How does God expect me to have peace in a world that’s so full of rebellion and revolution and poverty and dishonesty and lust and murder and crime and all we can just go on down the list to picture the kind of society we live in. But listen to this. The society in which Jesus lived in which he was talking in this time was described or characterized by war, slavery and poverty.

Those are the three words that describe that society. Now, he’s talking to them about having peace. And he’s also at the same time saying, “I’m going to lay down my life,” which means he was going to die. He also said, “You’re going to have tribulation.” He also said, “You’re going to be outcast.” And he also said, “They’re going to kill you and think they’re doing God a service.

” Now to be able to talk about peace in that kind of environment and to mix those comments along with what he said about peace didn’t seem to make any sense and they were confused and they were frustrated and so they were asking him and in fact he could read that in their minds and so he said to them look he said I’m not going to leave you as orphans he said I’m going to send the Holy Spirit look at this he says I’m going to send the Holy Spirit and he’s going to be in you, with you, and upon you.

And if you’ll think about this verse for a moment, when people say, “Well, you know, I just don’t believe in the trinity and all that.” Uh, so I want you to listen to this verse, verse 26 of John 14, Jesus speaking, but the helper, and he identifies him, the Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name.

There’s the trinity in one single verse. And he says, what is he going to do? He says, “When these things come, here’s what I want you to remember. The helper, the Holy Spirit in within you, living my life through you, he’s going to teach you all things, bring all things to your remembrance. My peace, peace I leave with you is my peace I give to you.