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Introduction
If we are going to serve the Lord well in this life, peace is an absolute necessity.
The absence of peace in the life of the believer indicates a lack of faith and trust in the Lord.
I know this is true, because I have had moments in my life where my lack of peace was directly related to a lack of faith.
This week in my personal time with the Lord I read Proverbs 21:31.
Proverbs 21:31
This verse clearly spells out where human responsibility and faith meet.
We prepare.
We get the horse ready for battle.
But we do so with the awareness that ultimate deliverance, ultimate safety, is of the Lord!
He is the one who will win the victory.
We have peace when we fulfill our responsibility and trust God to do what He has promised.
This tells us that there are two parts to peace.
Part one is our responsibility.
We must prepare for the difficulties and trials of life.
How? We’ll get to that.
Part two is our faith in God.
We must trust that God will do what He has promised.
How do we know that?
Scripture.
Scripture reveals God’s past faithfulness.
God doesn’t change.
Therefore, we trust that the God of yesterday is the God of today and tomorrow!
We trust the faithfulness of our God.
Principle:
Through Jesus Christ every believer can live in peace.
Guidance:
To live in peace we must understand how it works.
Outcome:
Understanding and living in peace transforms our lives.
To understand how peace works we must know three things.
#1.
We must understand that…
1. Peace Has A Presence vv.
25-26
As Jesus is talking to His disciples here He makes the obvious point that He is still with them bodily.
Throughout His public ministry, Jesus was preparing His disciples for the time when He wouldn’t be with them anymore.
In the beginning of chapter 14, Jesus said He would go away.
When that time comes, the helper will be sent.
Helper – παράκλητος (paraklētos) advocate; helper; intercessor.
advocate (legal) n. — a person who acts as a spokesperson or representative of someone else’s policy, purpose, or cause; especially before a judge in a court of law.
Noun, nominative absolute, singular, masculine.
Helper – παράκλητος (paraklētos)
This helper is going to minister to us on our Lord’s behalf.
He is going to be our advocate, our intercessor.
3 times in Scripture the Holy Spirit is called our guarantee.
The Holy Spirit is all the proof we need that we are in Christ!
We have peace with God through Christ.
We know that we have peace with God because the Holy Spirit dwells in us.
The presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives gives us peace when the trials come!
Look at what Ephesians 1:13-14 says.
Ephesians 1:13-14
This is where our peace comes from!
It comes from the presence of God!
It comes from the Holy Spirit living in us!
We have been sealed!
We have the Holy Spirit living in us as the guarantee of our redemption!
Our responsibility here is to trust in Jesus!
There can be no peace apart from the presence of the Holy Spirit.
He takes up residence in our lives when we trust in Christ.
If we want peace, we must have the Holy Spirit!
Peace is found in the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Repeat - Read Aloud
The Holy Spirit teaches us and reminds us of what Christ has said.
The Word of God brings peace to our troubled hearts.
Peace is possible.
It is possible because we belong to Jesus.
Sing with me
“I Am His And He Is Mine”
His forever, only his.
That is what peace is about.
To understand how peace works we must know three things.
#1.
Peace has a presence.
#2.
We must understand that…
2. Peace Has A Purpose v. 27
What did Jesus leave?
Peace.
This means that If we do not have peace, we are not walking with Jesus!
He has left us peace.
This also means that Peace is possible for the child of God!
Whose peace is it?
It is His.
This is not our peace.
It is not a peace we make or a peace we discover.
Peace is found in the presence of Jesus through the person of the Holy Spirit operating in our lives.
This peace has been given to us.
This word peace is a present, active, indicative.
What that means is that Peace is the present possession of the believer.
We have peace!
Last year we read Romans 5:1 every single week.
Romans 5:1
We have peace with God.
It is also possible for us to have the peace of God.
This is what Philippians 4:6-7 famously talks about.
Philippians 4:6-7
We have peace with God and we have the peace of God.
Jesus states here that His peace is not like the peace of the world.
What peace does the world offer?
Here is the definition of peace according to
1peace \ˈpēs\ noun
[Middle English pees, from Anglo-French pes, pees, from Latin pac-, pax; akin to Latin pacisci to agree—more at PACT] 12th century
1: a state of tranquillity or quiet: as
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