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Note isaiah’s promise of peace… in isaiah 26.3.... perfect peace....
Have you perfect or imperfect peace?
Shalom= wholeness, completeness, fullness of peace.
(Jewish greeting).
Peace with God
Peace with Others
Peace with self
Peace with circumstances.
What really brings peace?
In Isaiah 26.3, the reality is that the word “peace” occurs twice, which means that the writer is saying a double portion of peace.
Because we are going to need it.
Peace doesn’t mean no problems.
There will be issues, always.
There will be problems, always.
Bad News and Good News is:
Problems do not take sabbatical; Jesus doesn’t either.
Peace
What did the angels say?
Look at Luke 2.14
And so the shepherds headed out to Bethlehem to see this.
Have you ever asked yourself what the trip was like?
Have you ever asked yourself what they found?
We don’t know what the journey was like, but it would have been crowded.
Census.
What did they find?
They found a poor couple with no money in the worst of conditions.
But they had the child.
Jesus often said, “Peace Be with you.”
Who did he say it to?
When they were afraid?
in John 20.19...
When they were being sent out in John 20.21
When they were hiding from others in John 20.26
Jesus often said, “Go in peace.”
Who did he say it to?
Remember the women with the issue of blood for 12 years who reached out and touched Jesus’ hem of his garment?
In Mark 5.34
Remember in Luke when the women, who was a sinner, came with the box of ointment and anointed Jesus’ feet.
Here’s the beginning of the story in Luke 7.36-39
So, what does Jesus say to her?
In Luke 7.50
Paul said , “The god of all grace and peace.” in many of his letters.
so, where does peace start?
Isaiah says it starts in our minds.
look at Isaiah 26.3
A Penny for your thoughts.
What Is Your Mind Fixed On?
fixed on Jesus....
What is your mind fixed on?
CNN ?
Fox? Coronavirus?
The word “fixed” or “stayed” is to lean or completely rest oneself on.
You will find peace when your mind completely focuses on God, leans on god, rests on God’s promises.
Right now,.... what are you thinking of?
Mind drift?
Distracted?
FIXED on Jesus means leaning on him, fully resting on Him, giving all of our cares to Him.
Think about Paul’s advice in Philippians 4.8-9
Jesus is all these things… good, true, honorable, etc.,
When you’re in trouble, he’s a compass
When you’re lost, he will find you.
Think on Jesus.
Without Jesus, peace won’t come and if you think ikt has, it won’t make sense at all.
God is Good
His Word is Always True.
He never leaves.
He never forsakes.
He finds me when I’m lost.
He guides me when I’m lost.
He comforts me when I’m hurt and heals me when I’m sick.
He will never leave me nor forsake me.
This peace will never make sense to someone without Christ, but will make all the sense in the universe to someone who does have Him.
Remember what Jesus said in John 14.27
Jesus iddn’t say he’d give us “peace”, he said he’d give us “his” peace.
And His peace is the perfect peace Paul spoke about.
So how do we find that?
It is important to understand when Jesus said this.
It was the night before he was crucified.
And He knew it as it was happening.
He knew that tomorrow He would be arrested, put on trial, beaten, scourged, disrobed, and crucified.
He knew it all and he didn’t say, “I’m so nervous I have a big test tomorrow.”
He said to his disciples, “My Peace” I leave with you.
how is that found?
Mark 4.35-41 tells the story.
Notice, there are actually 2 storms in this story.
The first is the weather.
The second is the turmoil in the storm in the disciple’s hearts.
“Don’t you care if we drown?”
They had no peace.
And they couldn’t give peace to their brothers, because they had none themselves.
Jesus did.
That is key.
You can’t give what you don’t have.
I’m in the market for a car- the prices right now are out of this world.
If you don’t have it, you don’t get it.
Real Estate- prices are up.
If you don’t have it, you have to get it.
Peace.
If you don’t have it… you can’t give it to someone else.
Jesus has it.
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