Christ Our Peace

Big idea: In Christian relationships, focus first on the peace Christ forged at the cross.

1. Christ’s death broke down religious barriers.
2. Christ’s death produced a new creation.
3. Christ’s death reconciles us to God together.

• Colossians 3:11
• Galatians 3:28

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  Let's stand for the reading of God's word. We're going through the book of Ephesians, and we have been systematically, verse by verse, going through it. And we've been in chapter two. The first 10 verses really describe salvation in the vertical. The next verses Josh started at last week, 11 through the end, 22 is the horizontal, and we're going to look at what Christ did in saving us at the horizontal level, and it is revolutionary when you think about it in terms of our American culture. I'm going to read from 13 To 16, but now in Christ Jesus, you who were once far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that He might create in Himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. This is the word of the Lord. God, we thank you and praise you, Father, for the wisdom of your eternal plan that you have worked out with your Son Jesus Christ to redeem for yourself men and women from every tribe and tongue and nation, and we are grateful today. We sang praises for your mercy and grace, and we mean it, and we are blessed, and we want to glorify you. We pray that we would glorify you in the hearing of your word. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for the work that you do to breathe into this scripture, to breathe it out. It's inspired by you, and we want to pay attention to it, and it has many relevant things to tell us as Christians in our culture today. So help us understand it and apply it. We pray that we would understand how far-reaching the cross is, both in individual salvation and in our relationships with others. We do, as always, pray for other churches, and this is one of those sets of verses that makes us glad to pray for other churches in our city, because part of the greater church, the universal church, churches in our city are bearing the torch of the gospel, giving gospel light, and we pray for their faithfulness. We pray for Miles Roady and Redeeming Grace Fellowship. They are a merger between Redemption and Trinity Baptist, and I pray as they've celebrated their first year that you would give them unity, unity under the gospel, unity in Scripture, unity in love and devotion, and may that that building which has stood on the north side for many years, be used faithfully and fruitfully. We pray for Connection Point Church, pastored by Barry Smith and other elders and pastors there, that you would encourage and strengthen, and give them unity as a church, as a leadership. We need unity as as elders in a church always. Although we are not in crisis at the moment. There is a devil who is always ready to threaten, and we would pray that you would help us remain faithful to the gospel. Now use your word in us so that we can respond to you, glorify you, and obey you in Christ's name. Amen. You may be seated. What would heaven be like if each of us had a relationship with God, but still had all the family grudges? What if racism, sexism, slavery, religious wars, and injustice still existed? Yeah, you have a relationship with God, but you were still at war with people. Would you even be able to call it heaven? When we look to Jesus Christ, we do get good news for our relationship with God. We get one forever if we repent, trust Him alone. We get peace with God. We also get good news for our relationships with each other. We get good news with the rest of His children, whether they come from a different. Ethnicity, a different economic class, different background, different religions. The good news of Jesus Christ has far-reaching implications: peace with each other. The passage we're looking at today, Ephesians two, verse 14, says he himself is our peace. Salvation means we get peace with God and each other forever. Paul's been exploring the idea of salvation. How far does it go? How far has it gone?
  
