“I HAVE NOT COME TO BRING PEACE!”

Matthew 10:34-39                                     (ESV)

“34 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. “I HAVE NOT COME TO BRING PEACE”, but a sword.

35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.

37 Whoever loves father or mother more than ME is not worthy of ME, and whoever loves son or daughter more than ME is not worthy of ME.

38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow ME is not worthy of ME.

39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for MY sake will find it.”

it is extremely dangerous to “carve-out” selected scripture and build a theology out of what a few verses say, especially when they are taken out of context.  Personally speaking, I know for certain that JESUS brought PEACE to my heart and life. Isaiah 9:6 says that JESUS shall be called “The Prince of PEACE”!  Yet JESUS says in Matthew 10:34 “...”I HAVE NOT COME TO BRING PEACE”, but a sword.”  Is the BIBLE contradicting ITSELF?  What more can you add when JESUS HIMSELF is saying “I HAVE NOT COME TO BRING PEACE”???

Since my testimony is that JESUS brought my life PEACE, is HE choosing to whom HE brings PEACE, and to whom HE brings a sword?  HE definitely delivered PEACE to me as late as April 2017 when I was faced with open-heart surgery.  But HE was crucified by “this world” 2,000 years ago and so one would think that PEACE wasn’t to be found in those actions?  But at the same time, Scripture indicates HE gave Pilate no answer, not even to a single charge, basically sealing HIS fate in Calvary!  

JESUS is HOLY, more than HE is anything else.   “The enemy” is anything BUT holy!  When the two factions are represented, there is going to be conflict.  The “war” has already been won by JESUS, however the enemy still has to be sentenced to his eternal reward. Everyone who doesn’t cry out to JESUS will join him in hades.....for eternity!  

While JESUS is the PRINCE OF PEACE, HE came to defeat satan and his lawlessness.   Satan and those who fail to call on JESUS as LORD will definitely experience NO PEACE in their eternity.  Being HOLY is being SET APART from others.  When JESUS sets those apart into eternity in hell, it will be PLAIN to SEE that “I HAVE NOT COME TO BRING PEACE”!!!