Sermon Tone Analysis

Fruit is singular and not plural.

The Holy Spirit produces one kind of fruit, that is, Christlikeness.

Peace = εἰρήνη eirēnē

harmony in personal relationships peace, harmony

a state of freedom from anxiety and inner turmoil—‘peace, freedom from worry.’

The fruit of righteousness is peace, and its effect is quietness and confidence forever.

The fruit of righteousness is the fruit that results from being born again or regenerated.

In place of the frantic busyness that self-dependence requires, those on whom the Spirit falls will be able to live in continual “quietness” and trust (NIV “confidence,” 32:17), because they will have truly relinquished their lives into the hands of their covenant Lord.

Their “homes” will be places of “peace,” trust (NIV “secure”), and “rest” (32:18).

The word translated undisturbed is šaʾ anannot, the same word rendered complacent in Isa.

32:9, 11.

In those places the women were resting on the wrong things.

Unlike those whose trust is placed in mere physical circumstances, this rest cannot be disturbed by physical disaster (32:19).

Resting in the Spirit of God, they have inner resources of blessing that transcend the changing physical and material world.

They have “streams” by which to plant the “seed” of their lives and from which to nourish those who depend on them.

God’s peace is promised to His saints.

The Israelites were offered God’s peace like a river, but they paid no attention to His commands.

Peace = שָׁלוֹם shalom = peace, welfare, safety.

One common meaning of shālôm is the “absence of conflict and strife.”

Peace also includes the absence of fear of the threat of harm and thus a “sense of security.”

With this peace, a person is able to rest, experience quietness and sleep well (Ps.

4:8; Isa.

32:17f).

Even in death, the righteous have peace and rest (57:2).

The Lord, our Rock, gives ultimate security and stability as well as quietness of mind called shālôm—the Hebrew way to express greatness of peace or true and total peace.

Hebrew Interlinear Bible: “a mind steadfast You will guard peace peace because in you trusted.”

Isa.

26:3 has the words “perfect peace”; but the Hebrew from which this is rendered reads: “peace, peace,” “Which means positive well-being, not merely lack of strife.”

This is perfect peace or peace, peace.

V. 7, steadfast = fixed (KJV) = - = כּוּן kwn = prepare, make ready; erect, set up; determine, fix, appoint; make firm; feel inclined, be intent on, be firmly resolved.

To be marked by firm determination or resolution; be unshakable.

To set one’s heart on God in steadfastness

“His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.”

He is neither fickle nor cowardly; when he is undecided as to his course he is still fixed in heart: he may change his plan, but not the purpose of his soul.

His heart being fixed in solid reliance upon God, a change in his circumstances but slightly affects him; faith has made him firm and steadfast, and therefore if the worst should come to the worst, he would remain quiet and patient, waiting for the salvation of God.

“I have believed,” is in the perfect tense in the Greek text.

It is in its full meaning, “I have believed with the present result that my faith is a firmly settled one.”

It is like hammering a nail through a board and clinching it on the other side.

It is there to stay.

So, Paul’s faith was placed permanently in the God whom he knew, which faith was immovable.

Again, “persuaded” is perfect in tense.

Paul had come to a settled persuasion regarding the matter and was fixed in an immovable position.

You could not budge him.

This is an example of a heart that is fixed.

נָצַר nāṣar: A verb meaning to guard, to keep, to observe, to preserve, to hide.

The word refers to people’s maintaining things entrusted to them, especially to keeping the truths of God in both actions and mind (Ps.

119:100, 115).

God’s Word is to be kept with our whole hearts (Ps.

119:69); our hearts, in turn, ought to be maintained in a right state

Keep in Psalm 119.69 is nāṣar.

(Keep = guard)

Guard your heart, above all else!

How do you guard your heart?

V. 7, Transcends = ὑπερέχω hyperechō = to surpass in quality or value, be better than, surpass, excel.

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Peace (Gk.

eirēnē) results in an ordered, settled, and undisturbed response to whatever life brings one’s way (Phil.

4:6).

This peace is beyond human understanding (Phil.

4:7), an inner calm that results from confidence in one’s saving relationship with Christ.

peace of God (v.

7)—Inner calm or tranquillity is promised to the believer who has a thankful attitude based on unwavering confidence that God is able and willing to do what is best for His children (see Rom. 8:28).

Peace is often mistaken as being a doormat.

The peace of Christ has dominion and authority to rule that lets the believer know when they are in the will of God and when they are not.

“What is peace?”

A little boy answered, “Peace is when you feel all smooth inside.”

“Rule” is brabruō (βραβρυω), an athletic term, “be umpire.”

Lightfoot says: “Wherever there is a conflict of motives or impulses or reasons, the peace of Christ must step in and decide which is to prevail.”

Vincent comments: “Literally, be umpire.

To factor decisively; to be the factor determining an outcome (as if arbitrating).

to control the activity of someone, based presumably upon correct judgment and decision—‘to control.’

This is what the peace of Christ does.

The peace of Christ tells you that you are on safe ground with God’s approval and blessing; the absence of the peace of God will let you know that what you are doing or about to do is unsafe and does not have God’s approval and blessing.

Let the peace of Christ rule (determine every decision and action in our lives).

in deciding on any course of action, let that be chosen which does not ruffle the peace within you.

allow the peace of Christ be in control and be “the decisive factor.”

We are to submit ourselves to the rulership of the peace of Christ.

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to surrender to the lordship of Christ and to the peace that accompanies it.

Jesus is the Prince of Peace.

His government (rule, dominion, reign) and His peace will have no end.

No Christ; No Peace.

We cannot have the fruit of the Spirit manifest through us without the seed of God’s Word richly dwelling in us.

The Word of God is the foundation of our peace and rest.

- A.W. Tozer

There is perfect peace, and there is also great peace.

Psalm 119 praises God for his Word, the Bible, because God has given us the Bible and it is only through the Bible that we can come to know who God is and how to praise him.

The most striking feature of Psalm 119 is that each verse of the psalm refers to the Word of God, the Bible, with only a small handful of exceptions.

At least 171 of the Psalm’s 176 verses refer to the precepts, word, laws, commandments, or decrees of God explicitly.

If we want to see wonderful things in the Scriptures, it is not enough for us merely to ask God to open our eyes that we might see them.

We must also study the Bible carefully.

The Holy Spirit is given not to make our study unnecessary but to make it effective.

The verse does not promise peace to those who perfectly keep God’s Law, for who can keep it?

It promises peace to those who “love” God’s Law

Reconciliation suggests changing an enemy into a friend.

Through Jesus Christ, we have been reconciled to God.

The cross of Christ is God’s weapon for breaking down barriers between God and man, and man and man.

This reconciliation is an act of grace.

There was enmity between man and the law.

The law contained rules and ceremonies man could not keep.

Therefore, man and the law were always at odds.

But this enmity was removed through the death of Jesus.

When Jesus preached peace, He was bringing reconciliation.