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- Herausgeber: Editora Oxigênio
- Kategorie: Bildung
- Serie: Hope messages in times of crisis
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016
The God of Peace is one important bible study about the faith in Jesus Christ. A book that will bring growth and knowledge about faith, and invite him to live with greater intimacy with God. Written by Charles Spurgeon, important preacher Christian.
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INTRODUCTION
C. H. SPURGEON
“Now the God of Peace be with you all. Amen.”
Romans 15:33.
PAUL once advised the Romans to strive. Three verses before our text he actually gives them an exhortation to strive and yet here he utters a prayer that the God of Peace might be with them all. Lest you should think him to be a man of strife, you must read the verse.
He says “Now I beseech you, Brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me.”
That is a holy striving and such a striving as that we wish always to see in the Church a striving in prayer, a surrounding the Throne, together, besieging God’s Mercy Seat, a crying out before God until it actually amounts to a striving together in our prayers! There is also another kind of striving which is allowed in the Church, and that is striving earnestly after the best gifts a sweet contention which all of us shall excel all others in love, in duty and in faith. May God send us more striving of that kind in our Churches a striving in prayer, a striving in duty!
And when we have mentioned these strivings, we find them of so peaceable a kind that we come back to the benediction of our text “Now the God of Peace be with you all. Amen.” Without any preface, we shall consider, first, the title“The God of Peace.”
And secondly, the benediction “The God of Peace be with you all. Amen.”
SUMMARY
CHAPTER 1
First of all, the title. Mars, among the heathens, was called the god of war. Janus was worshipped in periods of strife and bloodshed. But our God, Jehovah, styles Himself not the God of war, but the God of Peace. Although He permits war in this world sometimes for necessary and useful purposes.
Although He superintends them and has even styled Himself the Lord, Mighty in Battle, yet His holy mind abhors bloodshed and strife. His gracious Spirit loves not to see men slaughtering one another. He is emphatically, solely, entirely and without reserve, “the God of Peace.” Peace is His delight "Peace on earth and goodwill towards men.”
Peace in Heaven (for that purpose He expelled the angels) peace throughout His entire universe is His highest wish and His greatest delight!
If you consider God in the Trinity of His Persons for a few moments, you will see that in each Father, Son and Holy Spirit the title is apt and correct “the God of Peace.”
There isGod, the Everlasting Father.He is the God of Peace, for He, from all eternity, planned the great Covenant of Peace whereby He might bring rebels near unto Him and make strangers and foreigners fellow-heirs with the saints and joint-heirs with His Son, Christ Jesus. He is the God of Peace, for He justifies and, thereby, implants peace in the soul. He accepted Christ and, as the God of Peace, He brought Him again from the dead.
And He ordained peace eternal peace with His children through the blood of the Everlasting Covenant. He is the God of Peace! So isJesus Christ, the Second Person, the God of Peace for, “He is our peace who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us.” He makes peace between God and man! His blood, sprinkled on the fiery wrath of God, turned it to love!
Or rather that which must have broken forth in wrath, though it was forever love, was allowed to display itself in loving kindness through the wondrous Mediator, Jesus Christ. And He is the God of Peace because He makes peace in the conscience and in the heart. When He says, “Come unto Me all you that are heavy laden,” He gives “rest.”
