Cessation of Againstness

Part 2 “Peace”

God has declared peace. Christians have the promise of peace. The Cessation of Againstness is
between God and His people. This peace is not World peace.

Isaiah 9:6. For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is
on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity,
Prince of Peace.
7. To the increase of the princely power, And of peace, there is no end, On the throne of David, and
on his kingdom, To establish it, and to support it, In judgment and in righteousness, Henceforth, even
unto the age, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.

Isaiah 12:1. And thou hast said in that day: 'I thank thee, O Jehovah, Though Thou hast been angry
with me, Turn back doth Thine anger, And Thou dost comfort me.
2. Lo, God [is] my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song [is] Jah Jehovah, And
He is to me for salvation.
3. And ye have drawn waters with joy Out of the fountains of salvation,
4. And ye have said in that day, Give ye praise to Jehovah, call in His name. Make known among
the peoples His acts. Make mention that set on high is His name.
5. Praise ye Jehovah, for excellence He hath done, Known is this in all the earth.
6. Cry aloud, and sing, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in thy midst [is] the Holy One of Israel!'

Isaiah 53:1. Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom
hath it been revealed?
2. Yea, he cometh up as a tender plant before Him, And as a root out of a dry land, He hath no
form, nor honour, when we observe him, Nor appearance, when we desire him.
3. He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding
the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.
4. Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains - he hath carried them, And we - we have
esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
5. And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our
peace [is] on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.
6. All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath
caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.
7. It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the
slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth.
8. By restraint and by judgment he hath been taken, And of his generation who doth meditate, That
he hath been cut off from the land of the living? By the transgression of My people he is plagued,
9. And it appointeth with the wicked his grave, And with the rich [are] his high places, Because he
hath done no violence, Nor [is] deceit in his mouth.
10. And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him sick, If his soul doth make an
offering for guilt, He seeth seed - he prolongeth days, And the pleasure of Jehovah in his hand doth
prosper.
11. Of the labour of his soul he seeth - he is satisfied, Through his knowledge give righteousness
Doth the righteous one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear.
12. Therefore I give a portion to him among the many, And with the mighty he apportioneth spoil,
Because that he exposed to death his soul, And with transgressors he was numbered, And he the sin
of many hath borne, And for transgressors he intercedeth.

Luke 2:6. And it came to pass, in their being there, the days were fulfilled for her bringing forth,
7. and she brought forth her son - the first-born, and wrapped him up, and laid him down in the
manger, because there was not for them a place in the guest-chamber.
8. And there were shepherds in the same region, lodging in the field, and keeping the night-watches
over their flock,
9. and lo, a messenger of the Lord stood over them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them,
and they feared a great fear.
10. And the messenger said to them, 'Fear not, for lo, I bring you good news of great joy, that shall
be to all the people -
11. because there was born to you to-day a Saviour - who is Christ the Lord - in the city of David,
12. and this [is] to you the sign: Ye shall find a babe wrapped up, lying in the manger.'
13. And suddenly there came with the messenger a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God,
and saying,
14. 'Glory in the highest to God, and upon earth peace, among men - good will.'

Matthew 10:32. 'Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in
him before my Father who is in the heavens;
33. and whoever shall deny me before men, I also will deny him before my Father who is in the
heavens.
34. 'Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a
sword;
35. for I came to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
36. and the enemies of a man are those of his household.
37. 'He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or
daughter above me, is not worthy of me,
38. and whoever doth not receive his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.
39. 'He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

John 14:25. 'These things I have spoken to you, remaining with you,
26. and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all
things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.
27. 'Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to
you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

John 16:31. Jesus answered them, 'Now do ye believe? lo, there doth come an hour,
32. and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave
alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;
33. these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have
tribulation, but take courage - I have overcome the world.'
Romans 5:6. For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious;
7. for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also
doth dare to die;
8. and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;
9. much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through
him from the wrath;
10. for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much
more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.
11. And not only [so], but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through
whom now we did receive the reconciliation;

Colossians 1:18. And himself is the head of the body - the assembly - who is a beginning, a first-
born out of the dead, that he might become in all [things] - himself - first,
19. because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,
20. and through him to reconcile the all things to himself - having made peace through the blood of
his cross - through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.
21. And you - once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he
reconcile,
22. in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and
unblameable before himself,
23. if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of
the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that [is] under the heaven, of
which I became - I Paul - a ministrant.