The most important peace you can have, is peace with God (Romans 5:1-5). You need peace with God, because we are all sinners who...
The most important peace you can have, is peace with God (Romans 5:1-5). You need peace with God, because we are all sinners who have fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Without faith in Christ's atonement for our sin, we are under the wrath of God (John 3:36). God has the power to send us to the eternal damnation we deserve (Luke 12:5; 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9).
The only way to achieve peace with God, is through faith in Christ (Romans 3; 4; Ephesians 2:8-9). Christ's death satisfied God's righteous demands against our sin, and God raised Him from the dead (Romans 3-5; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Through faith in Christ's atonement, your sins are forgiven, and you come into a right relationship with God. This brings peace in your standing with God.
As a believer, we also have peace in the world, knowing that Christ has already been victorious over those who persecute us (John 16:33), over the power of our sin nature (Romans 6 - 7), and that He has given us the hope of resurrection from the dead, and an eternal inheritance with God (Romans 8; 1 Corinthians 15; Ephesians 1).
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