Gospel—Rob House
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Piece.
Please, I'd like to open tonight's gospel meeting.
By looking in the 10th chapter of Acts.
Acts chapter 10 and verse 36.
The word.
Which God sent on to the children of Israel.
Preaching peace by Jesus Christ, He is Lord of all peace.
I'd like to welcome each and everyone of you to the Gospel meeting tonight. I intend to talk about the Prince of Peace, the Lord Jesus Christ. I intend to talk about peace.
But to open up, I'd like to start by singing #4 Christ is the Savior of sinners. Christ is the Savior for me.
Somebody could start #4 please.
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That's that's what they got for me.
I'd like to ask the Lord for his help tonight.
Let's pray.
Lord Jesus, we come to Thee tonight and ask for Thy help.
To preach the gospel, the good news about thyself, about the love of God, and about peace.
We ask if there's somebody here tonight, Lord Jesus.
Who has not accepted thee as their Lord and Savior, that they might do so tonight?
We asked about blessed thy word, work by thy spirit to bring blessing and fruit for eternity. In Jesus name we pray, Lord Jesus we ask thee Amen.
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I'd also like to sing number six number six.
Tells you the gospel story as you sing it. Listen to the words. God in mercy sent his Son to a world by sin undone. Somebody could start number six please.
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As I said at the start of the meeting, the subject I wish to speak about tonight.
Is peace.
I'd like to turn to the book of Romans.
Romans, chapter 5.
Chapter 5, verse one. Therefore being justified by faith.
We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
About four years ago.
Gentlemen I worked with from Sweden came to America as we were driving through Michigan.
He looked out over the countryside and he said to me, it's hard to believe this country is at war.
And, you know, as I sit here today, it's hard to believe this country is at war.
Because.
All around me it seems so peaceful.
And yet I think there's a lesson for us in the.
It seems.
Peaceful, but there is a war going on.
A war being fought on the other side of the world. But it's a war and people are dying and that's not nice.
But.
We just read in this verse. Being justified by faith, we have peace.
With God.
Did you know there's more than the war?
In Iraq going on.
There's a war that's never reported in the newspapers.
There's a war that we don't read about on the Internet.
And it's a spiritual war.
Are you aware that you're right in the middle of it?
Let's turn farther down in the chapter.
Romans, chapter 5.
Romans, chapter 5, verse 10.
For if when we were enemies.
You know, if you're an enemy, that means there's a state of war.
A state of war?
For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And so tonight you might ask, how did I become?
How do I make myself an enemy?
Let's read verse 12.
Wherefore, as by one man's sin entered into the world.
And that's by sin. So death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
Send.
That is what made you an enemy.
In the Old Testament, we read that our sins have separated between us and God.
Our sins have made a division.
Turn to Isaiah chapter 59.
Isaiah chapter 59 and verse 2.
But your iniquities that sins have separated between you and your God.
Your sins have hit his face from you that he will not hear you.
What a solemn thing.
To think that sin has come between you and God.
Let's keep reading.
Your hands are defiled with blood, your fingers with iniquity, your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, sin.
God looked down from heaven in the time of Noah, and he looked into all the hearts of all the men that lived on earth in the time of Noah.
And everything that he saw when he looked inside the hearts.
Was evil continually.
What happens when God looks in your heart?
What does he see?
Now I said I was going to speak about peace, and I am.
But in order to understand and appreciate peace.
You need to understand that there's a war first.
That's been going on and I wanna try and help you understand what that means. And I, I plan, with the Lord's help, to speak about peace between you and God.
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To speak about peace on earth.
To speak about peace in your life.
To speak about peace in the Assembly and to speak about peace in the family.
And right now I'm just going to try and reach to a level that I think everybody in the room can comprehend.
I'm gonna talk about peace in the family.
I hope all of you have the privilege of growing up in a kind, loving family.
I did and believe that my home is a kind, loving family.
But there are times when the peace.
It's gone.
That usually happens.
When there's been some S, will.
When somebody has been disobedient.
Now there is reference in Romans 5 to the law.
And some of you might be able to quote the 10 commandments.
But when the Lord Jesus was on earth, somebody came to him and asked the question. Let's turn to Mark chapter 12.
Mark 12.
Verse 28.
