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On Earth Peace! by Pastor Lee Brown

Luke 2:14

Lead Pastor Jamey Miller shares how This Advent, God wants us to see Jesus in a fresh way and live in the peace that he brings to the world.

Join us as Pastor Jonathan looks at a foundational text in the Christian faith and challenges us to see it anew, to let the truth of what it meant for Jesus to enter the world and how that is THE good news of all time.Scripture: Luke 2:1-14

Isaac Wheeler continues our Advent Series: Heaven On Earth. December 15, 2024

Luke 2:7-14 (1) “Glory to God in the Highest Heaven” (2) “And on Earth Peace…“ (3) “…on whom His favour rests.”

Sermon: On Earth PeaceLuke 2:14Second Wednesday in AdventDecember 11, 2024

Luke tells us here about the first event that took place that night after the birth of the Lord Jesus in Bethlehem. First, an angel, in a burst of the light of “the glory of the Lord”, appeared to the shepherds with a message of “good tidings of great joy which will be for all people.” Next, this angel was joined with a multitude of the heavenly host of angels, and they also had a message for the shepherds and for the world! Their proclamation was short and very encouraging!   Their first focus was on giving glory to God in heaven! "Glory to God in the highest!” Scripture teaches us that our great Creator God is the Most High God and He sits on His throne in the highest of heavens! John sums up God's purpose and plan for His creation best in Revelation 4:8-11: “Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before Him... worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: "You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created."   Then the focus of their message turned to the earth and mankind. “And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!" The first angel spoke about great joy for all people. These angels spoke about peace for mankind! When you study Scripture, you will find after sin entered the human race in the Garden of Eden, everything that is the opposite of peace also entered it. Hatred, conflict, strife, contention, war, malice, animosity, violence, murder and so on! The first two brothers born into the human race, Cain and Abel, displayed this lack of peace when Cain out of jealousness, killed his brother Abel and tried to cover up his crime.   History over the past six-thousand years reveals that nothing has changed. Look at the four world empires up to the time of Christ. The Babylonians, the Medes and Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans, all conquered the world by war. Even in this past century between 1914 to 1918, World War 1 takes place and over 16 million soldiers and civilians are killed. Then the world leaders, led by President Woodrow Wilson, proclaimed a lasting peace by starting the League of Nations. But less than 21 years later, World War 2 breaks out between 1939 to 1945, and it is estimated that 60 to 80 million soldiers and civilians are killed. Today, the wars continue with people being killed every day!   Even under the Roman rule in the time of Christ there was no peace! Life was difficult at that time just as it is today. Taxes were high, unemployment was high, morals were slipping lower, and the military state was in control. Roman law, Greek philosophy, and even Jewish religion could not meet the needs of men's hearts. There can be no peace in the world or in our hearts without a Savior, without the Lord Jesus Christ!   The Jewish word shalom (peace) means much more than a truce in the battles of life. It means well-being, health, prosperity, security, soundness, and completeness. It has to do more with character than circumstances. We can only find peace with God through Jesus Christ! Romans 5:1, assures us: “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ”. This peace with God is only possible “through the blood of His cross” (Colossians 1:20).   The world, or any individual for that matter, will never experience peace until Jesus Christ is believed on and received into our hearts and lives. And thank God, we have that great promise that one day soon Jesus Christ will come back to this earth as the Prince of Peace! Only then will the whole world know and experience this peace that the angels proclaimed two-thousand years ago!   Today, are you experiencing the goodwill and peace of God through Jesus Christ in your life?   God bless!

église AB Lausanne ; KJV Daniel 4 Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me. How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation. I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace: I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof. But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, saying, O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof. Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. ...

