No God - No Peace / Know God - Know Peace Series

We will never know the peace we seek, until we know the God of peace, Christ Jesus our Lord, for the Peace of God is the Peace that is Christ Himself. Paul, in his letter to the Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 14, says of Jesus, “He Himself is our peace.” Peace is not just something that Jesus gives, and which is external to Himself, He Himself is our peace.

In the first chapter of the book of Colossians Paul writes of Jesus saying, “For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood, shed on the cross.” The peace that we can know today, we can only know because the blood of Christ ran red for us, some 2000 years ago.

In the book of Philippians Paul writes that The Peace of God is the Peace that Surpasses all Understanding. How true that is! How does one explain that peace that God alone can give to someone who has never experienced it?! It is the peace that enables those who are martyred for the faith to stand firm to the end and not recant the truth. It is the peace that resides with you when the peace of the world has fled, when turmoil exists all around you, it is the peace that enables you to persevere.

“The story is told of a young dockworker who heard a minister named Henderson deliver a sermon based on Romans 5:1.” Now Romans 5:1 tells us that we have peace with God through Jesus Christ and although the young man was impressed with the truth that one can have peace with God only through the merits of the Lord Jesus, he did not trust Him as his personal Savior. The next day that man joined the crew of a steamship named the “London.” But before the ship arrived at its destination it met with disaster on the high seas. Several months passed, and a sailor came to see Pastor Henderson. "I've come to tell you that I talked and prayed with a young man on board the “London” who had heard you preach on Romans 5:1. He was concerned about his soul but didn't quite understand the plan of salvation. I finished what you began and led him to the Savior. Only a few minutes later we were shipwrecked, and he and I were told to launch one of the lifeboats. While doing so, he said to me, 'Mate, if you get to shore, be sure and tell Pastor Henderson that I've been saved.' Somehow he failed to get into the lifeboat in time, and we had to row away immediately to keep from being capsized and pulled under by the suction of the sinking ship. The last I saw of him, he was up in the rigging of the doomed vessel, waving his hat and shouting to me above the noise of the waters, 'Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ!'" (Source Unknown) That is a peace which surpasses understanding.

You see, the Peace of God, the Peace that is Jesus, is the Peace of Salvation. In Psalm 85 the psalmist links the peace of God with the salvation He gives to His people. Jesus Christ is our salvation. The peace of God is not the peace of the world for the world can never do for us what Jesus has done for us. The peace of God is not the peace of a trouble free existence because having received the peace of God, that is salvation, we obey not what the Scriptures call the “powers and principalities of this world,” but God alone. For those whose minds are controlled by the Spirit find “life and peace” according to Paul’s writing in the book of Romans. It is the peace of Christ which is to rule in our hearts. And the peace of God is not the peace that is known by all, for you can not know the peace of God, until you have encountered and known, the God of peace.