 How's my base family doing this evening? Hey, man, can we give Jesus a hand? Let's stand to our feet Bible says we enter into his presence with praise and thanksgiving as the Lord been good to you this week Did he wake you up this morning? The goodness of mercy follow you all day. Do you have a hope for a future? Amen. God is so good. Hey while we're at it. Let's give our live stream family a big hand big applause Show them some love tonight. We're gonna go to the Lord in prayer and let's keep a sister Sonia Zep needs our prayers tonight. She was taken by ambulance to the hospital They're running some tests looks like she's dehydrated But how many here have an unspoken need of a prayer request? Every one of us would be honest. We have a need either for ourselves or a family member So let's go to the Lord and prayer right now father. We thank you for your presence Lord We thank you that you're an ever-present help in time of need the Lord We just come boldly to your throne of grace tonight to receive mercy for our brothers and sisters in need Lord and and for our own lives We thank you that you're a God that hears and answers prayers God and we thank you that you're ever-present God you specialize in everything Lord So we pray tonight that you would meet the needs in Jesus name. Amen Also just you can be seated. Thank you so much I want to make you aware of the in touch Vision casting dinner that's happening Friday night at 6 30 p.m. In the fellowship hall That's gonna be a great time of fellowship there and vision casting Hallelujah, how many? Cheerful givers do we have in the house? You know, I want to say ever since I have committed my finances to the Lord. I have never come up short. I Just want to encourage you the Lord is faithful tonight And you can give in the back of the offering buckets online on app and you can even put a stamp on it and mail it right on in Amen, hallelujah. Let's pray over the offering father. We thank you God for the giver the seed and the gift God. We ask that you would bless it multiply it to meet the need We thank you Lord for your abundance Jesus name Amen God thank you Ben So glad to see each and every one of you here with us tonight all of you that are joining us online It's a blessing to be able to have you here this evening. You're glad to be here Amen, I wanted to get an amen check see if anybody's breathing if you'll look beside you see if they're breathing That would be good Man want to mention a couple of things to you this evening and Ben if you are one of you guys be so kind slip back there and get my glasses out of my bag I left them in there and The Lord heals I Would really like for my Glasses healing to happen. I know 50 of you want to hand me yours, but Then I would see six of you and that wouldn't be good There is always a time when it is In the times we're living you know that you must be very very alert and the church has to be alert and Aware of our surroundings and aware of what's taking place so that we are prepared for whatever that may take place. Thank you, sir and Today I was getting some word from An obvious friend of this ministry and a part of this ministry here at Pace Assembly Pastor Brian McDonald who pastors up in Texarkana at Faith Assembly They've been in revival for the past several days and nights and God has truly been blessing I Read something disturbing there today and and I'm bringing it to you because I want you to be alert And I want you to be aware Because there have been some 63 different Church incidences that have occurred attacks on Christians and so forth since January of this year in the United States That doesn't count the world's just here in the United States That's extremely high and So over the past several nights of revival a gentleman along with the crowd he was coming into the sanctuary and Being a part of the service, but he was obviously sticking out somewhat like a thumb and brought alerts to them and So last night when he came into the building They had Pastor Brian had already Notified some of the police officers because of the concern that they had so they had Officers on the on the site last night for the revival service and when the service was being conducted the pastor Visiting evangelists was up preaching This gentleman went to the restroom and The officers that were there went out to his car to check his car When they looked inside of his car. He was fully weaponized with they are 15s and Shotguns that were carrying like 14 rounds in them at a time pistols turn the kits everything else He had come to do harm So when he went to the restroom the officers were there and when he came out and they wanted to talk to him He immediately went into defense mode and took a swing at the officers and that's all it took and Thankfully by the grace of God They were able to take him down and take him out and come to find out He had been stalking other churches in the area even carrying weapons into a Catholic Church And he was intent on doing harm to them and to judges in the community and so forth He had mental disorder and had traveled from Colorado Across the state lines which involves the FBI and pastor Brian. I assured him that we would be praying for them in their church he said He said well when it all went down last night and they the tussle took place and literally knocked his son To the ground who was standing at the back door holding the door so that they wouldn't come in the whole event Took place kind of in the four year until it hit the sanctuary and of course it aroused the people right in the middle of the preachers preaching And so he stopped the service and they had prayer and then he turned him loose after they had had him handcuffed and on his way and We're able to continue in the service and three people got saved at the end of the server What are you gonna do As I told him we would be praying for them and praying for their service tonight They're concluding their revival service this evening at what is scheduled, but It is very important that we are alert in the times that we're in there is evil that is lurking at the door and That's the reason why that we pay this church pays I was accused years and years ago of having preferential treatment by our sheriff's department here and so forth By having sheriffs automobiles and sheriffs on on site as they are tonight But I saw the need many years ago of two things one to help you get out on the highway 90 especially on Sunday and Two to be able to have a present protection that was visible And so I want you to know that this church through your tithing offering pays for those officers to be here for Every service and every special event that we have and I want to thank you for seeing that need in this very critical hour Now we have a wonderful security team here and Our camera set up around this campus and throughout the campus inside and out is more than any other Establishment in our area our officers have come and seen the setup that we have here and I Just want to let you know if you don't want to be seen Then you might want to Not even come on this campus Because even as I speak they can see every one of you and probably pick the nose hairs right on out That's just how good our system is here So be forewarned for anybody who would want to do anything stupid You know a pastor Brian and I were talking a little bit about it because we're Pentecostal churches You know and you get somebody in the service who might get excited start running around the building in the Holy Ghost you You better know who they are They might get tackled or whatever I told pastor Brian and he said the same thing that you know living where we live and in this particular area And I don't want to know this we have we have officers on site We have our security team who know and have reoccurring training with their weapons and so forth But I said best Brian I know in my church and probably in yours that there's any number of people that could be packing and I don't want to know it because it probably would be more dangerous about crossfire than there would be actually the Individual going down so I almost