Peace i leave with you

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​“And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:7)

What is the peace of God? I would describe it first by saying it is of course, peace with God, peace of conscience, actual peace with the Most High through the atoning sacrifice. Reconciliation, forgiveness, restoration to favor there must be, and the soul must be aware of it. There can be no peace of God apart from justification through the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ received by faith. A man conscious of being guilty can never know the peace of God till he becomes equally conscious of being forgiven. When his consciousness of pardon, shall become as strong and vivid as his consciousness of guilt had been, then will he enter into the enjoyment of the peace of God which passes all understanding. 

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ—you that have believed in Jesus—there is perfect peace between you and God now. “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God.” Your sin was the ground of the quarrel, but it has gone. It has ceased to be. It is blotted out. It is cast into the depth of the sea. As far as the east is from the west, this far has He removed our transgressions from us. Our divine scapegoat has carried our iniquities into the wilderness. Our Lord, and Master, has finished trans- gression, made an end of sin. He has brought in everlasting righteousness. The cause of offense is gone and gone forever. Jesus has taken our guilt, has suffered in our place, and has made full compensation to the injured law and vindicated justice to the very highest. And now there is nothing which can excite the anger of God towards us, for our sin is removed and our unrighteousness is covered. We are reconciled to God by Christ Jesus and accepted in the Beloved. Charles Spurgeon

Those of us who have been reconciled with God can enjoy his peace. We don’t have to ask for it, it has been gifted to us through the blood of the Lamb. Those of us who have been reconciled with God can enjoy his peace. We don’t have to ask for it, it has been gifted to us through the blood of the Lamb. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” (John 14:27)

GiGi❤️

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