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  It's been the subject one through 10. Paul's been unpacking the vertical dimensions of salvation. Those who were dead in sin have been made alive through faith by grace. You have been saved, not by works. Unpacking the vertical. Now he's going to look at the horizontal. God isn't only a savior getting sinners to heaven; he is a savior establishing peace with each other now and until it's perfected in heaven, and it's a revolutionary way of thinking about our life with God, especially in the American context. There's never been a time in history in which individualism has been more dominant, expressive individualism. Some philosophers call it where everybody gets to express whatever they want to be, gender, all other kinds of things. It's never been more dominant. Expressive individualism, individualism, and at the same time, there's never been a time where loneliness has been diagnosed as a health epidemic. A recent surgeon general wrote a book on the health epidemic of loneliness. The message of the cross is a message like no other for our times. It's like no other, and so if we think about it, here's the idea that I want to get get across as we think about what Christ has forged. The big idea is something like this: that we need to be people who focus on the peace and unity Christ forged at the cross, in our relationships with other believers, regardless of their background. We need to think more clearly, more passionately about what Christ has accomplished. If conflict makes you anxious, you're not alone. Very few people love conflict, but standing on the peace Christ produced at the cross will drive the anxiety away, so that you can pursue peacemaking, harmony. There are certainly massive differences between various Christians, racial, cultural, sometimes doctrinal, often giftedness, and so on. Many of these differences are by God's design. The cross of Christ is the foundation that produces harmony, not cacophony. The diversity is not chaos. The diversity is a beauty. And yes, there is still remaining sin that harms and divides us. But the peace Christ made on the cross drives us to repentance out of love for the people in our life, and a co-laboring together against sin, and true Christians are often wildly divided over secondary and tertiary issues, small things. What Christ produced on the cross drives us to deep study of God's word, to work hard toward united understanding of the Bible, because Christ is our peace. The cross of Christ produced it. Upward, inward, outward. Christ is our peace. How does this work out? What Paul's going to do is lay a theological or a doctrinal foundation realities that are true about what God has done in the gospel and that should be true in our life. A few weeks back, I was listening to an interview with Aleister Begg, and he reminded me of something that we need to say often. He said it in effect, if we could convince Christians to live as they are, we would make far faster projects. Saints, we are saints. We are brothers and sisters. Live as you are. Instead of focusing on what you're not, so we're going to look at the work of Christ. Paul focuses on the work of Christ here and what he did, so that we can get our theological, our doctrinal footing, and therefore we can energize our affections, our attitudes, and actions in a proper working together as the body of Christ. So let's take a look at these. There's three of them in your notes of what Christ has done. These three realities: the death of Christ broke down ethnic and religious barriers, the death of Christ initiated the new creation, and the the death of Christ reconciles both Jew and Gentile, in their case, all nationalities, in our case, together in the church. So let's look at the first one: the death of Christ broke down ethnic and religious barriers. Jew and Gentile hostility was one of the top problems in the church with Paul's day. He deals with it in multiple books. You may not feel like it here that there is Jew and Gentile hostility, but just a brief scan of headlines, and you'll find Ed Sheeran is in the middle of a firestorm over Jew and Gentile hostility. You're like who's Ed Sheeran?
  
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  I don't know, but he's a guy who's in the headlines, and I like singing some of his love songs to my wife. Oh, I don't know now. There's all this controversy going around, but it's it's still a real thing. So it's been true for 2000 years, even farther back than this, Josh talked about it last week. So go back to his sermon, and you can look. Jews were near God in that they had all the covenants, all the promise, all the law. They could sing to themselves and recite to themselves, "The Lord is my shepherd, and it was really true. The Gentiles did not have that; they did not have all those things. They were far away. And what Christ has done is bring Gentiles into relationship with God, and can enjoy the same blessings. And He starts with the four, explaining this. He says, "For he himself is our peace. It's a massive statement. Jesus' person, Jesus' work, is where we find reconciliation, and it's interesting to call a person our peace. He himself is our peace. Paul, what do you mean? Remember from Old Testament Isaiah 961 of our great Christmas verses. What's Messiah called? Prince of Peace, and that Prince of Peace was in reference to worldwide peace of the nations. This is what Messiah is going to bring. Paul calls Jesus the Lord of Peace in Second Thessalonians 316. The Old Testament idea of peace is the idea of wholeness, harmony inside and out. The word peace is sometimes used between countries when they enjoy happy relationships, like when they end a war and they start beneficial trading and interaction with each other. The word peace is used for reconciled relationships. You you might have a a conflict with a roommate or a spouse. Peace is used when those are reconciled. There's also the idea of inner peace. The same word is used for inner peace. It's it's an opposite of anxiety or self hatred. Here the focus is on people groups that were once hostile, but now find harmony together. And Christ, the Person, is the great unifier. What He's done and who He is makes Him our peace. It's a little bit like one analogy is we always say this at home: moms are the glue for the family. Like they make all the Thanksgiving stuff happen. They make all the birthdays happen. My kids would never get a birthday gift if it wasn't for my wife. Like that, that sort of thing. To an infinitely greater degree, Jesus unifies us. What He's done, and who He is, and if we're just to try to be plain about it, if you can't find anything to agree on, but you can agree on Christ, you have everything to agree on. If you can't find common ground in anything else but Christ, you have all the common ground you need. Christ is our peace. This this who made us both one. Who's the both? Gentiles, meaning non-Jews from all the nations, they were far away from God. Now they have Scripture. Now they have promises. Now they have covenants. Jews had all the prophets predicting Christ's coming, and here's what he says: Who has made He himself is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. This this phrase, both one, there was a story from Abraham to Jesus about two sets of people: God's people, the Jews, and nations. Nations certainly could get saved. Individuals, though, would have to come in, essentially become Jews. So the story of two peoples has been obliterated. It's been broken down. He made both us both. Paul a Jew, Ephesians mostly Gentile. He has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. He's going to use this metaphor or this picture of one, one man, one person, one body over and over in the rest of the chapter. Jesus has broken down the dividing wall. How? What is the dividing wall? How did he break it down? There's an intentional irony, isn't there? I mean, just just notice the irony. He himself is our peace. How does he achieve the peace? By abolishing and killing. What? It's ironic, isn't it?
  
