LET PEACE RULE

LET PEACE RULE
COLOSSIANS 3: 15
FOCAL POINT: TRUE PEACE

INTRODUCTION:

YOU LIKELY KNOW THAT THE WORD PEACE DERIVES ITS MEANING FROM THE HEBREW WORD SHALOM. THE ANCIENTS USED THE WORD SHALOM, IDIOMATICALLY, AS A GREETING OR DEPARTURE. IT CONVEYED AN EXPRESSION OF GOD’S PEACE UPON AN INDIVIDUAL. IT HAD OTHER MEANINGS SUCH AS COMPLETENESS, WELFARE AND SOUNDNESS. SIMPLY STATED, I HAD MORE MEANINGS THAN JUST A LACK OF STRIFE OR WAR.

WORD STUDY OF THE WORD RULE: TO BE AN UMPIRE, TO DECIDE, DETERMINE, TO DIRECT, CONTROL USED IN COLOSSIANS 3: 15 IT MEANS DIRECT OR CONTROL. THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION INCLUDES MORE THAN DIRECTING OR CONTROLLING. SOME OF THE MEANINGS ARE, PROSPERITY, SAFELY, HEALTH AND COMPLETENESS.

ULTIMATELY, YOU FIND TRUE PEACE IN GOD, ALONE!

PS: 29:11 “THE LORD WILL GIVE PEACE TO HIS PEOPLE: THE LORD WILL BLESS HIS PEOPLE WITH PEACE.”

THE ANCIENT NATIONAL ISRAEL WAS IN A COVENANT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND COULD HAVE EXPERIENCED PEACE. SADLY, THEY SINNED AND BROKE COVENANT WITH GOD. THEY THEN EXPERIENCED EVERYTHING BUT PEACE.

CHRIST THE PRINCE OF PEACE:

ROMANS 5: 8 “THEREFORE, HAVING BEEN JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, WE HAVE PEACE THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.”

PEACE IS A MATTER OF CHOICE. YOU CAN CHOOSE WISELY OR FOOLISHLY. CHOOSE WHAT MATTERS TO GOD. DO NOT CHOOSE PEACE AT ANY PRICE, RATHER STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT (RIGHTEOUSNESS). THE ULTIMATE EFFECT WILL BE PEACE WITH GOD: THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE AFTER.

OTHER SCRIPTURES ON PEACE:

PHILIPPIANS 4: 7 “AND THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH SURPASSES ALL COMPREHENSION, WILL GUARD YOUR HEARTS AND YOU MINDS IN CHRIST JESUS.”

ISAIAH 9: 6 “ FOR A CHILD WILL BE BORN TO US, A SON WILL BE GIVEN TO US; AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL REST ON HIS SHOULDERS; AND HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, ETERNAL FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE.”

APPLICATION: BELIEVERS, CHOOSE PEACE TO GET PEACE!

REF: DAILY HOMILY BY F. B. MEYER, DR. CONSTABLE’S NOTES ON COLOSSIANS, COMMENTARY BY RICHARD D. PATTERSON, BLUELETTERBIBLE.ORG.