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ESV= LET THE PEACE RULE
“let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts.”
Definition of Peace: Freedom From Disturbance, Tranquility.
Supernaturally changed heart versus a morally restrained heart.
One aspect of a supernatural a changed heart is seen here in Colossians.
It is the aspect of peace.
We see all kinds of evidence of what is supernaturally changed heart looks like in the scripture.
For instance the fruit of the Spirit.
Joy and peace are often listed together.
So what do you want?
Moral restraint or Supernatural Shift?
PEACE: How to get it, and how to cultivate it
Letting the Peace of God “guard“ or “rule“ your heart.
HOW!?!?! HE HAS THAT PEACE...
Philippians “I have learned the secret of peace that passes all understanding.”-Paul the apostle.
Illustration from pride and prejudice
After Jane becomes engaged to Bingley, she says she wishes Elizabeth could be as happy as she is.
Elizabeth replies,
"If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you.
Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness."–Lizzie
Bennett
Happiness is not a matter of circumstances.
It’s a matter of the disposition of your heart.
It goes completely against our distinct instincts.
When our peace is interrupted or our circumstances shift we are taken out with it.
When we experience a lack of peace it is usually been triggered by some shift in our circumstances.
Something happened that disrupted our lives and we lose it over it.
And we blame that circumstance as the CAUSE of our loss of peace.
That may be the occasion of a loss of peace but the cause is something very different.
It’s what Lizzie is talking about here.
It’s deep in your heart.
ITS SOMETHING THAT IS IN YOU!!!
3 Things about Peace:
1. Peace is a LIVING power that comes into your life.
Guard your hearts equals to march around your heart like a rampart.
All your heart is like a referee.
It’s the ancient word for umpire.
2. Peace RULES from within.
I DO NOT give you peace as the world gives
Jesus here is acknowledging there is a worldly kind of peace, NOT a supernatural peace but one that comes and goes with circumstances.
If you’ve ever really had a moment where you think wow I’m at peace right now and then it’s gone in an instant when something happens that’s peace like the world gives.
It’s not something that runs deeper inside.
We all experience it.
Illustration: take for example a mirror.
It only has the capacity to be bright when light is introduced.
If there is no light it’s no longer visible.
It has no power of illumination of its own...
The natural heart is much like a mirror.
It can only reflect it circumstances But it does not have its own Peace.
It’s a Peace of the world can give you but then when the circumstances change it’s gone.
LET THE PEACE OF CHRST RULE......!
It has authority despite the circumstances.
It’s your peace.
Something that has been given to you.
The power that has come to dwell within you and be more stable than the circumstances of your life
3. It’s the peace of Christ.
It is not something you develop, or cultivate yourself through education or methodology.
It’s is something that comes to reside and take up life inside you.
It only comes from the union with Jesus
ONE DAY When you are younger it is easy to frame your Peace mentally by saying: “One day I will get this or that.
One Day I will be here and stable.
One day I will have what I need to accomplish.
One day the circumstances will be different one day.
Etc.
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But as you get older you become more and more aware how completely dependent on your circumstances your peace is.
The circumstances of the world what you have so little control over.
You realize you have no Peace of your own unless you have the supernatural peace.
SUPERNATURAL PEACE
Do you have it?
Now, how do you get it?
How do you cultivated?
Paul gives us three strategies here in the text for cultivating this Peace of our heart.
Mystery strategies are simple.
THINKING OUT
THINKING DOWN
LOOKING UP
I. THINKING OUT.
“Since then........ set your” = logic
Paul is simply saying think out what this means for your life and live that way.
If this is true, think out what the implications of your actions are and live that way.
How is this different from the secular approach to peace, stress, anxiety?
What is interesting about the secular approach is it does not start with thinking it starts with doing.
Rather than working through to a conclusion it is a move toward a methodology of managing.
They move right to technique.
Articles in magazines like good housekeeping or Vanity Fair don’t start with a big questions like what is the meaning of life?
How am I thinking about life?
Where am I coming from?
Where am I going?
What is the big most important thing I can do to benefit others?
These are not the questions that they seek to answer.
Instead they think and deal with “what must I do to alleviate the stress in the moment.
How can I stop this pain from hurting me right now.”
Let’s talk about balance, recreation, diet, rest, relaxation techniques, controlling guilty thoughts, meditation, and technique, etc. Etc., all valid strategies but nothing dealing with cause.
WHY?
Because thinking it out forces you to deal with it honestly and come to real conclusions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior — He was a leading thinker of his day but a very secular man.
He thought out the implications of what life was from his view.1902
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