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a.m. Now, let's open God's word and
ask him to reveal his truths for our lives.
If you would turn in your Bibles to John, chapter 14.
John chapter 14 and we know that we are coming off a lesson that
Jesus taught us last week regarding the indwelling, Holy
Spirit, and the promise of that counselor that he was going to
sin at comforter that advocate. And in this week, we're going to
look at one particular verse that you could put with that
text or you could put it with the next section or you could as
we're going to do today. Stop for just a moment.
And examine the truths that we see.
In this one verse verse 27 of chapter 14, because in this
verse Jesus is going to offer peace to the anxious Hearts.
He's to the anxious hearts. And as we continue the study I
want to remind you, this is in the upper room.
During what we call the upper room discourse where he is
teaching specific lessons to his true disciples.
Remember Judas is gone. V disciple has left his teaching
lessons to the church. And pray that this church would
get that lesson lesson that he is about to unfold for us and
Jesus knowing their fear and their anxious thoughts, their
worries that they are facing. He's told them that he's going
to die for their sin. He's told him that he's going to
leave the world and go to the father.
He's told him that he's the way the truth and the life.
No man comes to the father but by them he lets him know he's
going back there. And if he goes back there, he's
going to come again to that place that he has prepared for
them. And he's going to take them to
where he is, but in the meanwhile, We're going to face
all sorts of things on this Earth.
In fact, we know this that they're going to just a few days
run for their life and hide. Jesus and his compassion and his
love for them here. In this Upper Room discourse,
he's going to help them. To deal with their anxious
hearts. When you see this in a message
entitled piece for the anxious heart, Jesus is going to give
them peace for their anxious hearts.
We know that anxiety is a problem in our culture is a
problem in our culture and statistics prove that before we
look at the statistics that we are going to examine from a
survey done in 2022. I want to remind you the
definition of anxiety. Here's the basic definition of
anxiety, it is the anticipatory fear of a future problem.
It's not even a problem yet. It's not even come to fruition
as a problem. It is a created problem or it is
a promise from the enemy of a potential problem, but it's not
even a problem. Yet many people, as we will see
from these statistics are gripped by their anxious Hearts,
their gripped by fear their troubled.
They're facing this anxiety. Did you know this?
The statistic? She was this, that anxiety is
the most common mental illness and the United States, most
common mental illness in the United States.
Statistics show, that one third of Americans show signs of
depression, or clinical anxiety, that's roughly. 110 million
people. Who are gripped by fear or group
by worry who are fretting over things, that haven't even come
to pass yet. And probably will not come to
pass top 10, fears reported in this survey in 2022, in the
survey that was taken. Number one was covid-19.
With 35 percent of the people surveyed being anxious because
of covid-19, the second thing, it was poverty and social,
inequality, 31 percent of those surveyed said that they're
anxious in regard to poverty and social.
Equality, 28% said, I'm worried about unemployment, I'm fearful
of this. financial and political corruption found, 27 percent of
the people surveyed in constant fear and worry about financial
and political corruption, 26 percent of the world.
Say that crime and violence calls them.
Great anxiety fear. 23% said Healthcare.
They're afraid that when they grow older, they won't have the
health care that they need. As if God somehow stopped being
sovereign. twenty-three percent said they worry about that
fearful 20% said, inflation's, my thing.
Inflation's, what what has me worried?
16% said, taxes. You can tell that this wasn't
done. In March or April. 15% said
education. I just don't feel like I'm
educated enough and have the opportunity to get education.
I'm fearful that I'm just not going to make it in Life or I
don't want to achieve my goals in education and then 15% the
same percent which I find striking the odd, they're
anxious and fearful and worried about climate change, as if they
could control that in any way at all.
But interesting enough in this survey there was no recorded
fear and anxiety associated with the coming judgment and wrath of
God. That is going to come upon this
wicked world. No one was worried about that
but you know what they were worried about?
Are those titles that we learnt that when we looked at covid-19
and poverty and social inequality and unemployment
Financial political corruption crime and violence Health Care,
inflation. Tax is education and climate
change. We know that the media is
pumping out information about this constantly.
Proving the fact that the media wants you to be afraid and can I
assure you of this? Please listen.
The secular media is controlled by Satan himself.
Please know that that the things that they spew from their mouths
or lies, and he is the father of all lies.
It's only look at the survey. We can come to this conclusion.
The world is anxious. World is anxious 5.8 percent of
American children. Ages 3 to 17 are said to have
anxiety. Yes Yuri of this parent.
You listen to this and you listen to this closely.
If your three-year-old has anxiety you taught them how to
have anxiety. You taught him how to walk.
You taught him how to talk you taught him, how to eat, they're
anxious because you are fearful. They are worried because you are
worried. They learn it from your pattern.
5.8 American, 5.8 percent of American children, said to have
anxiety. There was a 25% global increase
of anxiety because of covid-19. Now you pay attention to that at
25 percent increase of anxiety around the globe.
For a disease that by statistics was only fatal in less than one
percent of the cases. You think the media isn't trying
to cause you to doubt God and to fear I assure you, they are 8.10
million people in the United States. 8.10 million people in
the United States, are prescribed, some type of anti
anxiety medication. Proof that the world has
exchanged peace for a prescription.
The world has exchanged piece for prescription.
I assure you today. That the Lord Jesus Christ.
The great physician is going to give you the antidote for your
troubled, anxious heart and is going to be the peace of God
that he offers to his true disciples.
