He Is Our Peace | Ephesians 2:11-22 | Pastor John Miller

modern technology has created a global community and yet we still have a world where man is alienated from man we are divided over race over religion over politics and over economics and i don't know about you but in my lifetime i don't think i've ever seen the united states more divided and it is really an issue right now with the racial issues the black lives matter issue and the issue between black and white and brown and different colors and racism is kind of at a fever pitch and quite a controversial subject well the only answer to this division is jesus christ jesus is our peace and when we come black white brown yellow whatever if there's green people out there they can come to i don't think there is but when we come to the foot of the cross we find forgiveness and restoration with god and we become the children of god he becomes our father and we're part of a new humanity a new society a new group of people called the new humanity and it's a marvelous concept that paul sets forth in this passage which we often know as the church now the church is spoken of in a universal sense all believers all anywhere in the world and then the church is a local assembly as we are here at revival christian fellowship so the church is made up of more than we who come to this fellowship we're a local church or congregation we're part of the universal body of christ but the answer to the problem of racism and divided over religion and politics and economics and other things you name it race and sexual gender and so those kind of things is that jesus christ died for our sins and that he unites us in his redemptive work upon the cross so the problem today in the world is not skin it is sin s-i-n which is alienated man from god and man from man and jesus takes care of both he brings us back into a right relationship with god and he brings us into a right relationship with one another so the problem is spiritual that's why our job right now is to go out and preach the gospel amen not politics not psychology or philosophy but to preach the gospel of jesus christ and when men's hearts are changed and they're brought into the family of god then and only then can we see peace in our troubled world now a little quick review in chapter 2 verses 1 to 10 paul has shown us how god reconciled man to himself that we were sinners and we were dead and he's reconciled us to god how has he done that look at this key phrase in verse 10 in christ so we looked last week in verses 8 9 and 10 by grace you have been saved through faith that not of yourself it is a gift of god not of works us anyone should boast for we are his workmanship created in christ jesus unto good works which god hath before ordained that we should walk in them so the way that god brings unity from diversity is in christ or in christ jesus verse 10. but tonight we move from verses 10 and 8 9 and 10 to verse 11 to 22 and we see that in christ god has reconciled man to man so the first half of chapter two is god reconciling man to himself now it's a fine point but a one that needs to be noted that god reconciles us to himself we don't do anything or perform any deed to be reconciled to god god reconciles us to him we're the ones that are estranged from god we're the ones that are enemies from god we're the ones who have been running from god so god takes the initiative to deal with the sin which has created alienation and he's the one who has reconciled us to himself so he is the reconciler and so he's now reconciled us to himself and then he reconciles in christ as to one another notice in verse 14 is the key kind of thought for he is our peace who hath made both one and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us when he says us there he's referring to jew and gentile not referring to god and sinner this is where this verse this section gets misinterpreted he's not talking about reconciliation between us to god he's talking about reconciliation between jew and gentile say well what's what's that got to do with me today uh we're not divided jew and gentile but we are divided today over racial issues over religious issues and so it does have a perfect and appropriate application to us today that jesus is our peace so it's a jewish gentile who are made one in the church jesus christ paul's theme in ephesians is the glory of the church and he refers to the church in a term that's really unique in verse 15 he calls it one new man now again this is where people think it's referring to the individual sinner and they're being born again and regenerated it's not it's referring to in the church we become one new man and that phrase or that that that that term speaks of one new humanity and we're gonna break it down for you in this text so the hatred in the ancient world between jews and gentiles is taken care of in the blood of jesus christ upon the cross now this is what we're going to do with the text there are three portraits or pictures of how christ is our peace if you're taking notes you can write them down the first is the portrait of what gentiles were and the key word if you just want to write down one word is separation so the gentiles were separated from jews they were living in alienation from one another verses 11 and 12. let's read those verses paul says wherefore remember now the fact that he starts with a wherefore indicates that is actually building off verses 1 to 10 how he saved us and reconciled us to god so now in light of that he's reconciled us to one another in the church so wherefore remember and it's good to remember what god has done for us that you being in times past gentiles so the entire passage is spoken to primarily gentiles and most of the believers in the church at ephesus were gentiles and many gentiles began to come to christ in the early church in the first century but this whole context is written to gentiles and talking about how before they knew christ so verse 11 and 12 are the gentile people before christ or before their salvation or before their