Week 27 Day 4

The Daily Take 10

The Gospel of John

Week 27 Day 4

Introduction…Joy and Peace! What wonderfully descriptive words that are so intertwined that when you have one, it seems you have the other too. Joy and peace flow from the inside of us and pour out over our life. Joy is mentioned in the Bible 166 times and peace nearly the same amount of times. Half of those in the Old Testament and half in the New. Joy emerges from the peace of God that passes all understanding (Philippians 4:7), and like springs of living water within us, they flow up and over us. Ephesians 2:14-18 tells us, “He, Jesus, is our peace…reconciling us to God”.  So the source of joy and peace is God and we are one with God, having “access by one Spirit unto the Father”.

Read John 14:25-31 “I have spoken these things to you while I am still with you. The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of all that I have said. I am leaving you peace. I am giving you my peace. I do not give it to you as the world gives peace. Let not your heart be distressed or fear stricken. You have heard that I said to you: ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to my Father because the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you about it before it happens so that whenever it does happen, you will believe. I shall not say much more to you because the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me. His coming will only make the world know that I love the Father and that I do as the Father has commanded me. Rise, let us be going.”

Bible Study

• A Christian and a disciple of Jesus Christ is a learner. The good news is the Holy Spirit is our teacher and reveals to us the deep and even deeper things of God.
  • In Jeremiah 29:13 God challenges us to be hungry learners. “And you shall seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.”
• The Holy Spirit brings to our remembrance all truth pertaining to Jesus and the Word that builds us up, encourages our belief and perfects all that concerns us.
• The Holy Spirit keeps us living and acting right if we listen to the Spirit within us, He will guide and give course correction to us.
• Jesus promises His gift of peace, shalom, which is not the absence of war or trouble, but beyond that He makes things work out for our highest good and we can sense…it is well with our soul.
• My prayer is “Oh Prince of Peace, visit me with your Presence and give me your peace that is beyond my ability to muster or comprehend!”
• Jesus was returning to the Father and would be released from the limitations of this world, ascend on high, be restored to glory and become our advocate and mediator to the Father.
  • Philippians 2:8-11 tells us Jesus was obedient to death on the Cross for us and then was highly exalted by the Father with a name above all names.
• Jesus conquered death so that all believers who die enter the blessedness of His Presence and eternal life.
  • Psalms 116:15 says, “blessed and precious are the death of His saints.”
  • 1 Corinthians 15:55 says, “oh death where is your sting oh grave where is your victory?” Indicating death is defeated by Jesus’ death/resurrection.
• Jesus speaks of the final battleground that He would win at the Cross. Sin and death were defeated, thus fulfilling the 1^st prophecy found in Scripture.
  • In Genesis 3:15 after mankind sins, God speaks to Satan saying, “I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed (fulfilled in the virgin birth of Jesus, the Messiah) He shall bruise your head (Rosh –leadership/rule) and you shall bruise his heel.”

Application

• The words to the song “At the Foot of the Cross” say it all.

At the foot of the cross

Where grace and suffering meet.

You have shown me your love

Through the judgment you received.

And you won my heart

Yes, You’ve won my heart, now I can

Trade these ashes in for beauty

And wear forgiveness like a crown

Coming to kiss the feet of mercy,

I lay every burden down

At the foot of the Cross

Where I am made complete.

You have given me life

Through the death you bore for me.

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