And unfortunately as we survey the world, we know this that
this problem is always also already crept into the church.
And the Pew to the pulpit. The statistics are astounding.
Of the pastors who claim to have suffered with anxiety and stress
and depression. Perhaps, even some of you today.
You were suffering, the crippling effects of anxiety and
fear in your life. Jesus is going to offer some
things in this verse today. I want to pay close attention to
those things. As we read The Words of Christ
in John 14:27 and light of the fact that all statistics show,
That men and women and children in this world are succumbing to
anxiety and fear. But Jesus is going to offer them
today piece for their trouble. Hearts verse 27 says this peace,
I leave with you. My peace.
I give you I do not give to you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled.
We sing this to the Believers in the upper room discourse.
I'm saying it to Believers here today who claim to know Christ.
Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
Do not be afraid. The term fear, not, or do not
fear, is repeated hundreds upon hundreds.
Upon hundreds of times in scripture.
Yet we find a society who is always gripped by their fear.
And I want us to see today, as we look at the words of Jesus,
this does not have to be so in the life of a Christian it
should not be. So let's look first at the
promised peace of Christ. We see that in the first part of
this verse, he says, peace. I leave with you peace.
I leave with you and I assure you of this.
When Jesus says something, it is a guarantee.
This is a guarantee for all True Believers.
As he's, there in the upper Upper Room, speaking to his true
followers. Knowing exactly what they are
about to go through. He says peace.
I leave with you. He didn't pull out the
Prescription Pad. Write them script at the local
pharmacy, there in Jerusalem. But he offered them something
greater. He said Peace I leave with you.
Oh the craving of the anxious heart should be peace and it is
a guaranteed to all who are in Christ first.
We see that he gives them peace with God and oh what a piece
that is peace with God, through true reconciliation.
I pray to God that you were thankful today that you have
been reconciled to a. Holy God.
Did you know this? You were not born into this
world at peace with your creator.
In fact because of sin, you were born into this world.
An enemy of God. Romans 5:10 says this for if
when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through
the death of his son. How much more having been
reconciled shall we be saved through his life not only is
this. So but we also rejoice in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom we have now
received reconciliation reconciliation.
It is through Christ that we have peace with God.
It is part of the peace package that he is offering his true
disciples here today, to rest in the fact of knowing that I have
peace with my holy Creator, a piece that I did not learn on my
own but was earned a for me, through the precious sacrifice
of Jesus Christ. I have peace with God and
reconciliation with God, the Father, Jesus is telling his
disciples here. I'm promising.
You peace peace. I leave with you.
Guarantee for all True Believers peace with God, Colossians 1
verse 20 says and through him to reconcile to himself all things,
it's talking of Christ. Whether things on earth, or
things in Heaven, by making peace.
Through his blood shed on the cross.
All things have been reconciled for the believer, through the
sacrifice of Jesus Christ, through the blood shed on the
cross. It is at the cross where we
receive peace with God. Jesus offering This Promise of
peace. Peace with God to his disciples
there in the upper end. Peace, I leave with you.
My peace with God and it's peace from God.
He's from God. In the fact that the Holy Spirit
continually indwells all of us who believe remember the lesson
last week. He said I'm going to send you
another counselor. He's going to move in, he's with
you, he's going to be in you. He's saying the piece that I
leave with you will be an internal piece.
Aren't you thankful that? We don't have to get our piece
from an outside Source? We have peace with God but we
also have peace from God through that.
Continual dwelling of the Holy Spirit.
What a gift. That Galatians 5, when Paul
describes the fruit of the spirit he says, but the fruit of
the spirit is this in verse 22, love, joy, peace.
All the spirit is going to produce peace in your life as a
Believer. It is the fruit of the spirit
peace from God. It is gone.
And Hebrews chapter 13. He's referred to as the God of
Peace. Hebrew starts in 20 calls, him
the God of Peace, it is a part of who he is and you have peace
from him. What a gracious God that we have
to offer us peace knowing that we were going to live in a
tumultuous world and in an upside-down Society, the Pagan
culture yet he offers us peace from himself.
He says peace I leave with you. My peace with God peace from God
15 times in the New Testament. This phrase is offered up.
Peace from God. You think peace doesn't come
from God. And why?
With a new testament 15 different times.
Say grace to you, and peace from God.
To know. That our heavenly father cares
enough for us. It has enough compassion on his
children to send us peace to live within us, the power of the
Holy Spirit. And though the world may
crumble, Mountains, may fall Wars may break out.
And famine happen. Natural disaster happen.
Economic chaos happen. God has given his children.
Internal peace, internal peace. Peace from God.
This takes us to the next part and not only is it a guarantee
for all True Believers. When we look at the promised
peace of Christ, it's a gift of God's Grace.
Peace is Grace, and all. Grace is come from Christ,
please? Understand that, every Grace,
that you have from God, is found in crime, and it is in Christ.
We receive peace as a gift of God's grace.
Romans 5:1 says, therefore since we have been justified through
faith, we have peace with God through our Lord.
Jesus Christ, peace with God. Through our Lord Jesus Christ
through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace,
what Grace, The Grace Of Peace that comes with the grace of God
found only in Christ, which we now stand and we rejoice in the
hope of the glory of God. O what peace?
He gives to us because of his grades that peace is achieved by
Christ is achieved by Christ through his atoning, sacrifice
on the cross. He's was achieved for you and
for all who will by faith trust in Christ, he has achieved that
piece for us, it is through him and him alone that we will ever
see true God given peace is achieved by Christ.
