Prince of Peace | Clayton Hentzel

Good work, good work Crossing family.

I love you. It is so good to be with you

today. I want to welcome all of our

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One of the things that we're going to be pushing across all

of our different locations, as we're in the Christmas season.

Is our Christmas Eve services. And we have a bunch.

In fact, I was doing some math and I'm not much of a

mathematician. But we are going to have more

Christmas Eve services this year than I had people in the first

church I pastored, which is a little crazy.

Yeah, which you know, God bless them.

And what I want to encourage you to do is I want you to know this

upfront. These are going to be great

services for you to invite some friends and some family to.

We're going to start our services on that Thursday, and

then we're going to have month Friday and then we're going to

have them again on Saturday and then on Sunday.

We're going to give you an incredible opportunity to

worship Jesus in your house with your family.

And you might be going to Clayton.

We want to come to church. Listen you can you can come here

and you can hang out the parking lot, you can Grill.

Something, you can pick up trash, you can pick up, you can

pull weeds at all of our Christmas Eve services.

We are going to give you something for you to leverage in

your home off, for our Christmas service on Sunday, which we're

going to broadcast. You're going to have access to

that at your house, around your timetable and you'll have stuff

for communion. So that way you can still

celebrate the Lord's supper. We're going to give you all

those opportunities. We've already partnered with

another church on this thing. It's incredible.

I can't wait for you guys to experience it.

If, if you're wired, like me, you're going to eat it up

because there's a special, like 30 minute gift at the end, which

is super cool. But for those services on

Thursday, almost, I think almost every look at almost every

location is doing a Is day than a Friday, then Saturday.

It's going to be a great service and I cannot wait for you guys

to be able to participate in that, I believe you'll be

encouraged and I believe you'll be blessed.

Well last week, we started this sermon series called the gift I

need and I made mention of my level of frustration and

disappointment with you because as we were going through the

survey questions, I just realized how raw of Sinners, you

really are. And I have more data.

I asked, we ask this question, how many of you prefer homemade

presents and how many of you prefer store-bought presence?

Fifty-two percent of you said, homemade. now, look, look at the

people you came with, are they that artsy They're that crafty.

What? All right, whatever.

The rest of the Smart Ones are like just sent it to me from

Amazon and give me a receipt. Okay, now here's here's here's

the next one. We asked this question.

If you had a choice, no present. Or a bad present. 65% of you.

So no present. Just don't even get me anything

if it's bad. I don't even.

I don't want to. I don't want the hassle of

having your bed gift in my presence and I was gonna hit you

hard for it. I was going to preach a hard

message to you. But then I went through and I

looked at some of the bad gifts, you guys have received, and I

got to be honest with you, I get it now because there are you

have bad people in your life. Can I can, I can do, can I take

a couple minutes and just walk you through some of the bad

gifts? You've received, here's one a

half set of tools, dad, cut the plastic in half and gave one

half to one brother and the other half to him.

It's just okay. Someone got a rock.

Someone got soap. We didn't know how to tell you

that you stunk so well. We got some soap wrapped it up

in a present for you and that way, when you open it up, you'll

feel really insecure half-eaten box of chocolate, was one of the

gifts, okay. Back shaver, I don't remember

what her name was when she turned it in, but I mean that

would be a that's a brutal gift to get.

Here's like the ultimate prank, here's one.

How did they say it home decor? That isn't their style but they

feel obligated to keep it to keep it up.

Which I think as like in-laws like this is the ultimate power

play. Start buying stuff that you know

that they don't like that. They feel obligated to hang on

their walls. Like yeah, who's in charge now.

Okay. One of the note said this, when

I got nothing from my first husband, that's a baller

statement right there because she's acknowledging.

She used to be married to that guy.

She's like, yeah. But I traded him.

I was like, you gotta go, you didn't get me.

Anything for for Christmas and I got myself a second husband.

That's what I got. I got myself a gift fellas, just

quick. I saw a lot of ladies saying

that they got vacuums and workout equipment.

You guys. I'm just gonna to tell you

something. They can buy that stuff for

themselves with the Christmas money, but you cannot buy.

You know? I saw that mop and I was

thinking of you sweetie now. It's like, I should get her a

nicer one. No.

Okay. Now, here are my top 5 and these

are, this is us. This is who we are ready.

Number five is a shoplifted football jersey, that was too

big and not from a team that I like, Dad number four, a maple

syrup subscription. How big in the pancakes?

