Recap
of 12/30/12 (John
14:18 -31):
1. Jesus
offers peace to His disciples. Something
which the world cannot give. The world
can give fame, status, wealth, and pleasure.
It can offer the diversions of great cause or great sin but it cannot
offer peace.
2.
“the peace which the world offers us is the peace of escape, the peace
which comes from the avoidance of trouble and from refusing to face
things. The peace which Jesus offers us
is the peace of conquest. No experience
of life can ever take it from us and no sorrow, no danger, no suffering, can
ever make it less. It is independent of
outward circumstances.” (William
Barclay) This peace is not based upon
“exemption from conflict and trial,” but on confidence in God’s love and care.
3.
“This peace was the quietness that would come to their hearts from
trusting God and from knowing that He was in control of all events that touched
their lives.” (J. Dwight Pentecost)
4.
Satan’s hold on men is established through sin and death (Hebrews 2:14 -15). Since Jesus was sinless, Satan had no hold
over Him.
5. We
will have peace if we are…
-yielded to the Holy Spirit’s control
-being obedient to Christ’s Word
-living by faith and not by our wits
-resisting sin, confessing sin