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  How does he do that in his flesh, this is talking about what happened with to Jesus on the cross and how it has affected not only your vertical relationship with God but your horizontal relationship with God. Jesus was murdered on the cross by Jews and Gentiles in a rare collaboration. Picture this: picture a castle wall, a castle wall keeping the bad guys out and the good guys safe inside. That's how castles are usually thought of. You can retreat into them if an enemy comes and attacks; it keeps you safe inside. The bad guys are outside. Jews and Gentiles both lived in their own social, ethnic, and religious castles, living as if the other group was the bad group. Of course, living like that comes with a huge price. We don't experience life with other image bearers as God intended. Paul described this status of life in mankind like this in Titus three three, hated by others and hating one another. What's the wall? What's the wall? He explains the law of commandments expressed in ordinances. Now we're going to have to understand a little bit of Jewish history, Old Testament history. If you're brand new to the Bible, we've got to go to the Old Testament a little bit to understand what's going on. God had first made a covenant with Abraham, promising that he would be great. He'd be a great nation, and through him, other nations would be blessed. 430 years later, that nation had grown. It was in slavery in Egypt. They were delivered, redeemed by God out of it, and God added another layer to the covenant. This time, it was the layer of commands and ordinances that showed how they were to live holy lives before God. That showed God's holiness and God's glory, and all the food laws, all the dress codes, all the moral laws, all the public safety laws-they were designed by God to show that God was holy, that God was loving, and that God was glorious. But these became a barrier. How do they become a barrier? They become a barrier to Jews because Israel failed to keep the law in general. It became a barrier between Gentiles and God because Gentiles would rather cling to their idolatry. You just say one word and you're like, "Oh, I think I get it. Bacon. Gentiles can eat bacon. Jews can't. You're like, "I don't know. But you follow all the practices, sacrifices, sacrificial system. The Gentiles clung to their idolatry, and then it became a barrier between Jews and Gentiles because those who lived semi-faithful to the outward forms of the law thought themselves superior to. To the to the Gentiles who lived in their idolatry, so here you have Jews at enmity with the God who are near, so to speak, Gentiles who are at enmity with God because they're far away in their idolatry, and you have Gentiles and Jews hostile toward each other. It was a real issue in Paul's day when he's preaching the gospel, and Jews and Gentiles are in the same church, and we're trying to figure out what can we have for potluck. How do we do our worship? Do the boys need to be circumcised? There were real questions. You had these people from vastly different cultures, and it was bumpy. But what God had promised from Moses all the way to Malachi was a new covenant, and this new covenant included massive numbers of Gentiles and a heart change for everyone. Where was this new covenant initiated? On the cross. On the cross, Christ bore all punishment for the sins of His people and fulfilled all requirements for the obedience. This is how the laws abolished. All the barriers were destroyed. Think of it this way: the Roman soldiers who tied Jesus' arms to the cross beams, tied his feet to the central support, who took the big, massive hammer and the massive spikes and drove them into his feet, and drove them into his hand, set him up with the thud, and watched the blood drip as he suffocated. As they were driving nails in, they were also driving wedges into the walls of hostility, making the cracks, destroying the barriers between God and man, and man and each other. Jesus' death was a destroying force in the hostility between man and man, he did it in his body.
  
