All right, I know this is a little different this morning, but as we've said already, we are

so blessed to have a place to gather together and still be here.

I did notice, however, that must be a bunch of Baptist go here because I noticed the back

got all filled in and this front table was empty.

I don't know if y'all was scared of me or what, but Cedric said, "I ain't scared."

He come on up here.

So I'm just teasing of course, but I'm very glad that you are here today.

It's wonderful to be in God's house, amen?

And this is still God's house. It doesn't matter where we're meeting together because where

God's people meet together, He's here also. That makes this His house.

And so we're excited about being here this morning. You know, I get excited

on Sunday mornings because I get the opportunity to come and deliver God's word.

And that's a privilege and a blessing and an honor and it's humbling and everything

that I get that opportunity to do that.

But I get excited about that.

And each week as I pray and I try to find out what is it that God wants me to talk about.

Sometimes I mean it's immediate.

I know right away sometimes it's kind of a struggle.

I'm not sure it could be this. It could be that. Somehow maybe those things go together. I don't know.

And it's kind of a struggle. This week was not a struggle at all. I knew right away exactly what God

wanted me to preach about today. Today, the title of the message is called God's Peace. God's Peace. That's the wonderful thing.

Now it's going to be a little challenging for you today because there's no screen.

So you're going to have to learn how to use your Bible again.

So for those of you who haven't opened it since last week,

you might need a refresher. But we're going to be in Philippians.

In Philippians. And so we're going to be in Philippians and Philippians and so we'll be in Philippians. We're gonna be really studying

hanging on one verse today and then we'll add a few more and add a little bit later. But we're gonna be in Philippians chapter four, Philippians chapter four,

we're gonna begin with verse seven of Philippians chapter four. So hopefully you've made it there, Philippians chapter 4.

And so we're going to go ahead and read that this morning.

Philippians chapter 4, verse 7.

Philippians chapter 4 and verse 7.

And it says this, "And the peace of God,

which surpasses all comprehension,

will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

We'll read that again. And the peace of God which surpasses all comprehension will guard your

hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Now some of you may be saying, "Man, that one verse, how you gonna get a 30-minute sermon out of one little

short verse like that preacher will just hold on?"

I'll show you.

We're gonna break it down.

So Philippians 4.7.

One of the things our country needs right now is peace.

We need peace.

If you don't think we need peace, turn on the news for five minutes.

Look and see what's going on. Look and see what's going news for five minutes. Look and see what's going on.

Look and see what's going on around the country.

Look and see what's going on in Minnesota.

Look and see what's going on in all the news when you turn it on.

There's unrest.

There's not peace.

It is absolutely just crazy the amount of unrest that we have around our country.

I'm not talking about the rest of the world.

I just mean in our country, all around the country, there is unrest. People are not at peace. People

are upset about things. They're fighting about things. They're riding in the streets. They're

hurling insults at each other. I mean, even our Congress can't do anything but point fingers

and say nasty things about one another.

And that's not good for our country.

We need that piece.

One of the things that I tell you, if you take somebody and you put them in a situation

where there's a lot of struggle going on, their anxiety is going to skyrocket.

But if you put somebody in a situation that's peaceful, oh, it's so much better.

I don't know about everybody.

One of the things we love to do when we get

opportunity is go over to the beach. We go to the beach and I know we're strange. We don't get

in the water. A lot of times we never even get down on the sand. We sit on that balcony and look at

the water and just watch the waves roll into my favorite time is early in the morning when nobody's really out except that one poor soul that's running those chairs and umbrellas back and forth.

you know, having some breakfast out there,

but it's just quiet.

It's peaceful.

I can talk to the Lord and I don't have all this other noise

and man, it just helps to restore myself.

But if I went and sat on that balcony and there was,

you know, all this loud noise and craziness happening

and whatever, it wouldn't be the same.

It would be very different.

So Franklin Graham this week, put out a call to prayer.

Hopefully, many of you got that.

I know some people on were on Verizon and the phone wasn't working. We put out the prayer chain,

but we were asking people on. I think it was Wednesday at noon to all come together in pray.

One of the things that he was asking for us to pray for was peace.

