Prince of Peace [Part 2]

Pastor Mosser and Bible teacher Alan writings.

My child was born an assignment was given momentum upon his shoulders, and I would be the friends of these what Jesus would know for us to satisfy zeal of hose justice conciliation of excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series, Prince of peace is presented in an old church in North Carolina. If you're not able to special Christmas teaching. Today I want to make sure you know how to get our special source. Right now it can be yours for your donation this month to Alan Wright industries as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today's special offer. Contact us at pastoralan.org that's Pastor Alan.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860 will tell you more about it later in the program but now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan writing when you come into an awareness of the finish of the gospel wherein he became your sin, you became as righteous as it does change everything in your life but not to try to manipulate God but because you have discovered life itself changes everything. Zeal of the Lord of hosts.

It's not some random zeal without authority. It is a zeal deepest passion strongest emotion. Zeal means of ferocity of commitment that is fueled by your inmost being that has become consumed as if a fire towards its object in the zeal of the Lord. He is a zeal is not a random.

It is connected to his ultimate cosmic authority. They got zeal but no authority. All you got is a temper tantrum. But I have some of you verbally felt before when I was a high school my senior year. I suppose I'll sort of a leader on the tennis team and our coach will Brown was also assistant coach for the basketball team and paid high school had a good basketball team that always made it deep into the playoffs. And so my senior year. Our team was going on to win the state championship in coach Brown was occupied with that so he came to Maine.

He said there's a time here where tennis practice needs to start but I'm still obligated to basketball a set Alan I like you to convene the guys and without you here the sprints I want to run and here's what I want to do divide them up onto the courts according to their various strength as players get the Mitchell I got tennis balls and oversee the practice and make sure body stays hot right now just just can't run the thing until a week or two will be down basketball. I'll be there run at NASA kosher so I dad and we we we went out and ran and and did the staff and then I divide the thing out when there was one kid on the team that was a sophomore.

I think they just got on my nerves. I just didn't like it. He was just kind of a bully and had a bad attitude. I had a bad attitude is a bad attitude and is like that bad attitude on my team and what happened when you got zeal and no authority day I was on court 1 Alabama Ct. for and what I saw was his kid. He took a ball he just slammed it right right where the young kids of freshman slightest a new guy on the team. The instant hit with a Bob Sykes slammed right at him.

I know what was going on. I just thought I was you I lost it through my racket down I ran across four courts while the rest of the team would just stop while looking like this. I do know this kid was a lot bigger than I what I care looked right at him and said you I say we like that on this team has.

I'm sick of it as it just take your stuff and go just 15 slumped away, staring at me like what is Alan here is another practice will allow them at night during dinner. The phone rang.

I picked it up and I heard on the other side the boys. That said, is this coach right so you heard coach Brown yes Alan he said when I told you to coordinate practice and run some sprints and make sure by had tennis balls.

I did not authorize you to kick one of our best players off the team. I had zeal but no authority, which meant there something that is explosive and dangerous. But in the end has no real effect. I want you to know this about God.

The zeal to accomplish his word is connected to his ultimate creative and cosmic of far too overall thing. So when you get down and you're wondering where your faith going to come from. Please remember the zeal of the Lord of hosts is a reference to a cosmic divine army of angels is on your side. If God be for us with all his zeal and authority who could be against but is zeal that has so much passion and yet no real wisdom would not do as good either. The word in Hebrew for zeal actually is a reference to a very consumer word that references a very red face.

You know I'm timeout where you're just you are furious, but this word and in this context, in a righteous way, especially as regards jealousy to recover what is been taken from you is that kind of zeal where you can't think about anything else because this is too important to you it's it's like saying of a parent. If you are in a crowd and lost your little child in the crowd. You couldn't think about anything else to you found your child you nothing else would matter because of the zeal to find your child will that's the kind of zeal that were talking but it is connected with is a kind of jealousy that is connected with wisdom, compassion and self-control people so misunderstand what we mean by saying God is a jealous God is not bad news is wonderful news would be something terribly wrong, terribly wrong. If there were a man whose wife were unfaithful to him and the man were not jealous for her. You would question whether he loved her. You know you'll just let something that you love just be taken from you and it not bother you just proved you didn't love it, but the love that you have is endlessly deep and ferocious in its unquenchable power, then, that loving is accompanied by a zeal to have what it is that is yours and you love Alan Wright will have more teaching moment from today's series want to give someone a present this Christmas that they'll never forget. Let us help you give a gift, that money can't buy this Christmas.