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  The laws that kept them apart were fulfilled. They were obsolete. Paul uses the language of Abolishment on the cross, Christ bore all the punishment for Jewish sins, Gentile sins, drawing all who believe into union with Christ, and therefore, you look around the room at anybody who has a biblical profession of faith, and this is brother, this is sister, this is saint. What are the barrier walls put up today? Well, sometimes they're political, sometimes they're national and ethnic, sometimes they're religious, sometimes they are class and economic, sometimes they're denominational, sometimes they're male and female. These are all common barriers in in our day. Certainly, the murder of Christ was political. Pontius Pilate placated a mob and had Jesus crucified. It was. certainly ethnic. The Romans put on the cross above Jesus' head, King of the Jews, in three languages. It was religious. Jesus was mocked for calling God his Father. It was economic. Jesus was a poor carpenter's son from Nazareth, crucified between two thieves. It was denominational. Jesus drew the ire of the Sadducees. They're the the temple leaders. We would call them the clergy. Jesus promoted the resurrection, which the Pharisees liked. The Sadducees were the leaders in having him crucified. Not alone, but they were the they were the initiators. It was women who were most fearless and faithful to Christ, all the way following him to the cross. It was women who were first at the empty tomb. Christ's death broke down ethnic, religious, and all other barriers. That keep walls up between us and others. The death of Christ abolished the hostility, the barrier wall. Second, the death of Christ produced a new creation. From Abraham to Jesus, those two groups of people in the Bible, that in the story of Revelation, Jews and Gentiles-they're divided. The death of Christ created one new man. Look at verse 215. He says that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace. We already saw in 210 that believers are created in Christ Jesus for good works, but it's not just individuals; it applies to these two groups. It's corporate. Paul uses a lot of pictures, so the picture he's using here is that Gentiles were like two hostile men at war against other. Think of Old Testament stories like Cain, who was jealous of Abel and had Abel and killed Abel. Esau, who was jealous of Jacob, who threatened to kill Jacob. This is the picture of Jew-Gentile relationships. It's often the picture of national ethnic relationships today as well. But according to God's saving purposes that He laid out, we saw in Ephesians one nine and 10 to unite all things under Christ. Christ is creating one new person. The new creation is not just individuals; it's corporate. So Paul's going to say profound things and use these pictures. There's the one, one new man, one new person. There is one body. Paul's going to say this in First Corinthians 1226 that that there are all kinds of different parts of the body. He uses the body picture with hands and eyes and feet, and he says they all serve each other. The language I like to refer back to is that they have the same care for one another. And you know the reality: healthy people, like mentally healthy people, feed themselves, care for themselves, they protect themselves. Now, as you are part of the one new man, you have care for the rest of the body, like a hand does in feeding the mouth, giving energy to the rest of the body so the eyes can see. At Faith Bible Church, God's been really gracious with us to experience a little bit of this. We have a Nepali church that's grown up and developed, and now its own church plant here. At Faith Bible Church, Nepalis care for Americans. Americans care for Nepalis. Ukrainians lead worship. There are former Muslims, former Roman Catholics, former Buddhists, former animists, and now we have the same care for one another. This was a revolutionary act in the saving plan of God. The new creation of what we now call the Church means that the most fundamental thing about us is not our nationality, political identity, ethnicity, or religious observances, but the most fundamental reality is Christ in you, Christ in me, Christ in us together.
  
