Making Peace
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 115 minutes
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“For unto us a Child is born and unto us a Son is given; dominion shall rest upon His shoulders, and His name shall be called Angel of Great Counsel, for I will bring peace upon the rulers and well-being to Him. Great is His dominion — and there is no end to His peace — upon the Throne of David and over His Kingdom, to establish it and uphold it with justice and righteousness, from now unto eternity. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.”
The Lord is a God of peace, and those who follow Him are to be peacemakers, but to be a peacemaker does not mean to be a doormat or to refuse to utilize violence when and where morally warranted. In this life, peace will always be imperfect, for we live in a fallen world wherein suffering is both inevitable and inescapable, but the eschatological peace found in Scripture, in God’s promises is an absolute peace. As Christians, we have the perfect peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, upon which we can rely — whatever may come in this life.
Peace applies to all of the estates and spheres of life, but it does not apply univocally or identically. The peace that is appropriate to the home and that which contributes to that peace is not the same as the peace that applies to politics, and the latter may be sacrificed more readily in pursuit of higher goals. These are matters of wisdom, and the Christian must know how to comport himself in the home, in society, in the State, and in the Church — peace applies to them all, but not equally and not identically.
Where there are higher duties (e.g., in the State, in the Church), then a false peace may be sacrificed in pursuit of those higher duties. In the State, security trumps peace; in the Church, Martin Luther may have put it best: “Peace, if possible; truth, at all costs.”
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.7 | And I'm still, whoa. |
| 0:44.9 | On today's Stone Choir, we're going to be talking about peace. |
| 0:49.1 | Last week, we discussed violence at some length, talked about the implications within politics and within |
| 0:56.7 | our lives and the context in which violence is sometimes necessary when it's forbidden, |
| 1:02.9 | basically addressing the fact that part of the new global religion says that all violence |
| 1:08.4 | is always and everywhere per se evil, which is plainly false |
| 1:12.5 | scripturally. So we made the case that that's not always true. And yet at the same time, we also |
| 1:17.8 | made very clear that saying that something is moral is not inciting it. You know, when we talked |
| 1:25.4 | about slavery, we're not saying you should go out and get slaves. |
| 1:28.5 | It's never license that is the reason behind discussing some of these subjects. And so after discussing |
| 1:34.6 | violence last week is something that is in some places in times permissible. We want to talk |
| 1:39.8 | this week specifically about peace. If we get into the main subject, just a brief note that Corey has |
| 1:46.4 | another big batch of the challenge coins ready to go shortly, and he's hoping that by the end of |
| 1:52.1 | next week, he'll be able to get the rest of them out. So thank you to everyone for your patience |
| 1:56.1 | and for your support. We'll let you know after they've all gone out. So for some reason, |
| 2:00.8 | after we give the |
| 2:01.9 | all-shipped signal, if you still haven't gotten one, you can reach out to us and we can get it |
| 2:06.1 | sorted out. But he's very good record-keeping. So that's probably unlikely, but we just want to |
| 2:11.2 | acknowledge that when everything's out, you can let us know. And we, of course, ordered plenty. |
| 2:16.1 | We'll have probably a couple of years supply. So |
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