Hold You Peace

Title: Hold your Peace

Text: John 14. (Romans 8:6)

Big idea: The mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace. (Rom 8:6)

Subject: Where do we find genuine peace?

Complement: In relationship with Jesus and his people.

Introduction: The elusive(!) pursuit of peace is described in modern day music/lyrics...

Song lyrics are the poetry of our modern, post-modern, hi-tech, low-touch culture

1965 - Rolling Stones (I can’t get no satisfaction) (1965) mick jagger/Keith Richards

I can't get no satisfaction

I can't get no satisfaction

'Cause I try, and I try, and I try, and I try

I can't get no, I can't get no

When I'm driving in my car

When a man come on the radio

He's telling me more and more

About some useless information

Supposed to fire my imagination

I can't get no, oh, no, no, no, hey, hey, hey

That's what I say

I can't get no satisfaction

I can't get no satisfaction

'Cause I try, and I try, and I try, and I try

I can't get no, I can't get no

When I'm watchin' my TV

And a man comes on and tells me

How white my shirts can be

But, he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke

The same cigarettes as me

I can't get no, oh, no, no, no, hey, hey, hey

That's what I say

I can't get no satisfaction

I can't get no girl reaction

'Cause I try, and I try, and I try, and I try

I can't get no, I can't get no

When I'm ridin' 'round the world

And I'm doin' this and I'm signin' that

And I'm tryin' to make some girl, who tells me

Baby, better come back maybe next week

Can't you see I'm on a losing streak?

I can't get no, oh, no, no, no, hey, hey, hey

That's what I say

I can't get no, I can't get no

I can't get no satisfaction, no satisfaction

No satisfaction, no satisfaction

I can't get no

... Rolling Stone magazine - in 2004 - called the song the second greatest of all time.

The lyrics attacked the modern world (in 1965) – its commercialism, its obsession with consumer culture, its inability to excite a 22 year-old man who’d grown tired of the status quo...

It is one of the world's most popular songs

• No. 31 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list in 2021.

• The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998,

• The 10th ranked song on critics' all-time lists

Why?

It speaks for the masses of people who find peace so very elusive.

Here’s another lyric...

Tell me something, girl

Are you happy in this modern world?

Or do you need more?

Is there something else you're searchin' for?

I'm falling

In all the good times, I find myself longin' for change

And in the bad times, I fear myself

Tell me something, boy

Aren't you tired trying to fill that void?

Or do you need more?

Ain't it hard keeping it so hardcore?

“SHALLOW” – by Lady Gaga

U2

( I still haven’t found what I’m looking for...)

I have climbed highest mountains

I have run through the fields

Only to be with you

Only to be with you

I have run

I have crawled

I have scaled these city walls

These city walls

Only to be with you

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

Peace... elusive peace...

On My 50th birthday I was kidnapped:

My Cruise ship Story ? captured to cruise...

“it was fancy dinner night” ( SUIT & tie!)...

after dinner we’re walking by the pool... it's December... there’s an NFL football game on big screen...

Green bay Packers! Brett Farve

...pool lounge chair...

Cruising the Caribbean... under the stars...by the pool... football.

**Now this is peaceful!!!

The main emotion of the average adult American who has all the advantages of wealth, education and culture is disappointment.”

John Ortberg)***...”the human heart has been dissatisfied since we left Eden...” p. 100 (Love Beyond Reason)

(the loss of Eden – the fall ... creates an emptiness in the human heart... a search for peace...

{Depravity shows itself in... Conflict...anxiety...stress...mental health challenges

Our text today is John 14...

In John 14 Jesus is speaking to his disciples about his approaching crucifixion & then his soon departure – his return to heaven.

(it's called the “Farewell Discourse” and it goes from John 14-17 – concluding with Jesus High Priestly prayer of intercession)

John 14

14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?