He said pray for calm in the world. He said pray for forgiveness

for all of the things that people are doing right now and they don't really even know what they're

doing and pray that the churches would lead the charge for people to find peace in this world.

Well why would he be asking the churches to lead the call for peace?

You know we have a UN, we have all these other people, these different ones that can

bring about conferences and do all these things. Why would it be the churches that Franklin Graham

is saying the churches need to lead the charge for peace in this world

because there's only one place that true peace comes from. We just read about it. God's peace.

That's the only place that true peace comes from and the church knows about it.

The church knows about it. But here's the problem. You know what we're doing right now as a church

universal. We all know about the peace. We're watching the stuff going outside the window and go look at that look at

that that's terrible we don't ever say hey let me tell you all about this piece

let me share with you the piece of God let me help you see what can bring calm

to your heart we're not doing that we're not trying to reach out to other people.

We're not trying to show them that peace that God gives us.

Let me tell you how powerful this peace is.

Where does the lost world find peace?

The church.

That's where the lost world finds peace in the church.

I don't mean in the church building I don't mean in the church building while they can in the church building.

But the lost world finds peace in the church.

The church is the people that God's church is universal.

It's the people of God, those who call themselves Christians, those who have given their life

to Jesus.

We are the church.

And as the church, that is the only place that the

last world can find peace. They're not going to find it on the television.

They're not going to find it in a liquor bottle. They're not going to find it,

you know, on the sports betting sites. They're not going to find it in all the

money they can make. They're not going to find it in all of the things that they

shouldn't be doing. They're not going to find that piece.

But we already know where to find it. The church is the only one that can show the lost world what true peace looks like. And you know that most of the time if we just show them what peace looks like,

all the rest of the stuff starts to fade away in their lives. It's just like I said,

when things are just really crazy and we've had a lot of stress and whatever going on in life,

we love to go to the beach and sit down and look out at the water and it's just amazing how fast

that calmness begins to come over us. God's peace is the same way when it's so crazy and things

are happening in the world when you sit down and spend time with God and you start talking to him that piece will

come over you and if it comes over you just think about how amazing it would

be if you can share that with somebody who doesn't know it who's never once

experienced that piece. The church must be very diligent in sharing God's

peace. We have to be diligent in that. Why don't we have to be diligent in that.

Why do we have to be diligent in that?

Again, where are the lost world

going to find out about peace?

The church, that's the only place

they're gonna find out.

So the church has to be diligent in sharing that peace.

I'm not saying that I'm not guilty because I am.

But here's what I want us to think about.

How many times could we have opened our mouths even in this past week and shared a word with

somebody?

Somebody was going through something and we could have said, you know God can give you peace

in that. God can give you peace.

What do you mean? The door is wide open. Just as soon as that happens, they just open

the door. You have opportunity now. But how many of us sat there and listened

and

just said, you had spanned, never opened up mouth, never said anything. Maybe it was because

he worked in a place where they don't want you to see that really ugly word. The loss

was personalized. They don't want you to proselyse. We don't know what that means. That means

try to tell people about Jesus. They don't want you to do that. Why? Because well, somebody might get

upset. Well, the word of God, the name of Jesus calls this conflict in people's lives that are

lost. It calls this conflict because Jesus and the devil don't get along. So when you start talking

about Jesus, people seeing their own lives, the conflict,

they see the sin, they begin to see things and yes, it causes problems.

But sometimes it's you got to see that problem before you know what to do about it.

You got to see that problem before you know what to do about it.

So how many times has a

Believer in Jesus Christ do we not open our mouth when we have an opportunity?

I just don't know if I can really tell people all those I'm not asking you to preach a sermon

I'm not asking you by to preach a sermon all I'm asking you is would you just tell people about Jesus that you know?

Tell them what he does in your life,

can you share the peace that you have in Jesus, can you do that? Because it is definitely a

peace that is incredible. It is definitely a peace that is incredible. It's a peace that cannot

be achieved any other way. It's the peace of God, not of anything else.

There's no peace in anything else, peace in God.

Let me tell you about this peace in God.

It surpasses all comprehension.

