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Covenant of Peace: The Millennial Age
However, by God’s grace we will be spared from it ourselves if our
lives are founded upon Jesus. His life in us is the ONLY thing that will
not burn up in the judgment. “Therefore, since we are receiving a
kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may
serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a
consuming fire.” (Heb. 12:28,29)
Be Led By God’s Peace
We have all had to make decisions in life where we seek God earnestly
and ask for His direction. If you ask someone how they knew God’s
will for where they are to be living geographically, or what job to take,
you may get an answer like, “I had a peace about it.” But if we’re
honest with ourselves, we can admit that sometimes we’ve “missed it,”
and looking back we can see that the “peace” we were being led by in
some situations was not God’s peace, but rather our own peace often
being directed by our selfish desires. Being led by the peace of God is
definitely a Scriptural way to make decisions (Phil. 4:7), but we will
only have God’s peace if we have God’s government established in our
lives. Peace is like an umpire at a baseball game who enforces the rules
that are already in place. Umpires cannot change the rules, they only
enforce them. The peace of God does not make the rules; it only
enforces the rules that are already established in our hearts. God’s
peace comes from having the government of God in your life. If we
don’t have God’s government in our lives, then we will have Satan’s
government, which is based on lawlessness, or “doing what is right in
your own eyes.” If our lives are not based on God’s Word (His Law -
His government) then the “peace” that we are led by is not necessarily
the peace of God, but will reflect the order/law/government that is
already established in our heart. Satan’s government has a motto…
“Survival of the fittest;” whoever is the strongest will kill and devour
the weaker. Everyone’s life is established on some form of
government. It may be lawlessness, but that is still a government… the
government of this current world.
BUT… There has been a seed planted (Jesus) in the earth whose fruit is
righteousness! This seed is sown in peace by those who make peace
(James 3:18), and by the laws of sowing and reaping this seed will
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