What Does This Mean: PEACE

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What Does This Mean?
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What is peace? Is it based on feelings? circumstances? order?

If we are searching for peace, what do we assume?

What types of conflicts do we have?

What is our most serious conflict?

What is sin?
Sin is every thought, desire, word and deed that is contrary to God’s Law

Who brought sin into the world?
The devil brought sin into the world by tempting Adam and Eve, who yielded to the temptation
[Read Genesis 3].
Romans 5:12 “Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned”

What has original sin done to human nature?

Original sin

• Has brought guilt and condemnation to all people
  Romans 5:19 “by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners
  Ephesians 2:3 “We were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind
• Has left everyone without true fear and love of God, that is spiritually blind, dead and enemies of God
  Romans 8:7 “The mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed it cannot”
  John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid”
  What is the peace of Christ?
  John 20:19 “On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, Peace be with you”.