And one of the scribes came, and having heard them, reasoning together, and perceiving that the Jesus answered them well, asked him, which is the first commandment of all. And Jesus answered him, the first of all the commandments is.
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God.
With all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy minds, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment.
And the second is like, namely this Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
There is no other commandment greater than these.
And so when somebody gets into self will.
Who are they loving?
Are they loving their mom?
Are they loving their dad?
Or are they saying I want what I want and I want it now?
Children, obey your parents.
That's one of the commandments that comes out of the Old Testament, out of the law.
And I love to use it in the Gospel because no matter how young you are, if you can understand me, you've probably disobeyed the person you're responsible to.
Whether it's a mother or a father or somebody who's taking you into your home, their home. You said no, I want to do something I want to do.
Maybe you didn't wanna go to bed when they said it's time to go to bed, he said. I wanna stay up.
But that.
Self will is not loving your mother, not loving your father.
Or maybe it comes down to your brother. Your fought with your brother or your mean to your sister.
Or you took the last cookie when your mom had promised it to your sister.
Is that loving your neighbor as yourself? No.
And so those little things have come between you and God.
And I love to tell that. Talk about children. Obey your parents because I know every single adult in this room was once a child and grew up.
And as I speak to the children about what they've done wrong.
I know every single adult knows that they've done exactly the same thing.
And so it doesn't have to be big, doesn't have to be murder, doesn't have to be adultery or fornication.
Or grand larceny.
Or embezzlement or fraud. Doesn't have to be something you go to jail for. It can be something small.
Just disobeying that or disobeying Mom. And then you have what we have in Isaiah 59. Your iniquities have separated between you and your gods. Now let's turn back to Romans 5.
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Because in Romans 5.
Were taken right back to the very beginning, to the very first act of disobedience.
Romans chapter 5 and verse 12. Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world.
I'm sure everybody in the room knows the story. God created Adam.
And he saw Adam was alone, and so he created Eve from Adam's side, and there was peace in that garden.
And then one day the serpent came into that garden, and Eve listened to the serpent.
And she took the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that God had said, Don't eat it.
Don't eat it.
And after she'd taken it, she went to Adam and she said, look.
I ate it.
Here's some for you. Here's all the advantages. And Adam, knowing full well what he was doing, took the fruit and he ate it.
And that's disobedience. That's why it says here, by one man's sin entered into the world.
And each and everyone of you in this room is descended from Adam.
And he had that first disobedience. But as we've been talking about, each and everyone of you has sinned. I sin, and I'm only a Sinner saved by grace.
And so I'm pointing fingers at you, but I've also had them pointed at me. And it was true of me and it's true of you.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
And so there's a problem. Just like this half is separated from this half, you are separated from God.
What could possibly be done? The first verse that we read in Romans chapter 5. Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Peace with God, how do we get it back?
Through Jesus Christ, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
I'd like to turn back to the book of Isaiah.
Isaiah Chapter 9 and I want to read about God's Son that he sent into the world.
Verse Six. For unto us a child is born.
On to us as Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called. Wonderful Counselor, the mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
Why is he the Prince of Peace?
There was a war, we had made ourselves enemies to God. But God, as we sung is light and God is love, and the fact that he is light required that separation between US and himself. But his heart is loved, for God so loved the world.
That he gave his only begotten Son.
The Prince of Peace, what did he do?
A child is given.
They are born to marry was a little boy. Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.
And that's what he did. When he was about 30 years of age, he started to travel around and we read one interaction between the Lord Jesus and that scribe who asked him what the greatest commandment was.
In the Lord Jesus gave him those two commandments. Love God, love your neighbor.
What an understanding he had. What wisdom.
On those two commandments hang all the law in the prophets.
The Lord Jesus kept them both. He traveled.
To Calvary's cross.
Because, he said, I do always those things that please my father.
And his father wanted you to be saved.
God in heaven wants you to be saved. God is long-suffering, not willing at any should perish. Not willing that you should perish, perish.
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Past eternally ruined into a sinner's hell. God created it. He knew it. God.
God didn't want you to go there.
So he sent his Son, and because Jesus loved his Father, he went. And yes, he kneeled in Gethsemane's garden. He wept and he sweated, as it were, great drops of blood.
And he said, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done.
And so he went before the high priest, and he was mocked.
