What He does offer us is personal peace with God. And the personal peace with God involves our sins being forgiven, having the hope of eternal life, knowledge of God. If you have that peace, even if you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, you can fear no evil because you know that you are on the victory side. We can have peace and assurance because we are on the victory side and we have a glorious future in the resurrection of the dead.
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00:00What he does offer us is personal peace with God.
00:03And the personal peace with God involves our sins being forgiven,
00:07having the hope of eternal life, knowledge of God.
00:10If you have that peace,
00:13even if you walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
00:16you can fear no evil.
00:20Because you know that you're on the victory side.
00:23You can have peace and assurance.
00:25Because we're on the victory side and we have a glorious future
00:28in the resurrection of the dead.
00:31And when Jesus was born and he was taken by Joseph and Miriam into the temple,
00:37an aged priest called Simeon, Shimon,
00:42greeted him in Luke chapter 2 with these words.
00:46Lord, you are now letting your servant depart in peace according to your word.
00:50For my eyes have seen your salvation,
00:52which you have prepared before the face of all peoples,
00:55is a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles and glory of your people Israel.
01:01Lord, you're now letting your servant depart in peace.
01:03He'd been told he wouldn't die until he'd seen the Lord's Messiah.
01:07Saying, now you depart in peace,
01:09because my eyes have seen your salvation.
01:12If you've seen salvation in Yeshua, the Messiah,
01:15you can have peace in this life.
01:18And when you depart from this life,
01:19you can know you have peace with God,
01:21because you're going to be with God forever in the kingdom of God.
01:25So, there is an offer of peace.
01:27And that's a wonderful offer,
01:29which every person who receives Jesus can receive.
01:32But you have to receive him.
01:36Simeon went on to say to Mary,
01:38Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel,
01:41for a sign which will be spoken against.
01:44Yes, the sword will pierce through your own soul also,
01:47and the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed.
01:51It's an interesting statement.
01:52He has revelation here by the Holy Spirit,
01:55something about the ministry of Jesus.
01:56He's going to cause about the rise and fall of many in Israel.
02:01The rise of those who be redeemed,
02:03who be taken out of their sins into a relationship with God.
02:05In that relationship with God,
02:07they can be seated with God in heavenly places,
02:09with Jesus Christ, in new life.
02:12The fall of those who reject and who disbelieve
02:16and who will fall away from him.
02:18And in the last day, we'll hear him say,
02:20Depart from me, ye cursed,
02:21into the everlasting fire,
02:22prepared for the devil and his angels.
02:24We don't want to be on the fall side,
02:26we want to be on the rise side.
02:29And he says there'll be a sign which will be spoken against.
02:32A sign in Hebrew is a miracle.
02:35Hebrew word, ot.
02:36In fact, Mary is told that she's going to be given,
02:38sorry, Isaiah tells Ahaz
02:40that the virgin is going to bring a sign
02:43that the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son.
02:47And the word sign is the word ot,
02:48which means a miracle, a sign of God.
02:50A sign which only God can do.
02:52And Jesus did signs and miracles which only God could do.
02:56He healed the sick, he raised the dead.
02:57He did all manner of signs which were visible,
03:00which were visible signs that he really is God with us, Emmanuel.
03:04And many people received him and received what he was doing,
03:07received his message
03:10and glorified God for what they had seen.
03:12And others criticized him,
03:14said you shouldn't do that on the Sabbath,
03:15that's breaking the law.
03:17Had all kinds of objections
03:18and attacked him for actually doing these miracles.
03:22And you see that it's a sign which will be spoken against,
03:25that many who spoke against him
03:26in the signs and the wonders which he did.
03:29Again, that means that Jesus brought division.
03:32He brought division into the monks, the Jewish people.
03:35There would be those who'd be for him,
03:36those who'd be against him.
03:37And there were many who were for him.
03:40Sometimes the church gives the idea
03:41that the Jews rejected Jesus.
03:42That's not the case at all.
03:44It says the common people heard him gladly.
03:47Multitudes chanted to him,
03:49Hosanna in the highest,
03:50when he rode into Jerusalem,
03:51believed in him.
03:53Multitudes believed in him
03:54after the gospel began to be preached in Jerusalem.
03:57But many also disbelieved.
03:59Same thing happens in every situation.
04:02It becomes a sign that to be spoken against.
04:05It says a sword will pierce through your own soul also.
04:11Speaking here particularly to Mary,
04:13to Miriam,
04:14that she was going to suffer.
04:16Suffer through bearing this son.
04:18Suffer the reproach
04:19that perhaps she hadn't been totally honest,
04:22but she knew that's how he was conceived.
04:24Maybe she suffered that reproach through her life.
04:27There's implication of it in John's gospel
04:29that they accused Jesus of being illegitimate.
04:34Wasn't the case,
04:35but that would be part of the cost.
04:37But suffered as she saw him hanging on the cross.
04:40And as a mother,
04:41she must have felt,
04:42seeing her son suffering that agonizing death
04:45and having the sin of the world placed upon him.
04:48And you can imagine the pain
04:50which she felt at that time.
04:52And yet she believed
04:53and she came to faith in him.
04:55And we read how in the book of Acts
04:56she was there amongst the believers
04:58joining together,
05:00waiting for the day of Pentecost
05:02as a believer in Jesus the Messiah.