Sunday Morning Worship Service December 24, 2023 Speaker: Ptr. Jether Manalo

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Peace Among UsLuke 2:14 NIVIsaiah 9:6-7 NIVJesus carries the weightJesus' rule does not endJesus is for usPeace comes through obediencePeace comes through learned trust

Christmas is a festive time when we receive gifts and give gifts to our loved ones, decorate our homes, listen to good music, and eat a lot of food. But as Christians, this season means so much more than that. We celebrate the historical fact that God stepped into humanity and brought with Him gifts that changed the world: Hope, Joy, Peace, and the treasures of Heaven. Let's celebrate the God that came “Down to Earth” this Christmas together. Join us Sundays at 10 a.m. as we seek to be REAL People, who follow a REAL God and experience REAL Life. Learn more and fill out the Connect Card via our digital bulletin:  https://www.lifechurchlivonia.org/digitalbulletin  To Give to LifeChurch Livonia: https://lifechurchlivonia.churchcenter.com/giving  Give via PayPal at: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/lifechurchlivonia  Give towards a permanent home for Life Church Livonia: https://www.lifechurchlivonia.org/home-campaign

All of humanity has sinned and been separated from God because of sin. But God had a plan to redeem his people since the beginning, and Jesus is the culmination of that plan. In this powerful message, Ps. Gladys shows us that our Savior reconciles us to God and brings us peace with God.

Peace on EarthLuke 2:8-20 NIV• Peace overshadows chaosMatthew 6:25-26, 33 NIV• Peace of God is surprising• Peace must be received  • Create margin  • Agent of peace in world

Peace of mind, peace of spirit, peace on Earth.

Peace of mind, peace of spirit, peace on Earth.

Pastor Jason Hinkle

Christmas Eve Sermon 2022Rev. Ian Cummins

Luke 2:8-14 - And On Earth Peace, Goodwill Toward Men

This is the Waterway Service from 12-11-2022.