Gift of God's grace is also accessed by clients prices are
access to true. Peace Ephesians, chapter 3 verse
12 in him and through faith. In him.
We may approach god with freedom and confidence.
Did you know this? At one time in your life, you
were at enmity with God, you could not approach him.
There was no peace between you and your maker.
In fact. You're alienated from him.
You could not have a right relationship with him, but
Christ, through his sacrifice has reconciled Sinners unto God.
So, that through faith in Christ, we can now approach god
with freedom and confidence. We can approach God and receive
peace from God. What a promise from Christ here
in the mix midst of anxious Hearts.
I can tell you this he knew of their anxious Hearts.
He knows all things but it's pertinent here that he teaches
this lesson because he knew the anxiety that they were being
stricken with. He promises them.
Peace. Let me pee, you told us, your
leave is leaving us. You told us, you're going to
die. He's about to tell them the
things that are going to happen to them.
He's telling them in the midst of all these things and list of
all the bad news that you've heard. you interpret is bad
news, there's no reason to fear Jesus himself another occasion
told his disciples in this life there will be all kinds of
troubles do not be afraid. I have overcome the world so it
is in Christ that we have great calls to walk in.
God's gift is gracious. Gift of Peace.
We access it through Christ and in Christ.
So, if you're going to attain peace in this life, let me start
by saying this. You're never going to find it in
this world. We're going to find it in this
world. It is from God and it is a gift
of his grace. So the believer who is here
today, let me say this to you to be gripped by anxiety and fear.
Is to forget the very promise of peace from Jesus Christ.
For you to be gripped by your anxiety and fear, is to forget
the promises of peace that Christ is making here.
There are many people, I'm afraid many people even in the
church who are suffering with anxiety.
Simply because they don't truly believe what Jesus said.
He said, Peace, I leave with you what more evidence do you need?
Peace I leave with you. It's yours for the taking who
was he speaking to? He was he was not out in the
streets. Evangelizing the Lost.
He's speaking in the upper room in the upper room discourse to
the True Believers and he said, I leave peace with you.
The world knows nothing of this kind of Peace but you do yours
for the taking and leave it. With you.
Well, how many tons Believers can we testify?
The how the piece that Christ has promised us?
His carried us through the things of this life?
Oh don't forget. The promises live as if you
believe them to disregard them is to act as if you don't.
I'm a firm believer in this that if you really believe something
he will live what you say you believe and if you don't live
it, you don't really believe it. There are many Christians who
they have learned enough Christian.
He's to say, I believe. Of that Jesus promises Us Peace
by. But Kirk you don't understand.
I might not, but I assure you of this.
He does He understands understands right?
Where you are? He understands where you're
going, he understands where you've been.
He understands where he's going to take you.
He offers you. Peace is a promise of Peace, the
Peace of Christ. Not only do we see in this one.
Verse the promised peace of Christ.
He says peace. I leave with you.
We see secondly, the personal peace of Christ.
Watch this. My peace.
I give you. My peace.
I give you. He's not offering them.
Some type of knockoff. Peace.
Or substitute for real peace. This Is Not Great Value.
Sam's Choice dr. Thunder piece.
He's offering them his piece. He says my piece that is the
operative word there, please focus on that.
He's not saying I'm giving you something other than the piece
that I have. He is saying I am giving to you
the same piece that resides in me through the indwelling, Holy
Spirit, the same piece of Christ.
Wow. The same piece that calm Jesus
there in the garden. When he prayed.
He sweat drops of blood. and he said, I would that this cup pass
from me, But he was overwhelmed by piece and what was that
piece? The will of God nevertheless
your will be done that same piece.
Been allowed an all-knowing savior.
To walk into that Garden, that night.
Knowing that one of his closest friends was going to betray him,
that he was going to be turned over, falsely to the authorities
that he was going to be falsely, trout tried and falsely executed
the same piece that allowed Jesus Christ to walk through
those things, resides in every single one of you who are truly
in Christ. Let's for the person who says
because you don't know about the anxiety that I go through.
I promise you, this Christ does and the anxiety that you go
through shrinks in comparison to the anxiety that he and his
Humanity would have went through without the peace of God.
He says my peace. My peace, I give you the same
piece that I am. Same piece that calm Jesus.
But also the same piece that carried.
Jesus, it carried and we see that as he was there.
He looked at his accusers. He looked at those who tormented
him and tortured him He says, father forgive them for they
know not what they do. What piece Christ must have
experience to be able to forgive his enemies in such a way to be
able to rest in God's plan, you know, not to take matters into
his own hands. He didn't offer his disciples a
lesser piece than he walked in and experienced in his life on
this Earth. It's the same piece.
His people I want you to brother dear sister in Christ to think
about that for a moment. Next time, the enemy wants you
to be filled with anxious, thoughts, and fears, and
worries. Frets.
I'll think about this the same piece of Christ.
That allowed him to endure. Is the same piece that lives in
you through the power of the Holy Spirit.
He said my peace. I give to you same piece of
Christ but also the sustaining peace of Christ.
It is the peace of God in him. That sustained him is peace.
Sustain him during his suffering.
I assure you of that First Peter chapter 2 verse 23.
It says when they hurled their insults at him he did not
retaliate. Why he was at peace.
