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Daily Bible Thought: Everlasting Peace

Eph.2:14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, 2:15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace; 2:16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

Here are some hard facts, human will never bring lasting peace on earth, why? Because peace is not brought by judgment! Sadly, on every level of human existence there are laws for judgment of sin, personal, and societal, right and wrong depending on the degree of sin. In some nation horrific acts of inhumanity are accepted as lawful. While in other countries a simple incorrect word can ruin a person entire life!

Ezekiel 44:23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Isaiah 64:6 For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Peace which makes a person reasonable can never truly be known with such self-righteous extremes. However, what many of us never really let sink in that Paul here was not talking about the world, he was specifically speaking to a small group, a little flock taken out of this world that God himself made peace with. Why were they taken out of this world spiritually? Because in the world is darkness, darkness of judgment found in the lust of our flesh a need to self-justify by judging the acts of others.

Haggai 2:12 'If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?'" The priests answered, "No."

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

God YHWH did something not of this world he did something so incomprehensible for us humans we spend a life time trying to understand, he removed his judgment from upon us. Religion, government, and commerce none stand without the power of judgment of its people to conform them into a profitable institution. To think, to have an enemy, a person deserving of our judgment by every human right, than to remove willfully their judgments by giving them a gift so grand and precious they can become one of God's own children is a depth of truth that only a God of love could create.

Romans 11:33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

God did not set up a scale of degrees of sin pointing to one while condoning others, no! Sin entered into our world, and since then all are dying. God instead understood life will not come from death, a death which is deserved judgment of sin. Life must come from life, new life, free of judgment of sin. In other words, when any human gets on a high horse thinking unrighteously that they are better by the degrees of sin they haven't committed, they are found to be in death, why? Because they have unwittingly measured out death to themselves by being in a fleshly mind.

Matt.7:1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged. 7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

Romans 5:10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

Romans 5:21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We humans are under a law, a court set in place by the king judge from the beginning of sin. What ever we measure out in judgments we get back the same measure. In other words, we must find out why death from judgment can only bring us more death? Most of us struggle our entire life thinking if this one judgment is pronounced upon our enemy it will correct all matters, it won't, it will create an everlasting wall of division between us, causing a lack of peace.

2 Corinthians 4:11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

Life comes from blessing our enemies with gifts undeserved, wow! How can we do that? We can't, we can try some, we can lie some, we can die in our sins, and/or accept the fact we are not Christ Jesus and realize we must be saved by the mind of Christ, which is now the mind of God. We must mustered the strength to send them to the one person that can save them, as he has saved us. We must send them to the power of God's kingdom. Yes, the power of Christ life working in them for good, not us, not our judgments from the scriptures, not a religion, no not even are strongest beliefs of right, and wrong based upon our nearest and dearest principles.

Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

The power of God's kingdom is forgiveness of us, but not only that, but also life working in us daily to overcome death found in our flesh because of its inherent judgments of sin. The power of Christ life in a person changes this world, there is no other hope for true peace found in where in the worlds greatest minds, its all an illusion based upon a false peace of hate by forcing someone to obey a rule that prevents them from a certain act we condemn.

Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

Romans 7:10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

God's love comes from peace, an everlasting peace based upon one simple truth that love never fails, love is not a law, it is life, a force that bring a person to love ever good and righteous thing a God, it is his love he wants to share with his earthly children, it is a power God created all living thing, it is a power so deep that we can known only an outline of it in our flesh. This is why, we must be born again, new, without the wages of sin, and the judgment of sin, so we may have God's Spirit which teaches us a new commandment to love one another as he loved us.

2Cor.4:7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves. 4:8 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; 4:9 pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed; 4:10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 4:11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh. 4:12 So then death works in us, but life in you.

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

1 John 4:19 We love Him, because he first loved us.

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