 Audio recordingSermon manuscript:Tonight I'd like to focus on the angels' song: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward mankind.” Before I get into the actual words themselves, I'd like to first speak a little bit about the setting. The shepherds were keeping watch over their flocks by night when suddenly one angel of the Lord appeared to them. Real angels are quite different from how they are pictured in popular imagination. They are warriors, for one thing, the Lord's army. They are holy, that is, perfect, without sin. They reflect the glory of God like a mirror. So just as people fall on their faces whenever God shows a little glimpse of his glory in the Bible, so it happened here too. The shepherds were terrified. The lone angel then says some of the loveliest words in the whole Bible: “Do not be afraid. For behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy which shall be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” I'm tempted to speak with you some more about these wonderful words, but maybe you can reflect later, by yourself, what these words mean. I want to get to the angel song. Right when that lone angel was done speaking, suddenly there was a multitude of angels. There was a heavenly army. They were praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward mankind.” The context helps us properly appreciate the words. In a way this scene is terrifying for the shepherds. Something of heaven dropped down upon the hills and valleys around Bethlehem. The shepherds weren't prepared for that holiness. You and I wouldn't be prepared for that holiness either. So it was terrifying, but at the same time it was the most beautiful thing they had ever seen or heard. It's probably a good thing that the lone angel came first to help them with their faith. The shepherds were given something to hang on to when the wildness of heaven descended upon them. “Do not be afraid,” the angel had said. God was not coming to crush them. Surely they needed to drop whatever wicked thoughts or plans they might have been harboring before the angels came. Evil won't work here. They knew that. But God was not coming to destroy them. They were going to be whisked up into something glorious. Now let's turn to the words themselves. The first thing that this countless army of angels was singing was “Glory to God in the highest.” Why are they singing that? Because Jesus Christ is born. The eternal plan is finally playing out. Jesus the baby was precious and so highly anticipated by the angels. Now he has come. Hurray! Anytime anything remotely like what is going on with these angels happens among us, we love it. Unfortunately such joy and thanksgiving is a rather seldom visitor. Children, it seems, are the most easily visited. The possibility for this experience is one of the reasons why Christmas is so beloved. The anticipation and then the joy and thanksgiving of children opening presents is absolutely delightful. So maybe thinking of children might help you understand this first part of the angels' song, Glory to God in the highest. Have you ever seen children kind of form a circle and march / dance while chanting something that they're happy about over and over? Their faces are beaming. They want the adults to see them and smile. Often their chant or song can be a little ridiculous, a little over the top. They can't help it. That's just what has to come out because of the joy within. So it seems, also, to me with these angels. Glory to God in the highest! Go, tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born! The second part of this song goes like this: “And on earth peace, good will toward mankind.” Here you see that the angels are not envious. They are not receiving presents, and yet they are joyful. The Son of God did not become an angel. He was made man, and born of the virgin Mary. The angels rejoice that this goodness is coming to us human beings. Therefore I have to revise, a little bit, what I've already said. Kids know anticipation and joy and thanksgiving, but what if the goodness that was coming was not for them? There were no presents for them. We even wax proverbially about this. The lump of coal would certainly dampen the holiday spirit. There was no dampening of the angels' spirit. They are not evil, selfish, and envious like us. They are not benefited by God becoming man, and yet they dance like children. They are happy that God's goodness is being poured out for all those who would make use of it and be benefited by it. Jesus mentions something similar about the angels on a separate occasion. He says that the angels rejoice when just one sinner repents. These truly are good and salutary creatures who reflect the nature of the one who created them. But let's move on from the nature of the angels who sang the words to the meaning of the words themselves. “On earth peace, good will toward mankind.” These words are simple and plain. Jesus himself is your peace, O earth. God is not angry with mankind, but intends to save it. I'd like to link these words from the angels to some words from Jesus with which you are familiar. “Peace on earth, good will toward mankind,” is very similar to what Jesus says in John 3:16 and 17. “Peace on earth,” is very similar to these words: “God loved the world in this way, that he sent his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” What can be more peace-giving than this promise which Jesus speaks: “Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” And “Good will toward mankind” is very similar to what Jesus says in the following verse, John 3:17: “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.” He sent his Son to die for you. God's good will is toward mankind so that, as it says in another place, all may be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. These words about how God regards us sound gracious and loving. Indeed, they are gracious and loving, but we must not draw false conclusions from them. Peace is promised to us, but God's peace is different from what people might think peace means. There is a kind of peace where everything is going your way. You're getting richer, smarter and healthier with every passing day. This is how the world understands peace. Peace is the absence of everything annoying, distressing, or perplexing, and the presence of everything that is pleasing. That's not Christian peace. Christian peace comes through faith that God is for me and loves me even if not everything is going the way I'd like at the moment. Christian peace is peace with God even if the winds are howling and the waves are swamping the boat. Christian peace is patient and loving in the midst of scarcity, pain, and sadness. Consider the holy family in this regard. It is astounding that Jesus was born where cattle might have their babies. I got this shiner trying to shut my cows up in the barn so that they couldn't have their calves in the cold and the wind, and yet the birth of the Son of God wasn't hardly more comfortable than the birth a cow might have. Husbands, do you suppose that Joseph wanted Mary to give birth in such a place? Mothers, how would you be feeling if you were in such a place giving birth? But the holy family was given peace in the midst of much coldness, sadness, loneliness, and even danger. God was for them, who could be against them? And it wasn't like when they grasped the peace of God, which surpasses understanding, that their negative circumstances were taken away. And yet we must say that through faith there was peace in the midst of perplexity, happiness in the midst of scarcity, joy in the midst of sorrow, life in the midst of death. The angels flatly proclaim: “There is peace on earth; there is good will toward mankind.” Just because the angels say there is peace on earth, doesn't mean that everybody is going to perceive such peace. The angels are making a statement: There is peace on earth. There is good will toward mankind. That is how things are. But I don't think it would be hard to find somebody who would say, “What peace? I don't see no peace. Where are my presents?” If you are looking for a peace that the world understands, you aren't going to find that peace in Jesus. The world doesn't want the peace that Jesus gives. The world does not want to live under God as his creatures, accepting his will, being thankful. The world wants to be God, dictating how everything must go according to one's own thoughts and pleasures, never being joyful unless good things are happening to one's own self. Their desire is not for the truth. It is not enough to have peace with God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. They want a room at the Hilton, not a stall in the barn. Some of you might be looking around, and your life might seem more like the barn than the Hilton. And let's not romanticize the barn. You know what a barn smells like, don't you? And so, in your life, there might be some things that stink. Things aren't how you would do things if you were God. But don't allow those circumstances to rob you of the angels' song: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward mankind.” The angels' song was true in the stable of Bethlehem. The song is true for you in whatever circumstances you might find yourself in. And, know this: for those who believe in Jesus the barn cannot go on. You won't be in the stable forever. Already in this life maybe God will give you some earthly relief, and if he does, thank and praise him from whom all blessing flow. He does that much oftener than people realize, you know. But even if God doesn't remove difficult circumstances from you, that doesn't change what's true. That doesn't change what God has done in Christ. Your circumstances, no matter how bad they possibly can be, don't change the love of God, manifested at Christmas, sung about by the angels. And eventually your circumstances must change. You won't stay in the stable. Jesus says in another place: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that you may also be where I am.” Mary and Joseph aren't in that stable anymore. They are in those mansions, together with Jesus. They are hearing the angels' songs, that we just get a tiny, thrilling glimpse of on Christmas night. You remain faithful and believing, and that will be true for you too. What the angels said is true: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward mankind.”

