In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, the key to continuing peace.

Is it really possible to have true, genuine peace when the circumstances in your life are all

fouled up and messed up that would you like to change this and change that and

change the other is it possible to have real true peace when things are so uncertain

when you feel sometimes such pain in your body or in your emotions,

when things seem to just not be able to, you just can't straighten them out.

How can you have peace in those kind of times?

Well, Jesus was in the upper room with his disciples,

and Peter had just argued with Jesus about washing his feet.

Judas had gone out to betray him. He was talking to them about the fact that he was going to leave

them and the fact that he was going to be crucified. None of that made a lot of sense to them. And then to top all that off, here's what he said, let not your heart be troubled. I'm sure he didn't say it quite that way. But I think that would have been the most ridiculous thing Jesus could have said. In the midst of all of that, and you tell me, don't have a troubled heart? This is one of those verses, and you might want to turn to John 14 for a moment.

This is one of those verses.

If you don't understand what was going on, it doesn't make in this sense at all.

And so even in the midst of this very, very difficult time, Jesus makes this statement, let not your heart

be troubled.

He said, you believe in God, believe also in me.

Now, what was he saying?

Here's what he was saying.

Don't let your heart be troubled any longer because they were already troubled.

I mean, when he said, one of you shall betray me, that was troubling.

Peter argued with him about washing his feet, that was troubling.

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