wanted to put a warning for anybody who wanted to disturb the peace or rob the place Before warned you and multiple other people could be hit in a crossfire It's a horrible thing that we have to deal with in the church community But we are way too open and here on highway 90 and I don't say that to put fear anything anybody's heart One thing you can know with all the security around here we're doing our part to be able to make sure that your children are safe tonight and that you are safe and protected and That's very important and I want to thank you for seeing that need because it is an expense to the church But I think it's a very worthwhile expense to make sure that we've got officers with their automobiles out in front of this church to make sure We're we're the kind of people who support the nation of Israel and not everybody does we're the kind of people that will speak the truth and let them figure it out for themselves and So you pray for Pastor Brian and all the folks there at faith assembly You know he might just carry on since they're getting saved in the middle of people want to come in and mess up the service You know just keep right on saving amen And I'm just gonna tell you at the end of the day You can have all the security you can have all the officers and everything else But there is a presence of the Holy Ghost that has the power to set it down push it back and do whatever needs to be done And don't discount the power of the Holy Ghost. Amen Before I get into this lesson tonight I want to deal with just a little bit of something else in Bible prophecy, and I won't take long Several weeks ago. I was talking to you about this in the prophecy files update with When Eric Stackelbeck was here and I will tell you that I am working diligently now on a Bible prophecy conference for the fall to bring in some very special folks that can that can Do an entire weekend with me of Bible prophecy. I think we are well We it is so fast moving that it is impossible really to keep up with But I'm saying this to you as a matter of prevention and help for you as well several weeks ago We talked to you about the advancements of AI artificial intelligence you've been hearing a lot about that that's going on at the time we're in and The massive interview on television with Elon Musk one of the cutting-edge guys who I told you in the prophecy files He and many others are calling for the technology and the experts and so forth and people are working on it to pull back and And suspend put a moratorium on what's taking place with AI because it is dangerous in multiple ways and It was never more real than when I was Studying preparing for this service tonight and doing some other things with studying and preparing for Bible prophecy and so forth and This incident took place in Arizona. I'll make it brief when a particular lady Who had four children her husband as well two of her children were involved in a sporting activity and Her husband took the two and they went to the sporting event and she took the other two and they went to the store or wherever it was and She was getting ready to go into a place that she was familiar with and and all the sudden She got a telephone call and it was an unknown number And she said normally I would not answer an unknown number But I didn't know if it might have been a doctor or whatever with our children my daughter there at the sporting event Whatever it may be So she answered it when she answered it The voice came on and it was the voice of her daughter Who was crying and sobbing and it's very significant that she said her sobs Were just like her daughters. It wasn't a frantic screaming and all of that. It was just like her daughter And she said mom This is and identified the name and They had a short conversation together and in a moment the phone was lifted and the men that were on the other Line said we're holding your daughter. We want a million dollars Otherwise, we're gonna pump her stomach full of drugs and I'm gonna have my way with her and we're gonna kill her and Obviously frantic the mother and was told don't you call 911 and and don't you hang up this phone? She was frantic went back into the business where she was at she had some friends that were in there And they started calling 911 and they started calling her husband and the daughter to find out where he was in all of this and In the course of that whole Conversation and she's on the phone with them and wanting to speak back to her daughter And they wouldn't let her do it and just all of that was taking place in a few moments the daughter came on the other line and The father came on the other line and Then the office of the officers on 9191 came on the line and said oh, yes, this has been happening quite frequently This is an AI kidnapping The computer had taken the voice of her daughter and According to the person I was listening to today that was describing this and they interviewed the woman and she told her own story Still this is weeks ago and it is it is still traumatizing to her They said that this possibly could be the first AI crime that has been committed in the United States So I'm saying that because I want to say to all of this congregation all of you that are watching We we get in in recent days, we've been hacked right here at the church once again It's amazing how they can mimic With just one little dash changes everything But when you glance at it and look at it, it looks exactly like it would People that were corresponding even with our bank About the church and back and forth and everything looked really good But it wasn't and it took deeper investigation in order for us to find it and thank God we have a wonderful Bank that we work with one particular bank that we that this Account was and they cleared it up right away And we are very thankful to have that relationship that we can just make that phone call for the church But I want to just warn all of you out here and be on the alert because many times they want to they want to pick on people that may be Unsuspecting maybe elderly On and on down the line. I just want to say to you if you don't recognize the number if it's a legitimate call They'll leave a message if they don't don't worry about it Don't answer the call. I can just about assure you that the IRS is not going to call you up and say hey You owe $50,000 you need to wire this to this account They don't do that. Okay, and on and on down the line do not fall into that trap Because the AI Activity that's taking place in our world can mimic now just this story that I'm telling you it's going to become more and more evident in the days that are ahead as technology is being used to deceive Are you here in me to deceive now pastor? What does that have to do with the Bible prophecy? It has everything to do with it Because I personally believe that the Antichrist will use very effectively the technology that you're seeing right now to be able to track and to number and to Mark every individual on this people plan. There's no other way to do it other than the technology side of things Okay, you're not going to line up and get a ticket with your number on it They're they're all kind of technology that is going to be used and it is now in effect and we're now at a place where The effect of that is extremely deceiving even to those that might think that they're really sharp on it So I know that was a couple of stories there that probably put your head spinning But I don't want you to be ignorant concerning what's going on in the world I want you to be alert and I certainly don't want to have that information in my knowledge and not give it to my congregation So that you can be able to know what to do and how to do and don't worry about it Listen if somebody calls you up, they want to start all this stuff. You have to get in the middle of it all you got to do is is Hang up I Mean hang up. I mean delete. I mean get out of it get away from it Well, what happens if I offend them? I hope you do Offend them all the way back to the 1800s. I don't care But whatever you do be alert in the time that we're in can I hear an