Do you have to be where someone's like?

Yeah, we're going to put this guy on a plan.

Okay, we gotta all right. Number three, this is probably

from our Iowa location. Underwear from my boyfriend's.

Mom! How did that?

So what do you what do you think I should get your your

girlfriend for Christmas? Some underwear.

All right, I don't, I don't know.

I think hope she likes it. I, how do you even?

Okay, now the number two and number one have pictures.

Here's what it is. This is for a log.

You Harry Potter fans. This is what she writes as a

Harry Potter fan. I loved Dhabi.

My husband ordered me a life-size Dhabi statue for my

classroom. He got a great deal on it for a

reason when the package showed up, it was an Ugly plastic

version that was about the size of my hand.

We laughed, pretty hard, but then we went to return it the

website that we bought it from no longer existed.

Okay. Here's what he thought he was

getting her. And this is what, Yeah.

But the best one ever turn to your neighbor say owl.

Mittens Yeah, that's right. You didn't think you were going

to say that today Church? Okay, nobody filled that one out

on their bingo card. This is what it reads.

I'm a teacher and have recess Duty in the cold needing a pair

of new warm gloves. My husband thought he was buying

me, a really cute pair of owl mittens, I love it.

But what he got what was not was not what was pictured on the

website, the gift that came was a pair of Woolen mittens with

two large plush. Owl keychains thankfully, it

came With giant safety pins to attach the owls to the gloves.

This is what he thought he was buying, and this is what he

actually got. Now, I understand why some of

your like, just don't get me anything please.

Just, I don't want that pain. Okay.

Did you know I mentioned this last week, did you know that God

is a good Gift Giver? The Bible goes out of its way to

describe to us that God gives good.

Yes, Matthew 7:11. If you then though, you are

Matthew 7:11

evil. Know how to give good gifts to

your children. How much more will your father

in heaven? Give good gifts to those who ask

him eight hundred years before the birth of Jesus.

Isaiah, the prophet talks about the kind of gift that we would

eventually receive from God, which is his son, Jesus Christ.

We find some of these words in Isaiah chapter 9, For as, in the

Isaiah 9 · chapter mention

Day of midians Defeat, you have shattered the Yoke that burdens

them, the bar across the shoulders, the rod of their

oppressor every Warriors battle are or every Warriors boot used

in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined

for burning will be fuel for the fire for to us.

A child, is born to us. A son is given and the

government will be on his shoulders and he will be called

wonderful, counselor, Mighty God Everlasting father.

Other Prince of Peace of the greatness of his government and

peace, there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne

and over his kingdom establishing upholding, it with

Justice and righteousness from that time on and forever.

Last week, we talked about Jesus being a wonderful, counselor and

a mighty God. And in case you missed it and

you want to catch up, you can always catch up on our sermons

by going to the crossing dotnet /, watch or you can go to

YouTube and search. Search one Crossing and it will

get you there. But today, I want to talk to you

about what it means for Jesus, to be the Prince of Peace.

The ancient word for peace in the Old Testament is Shalom

turned your neighbor, say shalom, shalom.

Yeah. Now, you know, your sound

smarter, Shalom. Peace.

Can be broken down into three categories.

External Internal and spiritual external.

This is Shalom. Externally would be the absence

of War. It would be relational in

nature. Question.

In your marriage. Is there slom?

The absence of War. Would you say your home?

Life is Shalom. Or are your kids driving you

crazy? Are you at Shalom in your

workplace? Are you in in the absence of

War? That's external.

Internal is your well-being? Like internally personally, are

you at? Shalom.

Are you at peace? Do you have security health

freedom from care? Are you content?

Those are all signs that. You have Shalom.

You have an inner peace about you.

It includes everything given by God, in all areas of your life,

everything that makes for your highest good.

It was Joseph when he was in Egypt and his brothers came to

visit him that he required about his dad, all the way back, who

was not in Egypt at the time and this is what he says, is it

Shalom with our aged father. Is our dad at peace, is he in a

good place internally? And then finally, it's spiritual

Is your soul at Shalom? Is your show.

Is your soul at peace? Are you walking in the Green

Pastures and sipping from The Still Waters of God?

There is a universal desire for people to experience, shalom.

That is why it is the go-to answer at beauty pageants.

If you could just get one thing, what would you wish for World?