King James says it surpasses all understanding.

It's a peace that you can't understand.

Why do I have this peace?

Why is it that I can have this peace? It doesn't make sense that there's a piece

when everything is going on right now in my life. How can I have peace? Do you understand? I lost

this person in my life. The doctor just told me I've got this going on. My job is downsizing. I don't

even know if I'm going to be able to keep that job. All these things are going on in my life and you're

saying, "Well, let me tell you about peace. Peace. How can I have peace with all these things that are going on? God says

it's the peace that passes all comprehension. It's the peace that only God can give and

you can have peace because God says I got this. Give it to me. I got it. You can't deal

with it. It's too much for you. But if you give it to me, then you don't have to worry about it anymore.

I got it. Now, I tell you that if you give that to God, He's going to immediately make everything in your life better.

No, I'm not telling you that. In fact, those things that are going on may still be happening.

But God's going to give you a piece to deal with it. He's going to give you that piece and show you how to walk through it. He may not take it away,

but he will walk through it with you and because of that you can have peace. It doesn't make sense. It is

incomprehendable because with everything that's going on I shouldn't be able to have peace, but I can.

You know how many times I stand?

I have peace, but I can. You know how many times I stand at the foot of a casket,

and I talk to a grieving family, and that loss is just

a gaping hole in their life.

And I pray that God would give them peace and strength.

Peace, they help them see what he needs in the sea and the strength to follow and throw it.

That's for every situation.

It doesn't have to be only at a funeral.

Every day we need to seek that peace with God that we might then in turn share that peace with somebody else.

It's pretty hard for us to share peace with somebody if we don't have it going on in our own life. If we don't have it going on in our own life,

it's really difficult for us to show that peace to somebody else. There's too much pain,

too much anger, maybe betrayal, whatever it is is all going on in our life. And so there's

no way peace can be possible right now. That's true apart from God. You know the crazy thing is we can

sit in here and sing. We'll sing, I'll follow you. We'll sing about how wonderful Jesus

is. We'll sing about the power of Jesus name. We'll talk about being a believer in Jesus

Christ and how we've been following Him and all of those things. And yet when all those struggles hit, sometimes that's the last place we turn. All

those struggles hit and we turn to ourselves. And when that doesn't work, we turn to family.

If that doesn't work, we turn

to other people, maybe even professionals sometimes we have to turn to. And there's

nothing wrong with that. Please don't think that I'm saying that. But shouldn't the first

place you turn be to the God of peace, the one who said, I will give you a piece that

passes all understanding. Shouldn't that be the very first place that we turn? But when

everything is going on and all that service happening, say, "Well peace can't be possible right now,

it can't be. There's no way that peace can be possible and so we tend to turn away from it."

And look for other things. Well it can be possible but only the peace that comes from God is possible.

If you're looking for peace in any other place, you're not going to find it.

Oh, it might be a temporary law.

You know, things might settle down just a little bit, but you know, the crazy thing

what I found out is when things just settle down a little and you're not really talking

to God about it, when they start back up, it's worse than it was before.

It's worse than it was before.

And so instead of trying to figure it out on your own,

instead of trying to talk to your friend at work

or talk to someone else or are looking up articles

on the internet, talk to God.

Think about it like this.

Who created you in the first place?

God, God created you.

Now, if I wanna know everything there is to know

about this cell phone up here, right? I want to know everything there is to know. Then

what I really need to do is talk to the person that designed it, created it, put it together,

all of that, and they tell me everything about him. Well, if God created me, put me together, has a plan from my life

and he knows all about it. He'd be the one that I'm talking to about it all and set

of the internet or my neighbor or my cousin that I'm not really friends with or whoever

it is. I need to be talking to God. The whole point in all this is listen. If peace, true peace,

only comes from God and that's what this scripture says is God's peace, that's the only place it

comes from. If true peace only comes from God, then why are we not on our knees talking to God

on a daily basis, trying to find that? Why are we not calling upon His name and receiving that? Because

when we do, we can give peace of the people, we can show them

what they need to know. I don't know how many times I've been around people and they've had so

much stress in their life. So many things going on. Sometimes it's work, sometimes it's you know people

that I know with family and whatever and one of the very first things that I'll always, is I'm so sorry that you're dealing with all that.

