THE PEACE THAT IS IN THE WORLD IS NOT THE PEACE WITH GOD

Deuteronomy 20:12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

Deuteronomy 23:6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

When God would create peace in his Holy Land which he gave to the Girgashites, Perrezites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, Jebusites, and the Canaanites he remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 

He sent Moses to lead Israel from Egypt into a wilderness to separate the people from the corrupt and defiled world of Pharaoh and his people.  They were given the law as a people of God and made to serve Him in the mount as a token of service which required holiness.

He taught them how they should conduct themselves in the land which they are to possess that they may prolong their days in that land.It is very clear that peace with God is to be pleasing to him and never to men.

The defiance of the Egyptian midwives Shiprah and Puah to Pharaoh because of fear of God was a peace that they have to choose whether they will be for or against God. And so, they saved the Hebrew male children alive.  The defiance of Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego to Nebuchadnezzar's decree to bow unto his created image was likewise a show of the spirit of sound mind in choosing peace with God than with men.  

Moreover, the defiance of the apostles Peter, John, James and the others to the commandments of the priests and the Sanhedrin displays the boldness of the Christians to choose to have peace with God than with authorities.

When our choice in our peace with God is at stake with our choice to have peace with men: we choose the peace with God even unto death.

Many among the Christians has long been a compromiser of the laws and the teachings of Jesus Christ, yea, of God since the old and the new testament times. They cannot obey these to the full.

Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Matthew 10:38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. 

How can the Christians have peace with God when they would rather have the words by themselves, saying, as much as possible live peaceably with God and with men?  

This I tell you beware of these people for they are the wolves in sheepskin.