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

Next on In Touch, the narrow path to personal peace.

Jesus said, my peace I give unto you, not as the world gives give unto you.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

And he spoke those words to his disciples the night before he was going to be crucified.

And of course, they didn't quite understand what all this was about.

They had an idea that something really tough was getting ready to happen,

but he said, my peace I give unto you. And if I should ask you this morning, do you have peace

in your heart? I mean, do you have a settled sense of satisfaction? Not that everything's

right, but that you have a relationship with God

whereby you're convinced and persuaded that whatever you face in life, it's going to be okay,

because you have him, the assurance that he is living within you. Your name is written in

the Lamb's Book of Life. One of these days whether you die or he comes

first, you know that you go into heaven and all of this mess is going to be over with and things

are going to be right like He promised. Do you have that sense in your own heart? Well, we don't

live in a very peaceful age. That's for for sure people do not have peace about that job

about that marriage about their children about the circumstances in which they live or where they

live or how they have to live and so when jesus comes along and he says my peace i give in to you

not as the world gives that That is, the world can't

give the kind of peace that Jesus offers. So I would ask you, do you have that kind of peace?

Can you honestly say, I have this sense of peace? Now, the Greek word is irene, which means to put something together, that is, to bind it together.

That is, when a person has genuine peace, we sense this togetherness in their heart.

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