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Settling for “Cheap” Peace
Pursuing peace on our terms
Work to eliminate problems
Pacifying issues or conflicts
Pursuing the absence of anxiety and stress in our life
We see in scripture that we are to live in peace as much as it depends on us.
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Desiring peace and working toward peace is not necessarily a bad thing.
It can become problematic when we
Cheap Peace is based on our circumstances
It is an incomplete picture of what God intended
What is Peace?
What is the peace God intended us to know and experience?
Shalom was the word used for peace in the OT
The most basic meaning of shalom is complete or whole.
The word can refer to a stone that has a perfect whole shape with no cracks.
It can also refer to a completed stone wall that has no gaps and no missing bricks.
Shalom refers to something that’s complex with lots of pieces that’s in a state of completeness, wholeness.
A few instances in scripture that help us understand this:
- Job 5:24
It’s like Job who says his tents are in a state of shalom because he counted his flock and no animals are missing.
This is why shalom can refer to a person’s well-being.
Like when David visited his brothers on the battlefield, he asked about their shalom.
The core idea is that life is complex, full of moving parts and relationships and situations, and when any of these is out of alignment or missing, your shalom breaks down.
Life is no longer whole.
It needs to be restored.
In fact, that’s the basic meaning of shalom when you use it as a verb.
To bring shalom literally means to make complete or restore.
So Solomon brings shalom to the unfinished temple when he completes it.
1 Kings 9:1-2
2 Chronicles 7:11
Or if your animal accidentally damages your neighbor’s field, you shalom them by giving them a complete repayment for their loss.
You take what’s missing, and you restore it to wholeness.
The same goes for human relationships.
In the book of Proverbs, to reconcile and heal a broken relationship is to bring shalom.
And when rival kingdoms make shalom in the Bible, it doesn’t just mean they stop fighting.
It also means they start working together for each other’s benefit.
This state of shalom is what Israel’s kings were supposed to cultivate, and it rarely happened.
The prophet Isaiah, he looked forward to a future king, a prince of shalom.
And his reign would bring shalom with no end—a time when God would make a covenant of shalom with his people and make right all wrongs and heal all that’s been broken.
Eirene - Jesus’ birth brings Eirene
The Greek word for peace
Jesus’s birth in the New Testament was announced as the arrival
of eirene.
It was announced to the shepherds in this way,
Jesus came to offer his peace to others like when he said to his followers, “My peace I give to you all.”
The arrival of Jesus announced this “peace that makes all things whole”.
It was the heart of the Father restoring, redeeming creation to himself through Jesus Christ.
Real Peace is Blessed Assurance
It is a gift from God, not possible as He intended apart from Him
Assurance in who God is, his faithfulness, his goodness
Assurance comes through the Gospel
Assurance is the presence of God in all areas of our life.
It is KNOWING that He will never leave us or forsake us.
It is being FULLY convinced.
Real Peace is Saturated in Hope
Jesus “made” peace - He restored the broken relationship between us and God
The apostles claimed that Jesus made peace between messed up humans and God when he died and rose from the dead.
The idea is that he restored to wholeness the broken relationship between humans and their Creator.
This is why the apostle Paul can say Jesus himself is our eirene.
He was the whole, complete human that I am made to be but have failed to be, and now he gives me his life as a gift.
And this means that as Jesus’ followers, we are now called to be agents, ambassadors of peace.
Real Peace Is Not In A Hurry
Real Peace is Costly
Paul instructed local churches to keep their unity through the bond of peace, which requires humility and patience and bearing with others in love.
Becoming people of peace means participating in the life of Jesus, who reconciled all things in heaven on earth, restoring peace through his death and resurrection.
Peace takes a lot of work because it’s not just the absence of conflict.
True peace requires taking what’s broken and restoring it to wholeness, whether it’s in our lives, our relationships, or in our world.
Choosing God’s way of living
Setting my heart on things above
Found in our hearts when they are set on eternity
Application
Real peace is a choice available to us as a result of life submitted to following Jesus.
Through Jesus we have access to the Holy Spirit who enables us and gives us access to choose this life of Peace.
What would real peace look like in your life?
Are you settling for the “cheap” peace?
The temporary peace?
Real peace does not mean our lives are now free from trouble, problems, conflicts or anxiety.
Real peace means we now trust in a sovereign God who is in control of all things, and walks with us, strengthens us, sanctifies us and gives us a kingdom perspective of this life and a hope and assurance of the life to come.
Real peace is forward looking and it is a present abiding in his daily presence.
Communion
Open the Table
Ready our hearts
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