He was at peace with the Sovereign plan of God, the
father. He was at peace said, he did not
retaliate and when he suffered, he did not make he made no
threats. He didn't threaten them, Jesus,
never let out one. I'll get you for this from the
cross. He was at peace.
With the plan of God. And he has, he was at peace with
God, the father because he was obediently walking in his will
even though walking in his will meant suffering.
He was at Great Piece. What a promise he says that same
piece, listen you Kirk Hall. The same, peace, my peace.
I leave with you sustaining. Peace is peace.
Sustain him during his suffering and his anguish is peace.
Tisane him even unto death. Facing death.
Luke chapter, 23 recorded this in verse 46, Jesus calling out
with a loud voice. Father into your hands.
I commit my spirit, and when he had said this, he breathed his
last what a peaceful death, He didn't scream out to the father,
avenge them for their wickedness.
He simply said. Father, into your hands.
I commit my spirit, I am at peace with your plan and I am at
peace with your provision and I am at peace with you my father
and he breathed his last breath. And he died, his peace sustained
him even unto death. The same piece that will sustain
the True Believer even unto death.
Did you know this many Martyrs throughout time have seen their
life? Come to an end with that?
Same simple attitude. Oh, we could talk of countless
Martyrs throughout church history.
Their last words were something to the degree of what Jesus said
here when he said into your hands.
I commit My spirit, in fact, we see Stephen in Acts chapter 7,
following that model. Verse 59 when Stephen was being
martyred for his faith in Christ, after delivering a
powerful message, they're outside the Lions Gate in
Jerusalem. It says, while they were stoning
him. Stephen prayed.
Lord, Jesus. Receive my spirit he is they get
them for the bad things that they're doing, how could they
do? Such a horrible thing?
He knew horrible, men do horrible things, it's a fallen
world. What is Hope?
Was in the Peace of Christ that had been promised and he
finished his life on this Earth with words, very similar to what
he had learned from Christ. The Savior Lord receive my
spirit He died at peace. The Peace of Christ sustained
him in death, just as it's sustained Christ in death.
Just as it will sustain. All of us because it is the same
piece of Christ. For you, you Christian.
Be gripped by fear and anxiety and worry for you to be gripped.
By these things is to Forfeit the very piece of Christ, the
very piece of Christ, it is to say Jesus I realized that you
had the peace from God and that that piece resided upon you so
that you could die with that piece so that you could suffer
and still remain in peace but I don't want that I would rather
ER, have the fears of My Flesh, the doubts of my feeling, I
would rather be an emotional wreck.
And the trust and the personal peace of Christ.
Oh, Your brothers and sisters in Christ.
Hear that message here. That message that when we
succumb to fear and anxiety, we are willfully forfeiting
willfully forfeiting and laying down the very piece of Christ
that he died that we may have. Number three, as we continue in
this one verse with so much truth.
Peace, I leave with you. My peace, I give you I do not
give as the world gives, what a statement.
I do not give as the world gives.
He's saying my piece is different.
My piece is different from the Peace of the world.
My piece is perfect. Peace or look at the world's
peace. It's not perfect at all.
The perfect piece of Christ. If you were to understand it
correctly. Is contrary to the world's idea
of Peace, the world can only offer false and temporary peace
out. I'll prove it to you.
How many of you love history history proves this that the
world knows nothing of peace. They don't know how to find
peace. They don't know how to live in
peace. Peace to them is just this
facade that they are pursuing. That will never happen.
Because the world defines peace as the absence of conflict of
the absence of suffering. Jesus defines it.
Completely different. The Peace of Jesus is different.
The Peace of the world is contrary to Jesus.
Jesus doesn't promise you in this world, the absence of
conflict. In fact, he says, in this world,
there will be all kinds of trouble.
I'm leaving you with my peace. My personal piece.
My perfect peace. The fact is the world since the
fall of Man has not seen any long span of peace throughout
history. In fact, since they started
recording history of the world has only seen or has seen.
Excuse me, in excess of 12,000 Wars, 12,000 documented Wars, as
not talking about little tribal skirmishes that we know not of
and are not documented in history books.
We're talking about 12,000, major conflicts between In
groups of men was never seen peace.
All the world has seen over 8,000, peace treaties that have
been violated by one side or the other and it's you know this
that there's only been 300 cumulative years of peace upon
this Earth in recorded history, that's 300 years.
Throughout the course of time. He says, not something that man
in and of themselves understands nor do the government of men.
It's country. The perfect piece of Christ
because the first perfect peace of Christ is contrary to the
world's idea of Peace. It is God and it is only God, I
assure you of this who can bring true peace through.
Jesus Christ, who is the Prince of Peace, according to Isaiah
9:6, one of his titles, one of his many titles, It is only
through Jesus, the prince of peace that the world will ever.
See, true peace. Peace is not going to come by
the signing of a treaty by man's hand.
Pieces going to only come when the foot of Jesus Christ.
Steps down to the Mount of Olives.
When he returns, and he returns triumphantly to bring peace, he
is the prince of peace and he will bring the peace of God with
him. He will bring peace upon this
Earth. Finally the piece that's in once
destroyed, he would bring an end.
That war that began in the garden between man.
And God, he will bring perfect peace.
It is contrary to anything this world has ever seen or known.
World offers only false peace, the hope of Peace, but Jesus
offers true and perfect peace. Contrary to the system of the
world and their ideology that true and perfect.
