Coming up next on the Lord's Day edition of renewing your mind.

We think about peace every Christmas Eve, peace on earth.

Isn't that why you came to bring peace?

She said, no.

If you suppose that, it's an improper supposition.

He said, I tell you not at all.

It's not my purpose, but rather division.

Some might bristle at that declaration from Jesus.

Division?

What good can come from that?

Let's find out what Jesus meant and why it's important in understanding the kingdom of God.

Here's R.C. Sproul preaching from the Gospel of Luke, chapter 12.

He'll begin reading at verse 49.

I came to send fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled.

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is accomplished.

Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth?

I tell you not at all, but rather division.

From now on, five in one house will be divided, three against two, and two against three.

Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against mother, mother in law,

against her daughter in law, daughter in law, against her mother in law.

Then he also said to the multitudes, whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west immediately, you say,

a shower is coming, and so it is.

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