conversion so in times past in the gentiles in the flesh who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision so the uncircumcision or the gentiles the circumcision are the jews but notice paul throws this into the end of verse 11 they're only circumcised by hands so it's just an outward right on the flesh but what god wants is the circumcision of our hearts so that's the true spiritual work in our lives but it's just a a religious kind of writer ritual but it separated the jews from the gentiles and then verse 12 at that time you were without christ you were aliens from the commonwealth of israel and you were strangers from the covenant of promise having no hope and you were without god in the world so he's talking to gentiles about their pre-converted days and actually even before christ came died resurrected and went back to heaven but now that jesus christ has come he's the great reconciler now notice that the separation in verses 1 to 10 with sinners in general now in verse 11 to 22 tonight we're going to see that the work of christ for gentiles in particular and for the becoming that they became christians and bringing together in the church there in ephesus now notice their identity and i've already commented on at verse 11 that they were gentiles in the flesh now basically what verse 11 is doing is that it's showing that they were objects of contempt by jewish people the gentiles were hated by jews you think racism is bad right now in america which i just i don't want to get sidetracked but i don't think it's systemic in our culture i don't think it's the big problem i think it's fostered to create division in our culture today but we ain't seen nothing compared to the racism that existed the whole world was divided in new testament times between jew and gentile and the jews hated gentiles they actually felt that they were only created by god to fuel the fires of hell they believed abraham would stand at the gate of heaven and he would turn away all gentiles and that no gentiles got to go to heaven and if you you couldn't go in a gentile home you'd be ceremonially defiled and unclean if a gentile woman was giving birth to a baby you couldn't assist her or help her being a jew because you would be assisting bringing a sinner into the world and whenever jews would pass through gentile territory they would actually take their sandals off and when they were crossing from gentile territory into jewish territory they would actually knock the dust dirt off their feet so they wouldn't bring gentile cooties into their land and then the jewish temple will get there in a moment there was actually a wall around the temple that said no gentiles can go past this wall that if you go past this wall you have only yourself to blame for your death so there was this deep hatred a jew would wake up in the morning and say god i thank you and i'm not a gentile and they just they just was so much racial prejudice between jew and gentile so this is verse 11 showing that they were objects of contempt and this to show their contempt they used the expression they're the uncircumcised that was a an expression of contempt remember when david was going out to kill goliath what did he call him you uncircumcised philistine you've defied the armies of the living god i'm coming to get you so it was it was a derogatory term that they brought against the gentiles and then the jews they took pride in their physical right of circumcision and they referred to themselves as the circumcision verse 11. but paul said i want you to remember that it's only circumcision made by hands so paul's points out that the gentiles suffered now a five-fold alienation and i want to point them out in verse 12. there are two five aspects of their alienation before christ first of all they were without christ verse 12. or literally in the greek it's apart from christ basically that means that they had no messianic hope they had no promise of messiah the mashiach the anointed one they were they were living without any savior without any christ they worshipped the goddess diana they're in ephesus as the gentiles had their pagans gods now the gentiles were not atheists but they were idolatrous they believed in god's plural but they didn't worship the true and living god so this is also a picture fivefold picture of anyone today jew or gentile any race of any individual or nationality that has not been born again you are without christ but in this context it's referring to the gentiles they don't have christ when jesus was dealing with the woman of samaria at jacob's well in john 4. he made a statement that salvation is of the jews that god provided a jewish messiah and that they as gentiles were without the promise of a messiah now we know that jesus died for the world and that's part of god's plan the gentiles would be included when god told abraham you're going to have a son he said in your in his seat all the nations of the world will be blessed so he was promising even back in the abraham and covenant that gentiles would be saved and we know gentiles were saved even in the old testament that believed in the god of israel but they as a people group they didn't have the promise of the messiah no messianic hope so they had gods but they were false gods so they were lost and what we're gonna see too and i'll just mention it now and maybe touch on it later is that this is a basis for christian missions a lot of people try to kind of put down the idea of you know you christians in america you shouldn't go to india you shouldn't go to other parts of the world and try to convert them to christianity they have their own religion well they have their own religion but they don't have god and they're lost without christ so we need to take christ to the nations amen so this is a mission statement here of why we need to take christ to the world because number one they are without christ they are spiritually bankrupt now notice secondly in verse 12 they're without citizenship this is seen in the phrase verse 12 aliens from the commonwealth