Shalom. It's why it's the promise of

politicians. If you notice when a politician

campaigns, he's going to talk about external piece.

Our interactions with other countries with other parties and

then he's going to talk about how it's going to make you

content. Because everybody everybody

wants Shalom. There was this song written by

Ed McCurdy and I didn't know him either.

But this song has been covered by Simon & Garfunkel and Johnny

Cash. See those of you over 50.

I remember you. Come here and this is the song

that he the title of the song. Last night, I had the strangest

dream Can we do the lyrics? Last night, I had the strangest

dream. I never dreamed before.

I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to War.

I dreamed. I saw a mighty room.

The room was filled with men and the papers.

They were signing said they'd never fight again.

And when the papers were all signed and a million copies

made, they all joined hands and bowed.

Their heads and grateful prayers were made.

And the people in the streets below, they all danced round,

and round, and guns and swords and uniforms were scattered on

the ground. When I awoke twas but a dream

and peace, a dirty word. I tried to tell them of my dream

but not a word, they heard. And when are then I got me

fighting mad and knew, just what I do I'd fight non-violently for

peace until my dream came true. I say it gets at the heart of

this. This Shalom, this desire for

peace. Those of you last week, you may

remember that I made a big deal about getting in and the

Israelites defeating the midianites.

And Isaiah says, when the Messiah shows up when the gift

shows up, it will feel like right after midians defeat,

where the 300 defeated an army, too.

Numerous to count this, what he says, I've had nine four and

five for as in the Day of midians Defeat, you have

shattered, the Yoke that burdens them, the bar across their

shoulders, the rod of their oppressor, the look at the

description of uses sounds. A lot like that song from Ed

every Warriors boot used in battle.

And every garment It rolled in blood will be destined for

burning will be fuel for the fire.

There will be no more need for these things.

There's no longer going to be a need for soldiers.

There's no more blood-soaked garments.

There's no flag covered caskets. No.

We know as Christians that this will all happen upon the return

of Christ. When all of us who are followers

of Jesus Christ, will be ushered into his Heavenly presence.

We know that eventually, we will all experience an eternal,

Shalom and eternal peace. But the question that you want

answered in the question that I want answered.

His, is there any peace for today?

Is there any piece for me from now until that time?

And the good news is the answer is yes, let's begin spiritually.

Is there peace for you? And I today spiritually can we

have Shalom? The answer that question is yes

and the reason you and I can have peace spiritually is

because we are justified by faith, not by our own actions or

our own goodness. Imagine if you and I were trying

to have a right relationship with God, based on our

abilities, how stressed to the max?

Would you be or any of you good enough to please a holy and

perfect? God can you do enough good

things? Can you give enough money away

to write your relationship with God because deep down inside you

know how bad you've been? And I know how bad I've been.

That's why we find this in Romans 5:1.

Romans 5:1

Therefore since we have been Justified, you've heard Jerry

talked about this before. What is justified mean?

That means just as if I'd never sinned making everything, right?

Therefore since we have been Justified everything has been

made, right? How was this made right through

faith? We have Shalom, actually it?

See Renee. This is in the Greek now but

Shalom with God through our Lord.

Jesus Christ. Through whom we have gained

access by faith into this grace in which we now stand, and we

boast in the hope of the glory of God.

Let's stay here for just a second.

Here's what he's doing. He's moving you and I into a new

neighborhood. This is what he's saying in the,

in the grace, in which we now stand.

So you and I stand in a place of Grace.

Well, how did we get there? We got there.

Through faith. Through faith in what through

faith in, what Jesus Christ did on our behalf.

He justified us and made peace between us and God because we

were at war with him. We were enemies of God, because

of our sin, but Jesus comes in and through his sacrifice.

He justifies us, we take hold of that justification through faith

because I believe in who he is and what he's done on my Behalf

I have been made right before God, I've been Justified, and

this is a Grace that was bestowed on me.

It is not a Grace. I earned it was something that

was poured out on me. Let's keep going in the text,

not only, so, but we also glory in our what I should have

stopped at verse 2. Glory in our sufferings.

Hold on a second. You mean I can have peace with

God but I might still have to suffer here on Earth.

Yeah. What?

But Clayton, if I've been made right with God, everything

should be super easy. In fact, if you read through the

scripture, you'll find people who had a whole lot of peace

with God. But they suffered.

I'm trying to think of one off the top of my head.

