{"id":33269,"date":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/spiritual-weapons-for-peace\/"},"modified":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","slug":"spiritual-weapons-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"sermons","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/spiritual-weapons-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Weapons for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2005\/08\/18723.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n<p>You&#8217;re sitting quietly at home\nhaving breakfast, and suddenly there&#8217;s a blast, there&#8217;s a flash, and you are\nengulfed in a fireball that reduces everyone to cinders. You are walking in the\npark with your family. There&#8217;s a flash. There&#8217;s a blast. When you regain\nconsciousness, you and your spouse try to drag your dying bodies toward the\ncharred remnants of your children. You are standing on Lookout Mountain with\nsome friends from the east, proudly looking at that Denver skyline. Then there\nis that flash. There&#8217;s a blast. The city is gone, like an egg crushed under a\nsteamroller.<\/p>\n    <p>That&#8217;s what we&#8217;d face if nuclear war\noccurred. That&#8217;s why on this particular Sunday when we are solemnly honoring\nthose who died in our nation&#8217;s past wars, I prayerfully decided to focus our\nattention on what the Word of God has to say about Christian responsibility for\npeace making and peace keeping.<\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>Our God is the God of\npeace.<\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>First, we must remind ourselves that\nour God, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the God of peace. Because we may\ntend to overlook this attribute, which is an essential ingredient of the divine\ncharacter, I would like us to take our Bibles and examine what Scripture\ndiscloses concerning God as the God of peace. I notice that in the New Testament\nthere are at least seven references to this facet of God&#8217;s nature.<\/p>\n    <p>Look at Romans 16:20. This is one of\nthose texts that alludes to God as the God of peace. Paul assures us that the\nGod of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. God is the God of peace.\nAdd another text. Second Corinthians 13:11. As we highlight this divine\nattribute, God as the God of peace, what is it we read in 2 Corinthians 13:11?\n&#8220;Finally, brethren, farewell. Mend your ways. Heed my appeal. Agree with one\nanother. Live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.&#8221; Then\nconsider the statementit&#8217;s a doxologyin Hebrews 13:20: &#8220;Now may the God of\npeace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great\nShepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with\neverything good, that you may do his will working in you that which is well\npleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and ever.&#8221;\nGod is the God of peace.<\/p>\n    <p>God is never at war with himself,\nand the members of the Trinity don&#8217;t engage in strife and quarreling. That&#8217;s an\nunthinkable thought, isn&#8217;t it? God is the God of peace. Therefore, he wills\npeace and he wants peace among the nations on our planet. <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>God is not to blame\nfor war.<\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>Second, we must remind ourselves that if there is war on\nearth you can&#8217;t blame God for it. The apostle in 1 Corinthians 14:33 declares\nthat God is not a God of confusion. He is the God of peace. Thus, men are to\nblame. Men choose violence and bloodshed and death instead of harmony and\nbrotherhood and life. <\/p>\n    <p>The apostle James tells us this in\nthe letter that he wrote to Christians back in the first century, believers who\nhad been scattered abroad by persecution. He wrote a letter that is\n and pulls no punches. James tells us unequivocally that if there\nis strife, if there is war, you can&#8217;t blame God. It isn&#8217;t his will; it&#8217;s human\nwickedness. In the fourth chapter verses one and two, James isn&#8217;t talking as a\nsociologist, of course. Yet he gives us here profound analysis of why history\nis a terrible record of marching armies and bloody battles. Listen to the\nletter of James 4:12. &#8220;What causes war? And what causes fighting among you? Is\nit not your passions that are at war in your members? You desire and do not\nhave. So you kill and you covet and cannot obtain. So you fight and wage war.&#8221;<\/p>\n    <p>Human theft. Ruthless ambition.\nGreed for land and gold and power. Fierce hatred, and cruel envy. These are the\nroot causes of warnot the will of God, my friends, but the wickedness of man.\nIt&#8217;s that which has brought on and still brings on the terrible scourge of war.\nHow can you indict war fiercely enough? War that destroys the world&#8217;s resources\nwhile people suffer, starve, sicken, and shiver until they perish. War, that\nterrible scourge which destroys millions upon millions of human beings, each\none of them created in the image of God. War, with all its indescribable agony\nand mutilation and terror and heartache. War, that breeds pestilence and\ndisease and famine. War, which sows the seeds of suspicion and revenge in the\nfield of international relationships.