In a world filled with turmoil and uncertainty, our sense of inner peace seems elusive. Truth be told, we worry a lot.

Well in the Bible we're promised a peace that surpasses understanding, not just a fleeting

feeling that dissipates into thin air.

It's an abiding piece that sinks right into the core of our being.

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Wendall continues his brand new series on The Fruit of the Spirit.

In today's study will do a deep dive that will uncover the secrets to God's perfect

peace.

Chuck titled his message, Don't miss the entrance to peace.

In our morning worship services, we are giving attention to the fruit of the spirit,

that cluster of virtues that we find in Galatians 5 versus 22 and 23. There are nine of them. The greatest of these as set forth in other parts of the scriptures is love,

and that is followed by joy,

peace, and patience.

And then we find kindness and goodness, faithfulness and gentleness, and then running anchor in that relay, self-control.

All nine are virtues we would love to have in our lives, but we cannot produce them ourselves. They must

be produced by the Holy Spirit who infuses us with those virtues as we yield ourselves to his power, his presence, and to the work of Christ in our lives.

We've looked at love, we've considered joy. Today we examine the importance of peace.

When you turn to an alphabetical listing of all the words in the Bible,

it's a book called a concordance and in an exhaustive concordance all the verses are listed

And when you find the word peace, you will find numerous verses, including the word, in both

old and new testament.

I've chosen a passage from both old and new. They are somewhat familiar to us, though

we've not looked at them lately and so I thought today would be

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