All right, good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study. Really looking forward to what the Lord has for us tonight.

I want to talk with you about the peace of God and the calm from God in the midst of all the turmoil and chaos that is in the world today.

One of the things that I'm learning in my own personal walk with the Lord is that no matter how chaotic and even confusing everything is, I can still have this peace

and this calm in the midst of it, despite it. And the reason is because it's a supernatural peace that comes from the Lord,

and it's not predicated upon the situation or the set of circumstances in my life. In other words, no matter what's happening

in my life as chaotic and confusing and difficult and hard as it might be, I can still have this

peace, this calm, and I would suggest, and I think you would agree that if there was ever a time in the world in which we're living for that peace and that calm it is now.

In John's Gospel, chapter 14 14 verse 27, Jesus said, peace, I leave with you. My peace,

I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. And then he says this, do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be

afraid. Now, why would Jesus say this if it weren't a problem for us when it comes to letting keyword our hearts be troubled

and becoming fearful and afraid and full of fear. What Jesus is saying is that I have this peace

that I want to give to you. And I want to qualify what this piece is and really what this

peace is not. This piece is not like the peace that the world gives or the world has to offer.

Well, what is the peace that the world has to offer? Well, that peace is contingent upon,

predicated upon everything in my life going well. Now if the only time that I could know

peace is when things are going well in my life, so I'm just as an estimate as a guess, I would

probably have peace about two minutes and 38 seconds a day at best.

You know, best case scenario.

If it's dependent upon what's going on in my life, well, Jesus is saying that's not the peace that I give. The peace that I give you is such

that you should never allow for your hearts to be unsettled or troubled. You should never be

afraid. You have no reason to be afraid. You have absolutely nothing to fear.

John 1633. I love this verse. Well known. Jesus says, I have told you these things so that in me,

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