And spit upon.
And he was taken before Pilate and given a false trial.
And then they took him out and beat him, crowned him with a crown of thorns.
Markton.
Took him out and nailed him to the cross.
Sitting down, they watched him.
In Boston, the Son of God from heaven on the cross.
Why? Because that's what God wanted.
Why? Because then God turned off the lights and in those three hours of darkness on that cross.
God, who knew every single one of my sins, took them one at a time and laid them on His Son.
So I wouldn't have to be punished for them.
God, who is light, revealed every sin that I've done, every sin that I was going to commit, put them on Jesus. Only God could do that, and he punished his Son.
For me.
And Jesus says, Whosoever will may come, come on to me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. He is the Prince of Peace, reaching peace by Jesus Christ. And So what he says is you deserve to go to hell.
The way Jesus sent his death, but after this the judgment.
It was yours, and Jesus told us faithfully that right now if you do not believe in Him.
The sentence has already passed.
You're condemned.
And the only way of escape is to accept Him as your Lord and Savior. Believe that He died on that cross instead of you, that He was your substitute. That's the only way of escape. And that's what God wanted.
Someone to go in between, to bridge the gas, to make a way back to himself. And that's exactly what Jesus did. He glorified God, He made God happy. He satisfied every question that God could ever ask about my sins. Jesus paid for them all. And when Satan goes into the presence of God and says Robert House did something bad, the Lord Jesus is there that says my blood, the blood of Jesus Christ cleansed him from all sins.
The same can be true for you tonight.
That precious blood has not lost its power. It can be applied to you.
Will you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior? It's a simple thing.
You confess to Jesus that you've sinned.
You tell them you can't save yourself. You tell them that you believe he died in your place.
And he said him that cometh to me. I will in no wise cast out.
What a savior, what an offer you know thou shalt love the Lord thy God. Jesus proved it in going to the cross. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Know the Lord Jesus looked at you and he said you are my neighbor.
I see my neighbor going to go to hell and I want that not to happen.
And Jesus Christ loved you. He came into this world because he loved you. You can put your name into the middle of John 316 instead of whosoever put your name.
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God loved you, Jesus loves you, the Son of God who loved me and gave himself.
For me, can you put your name in where it says me?
The Son of God who loves.
Robert.
And gave himself for Robert. Can you put your name in where I put mine in?
Because he demonstrated his love by going there and bleeding.
In suffering and dying with his arms stretched out and in the darkness, suffering the punishment of God so that you wouldn't have to, so that you could go free.
And so that's the war that's been going on, that battle, that spiritual battle.
And it may rage tonight in your heart.
But you have made yourself the enemy, like we read in Romans chapter 5. Let's go back there.
Romans, chapter 5.
For if we when we were enemies, is that what's going on in your heart? You're staying there. I don't want anything to do with Jesus. I want to run my life my way. I want to do what I want the way I want. I don't want even my parents telling me what to do. I don't want my brother talking to me. You have the same attitude and feeling as King did when Abel brought his offering. You can't even abide somebody doing what's right.
Because it bothers your conscience and that struggle goes on inside your heart.
Yield, be reconciled to God. That's what it says in this verse. If when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, that's what he died for, to make a way back, to make peace. And so at the beginning of this chapter, we have peace with God by faith.
We're justified by faith.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. And now there's something else that's important. You may have believed in your heart in the last minute.
But unless you open up your mouth and tell somebody else, none of the rest of us will know.
And so in Romans chapter 10 and verse 9.
It tells us that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made on the salvation. You know having peace with God is a wonderful thing. And you know I want to move on now and talking about having peace.
Inside.
Peace inside your heart.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, thou shalt be saved.
In 1945.
Japan surrendered the United States of America.
World War Two was over.
United States sent all kinds of help to Japan.
Established factory is really interesting in my line of work as I search through and look at company after company after company and look on the Internet. One of the things that they often bring up.
Is company history.
And as you go through Japanese companies, you see time and time again, started in 1946, started in 1947, started in 1948. What was happening?
The Americans were there. They were helping the Japanese get back on their feet. A country that had been bombed, destroyed by war, all their resources depleted.
And you know, I see a bit of an allergy in that because God looked at this world and he said it's ruined by sin.
