Romans chapter 5 and verse 1 in the English standard version of the scriptures.

Let's read this together.

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

And we're speaking today from the subject simply, it is well. It is well. It is well.

Hallelujah. You may be seated. You don't really realize how valuable peace is

until you no longer have it. You don't really realize how valuable peace is until you no longer have it.

You can be in the finest of homes with the most beautiful and serene of views from your home.

But if you don't have peace on the inside, peace is an inside job.

And so if you could have the finest financial portfolio, the best-looking spouse, wonderful children, a great school district.

But if you like peace on the inside, what good is it really?

If your hair is slayed,

your nails are done, your outfit is immaculately put together in sartorial splendor.

And you lack peace on the inside. What good is it? Every person, every person should seek to have

peace with God, the peace of God, and then peace with fellow humans. You've got to have peace with your fellow man

because what good is it for you to be saved and you can't get along with somebody that

lives next door to you or better steal somebody under your own roof.

The people who have the greatest capacity to vex you and to disturb your peace are not down the street.

They're down the hall.

Sometimes they're on the other side of the bed.

So I want you to get this biblical perspective that the Apostle Paul was writing to the church at Rome in Romans chapter 12 and verse 18 notice what it says do all that you can do everything within your power to live in peace

with everyone now I know some people are hard to get along with, but even knowing that,

do all that you can to live in peace with everyone. Because when people mess up your peace,

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