You know what?

I'm gonna pray for you about it.

That's good.

You know what's even better if I actually do.

Why don't I say that?

'Cause people will say, I'll pray for you

and that's the last time they thought about it.

My mother used to say, if you tell somebody,

I'll pray for you to stop right there and do it.

Say I'm so sorry this is going on. Let's just pause right now. Let me pray with you.

People are touched by that. They can feel that immediately because they know you meant what you said

when you said let me pray for you. I'm going to pray for you. I know you meant it because you just did it. And God has a way of bringing that peace. Only the peace that comes from God is possible. There's

no other peace. When we experience turmoil or break up or heartbreak or any of

those things going on in our life, it's God's peace that we need. Why do we need that?

Because the verse we just read says that God's peace, we need. Why do we need that? Because the verse we just read says that,

God's peace, which suppresses all comprehension,

will guard your hearts and your minds.

God's peace will guard your hearts and your minds.

Other peace is no good.

It may give you a temporary peace,

but God's peace will guard our hearts and our minds.

You might have laid out at night, go to sleep.

You lay down, you get comfortable, you close your eyes,

and your mind is running through the file

and cabinets of your brain.

Everything of the day, everything is going on,

everything is going on in your life, it's just,

and you can't make it turn off.

It's just, man, I don't wanna think about that. I don't wanna go to sleep, and you can't make it turn off. It's just, man, I don't want to think

about that. I don't want to go to sleep, but you can't stop. Why? Because we have all

that stress in our life. We have all that stuff going on and we need that peace from God.

Took me a while to think about it. All that's happening. Finally, I'm a little dense sometimes like everybody else. And I finally said,

you know, I just need to pray and give all this stuff that's running through my mind to God,

because maybe the reasons I'll run it through my mind is I haven't given him those things.

So I pray and God hears these things that are going through my mind. I can't do anything.

thing about them, but you can. And I need that peace. I need that peace. And I find that

almost every time that I do that, I'm able to rest. Maybe not immediately. Maybe it takes

a little time. But God will take care of our hearts and our minds. He will give us peace

and our hearts and our minds over every situation if we pray. If we pray, God's peace will guard our hearts and our minds.

We talk about our hearts a lot but we don't talk about our minds nearly as much.

Perhaps you're a person like me sometimes that you just find yourself thinking

like me sometimes that you just find yourself thinking about everything and about nothing.

Just constantly thinking about something, always stuff going on.

Well God may have guarded my heart but if I haven't asked him for that piece, maybe my mind is still out there running around with things that I don't need to be thinking

about.

Maybe sometimes it's things that Satan's trying to prompt me to.

Maybe sometimes it's got nothing to do with that.

It's just everything but God that I'm thinking about.

Maybe there's all these things that are going on, but if we give that to God, he will take care of our hearts and our minds. He will guard both.

I pray for God's peace over every situation. I pray for God's peace over every situation. Why?

Because that's the number one thing we need. How can you respond or do anything or take the next step that God wants you to take if

you don't have that piece?

If you're constantly dealing with the struggle and the anxiety and the hurt and all the things

that are going on, how can you move forward?

I don't know how many people deal with anxiety.

A lot of people deal with anxiety.

Anxiety happens.

I was always anxiety depression, all of that.

I was always one of these people for so many years that,

you know, okay, just get over it.

Just do it.

Well, I'm depressed.

Well, if you know you're depressed, stop being depressed.

Right?

Made sense to me.

If you know you're depressed and stop being depressed,

until I got into a state of depression and realized that I couldn't do anything about it.

And I struggled and I struggled and I struggled with it. It wasn't until one of my very good friends

who was also a deacon with me at Tillman's Corner and we were overseas and he said, "Dorge, in the morning we're

gonna start a Bible study." So I don't want to do that. I don't want to get up early and

do that. I just, I'm gonna sleep. He said, "That's fine then if we don't do the Bible study,

I'm taking you to see Psychiatrist in the morning. I'm not going to see Psychiatrist either."