Well, there's Jesus. He had to Jesus have perfect

peace with God. Yeah.

Did he also suffer? Yeah, well, one of my favorite

passages in scripture, Paul and Silas are in prison and they're

worshipping. Well, we for worshipping you're

probably at peace with God but their circumstances were full of

suffering now. Come here.

Keep going because we know that suffering, produces

perseverance, perseverance character and character hope.

Let's keep going in the text and hope does not put us to shame

because God's love has been poured out into our hearts

through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

Here's this. Picture.

God is opening up your heart and he is dumping a hundred gallon

bucket of love into your life. That makes you at peace with

him. Which means when you have peace

spiritually, You can suffer in this world and it can't be taken

from you. You can have something inside of

you that allows you to go through what you're going

through. You can have peace in the midst

of storms. This is just what God does on

our behalf, and look at the company that piece keeps in

scripture. Like if I were to make you list

off your friends like every time you go somewhere, you're

bringing these people with you. When you go golfing.

If there's these guys in the golf cart, when you go to your

knitting club, these are the people that show up with their

own needles like this is your, these are your homies will piece

has homies. Because if you go home and you

do this, do home typing, in Bible Gateway.

Look at all the people are all the other things that hang out

with peace in scripture. There's glory honor and peace.

Peace is friends are Glory and Honor later on.

It says this life and peace. Peace, hangs out with life,

peace and joy, Grace and peace, love and peace, shall be with

you everywhere. That piece goes.

He shows up with friends, the kind of friend.

You want, love, and joy, and patience and kindness.

No, fewer than six times in the New Testament.

Is God called a God of Peace. When God's spirit, brings his

Harvest into your heart and into my heart, love and joy are

followed by piece. And this piece is ours for the

asking. Peace.

Which replaces anxiety peace which transcends understanding

is only a prayer away. A prayer away.

You say. Yeah you can have access to that

piece through praying a prayer. Look what it says.

Philippians chapter 4 do not be anxious about anything.

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Anxiety is the opposite of Peace.

There is no calm, but in every situation, how many situations

is that? That's all of them.

There is never a situation that you are facing that doesn't fit

in. This scripture by prayer and

petition. What does that mean Clayton?

I've only prayed of never petitioned if I'm if I'm doing

the math problem here. If I want this piece, you've

only taught me how to pray. You've never taught me how to

petition, okay? This is free.

No charge to this, here's the difference between prayer and

petition, prayer is Prayer. Is you talking and being a

really good Christian to God? It's you saying God, I know

that. if this is in your will, I would just really appreciate it

if you would help me out petitioning.

Is you like going to the governmental authorities and

saying, I need relief. I need Justice, I need help.

It's you approaching a higher power at you going to God and

say, look, man, if you don't show up, I'm done.

I'm coming to you because you're the only one that can get me

through. But God, I'm also a prayer.

And I know that your ways are higher than my ways and if you

see fit in your heavenly powers to make this situation, right?

I would greatly appreciate it. But God, I got to be honest with

you deep down in my heart, I'm worried about everything that's

coming. My way.

I'm scared, out of my mind, I need you to deliver me but God

if you don't I just want you to know.

I'm still going to show up at church early and I'm still going

to help out and kids church but God, I need you to move on my

behalf. In Jesus name, I pray, amen.

That is prayer and petition. With Thanksgiving.

Now, how are you going to put all three of those together?

God, little If it's your will, would you deliver me?

God, you got to show up. And man, I'm thankful, I can

talk to you about this because my wife won't talk to me right

now and God, I don't know what kind of work you're doing in my

life. I don't know if this suffering

is going to produce character but God I'm asking you to use it

for your glory only. You could take a messed-up

person like this and pull me through.

Got just get me through it but I'm telling you, if you if you

leave me alone here if you don't move on my behalf, I'm ruined.

In Jesus name. I pray.

Okay. Now, look at this.

Let's keep going to verse 7. And the peace of God, which

transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your

minds in Christ Jesus. He's going to guard your heart

and your mind. He's gonna protect you.

He's in the middle of what you're going through.

He's going to remind you that you're loved by him and you are

held by him. And while everybody else is

looking at you and seeing the suffering that you're going

through and they're going, how do you have so much peace in the

middle of the storm? yes, I because I have shalom.

