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Modern Religious Idols and False gods, Part 6
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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.