Grace unto you, and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

As an example of what not to do vs what to do, I once had the plague flu, and the more I resisted it, fought it with man made things, the more strength it had over me, and kept coming back with a vengenace.

So, I decided to practice what I preach and do nothing, just rest, and the flu simply vanished.

I can't stress enough the message in the Merlin movie ending: "from such turn away", give it(law: evil concupiscence) no place; for good + evil (grace + law)ends badly, and for all if any go there.

If warfare produced peace, we'd all be living in peace long ago, for we've had decades, centruies, and millenniums of warfare to no avail... no peace as yet.

Peace is not produced by warfare, but rather is the absence of warfare, just as grace (pure grace) is the absence of law and perfected love is the absence of fear.

He is our peace, who abolished the enmity from his flesh: Eph 2 (we are his flesh: Eph 5)... it's an allegory (Gal 4:24), and written aforetime for our learning (Rom 15:4).

The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Three Wishes: Grace Mercy Peace.

The prayer, of Paul "The" Apostle, for all the saints, is not increased warfare, but rather an increase in wisdom, knowledge, revelation... so the eyes of your "understanding" may be enlightened about us-ward being the direction to go and what the Lord (now "that" Spirit of this/that) is longsuffering unto... so none perish instead of all perish (from willing ignorance: "converted" Peter): Ephesians 1.

Paul is not just an apostle, but "the" apostle in all the titles of his epistles. And when it comes to an apostle, he's an apostle of "JC" (not CJ), and by the will of God: "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice". He's writer of more NT writings than all (six) other NT writers combined. He's "his witness unto all men", and also "his angel" who plays the last trump it:

TgooLJCwya. Amen.

There are literally many active wars ongoing around the world (and so long after he "is" our peace): in Iraq, in Afghanastan, in Chechney, in Ireland (Propestants vs Catholics), etc. There are also economic wars ongoing, wars over oil, wars over water, spousal wars, political wars, religious wars, etc. The most talked about is Iraq, which has proven peace isn't produced by warfare, nor by more law; for law is the strength of sin, and sin not only condemns all whenever imputed by law, but also has a deadly sting to all, the end of such grace + law being life + death = a dead end... for all since there is no respect of persons with God and a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

The Bible is crystal clear law imputes sin (Rom 5:13); law worketh wrath (Rom 4:15); and law is the strength of sin which brings forth death (1Cor 15:56; James 1:15). Law is also a ministration of condemnation and a ministration of death (2Cor 3). What law calls for is sacrifice, but feeding it sacrifice does not quench the bottomless pit appetite of beastial law for more war, more vengeance, more dis-ease, and more death.

Hebrews 10 is crystal clear that sacrifice (which is of the law) does not put an end to sin consciousness; only abolition of law does, since law imputes sin, and is the strength of sin.

Hence God, "that God" of this/that Gods (law/grace), "the only wise God" of foolish/wise Gods (law/grace), "the only true God" of false/true Gods (law/grace), "the God of all grace", "the living God" of the living, said: "I will have mercy(grace), and not sacrifice (law)". Such is not something new, but the same in both old and new testaments: Ps 40; Hos 6; Mt 9; Mt 12; Heb 10; etc.

To wit, "that God" was in "Christ" (the end of the law) reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them... (2Cor 5:19).

It's an allegory, and God given victory is "through" Jesus => Christ (through the cross, not getting hung up on the cross), and the Christ thereof is the end of the law.

It's elementary dear watson:
(grace + law) - law = grace = merciful, peaceful
(life + death) - death = life (the eternal sort)

God did not send His Son to condemn(law) the world, but rather that the world through him might be saved from such condemnation and death of law.

The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.