amen out of that? be alert in the time that we're in and And that's what the Bible says for us to be sober and be alert be be aware of our surroundings and all that's going on And and pray one for another and then at the end of the day when you've done all you know how to do you stand and the Holy Ghost drops this anointing around you like he did Joe and The devil says I'd like to get to him But I can't because there's this invisible shield around them and it's called the anointing of the Holy Ghost Amen, so thank you for giving me a moment I've got so much more that I want to share with you in the days that are ahead so you You just be ready for that or you might at this point somebody's saying I think I'll change churches, but You know one thing about it, I'm not gonna leave you to be in a place of ignorance I want you to be alert and ready and ready to protect your children and let me just let me just Let me throw one more in there, and I know this is not you know You're hearing the music in the background womp womp womp womp womp, but this is this is information You need to know the UN has now at a place where they've passed a sanctioning having sexual relations with minors To be a part of the law the UN the United Nothing And ladies and gentlemen if this is an hour to protect your children protect your home do what you need to do and And I am I'll just put this out here I am seriously in prayer and asking God what he wants us to do with this second floor up here And I do believe that it might be time for a Christian school to come in here at Pace assembly because I'm about I'm about tired of the nonsense We have wonderful educators and administrators and so forth that are in this church and in this in the school system That's not an indictment against them whatsoever. They're doing everything. They can we're talking about light and darkness going on here ladies and gentlemen and We must be alert and do what we need to do a man Father we thank you for the privilege of studying your word now open it to our understanding We pray let our eyes see and Lord our let our hearts conceive and we give you praise for it in Jesus name And everybody said a good amen The book of Matthew chapter number five if you've been with us We've been studying the beatitudes and I want you to read with me right out loud from verse number three in chapter five of Matthew As we take up this next study here tonight rest reading concert starting in verse number three ready read Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God and tonight Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God Amen to God's word tonight. You keep your pen and paper ready. It's here. We go There is no work that is going on on this earth that is probably more intimidating Than that of peacemaking without peace as a part of The fruit of the Spirit Nothing else works. Let me Change that around nothing works without peace You can say well, I have love or I am long suffering or whatever that it may be but without peace None of it works this particular Beatitude is one that requires it is required for every other To operate every other fruit of the Spirit. So with that being said Get this in your spirit Jesus came to bring us a life that is not dependent. This is important upon external Circumstances, I want to make this abundantly clear for you tonight What's happening externally is not is Not supposed to affect our relationship with the Lord and our attitude towards him You hear what I'm saying So with that in mind Let's look here at the real foundation of where we get this particular Terminology and the understanding of it and I won't go into the whole story of it But this is from the book of Judges chapter 6 verse 24 It is Gideon that is building an altar there into the Lord and the Bible says that he calls the place Jehovah Shalom Jehovah Shalom Shalom meaning peace, but it's even much deeper than that and I don't have time to get into all of it But I will tell you that if God is anything he's a God of peace And I thank God for his Shalom tonight. Don't you so let's take up a few questions and answers here this evening from this study I believe it's going to be important for us to understand. What is peace? Well, the Bible begins and ends with peace It began in peace in the garden with God walking with Adam in the cool of the day And then Adam and Eve rebel against God and sin entered in When sin entered in is and we're seeing that in our culture our society today That has not brought peace in any shape form or fashion because you'll see it in just a moment But at the end of the word of God the kingdom of God is established And there is a kingdom of peace forever and forever So the beginning started with peace and God said I'm gonna end it and it's gonna be in peace. Amen So all conflict and you need to know this and I don't want you to just think spiritually about this I want you to look in our world today Wars and rumors of wars all that kind of thing that's going on all conflict is the result of sin It started in the garden and there's been conflict ever since It is a battle as I just spoke to you about of light and darkness The light being God darkness being Satan in the bottom line is that clash is happening And we happen to be right in the middle of it That battle for good and evil light and dark Now how do I know that God is not involved in this because some people want to attribute things to the Lord that he has Nothing to do with the Bible says in the book of 1st Corinthians 1433 God is not the author of confusion but of Okay, you're not all here yet There's only two people that know that God is not the author of confusion, but the God of peace Let's try it on one more time. God is not the author of confusion, but he's the God of Yeah, I picked up a few more Mmm, I'll have to drive the train slower tonight. God is a God of peace And you got to get this in your mind and in your spirit Why because in the world that we're living in right now. It's gonna become more and more Not peaceful And that attack listen to me that attack is not from from the enemy from satan and from its sinful core Is not just about the external the enemy is trying to do everything he can To affect the inside of an individual to disturb your peace Peace of mind peace of your spirit And if he can do that then you're effectively off track at that moment How many of you understand what i'm talking about? So the bible says that jesus christ the coming messiah in the book of isiah chapter nine verse six and one of those Descriptive names of the kingdom of god is that he is the prince of All right Tough crowd tonight jesus you're gonna have to help me So why don't we have peace in the world where here here's the reason only two first the devil fights it He's fighting against peace right now Secondly people reject it the devil fights it and people reject it Now this is where it comes to you and to me Because if you reject peace You reject god Because peace comes from god Now this may seem simplistic, but you need to know you've got to choose sides Because to declare war on god you become a troublemaker not a peacemaker. I think that's pretty good Sin has always been and forever will be the enemy of peace. It's always a place of disturbing it Look at 1945 when the u.n. I just mentioned it here. They are Wanting your children And several years ago. They said oh that would never happen and behold it's here Okay, all kinds of mess going on Right 1945 the u.n. Is stood up as an organization and what is one of the goals of the u.n Was written down and they said that our goal as the u.n. Is to provide peace for all succeeding generations What a gigantic failure the u.n. Is You know why because man has never Been able and will never be able without god to be able to produce peace What are they it's amazing to me these god rejecters and bible haters in the u.n Have a gigantic statue out there that is right out of the word of god beating their swords into plow shares And yet they reject the god of the bible to bring peace to the nations It will never happen through the u.n. It will never happen through