Well, it still happened here. I ran't me. He said, said, "Choose was one of those are gonna happen."

So I chose the Bible study and he come and pulled me out of the bed the next morning because I

wasn't planning on getting out. But he got me up and we started the Bible study pretty soon.

God started taking all that depression away and he began to, I began to see the change.

I really hadn't seen the change going into the depression,

but I saw it coming out.

I began to see all of that.

I didn't ever understand anxiety, just get past it.

I know it's scary, just take the lead, right?

Like jumping into the swimming pool.

I'm scared, just jump once you get in, all that's gone.

And tell you just jump.

I can't. If you can't just jump, no I can scared. Just jump. Once you get in, all that's gone. So you just jump. I can't. If you can't just jump. No, I can't.

I didn't really believe that.

I was kind of person that said, you know, you can do anything to do it.

When that climbed up on the roof to work on some stuff on the roof that need to be repaired.

I've done it. I don't know how many times.

I came back down the roof and I got to the point

where my ladder was a step ladder,

so it was below the roof line.

When I got to that, I sat down and just stood up on the ladder.

That's all I had to do.

I got to that point and I could not move my legs

to put them on that ladder.

They would not move.

I'm going this is crazy. Well, what my legs move?

What am I afraid of? I've climbed up this thing a hundred times. It's not like I'm going to fall.

But I couldn't make my legs move no matter how hard I tried. I thought I was facing

that to call the fire department, to get me off the roof.

That was an embarrassing thought.

Call the fire department.

This has been years ago.

Call the fire department to get me off the roof and the step ladder is this far away.

But I was frozen.

I couldn't move.

Okay, I can just do it.

Nothing.

Finally I said, okay.

Lord, I can't do this.

I don't know why, but I can't do this.

But if you don't help me get off this roof, I ain't getting back up here.

But I need to get off this roof.

Can you please help me move my legs and get off this roof because

I can't make a move. So God, I'm giving it to you. Amen.

Look down to that ladder and I said, foot went on the ladder. Oh, I got it then, I went right on down. No problem once I moved that first foot.

But I physically could not move my leg

until after I prayed.

And I never experienced that.

And I always thought that anxiety and that sort of stuff

was an excuse.

Depression, an excuse, an excuse.

It's not, it's real.

So many people deal with that. The world needs

peace right now.

There's so much. Do you know that right now in this world the mental health

workers in this world are overwhelmed with people and that's just the ones that will go

Well, all the ones that aren't going, the world needs peace.

God can give that peace and it passes all understanding.

We can't figure out why God can give it.

The world needs it.

How's the world going to figure it out?

The world needs peace and God's people need it too.

One of the reasons why God's people are not sharing that piece

with the world is because they're not experiencing it themselves.

Why is God's people not experiencing his peace?

Well, let me ask you this.

Have you asked for God's peace?

Have you asked for God's peace?

Is that something you've asked for in your life?

Or you're just tough enough to deal with it on your own?

You know, some of us men were just too much

owed to ask for help doing anything.

Never mind that we need it.

We're not gonna ask for it.

I'm good.

I'm a little stressed.

I got a little going on, but it'll be all right. I'll just work through it until you can't move your leg on the roof.

All of a sudden, I can't work through it anymore. What's the problem?

Because I've tried to ignore it. I've tried to do whatever I haven't ever taught to God about it. Now here I am.

Are you as a believer in Jesus Christ asking for His peace in your life, are you simply trying to deal with it on your own?

Are you just simply trying to handle it on your own?

Because that's what we tend to do.

And if we're trying to handle it on our own,

and we're not receiving that peace that God's gives,

how can we share it with someone else?

If I didn't know how to drive a car, how could I tell somebody else how

to do that? If I didn't know how to tie my shoes, how could I tell somebody else how

to do that? I can't. If I don't already know and I haven't already experienced it, if

God's people are not experiencing His peace because we're not asking about it,

we're not praying for it, then how can we share that peace with somebody else? The world needs peace.

We know the answer, we know the one that can provide it. We're the ones that need to share it with the world.

We're the ones that need to share with them that they can receive that piece from the Savior.

And that opens the door.

