put on
love, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule
in your hearts, to the which you are called. You are called
to peace. Not called to battle, you are
called to peace. The battle is the Lord's. To
which you are called in one body, and be ye thankful. Now listen
to this one over here. This is found in 2 Corinthians,
Paul's letter to the Corinthian church. He says in chapter 13,
verse 11, finally brethren, farewell, be mature, be of good comfort,
be of one mind, and live in peace. And the God of love and peace
will be with you. And greet each other with a holy
kiss. Over here in 1 Peter, Peter writes
this, 1 Peter 3, verse 8, he says this, finally, and I think when these men say
finally, they mean now this is the bottom line, this is where
we've been coming to all this time. Finally, we're beginning
to live what we believe. Finally, we're beginning to believe
what we believe. Finally, we're beginning to be
able to rest in what we believe. Finally, be ye all of one mind,
having compassion one of another. Love as brethren. Be pitiful,
be courteous. Don't render evil for evil or
railing for railing, but contrarywise, blessing, knowing that you are
there unto call, that you should inherit a blessing, for he that
will love life and see good days. Let him refrain his tongue from
evil and his lips that speak no guile. Let him shun evil and
do good. Let him seek peace and go after
it." That's what that word ensue, ensue, ensue means, E-N-S-U-E,
seek peace and ensue it is to pursue it, go get it, go after
it. Seek peace. Go after peace. I
will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.
Now, let's go back to our text, Romans 14. I had Tom read a little
ahead there from Romans 14, 17, and then over to chapter 15. But now, in this chapter 14,
this is what I found in chapter 14, Paul contends for this mutual
affection and this affection, this unity and peace among believers. And he's not talking about unity
among all religious people. Now, please don't misunderstand
me. That's impossible. You know, when people do not
believe the gospel of God's grace in Christ, you can't live at
peace. Now, they're not going to let
you. To begin with, we can't accept error And they can't tolerate
truth, so you're not going to have peace there. We're not talking
about peace in the world. Like Brother Milton told me,
he and Brother Don Fortner were in a meeting. And this dear person came to Milton and said, I was
disappointed in all the preachers. at the conference, and he said,
why on earth were you disappointed? This person said they didn't
pray for world peace. And Milton said, well, probably
because they knew it was an impossibility, you know. But that's, you know,
we don't have peace between those that love God and those that
hate the God of the Bible. So I'm not talking about that.
Our Lord condemned the Pharisee who sought acceptance through
his, on the basis of his works. And we condemn them too. He said,
you know, the disciples came to him one day and said, now
the Pharisees were offended by your doctrine. He said, well,
leave them alone. You're not going to have peace with those
folks. Leave them alone. They're blind leaders of the blind. You follow
them, you're going to fall in a ditch. And Paul himself wouldn't
tolerate another gospel. He had the strongest words of
all. He said, if any man preaches
any other gospel than the gospel I preach, let him be a curse.
Let him be accursed. If any man love not the Lord
Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha, cursed when Jesus
comes. And Paul dealt strongly with
the Galatians who tried to mix grace and works. He said, no,
you're foolish, foolish Galatians. Who hath bewitched you? But here
in the text, here's what we're talking about. Paul is exhorting
those who love Christ to love each other. Paul is exhorting
those who find their peace with God, and in their hearts the
peace of God, to live in peace together. In peace. And he puts the burden on the
mature. Chapter 15, that's where I want
to go. He puts the burden. Now, when I'm reading this, I
think everybody here will feel like, I'm one of those mature
believers. I've been here a long time. I've
been studying the Word of God alright. Then Paul puts the burden
on us. If you want to be one of these
mature believers, he's writing to you. Now look at him in chapter
15, verse 1. We think that it's strong. Now I didn't say that we were
strong in ourselves. I'm not strong in myself at all.
I tell you when I'm weak. I just preached on that recently.
When I'm weak, that's when I'm strong. When I'm weak, that's
when I'm strong. But I tell you where we are strong,
and I tell you where I'm strong. I'm strong in the gospel of God's
grace. I'm strong in the gospel of God's
grace. I believe the gospel of God's grace, don't you? I get
stronger in it every passing day. I believe it's all of grace. And I'm strong in Christ. I can
do all things through Christ which strengthens me. And I'm
sure of my deliverance. Aren't you? I know whom I have
believed. I'm persuaded he's able to keep that which I've
committed to him against that day. And I'm strong in the liberty
of Christ. I've been deliberate in the curse
of that law, in the condemnation of that law from the penalty
of sin. I feel very strongly about that. I'm confident of
this gospel, like the Apostle Paul said, I preach to you the
gospel, wherein you stand, by which you are saved, if you keep
in memory what I preach to you. I'm strong in that. And you are
too, alright? He goes on. He said, then, you
that are strong, and I said, we don't claim to have any confidence
in this flesh. Keep me, and I'll be kept. Hold me up, and I'll stand. So
I'm strong in him. All right. Then that's who he's
talking to. We ought to bear the infirmities
and the frailties and the failings of the weak. Who are the weak?