Peace is constant. And it is unwavering the perfect
piece of Christ is contrary to the world's idea of Peace.
But the perfect peace of Christ is constant and unwavering,
aren't you thankful for that this morning.
Do we met waiver his piece? Never waivers that do we are
inconsistent his pieces consistent?
It's constant is true piece that goes beyond any human
understanding. In fact Paul says that in his
Philippian letter and 4:7 he calls it, the peace that
transcends all human understanding, it doesn't make
human sense. Cause those of us who have been
in turmoil and experience the peace of God, it makes no human
sense but aren't you thankful that it doesn't Because if it
made humans, since it would be human, but it is the piece in
the perfect piece of Christ because what he did for us at
the cross. Did you know it ought to be that
piece that separates us from the world.
It ought to be that piece. That separates us from the
world. Hundreds and hundreds of times.
The scripture tells us not to fear.
Yet the world is in constant fear and God wants us not to
fear. That doesn't mean get your walk
by faith and not, not by fear hat, and put it on and pretend
when you're really anxious. What it means to stop being
anxious. Stop being gripped by the lies
of the enemy stop being gripped, by the things that you see and
walk in the Unseen. By faith.
The promises of God. We're seeing one here from God
through Jesus Christ. Right here.
In Chapter 14 verse 27. It says perfect piece.
Is yours. Sure.
I don't give to you as the world gives.
It's in. Perfect, peace.
I give you perfect. Peace, it's constant.
And it's unwavering It's beyond your human understanding and it
ought to be the thing that sets you apart from this lost Wicked
World. Well the world ought to look to
the believer. And events such as we have had
in modern history. They ought to be asking the
question. Why are you not afraid?
Why are you not bothered by this?
Who which we ought to reply? Our hope is built on nothing
less than Jesus blood and righteousness, I dare not trust
the sweetest frame but wholly lean on Jesus name, on Christ,
the solid rock. I stand all other ground is what
sinking said we live in a world of sinking sand in the world
lights for you to fear with them that they are going to sink.
But I assure you this because of Christ in the consistency and
the constant Peace, that he gives us, we don't have to
succumb to syncing to anxiety and fear.
To be gripped by it. Claim to know Christ in to be
gripped by fear and anxiety is to fail in your understanding of
God's perfect. Peace. when a Christian
willfully chooses to live a life in fear, He by proxy says this.
God's peace. That was offered to me.
And Christ is not greater. Than what I'm going through.
Oh, I know this. I know I'm not going to be
popular for repeating the words of Christ.
That's what I get the most ridicule for.
But it's time that Christian step up and say, here's what we
believe. And we believe this because
Jesus the Christ promised this to us, We believe it and his
promises are all true. Not some of them all of them.
To be gripped by fear and anxiety is to fail in our
understanding of God's perfect. Peace either, his piece is
perfect or it's not. You don't understand how big my
problem is. You obviously don't understand
how big God is. Because I assure you this every
single one of your problem. But the enemy has made, you
think you're the only one who has that particular problem.
Every single one of your problem.
Shrinks in comparison to the goodness of God. this piece is
constant and unwavering Jesus shows us the promised peace of
Christ. The personal peace of Christ,
the perfect peace of Christ. It should separate us from all
of the unbelievers in this world.
But then we move to the next section.
I'll close with this. He says they're in 27.
Peace, I leave with you. My peace.
I give you. I do not give to you as the
world gives. Do not let your hearts be
troubled, and do not be afraid. Do not let your hearts be
troubled. And do not be afraid that
teaches us some things, doesn't it?
If we look at the text, and it's clear and obvious since it
teaches us this, that a Christian could Be consumed by
their fears. That could be consumed by worry
that could be consumed by anxiety but they shouldn't.
They should have been, why should they not?
Because here we see an imperative from the Lord.
If you know anything about the structure of Greek language,
this is the imperative mood. He is giving a command.
And he says, do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be
afraid. Now, we learned just a few
lessons to go, if you love him, you'll want your obey his
command. You mean to tell me in less than
probably 10 or 12 versus. You don't believe that anymore.
What commands we talked about it, everything that he said,
He's telling his disciples here, in the form of a command.
Do not let your hearts. Be troubled.
Why? Because we have no reason to be
troubled of the things of this world.
Our citizenship does not rest here.
This is not our home. We are journeying through this
Cesspool to be taken to the Glorious city of God when we see
that. when we see the truth of that, when we dressed in the
truth of that, when we practice that, Other piece, is it?
The practice piece is telling them.
You've got the practices, you've got to walk in the news.
Jesus teaching them in order to experience the perfect peace of
Christ that I am giving to you. That is my piece.
You must constantly walk in the spirit.
How's Ali walk in the spirit as a spirit has provided for you?
My peace. Many failed to appropriate the
Peace of Christ in their life. What does that mean?
You don't apply it. Oh, no one would argue.
Did he give it? Well yeah, he said he did.
Let me ask you this question. Are you appropriating it?
I'll did you know that's the major breakdown in the American
church. We know the promises of God but
we appropriate. None of them.
We get mad at the preacher when he brings out obvious truth that
Christ spoke because they contradict our way of thinking
on a set of admitting that you think like the world and
repenting of that, you get mad at the messenger.
I would say this to you today. This is not my message.
I simply taking one verse John chapter, 14 written in red to
those Christ loves so that they don't remain in anxiety and
fear, like the rest of this world who is perishing, but they
would walk and hope and Supernatural peace that he has
given to us. He says, do not let your hearts
be troubled, and do not be afraid.
