[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to start in verse 11.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to read down through verse 17.
[SPEAKER_01]: It'll be on the screen if you want to follow that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to look at it today there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, put on the full armor of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember, not just part of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not some of it, not only one piece of it, but put on the full armor, but I say the full armor.
[SPEAKER_01]: The full armor of God so that you can stand against the tactics of the devil.
[SPEAKER_01]: For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil and heavens.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is why you must take up the full armor of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that you may be able to resist in the evil day and having prepared everything to take your stand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Say, well, how do I do that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, here we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stand there for what the truth, what truth, like a belt around your waist.
[SPEAKER_01]: Righteousness, like armor on your chest, and your feet sandled with readiness for the gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: In every situation, take the shield of faith, and with that you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take the helmet of salvation in the sort of the spirit, which is God's Word.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're taking notes this morning, the title of today's message
[SPEAKER_01]: The shoes of peace is multi-dimensional peace, multi-dimensional peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Father, we thank you, Lord, for your word this morning, God.
[SPEAKER_01]: We thank you, Lord, for just continuing to give us revelation and understanding, Father, the truth of your word.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lord, we wanna feast on your word today, God.
[SPEAKER_01]: We want to leave here so full, so changed, so marked by you, Father.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lord, we thank you for your word.
[SPEAKER_01]: We love you today, Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: In Jesus name, everybody said, amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Paul says there in verse 13, this is why you must put on the full arm of God so that you may be able to resist in the evil day.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just recapping what I've been recapping over the last couple of weeks, but I want everybody to make sure that we are constantly understanding this.
[SPEAKER_01]: That word evil there when he says that you may be able to resist in the evil day is the Greek word Paneros, which means labor, pain, sorrow.
[SPEAKER_01]: says that you may be able to resist in the evil day, in the laboring days, in the days that are painful, in the days that are sorrowful, that you may be able to resist in that kind of day.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so we know that we will have days where things are great, where we have victorious days, when we feel victorious, when the blessings are flowing and breakthrough is happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we're also very aware of the fact that there are going to be days that are a bit more challenging, that are a little bit maybe frustrating and chaotic, maybe they're a little confusing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it says it's in those kind of days,
[SPEAKER_01]: that you have to put on the full armor of God so that you can resist and that you can stand.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you don't feel like standing, you can be able to stand.
[SPEAKER_01]: When all hell is coming against you, you can be able to resist because you have put on the full armor of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you remember, I shared with you that the armor was given to us for two reasons.
[SPEAKER_01]: According to Ephesians chapter 6 verse 13 to resist number one and to stand number two.
[SPEAKER_01]: To resist is that word antihistomy which means to withstand to set against.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember, it's like the allergy medicine that blocks the allergens from affecting your body.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's got antihistamines in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's that same kind of word that we get here in the original Greek language.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really putting up a barricade, putting up a blockade to withstand a set against the tactics and the schemes of the enemy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen?
[SPEAKER_01]: So when Paul says he says, put on the floor and regards to that you may be able to resist
[SPEAKER_01]: What he is saying is, put on the armor of God so that there can be a block there, that there can be something that comes against the evil forces that are trying to come against you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm grateful for that this morning because I'm grateful that we can withstand when the attack comes, that we don't just have to take it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on now, but that we can withstand, we can stand strong and we can resist against the attack in the evil day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then the word stand there is the word history me taking off that first part, and just leaving with history me on there, which means to cause to stand, to set into place.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it says that you may be able to resist, and you may be able to stand.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is not just standing.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is actually like kind of bearing your feet down.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when the enemy tries to attack, you can't be pushed over because you literally cannot be moved.
[SPEAKER_01]: your feet are in a stance where they are fixed, they're fixed in place.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it says that you may be able to resist and stand, so that you may be able to not be hit by the attack, but there's a block there, but then you also cannot be moved.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is why the former of God is so important, because the former of God says, nothing's going to hit me and nothing's going to move me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, when the attack comes, I'm not going to be hit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not going to certainly be taken out.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I know how to resist and I know how to stand because I have been equipped and I have become ready with the full armor of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we've learned about the belt of truth.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have understood that the belt of truth comes first because before you can have anything in your life, you better know that you got to have truth.