Press share how they can receive that piece.

I've given their life to Christ.

If we are to be that light to peace in the world, then it only comes through Christ. So do you know Him?

Do you know Him?

Look at verses 4 through 7.

I'll go back and start verse 4.

We're going to read down through 7 again.

4 through 7.

Rejoice. In the Lord always. And again, I say, rejoice.

Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing.

But in everything by prayer and supplication withgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

That all precedes verse 7.

With prayer and supplication and thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God and

The peace of God which surpasses all comprehension will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Do we want peace? Do we want to be able to share that peace?

Then we need to know God.

We need to give our life to Christ. That's first.

Well, preacher, you're standing here in the fellowship hall talking to all of the church

folk and you're standing up here talking about giving your life to Christ.

Don't you think everybody in here knows Jesus as their Lord and Savior?

I hope that that is true.

What statistics say that in the crowd this size, there's probably people in here who do not know Jesus

as Lord and Savior.

But you've seen them at the church the whole time you've been here.

That doesn't mean they know Jesus.

I want you to understand that.

There are plenty of people that attend church every Sunday.

There are plenty of people that attend church every Wednesday.

There are plenty of people that read their Bible.

They sing in the choir.

They do all the stuff and every bit of it is

It's him to win their salvation

Because they've never given their life to Christ

Every bit of it. I think if I just be good and I do all these good things

Then surely I'm going to heaven, but they've never taken that step to give their life to Christ

There's some fear in that they're not sure there's some

Understanding of how salvation works. I don't know what it is. But statistics say that in a crowd this size, there's someone in this

room that most likely doesn't know Jesus as Lord and Savior. So first thing, if you want peace in

your life and you want to be able to share peace with somebody else. The very first thing that you have to do is give your life to Christ. Give your life to Jesus. It's not just come to church, not just

do the things, not speak the church words, but actually surrender your life to Him. Surrender

to Him. And then rejoice. And that's the wonderful thing. You give your life to him and you can rejoice, pray and peace will come.

Wow. That's seems so simple. It seems so simple. You mean that's it? All this time I'm looking for all these answers. I'm searching the internet for everything I could possibly do.

I'm trying to find all these special home remedies. I'm looking for the best psychiatrist.

I'm trying to find anything I can do to release stress in my life.

I've ordered every essential oil they make trying to, you know, so that things can be better.

essential oil they make trying to, you know, so that things can be better.

And all the time, all it would take is to surrender your life to Christ.

Rejoice in that. And pray. Have that relationship with him.

Pray with Thanksgiving and supplication and prayer. God will give you that piece. He will give you that piece.

It's a piece that we don't understand. We can't figure it out because it doesn't make

logical human sense because it's not from humans. It's not from this world. It's from God.

It's the only way that we can receive that peace. Share that same news with the world.

Oh, now preacher, you, I know you talked about us getting the peace

and how we can do that and I can do those things.

I can spend that time in prayer.

I can read God's word.

I can surrender to Him and I can do all those things.

Well, listen, I'm a shy person.

I don't do well speaking to people. I don't know all the answers in the Bible and you're asking me to share this piece with the world.

I just don't know how I can do that.

I don't know how I can do that because now you give me anxiety about it.

Now I've got this anxiety again, but what I tell you about that in the first place?

Pray, right?

Pray.

You know, there's people in the Bible have that same problem.

Don't remember a fellow named,

oh, oh yeah Moses.

Y'all heard of Moses before, right?

God told Moses I want you to go tell the people.

He said, I can't do that.

I can't do that. I can't do that God. God equipped him. Eventually God gave him a mouthpiece because he just continued to say I can't do it.

But you know what happened after a while he was speaking to the people on his own.

He wasn't using Aaron at all.

I can do it.

I can do it because God gave me that ability.

You know what if you're really, really scared or somebody you say, "I really need to talk

to."

And you're real scared about it.

You know what you do.

You call up somebody else and you know as a believer.

Hey, will you just come sit with me while I talk?

Oh, strengthen numbers, right?

Scripture tells us that says, "Three stranded cords

not easily broken if it's you and a friend and God,

three stranded cords."