They're those who are not strong in faith. They're those who are
young in faith. You see, there's just one faith. It's called in the scripture
the common faith. It's the same faith, but not
to the same degree. There are some people here who
are stronger in faith than others. Well, you that are strong, welcome
the weak, love the weak. Don't just accept them, understand
them. There is a difference. He said,
If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye that are spiritual, restore
such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou
also be tempted. And we that are strong, We're
the ones that are to pursue this peace and bear the infirmities
of the weak and not to please ourselves. Let's don't seek to
please ourselves only. Listen to what Paul said about
that over here in Philippians. He says, let nothing be done
through strife to have your way. That's strife when you're so
dogmatic and we're so unbending. It's going to be my way. I just
got a letter this week from a young person. And this young
person's mother and father, dear people, dear, dear, dear people,
they love the gospel. But they've made up their mind
what this young person, and I'm talking about young, I'm talking
about in the early 20's, But they've made up their mind which
way this person must go and what this person must do. And they
won't give an inch. And I tell you what's going to
happen. If somebody doesn't counsel them and they don't give, they're
going to lose that person. And they may be right. I don't
know. I don't know who's right and
who's wrong. But if they don't bend a little, and this has nothing
to do with the gospel. Nothing to do with the gospel
at all. And this young person told me, I love my parents, but
they're unreasonable. They won't even listen to me.
They put their foot down and they will not move. You win the battle and lose the
war. You know that, don't you? And that's why he said, don't
do things through strife and vainglory, but in lowliness of
mind. Try to understand. Let each esteem
the other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own
ways and his own thing. I think sometimes we parents
want our children to do certain things because it reflects better on
us. I really think. I don't think it's really wanting
the best for the child. I think we want to say, that's
my kid, you know. That's my kid. We want that self-glory. And that's what he's talking
about. Don't look on your own thing, but every man also on
the things of others. Not to please ourselves. I wonder
if we weigh what we're doing, if we're, we that are strong,
we ought to bear the infirmities, the failures, the weaknesses,
the young person, the weak faith. Bear it. Understand it. Overlooking,
not just please ourselves, look at verse 2. He says, let every
one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification.
Now, we're certainly not talking about compromising the gospel.
I know none of you think for a minute I mean that, do you?
You don't think, if this young person I'm talking about was
compromising the gospel, I'd be with daddy right down the
line, one thousand percent. But it has nothing to do with
the gospel. And that's not what he's talking about. He says,
please your neighbor and please your wife and please your husband
and please your parents and please your children. He's not talking
about pleasing them and compromising the gospel or sacrificing the
gospel. But in every matter where you
can, make allowances. That's what he's saying. The
Amplified Version says this about verse 2. Let every one of us
make it our practice to please, make happy, our praying for their
good and their spiritual welfare. In other words, this is a matter
of adorning the doctrine. That's what it's all about. And
a harsh, unbending, selfish attitude doesn't adorn the gospel. An
argumentative spirit does not adorn the doctrine. Even if people don't like our
gospel, let's see if we can help them to like us. a good report
from those without." Sometimes there are people who like our
gospel who don't like us, you know. I mean, you're not that
way, too. They love the gospel, but they haven't come to love
us because we haven't given them any reason to. All right, verse
3. For even Christ pleased not himself. You know, when I read that, he
says here in verse 1, don't just please yourself. Try to please
your brother or sister, wife or husband. Even Christ pleased
not himself, and this is what I came up with. Here is our Lord
Jesus Christ, perfect God, fair God of fair God, perfect nature,
mind, holiness, heart, perfect, surrounded by these disciples
and by his followers. Can you imagine how Most of His
contacts with even these disciples must have vexed His holy nature.
You say, well, people by their ways and their comments vex me.
You think how vexed He was. You and I can't hold a candle.
You say, they vexed my holy nature. You think how you and I vexed
His holy nature. And yet our Lord Jesus, the disciples,
their carnality, Their selfishness, sitting around arguing about
who's going to be greatest in the kingdom of God. Their ignorance, their
doubts, their fears, don't you care if we perish? And yet in
all of these reproaches, our Lord was tender with them. He
didn't please himself. Isn't that what he's saying there?
Don't you think that's what he's saying? You and I, to live at peace,
Look not on our own things, but on the things of others. Seek
not to please ourselves, but to please our neighbor. But even
Christ didn't please himself, but as it is written, the reproaches
of them that repulsed, like Tom read, repulsed God. Our sin is
against God. All of them fell on Christ. All of them fell on him. And
yet he was tender and patient and long-suffering. so identified
with us in all things, even bore these sins. He was even willing
to bear our sins and our iniquities to be. He was even willing to
be identified with us. You know, I think sometimes if
a person strays from the way we kind of avoid them, we don't
want to be identified with them. We're afflicted with that. We
don't want to be seen with them. because they kind of have a stigma
on them. But my Lord, he lay right there while that woman
came up and bathed his feet and kissed them with her lips and
washed them with her tears. And that Pharisee sitting there
saying, she wouldn't touch me. I wouldn't be identified with
her. And if he was a prophet, he wouldn't let her touch him.