Spiritually. Well, what about peace

internally? Well, if this Mighty God, this

wonderful counselor this maker of Worlds, the suffering

servant, this water walking demon, casting people healing

resurrecting. Jesus is in my corner.

How could I not have peace internally?

How could I not be? Okay, my future secure because

he has it. My destiny is joyous because he

purchased it. My judgment will be grace.

Because he died for it. What can the world take away

from me? When I have all of that going

for me. But Clayton, what about

externally and relationally? Well, two things here, the first

is we find peace with others because of what Jesus did on our

behalf in light of what he has forgiven.

In our lives, we can forgive people relationally and our own

life. If you racked up a million

dollar debt with God and he forgave it, When your aunt sends

against you, $100 sin, you can go.

Look, I've been forgiven a million so I at least ought to

be able to forgive 100. And I'm able to make peace

because there's nobody on planet Earth that I have done more harm

to than God. And nobody has ever abused me

more than I abused my relationship with God.

And if God was willing to still pour out his grace into my heart

and move on my behalf to make peace, I can I can make peace

with you because of what Christ did in me.

The second thing is as I was more and more people that you

know and love and care about find peace with God spiritually

and that produces a piece internally.

Then it has no choice but to expand its domain as the world

becomes more and more Peaceable. Look what Jesus says in John

John 14 · chapter mention

chapter 14. Peace, I leave with you.

My peace. I give you.

I do not give you as the world gives.

Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid.

The absence of peace is trouble and fear and he's saying because

you have shalom. You don't have to be troubled.

You don't have to be afraid now hear me this peace cannot be

taken from you. But you can give it away.

No one can lay hold of the peace that God has put in your heart.

But you can give it away. You can have this incredible

peace in your heart like right now you're all at church and go

man, I feel whole lot of peace and then you're going to go home

and you're going to try and figure out where you're going to

eat today for lunch. And those say, where do you want

to go to eat? You'll say I don't care and

they'll be like, I don't care either you pick and then you'll

pick and then they'll say not there.

And so you'll pick another one and they'll say not there

either. And you will find the peace of

God leaving your soul. No.

That is not the peace of God. Leaving your soul that is you

giving it away to a food order. Your peace cannot be taken from

you. No one can lay hands on what God

has placed in your heart, but you can shell it out.

You can lose it to the new cycle, you can lose it to the

politics. You can lose it to your social

media, you can give it away, but no one is taking it from you.

Can you imagine a world? Dominated by this kind of

Shalom. A people group walking around

better at peace with God. Peace with themselves and at

peace with others. But no wonder the Angels broke

through the clouds and said this when they are announcing the

birth of Christ glory to God in the highest heaven and on Earth.

Shalom. To those on whom his favor

rests. Perhaps it should come as no

surprise. That the very first time that

God is called a god of peace, takes us all the way back to the

story of Gideon, getting ready to fight and army too.

Numerous to count. Getting it's done having this

discussion with God and this is what Gideon says.

So, getting and built an altar to the lord and there.

He called it. The Lord is peace.

Jehovah. Shalom.

Now, come here, come here, pay attention.

Gideon calls, God, the God of Peace before he ever fights the

battle. He calls god Jehovah.

Shalom. Before an army is ever

assembled. He calls him Jehovah.

Shalom before the trumpets are ever blown.

He calls them before, the 32,000 show up before the 22,000 go

home. Before, he's left with only 300.

Before any of that takes place, he goes Jehovah, Shalom, the

Lord is peace. which means that Gideon recognized who God was

before he experienced, who God was He goes, God is a God of

Peace before he ever experienced the peace of God.

There's a Devo in here for us. You still have to do your part.

You still have to walk it out. That's why in Romans chapter 5.

Romans 5 · chapter mention

It says we lay hold of this by faith.

That the only way you and I are going to experience this piece

of God is when we by faith step into it and lay hold of it, we

must walk into it. We must take hold of the peace

that God offers before we will ever fully experience it and I

hope you'll do that is we're moving to is time to decision.

There's an old church, he's saying you've probably heard it.

If you you know been here long enough for went somewhere before

you came here But you can't know the peace of God without peace

with God. That you will never experience

the benefits of this, heavenly peace or internally, or

relationally and externally. Until you've got it figured out

spiritually. Just not going to happen.

I want you to see what God did on your behalf.

If it's hidden inside of Colossians 1:19 through 20, let

Colossians 1:19–20

me read it to you for. God was pleased, so it made God,

happy to have all his fullness, dwell in him, whose him?