Now, you can have that.

But you don't even have to get all worked up over that.

How do you share with the world the peace that you know

with other people?

How do you do that?

Live it.

Live it daily. If we are to see peace, we have to show the world the true peace. How do we do that? We live it every day. I know you've heard people say, "Well, this person in the office, they just don't ever seem to get

upset about anything. They just seem to have this even killed. They smile all the time.

You know, all these things are going on and I just don't understand how can they do that?

Sometimes you know what happens they come and I ask you, how is it that you deal with these things? So I'm glad you asked me to take a friend, his name's Jesus.

And Jesus is the one who gives me the peace and the strength to be able to go through

all these things.

All of a sudden the door is open, just simply because you lived it, because you lived it,

but have your eyes open. So when sends that person you can talk to.

Somebody told me one time they said, "Listen, I really want to be able to talk to people about God,

but I don't know everything there to know about the Bible, and so I'm scared to tell them about it.

You know what I said? Tell them what you know. Tell them what you do know.

You know what? I know that I gave my life to Jesus and He came into my heart and saved

me. I know that. How do I know that? Because it's my personal testimony. I can tell you how

I was before. I can tell you when I gave my life to Christ and I can tell you what He's done

with me since. And you can't refute that because it's my story. It's my testimony. I can tell you what he's done with me since and you can't refute that because it's my story.

It's my testimony.

I can tell you that.

I can tell you what I've seen him do.

I can tell you what I know in Scripture.

I can tell you what I know in my own life.

I can tell you what I know.

And most of the time.

That's enough.

God's going to use time. That's enough. God's going to use that. And if they do ask you

something and you don't know the answer to it completely, don't make something

up. So we get an answer to that and do and get back to them. But most of the

time if we're just willing, God will put the words in our mouth. He will put the

peace in our heart and he will help us to share that piece

with the people that need it. But we have to be willing. The piece only comes from God. How

does the world find peace through the church? How does the church share the peace by the

people of the church open in their mouth, live in that life in front of them, doing what

the Scripture tells us that we need to do. If we're to see true

peace we have to show the world the true peace of God by living it, by

receiving it, by doing it every single day. Do you know that peace? Do you know

Jesus? Has there been a point in time in your life where you have ever given your life to Jesus

and said, "I surrender."

I surrender.

If you have and you know Him

and you're still struggling with peace in your life,

why is that?

Why is that?

I'm gonna share this.

This is thrown to my life, Jesus.

I want you to come in and take it.

Jesus says, okay, I got it and then we say, move over.

I need to sit here today.

I need to sit here today.

Wait, didn't you give me the throne?

Yeah, but today I need it.

He moves over.

Bless you, do it. He moves over, let's you do it.

Then work out too well.

Then work out too well.

Instead of doing that, get off that throne.

Give it back to Jesus, wear belongs.

And then instead of being on the throne,

to Jesus where it belongs and then instead of being on the throne, kneel before it, kneel before the throne because he's God.

He gave you the salvation.

He gave you what you needed.

He's here for you every single day.

A knowledge who He is.

Confess to Him the sins and the things that are going on in your life.

Thank Him for the stuff that He has done,

the salvation and all the other things,

and then ask for the peace that you need.

Ask for the strength that you need.

Ask for everything that you need and He will bring.

it to you. But you got to submit to him upfront. If we were to see that piece, we have to show it

to the world. If we live that piece, others will see it. They will recognize it that there's

something different. You know it. You've been around people that just had that different

air about. There was something different that everybody knew there was something different

about that person. They just seem to be confident or they seem to not have the struggles that other people have. They

seem to be different than other people. Why most of the time because they're

walking closer to God? You've seen it. Now live it. Now live it. Give it to God.

Peace. One incredible word. More than that that one an incredible state to be in. Peace.

Then all the rest of this stuff just kind of doesn't really

seem to matter. You have that peace that passes all

understanding all those other things that go on around you,

you're suddenly able to deal with. You're suddenly able to do

the stuff that needs to be done because you have that piece

Where do you get that piece from God?

God's standing with you going through it with you

That's where that piece comes from can you show that to somebody else the world need to

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