The Pursuit of Peace
Rev. Bruce Brown
II Samuel 3:1-30
November 15, 2020
I. Seeking Peace through Personal Advantage (verses 2-5)
II. Staging Peace for Personal Gain (verses 6-21)
III. Stalling Peace with Personal Revenge (verses 22-30)
“If we are to have peace and blessing in the church, then Christians must be led by those who are servant-hearted and zealous for the good of God’s people even at their own expense.…. For the believer in Jesus, the basis and the power of peace is Christ himself. For “he himself is our peace,” Paul writes, who has made all believers one “and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility” (Eph. 2:14). Sinners may have peace with the very God they have offended through the peace that Jesus gives through his own blood. And it is through born-again Joabs, looking on the Abners of their lives, their hearts melted with the peace of Christ, no longer burning with the fires of resentment and hatred, that Jesus extends, promotes, and offers his peace to a dying, divided, and sin afflicted world.” ~ Richard Phillips