[SPEAKER_01]: You better have the truth to God's word.
[SPEAKER_01]: You better know who you are.
[SPEAKER_01]: And who he is, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I taught you that every piece of the armor is connected to the belt.
[SPEAKER_01]: That without the belt of truth, nothing else can be in place, can set in place at everything connects to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about last week, the breastplate of righteousness.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about the importance of having the protection of the righteousness of God, knowing that you are righteous.
[SPEAKER_01]: that you are in right standing with God, and that you have a covering over the most important part of your body, which is your heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: That no matter what comes your way, there is a piece of armor that protects you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that armor has no cracks, that armor has no blemishes, that armor has no holes in it, so the enemy can try all he wants to come and steal away.
[SPEAKER_01]: What God is done in your life and try to rob you of your joy and your peace and everything
[SPEAKER_01]: But nothing, nothing can stand against it, because you are covered in the breastplate of righteousness.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know who you are in Christ Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are made right in Him.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so this week we're addressing what some of your versions may say the sandals or the shoes, the shoes.
[SPEAKER_01]: What Paul is talking about here when it comes to the shoes
[SPEAKER_01]: If you've thought about it much, maybe when you are younger and you learned about the armor of God, maybe when you read this, you thought, well, I've got to put on these shoes so I can go and run and tell everybody about Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I'm going to evangelize and tell them all the truth that God's Word.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not what Paul's talking about here, and that's great, and that we need to, we need to be doing that, we need to have that understanding.
[SPEAKER_01]: Apoll uses these words he says, your feet are sandled, your feet are sandled.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, your feet are strapped up.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're binded up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if I had a picture of what this would look like, because we've probably all somewhere along the lines and more than likely have attended some sort of Easter or Christmas performance at a church or something, and you saw the soldiers, and you saw how they would be in these sandals that would have the leather straps go around all the way up their legs.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what Paul is talking about here.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's talking about those kind of shoes that those kind of sandals that they're literally strapped, they're bind it up all the way up your legs.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the word sandal there when he says, he says that your feet are sandled, that word sandal is the Greek word, Hupadeo, which means to bind under, to bind under.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when we are sandled up, when we are strapped up with the shoes, if you will, that we are binded under, well, if we are binded under, what are we bound under?
[SPEAKER_01]: That'd be my question, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Ephesians chapter 6 verse 15, let's look at it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just that scripture alone, and your feet sandled, so your feet binded under, with readiness for the gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if I'm coming up under something, if I'm, if I'm strapping my feet together, if I'm binding my feet up, what am I doing it for?
[SPEAKER_01]: What am I coming under?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm coming under the gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: My shoes are laced up, they're ready to go, so that way I can run, but they're coming up under, they're bound up to the gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what it's saying is that your feet are bound under the gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there is literally a piece of the armor that contains his peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now it's important to understand that
[SPEAKER_01]: Roman soldiers, a tire, when it came to their shoes, were not these large metal giant boot-looking things.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, this was not somebody that was in full-out, you know, chain metal and metal from head to toe.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just told you that they were like sandals with those straps.
[SPEAKER_01]: Laced up all the way around their legs.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's important to also understand because I had to ask myself, well, how can a warrior?
[SPEAKER_01]: How can a fighter?
[SPEAKER_01]: How can a soldier fight in a battle with sandals on?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because our modern day soldiers are modern day troops, right, they're wearing boots, they're probably steel toe and all that kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they can withstand and they can tread all different kinds of grounds and surfaces and all these different kinds of things they're probably made to endure.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of different challenges, a lot of different surfaces.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I asked myself, well, why would the Roman soldier be laced up in an open-toed situation, right, with the kind of sandal line?
[SPEAKER_01]: But then I began to look into the sandal.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I found that how they would create these sandals, not with just the leather straps that would go all the way up their legs so that they could never come off.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, no matter what, they could never come off.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you can yank and pull out them, but they ain't going nowhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: but on the bottom of them, they would take nail-like material, take nails, they would take iron and they would nail them onto the bottom of these shoes and they would look like what you would think today as your modern day kind of your cleats, if you will.