nato. It will never happen through negotiations It won't happen through the secretary of state or or the president or prime minister anybody else It will not occur until he who is the prince of peace is seated at the conference table. Come on somebody So peace comes from god And there's never been a time in the history of this world where there has been total peace since the garden of eden Over 8 000 treaties have been signed In the united states and world treaties and every one of them have been broken in some frame So peace is Then by definition is the presence according to the word of god of righteousness Peace is the presence of righteousness And who is the only righteous one none other than jesus christ himself Jesus is righteousness So understanding that peace then is not the absence of something most people say well Peace then is the absence of war if we can just if we can just have Uh, uh, you know a ceasefire, right? Peace is not the absence of something. It is the presence of someone So true peace is not avoiding a problem Or appeasing a person True peace comes how? It's been brought about by jesus who died on the cross for our sins and made peace for us I want you to know in your mind in your spirit in your house on your job in your church Wherever you are if you have jesus on the inside of you you have righteousness and peace is wherever you and christ are I love Ephesians 2 14 For he is our peace The bible says who has made both one has broken down the middle wall of petition between us He's speaking directly about the tabernacle And the holy of holies and the inner court which is the most holy place where the Table of showbread and the menorah the candlestick and the Golden altar of incense was at and the great big curtain The span of a man's hand Separated the holy of holies where god shekaina was and the outer court where the priests were ministering unto god But when jesus died on the cross that separation was no more He made peace because of what he did on the cross by his sacrifice He made peace once and for all and one of the great events that took place while jesus was dying on the cross Is that the invisible almighty hand of god reached up to the top of that veil that could not be separated by Yokes of oxen according to the scripture But it was ripped from top to the bottom not one thread was left at the bottom That we have to step over in order to do something to merit the peace of god He ripped it clean and clear from top to bottom and now he's broken down the middle wall of petition Between us sinful man and a holy god and through jesus christ and his peace We can come boldly before the throne of grace and make our petition known unto him So i don't have to wait around for somebody to make peace i made my peace with the peacemaker So with all of that being said let me make this statement if there is an area of your life that you don't have peace Bring righteousness into it and peace will come Righteousness. What is righteousness? Well righteousness is jesus But for us it is also right standing with god i've made my i bring jesus and his righteousness Into the situation So what are you saying i'm saying that if righteousness is not in your marriage and you have no peace in your marriage Bring righteousness into it and peace will come I don't have to work it up. I don't have to Try to do something to me. I just need to bring jesus into the situation and righteousness comes and righteousness and peace has Kissed one another If there's no peace on your job bring righteousness into it If there's no peace in your house bring righteousness if there's no peace in your finances You better bring righteousness into it Now i want you to know right our righteousness is as filthy regs So bringing us into it. We're going to negotiate it. We're going to counsel it. We're going to talk about it You'll never achieve anything Because whoever it is you're talking to don't really trust you and you don't really trust them You got to get jesus in the middle of it I said you got to get righteousness in the middle of it You got to let him come into the middle of it and bring the two together The word is reconcile. We'll see that in a moment. That's what peace is. That's what peace making is I didn't say peace keeping Peace making there is a difference. So what is then a peacemaker? well A peacemaker is one who invokes righteousness into a situation When someone is saying i'm going to be a A peacemaker or a peacekeeper they say Many times man calls for a ceasefire And they call that peacekeeping The u.m. We're going to send in the peacekeepers What they're really saying is we want to ceasefire long enough for us to reload You understand what i'm saying When when when israel has negotiated all of these peace plans with hezbollah and hamas and Cease fires and everybody gets involved. Well, we got us a ceasefire ceasefire and then here comes Presidents and let's shake hands on the oslo accords and all that kind of thing went on It was only long enough for the enemy to reload Redig a tunnel and get back in to the land of peace Are you hearing me? this is important for us to realize because The order of the beatitudes that we've been studying over the past several weeks now Is not an accident that brings us to the one we're here now at tonight Because the next beatitude we're going to study the lord willing next week will be Blessed are you when you're persecuted? persecution So you need to know this because you are if you are a peacemaker and you have righteousness on the inside Listen carefully. You will be persecuted Look for it You're going to see that take place in your life Why for this is what the bible says for righteousness sake Some people think they're persecuted because Because it rains outside on sunday and they can't get a church. It's such a persecution But remember the the the tagline is for righteousness sake for christ's sake So it's it's only the holy spirit can take what i'm saying here tonight and translate that And bring the truth and the principle of that to our wonderful friends that are watching right now in kinnah Where they have seen the slaughter of their friends and neighbors and leaders and christians in that country Over and over again by the thousands and when i speak of peacemaking they know exactly what i'm talking about Because righteousness must be there to keep your mind your heart your soul and your spirit You follow what i'm saying James chapter 3 verse 17 and 18. This is what the bible says. It says this It says but the wisdom that is from above is first pure look at the beatitude. So last week we studied pure This week we're studying peacemaking Next week we'll study persecution watch this But the wisdom that is from above is first pure then what peaceable then what Gentle and what easy to be entreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality without hypocrisy And then he just goes ahead and tells you the answer in verse 18 and the fruit of righteousness is sown In peace of them that make peace Now notice the notice the progression of what happens when you're pure in heart Then your intent will be and you will follow through in making peace Which is going to bring you to a place of persecution I'm not excited about persecution But if you're going to name the name of jesus christ, you better get ready because there are folks that are watching right now who are underneath that And they're having to struggle day by day And they're still serving the lord and watching online tonight James 3 18 says peace is righteousness. So what is he saying? He's saying the only way to make peace is to sow righteousness into any situation Now this is important because sometimes We get it confused because we feel like that if i'm supposed to be a peacemaker then I need to get in there and negotiate the deal for god Or negotiate with whoever it is that i'm supposed to be having peace with and then everything's going to be all right I want you to know Just because you've got peace and you're trying to make peace Does not mean that everybody's going to accept that Especially when you bring jesus into the