An Angry God // A Peace Beyond All Understanding, Part 3

<p>We’d all kind of want to think of God as a loving, gentle God … and of course He is. But God is also a God of anger and ultimately of judgement.  And if we don’t get that, then the whole Christmas thing becomes pretty meaningless.</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>We Need Peace</strong></span></h3> <p>It is fabulous to be with you again this week, leading up to Christmas. Now Christmas is this time of, well supposedly, peace and goodwill to all men. Peace can be hard to come by. So many lives are in turmoil, day by day, step by step, there’s conflict. In a sense, it’s the way of the world, yet so many lives are in so much turmoil – in the home, between husband and wife, in families, in the workplace.</p> <p>I mean, people get <em>"feral"</em> in the workplace – and of course, in ourselves. Some people have a lot, some people don’t have very much, but it doesn’t seem to make any difference. Some people believe in Jesus, other people don’t, yet still, they don’t have peace. Conflict rages on! Life is always bringing along things to rob us of our peace. Have you noticed that? It happens to all of us.</p> <p>That’s why in these weeks leading up to Christmas – this Christmas that is supposed to be about peace and goodwill to all men and women and kids and everyone else. We are doing a series called, <em>"A Peace Beyond All Understanding".</em> I believe we need to unzip our souls and pour God’s Word into us and get some great teaching on the peace that Jesus came to give us. I believe that God’s plan for your life and God’s plan for my life is to give us a peace and a joy beyond all human understanding and that’s why we are doing teaching on <em>"peace" </em>in these weeks leading up to Christmas.</p> <p>The whole problem of the human condition, the whole thing begins with our rebellion against God. You can read about it in the first couple of chapters of Genesis, when Adam and Eve – God blessed them, God put them in the garden, God provided for them and they rebelled – they did the one thing G