of israel in other words they had no home or place or lot with god's people they weren't god's chosen people in that sense of god wanted israel to be a theocracy where god ruled over them instead they wanted a king and they got saul and things just got went from bad to worse with the nation of israel they were basically rejecting god from ruling over them but the gentiles really did not have god over them they had no citizenship or common wealth it says in verse 12 of israel remember when jesus was ministering in mark chapter 7 and the story is recorded in verse 24 to 30 in the northern area of israel called tyre and sidon which is way up in modern lebanon it's outside of jewish territory and it's gentile territory and there was a woman that came to jesus she was a sidonian she was a gentile and she said lord please help me my daughter is demon possessed would you deliver her and jesus said something really that blows people away jesus said it's not right to take the puppy's food into cast it or not take take the children's food excuse me and cast it to the puppies or to the dogs and when you read that you go wow what is the lord doing there why would he say this poor woman's got a demon-possessed daughter and he said it's not right to take the children's bread which was the jews and cast it to the dogs he used the word for dogs was a domesticated little puppy and then i love the woman's response she says yes yes lord she didn't disagree with them she said yes lord but even the puppies under the table get the crumbs which fall right so if you're a gentile tonight in reality we're puppies under the table getting the crumbs now in romans paul talks about wild being wild olive branches grafted into the root and becoming heirs of the promise but we were wild we were off we didn't have the covenant promises either notice that thirdly in verse 12. strangers from the covenants of promises god made his covenant promises with abraham god made his covenant promise and renewed it with isaac and with jacob god made his covenant promise with david it's called the davinic covenant he didn't make it with gentiles even the new covenant which we celebrate with the cup and with the bread was a covenant made with israel and we're just lucky enough to get the crumbs falling from the tables and get grafted in but once we're grafted in don't freak out we have an equal standing with even the jewish people and in the church there's not jew or gentile bond or free male or female and that's an issue in our culture today as well but we're all one in jesus christ so he says they were without covenants and then fourthly he says verse 12 they were without hope having no hope having no hope historians tell us that the ancient world was one of the most hopeless worlds to live in and here's the interesting thing before christ was born the world was about as dark as it could ever get it was a very dark world that's why christmas is so exciting to think of the light of the world came into the world god's light came into the world hope was born christ came god came to reconcile us so god made his covenant with israel god gave them hope they had the messianic hope they had a future hope but in christ we have hope write down first thessalonians chapter 4 verse 13 where paul was writing to believers who were sorrowing because their loved ones had died and he said i don't want you to sorrow as others who have no what no hope for if we believe that jesus died and rose again even so that have fallen asleep or died in christ god will bring with him so if you're in christ you have hope the first century was called the age of suicide isn't it interesting that suicide is on the increase in the united states and has been really radically for the last few years takatus an ancient historian says us tells the story of a man who killed himself an indignation that he had been born how true that is my wife passed out a track to someone at a store just this week and they were receptive and open and said i really need that and this total stranger began to tell my wife that i have been contemplating suicide i mean you're checking out at a store and the person checking you out says i've been thinking about killing myself so there was no hope there was no god there was no no no no messiah they were lost this is a picture a general picture of the gentile world but it's actually descriptive of the world that we live in in our day and here's the fifth thing that they were alienated because of they were without god now that really summarizes it all out all of these in verse 12 without god that is without god in the world verse 12 the pagan world was religious they had temples filled with false gods but they didn't have the true and living god as i mentioned this impetus to missions in acts chapter 17 paul went to athens and he preached to the athenians about the unknown god they had an altar there in athens and i've been to mars hill i've gotten the privilege of preaching paul's sermon from mars hill on mars hill a couple different times in athens greece and paul was preaching he says i noticed that in all your you know monuments to all your gods that you had one monument that was to an unknown god well that's what i want to tell you about and he began to rehearse about the god of israel and that he sent his son and preached the gospel to them so again the reason for missions that they do not have the true and living god so no different today the world is without christ it's thus without hope and it's without god and make no mistake if you're without christ you're without hope and you're without god if you are without christ you are without hope and without god you have no hope beyond the grave you have no hope of being forgiven you have no hope to live eternally with god so this hopeless world needs hope found in jesus christ so verse 11 and 12 is their alienation then the second portrait in verses 13 to 18 largest section is a portrait of what god did for the gentiles reconciliation so the key word here is reconciliation so the first is alienation