<\/p>\n    <p>It was the famous Civil War general\nWilliam Pacumsa Sherman who said, &#8220;War is hell.&#8221; You don&#8217;t endorse his\nlanguage, and you don&#8217;t agree with his theology; but you must admit that Sherman\nwas right. War is a devilish business that originates in the depths of satanic\ndepravity. <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>God\ncalls us to be peacemakers.<\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>Third, we need to remind ourselves\nthat the God of peace, who wills peace, calls upon you and me as disciples of\nJesus Christ to be peacemakers. We&#8217;re all familiar with the blessing which in\nthe Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:9, our Lord Jesus Christ promises, &#8220;Blessed\nare the peacemakers.&#8221; But maybe we&#8217;re not as familiar with James 3:18, a\nthought provoking text, highly appropriate, in my opinion, for this Memorial\nweekend. Do you have it there? James 3:18, &#8220;The harvest of righteousness is\nsewn in peace by those who make peace.&#8221; Mark that text. Meditate on it. &#8220;The\nharvest of righteousness is sewn in peace by those who make peace.&#8221; However\nheroic and patriotic soldiers and sailors may be, war requires, as we all know,\nghastly violence. War compels men to perform acts that would horrify their\nhearts and consciences in civilian life. War not only does that, but as I&#8217;ve\nbeen pointing out, war produces every kind of unrighteousness. It breathes a\nharvest of evil.<\/p>\n    <p>Peace, on the other hand, produces,\nas James teaches us in this text, a harvest of righteousness. According to\nJames writing under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, peace is like a garden in\nwhich peacemakers sow acts of compassion and forgiveness and reconciliation.\nThe fruit of those peaceful acts is righteousness. According to James, then,\npeace is the prerequisite for the establishment of God&#8217;s righteousness in the\nearth. In order to have righteousness, we must have peace. It&#8217;s as simple as\nthat.<\/p>\n    <p>So the God of peace summons us, you\nand me as disciples of Jesus Christ, to be peacemakers in our friendships, in\nour marriages, in our homes, in our neighborhoods, in our churches, in our\nplaces of business and work, in our country, and in our world.<\/p>\n    <p>I appreciate that Marilyn Farren\nsang for us the words of Francis of Assisi:<\/p>\n    <p>Lord, make me an instrument of\nthy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon.\nWhere there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is\ndarkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy.<\/p>\n    <p>Lord, make me an instrument of\nyour peace, for the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make\npeace.<\/p>\n    <p>But you understand that it&#8217;s\nimpossible to function as an agent of reconciliation unless you and I have\nfirst been reconciled to God by faith in the atoning death of Jesus Christ. You\nunderstand it&#8217;s impossible to be a peacemaker unless you and I have entered\ninto God&#8217;s peace by coming to the cross and by claiming pardon through the\nsacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. When we have peace with God, his very peace\nin our own hearts, we can become effective as peacemakers.<\/p>\n    <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead1\">God has given us effective weapons for waging peace.<\/h2>\n    <p>There&#8217;s another thing of which we\nneed to remind ourselves. God has put in our disposal effective weapons for\nwaging peace. I know there&#8217;s a fatalistic mood. I know that many of us\nmisinterpreting prophecy are convinced that we are in the end times and that\naccordingly we cannot hope for peace. It&#8217;s only a futile dream. I&#8217;m not going\nto discuss those matters right now. But let me repeat that God has put at our\ndisposal effective weapons for the waging of peace. If we come to perceive\nthis, then maybe in faith we will begin to challenge the fatalistic mindset\nwhich sees ahead nothing but the horror of a nuclear holocaust. <\/p>\n    <p>It&#8217;s in 2 Corinthians 10:35 that\nthe apostle Paul refers to these weapons. He adds emphatically, &#8220;We don&#8217;t fight\naccording to the flesh because the weapons of our warfare aren&#8217;t carnal. No,\nthe weapons of our warfare are spiritual. They are mighty through God to the\npulling down of strongholds.&#8221; We have weapons at our disposal which can bring\nto pass even at the end of the twentieth century the purpose of God for the\nprevention of war and the preservation of peace. I stand here and I remind you\nthat I happen to be one of those strange premillennarians, but despite that I\nhave to affirm you and I as instruments of God&#8217;s peace need to be waging those\nspiritual weapons which can, in our heavenly Father&#8217;s mercy, prevent war. The\nmightiest weapon in that spiritual armament is prayer. <\/p>\n    <p>For our Scripture lesson this\nmorning from the New Testament, we will read 1 Timothy 2:14. It&#8217;s one of the\npivotal New Testament pronouncements on the power and the purpose of prayer.