Let there be Peace on Earth

Remember Your Past.

Ephesians 2:12 NASB95

remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Ephesians 2:12

Colossians 1:21 The Message

You yourselves are a case study of what he does. At one time you all had your backs turned to God, thinking rebellious thoughts of him, giving him trouble every chance you got.

Colossians 1:21 The Living Bible

This includes you who were once so far away from God. You were his enemies and hated him and were separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions, yet now he has brought you back as his friends.

Remember What Christ Has Done.

Ephesians 2:13 NASB95

But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Ephesians

Colossians 1:22 GNB

But now, by means of the physical death of his Son, God has made you his friends, in order to bring you, holy, pure, and faultless, into his presence.

Ephesians 2:17 The Message

Christ came and preached peace to you outsiders and peace to us insiders.

Ephesians 2:16 The Message

Christ brought us together through his death on the cross. The Cross got us to embrace, and that was the end of the hostility.

Colossians 1:20 The Message

Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.

Remember it is Christ Who is Our Peace.

Ephesians 2:14 NASB95

For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall,

Ephesians

Psalm 25:13 The Living Bible

He shall live within God’s circle of blessing, and his children shall inherit the earth.

Psalm 29:11 AMP

The Lord will give [unyielding and impenetrable] strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace.

Psalm 4:8 NCV

I go to bed and sleep in peace, because, Lord, only you keep me safe.

Psalm 4:8 NASB95

In peace I will both lie down and sleep, For You alone, O Lord, make me to dwell in safety.

Psalm 4:8 NASB95

In peace I will both lie down and sleep, For You alone, O Lord, make me to dwell in safety.