[SPEAKER_01]: football cleats, baseball cleats, maybe if you think about it this way, more so of like track spikes.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you were in track, you ran track of any kind of sorts.
[SPEAKER_01]: You remember those little, those little metal spikes that would stick out.
[SPEAKER_01]: And those were for a reason a purpose it would give you that traction that you needed, especially on the takeoff.
[SPEAKER_01]: The initial takeoff is the most important.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that way you can get off and get quick, but you also have that constant traction.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so on the bottom of these Roman soldiers, sandals would be the spikes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there would be these iron spikes all the way around all the way on the bottom of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And these bottom spikes were for that traction.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were for climbing.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were for navigating and going on any kind of surfaces, whether it's rocky or hard dirt or whatever it may be.
[SPEAKER_01]: If they had a climb or a sin, any kind of thing, or whatever it may be, they would be able to do it all because they had these spikes on the bottom of their sandals.
[SPEAKER_01]: So at any given moment, the Roman soldier can take off
[SPEAKER_01]: So why it says that you need to be sandled with readiness for the gospel of peace, Paul understood this as he's writing this in the prison cell literally observing every day the Roman soldiers.
[SPEAKER_01]: He thinks if he comes to this conclusion, this revelation that a part of the arm or something that's so crucial is the ability to get somewhere quick.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so if I'm going to get there quickly, I've got to have those spikes on the bottom of my shoes up.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll give me that traction that I need to get there.
[SPEAKER_01]: That I'll be able to track any surface that I come across.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's important to understand this because you got to get this revelation this morning that as soon as I can get to peace, I want to get to peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, when stuff is happening in your life, I mean, you need to get to peace as soon as you can.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because the enemy will come and he will weigh down upon you and there'll be all these thoughts and all this stuff and all these things happening in the Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: All we want always wants to bring you into a place of perfect peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so he says being sandal, being bound up, being ready in a spirit of readiness with those spikes
[SPEAKER_01]: Not run into the battle, no, no, no, no, but run into peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because even in the battle, you can be ready for God's peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you gotta be sandled up.
[SPEAKER_01]: You gotta be sandled up.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Paul says, don't just put on any old shoes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll just put on anything that you could find.
[SPEAKER_01]: But put on the shoes that make you ready for the gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you got to note that the shoes aren't for your comfort.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not for your comfort.
[SPEAKER_01]: The shoes aren't for your personal passions and your personal agendas.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the shoes are for the sake of the gospel that brings us peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're taking notes this morning, let's talk about the gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's two things that I want to teach you this morning when it comes to peace here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Being ready for the gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's two dimensions of the gospel of peace that I want to teach you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number one is this is peace with God, peace with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's different dimensions of God's peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's why it's important that we understand this today.
[SPEAKER_01]: Peace with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Paul says, put on the shoes of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Literally translated out, put on the good news of peace, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Just put on the good news of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hear me, if we didn't have anything to shout about, if we didn't have anything to rejoice about, besides the fact that we have peace, that we have the peace of God in our lives, then let me tell you, that's all we need.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all we need.
[SPEAKER_01]: If all we have is the peace of God,
[SPEAKER_01]: That's everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: And let me tell you why, because most people don't have peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Most people are living in a constant state of survival mode.
[SPEAKER_01]: What can I do to just survive?
[SPEAKER_01]: What can I do to get by?
[SPEAKER_01]: What can I do to just fight this battle again?
[SPEAKER_01]: Before another battle comes my way.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a constant state of living that's really just quite opposite of what the gospel is designed for.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he says, you need to be ready for the gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, my gospel that I give you, my gospel that I leave you, the good news of who I am is a gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a peaceful gospel.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a gospel that can transform your life and bring peace into any situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: No matter how the wind and the waves are going no matter how high the storm may be around you, you can find peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus understood this because while he was on the boat with the disciples, the disciples were not in the true state of form of understanding the gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they were running around, what are we going to do?