And he sent his son to Calvary's cross to the greatest battle that was ever fought. There were no guns.
There are no bombs.
But there was the greatest struggle of all time, because on that cross the question of sin was answered once and for all.
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That God could be righteous.
And deal with sin and still save me.
What an amazing thing. And so I see a parallel there. The Americans brought blessing to the Japanese.
Lots of blessings and God has brought blessing to this world. You think of what Paul told the people in Athens. He told them this God that you worship in such an unknown way, and that's not the case in this room.
All of you know who Jesus is.
You know all about him, that he's the Son of God from heaven, what he's done.
He said. He gives the rain, the food, the blessings, health, strength, all those things God gives to this world and they're not even aware of it.
What a heart of love that God has. And so I see a parallel there. The American nation brought to the Japanese so much, and we all know what's happened. Japan has prospered, a wonderful economy. They've done extremely well.
I remember as a teenager sitting around my family table.
And listening to CBC Radio Canada, Canadian Broadcast Corporation.
A very interesting story was on the news.
There was a lady in one of the islands.
In the Far East.
And she had noticed things from her garden were disappearing.
At night.
And I need to give you a little bit of background about what happened in World War 2. The Japanese came down from Japan and they went right down that string of islands and they were headed for Australia.
But before they got to Australia, they bombed Hawaii. Pearl Harbor.
And that brought the United States into the war.
In that battle, that war went on year after year, but they never got beyond that last island they were on. They never got to Australia. And what happened was there was a principle in war that was developed during World War One and what armies had always done before that is they had just marched on mass and just everything in the way got pushed out of the way. But what happened then they started going, if there was a big strong Fort, they would just go around it and once there was no food left in the Fort.
That was the end of the soldiers. They surrendered. That part of the war was over. And So what happened on those islands, each of those islands was fortified. And what the American armed forces did is they went from 1 island to a strategic island, and they skipped four or five islands in between. And then they would skip more islands, and then they would skip more islands.
You know Japan expected every single one of her soldiers to die, for the emperor to never give up and never surrender.
And as they skipped islands, the supplies would stop coming and stop coming.
There would be no more bullets, no more food.
And then the news would come.
You have to surrender.
There was one Japanese soldier that didn't surrender. Somehow he hadn't heard that the war was over.
And in 19 the 1970s.
He was sneaking out because he was getting old and not so good at finding food. He was afraid he was going to get caught by the Americans in the 19701973 was going to get caught by the Americans.
He was sneaking out because he couldn't catch food in the jungle anymore because he was getting maybe pretty old and stealing from one of the villagers gardens and one day they taught him.
And they brought him into the police station and.
He found out who he was. He gave his rank and serial number, they said. Man, the war has been over for 28 years. Japan's a wonderful, prosperous country.
There's no more enemies. The war is over.
What did that man miss for all those years?
All those years trying to catch little animals, digging up wild roots, getting dirty, never having a proper bath, no soap, no shampoo.
All that time out in the Bush, never seeing his family, none of his friends. And then he finally gets caught. And what was the result of getting caught? Well, he got to go home. He got a good shower, he had a good meal.
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That to see his family again after years, 30 years, he got to see his family. And that reminds me of you tonight. How old are you? You know, 2000 years ago the battle was fought and won by Jesus.
Peace was made. Will you accept it? Or are you still fighting your own private war inside your own heart against God?
Will you surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ tonight because all He wants to do is bring you peace and joy and happiness?
He wants to bring you every blessing that he possibly can.
Later on in this book, there's the most wonderful verse, Romans chapter 8. This is what's in the heart of God.
Verse 32.
He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Are you going to stay like the prodigal son in the pigsty?
Maybe your life isn't a pigsty yet, but unless you come to Jesus.
It will be. And from God's point of view, if you're living independently and in South, well, remember your sins are separating between yourself and God.
So will you come? Will you surrender? God's heart is a heart of love. Jesus loves you. All He wants to do is bring blessing to you. He wants to take away your sins and bring you every good that love can give.
Now let's talk about peace.
You want that piece.
Let's turn to Philippians.
After we're saved, we still need peace. There's a lot that goes on in life that takes away peace.
Let's read in uh.
Philippians, Chapter 4.
In verse 6.
Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God, and the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Prayer.
