• Joh 14:27 "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. • WHAT ROBS ME OF HAVING PEACE? • CAUSES US TO BE USELESS. • Jg 7:2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. • 3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. • Re 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. • Joh 14:1 ¶ Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. • GUILT IS PRODUCED BY THE REALIZATIONTHAT WE HAVE SINNED. ROM 3:23, 1 JN 3:4, 5:17. • GOD HAS GIVEN US GUILT TO HELP US BE AWARE OF SIN. LK 15:17-18. • TRAGICALLY MANY DO NOT FEEL BIBLICAL GUILT BECAUSE THEIR HEARTS ARE HARDENED. • JESUS GIVES THE ANSEWER. • 2Co 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. • Ro 5:6 ¶ For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. • 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. • 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. • 1Jo 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. • 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. • • • • • • REMISSION-MT 26:28 REDEMPTION 1 PETER1:18-19 JUSTIFICATION ROM 5:8-10 RECONCILIATION 2 CO 5:14-18 SALVATION EPH 2:1 HOWEVER WE MUST RESPOND TO GOD’S SAVING HAND. • • • • • • • IF YOUR NOT A CHRISTIAN BELIEVE JN 3:16, 8:24 REPENT ACTS 3:19, 17:30-31 CONFESS FAITH IN JESUSROM 10:9-10 BE BAPTISED ACTS 2:38, MK 16:16 THEN WHEN WE SIN REPENT ACTS 8:22, CONFESS 1 JN 1:8-9, JAMES 5:16, AND PRAY, ASKING GOD TO FORGIVE HIM LK:11:10, ACTS 8:22-23 • Ps 103:12 As far as the east irom the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. • Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful s fto their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. • 1Ti 1:12 ¶ And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; • 13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. • 14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. • 15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.