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  You have to look at fellow Christians, local churches, what we call the universal church around the world, from the vantage point of the new creation, all the flaws, all the sins, all the failures, all the immaturities are all together undergoing renovation. The able Puritan Thomas Watson wrote this: We love the saint, though he be poor. A man that loves gold loves a piece of gold, though it be in a rag. So though a saint be in rags, we love him because there is something of Christ in him. We love a saint, though he has any personal failing. We we love the grace that is in him. A saint is like a fair face with a scar. It's beautiful because of its holiness, though there be a scar that marks it. You cannot love one another because of their infirmities. You that cannot love one another because of their infirmities, how would you have God love you? We love the saints, though in some lesser things they differ from us. Perhaps in other. Christian has not as much light as you, and that makes him heir in some things. Will you presently unsaint him because he cannot come up to your light? Where there is union in fundamentals, there ought to be union in affections. I think there's a question that we ask, how do I know who is part of the new creation? Paul thinks those things matter. All those who are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. To be a touch more specific, if you want to see in Ephesians Paul's basic doctrinal statement or his creed, turn over to four six. Let's turn a page over. Four four says there is one body, one spirit, just as you were called to one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. These are the fundamentals that Watson is talking about. Sometimes over the church history, theologians, pastors, church members have understood the importance of the Apostles' Creed, which outlines the basic markers of Christian faith, and the rest, in Paul's view, was growth in doctrine and maturity. When you when you trust Christ, you start following Him. You go from immaturity in your understanding of God to progressive maturity. That's what Paul says that pastors and teachers and elders are to do: is to equip the flock so that they come to doctrinal unity and maturity unity. Paul's not saying that doctrine doesn't matter, error doesn't matter. He's not saying that serious sins from one believer to another believer don't matter. He's not saying any of that. What he is saying is that we're all one new creation, progressing to perfection. So, what moves us to doctrinal unity? What moves us to holiness? What moves us to conflict resolution? What moves us to racial, ethnic, and national attempts at unity is the reality of the new creation in us. For now, all are one new creation progressing to perfection. So first, Christ's death broke down ethnic and religious barriers. Second, it initiated the new creation. Third, the death of Christ reconciles us to God together. Both Jews and Gentiles needed a Savior. Jesus Christ is that Savior. Verse 16 says that He might reconcile us both to God in one body. That's a revolutionary statement. If you're a Jewish listener, it prevents the Gentile listener from being a revisionist reader of the Bible. God didn't ever want the Jews; now He wants us. No, they are to reconcile both to God in one body. There's that third picture, one, one man or one person, one body through the cross. Christ is the head. The various members, made up of all the nationalities, all the ethnicities, all the backgrounds, are now one body under Christ. This whole section is written because he wanted the Gentiles to get a grasp on how far away they were from God. One through 10, you're all dead. God made you alive. Gentiles, you were all far away. If if you're not a Jew, didn't grow up going to Sabbath school and understanding Old Testament scriptures, you were far Away, but now in Christ you have been brought near. The Jews who were near needed God's grace too.
  
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  Remember, one way to think about peace is the end of war and establishing good relations and reconciling reconciliation is a great word for that. God was at war with us because we were at war with Him, but sending Jesus to die on the cross was His plan to kill the hostility. Notice the violence of the language. Jesus' death killed the hostility. Jews were hostile toward God. See. Gospels: Gentiles were hostile to God. See Pontius Pilate. Both Jews and Gentiles benefit from the death of Christ. The sin debt is paid for the Jew. The sin debt is paid for the Gentile. Peace is established. Nations have always been at war with nations, that included Jews and Gentiles. The way I read it this week is something like this: Jesus, the slain, becomes the slayer of the hostility, as the hammer blows fell on the nails that held Jesus, as Jesus suffocated on the cross, as the wrath of God was poured out. Jesus was making Peace. How is He our peace, making us one body through His death, one person with Christ as the head? This is all theological. Some of you might be having objections. Okay, I see what you're saying, but I'm trying to think it through. Dan, I object here. This person I know voted for fill in the blank last election. I sure saw it. How could you be a Christian and vote for fill in the blank? I didn't know political candidates were in the Apostles' Creed. I didn't know they were part of Paul's confession of faith statement here. Maybe they had different reasons than you did. I've had pastors say, "If you're a Christian, you're going to vote for this. So if I don't, I'm not a Christian. A person usually means you're going to follow consistently Christian values, so that would shape your voting, and I get that. But be careful to not add a rule that Christ doesn't add. You could say to yourself, "This person I know did this terrible thing. How can he be? How can she be a Christian? This person did a lot of terrible things to me. To me, it's personal. How can this person be a Christian? I didn't do near as many, and and that may be well and true. It may be true. What's our answer? The answer, of course, is to look at the cross of Christ. Let's use Paul and Peter for an example. Paul and Peter, who committed bigger sins, Paul or Peter? I know, I know. There's somebody who's like, aren't all sins infinitely great? Yeah, they're true, but some are bigger than others. What? How can they be different? Just use Jesus' words to Corazon and Bethsaida, who had Jesus preaching and rejected him, and he said, "You know, Sodom and Gomorrah is going to get off lighter than you because you had my words and you rejected me. There are some bigger sins than others. So, if we can agree on that, Paul was a murderer of Christians, and Peter had his own pride and failures. If we were going to compare it, what would Paul say? Paul would say, "I'm the chief of sinners. He murdered or organized the execution of Christians. Peter certainly had his faults, but it took no less than the wrath-bearing death of the perfect Son of God to pay for Peter's sins. Is that not true of you? Paul does not negate false doctrine; he is not negating the need for conflict resolution, he is not exposing a reality. If there is unrepentant sin, you might eventually have to question somebody's profession of faith. He is not questioning false professions of faith. This is not that part, but this is reorienting our thinking so that we can deal with those things from the right place. You'll need to do some retraining of your thinking. You have a friend who goes to another church, and they have some different doctrinal expressions than you. You're like, ah, you know, they're they're great. But like, what you note is-is what you notice about other people? What's wrong with other people? What's different than other people? What disappoints you? Is-is that what you first think of, or do you think Christ is at work in them. Paul broadens this principle to two places. They're really useful for us. Turn back a couple of pages to Colossians, Colossians 328.
  
