The opposite of true peace is utter division.
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Matthew 10:34
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
Luke 12:51
"Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division."
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So we can say from this, we can say that this world describes peace in forms of control. How can this be said? If the Holy One of God puts conflict in place, it is because there was none to begin with. Better said; the prince of this world uses death as a form of control; creating a sense of justice, and a state of liberation from injustice. But this is not peace, this is dominion, complete control.
So the Holy One brings the conflict to mankind in each individual. If we do not serve one another, we serve our own interests. Even as a gouped will, we are providing for ourselves with like minded individuals. If we instead put ourselves aside, to serve the will of God, the truth in us is now at peace with one another. True peace; is in service of the will of the Father.
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John 14:23-27
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Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
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Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
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Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
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Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
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“All this I have spoken while still with you.
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But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
“All this I have spoken while still with you.
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But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
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The peace Jesus speaks of is a relationship based on love. Peace that is true, required Jesus, that is, the knowledge of him being sent among us by the Father. If we believe, and show it by denying ourselves so the truth can instead remain in us; we are loved by the Father. We have then this gift, this understanding, this relationship with something greater than ourselves. We have peace, in knowing we are truly loved.
The peace the world gives uses fear and control, instead of love and obedience. The prince of the world gives with expectation, while the Truth gives because it is the will of God. What is given in this world comes at a cost. And that is why the Son of God took the full cup of wrath for us. It was the only way to overcome the principality, so that none of those whom he was promised would be lost.
The peace he left us, is true peace. Love the son by allowing the truth to live in you. Honor the cost by dying yourself of the desires your soul grew into. I suffer greatly, I deny myself as best I can. I stumble, but I am found again, I have a shepherd who remembers me, calls me by name. I love him. In him I am at peace.
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