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://safetypinlove.com/2022/12/22/luke-214-glory-to-god-in-the-highest-and-on-earth-peace-to-men-on-whom-his-favor-rests-3/

This holiday season let's focus both on peace on earth and on inner peace. It's by learning to create inner peace that we can extend that out to others and create a wonderful holiday experience, regardless of your circumstances. Even if you are alone or with challenging family, you can be an agent of peace.

Join Darren Davis as he shares the dynamic purpose of the Son of God coming to the earth.

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by Pastor Chuck Ryan “On Earth Peace to Men” Text: James 4:1-6 Thesis: Christians must be humble, deny themselves and seek to follow God and His ways. 1. James causes the Christian to stop and reflect on their own lack of peace by asking, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? (Vs. 1) * “Wars without come from wars within.” Unknown A. Quarrels and fights originate with the desires within us. 1. “You want something and don't get it. (Vs. 2) a. Is it a need or a want? B. James reveals two reasons why “you do not have” what you want. 1st - “You do not have because you do not ask.” (Vs. 2a) * Jesus teaches: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7 * “Prayer is the Key to Power” 2nd - “You do not receive, because you ask with the wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on pleasures.” * “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God - having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.” 2 Timothy 3:1-5 2. James asks the Christian another thought provoking question: “Don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?” A. When James refers to the “world” he is not speaking about God's creation but the systemic evil that has infiltrated society, government, businesses and pleasures. B. The Christian should not be double minded. * The Apostle Paul teaches: “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Romans 12:2 3. James encourages the believer by reminding them that “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” (Vs. 6) A. There is freedom in surrendering to the will of God. a. Materialism is an entrapment. B. There is a peace in surrendering to God. b. Seek to be on God's side and cease trying to make Him fit into your lifestyle. c. Jesus taught us to say: “Not my will but thine.” d. Become a student of God and His ways. * “As the heavens are above the earth so are His ways above our ways and His thoughts above our thoughts.” Isaiah 55:9 “On Earth Peace to Men”

Glory hallelujah we shall not be moved

Speaker: Pastor Jeremy Sexton

Christmas Eve

On Sunday, December 19th, at the in-person service, Pastor Dwight Richards delivers an encouraging sermon from Luke 2:8-14, about the peace that believers have through Jesus Christ. 

We sing songs about peace on earth and goodwill towards men at Christmas. Yet, our Christmas season is often anything but peaceful. Where can we find peace in a world filled with pain, angst, and stress?

Welcome back to the New Artist Spotlight Podcast. This week, Plummy sits down with psychedelic Salt Lake City outfit Keepers of the Earth Peace Music Revolution. Topics include their vast line-up, plans for shows in 2021 and embarrassing moments As always, we finish things off with the infamous top 20 countdown. Happy listening!

We are wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas. Inspired by the Christmas Story we say, Glory to God in the highest and on Earth Peace! Scripture:  Luke 2:1-11Piano"Once in Royal's David City" Arr by Mark HayesRev. Raymond G. CoffmanPodcast HostZachary SmithPianist Audio Engineer Clark CoffmanLog Cabin Community ChurchVinings Georgia

PEACE ON EARTH

PEACE ON EARTH