Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The Peace of God in Christ Jesus!

“Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble.” – Psalm 119:165 NIV

We could REALLY feel the peace of God, if we love the law of God, and nothing can hinder us from the love of Christ, just like what Romans 8:31-39 states:

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore, we have to know that laws of our God are NOT burdensome, and we are showing our love towards God, our heavenly Father by keeping His laws/commandments (1 John 5:3), NOT by legalistic ways, but through our faith. For this reason, we need to develop our faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ into REALLY strong and firm one, that is enough to overcome the world, since the world is evil, controlled by Satan, the enemy of God (see 1 John 5:18-19):

For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. (1 John 5:4-5)

Overall, it is ALL about faith. This is because God allows Satan, the prince of this world to test our faith in Christ Jesus, in order to prove ourselves that we REALLY could stand before God through righteous living in Christ Jesus by through the Holy Spirit. On the contrary, we MUST beware that there is difference between the righteous living in Christ Jesus, and the self-righteousness. Living by self-righteousness is kind of legalistic way(s) to prove ourselves that we are worthy of being children of God; we have to climb up to be the righteousness of God, but it REALLY isn’t, because we are doing those things in the flesh. Therefore, being the REAL righteousness of God means by doing all things in the Spirit of God, that is the Holy Spirit (see Galatians 5:16-17) – “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” (John 4:24)


Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be TRANSFORMED by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:1-2)

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