[SPEAKER_01]: The wind, the waves, is crashing all around us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus is asleep.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it's his gospel.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's my gospel of peace when in the midst of a storm, I'm not thinking about the storm.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm thinking about the piece that I can have in the story.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's a whole other way of living, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Instead of thinking about your current situation and your current struggle that you can actually think about the piece that can be found in the midst of all of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I know all of those things are happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're not neglecting the fact that it's happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I have this understanding that these things are happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, ride above me and the deck above me.
[SPEAKER_01]: These guys are going nuts right now and they're frantic and they're going everywhere and the waves are literally tossing them and I'm laying here perfectly still.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's having that gospel of peace like that you can rest in, knowing that no matter what's going on around me, I know it's happening, I'm mindful of the fact that it's happening, but it's not going to move me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not going to change me, it's not going to shake me, but I can remain in perfect peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So peace with God means that you and I were sinners, we were far from God.
[SPEAKER_01]: He literally had every legal right to really just throw us straight into hell.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were a mess, we were caught up in our sinful nature, but yet today, although we don't deserve it, God made away on a hill called Calvary with an old rugged cross come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: And on that old cross hung a man that was born of a virgin who was the son of a living God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeshua, Hallelujah, and let me remind you that the night that He was born, the star lit up in the sky, and the angels gathered, and they said this, glory to God in the highest and peace on earth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth.
[SPEAKER_01]: The earth never truly understood what real peace was
[SPEAKER_01]: because there is no true peace outside of Yeshua.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so the Messiah is born and the angels make this declaration and they say, now peace is upon the earth.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as you have accepted him as your Savior, you get to partake in his peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why would the angels say that to begin with?
[SPEAKER_01]: Why would they say glory to God in the highest and peace on earth?
[SPEAKER_01]: Why would they say that?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you why.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because they knew exactly who he was and who he came from.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they knew that when he would come to this jacked up messed up broken world that he would carry the weight of sin of all humanity upon his shoulders.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we were on our way to hell until Jesus came and he paid it all.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's exactly why Paul, that's exactly why Paul would also write in Romans chapter five, verse one.
[SPEAKER_01]: This powerful scripture, look at this.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you accepted him into your life, you didn't just get a Savior, you also got some peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: You gained a piece that you didn't have.
[SPEAKER_01]: You gained a piece that can come and settle upon you when everybody else is going crazy and you can just... but you can be at peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can have peace with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Without Jesus, let me tell you, the drug addict has no hope.
[SPEAKER_01]: Without Jesus, the prostitute has no hope.
[SPEAKER_01]: Without Jesus, the atheist has no hope.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can I take it a step further?
[SPEAKER_01]: Without Jesus, the lead greeter on Sunday mornings has no hope.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, without Jesus, hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: The children's teacher has no hope.
[SPEAKER_01]: Without Jesus, the lead pastor has no hope.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is only one reason that we have hope today because our blood used to say guilty all over it, but the blood of Jesus has washed us clean and now our blood says innocent, hallelujah and his blood says whom the sun sets free is free indeed.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we have peace with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm at peace with him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, yeah, I'm in a face some stuff, but I can still be at peace with him.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's so comforting to know.
[SPEAKER_01]: So comforting to know that I'm at peace with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Paul is teaching that every time there's a force that comes against us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's a war that's waging against us.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a supernatural divine peace that's pushing back against whatever is pushing against us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have been ready.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have been sandled up.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have been strapped up with readiness for the gospel peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: And let me just help someone in this room or someone that's watching online this morning for those that think that God's Maniture, that God's against you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me help you out.
[SPEAKER_01]: If he was that man at you, if he was that against you, he would have already taken you out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you wouldn't even be here.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not Maniture.
[SPEAKER_01]: God loves you, and He's given you His perfect peace, and listen, gospel shoes are shoes that are rooted in the promise and the truth that we are at peace with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because we have put out faith, we have put our faith in the sacrifice of His Son Jesus, our faith is in Him and in Him alone.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in Him, if our faith is in Him, we have automatic peace
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah, hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to know this morning that hell can do anything it can to try to take you out.
