PEACE CHRIST GIVE TO US
John 14:27
Good News Christian Fellowship
BUCAS, Daraga, Albay
January 20, 2007
INTRODUCTION
A. Every men of this world seek for lasting peace.
B. Nations of the world tried to bring peace in the trouble areas.
C. There is the peace of escapism, of avoiding trouble, of refusing to face things, of unreality.
D. There’s a philosophy of “Life is a ball – enjoy yourself!”
E. The peace which Christ gives to His children is not the peace the world offered.
F. What is this peace Christ gives to His disciples? Is it a peace that is sought through pleasure, satisfaction, contentment, absence of trouble, positive thinking, or denial of problems?
Disciples’ series of questions and request:
a. Peter:
“Lord where are you going”?
“Lord, why I can’t follow you”?
b. Thomas
“Lord we don’t where you are going”?
“How can we know the way”?
c. Philip
“Lord, show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied”
The words of the text shows how trouble the disciples are. Remember, Jesus Christ is about to be arrested. The disciples were perplexed because they did comprehend at first what He was saying. The disciples were filled with sorrow and heaviness. Jesus Christ have to comfort them. He told them that He will go to prepare a place for them in heaven; another Comforter to be with them forever. Then, Christ say, “. “Peace I leave with you.”
What is this Peace?
First, take not in verse 27a: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.” Two things we will notice here:
a. “my peace” – it signifies it was his own, that which he had to give to His disciples. This is the peace of God himself and which points to God as the source of peace (Luke 7:50; Philippians 4”4-7).
b. “..I give with you.”-. It is the peace from God, which God gives to dwell in the heart of the believer (Ro. 1:7; ICor.1:3)
I. Peace of Reconciliation – Let’s read Ephesians 2:11 -16
Notice brothers and sisters that before we been born-again, we are separated from Christ. We are separated; excluded; strangers and without hope. We are without Christ, without a home, without the covenants, without God.
But praise Him, the Lord tore down the obstacle that blocked the unbelievers from reaching Christ. Christ removed forever that separated us from God. Now we have access to the throne of Grace and Mercy.
“Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with god through our Lord Jesus Christ. through Him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.” (Romans 5:1-2)
Christ redeemed us through His death; sins have been fully paid. By His blood Christ made possible remission of sins and reconciliation with God. We are now at peace with God. Peace is always born out of reconciliation. Its source is found only in the reconciliation wrought by Jesus Christ.
“But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. For He himself our peace… (Eph.2:13-14)
Christ brings us near to God. He brings peace by delivering us from the bondage of sin and death and a life of eternity with God. He also brings us peace by giving us the daily power to overcome the terrible weight of anguish, loneliness, guilt, emptiness and fear.
II Peace of Assurance
Because of God’s full acceptance, to the adoption of children, and to the eternal fruits of his fatherly kindness, we are brought into the peace of unquestionable confidence. We
are brought into a state of freedom from condemnation, and all the curses of the law of God. This is the peace with sure knowledge that our life is in hands of God.
“There is therefore now no more condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:1-2)
A person who is in Christ is safe and secure from condemnation of sin, he is not judged as sinner, but is counted to be righteous.
This means that death, the eternal death has no more claims against us. We read in 1 Corinthians 15:55, “O death, where is thy sting?” So, we don’t have to be afraid of it. If God is for us, who will be against us? (Rom. 8:31)
We have reason to be at rest in an assurance, that nothing can separate us from the love of God, Rom. 8:38, 39.
“For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me, and this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose nothing of all that he has given me, but to raise it up at the last day.” (John 6:38-40)
III Peace that guard our Hearts and minds
“And the peace of God, which transcends all human understanding, will guard your heart and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:7)
It means, to have a conscious, a knowledge that God will: provide; guide; strengthen; sustain; deliver; encourage and give real life now and forever. The peace of Gods is far greater than anything you could ever imagine or understand. The peace of God comforts us in the very midst of trial and affliction. This PEACE is beyond anything we can ask or think. It transcends all our imaginations.
The “will guard” or “shall keep” froo-reh’-o is means to be a watcher in advance, that is, to mount guard as a sentinel (post spies at gates); figuratively to hem in, protect: - keep (with a garrison) – Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionary.
The term is a military name to garrison, to kept guard and protect. The Peace of God is like a most elite soldier who guard and protect the most precious possession: the believer’s heart and mind.
“for the peace of God, in either sense, is a preservation of the saints: peace made with God secures them in Christ from all condemnation by the law, sin, Satan, the world, or their own hearts; and peace in their own souls, on so good a foundation as it is, keeps them through Christ as in a garrison, from being overset with the troubles of the world, or the temptations of Satan; and is a means of preserving them from being carried away with the errors and heresies of the wicked, having a witness to truth within themselves; and from every evil way and work, from profaneness and immorality; the grace of God teaching them, and the love of Christ constraining them, which is shed abroad in their hearts, to live and act otherwise.” (John Gill)
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)
APPLICATION
Brothers and sisters the peace that Christ give and leave to us is not the peace the world had offer or gives. In the world PEACE means avoiding trouble. It is a peace that sought pleasure, satisfaction, contentment, absence of trouble, absence of problems, positive thinking, or denial of problems.
These are not the peace God gives us. The peace the world, the men, and things of it give, is a false one. The peace Christ gives is true, solid, and substantial. The peace the world affords is a very transient, unstable, and short lived one, but the peace of Christ is durable, and everlasting. The peace of the Lord will carry us through all the difficulties and enigmas of life.
If there should be suffering and pain in our pathway, we may be confident: that God will use this to further us along the path to our heavenly goal. Our destiny is to spent eternity with God.
Brethren, the PEACE God leave and give with you, is not for you to hold on for yourself. You have to share and declare it to others. Notice the word of Jesus Christ: “Peace I leave with you.”
John Gill commented:
“he left the Gospel of peace with them, to be preached by them to all the world; which is a declaration and publication of peace made by his blood; is a means of reconciling the minds of men to God and Christ, to the truths, ordinances, and people of Christ; of relieving and giving peace to distressed minds; and which shows the way to eternal peace: and as Christ had kept his disciples in peace one with another, so he left them in peace; and left orders with them to maintain it one among another:…
Fur further application, let’s asks ourselves:
• Do you believe Christ has made peace between you and the Father and between you and other Christians?
• Have you accepted that you have access to the Father.?
• Are you making peace with people with whom you’ve had conflicts?
You are not only forgiven, but accepted to favor, you become the objects of God’s complacence and delight. Being taken into God’s family and made his children.
“So then you are no longer and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints.” (Eph.2:19a)
From Jonathan Edwards:
“Turn your feet into the way of peace, forsake the foolish and live, forsake those things which are no other than the devil’s baits, and seek after this excellent peace and rest of Jesus Christ: that peace of God which passeth all understanding.”
Let us PRAY.
