Jehovah Shalom ~ The LORD is our Peace!

 "For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us." -Ephesians 2:14 [KJV]

"He is our peace." This necessarily springs from being reconciled and brought nigh by the blood of Christ. Sin has not only made us enemies to God, but made God an enemy to us. What peace, then, can there be between us whilst thus mutual enemies? Peace is between friends, not between foes. During this state of hostility and warfare, as there is no real, so there can be no felt or enjoyed peace. But the removal of the cause of the war brings about peace, first really and then experimentally. Christ has made peace through the blood of His cross (Colossians 1:20). There is now no enmity on the part of God, for it was a law enmity. God always loved His people in Christ; and as He is unchanging and unchangeable, He never could or did hate them. But as a judge is an enemy to a criminal, even were that criminal his own son, so, as Judge and Lawgiver, God was an enemy to His own elect, viewed as lawbreakers.  

But when the law was fulfilled, and all the breaches of it atoned for by the obedience and death of His dear Son, then this law enmity was removed, and the anger of God against sin and the sinner pacified. Sin, therefore, being put away, the whole cause of that law enmity is removed. 

And when we believe in the Son of God, and receive the atonement by His precious blood, then there is no enmity on our side; for the goodness, mercy, and love of God melt the heart into the sweetest humility, affection, and love to and before Him. 

 

-preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)

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