now god brought reconciliation verse 13 down to verse 18. let's read it following in verse 13. notice the contrast but now but now now it stops it closes in verse 12 with without god in the world and then immediately starts in verse 13 but now so you were without god you were without christ you were without hope but this is kind of like the but we read in verse 4 of chapter 2 where we were dead depraved doomed disobedient but god who is rich in mercy for his great love or with he loved us so where would we be without god's love and grace reaching out to reconcile us how marvelous that is so he says in verse 13 but now in christ and there's that key phrase in christ you who are sometimes far off that's the gentiles we just read that in verse 11 and 12. you are now made near nigh how by the blood of christ so how are the gentiles made near to god and brought as one with the jews through the blood of jesus christ notice verse 14 for he that is jesus christ is our peace who has both made one that one is jew and gentile hath broken down the middle wall of partition or hostility between us having abolished in his flesh the enmity even in the law of the commandments contained in the ordinances to make in himself of two now the two there is jew and gentile one new man that's the church so making peace that he might reconcile there's our word both unto god in one body by the cross having slain the hostility or the enmity thereby and he came and he preached peace verse 17 to you which were far off that is the gentiles to them that were nigh that is the jews for through him that is christ both have access by one spirit unto the father every phrase in this section is just pregnant with amazing theological and doctrinal truth but notice in verse 13 the gentiles were far off now they are made nigh many of them are far out too and now made nigh i think about that how were they done how would they made nigh by the blood of jesus christ as i pointed out there's a contrast with the but now in verse 13 with the without god in verse 12. so there we were without god without hope without the promises without the covenants but now in christ we who are far off are now made nigh how by the blood of his cross the cross of jesus christ is the great reconciler the cross of jesus christ is the great reconcile it brings us together it's been said that the ground is all level at the foot of the cross i love that when we come to the cross it's not black and white it's not brown and yellow or it's not male or female it's not jew or gentile it's not rich or poor it's not educated or uneducated it's not sophisticated or unphysicated it's that we're one coming as sinners in christ being washed in the blood and redeemed and made one so he verse 14 is our peace now what is this wall of partition that is between us the wall of partition as i mentioned was in the temple and there was a sign on it that said that jews can't pass through that but that wall is not the reference here that's an illustration of what is referenced here the reference here the wall is the enmity the hostility the hatred that existed between jew and gentile so the only way to break down that wall is through the cross the blood of jesus but can you imagine being a gentile and you become convinced that the god of israel is the true and living god and so this saturday you're going to go to sabbath worship and you go to the temple and you start walking in the temple and you see on the wall a sign that says if you're gentile you can't go past this point if you do we're going to kill you welcome to our church thank you very much and what what what a division there was between jew and gentile what enmity verse 16 existed between them now how did christ death bring down the wall of enmity and hatred and racial prejudice between jew and gentile let me give you four ways from the text verse 15 he abolished through the cross the law notice in verse 15. it says having abolished in his flesh the enmity even the law of commandments and those that are contained in the ordinances now the law here is not talking about the moral law which would include the 10 commandments he paid the penalty for those sen for those sins that were broken that the law demanded but it's talking about the ceremonial law and this is what actually separated jew from gentile one of them being that of circumcision and it separated jew from gentile so the law has been dealt with in the cross when you go to colossians which is another prison epistle written at the same time which parallels ephesians it talks about jesus through the blood of this cross has abolished the law which was against us so the cross paid the penalty of the law and satisfied the demands of a holy righteous god but it abolished and did away with the ceremonial law so he did more than abolish the law then secondly he created now a new humanity look at verse 15 in the middle of that verse it says that he made in himself one new man so making peace so he abolished the enmity contained in the commandments and the ordinances and then he made in himself of two groups jew and gentile one new man so making peace now this concept of the new man is the church and the phrase conveys the idea of a new humanity so it's not black or white it's a new humanity not distinguished by color but blood-bought blood-washed children of god so this church that he's created is actually referred to as the new man he's not talking about the individual becoming a new person in christ he's talking about the church a new humanity i've been to australia quite a bit over my years of ministry and uh i know from experience that the tension is quite heavy between the aboriginals and the australian people and i heard the story of a bishop john reed who was a pastor there and he was driving a school bus of aboriginal and australian boys and girls one day and they were fighting and bickering and dividing on the bus the aboriginals against the white australians and so the bishop stopped the bus and he got all the kids off the bus and he said look at you're