That's Jesus. So what we learning about Jesus

is all of the fullness of God, everything about God was made

manifest in the person of Jesus Christ, okay?

And threw him through Jesus to Reconcile.

You know reconcile is satisfying the new you went out to eat and

when you got done they brought you the bill and you had to

reconcile the bill yet to make payment when you went to get the

oil changed this week. They sent you there.

Like, hey look, here's the air filter.

You're going to need to get that.

And here's new wiper fluid. You're going to need that and we

got some new are that we're dealing out that's like 10

bucks. If you guys want the new where

you go, you bought the new Air and then like your taillights,

right? Yeah.

I need to eat the tail. Taillights and you just kept

going, okay, what else is wrong with it?

And then they bring you the total and you have to reconcile

because you're in a state of being a debtor and you want to

resolve that debt reconcile. Hold on a second.

So God is reconciling to himself.

You and me. He's making a payment.

To himself to repurchase a right relationship on our behalf with

us and God things, whether on Earth or things in heaven

because you might be wondering, is this good news for me?

Well, do you live in heaven? Anybody in here, Heaven dweller?

Nope, okay. So that part isn't you any of

you that live here on Earth? I love that it says this things

on earth because you could be tempted to come up with all

kinds of reasons why you wouldn't qualify. if I, I was

talking to someone before service and he was talking to

trying to talk to somebody about coming to church and the

question was well I mean can I get to heaven?

Because I've smoked weed. Like dear God, I mean if you

haven't smoked weed, you might not even be able to serve it our

church. Okay.

Like how are we how are we gonna put this stuff together?

Right. And someone sitting there

thinking to himself I can't have a right relationship with God

because I've smoked weed, you might be going, I can't have a

right relationship with God because I'm divorced.

Now there's no way I could have a right relationship.

Ship with God because my kids don't follow the lord.

Now, you might be going I can't have a right relationship with

Jesus because I'm I'm too fat and room to Harry.

You could be coming up with all kinds of reasons and this is the

reason he gives are you on Earth.

Are you affected by gravity then you are affected by my love?

That's the qualification. God sets out for you and me.

How did he do it by making peace?

Shalom. Through his blood shed on the

cross. God, put all of the fullness in

Jesus, to reconcile to pay the debt to restore peace with us.

And how did he do it? But Jesus suffering to make that

piece of reality. And if you're here today, and

maybe you've never heard about Jesus, or you're wondering why a

bunch of people show up every single week, to celebrate him

and worship him because it's easy for us.

Because we realize what he did on our behalf and cannot get

over it. And I want you to know that you

can have access to that today and just a few moments.

I'm going to pray in the people around you against and some of

them are going to come up to the steps and get down and pray and,

and you can too. But you know, what else you

could do, you could walk right over there to the baptistery and

you could talk to somebody about what it means to start an

intimate, personal relationship with Jesus Christ to step into

that piece. To the rest of you.

Christians in synchrony is chapter 5.

Isaiah 5 · chapter mention

This is what it says that we are.

Therefore Christ's ambassadors as if God himself were making

his appeal through us, you guys know what ambassadors are right

there. People that you know, bribe the

president for them to be able to give you a stationed in some

really cool place and speak on our behalf in a really tropical

climate to, pretty good Gig. If you can get one and what they

do is when they speak they speak with the authority of the United

States government. They're the Ambassador.

They represent us to whatever country they're in.

This is what Paul is saying that you and I are, we are therefore,

Christ's ambassadors as if when we speak we are speaking on

behalf of God and do you know what we speak?

That we can be reconciled. The world is thinking that they

are at war with God and we get to step into those moments and

say no. No.

Peace. Shalom.

Peace for your family, peace for your soul, and peace for your

heart, I come to bring this message from God, there can be

peace, the war is over how because 2,000 years ago, God

made it right before you could ever make it wrong.

He died in advance for the sins that you haven't even committed

yet. And that's a message that's too

good to keep to ourselves. Would you stand with me?

Heavenly Father, you are good. Good, good.

And I pray that you would do a good work in us right now.

God for people who have never started a relationship with you

to people who've been here so long and been following you so

long that they can't even remember what life was like

before you do it. Work in US.

Bring peace into our hearts. Bring peace into our souls and

bring peace into our lives. And I pray, amen.

And I pray, amen.