A Peace Nobody Can Break!

Peace under the old covenant could be destroyed by the sin of the people. Therefore, many times, third parties and rulers took steps to destroy the peace God made with His people Israel, by provoking or leading them into sin that violated the covenant. Ultimately, the whole nation was carried off into captivity, cursed by the covenant for their disobedience. But the New Covenant is a unilateral covenant, which does not depend upon our obedience at all! The whole covenant is fulfilled by God through Christ Himself! It is His unbreakable obedience, and not our own! It is His bloody sacrifice, and nothing we do, that brings eternal forgiveness for our sins against God, and imputes righteousness to us before Him. Because of the superior sacrifice of Jesus that takes away our sin, there is no means by which God's peace with us, under the New Covenant, can ever be broken! Meanwhile, the New Covenant produces obedience in the Lord's people, an obedience that could not be attained under the old covenant. Thus, wicked men, and the devil himself, are thwarted in their vain efforts to separate us from God's peace!