05:04And she was saved through her faith in Jesus.
05:07Never did she even remotely suggest
05:10that anyone should pray to her
05:12as the Queen of Heaven or the Mediator.
05:15She was the one who was faithful
05:17to bring Yeshua into the world.
05:19And yet she would suffer through that.
05:21The sword would pierce through your own soul.
05:24And the thoughts and hearts,
05:26thoughts of many hearts will be revealed.
05:28So as Jesus came,
05:29you're going to reveal what's in people's hearts.
05:32And even as we preach the gospel to people,
05:34it shows what's in their hearts.
05:36You can sometimes see the hardness and the rejection.
05:39And the people who are tender
05:40and who are open and willing to listen.
05:42If you're willing to listen,
05:44then God's going to bring
05:44the message of truth and love into your heart
05:47and change you into the person God wants you to be
05:49and give you a new life.
05:51And it's wonderful when we can come to faith in Jesus
05:53and receive him,
05:55receive the light of the world into our lives.
05:58And he reveals either the darkness or the light.
06:02And as we come to the light,
06:04so the light comes into our lives.
06:07You can think of the two thieves on the cross,
06:09the one who mocked and rebuked him,
06:12and the other who said,
06:13Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom.
06:16And the one who said,
06:17Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom
06:19was welcomed into the kingdom of God,
06:22welcomed himself to the light,
06:23even by that act of faith.
06:26And so we can have peace through the blood of the cross.
06:29It says in Colossians,
06:32please the Father that in him all fullness should dwell,
06:34by him to reconcile all things to himself,
06:37by him whether things on earth or things in heaven,
06:39having made peace through the blood of the cross.
06:42And you who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works,
06:46yet now he is reconciled in the body of his flesh through death
06:50to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in his sight.
06:57The message is about reconciliation.
06:59It's about reconciliation first of all with God.
07:02When we have the reconciliation with God,
07:04we can have then the reconciliation on the human level.
07:07The world looks for the reconciliation on the human level
07:10without the reconciliation to God.
07:12But if it's without the reconciliation to God,
07:14it doesn't work on the human level either.
07:18It's only through faith in Jesus.
07:20We just sung that hymn,
07:23Herald Angels Sing,
07:24which says,
07:25Peace on earth and mercy wild,
07:27God and sinners reconciled.
07:29If you don't have God and sinners reconciled,
07:32you won't have peace on earth.
07:33If you do have God and sinners reconciled,
07:35you have peace with God through Jesus Christ.
07:412 Corinthians chapter 5,
07:43Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
07:46Old things have passed away.
07:47Behold, all things have become new.
07:49Now all things are of God,
07:50who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ.
07:53He has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
07:56That is, that God was in Christ,
07:58reconciling the world to himself,
07:59not imputing their trespasses to them,
08:02committed to us the word of reconciliation.
08:05Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ.
08:08As though God were pleading through us,
08:10we implore you,
08:11on Christ's behalf,
08:12be reconciled to God.
08:14We made him, who knew no sin,
08:16to be sin for us,
08:17that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
08:21If you want to know the peace of God,
08:22that's how you do it,
08:23through faith in Jesus.
08:25He made him, who knew no sin,
08:27to be sin,
08:28the sin offering for us,
08:29that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
08:33Isaiah 53 says,
08:35the chastisement of our peace was upon him.
08:37For we, like sheep, have gone astray,
08:39we've turned everyone to his own way.
08:41The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
08:44And that's how we can find peace with God.
08:47That's what was missing in Charles' message.
08:49I know he only had 10 minutes to give it,
08:51and he couldn't give everything which I've said here.
08:53But he didn't actually even intimate
08:56that we need to make that step of faith.
08:58We need to receive him into our lives
09:01in order to receive that salvation.
09:04And to those who receive him,
09:05he gives the right to become the children of God.
09:08To those who believe in his name,
09:10who are born,
09:11not of the blood,
09:12nor of the will of the flesh,
09:13nor of the will of man,
09:14but of God.
09:16And so,
09:17as we see the world moving into the great darkness
09:20that is prophesied for the last days,
09:23we can receive the light of the world
09:24into our lives through faith in Jesus.
09:27And Jesus says,
09:28these things I have spoken to you,
09:29that in me you may have peace.
09:32In the world you will have tribulation,
09:33but be of good cheer.
09:35I've overcome the world.
09:37Praise the Lord.
09:37We have peace through the blood of the cross.
09:40Let's just have a word of prayer,
09:41and then we're going to sing a song,
09:42and then we're going to get on
09:43to the contemporary prophetic stuff.
09:47So, Lord, we do thank you
09:48that you are the one who gives us peace.
09:50We thank you for the blood of the cross.
09:51We thank you that you fulfilled
09:52all of these things,
09:53that you were so much more
09:55than the little baby in the manger.
09:58You were son of God,
10:00becoming man,
10:01to dwell amongst us,
10:02and to redeem us from the power of sin,
10:05to give us new life through faith in Jesus.
10:07We pray that each one of us here
10:08may receive that life,
10:09and know that we are your children of God,
10:12through faith in Yeshua the Messiah,
10:14and have peace with God.
10:15In Jesus' name.
10:17Amen.
10:19Amen.
10:19Let's sing Jesus' name above all names,
10:23and we'll have a look at some of the things
10:26happening in the world today.
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