Sermons About Hostility
When I'm Understood
To experience lasting happiness requires unity, especially in the fact of opposition. As we try to live in unity, wisdom tells us that the first step is to seek to understand others before we seek to be understood. Practicing this creates unity within the church and even with the world, and is the key to us knowing true happiness.
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Advent: Peace 2008
What we need with God is shalom. We need peace with Him. We need our hearts to raise the white flag and surrender. We need the war between us to end. And that is exactly what Jesus was sent here to accomplish for us. He came as the ultimate olive branch. He came as the dove of God. He came as the very Prince of Peace. Since this is the case, what we see today is that it isn’t so much a need for God to prove His love to you more than He has by sending the gift of His Son, but our learning of and understanding what He’s done for us brings us this peace. In other words, the more you realize that God’s favor rests upon you (v. 14), the more you’ll experience peace. The favor of the only eyes in the universe that matter is calling you to great joy at this good news. God desires that we would join the angels in crying out to God, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace.†And we could finish this by saying, “because God’s favor rests on us—on me!â€
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The Church’s Unity in Christ
When Jesus Christ reconciled us to God, he also reconciled us to one another and made us a people – the church. Once we were alienated from God and from God’s people, but now in Christ the wall of hostility has been torn down and we are brought near to God and to one another.
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The Results of Justification by Faith
What is the answer top to the world's problems? Money is not a solution or taking away guns. And for gangs it isn't more recreation as some would say. The answer is-A right relationship with God through justification by faith. 1)Peace with God. 2)Access into God's Presence. 3)Hope in the Glory of God.
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