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  Paul makes this massive statement: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male or female, you are all one in Christ Jesus. He's not saying that all of a sudden masculinity and femininity disappeared. He's not saying that once you become a Christian, there's no more. You're not Jewish or Greek, or that you suddenly got free from your slavery. What he is saying is that your fundamental or primary identity is not in your gender, it is not in your economic status, and it's not in your ethnicity. Your primary identity, even though you have those other things, is peace in Christ. He says, "If you are Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring. Your fundamental idea identity is a child of God with the other children of God, and you can look down the row, you can call across the phone, you can FaceTime and say brothers and Sisters, turn to the right past Ephesians to Colossians. Colossians three, speaking of union with Christ, he says here in the body of Christ, is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, ethnic, religious, barbarian, Scythian, slave free, but Christ is all and in all. Paul wants you to reorient your understanding of your relationship with Him, and He wants you to understand that salvation includes a transformation of your human relationships now at some of the most fundamental levels. He's giving a new overriding priority: our unity together for eternity in Christ. What would it be like if each of us had a relationship with God and our family grudges were gone forever in heaven. What? What if we could rejoice with every tribe, language, and nation? What? What if egalitarian joy, freedom, united worship, happy service were every day everlasting realities. Wouldn't that be? Isn't that a heaven of heavens? That's what you get with Christ when we look to Jesus Christ. When we repent of our sin and trust Him. It's the remaining question: Have you turned from your sin, turned from your versions of idolatry or your versions of self-righteousness, recognizing the only solution for your reconciliation with God as the death of Christ on the cross and His resurrection, are you have you turned to Him? Are you reconciled to God? Jesus is calling you now to be reconciled to God, and you get more than reconciliation. I I was describing it this week like one of those infomercials. Yeah, you get these this Ginsu knife, but wait, there's more. I feel like that's what Ephesians two is about salvation. Wait, there's more. We get good news of our relationship with God forever. Peace. We get good news of our relationship with each other forever. Peace. Christ is our peace, and He achieved it on the cross. Let's pray, Father. We thank you this morning for a powerful word from the Apostle Paul. Thank you, Holy Spirit. You are the breather, outer of Scripture. You're the inspirer, and you have given us a window into the work of Christ on our behalf. Lord Jesus, we love you. We love you because you paid our sin debt, bore the wrath of God in our place, we love you because you've changed us inside, and we love you because you're changing us so that we can enjoy greater and greater peace and harmony with fellow believers. Continue your new creation work in us. name we pray, Amen.

Dan Jarms

Dr. Dan Jarms is lead pastor at Faith Bible Church in Spokane Washington, as well as associate dean at The Master's Seminary in Spokane. He has been married for over 30 years to Linda, and has three adult children. He earned his B.A. in English at the Master’s College, B.Ed. at Eastern Washington University, M.Div and D.Min in Expository Preaching at The Master’s Seminary. His other interests include NCAA basketball, woodworking, and art.

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