And Christmas has arrived, and from the entire team who serves at the Desiring God and from

Pastor John and from myself, we all want to wish you a very Merry Christmas.

The incredible Christmas story of God breaking into this world is true, and it really is

incredible.

God has taken on flesh, and that is a story that rings of God's glory, and it rings

of a new peace that is given to the globe.

We saw that yesterday.

But it all raises the question, how do I enjoy the Christmas peace of God right now personally

in my own heart and in my own life?

Today John Piper explains in a clip from his 2011 Christmas sermon explaining Luke chapter

2, verse 14, here's what John Piper said.

When I say peace, I don't simply mean the absence of conflict or animosity.

I mean the presence of joyful tranquility and as much richness of interpersonal communication

as you are capable of, richness of back and forth, richness and sweetness of back and

forth.

I think awkwardness intense, I think subterranean, just open, free, sweet, eyeball to eyeball,

no agenda, peace.

That's what we're after.

So let's look at these, let me start with the key, the key, the key, more than one.

The key to each of these three relationships of peace is keeping together what the angels

kept together.

Glory to God, peace to us, together.

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