The Peace of Christ for the believer, write this down must
Be embraced as a reality. It must be embraced as a
reality. Write it down.
Write it outside John 14:27. And put an arrow that says
Embrace this reality because I assure you of this, if you don't
embrace the reality that he is speaking of here, you're going
to buy into all of the lies of Satan and the society in which
you live embrace the reality. What Christ is promising here?
His peace must be seen. As a greater reality than your
thoughts fears. I told you before anxiety, is
worrying about something that may happen in the future and may
not Shirley. Surely you can trust in the
reality of the promises of Christ and embrace that reality.
Because for you to Bow and to fear and anxiety, write this
down. Is for you bow to an idol.
That Satan has provided for you to worship.
You say well Pastor, I don't know who you think you are.
Oh, it's not the system of the enemy.
Designed and created according to Isaiah chapter, 14, so that
people will be deceived and to bow down to him.
Instead of the one, true and living God, was not bad.
His desire at his fall. Oh, you bet it was And he is
constantly having many even in the church who are bowing down
to fear and bowing down to anxiety and putting those things
before God. I take you back to Jesus and he
said, if you love me, you will obey my commands.
And you know, one of those commands is have no other gods
before me. I'll preach.
I don't like to think of the anxiety as another God.
Well, he's, it's bigger than God in your life.
Why would you not consider another God?
Is become an idol to so many fear has gripped them.
They wake up every morning not rejoicing in the lord.
Always as Paul said they wake up every morning.
Shredding life dreading what lie ahead, here's the thing, no
matter what lies ahead for us, listen, Believers salvation is
the end result. We will be whole and we will be
complete in the presence of God because of Jesus Christ forever
embrace the reality of the promise of Christ.
The how do you do that by love? Loving the word of God, Psalm
119 the psalmist says this. In verse 165, great peace have
they who love your law all talking about the word of God
the scriptures and nothing can make them stumble.
You want peace in his life. Fall in love with the word of
God get in and see the promises of God Rest in them.
Well I'd rather not rest. You might want to search your
heart. Because there's no greater
Comfort than the to the believer than to know that the true peace
of God. The reality of that rests in and
on and through Us in every situation that we face in life.
How do I know that? Because the word of God promises
me that Brace peace as a reality, by loving the word of
God, by living out the word of God.
Again, appropriating it does you?
No good to memorize all the scripture in the world into
applying none of it. He says, do not let your heart,
be troubled. You want to battle against your
anxiety. Don't go to the doctor.
Find the cure for your anxiety. Go to your knees, open the word
of God. See the truth of the word of
God. Do not let your heart be
troubled, believe in the reality of the promise of Christ.
Who said do not let your heart. Be troubled.
Why? Because my peace resides in you
I know. The emails will be coming.
That's why there's that little trash can on the side of the
email. One might say this.
That they believe that Jesus brings peace in the midst of the
storm, but then their thrust in the midst of the storm.
And they change their mind. It's easy for us to say, Jesus
brings peace. When the Seas look like glass.
Do you trust in the reality of what he said?
Peace and all circumstances, piece that overcomes your
greatest fear. And again, isn't that what
anxiety really is? At the end of the day fear, I
hear people talk to me all the time.
I don't know what it is. I'm just overwhelmed and I'm
gripped by fear does all of a sudden comes out of nowhere.
It doesn't, it comes from the enemy.
I'm just not afraid to tell you the truth.
It comes from the enemy, because if he can keep you gripped, by
your fear, you will not enjoy the fellowship of Christ in the
piece that he has, given you to walk in.
Bracelets reality. And then the Peace of Christ
Bill must be embraced as reality.
Must be exercised relentlessly. I assure you of this, the devil
is not hesitating to attack you in the realm of anxiety and
fear. Do you remember the statistics
that we started with? The world.
It's being attacked by it constantly.
And so we must exercise the Peace of Christ relentlessly.
Matthew chapter 6. Jesus gives us some instructions
about worry and anxiety. He says, this in 25.
Therefore, I tell you here's that phrase.
Again, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or
drink, how you will die, or how you will live, or how you eat,
he's going to take care of all those things.
Watch this. Watch the promises of Christ.
Are they real? Are you just here this morning
playing a game? He says or about your body what
you will wear is not life, more important than food and the body
more important than clothes. Look at the birds of the air.
They do not sow or reap or store away in Barns and yet your
heavenly father feeds them. I assure you the birds right now
out there who are eating the acorns that have fallen from the
trees as they're not gripped with anxiety.
They know that the wind blew the acorn fell and they are now
consuming from the very hand of God, if she has promised to take
care of even though, Them. Are you not much more valuable
than they. The Lord says to his Believers
to his followers. Who of You by worrying can add a
single hour to his life. I can assure you this none of
you. None of you can add to your life
by worrying. In fact, statistics and
Medicine, even show this. You actually drive yourselves to
death through your stress and you're worried and why do you
worry about clothes? See how the Lilies of the Field
grow? They do not labor or spin yet?
I tell you that not even Solomon.
In all his Splendor was dressed like one of those.
If that is, how God clothes the grass of the field, which is
here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he
not much more clothe? You O ye Of little faith.
How do you see the rebuke there from the Lord for the Warriors?
He says, o you of little faith. He then says in verse 31 again
so do not worry saying, what shall we eat?