But he didn't please him. He said, I'm so glad, aren't
you? I'm so glad that he's not ashamed
to call us his brothers. He's not ashamed. Even Christ didn't please himself.
He was identified with us. The reproaches of them that reproach
God fell on Christ and he was willing to be identified with
us. Back here, what sort of things
were written, the four times were written for our learning
back in the Old Testament, you know, the Scriptures. These examples,
these men back here, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Lot, these
were imperfect men. Yet God in His long-suffering
and patience, patient with them, and that's what these things
were written for our learning, that we through patience and
comfort of the Scripture might be hope. Now, the God of patience,
the God of patience and the God of peace and the God of consolation
grant you to be like-minded toward one another. Like-minded with
what? Like-minded with Christ, according
to the Christ Jesus. You know, it says, turn to Ephesians
4, let's read this. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 32, verse 31 and 32, let all bitterness
and wrath and anger and clamor, evil speaking, be put away from
you with all malice and be kind one to another, tender hearted,
forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven
you. That's what he's talking about
here being like-minded in Romans 15 and 5. Now, the God of patience
and consolation grant you to be like-minded one toward another
according to or after the example of Jesus Christ. Let me give
you this. Listen to me now. When I have
forgiven every wrong against me, when I have overlooked every
hard word or thought, When I have patiently endured every weakness,
I mean every one, when I have comforted every fallen friend,
when I have forgotten every slight and every careless word, I still
have not endured one fraction of what Christ endured for me. Not even an atom. That's something. If I could, by his grace, forgive
every slight, every misunderstanding, every fault, every failure, every
thought, I will not have endured one fraction of what Jesus Christ
endured for me and has forgiven in me. Somebody said, well now Othello
sure ought to have a second chance, and a third, and a fourth, and
a fifth, and a sixth, and a hundred and ninety-eight, and a hundred
and ninety-nine, and two hundred, because I get a second chance
every minute. Every minute. And then it's not
just, and here's the, here's the key. Now look, put this key
in there and turn it. It's not just forgiving it. You
know, I hear, well I'll forgive you. It's not just forgiving. It's actually understanding. You see what I mean? It's actually
knowing. You know a lot of times you daddies,
you see your boys or daughters, mothers of your daughters do
something, and you understand. Why? You did the same thing.
You understand. You're not only forgiven, you're
flat under. You could predict it, couldn't
you? Because He's yours. I know what you're thinking.
Now you know what I'm thinking. I thought it too. I thought it too. So it's not
just forgive. You don't live at peace. It's
not just forgiving folks. It's really understanding their
weaknesses and infirmities by recognizing them in ourselves.
I see a reflection of me in you. I do. And why do I tolerate it
in myself and not in you? Why? Well that's just us isn't
it? All right, then, let's quit. Verse 6. Do all this that you
may, the whole church, the whole congregation, with one mind and
one mouth, glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Now, God is glorified, and we know this, God is glorified
when the perfections of His nature are recognized and preached.
And I try to do this and these brethren do when they stand here.
God is glorified because we recognize his perfections and his attributes
and they're preached. Secondly, God is glorified when
Jesus Christ is recognized and received. And we do receive him. Let's do it again tonight. I
receive him, don't you? I bow to Christ, every one of
us. He's glorified. Thirdly, God is glorified when
his people worship him and approach him. in fear and in worship and
in reverence. And we try to do that here. But
fourthly, God is glorified when by our lives and conversations
and our attitude and our walk is agreeable to his calling. Yeah, he is. And I show you that
in 2 Thessalonians 1. I'd like you to look at this
with me. God is glorified. And you know, let's not leave
that off our messages. 2 Thessalonians 1. Let's don't leave that off. We
glorify God in preaching the sovereignty of God and preaching
the effectual work of Christ and believing and worshiping
God. But we glorify God when we walk out of this place. And
we glorify God in our daily walks. That's right, we do. In 2 Thessalonians
1.11, Wherefore also I pray always for you that our God would count
you worthy of this calling and fulfill all the good pleasure
of his goodness and the work of faith with power that the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you and you
in him according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus
Christ. Wherefore, verse 7, and here's
the clincher, wherefore, receive one another, welcome one another
into your fellowship, into your heart, into your favor, into
your presence. How? As Christ received you. That's how you receive one. How
did he receive me? Unlovely, weak, faulty, frail,
flesh, sinful. That's how he received me, that's
how he still receives me. And he did it to the glory of
God. And you and I can do the same thing, receive one another
as Christ received us, to the glory of God. Alright, may God
bless this to your prophet. Mike, come lead us in a hymn.

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What does the Bible say about peace with God?

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