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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 13, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 18.

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PEACE.

PEACE is not a feeling or an emotion, but a condition. We are not at peace because a pleasurable, self-satisfied feeling reigns within, but because we have complied with those conditions which bring peace. So is our peace with God. Many look in a wrong direction for peace, and do not know it when it comes. God is not at enmity with us; it is the carnal mind which "is enmity against God." Rom. 8:7. But when the sinner capitulates, lays down his arms of rebellion, when he renounces the carnal heart, and yields himself to God's law, in short, when he complies with the conditions of peace,—repentance toward God and faith in Christ,—he is at peace with God. He has naught against God, and the Lord has naught against him. There is naught between them. Whatever joy or sadness is present in the individual, there is peace between him and God. "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."