In supplication, the first prayer you need to make is the sinner's prayer.
After that, Lord Jesus.
Anything you ask according to His will and His will is to bless you.
Ask it in his name, the father will give it.
The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, if you lay your cares on Jesus.
Will enter your heart.
It will keep your heart and your mind through Christ Jesus.
What a thing to look forward to. I said I was going to talk about World Peace and I'd like to turn to Ephesians chapter 2 to do it.
We've had the discussion about our status as aliens, as enemies from God.
Let's read verse 11.
Wherefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh, made by hands, that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. No, that was our condition. I certainly hope it's not your condition tonight.
And if you are currently without Christ and without hope, the door is open now. Believe in the Lord Jesus and you'd better believe Him. You'd better believe Him.
Because of the day coming, when he will be anointed and come here to rule as King of kings and Lord of Lords. Now look at verse 13. But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
I hope that's true of you.
Are you near to God or are you still separated by your sins? His blood takes away our sins, verse 14 for He is our peace.
Who had broken down both.
Sorry, for He is our peace, who have made both wine, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.
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Having abolished in his blasphemy even the law of commandments contained in ordinances for making himself obtain 1 Newman soul making peace.
That he might reconcile both unto God in one body, by the cross having slain the enmity thereby, and came and preached peace to you which were far off, and to them that were nigh one of the facts.
About Jesus Christ being the Prince of Peace is that the day is coming that we are talking about this afternoon and this morning at his appearing.
And I told you the battle was already over.
All that's left to do is the mopping up operations.
And part of what we're doing right now is mopping up operations.
One of the things that they do in war, sometimes they drop bombs that explode, sometimes they drop bombs that spread information leaflets telling people what their options are. And that's exactly what I'm doing for you tonight. I'm telling you that chances now take it. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, have your sins washed away, be ready for heaven. It's important.
Do it now, the offers now. And the reason it's important is because there's a day coming at Christ's appearing when he comes out of heaven.
And he has a huge army behind him.
I'll be part of that army. I'll be coming behind them.
Coming to rule over this world to help Jesus and his administration in his government.
But the interesting fact is that that army doesn't fight.
Out of the word of the Lord, Jesus melts as you rise in that White Horse out of heaven.
He destroyed by that sword, by that word, all his enemies, because the battle is already won. Satan and his forces are defeated. And if you allow yourself with Satan tonight, if you stay on the opposite side from God, I'm telling you, you're on the losing side. The battle's finished, it's over.
Jesus is the winner. You want to hang around with the loser?
Because as much as Jesus wants to bless you, the loser, his name is Apollon, Destroyer Satan, all he wants to do is ruin you.
So choose.
And like Moses told the children of Israel, choose life, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And thou shalt be saved.
Now let's turn to the book of Colossians.
Think of it. I have the Prince of Peace living in my heart.
I have the Spirit of God.
Every believer has the Spirit of God living inside them. The Lord Jesus said that.
He and his father would come and make their abode with the believers.
What a thing to have in this temple.
His body of mind, what a thing to have the body of yours, God Himself. And so we read here in Colossians chapter 3.
In verse 12 put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, vows of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any. Even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness, and let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which ye are also called in one body. And be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever you do in Word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father.
By him.
You know, I like to think that everybody that's in fellowship.
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Is as described in the first verse that I read, therefore, as elect of God, holy.
But what an awful thing if you're sitting there breaking bread on Lord's Day morning, eating and drinking condemnation to yourself because you are not saved.
What an awful thing to think that if you are sitting there passing as a Christian and making trouble in the House of God where Christ, the Prince of Peace reigns.
His son over his own house, that you would sit there and make trouble because you aren't holy, Because you aren't even saved.
Would you defile the House of God? There is still hope for you.
Accept Jesus.
Now tonight, as your Lord and as your Savior, maybe you're not in fellowship. Maybe you sit in the back 2 ropes.
But your path is a Christian.
Are you really holy? Are you really set apart to God?
Have you been moved to God's side or are you still separated by your sins from God?
And you know, as we heard this afternoon, sin can come in between, can defile the vessel and interrupt communion.
And if we've allowed that in our lives, that's gonna make it hard to do these on other things.
How do we have a heart, a feeling of mercy?