situation I mean we have a conflict going on all over the united states and I'm just telling you obviously you see it That foundations of it are coming from Washington dc Imagine going in to the capital with all the fussing that's going on and bringing righteousness in in order to make peace What's going to happen? How are they going to respond? I can already tell you Many people that are rejecting jesus they don't understand they're rejecting righteousness At the same time and peace So it's a very it's a it's a horrible frustration that goes on in the lives of people Because when they're trying to negotiate on their terms to make peace They're usually doing it to their own benefit But when you put righteousness between the two parties Then now it's not what I think truth is or what you think truth is Now we've got to come together over this Or there will be no peace Are y'all hearing what i'm saying So it's not about whether or not you're going to get them to agree and then we've made peace What does jesus say because he's righteousness and he's peace And if we want peace Come on now If we truly want peace then we've got to invoke righteousness or sow Righteousness into the situation in order for peace to come about because wherever jesus is There's peace Wherever god is there's peace So let me tell you something right now That in any situation that you're in if it's un if there's no peace that's going on and there's yeah Yeah, and fighting and all that kind of stuff you find wherever peace is and you'll find god And i'm gonna tell you if you're in that situation And there's no peace to be found Then get out and go find god Shut the deal down So the contract stop the negotiation hang the phone up Come on somebody Because i'm gonna tell you there's a lot of things you might be able to take you can take my house you can take my car If i had a dog you might take that But i'm just gonna tell you the one thing i'm gonna fight for and that is keeping jesus right in the middle of the situation Because without peace i don't have anything Come on I love don't you there's a brand new pillow out. I forget what they call it But you stack the pillows up now and you zip it up in there and they're in competition against the pillow guy over here And who's got the best pillow? You can find the best pillow you want, but if there's no peace in your heart, you're not sleeping tonight Come on somebody You can have five thousand dollar sheets to lay on but if there's no peace in your heart You'll be flipping and flopping all night long like a fish But i can tell you right now if i've got peace i can lay me down on the ground out there Come on somebody and sleep like a baby come on now So The only way to make peace is to sow righteousness into the situation That's the reason why whenever you bring jesus into the situation you're gonna find out whether somebody's a true christian or not If two christians cannot come together over what jesus said somebody ain't a christian And if they don't want to follow the pattern of righteousness, then there'll be no peace no matter what you do You could give them the farm and they still wouldn't be satisfied. They'll spend they'll there'll be no peace There'll be no peace Are you hearing what i'm saying? That's the reason why let me stop right here and do a little pastoral care That's the reason why many people didn't never want to go to matthew 18 to get their conflicts fixed First of all, you're not ever going to avoid conflict In fact the business conflict can actually be healthy I got three people with that Conflict is a healthy thing If you follow the pattern of the lord Well, you said conflict is sin. No i'm saying to you that sin is behind the conflict But if you bring righteousness into it that conflict now has caused us to grow Because not every one of us are going to see it the same way But if we all see it the same way as jesus sees it Then then even if we have to walk away from one another We can be at peace with god You got to believe this book so i'm going to give you some more of that I want to tell you in matthew 6 the bible tells us very clearly he runs it all the way down there And he says listen, don't you know that god cares for the lily of the field and he sees a sparrow fall to the ground He said don't be anxious concerning how you're going to feed yourself and what you're going to wear and all that kind of stuff He said don't you know the lord takes care of all of that for you In other words, he's saying your worry is disturbing your peace Philippians says be anxious for nothing But in prayer and thanksgiving make your petition known unto god and the god of peace Shall keep your hearts and minds in christ jesus To have peace you must bring that area of life under the lordship of christ, which is righteousness So here's the difference between what people want to say a peace keeper is one who tries to avoid conflict A peacemaker is a person who resolves the conflict now that's making peace. He didn't say keep it. He said make it There's a difference Ephesians four and three says endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace He's speaking listen. He's writing this to the church y'all Hear me. He's not talking about to a christian in the center or a couple of centers He's writing this to the church. He said he said there's divisions that are going on here And your job as a believer is to endeavor to strive to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace I'm wondering does anybody like conflict. Is there anybody out here? He's a Sadist or since there's no peace without christ's righteousness Having peace Is a desire Making peace is a decision Everybody desires to have peace, but if you're going to have peace You're gonna have to make a decision. I'm going to do something about it And sometimes that may require you in the face of all injustices To humble yourself and say you know what I'm sorry Let's bring this thing together. Have you around to apologize for something that you know you didn't do? Six of you No wonder I have a hard time pastoring y'all without the holy ghost Because ladies and gentlemen, we're going to be in that if we're not in it tonight. It could be tomorrow Or the next day The problem we have is that we don't know how to deal with that. We don't know how to deal with people with that And it's very easy because our emotions get all tied up in it, doesn't it? You ever had your emotions get all tied up in it? Have you ever said something you didn't You wanted to reach out and pull it back into your mouth But you couldn't I mean Your mama's been long gone, but you wanted to get a bar of soap wash your own mouth out Boy, would that be called child abuse today? I guess my mama would have been an abuser More one time I ate a good bar of soap so Look at what proverbs says in proverbs 14 34 Righteousness look at this in the light of all that's going on right now Righteousness in other words Jesus in the middle of the situation exalts a nation But sin is a reproach to any people. You know what he's saying? Righteousness brings peace to a nation And sin brings conflict. Well, welcome to where we are tonight I don't have to have great big debates and conferences and everything else about what's going on sin is being exalted Righteousness is being put down and as a result We have no peace in the streets of chicago la san francisco and Multiple other places across the united states it is lawlessness, which is the title of the antichrist Lawlessness ladies and gentlemen, we're a country without laws at this moment When we refuse to call evil evil and we call good evil We are in a place where we are exalting sin And I don't care Oh, it'll never touch us ladies and gentlemen. I want you to understand every every civilization That has ever seen what you're seeing right now happening in the united states and around the world the rejection of god the rejection of his law America cannot stand and survive without this book because we were built on this book You understand that the constitutions the bill of rights all of our laws Were written right out of the scripture right here