[SPEAKER_01]: But tomorrow you're waking up again, and you're gonna have even more peace than what you had today, hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: You may be facing a terrible situation right now, but I wanna encourage you and declare over your life that peace is finding its way into your heart, that peace is finding its way into your home, that you are being bound up, bound under the gospel of peace, hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because the rock of ages, let me tell you, he's got your back.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you can stand in that supernatural divine peace, no matter what.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: No matter what.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, grasp this final thing about the peace that we have with God before I move on to the second one.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you need to know that the peace you have with God is a legal peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's already done, it's established, it is legal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, what do you mean, it's legal peace, pastor?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm glad you asked.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, the devil can never come to you and say, you owe me something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, the devil who may know what you did last night cannot come into a child of God and demand something to be owed to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: because a child of God who trusts in Jesus and who confesses and repents, literally robs the devil from the shame he's trying to get from you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And those that live in shame have no peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: So no matter how much you've messed up as a child of God, once you've repented, the devil can never steal the supernatural peace that you have found in Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah, man, that helps me a whole bunch this morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm grateful for that today.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm thankful for his peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm thankful to become to be called a son of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're a child of the most high God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the devil can't take away anything that God has given me.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, he can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when he comes in and tries to say, well, you owe me this,
[SPEAKER_01]: No, not at all, devil, you got it all wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got it all twisted.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got it all messed up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't owe you a thing, but I can live in perfect peace with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So dimension one is that you have peace with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the second dimension is this, that you have the peace of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a difference of having peace with God and having peace of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have the peace with God, but we also have the peace of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah, we have the peace of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Peace with God is legal, but the peace of God is experiential.
[SPEAKER_01]: It comes through experience.
[SPEAKER_01]: The peace you have with God through Jesus is automatic in your life when you said yes to him and you accepted him as your Savior.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the peace you have of God is something you experience more and more.
[SPEAKER_01]: More and more, more and more as you submit yourself unto his Lordship.
[SPEAKER_01]: more and more of his peace as you submit yourself to his authority in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: More and more of his peace as you as you are being obedient to what he has called you to do and what he has said.
[SPEAKER_01]: More and more of God's peace becomes available to you as you spend time in his presence.
[SPEAKER_01]: more and more of his peace you can have you can have more of his peace as you begin to worship him and as you begin to pray and as you begin to give him thanksgiving and gratitude as you begin to shout with your voice and make a shout of praise that there is more of God's peace that becomes available unto you when you get lost inside of the secret place and you're worshiping
[SPEAKER_01]: More and more and more and more of his peace comes upon you and it settles upon your life This is a piece that nobody could ever give you.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a piece that is unlike anything There is nothing that comes remotely close to the peace of God
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing, not job security, not plenty of money in the bank, come on, not a perfect family, not a perfect social media account, hello, but the peace of God, nothing beats the piece of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing can comfort you like the piece of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing can heal your heart like the piece of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing can come and mend what was once broken and fix and restore the things that have been crushed and your heart that has been shattered into pieces than the piece of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: For those that have lost loved ones in this room, nothing can fix that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing can replace those people, but there is a piece of God that can settle upon you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I can move on.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can be at peace because the peace of God has set up upon my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a different kind of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is why Philippians chapter 4, verse 7,
[SPEAKER_01]: It says this, it says, and the peace of God, the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: Notice it's not the peace with God.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the peace of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the second dimension of His peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he says, the peace of God, my perfect peace that you are growing in more and more.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's being made more available to you constantly as it never goes away.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just you just get more of it as more and more and more and more.
[SPEAKER_01]: That kind of peace that the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds.
[SPEAKER_01]: So your heart may want to go one direction, but peace says, no, you're going this way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ha.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your mind may begin to drift and go that way because of the stuff that you're dealing with and the things that you see all around you and your mind may want to take you in this direction.