Or what shall we drink? Or what shall we wear for the
pagans run after all these things and your heavenly father
knows that you need them. He said the pagans worry.
Why is the church worrying filled with anxiety?
Because it's modern Church culture.
Has embraced all sorts of things from the world.
Haven't they? Why not Embrace Their Fear?
He goes on in verse 33 and he says, but seek first, his
kingdom and his righteousness, the kingdom of God, the
righteousness of God, and all these things will be given to
you as well. And he says this in verse 34,
therefore, because of what I told you at pagans are anxious.
And I take care of even the Birds.
I'm going to take care of you. Therefore, do not worry about
tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Oh, hasn't the enemy been very crafty?
And leading many of you to worry about it.
Tomorrow that you're not guaranteed.
Did you know tomorrow is the biggest lie of the enemy.
None of us in this room are guaranteed a tomorrow.
That's why Christ has. Don't worry.
This was your last day on Earth. Would you live it?
An anxious fear. Would you live in an excitement
knowing this? That when you close your eyes,
you will see your savior face-to-face?
And isn't that what we should be longing for isn't that the cure
to every fear and worry that we would have?
This Promise of peace from Christ must be exercised
relentlessly. The psalmist said in Psalm 34 14
to seek peace and pursue it run after it.
How many of you run after anxiety?
Many of you turn the news on just to find out what it is that
you can worry about today? What's going on now?
Your phone gives you this little tone and all of a sudden the
news is telling you the skies falling again, isn't it
interesting that even the weather channel has jumped on
this bandwagon? Right.
There's going to be a quarter inch of rain.
They act as if Noah's flood is happening.
Again, it's a quarter inch of rain, we need it.
The farmers are thankful for and I assure you, they want more
than that. Seek, peace and pursue it.
If you're not actively seeking, peace and pursuing a nice
through this anxiety is going to seek you out.
Fear is going to seek you out. Worry is going to come at you
with full Fury. Resting.
As we exercise these things relentlessly in the peace of God
in Christ. Oh, what a place to rest, rest
there. Resting there and remembering,
Jesus promise, don't forget that.
What is he promised? He promised us.
Peace constant piece Supernatural peace.
A piece of we can rest in a by 10 dressed in that piece.
Remember what Jesus said, take him to the bank, I assure you.
He can cash every check. He has written.
Hebrews chapter 12 tells us this verse 2, it says to fix our eyes
on Jesus, the author and Perfecter of our faith to fix
our eyes on Jesus, the author and Perfecter of our faith, who
for the joy, that was set before him, he endured the cross.
Scorning its shame and sat down at the right hand of the Throne
of God, he endured suffering so that you can walk in perfect,
peace, exercise, it relentlessly walk in it, Peter reminds us in
Matthew chapter 14 Of just what happens when are anxious.
Thoughts. Get the best of us.
Matthew chapter, 14, we all are familiar with the story.
I hope at least. In verse 29, we see as Peter
there before, 29 request of the Lord to come out on the water
because he saw the Lord approaching walking on the
water. He said, Lord, if that's, you
didn't me to come to you. There's 29.
Come he said, Lord said, okay, come on Peter, then Peter got
out of the boat, walked on the water.
And came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was
afraid and beginning to sink Cried Out.
Lord, save me. Immediately Jesus reached out
his hand and caught him you of little faith.
There's that phrase again. He said, why did you doubt?
You know why he doubted? It's obvious.
Why he doubted? Jesus is asking a rhetorical
question. Why did he die out?
He became anxious, he took his eyes off of Christ.
And what did he do? He started looking at the wind,
he started looking at the waves, he started looking at
everything, crashing in around him, forgetting that the Savior
said, Peter come, let's take care of you.
Oh, how gracious? We see the Lord here.
Peter began to sink the Lord reached out and saved him.
Aren't you thankful that he doesn't just save you once that
he continually saves you from yourself.
Because we've all been there, haven't we?
We didn't have her eyes fixed on Jesus.
We fixed our eyes on, whatever it was that caused us to be
fearful whatever unchartered territory we had never been
before. And I tell you this, the Peace
of Jesus Christ does not change with those variables in your
life. Piece of Jesus Christ.
It's perfect. It's complete.
It should be practiced. Exercise.
Relentlessly, not taking your eyes off of Jesus.
Fixing your eyes on him, the author and the Perfecter of your
faith Isaiah 26:3. The prophet says this piece.
For the steadfast mind is for those who trust in the Lord.
Now watch what he says in Isaiah 26.
Verse 38, you will keep in perfect, peace, him, whose mind
is steadfast because he trusts in you, what an offer he is for
the steadfast mind who was trusting in Christ.
I can tell you what the opposite of that is even for you who are
believers here today. You begin to trust in what you
see and not what, you know by faith. you're going to be
stripped of that piece, you're going to succumb to fear and
doubt and worry and anxiety and I'm sure if you go to the right
person who's really the wrong person, They'll tell you 15
different ways to treat it. Jesus says, there's only one
Come unto me. All you who are weary and heavy
laden. I'll give you rest.
You want peace. Come to Christ.
When the peace of God come to Christ.
You want peace with God, come to Christ.
You want the peace? That surpasses, our transcends
all understanding it's found only in Christ and Christ Alone.
Are you actively seeking that piece?
What did the believer? Paul says in Philippians chapter
4, I read part of it or quoted part of it, a moment ago, but
verse 6 and 7 says this in chapter 4 Philippians, do not be
anxious about anything. You don't understand Pastor.