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We had zeal but you had no real wisdom connected to it are no real self-control. That's just a dangerous thing doesn't help anybody. I try think back at times in my life where I've had such zeal that they're not moments and proud of when the zeal was not accompanied by self-control or wisdom. I think maybe a moment my life that I felt this ferocity of feeling, maybe more than any other moment than I can ever remember. It was fairly early in ministry years here and we don't very difficult season very difficult time. We would ministry was challenging where we went. The season being understaffed with felt like some of the way the world on my shoulders with my wife's younger sister Mary got cancer out of nowhere that she faltered and then took her life and another season. We just like every double front take everything from where and when the seasons and just in the middle of that of worn out and one as an office and when the staff came rushing in, broke into a meeting that I was in and said quick unity on the phone, your wife's on the phone and I am as I could hear she was very upset and she said the come quick to set I've been in a terrible accident and I said are the kids okay. She said I'm not sure, hard thing to drive to the scene of accident.

We don't know if your children are alive and my wife is alive let her on the phone I got there or site that I saw.

It looked like nobody could live it was completely demolished. It was upside down. A man and run a stop sign. He never even braked ran right into the side of her and I began frantically looking around to see who was alive and with the children okay and great relief when I saw all that my mother-in-law had little Abby, who was a baby and arms later learned that Abby hung upside down the car for a pretty long time.

People were afraid to try to rescue her because there's so much gasoline that was leaking. Finally, one trader, so what got her out found out later my son was fine. He was in a different vehicle.

My niece was in the car and she was okay, but in the midst of this emotion.

The sand may be a fun site to site.

I just I think is just so mad it the devil to somatic brokenness and so mad at all, just what what was mine then just an end and not be taken anything up taken from me and and I was I was I was furiously jealous for what was mine and then the man who had run the stop sign was there and he was thankfully okay and later I talked to him and his is a good sold, he made a bad mistake and and that anybody could make.

But he made it in and the end and all later was a but on that day when they said this is the man he's coming over. He probably was coming over to apologize to me. Robbie was zeal had overtaken me. I had to turn to one of the firefighters and say keep me away from that man literally move him away from me and move me here because I was in the bill contain myself.

I was I was going to go after because I had zeal, but just in the flesh I had no wisdom and no self-control. I had no providential understanding the situation. Zeal without compassion and self-control is just dangerous zeal without authority is ineffective. We need a God whose ego is accompanied by both his authority and his wisdom is a wonderful counselor. The word in Hebrew for wonderful is actually the word that is most commonly associated in Hebrew for the supernatural.

It really is to say he is a counselor of wonders for goes beyond the natural, in his capacity to know wisely how to release his zeal is both effective and wise in what he does with his zeal and you know I got zealous for at least these two things primarily. Probably these two things. He is zealous for his own glory and righteousness and justice in the earth is holy. He's just the zealous for justice. If you're zealous for justice.

It means that sin must be punished. Righteousness must be rewarded. There is no definition of justice that excludes sin being punished and judged the zealous for justice. Christian gospel is not good news because in any way. It implies that God overlooks sin. He despises sin and is a God of justice and he is zealous, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. The other thing is zealous for his you for your fellowship for his children to be with him reconciled in peace, living in joy zealous to give his children, and eternal and glorious inheritance he is zealous for your well-being for your healing for your deliverance for the unity of the body of Christ, for your own peace with him with others and in this world. God is zealous for you.

He loves you with a love its unquenchable.

He loves you more than can be described. He loves you so much that Paul can only pray that you could even begin to understand how wide, how deep, how long, how high is the love of God. He has a zeal for righteousness and justice and as a zeal for your well-being.

