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INTRODUCTION: Can war ever be “Just”? If you ask this question of a 100 people, you will get a hundred different responses. You would receive responses against such as, “War is never just - it is brutal and nasty, War can’t be just all war does is creates an entire generation of people who want revenge for their country, God said thou shall not kill and war is killing, God is love he doesn’t want us killing each other, or the favorite slogan of the 60’s “Make love not war””. You will also receive response affirming such as, “An example of a just war was World War 2 because we were attacked and then declared war on Japan, A just war is a war against an evil regime that killed your friends and family, and was fixing to kill you, A war is just if it ends tyranny such as slavery, fascism, Nazism, communism, and preserves freedom, Just war is a war to wipe out the enemy in order to stop them from killing innocent people, or A war is just if you have no choose but to fight or let people be murdered.” (http://www.justwartheory.com/) Although, we may argue to justify wars declared by man, there is no arguing the justification of wars declared by God. God is always just, therefore even when God declares war he just in doing it. We find this in Jeremiah chapters 4-6. Here is Jeremiah, he has been created by God; conditioned by God; called by God; and commissioned by God. He is sent into a society, not unlike the one in which we live today, and God declares war. Now as we examine and see what we can extract from it, let’s take note of “War Is Just When God Declares It.” I. THE CHANCE TO AVOID THE WAR (Ch. 4 vs. 1-4) God clearly give a chance to the nation to avoid the coming war. He says in essence repent and prosper or con... ... middle of paper ... ...nd gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.” God wants to be reconciled with you, he wants to forgive you. He doesn’t want to go to war with you, even though he is just in doing so! “It has been said that the average person in the world today is without faith, without God and without hope. They are in a desperate search for the meaning and purpose of life. The sad commentary is that they are living on borrowed time, borrowed money and borrowed strength and they already know that in the end they will surely die.” (Declared Wars of God pg 34) You can turn against Him and fight or you can turn to Him and be forgiven, He is just either way! My suggestion if it matters is don’t go to war with God, you’re sure to lo

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