\nWhat does Paul urge? &#8220;Pray for rulers and kings and those in authority that we\nmay lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, for this is\nthe will of God who desires that we create a society within which the gospel\ncan be freely proclaimed and thus men and women be saved.&#8221; Do you and I want\nquietness instead of turmoil? We must pray. Do we want peace instead of war?\nThen we must pray. Do we want godliness instead of corruption? Then we must\npray. Do we want honesty instead of untruthfulness? Then we must pray; &#8220;Pray in\norder that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives in all godliness and honesty&#8221;<\/p>\n    <p>Prayer is a weapon infinitely more\npowerful than all the guns and the bayonets and the tanks and the planes and\nthe battleships and the bombs of all the nations in all the world. I&#8217;m not\nminimizing, dear friends, the awesome decisions that people in position of\ngovernmental responsibility must make. I&#8217;m not minimizing the difficulty, but I\nam affirming as one of my rock bottom convictions that there are no imaginable\nlimits to the affect of prayer. If we as God&#8217;s people take even five minutes a\nday to follow the directive in 1 Timothy 2, God may be pleased, as we sang before,\nto give peace in our time.<\/p>\n    <p>\n      <em>Illustration:<\/em> Let me tell you\nabout Debbie and Jebby. They had been brought up in the same church. They fell\nin love. They married. God blessed them with a beautiful little child. Then\ntragedy struck. Fire gutted their new home and burned to death their little\ninfant. Jebby, going out to work every day, managed to rise above the grief,\nbut not Debbie. She sat in their rented apartment rocking, holding in her arms\nthe little doll they had bought for their now dead baby girl. I think it was a\nSaturday morning that Jebby came in to see his pastor. The husband was in\ndespair. &#8220;What are we going to do for Debbie?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;She&#8217;s getting worse\nand worse. She&#8217;ll have to be institutionalized. Isn&#8217;t there something we can\ndo, pastor?&#8221; That man of God, who had known Jebby from boyhood on looked at the\nanguished face of that husband and thoughtfully answered, &#8220;Yes. There is\nsomething we can do.&#8221; Jebby&#8217;s face lit up with hope. &#8220;What is it, pastor? What\nis it?&#8221; &#8220;We can pray harder.&#8221; Jebby&#8217;s face fell. Prayer. What good will that\ndo?<\/p>\n    <p>The pastor looked at him and slowly\nsaid, &#8220;If we believe the greatest miracle, lesser miracles are possible.&#8221; Jebby\ndidn&#8217;t understand. The pastor explained, &#8220;If we believe God raised Jesus from\nthe dead, then we must believe that with God nothing is impossible.&#8221;<\/p>\n    <p>You and I believe God raised Jesus\nChrist from the dead. You and I have experienced something of God&#8217;s peace in\nour own hearts. Let&#8217;s this morning in those words of Francis pray, &#8220;Lord, make\nme an instrument of your peace.&#8221; Then let&#8217;s give ourselves to a ministry of\neffective intercession that the will of God may be done. Our God is the God of\npeace.<\/p>\n    <p>Vernon Grounds is chancellor of Denver Conservative\nBaptist Seminary. He has authored more than five books and his articles appear\nregularly in a variety of religious periodicals.<\/p>\n    <p>\nVernon Grounds<\/p>\n    <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">\n      <em>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"subhead\">Preaching Today<\/span>\n      <\/em>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"subhead\"> Tape # 9<\/span>\n    <\/h2>\n    <p>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preachingtodaysermons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">www.PreachingTodaySermons.com<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>A\nresource of Christianity Today International<\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[306],"tax_ctp_authors":[3258],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_field_guide_subcategory":[],"tax_ctp_field_guides":[],"tax_ctp_format":[170],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[412],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_sermon_series":[],"tax_ctp_tags":[4615,4616,4618,5230,5260],"tax_ctp_topics":[],"class_list":["post-33269","sermons","type-sermons","status-publish","hentry","tax_ctp_authors-vernon-grounds","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-peace","tax_ctp_tags-peacemakers","tax_ctp_tags-pearl-harbor-day","tax_ctp_tags-veterans-day","tax_ctp_tags-war"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spiritual Weapons for Peace - CT Pastors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/spiritual-weapons-for-peace\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spiritual Weapons for Peace - CT Pastors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You&#8217;re sitting quietly at home having breakfast, and suddenly there&#8217;s a blast, there&#8217;s a flash, and you are engulfed in a fireball that reduces everyone to cinders. 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