So to abandon this law is to abandon god and now you become at war with god An enemy an enmity with god You follow what i'm saying Isaiah 57 21 there is no peace. Look at this this is a statement that people don't want to hear there is no peace Sayeth my god to the wicked It's not to put them down. It's to help them identify until you get to righteousness, which is jesus christ You're going to be miserable There won't be any peace to those who will not walk in righteousness He's saying you have no peace in fact ladies and gentlemen You actually open the door up to a false or pseudo peace Which is trying to be created and the lives will be oh take this and it'll make you happy Take this and look at what the bible said blessed blessed are the peacemakers happy are the peacemakers So take this and it'll make you happy take this and it'll do this take this and it'll do this Ladies and gentlemen, I saw before I got here tonight There is an exorbitant amount of suicides going on at senator's accounting in scambia county and all around our nation And lawlessness is going on. I don't have to be a doctor or professor I don't have to be a psychiatrist or a psychologist to tell you that the basis of all of that is a sin That a sin that is taken over like a horrible is the worst thing covid ladies and gentlemen because I can tell you sin As a terminal disease It is a terminal situation And until we understand that we can't straighten out the mess we're in So when you get leaders, it's no accident when you get leaders who will write laws against the law of god of which we are Based upon in the united states It's no wonder that the judgment of god comes upon a nation. He said it would and here's what we need to know It falls on the just and the unjust Now that's a hard thing to swallow. Why do I need you to get a hold of this tonight? Because the things that are up ahead might make you feel and the enemy get in your ear And might make you feel like that somehow god has rejected you abandoned you forsaken you all of that kind of stuff But you need to know if righteousness lives on the inside of your heart That does not mean that everything in the world is going to be right There might be earthquakes wars and rumors of wars But in my soul, I have peace that passes all of my i'm looking at it and i'm trying to understand it But I can't but I've got peace because it passes all of my understanding People are losing their minds just like the god told you about walking into the church has ill intent. They're losing their minds The only reason why you and I can keep ours is because peace lives on the inside of so Peace is always connected to righteousness in the bible always So take the bible and divide it there's there is 31103 verses found in the scripture if you want to check it out feel free and right in the middle If you divided both of them if you divided that 31103 You're going to find in the middle verse of all of those scriptures this one You will keep him in perfect peace Whose mind has stayed on you because he trusted you Who somebody needs to get that one and make that one your own tonight Somebody needs to get that and make it a rama word before you need it. It's already there come on now Perfect peace he's saying here is keeping jesus in every area of my life. What area of your life Is not at peace right now That means that jesus and his righteousness is not in there peace then is the result of righteousness and assurance That god is in control Now at the end of the day, that's exactly what we all want to know God is this thing going crazy and somebody the devil stole the steering wheel and driving us to hell What's going on? I want you to know tonight and all of you that are watching right now emphatically I don't care what I've said about ai and about shooters and churches and all kind of problems that are going on here this preacher tonight God is in control of all things No matter what If it's out of he control his control it's way out of mind. I can assure you it's this world has never been out of control God has always been in control So what you look and what I look and see as as being trouble on the road God sees it as an opportunity to bring his people back to it Read the scripture. That's what happens all the time. Look at isaib 48 Isaib 48 verse 17 and 18 does say if the lord thy redeemer the holy one of israel I am the lord thy god which teacheth thee to profit Somebody ought to say amen for your business right there which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go All that thou has harkened to my commandments Then had then had the thy peace been as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea He said you won't have to worry about it. It's coming in waves If you'll let me be your righteousness and lead you Then i'm telling you as a peace maker There is peace that is the byproduct of knowing the righteous when jesus christ Look at isaib 59 and 8 the way of peace they know not and there is no judgment in their goings They have made them crooked paths. Whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. He's trying to tell us tonight In this service right now What you're seeing going on in this world when they want to go their way and they want to reject righteousness Then the results of that is they'll have no peace. I don't care what it looks like living in a 35 000 square foot mansion Driving all the cars that you think you want to drive. I can assure you there is no peace Found anywhere in that So then who are let's identify who are the peacemakers second corinthians chapter 5 verse 17 Starts telling us what it where it starts at he says and this you know this verse therefore if any man be in christ He's a new creature Old things passed away Behold all things are become new So this is what the scripture says and this is the reason why I say the beatitudes are stacking on top of one another Because in this verse right here. He's speaking to us in verse 17 about the pure in heart about getting right with god Old things pass away. Everything becomes pure You look at verse number 21 And you're going to see that righteousness is of him and it deals with the persecuted person Don't worry about god's god at he said But in verses 18 19 and 20 you see what persecution are rather peacemakers And it identifies the peacemaker. So I want you to just if you will I'm going to take a little liberty But the definition can of it Certainly in the greek will will identify itself the word reconciled or reconciliation is basically another word Theological word for peace So as you're looking at the scripture right here in second corinthians chapter 5 verse 18 19 and 20 I'm going to read it to you with the insertions of these words The word peace He says and all things are of god who hath reconciled or made peace with us To himself by jesus christ and have given to us the ministry of reconciliation or that is god has given to us peace Not only with us but with other people Verse 19 to wit that god was in christ reconciling that is peace with Others and reconciling us unto him Notice the term to wit that god was in christ reconciling the world. So might say the world I want you to know that god has not just died for and jesus has not just died on the cross For all of you that are saved and just to say folks he died for the entirety of the world for god So loved the world People that you don't even like and don't even know he died for them too So we're not talking about him just reconciling the church or just the good guys as we want to classify ourselves He's talking about i'm i have already made the step to reconcile the world back to me Unto himself not imputing their trespasses or their sins unto them and have committed unto us The word of reconciliation or the ability to be a peacemaker Think about this He's saying to us that god has made peace already Now i am not of the theological or the discussion about everybody's saved and they just don't know it yet Absolutely not. That's not what the scripture's saying What he's saying is god is saying i've already done my part to open the door and make peace with you I've made