not black and white anymore you're all green he just created a new humanity you're all green you're not black or white you're all green so get back on the bus you green people so they all got back on the bus and they're riding along kind of content for a while and then the silence was broken with someone yelling all the dark green on the right side and the light green on the other side and that sinful heart of man just cannot be reconciled apart from the work of the holy spirit amen we need the holy spirit to change our hearts and to change our lives but i love this concept of a new race a third humanity the church so if you are a born-again christian you're a part of the new man the church but notice thirdly number one he abolished the law number two he created a new humanity number three the death of christ reconciled both jew and gentile to god in one body and slain that enmity look at verse 16. that he might reconcile there's that word that means two parties that were enmity they're brought back together into unity both unto god and in one body by the cross so we experience this unity and reconcil by through reconciliation and it's back to god one body and it's by the cross and he slays the hatred and the enmity thereby this is all the work of jesus christ on the cross and then the result is verse 17 it brought peace so he abolished the law he created a new humanity he by his death reconciled both jew and gentile into one body slayed the enmity thereby by the cross and then he verse 17 brought peace i love isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 where it says that he is called the prince of peace so there's no peace for the wicked there's only peace when christ reigns in our hearts and brings us back together but notice verse 17 he came and preached peace to you which were far off that's the gentiles and to them who were nigh now it's probably not it's not talking about jesus preaching peace but is talking about the holy spirit working through the apostles and the early christians going out into the world and preaching christ preaching the cross and bringing peace so much of the harmony that we have in the world today is because of true christianity in the gospel of jesus christ if it weren't for christ and more first cross weren't for the gospel message the world would be very very very dark the reason why america is getting darker by the day is because the gospel is not being proclaimed as it should because of the lack of christian influence it's not legislation it's not democrats versus republicans it's the lack of gospel impact gospel influence if it weren't for christ it weren't for the gospel it weren't for god's word the world would be a very very dark hopeless place so we have hope we need to go out and be lights amidst a very dark world so he brings us i like that verse 18 to god i want you to look at verse 18 it says for through him that is christ both have access by one spirit that's the holy spirit unto the father that's god the father if you're taking notes you can write down the word trinity right there you have god the father you have god the son and you have god the holy spirit all mentioned there in verse 13. that's a marvelous reference to the trinity now thirdly and lastly verse 19 to 22 we had separation we have reconciliation one new humanity the church now we have unification verse 19 to 22 the portrait of what jews and gentiles are in christ unification i love these closing verses verse 19. now therefore so he's actually wrapping up everything he's just said you're no more strangers he remember he's talking to gentiles who were strangers to the commonwealth of israel who were without covenants and out without hope and without god you're no longer strangers or foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints which is a reference to christians of the household of god and you are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets jesus christ himself being the chief cornerstone in whom verse 21 all the building fitly framed together grows into a holy temple in the lord in whom that is in the lord you are also built together for a habitation of god through the spirit now we could have taken three weeks on this passage one week for each little section but let me point out some marvelous truths notice in verse 19 now therefore so he's pointing out that the death of christ created a new humanity the church and the effects of this are stupendous for the gentile believers and he describes them by using three graphic mind-blowing images if you're taking notes write them down now that we have been reconciled to god in christ we are part of a new nation a new city verse 19. you are no longer strangers foreigners but fellow citizens notice that with the saints no longer foreigners but you are now citizens so the imagery or the picture here is that we have a new nationality we have a new city we have a new nation it's the kingdom of god where he rules in our hearts again in my travels around the world and i i i'm actually glad i don't travel like i used to but i used to travel all over the world and and if you've traveled to foreign countries i know so many of you have you know how you don't ever quite feel at home you're an american but you're not in america and depending on what country you go to you know you're a different color than them you speak a different language than them and you're just different i remember even going to white europe whether it be eastern europe or western europe and i don't know what it was but they knew you were from america even if you didn't talk the minute you talk you give it away but it's like why do i look like i'm from california or something i mean how do you know for your i just like it blew my mind they would they were you're americans aren't you i don't know if it's the shoes you wear the clothes you wear or what it was but they knew but i never really felt at home until i got back on american soil i remember some trips where i was so weary and so tired i remember for being in several weeks in china