2018.5.2 Peace Part 2 "Clearing the Pipe for Peace"

Intro

This is an in living color Example.

I feel strongly that I’m supposed to be dealing with Carlton Pearson on Sunday.

Never had this kind of reaction…even with the US same sex position.

But I have peace.

Just bc peace, doesn’t mean I’m stupid and not covering in prayer.

We all will and do have to make some decisions that are hard.

Poll who’s had to make a decision and what is it?

Everything doesn’t have to be right to have peace

Here’s the problem, we don’t have the secure feeling that peace gives us because we’ve tried to be too spiritual and have skipped the elementary things

Intro

Qualifications It is available. 3 Characteristics

The elect: the chosen. the ekklesia; the called out

The holy: holy (pure) adj. — having the characteristics of moral or ritual purity; context often emphasizes one over the other.

holy (pure) adj. — having the characteristics of moral or ritual purity; context often emphasizes one over the other.

The beloved: to be loved (Christian) v. — to be loved with a strong, non-sexual affection and regard for one’s good as understood by God’s moral character; especially characterized by a willing forfeiture of rights or privileges in another person’s behalf.

to be loved (Christian) v. — to be loved with a strong, non-sexual affection and regard for one’s good as understood by God’s moral character; especially characterized by a willing forfeiture of rights or privileges in another person’s behalf.

What does it feel like to have peace…what does it feel like not to have peace?

This is most commonly seen in marriage.

She comes back to me. We feel connected.

Unfortunately we learn to live with that feeling. It becomes the “I can do life just fine with one leg shorter than the other.”

Offense will keep you from peace!!

Colossians 3:13 NKJV

13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.

col 3.

How do you handle offense? How has that method worked for you?

Peace is Connected to Love

it’s the same word for love used in vs. 12.

refresher: to be loved (Christian) v. — to be loved with a strong, non-sexual affection and regard for one’s good as understood by God’s moral character; especially characterized by a willing forfeiture of rights or privileges in another person’s behalf.

app: God expects you to give the same thing away that you have recieved in the same way you received it IF YOU WANT PEACE

You can’t get the word til you get love!!

How we get peace

How we keep peace

Note: Nothing here about how you feel.

You can not judge your decision to obey on feeling.

-Abraham probalbly didn’t have peace when God told him to leave.

-He would’ve missed

Obedience Peace

2 Chron 14:

2 Chronicles 14:1–7 NKJV

1 So Abijah rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David. Then Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet for ten years. 2 Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God, 3 for he removed the altars of the foreign gods and the high places, and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images. 4 He commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to observe the law and the commandment. 5 He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was quiet under him. 6 And he built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest; he had no war in those years, because the Lord had given him rest. 7 Therefore he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and make walls around them, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us, because we have sought the Lord our God; we have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

2 Chronicles 14:7 The Living Bible

7 “Now is the time to do it, while the Lord is blessing us with peace because of our obedience to him,” he told his people. “Let us build and fortify cities now, with walls, towers, gates, and bars.” So they went ahead with these projects very successfully.

Fear is a natural response. Fight or Flight

There will come a time when you have to return to the rhythm of life and when and where happens again....what do you do then?

What does your fight or flight look like? How does obedience change what you’re facing?

2 chron 14.

2 Chronicles 14:8–10 NKJV

8 And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand from Judah who carried shields and spears, and from Benjamin two hundred and eighty thousand men who carried shields and drew bows; all these were mighty men of valor. 9 Then Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah. 10 So Asa went out against him, and they set the troops in battle array in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

What does your fight or flight look like? How does obedience change what you’re facing?

Figure Out where is God in it?

The difference in what happens when His peace gets on you, you don’t behave the same way.

ex. when you get bad news and you keep your joy.

Close

peace from God

Peace in God - getting in His presence

peace of God-He takes what’s His and you get the same measure

Picture of JEsus in ship

To be a factor determining an outcome. Ie. When you have what’s His, your heart

Q: What if I don’t know?

A: The Word is always right.

I’d rather have the Word to go along with the instruction than a word.