And yet these two things seem to be in conflict because we are the centers we are the ones who rebelled against him. We were the ones who were alienated from him. We like all who have been born in this world since Adam fell in the sand have been born in the Senate so there was there was a dilemma. God has a zeal for justice, which means punished sin and reward righteousness.

And yet there was no one on the face of the earth who had no sin that needed no punishment and there was no one who is righteous who merited reward and so God in his zeal of authority and compassion so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son as a baby King God man child that was born in a son that was given would have the government upon his shoulders and would be the Prince of peace because what Jesus would do for us as he would satisfy business zeal of the Lord of hosts for justice and for reconciliation of humanity under God and Jesus was full of zeal but was accompanied by his compassion and his submission to the father. So when he called the ground of Gethsemane and sweat blood. At first he said could this cup pass from me. I would rather not drink it. My flash would rather just calm down. The legion of angels now destroy them all.

Skip the cross and move on to glory, but instead he said, not my will yours be done. I want my zeal to be accompanied by the wisdom of your providential plan so we went to the cross and they are on the cross brothers and sisters. You are sin and mine, and everyone who accepts Christ saving work all of our sin was nailed to that cross and was punished there every single one of your sins has been judged and punished through the cross of Jesus Christ. Because God is just, and he brought forth justice through the cross of Jesus Christ and in that same crawl was all who trust him receive the unimaginable gaffe of the imputation of the righteousness of Jesus. Wherein God regards you not only is if you never sent but is if you live Jesus's meritorious life and so he becomes propitious towards you favorable towards you. Justice shifts and is on your side through the cross. God is both just and just a fire is zeal for justice and is zeal for you, come together at the cross, where his wrath and mercy it what God wants most, he rescues back to himself. You and he has like pagans and those who get lost and to the emptiness of legalistic religion of any sort thought if he could ramp up his commitment and devotion and express his zeal even to the point of sacrificing his own son that he can manipulate the heavens and bring favor of God down upon them and the gospel says just the opposite that says behold the love of God, they came to you because the zeal of God. Every good gift in your life comes down from God, and you can count on this, and rest in this, buoyed by this and transformed by this knowledge is not your zeal but the zeal of the Lord and that's the gospel.

Allen running in today's good news Christmas message. Prince of peace we stick with this pastor Alan is back in the studio sharing a parting good news thought for the day. Just a moment want to give someone a present this Christmas that they'll never forget.

Let us help you give a gifted money can't buy this Christmas. Give someone your blessing positive biblically-based faith filled vision for their life in the beginning God bless data. Many and then told them to be fruitful and multiply, because in God's design blessing isn't the rope for productivity. It's the fuel for it.

Now more than ever, someone you love needs your blessing and we're here to help you craft this month. Special offer from Alan Wright is a beautiful booklet that will teach you how to craft an full blessing to easy step-by-step instructions are biblically based, and even include a worksheet that helps you and your blessing. So this Christmas.

Give someone you love a present, not found in stores, a gift from your own heart that will encourage and empower write down the blessing and put it in the package under the tree or put it in your Christmas card. They'll never forget it when you make your gift. Alan Wake ministries this month will send you this booklet as our thank you so you can discover the power to bless and we are in our final days of offering the special product. Call us at 877-544-4860 or visit pastor@an.org Merry Christmas back here in the studio with pastor and in our conclusion to this Christmas message. Prince of peace, not just for Christmas but I think all year round. How can it change our way of thinking by by remembering again, not just a Christmas but he's always and forever are princes of the increase of his government. There shall be no and that's a good word and it is Christmas right the government that we want to increase as the government of the one who is the Prince of peace. He is governing and he is committed to peace. I think that so often as we been learning today. We think that it's all about us becoming more zeal for cell is all about us becoming more motivated us becoming more this or that and what we realizes all of accomplish by the zeal of the Lord. So Merry Christmas everyone. Season to take a deep breath and release all your anxiety to him because he cares for you.

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