and listening to chinese and i don't know i look at chinese my son is actually fluent in mandarin chinese but i don't know i don't know any chinese and for weeks that's all i heard was chinese and god bless that chinese speaking people but i like to understand what i'm hearing and i remember when i first got off the plane came back and i heard people speaking english it's like ah praise jehovah and sometimes as you come into the country and you go through customs and say welcome home that would throw my heart or welcome back to america it was so awesome so we have a new citizenship and heaven is our new home so we all speak the same language heaven's language we all worship the same lord heaven's lord we all have the same destination we're all going to heaven so there's that camaraderie there's that unity that's there among believers what a blessed thing that is we have a common allegiance we have a common uh goal we have a common god to glorify and a common destination write down philippians 3 2 320 paul says for our citizenship is in heaven but the second picture in this passage verse 19 is that of we have a new family notice it calls it the household of god so we have a new citizenship it's heavenly we have a new family so this is now a little warmer and a little more personal it's not just a nationality but it's a family and god is our father how important that is so this new humanity has its own citizenship but god's city god that's god's city and we reconciled people are now also part of god's family this represents a deeper intimacy than citizenship peek back at verse 18 of chapter 2 where he says for through him we both have access by one spirit unto the father interesting he mentions the father and now he mentions the family so god is our father and we're brothers and sisters in christ in chapter 3 turn ahead with me real quick verse 14 and 15 for this cause i bow my knees into the father of our lord jesus christ of whom the whole family verse 15 in heaven and earth is named so think about that this is the church god is our father and we are all one family then notice thirdly we're also a building or a temple verse 20 and 22. so he says you are built upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets jesus christ himself being the chief cornerstone of whom the building all the building verse 21 fiddly framed together grows into the holy temple in the lord in whom we also are build together a habitation of god through the spirit so this again is a metaphor picture of the church we're citizens we're brothers and sisters with the same father in the same family and we're also a building so we're like living stones peter says all compiled together which we make a temple and god inhabits us by a spirit that's why when we gather corporately even like we are here tonight there's a special sense of the presence of god where jesus said wherever two or three are gathered together in my name i'm in your midst so it's so wonderful to gather corporately this is why fellowship or coming to fellowship is so important because we're like living stones we're compacted together or built into god's building or god's temple or god's house we're living stones now let me point out these facets about this temple the foundation is in verse 20 it's built upon the apostles and the prophets now these are new testament apostles and new testament prophets and it probably involves their teaching some believe because jesus is called here the chief cornerstone that knowing he is also the foundation but here the apostles laid the foundation and there's a sense in which they're also the foundation of the church so we need to follow apostolic teaching and the word of god the early church gave themselves to the apostles doctrine so they're the foundation of the church in this primary sense there are no apostles or i believe even prophets in this sense anymore in the church though there is the gift of prophecy and the spirit gives some those gifts but the apostles laid the foundation and we have their doctrine in the word but then the cornerstone is referred to as christ jesus christ himself being the chief cornerstone any of you guys that have done stone work or masonry or laid block wall you know how important the corners are and that they're plumb and they're straight so the cornerstone is what holds it all together some feel that it's possible that in the ancient arches with the stones they put in the cornerstone was the center stone at the top of the arch that held the arch together not necessarily the corner on the ground but either way the cornerstone on the ground plumb walls to build the building and we need jesus christ or the cornerstone and the arts that holds it all together jesus is the cornerstone and then thirdly notice verse 21 and 22 that it's got building blocks and we are those building blocks we are the building fitly framed together unto a holy temple in the lord and then notice also lastly that it has inhabitants it is inhabited by god the father god the son and god the holy spirit so this is a picture or an image of the church all these little blocks or bricks or stones put together forms a temple and god inhabits us by his spirit again god through the holy spirit so by god's grace through the work of the cross aliens have become citizens strangers have become family idolaters have become the temple of the true and the living god amen let me drive home one last point too as i close and that closing point is as christians are you practicing peace in the church in your marriage in your family in your workplace are you taking the gospel of peace are you sharing the good news of jesus christ so people can find peace with god and peace with one another if you want harmony in your home you need christ in your heart if you want harmony in your church you need christ the center of your church in harmony in your world and your nation we need jesus christ if ever america needed jesus christ and the gospel of christ it's now amen let's pray

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