god said i have made my peace with the world by what i did Through my son on the cross Did you get that? That's a powerful thing when you start thinking about it God's already reconciled us He's already brought us What we need to get in i love the fact that That the bible says that god has given to every man a measure of faith And then he turns around and says without faith you can't please the lord So in other words the god who requires faith of you has already put faith in your heart So you could obey him That's an awesome thing In other words, I don't have to come up with something myself God already gave it to me, but he requires me to use it in order to get to him And yet he's already opened the door paved the highway Put arrows on the road Drop some blood on the way to get there Sent people across my path To be able to help me get there. Are you hearing what i'm saying? Put obstacles on my path so I wouldn't get off of where he was leading me I mean i'm saying to you tonight what more can the lord do he has given to us the spirit of reconciliation So who are the peacemakers? Well simply put those that have made their peace with god You're an ambassador the bible says an ambassador of peace for christ So god has done his part so for all of you that really want to win souls to the lord Here's your statement to the person that you want to win to the lord. Hey man God has already made peace with you through jesus christ. Have you made your peace with him? Start that conversation What do you mean god's already made peace with me? Well, he sent his only begotten son whosoever believe in him not perish but have everlasting life So he's already done everything he needs to do in order to get you where you need to be question is have you made your move yet? Come on y'all Come on with me There's so many illustrations going through my head the top one that i'm thinking about right now is The disciples come to jesus and they say hey This is perfect time because some of you haven't filed your taxes yet Some of the disciples come to jesus and they said hey, we got to pay our taxes And i want to stop and say jesus paid his taxes But watch this Out of all the places he didn't say go down to the money changers go down to the bank go down to the credit union the savings alone He said go fishing. Oh my god y'all are not getting this he said go fishing And there's going to be a fish that you're going to catch It's going to have a coin in his mouth See now if you don't have no faith for what i'm talking about you're you're scratching your head wondering Who put the coin in the fish's mouth? Did one of these guys who goes fishing and throws it back? Put the coin in his mouth Come on somebody Did did i mean how'd that coin get we want to figure out how the coin got there? Instead just believe in jesus Put the coin in his mouth y'all understand what i said before the disciples ever knew they needed to pay their taxes The coin was already in the mouth of the fish. Come on somebody Before you ever needed the healing that you don't even have the doctor's diagnosis on the lord has already provided your healing God has already done everything he's going to do The door is open come on in Are y'all getting there? I'm talking about what god has made for you so that you can be a peacemaker Peacemakers even bring peace to their enemies Oh, it got quiet then boys and girls Proverbs 16 7 says when a man's ways pleased the lord He made even his enemies to be at peace with him What does roman 12 18 say if it be possible as much as lieth with you now this one i've used frequently Sometimes it ain't lying with me Thank you for that support you gave me here tonight i've wanted to But my heart My heart was in it, but but my mind I couldn't get the words out of my mouth I'm alone in this room tonight As much as lieth with as much as you have the ability you do what you need to do And make peace some of y'all are looking very confused with me tonight And the reason why is because you haven't made peace with them yet either because you don't want to either Because you're right, aren't you? Problem is you might be right, but you ain't righteous I need righteousness I can't I can't forgive my Enemy unless righteousness lives on the inside of me right you can't love someone unless he lives on the inside of me I'd like to and in some I wouldn't like to I am yet alone in this building Not even my wife has said amen to me right now Is anybody got a cabin that's empty tonight? I know you felt all the time like anytime somebody said something against you you were right ready. Oh, yes My dear brother Oh, yes, my wife Oh, yes, my husband No No, what happened was That little cord that goes all the way around your bed You were able to get your entire body on it Some of y'all been the reason why you're irritable is because you've been sleeping there for a week. You need to Make your peace and get back Where you belong The bible says that if you're a peacemaker Then you shall be called the sons of god The sons of god and don't let it be left out. That's a generic term there for daughters of god as well You should be called the sons of god Not the grandchildren of god Not the nieces and the nephews of god Here's what that literally means it means the specific immediate and chosen son of god It is specific it is immediate It is the person who has been chosen And that's you If you're a peacemaker, he said You shall be called The sons of god Romans chapter five verse number one says therefore being justified by faith We have peace with god how through our lord jesus christ I want you to know and you need to testify yourself I am a son of god because I have made my peace with god and now I call him by faith and by the spirit Abba father. He's not my granddaddy. He is my father. Come on somebody I have all the privileges of being a son not even not a grandson I live in the house. Come on somebody. I got access to the refrigerator. I can pick up the remote Come on somebody. I don't have to ask mother may I god has made me a son Specific immediate how fast did he forgive you the moment you repented before god? I'm a son of god that that literally means right there To be called the sons of god It literally means To exchange coins for equal value What does that mean To exchange coins of equal value It means because jesus sacrifice on the cross was equal to my debt God said You're my son my debt was piled up so high but grace Came in and took care of all of it with one fail swoop Made me made me A son of god When the prodigal left the house He said gimme When he came back he said make me Ladies and gentlemen our attitude should be lord make me what you want me to be Come on when you live in the house you have all the privileges of the son and daughter of god. Isn't that a beautiful thing? Now i'm supposed to be a peacemaker in my world I'm supposed i am supposed to bring righteousness into any situation. What situation? Please analyze this. Don't toss this off to somebody else. This is your question to answer tonight What situation do you have right now going on in your life that there's not peace in? Well, there's only one solution you got to bring jesus the righteous one into it If it's between you and your spouse if it's between you and your children whatever that it may be now I'm not telling you everybody's going to receive that Peace making we feel like we're the ones who have to make peace and if we leave it before there's peace in the room Then we haven't done our part, but wait a minute. Who is the peace? If jesus is not in the room to make peace after you brought him there And he will be because you bring him you're bringing righteousness into the room and they reject jesus That's not your that's not your problem You hear what i'm saying. I have brought jesus the righteous one into situations before and not everybody accepted it But I left With peace in my heart that I had done what I needed to do to make peace If it lies within you Do what you need to do But when it's all said and done and you put peace in the room and you put righteousness in the room And you said this is what