Anything, maybe you don't understand the word anything.
It's pretty simple. It means anything in the Greek.
Nothing zilch nada He says do not be anxious about anything
but in everything by prayer and petition with Thanksgiving what
a statement with Thanksgiving but I'm in the midst of my
greatest Triumph, thank him for it, it's going to be your
greatest growth. It's going to be your greatest
growth. That's what James says, count it
all joy. When You Face Trials of many
kinds, I'll be afraid. Rest in the Peace of Christ.
Do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and
petition with Thanksgiving, we're reading as a staff Thomas
Watson's book, The Godly Man's picture.
We read this week. How a Godly Man is a faithful
man. Oh, I promise you this you want
your anxious thoughts and fears to go away?
It's you out of pen and paper and write down all the reasons
you have to be thankful unto God in Jesus Christ.
And I promise you this, your fears from this world will
quickly pass away. Are you exercising, piece
relentlessly. Are you seeking it?
Because again, as I have said, the - with every one of these
points, I will say the negative with this one to be gripped by
fear and anxiety. Watch, this is to flagrantly.
Disregard the command of Jesus. Flagrantly disregard it is to
read. Do not let your heart be
troubled and do not be afraid. And to say, I want to do what I
want to do and I'm going to do what I want to do.
Anyways, can I tell you this? It's no different than you
ignoring his command. Not to steal.
Not to murder. Not to commit adultery, not to
covet. It's no different to ignore a
command is to ignore. Come and do you love him?
He said you will obey what I command.
Shortly after that, he said, do not let your hearts be troubled,
and do not be afraid Master. You don't understand the reality
of a, my anxiety. You don't understand that the
deception of your anxiety, But you've never been anxious or
discourage really think so. I'd let you try to do my job for
a week, but I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
What must I do? I must a believe the deception
of Satan and walk in it be destroyed or be the only true
option for the believer. Not let my heart be troubled and
do not be afraid. Why can I do that?
Because of the promise. Peace of Christ.
He has promised me, peace. He's not going to fail and that
promise of how about the personal peace of Christ,
because the front of the piece that he gives me, is the exact
piece that sustained, Jesus himself, it lives inside of me.
Why would I ever friend in the face of death?
You didn't friend? But he rested in that piece.
O, the practiced, the promised, peace, the personal peace, the
perfect piece. Why do I not worry?
It's pieces. Perfect.
It's perfect. So I'm not experiencing that in
my life, you don't believe it, you don't have it.
One, or the other. Then the practice piece of
Christ. I want to wake up every day and
I want to practice his speech to say Lord.
I don't know what's going to happen today.
But I asked your piece would guard my heart and whatever
happens today. Jesus said, Peace, I leave with
you. My peace.
I give you. I do not give to you as the
world gives. Do not let your hearts be
troubled and do not be afraid we were to put this in.
Simple terms as we prepare to close this out this morning.
I would tell you this. There's nowhere in this world.
There is nothing in this world that will bring you peace from
God. But Christ, In one can find
true. Peace.
Peace with God. Peace from God.
Only by the grace of God, which was offered to us at the cross
2000 years ago, where Jesus bled and he died in our place, it is
through this cruel sacrifice. That he has brought peace to all
who will by faith trust in him peace in this life.
And peace for all eternity because of the promise that
Jesus makes here in John 14:27. So, I'd say this to you
believers. Rest your anxious Hearts rest,
your anxious hearts, and the peace, that surpasses all
understanding that is found in Christ, rest, in that piece to
the unbeliever, I would say to you.
You will not have pieced. You will not have peace.
Until you have Christ. My prayer for you is this that
today he would open graciously, open your eyes to your need for
him. And he would reveal to you that
you are a sinner and there is no peace in your life but only
turmoil and judgment and wrath that awaits you and that today
as he shows you his grace and his Mercy he would Empower you
to cry out to Jesus and repentance.
That you would believe truly for the very first time.
In Jesus Christ as your lord and savior.
And that you would let your faith rest in him in the
finished work that he accomplished through his death,
his burial and his resurrection. If you don't know, Christ.
You have no hope of peace. Perhaps you're anxious today,
full of anxiety as you've never surrendered to Christ.
Would you trust him today to forgive you of your sin to
cleanse? You from all unrighteousness?
Would you be saved today? Christian rejoice in the piece
that he died for you to have its pray together.
Father, in the name of Jesus, we do come to you, thanking you for
your truth. Lord, Your Truth cancels out
every single lie. This world wants to tell us
about this subject and we rest in your truth and your truth
alone. What I pray for my brothers and
sisters who are in Christ here today, they would hear your
words. Do not let your heart be
troubled and do not be afraid. And that they would trust and
the perfect promised peace of Jesus Christ.
They would walk out. Their Fear and their anxiety and
they're worried. They would walk and total peace
with you and Lord, I pray for those who do not know Christ
today. By your grace and your mercy.
You would show them. You would show them that they
are wretched in your sight because of their sin. and that
they have great reason to fear of the Judgment that is to come
But it is in you, and you alone to that this very day.
Were they to turn their hearts to you in faith and repentance?
Their Eternal Destiny. Not be a destiny of Wrath and
hell, but a destiny of forgiveness and eternal life,
because of what, you've promised, but you draw the
center unto yourself today. And may they repent, and believe
on Christ as their lord and savior.
We pray, and we ask these things in Christ's name.
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