If we're letting the old nature do its job.
If we let the old nature out of the casket.
Out of the place of death, because when I look at the cross of Christ, I see myself crucified there.
And I have life in Christ. The old man is dead, and I am to consider it that way the rest of my life.
Don't let the park that wants to be self pleasing, that doesn't want to be kind to the neighbor, that doesn't wanna please God, that doesn't love God out. Don't let it get active. And so we do these things because we have that new life inside us, because we have the life of Christ for a new creature in Christ Jesus if we're saved.
If we've accepted Jesus as our Lord, we'll be able to be kind, to have a humble mind.
To be meek and patient.
To bear with the things that other brethren would do to us as we would see it.
For quarreling to forgive.
If we're holding something against somebody to give it up, the Spirit of God would urge us to do it. We have a life that can do it.
And then it says above all these things put on charity. We've had a discussion back in Rio Ferry the last couple of weeks in our Reading meeting talking about divine love charity.
And that's exactly what God has. It is not natural for a human to love their enemy.
And that's what God did. We made ourselves enemies by our sins and he came to us and he said, I love you anyway. I'm giving you the best thing I have, my only son.
And he sent him here. That's divine love. And so when I look at a brother and when you look at me, even if you don't see anything in me, maybe my face just makes you sick.
But just remember, I am a brother, and you are a brother for whom Christ died. He loves me, and you have that divine love inside you that you can love me too. And I have that same divine love to let me love you.
But will we let it? And so it says, let the peace of God rule in your heart. We can have that peace of God. We can have that nature that satisfy.
We can have everything at peace in our hearts if we let it.
An unsafe person doesn't have a free will because all he ever wants to do is sin against God.
But I, as a Christian, have a choice.
I can do what's right in response to the love of my Savior because I have that new life, or I can choose to let the old nature out of the casket and start after being active. But I can choose. And so I can choose by what I decide to do, whether to let the peace of God rule in my heart or not.
Earlier we talked about.
Family and I want to close with peace in the family.
Verse 18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is Fit in the Lord.
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The Lord Jesus said the greatest commandment is to love God.
Everything you've got everything.
And the second is likelihood to love your neighbor as yourself.
The husband and wife relationship is as close to neighbor as you'll ever get. In fact, it's far beyond neighbors.
Wise submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is Fit in the Lord.
That's a solemn word to husbands.
Never ask your wife to do anything.
That's not Fit in the Lord.
Never do anything to your wife that's not Fit in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives.
Husbands, love your wives.
Doesn't matter what she did, love her.
Not an emotion, it's something you do.
A choice.
Be not fitter against them.
No hard feelings no matter what happens.
Children, obey your parents.
In all things, for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger. I think it's the same sort of principle.
I'd ask them to do your wife. Do what's Fit in the Lord.
Ah, in God's stead towards your children.
Peace in the family.
Love the Lord.
Love your neighbor.
That's God. Jesus on the cross, loved God, loved you, loved me.
You can have peace with God tonight. Yours for the asking.
Jesus offers it to you now.
You can have peace in your own heart once you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
There will be peace in the world because Christ is coming again and He will take his place.
As King of Kings and Lord of Lords, he will judge all evil. The battle is over. Evil is nominated. Evil is conquered.
The only thing left for him to do is take that place.
Peace in the assembly Will we let the peace of God rule in our hearts?
And peace in the family.
Will we be obedient to God's words? Will we love Him and love our neighbor?
That's the recipe for peace.
Christ came preaching peace. I preached peace to you tonight. Today is the accepted day. Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation. Accept Jesus as your Lord and as your Savior while I pray.
Our God and Father.
Thy command is to each person in this room who has not saved.
To repent now, change their minds, Accept the peace offer.
Our gracious God and our loving Father, if there's somebody here tonight that just wants to hold on to their own evil, their own sins, their own will, we ask if thou is break that desire, Freedom from sin, freedom from Satan's grasp, set them free tonight through faith in Jesus.
My Father, we pray that thy word might bring forth fruit, that thou might be glorified, that there might be joy in my company tonight, joy in the presence of the angels of God over one Sinner. And Lord, if there's more than one, save the 2nd and the third one too. If there's more, save them all. We just pray for each one and ask this in Jesus the Savior's name, Amen.