jesus said for us to do And they don't want to do it You got to kick the dust off your feet and move on down the road Let god deal with them Somewhere they don't have peace with god because because watch this this is revolutionary listen If two christians say they have jesus and they can't get together and have peace Somebody ain't a christian Y'all chew on that that's beef jerky. It'll last all the rest of the week There is no doubt in my mind About god's intent towards us Oh god hates me. No god don't hate you Well, god don't god don't want me to have this no No god's intent for you according to jeremiah 29 11 is made very very clear He says it right there in front of us for I know the thoughts that I think towards you says the lord Well, what are your thoughts god thoughts of peace? And not of evil. I mean I mean nowhere in god's thought is evil about you So settle that kick the devil out of your head Who's telling you god did this to you or why did this covet come or why did this happen or why did I lose this or Why did I why did I have to bury them all that kick all those thoughts of the enemy out of your head? Because god's intent and his desire and his very thoughts he reveals to us. It's not evil It's good To do what to give you an expected end To give you an expected end god said i've already got a pre-planned pre-destined end for you And i'm working my will in your life To get you to that expected end It's a beautiful thing yesterday yesterday, I had the honor the privilege and the sad occasion to be able to preside over my aunt Faye my mom's sister Her funeral her daughter brought Her remains back to fort walton and was buried next to her husband And for years aunt faye my aunt faye was the only one that ever got out of town She was the world traveler her husband was in the military. So they went to germany and all kind of places and uh And she didn't serve the lord for a long long time My cousin her son who was one year younger than me She had two boys and a daughter dian was the oldest and ricky Was the next in line and then stewart was My age and we were we were buddies and and james and stewart were When he was 10 years old were in the house and messing around with a 22 rifle and james accidentally pulled the trigger and shot his brother in the head killed him And then james Ran for the rest of his life with gild around his neck that he would find himself under bridges and everything else And aunt faye had to deal with that and and multiple other things that she had to deal with her life and But she wrote me a letter in december of 2020 and i shared it with the family there yesterday for the first time they all heard it That in 2004 this is the reason why i'm telling this Because she made her peace with god And i had the privilege the youngest of all of them To be able to have a part in it because in 2004 She came to this church Sat on the fourth row. She told me in her letter I knew she was there, but i was preaching and And when i got done she said i don't even remember what you were preaching But when you got done you asked the question of that whole crowd in there at face assembly If i if you died tonight Where would you spend eternity? Are you ready to meet god? And she said people shot their hands up around the room and even the two ladies that were sitting next to her Put their hands up and then i didn't Because i wasn't ready She said the ladies next to me kind of looked and they were looking with concern and rightfully so She said it was in that service that i made my mind up It's time for me to get right and quit rebelling against god And being disobedient. That's what she wrote in her letter. I was disobedient All the things that she suffered in her life and dealt with and had to deal with and yet she Said i was reading in ezekiel three about the disobedience of the children of israel And i discovered that god loved them even in their disobedience And so yesterday i didn't have to have a sad occasion We sat around in the circle and everybody shared in a small group most of her contemporaries were gone But i had the privilege of being able to Be a part of her making her peace with god And then as she was living in colorado out there with her Out there where her daughter lived When she could not go to her own church. She was watching right here online Even to the last day that she was on this earth watching right here online Making your peace with god is a big deal And let me say to all of you here and all of you are watching and i knew this is Wednesday night And it's supposed to be the crowd that's supposed to be born again and ready to go but I'm just going to say to you that if you haven't made your peace with god You need to do it and you need to do it right now You don't need to wait you don't need me to get you to raise your hand or nothing You just need a prayer prayer of repentance before god and immediately specifically he will choose you Convert you change you transform you in a moment And you become a son of god And you've made your peace with god All the kids in our block as i was growing up would come to our house Because i was raised in a peaceful home I didn't say it was perfect But it was peaceful You know why? Because jesus was at the center of our home dad honored god Read the scriptures and led us and took us to church and and raised us In the righteousness of the lord And we had peace in our home and there were kids around my block And some of them come to your house today to play with your kids and grandkids. You know why? Because there's peace over there at your house There's not peace at their house There's not righteousness at their house. So they're running to the place where their little souls Can find peace So let them play Let them hang around that peaceful place When you get that opportunity and it will be there talk to them about jesus Yours is not a perfect home no more than mine was but if peace can live there That's the attraction Of jesus christ into our life. Are you hearing what i'm saying? Because jesus was in our family. We had peace I've told my family. We're gonna have a piece at our house if i got to break everybody's arm around here I just call myself a peace maker kidding Some people only bring their children home to religion but there's no peace in religion Trying to force them or whatever twists their arm to do something that's not it but a relationship with jesus christ There'll be peace that passes all understanding. Are you hearing what i'm saying to you tonight? That's what you need to have at your house. That's what you need to have on your job That's what you need to have in your mind as you're laying down tonight Because ladies and gentlemen when jesus comes Peace comes with him Oh, would you say that with me when jesus comes? peace comes with him I'm gonna try that on again. Say it again when jesus comes peace comes with him Has jesus come into your heart? Is he in your house? Is he in your car? Is he in your clothes? Is he in your finances? Is he in your mind? Is he in every party? Is he in your shoes in your socks? Come on somebody. I want peace wherever i am And if i'll bring jesus into it, there'll be peace no matter what father. I pray that the peace of god In this hour of confusion and anxiety and worry and torment and all kinds of things that are going on I pray right now that the peace of god That passes all understanding Be hours in christ jesus Somebody who's been struggling to lay down at night and rest And sleep i pray tonight. You give them peaceful restful sleep because righteousness is going to lay down beside them Hope and the love of god is going to be right there with them I thank you for i thank you for peace in this church anything that tries to confuse it or conflict it I pray that you'd step in the middle of it and bring peace to every situation So we give ourselves to you tonight and when jesus comes There's peace In jesus mighty name Everybody believes it say a good amen Stand up be a peacemaker to somebody shake their hand let them know how much you love and appreciate them Don't miss this coming weekend. It's gonna be a great time