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, 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, key 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 piece 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, what is the peace that the world has to offer? Well, that piece

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

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