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Modern
Religious Idols and False gods, Part 6 Posted
by Michael Bunker
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The
false god named “Peace”, Part B
And
it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is
it peace, Jehu?
And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother
Jezebel and her witchcrafts are
so many? (2Ki
9:22).
You
have heard me say before that “Peace is not solely the absence
of warfare. Peace is the absence of desire”. This means that
so long as we have holy desires that are not fulfilled; so long as we
long for spiritual things and we have no resolution of those desires,
we cannot have peace. The unsaved man can never experience true
peace, because he can never satisfy the innate longing of the spirit
of man to be at peace and unity with his Creator. Only through God’s
manifold grace and mercy is it possible for humans to have true
peace. Now, in this apostate age, most religious people are greatly
deceived by this word “Peace”. They rightly call Jesus
Christ The Prince of
Peace, and then
wrongly interpret what that means and how to understand that title
contextually. True and lasting peace generally arrives via war.
Enemies who are hostile to our peace must be defeated and thrown
down; rebels must be converted, overthrown or destroyed; those with
hostile intent must be tamed, convinced, or annihilated. Just as
when Christ’s Spirit comes to put down and overthrow our carnal
man in order to save us, a great war must necessarily precede any
Biblical peace. But, like I said, modern religious people are very
confused about what peace is, and since ignorance always leads to
idolatry, ignorant religious people are quick to make an idol out of
peace.
In
the last sermon we discussed Peace as it relates to personal peace
and affluence, or the false idea that because we are prosperous and
temporally comfortable that God must be pleased with us, or that
somehow carnal peace and riches mean that we are in good spiritual
condition. In this part we will discuss the idea of Peace, or
a lack of conflict,
as a false idol that must be cast down in the life of the true
believer.
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