I GIVE YOU MY PEACE

I GIVE YOU MY PEACE

John 14:27   ²⁷ Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Right before Jesus ascended back to heaven, he was saying, I am leaving My peace with you, not the kind of peace the world gives, so you don’t need to be afraid or let your heart be troubled.

There is a vast difference in Peace with God, which all believers should have, and the peace of God[GF1] . The of which Jesus speaks of here, the peace of the world is only surface or temporal peace.

The peace give by Christ Jesus is in the heart, the peace of God heals the troubled heart and takes away fear.

Philippians 4:6-7   ⁶ Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

⁷ And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

We are not to worry about anything. Prayer and supplication which means, a humble request or a petition to God with Thanksgiving presents the cure for worry. Which is a believing prayer. This speaks of all thing’s material and physical as well as spiritual.

The peace of God as we stated before is a sanctifying peace, which is higher than the way we think. It is way beyond human comprehension, which passes all natural understanding.

This understanding will keep your hearts and minds because of what Jesus did at the cross

Romans 16:20     ²⁰ And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

Everyone who trust Jesus and what he has done at the cross is guaranteed victory and in all things. At the cross we received the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. This grace we have is available for all believers.

Philippians 4:9   ⁹ Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

Everything you both learned and received that Jesus taught on, the God of peace that passes all natural understanding. If our faith is properly placed in the cross and remains in the cross.

1 Corinthians 14:33   ³³ For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

The Holy Spirit will never contradict himself. These instructions given by Paul pertain to all churches and not only at the church of Corinth.

Romans 5:1-2   5 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

² By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

This is the only way we can be justified by faith in Christ, this is justifying peace, which also gives us access to the goodness of God where in alone can we stand and rejoice in the hope of glory.

Our faith in Christ Jesus always brings glory to God. Anything else that brings glory to self, God can never accept.

Romans 8:5-6   ⁵ For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

⁶ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

This refers to the believers trying to live for the Lord by means other than faith in the cross. Those who place their faith in Christ and the cross, do so exclusively. They are doing what the spirit desires, which in itself can bring victory.

This doesn’t refer to watching too much television as some might think, but rather it is trying to live for God outside of His order. The results of this will be sin and separation from God.

Gods prescribed order is the cross. Being spiritual minded is life and peace. This puts a demand on our constant faith in his word and the finished work of the cross, which is the way of the Holy Spirit. 

2 Peter 1:2   ² Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

This is sanctifying grace and sanctifying peace. All of this is made available through what Jesus did at the finished work of the cross.

Our love of and belief in Jesus is our peace, when the finished work was done, we were granted peace from God. it is by the atonement that reconciled men back to God.

Having slain the enmity, Jesus removed the barrier between God and sinful man, he bridge the gap for us to be able to have a relationship with the father.

John 20:19-21   ¹⁹ Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

²⁰ And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.

²¹ Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

The fear expressed here pertained to the idea or thought that the religious authorities having now murdered Jesus may very well try to do the same to his closest followers. The day of Pentecost would remove this fear.

When Jesus stood in the midst of them and said to them, peace be unto you, the bible gives no information as to how Jesus appeared before them like this, except when we get our glorified body, we will be like him.

Jesus showed them his hands and his side to prove he was not a spirit, that is when the peace began to come. They knew Jesus was alive again. He then told them peace be unto you.

This is said again by design. The first time Jesus said peace be unto you, was given to all who were assembled. A new revelation, the second “peace be unto you” was a summons to service as we shall see.

When Jesus says, my father has sent me, even so I send you. This was not a suggestion; it was a command. Even to this day for all who have made Jesus Lord of their life.

Even so I send you pertains to the great commission of taking the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. Remember there is a great difference between peace with God and the peace of God. peace with God is knowing him and knowing that you are saved by accepting his son as savior.

The peace of God is Gods sanctifying peace, which means he has set you apart from the evil things of this world, especially the wrong way of thinking. This sanctifying peace also passes all understanding. This peace belongs to all believers.