Series: Peace In God

“Jehovah – The Peacemaker!”

December 19, 2021 | Pastor Charles P. Akins, Sr.

Passage: Isaiah 1:18-20

The world tries to convince us that life in Christ is boring and takes away your options. That salvation makes us judgmental and overbearing.

Is Jehovah the bad guy? Or is the world, through demonic influence, simply giving God a bad rap in order to justify sinning!

As we see in the text, Jehovah seeks to reconcile with us. He doesn’t “throw us out with the bath water”, as they say.

Rather, he seeks to “Reason” with us. We know that we are sinners, and that we sin. We know that we do wrong, and so does he.

Yet God wishes to show us the error of our ways and give us better choices.

The scripture tells that he wants to give us the “Fat of the Land”.

God sees the ending of the outcome prior to it playing itself out!

  • God sees that man that will beat, cheat, and leave you
  • God knows that woman I going to take every dime you worked for
  • God sees that shooter coming to the club you keep visiting
  • God knows the plane is going to crash when you visit that married person
  • God knows that job is going to fire you for malice related reasons
  • God knows that an accident is going to claim your life if you leave now

What am I trying to tell you?

I am telling you that God knows what your future holds if you are obedient or disobedient to him.

Jesus warned us in John 10:10:

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

So, despite how we see the sin filled life, and the trappings thereof, the purpose of sin will always be to:

  1. Steal the blessings and benefits that come from obedience to God
  2. Kill you spiritually and naturally and ensure your damnation
  3. Destroy your hope and leave you in darkness and despair

Sure he dresses it up nicely! A really beautiful woman built exactly like you like her, including her demeanor, and likes!

He doesn’t show you her dark side, how she has malice in her heart from a breakup that devastated her. How she plans to kill the next guy who hurts her!

He doesn’t show you that you are taking this job paying a lot of money, but your boss is going to rape you and claim that you came on to him for a promotion, so he had to fire you!

Or that you are going to lose your mind this last time you use drugs because it was laced with something that makes you go insane.

Jehovah plans to care or you. He plans to protect you from hurt, harm, and danger from everywhere.

He even has a soft spot for you, so that when you make mistakes you will forgive you if you come to him in honesty and repent!

God doesn’t need for you to “Be Perfect”, he needs for you to want to be perfect!

Just as King David!

There is no sinner that God won’t reason with, outside of Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, and the verdict is still out on suicide, depending on how God sees the circumstances.

God doesn’t seek to condemn us, but rather to convict us when we are wrong.

God doesn’t seek to abuse us like demonic influences do, but to encourage us to do better, get stronger, and move forward!

My life is an example of a testimony of God’s forgiveness.

God is Omnipotent:

  • Your faith can’t give him power
  • Your faith gives him permission to bless, keep, and protect you

See Rom 10:9 (God acts according to our desire to obey him)

As a result, unbelief is in fact tantamount to saying “No, I don’t want your help!”

We are Free Will Moral Agents, meaning God will not force us to choose good over evil. Instead, we have a choice.

In likeness, we have the choice to believe in God’s Power, Providence, Healing, Work, and forgiveness, or not!

Our faith activates God, but only according to the level of trust we have or develop in him!

 Satan and his minions, a life of sin, comes with the purpose of destroying you.

God’s relationship with us is designed to touch, heal, and deliver us from all evil!

  • God will bring you love
  • God will bring you joy
  • God will bring you hope
  • God will bring you strength
  • God will bring you blessings
  • God will bring you protection
  • God will bring you peace!

Conclusion:

Come to God and make peace with him. He wants to make peace with you. He wants to bless you!

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