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Our God is a Promise-making, promise-keeping God.
God has promised us peace in the Person of Messiah — in the Person of Jesus.
As we face this world’s peace-stealing circumstances, we need to cling to that Peace.
We need to cling to Jesus who came as not just the Babe in a manger 2000 years ago — but who came as the Prince of Peace.
Emmanuel, God with us, Jesus, made some promises concerning peace in:
John 14:27 (TPT)
“I leave the gift of peace with you—my peace.
Not the kind of fragile peace given by the world, but my perfect peace.
Don’t yield to fear or be troubled in your hearts—instead, be courageous!
John 16:33 (TPT)
… everything I’ve taught you is so that the peace which is in me will be in you and will give you great confidence as you rest in me.
For in this unbelieving world you will experience trouble and sorrows, but you must be courageous, for I have conquered the world!”
Certainly there are many things in this world that rob our peace.
For instance, last Sunday we learned of a demon-possessed or at least mentally deranged individual who drove a SUV into a Christmas parade in Wisconsin.
I believe demon possessed due to his violent criminal past and his obvious intent to hurt as many seniors, children and others as he could as he weaved through the parade to hit as many people as possible.
Then there is the announcement this week of the omicron variant of covid.
We don’t know much about it, but we need to be AFRAID!
Probably being terrified in fear is NOT living in the peace of Christ.
Of course the panic-mongering media, spreading the news of a new covid variant, helped provoke a financial situation as the stock market plunged Friday for the worst Black Friday stock market ever.
Industry publication Barron’s said Friday:
Stocks, oil prices, and bond yields plunged Friday as fears surrounding a new, heavily-mutated variant of Covid-19 slammed investor sentiment and ratcheted up volatility.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average had its worst day of the year, falling 905 points, or 2.5% in holiday-shortened trading.
The S&P 500 ended 2.3% lower, while the Nasdaq Composite declined 2.2%.
This was the worst Black Friday on record for all three indexes.
And then yesterday, Brother Darrell sent me a YouTube link concerning violent encounters in parking lots, people being attacked and killed in heavily populated parking lots.
I don’t know that there have been any incidents in our area, but we do need to always try to be aware of what is going on around us.
The video also talked about a lab in Pensylvania that went into lock down when some vials of smallpox were discovered.
We live in a world full of situations that could cause us great fear and stress.
It is just as Jesus said John 16:33: in this unbelieving world you WILL experience trouble and sorrows
But Jesus tells us not live in response to the trouble and sorrows of this world.
Instead we are to live according to the peace that He gives.
A peace that will overcome the terrors of the world.
A peace that gives us courage and confidence.
As we live in the peace of Jesus — as we live in courage and confidence — we will be witnesses of the difference Jesus makes in our life.
The courage and confidence that Jesus gives with His peace will give us opportunities to speak to people about their need to repent of the sins and ask Jesus to give them His peace as He is the Lord of their lives.
People all around us are looking for peace in all the wrong places:
In political solutions.
In wealth and possessions.
In the bottle or the needle.
Just as they think they have found peace in the things of this world, they find out the truth:
So we need to be filled the peace of God.
We need what He gives in spite of the terrors all around us.
But how do we tap into the peace that Jesus promised?
We do it through prayer.
By communing with Jesus.
As we have “a little talk with Jesus and tell Him all about our troubles.”
As we quiet our minds, our hearts, our mouths and LISTEN to what Jesus would say to us through the Holy Spirit.
Things that promote peace and NOT fear, worry or stress.
We will have an opportunity this afternoon at 5:00 pm to pray and hear the things that give peace at our Christmas Tree lighting/Prayer service.
Each Tuesday at 10 am we have an opportunity to pray.
During the first full week of the year, starting January 2-8 we will fast and pray.
With that thought in mind, I would like to encourage you to do 2 things:
Prayer devotional: Awesome!
This brand new 31-day devotional takes the Sunday night devotions that I have been doing since the beginning of the year a few steps further.
It reveals Jesus in all of the ways we have seen so far this year, but then summarizes those attributes in 31 different ways such as:
The Supreme Jesus
The Awesome Jesus
The Beautiful Jesus
The Resurrected Jesus
The Compassionate Jesus
The Victorious Jesus
and so on
At the end of these 31 devotions a list of 30 or so of the Names of Christ are given with their scripture references.
What this devotional, written by Dick Eastman, will do is help us to refocus on Jesus.
To think about Him in new and deeper ways.
As the old chorus says:
Turn your eyes upon Jesus and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.
The stress and worries will grow dimmer.
The terror and constant yammer of the fear-mongering media will grow dimmer.
The aggravations and heartaches of this present darkness will grow dimmer.
And Jesus will grow brighter.
His grace will grow brighter.
His glory will grow brighter.
And completely wash-out every other care and concern.
Another thing you can do is purchase Missionary God, Missionary Bible -
Not just for the devotional
But also for the Bible reading plan to read though the Bible in a year.
If you have never done it, I encourage you to commit to reading through the scriptures in 2022.
We need to focus less on the constant noise of this world and more on the Presence of Jesus.
You know, Jesus.
The One who was born 2000 years ago in the fulfilment of:
Isaiah 9:6–7 (NLT)
For a child is born to us, a son is given to us.
The government will rest on his shoulders.
And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 His government and its peace will never end.
He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his ancestor David for all eternity.
The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will make this happen!
Jesus IS the fulfilment of the promise of a Prince of Peace.
This morning turn with me to our text where we see the announcement of the fulfilment of God’s promise of peace:
The Shepherds – PEACE - Luke 2:8-14 / Isaiah 9:6
The Promise of Peace
First, think about the promised that Messiah of Isaiah 9:6-7.
First, he will be a child born to us.
Not a gravity-defying superhero sent in a space ship.
Not an archangel sent with legions of angel armies.
A baby.
Jesus is the fulfilment of that promise of a baby.
Second, this scripture promises that His NAME will be .... Prince of Peace.
Messiah has a lot of names in this promise, but the one on which we are focusing this morning is: Prince of Peace
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