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Welcome
Advent Reading
Today we light the 3rd candle of the advent season.
This is the candle of peace.
This candle represents the peace that God has given his chosen people.
The peace that we have through Jesus Christ as we have been justified and reconciled to God.
Because of God’s great love for us that has been poured out through the Holy Spirit.
For Paul writes:
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Today we are going to reflect on the 3rd focus of the advent season.
We have already looked at hope and joy and today we are going to look at peace.
We look into scripture and we see that in the beginning there was peace.
The first man and woman lived in unity with each other and God.
The garden of Eden was a beautiful place of peace.
Then we see the serpent come into the garden and deceive Eve and she and Adam disobey God for the first time.
In a single moment the unity and peace of the garden was shattered.
Man became separated from God, pain entered the world, and mankind was forever changed.
Man became unable to please God as sin developed in the lives of people we see the first murder soon after, when Cain kills his brother after God accepts Able’s offering and He rejects Cain’s.
Mankind continued its degeneration in morality until the time of Noah when God floods the earth and only one family is saved.
Man has an opportunity to follow God live in his ways.
Has man learned from the past and will they do better?
Will peace be restored?
Well we know from history and the bible that the answer is still no.
From the death of Able, till today peace and unity has not been restored.
Philosophers have debated, defined, and hypothesized about peace.
They have discussed what it would take to bring peace about again.
The question we must ask is are we at peace?
Has man figured it out?
We sit in this wonderful time and this wonderful nation and we can become oblivious to the issues that are show us that peace in this world has not returned.
In 2022: 600+ Mass shootings, 40,0000 deaths
32 countries at war out of 193 per the united nations.
16.5%
Estimated numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in 2022 (In 2022, there will be an estimated 1.9 million new cancer cases diagnosed and 609,360 cancer deaths in the United States.)
Over 2% of the US population was incarcerated in 2020.
1.6 million
Has the world given up on the pursuit of peace or is peace even possible.
Well the answer is yes and no.
We are going to look into the peace that only comes from the the regenerating faith in Jesus Christ.
Turn with me to Colossians 3 today.
Colossians 3:12–17 (CSB)
Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and dearly loved, put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a grievance against another.
Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you are also to forgive.
Above all, put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.
And let the peace of Christ, to which you were also called in one body, rule your hearts.
And be thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
The Attributes of Peace
Therefore.
Looking back in the previous section of this chapter you will see that Paul is teaching about the new life of a saved believer in Jesus.
Colossians 3:1–11 (CSB)
So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
Because of these, God’s wrath is coming upon the disobedient, and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.
But now, put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.
Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self.
You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator.
In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.
Paul encourages them to seek the things above and not on earthly things.
There are to put of the things that belong to their earthly nature because these bring God’s wrath, his burning anger towards the disobedient.
They are to put off the old self and put on the new self and tells them there is no difference between them that matters.
The only thing that matters is that Christ is all and in all.
Therefore because of this they are God’s chosen ones and so is any one who has been saved by faith in Christ Jesus.
They are holy and dearly loved.
He is going to give them a list of instructions that come from the outpouring of being holy and dearly loved.
they are to put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
All of which build unity and bring peace.
Because we are dearly loved and set apart for him and chosen by him, we are to be compassionate, kind, humble, gentle and patient.
All of which seem to be getting harder and harder to find.
The compassion of Christ when he looks to God and says forgive them for the do not know what they do.
Christ’s compassion recognised that the people around him were not just in need of physical healing but more importantly they were in need of spiritual healing.
The earthly nature would and will drive people to do be disobedient and reject the ways of God.
But our Lord is still compassionate toward them.
How are we to respond to these scriptures.
All believers were once spiritually blind as well.
John states that those who withhold compassion does not have God’s love in him.
1 John 3:17 (CSB)
If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him—how does God’s love reside in him?
We are to look out in the world and have compassion on it.
Do we look at the young mother who has found herself with child and is thinking of abortion and do we demonize them.
Do we look at the man or woman who is struggling with gender identity and do pass judgement and dismiss them.
Do we sit back and wait for God’s judgement or do we sit in prayer and petition for the Holy Spirit to open their heart to himself.
Do we look at the church member who has different opinions than we do and let strife enter our heart and cause division.
We as believers are to put on these attributes and the come from the fact that as disobedient people we sat before God with out any merit of our own and God choose us.
We are not only to put on the attributes that build peace but we are to forgive one another when we have grieved each other.
Colossians 3:13 (CSB)
bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a grievance against another.
Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you are also to forgive.
Holding grievances and grudges, harboring animosity inside our hearts will prohibit peace from getting a foot hold.
We discussed forgiveness last week so we are not going dive to deep into it here but we must deal with it for unity.
We are to forgive because we are forgiven.
We were enemies of God but then he saved us and we were reconciled to God through the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Peace with God
Romans 5:1–2 (CSB)
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