[SPEAKER_01]: And peace says, hold on, come back over here, baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: Peace says, you can't go based on what you see around you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, stay right here in my piece.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't go based on your feelings and the way your heart feels right now, but stay right here in my perfect piece.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the piece that surpasses all understanding that will guard our hearts and minds that will be in a ready position that will be a guard around us that as soon as we start to drift one way, pieces come back.
[SPEAKER_01]: As soon as we start to go and think about other stuff, pieces, ah, ah, ah, that's what I said, come back.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when we start feeling a certain way, a piece says, no, that's not who I've created you to be, come on back here now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's the perfect piece of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if there's anything, let me just be real honest and real in this room this morning, if there's anything that people need actually during the holiday season, it's peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it's in the holiday season that we think about those that have gone before us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we deal with certain emotions and certain situations and all different kinds of stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: For so many, you know, you think about the holidays as this cheerful and bright moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's a lot of that, but there's a lot of people that struggle at this time of the year.
[SPEAKER_01]: but it's the peace of God that can settle upon you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That you can't get nowhere else.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't go look at Christmas lights and get peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't go to the bed for a Christmas tree lighting event and count to three in the lights come on at the tree and all of a sudden, oh, I've got peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not how this works.
[SPEAKER_01]: Peace is not found in an object or a figure of our imagination or something that's traceable or something that can be felt.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not in the flesh, it's not anything like that, it's not imaginary.
[SPEAKER_01]: But peace is supernatural, supernatural, the peace of God, and I felt this so strong as I was preparing this message.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there are some people that are in this room right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe even those watching online that you don't got much peace right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's okay to admit that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's okay to be real and raw with yourself, and real and raw with God and say, man, I just don't have much peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's peace about a situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's peace about a decision that you're trying to make, but maybe it's just peace in general in life where you just are struggling and it seems constant chaos and constant confusion and constant turmoil or a constant always like a battle and you're always trying to climb and climb and climb to obtain this kind of peace and you can't ever get some peace in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I know this morning,
[SPEAKER_01]: The Lord would say that my peace is for you, daughter, my peace is for you, sister.
[SPEAKER_01]: My peace is for you, son.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rest in my peace, my perfect peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not the peace that the pastor can give you.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not the piece that I'm just talking about, but it's the supernatural divine piece of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever had peace that was beyond your understanding?
[SPEAKER_01]: When you were just in the midst of it, and somehow you have no idea how it happened, how it came about, it don't even make sense when you try to add it up together, but somehow there was peace that you found.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever had peace that puts you beyond the junk that you were facing?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the kind of peace that when a loved one is dying, they're on their way out.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get this holy peace that settles upon you and a way that nobody else has even
[SPEAKER_01]: The peace of God that transcends all understanding.
[SPEAKER_01]: The peace of God that in the middle of your greatest trials and your greatest struggles of your life that will literally prevent you from losing your mind and will prevent you for giving it all up.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that peace will come and settle upon you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah, so I wanted to clear over you today that you have the peace of God strapped up all over you and I want you to picture it like the Roman soldier.
[SPEAKER_01]: that when he got that, he got that sandalot and he began to strap and go around and around all the way up his leg.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to, I want to tell you this morning that each time he went around, it was another layer of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: And every time you sandal up, you lace up,
[SPEAKER_01]: You're shoes with readiness for the gospel of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every time you go around, there's another layer of peace that comes upon you.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's another layer of peace that settles upon you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you are completely covered up.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are coming up under the supernatural peace of the gospel.
[SPEAKER_01]: and the most amazing part about that is when you're in his peace, when you're in perfect peace, when you're in the peace of God, you can never, ever, ever be moved.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can never be moved.
[SPEAKER_01]: The devil can shout things at you all day long, and you cannot be moved.
[SPEAKER_01]: The enemy can use people to stand up against you and you cannot be moved.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can get down to negative dollars in the bank account and will not be moved.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the perfect piece of God that settles upon a believer will not allow you to be moved when a situation arises.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why it says at the beginning so that you may be able to resist and stand.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a reason why peace is a part of this puzzle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because when you're in perfect peace, you cannot be moved.
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