God's Declaration of Peace // A Peace Beyond All Understanding, Part 4

<p>Christmas is an amazing time – because it’s God’s declaration of peace.  Peace and goodwill available to us all for the taking.  But what does that mean?</p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>The Human Dilemma</strong></span></h3> <p>Here we are, Christmas is almost upon us – can’t believe it but there you go – another year, just a few weeks to go and on the program, we are talking about peace. We have been talking about peace the last couple of weeks because there’s so much turmoil in people’s lives. We get a lot of feedback – people write and ring and send us emails who have listened to this program and for so many people, what they consistently say is that as they’ve let God’s Word, through this program Christianityworks, come into their lives and into their hearts, it’s given them peace in the midst of their turmoil and that’s what God does. That’s what God’s Word does, God’s heart is for us to have peace.</p> <p>But what is peace? What does it look like? Over the last few weeks we have been looking in the Book of Ezekiel, which talks about Israel’s rebellion against God. God blessed them greatly and God started a covenant with them – a promise; a relationship – that we can read about. We won’t go there now, but you can read about it in Leviticus chapter 26. Oh, we will go there now, let’s go. Grab a Bible – can’t help myself – let’s go and have a look at Leviticus chapter 26 and this covenant talks about God’s blessing. It begins by saying:</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><em>If you follow my statutes and keep my commandments and observe them faithfully, I will give you the rains in their due season and your land shall yield it’s produce and the trees of the field will yield their fruit and your threshing floor will overtake the vintage and you’ll be blessed - I’ll bless your socks off, if you keep my commandments.</em></p> <p>And in the middle of it He says:</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><em>And I will make my dwelling place in your midst and I won’t abhor you and I will walk among you an