John chapter 14 verse 25, the Bible reads, these things are spoken to you while I am with you. But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I've said to you. Peace, I leave with you. My peace, I give to you. Not as the world gives, do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, I am going away. And I will come to you. If you love me, you would rejoice because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place, you may believe. I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here. Amen. We live in a chaotic world. A world that often gives us reasons to despair. There's always something in this world that disturbs our peace. It's not news that we live in a world that gives us so much to worry about. A century years ago or 100 plus years ago, a tragic would wipe one part of the world and kill thousands of people and that news may never even be heard on the other side of the world. But now we hear about tragedies almost instantly and we can even watch what happened on our phones. And because of that, it's a chaotic world we live in. People are afraid of the future. And when you talk to people, especially non-Christians, when you ask them why they are afraid of the future or what is it particularly that they are worried about when they think of tomorrow or when they think of the future, all they say is they are worried about everything. They are worried is broad-minded, nothing specific but just broad-minded. And living in such a stressful world, we need to find a way to experience joy, peace, We need to find a way to find something that calms our fears. For others, they resort to all kinds of things in order to simply silence their anxious minds or hearts. For those of us who are Christians, we know that joy and peace are the fruit of the Spirit. Therefore, if we are going to find anything that will calm our anxious hearts, we draw our minds to the Word of God and to what God has promised us. And to seek joy and peace away from God. is simply to seek that which will not last. And therefore, as we live in this world, and as you are troubled about tomorrow, as you get anxious about tomorrow, ask yourself, where can I find solutions to this? Where can I find true joy, true peace, peace that transcends and calms my anxious heart and anxious mind? In our text, the Lord Jesus Christ continues to encourage His disciples. He continues to encourage His disciples just before He was crucified. He knew that their world would be turned upside down, and the whole world would turn against the Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore, it will affect His own disciples. And rather than focus on Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ focuses on His disciples, focuses on equipping them for the trials that they would face. His words that he spoke to the disciples shows us how to have peace in troubled times, how to have peace in a chaotic world. And what we see in the portion of Scriptures we read is that we can rejoice that Jesus has returned to the Father and he has sent his Holy Spirit to teach us and to give us his peace, which surpasses all understanding. A peace that is ours and that will remain with us even in troubled times. And the question I'd like you to wrestle with this morning is, is this peace yours that is offered in Christ Jesus? Is this peace yours? If it is not, the Lord Jesus Christ still extends His peace to you and invites you to believe in Him for the forgiveness of your sins. The first thing I would like to draw your mind to is this, that we can rejoice that Jesus has sent His Holy Spirit to teach us. We can rejoice that Jesus has sent His Holy Spirit to teach us. Verse 25 and verse 26. These things are spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. And the thrust that the Lord Jesus Christ is saying is that even in the midst of the storms of life, you can rejoice that the Holy Spirit is with you and He will teach you all that I taught you. And this verse clearly was given first and foremost to the immediate audience, the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ. As He spoke to them, He wanted them to know that all this time He's been with them, everything He said about Himself will come to pass and they will realize that He was what He said He was. Although the apostles did not have electronic means to record the words of the Lord Jesus Christ and later on to play them so that they seek to understand or they seek to remind themselves, Jesus promises the Holy Spirit that when He goes to His Father, He will send the Holy Spirit And the Holy Spirit will perform the function that He was performing, teaching the disciples and bringing to remembrance all that the Lord Jesus Christ taught them. He was going to help them understand the things that Christ taught. And therefore, He's saying, if you knew these things, you would rejoice that I'm going back to the Father. Because I've said so many things, I've taught you so many things, some of it you've long forgotten, but when the Helper, the Holy Spirit comes, He will bring to remembrance these things. And in the chapter, chapter 14, that we've been looking at, you see we have Thomas, Philip and Judas Iscariot, who clearly demonstrate a lack of understanding of what the Lord Jesus Christ was teaching them. And the questions they were asking, it was so clear that they misunderstood what Christ was teaching them. But after the day of Pentecost, you see these disciples, bored as a lion, proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Because the Spirit of God, when he came upon them, he reminded them of the very things that Jesus said. The second application is to all of us that believe in Christ. And when you read in verse 26, but the help of the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all the things and bring to remembrance all that I've said to you. The indwelling Holy Spirit will teach us the meaning of the Scriptures, who bring to mind the Scriptures, the things that Christ taught, recorded to us in the Scriptures. But this is not going to happen automatic. We must read the Scriptures. We must study the Scriptures. We must examine the Scriptures for ourselves and see what Christ said, what was being promised in the Scriptures. This will show us that we can have confidence in the Scriptures. Later on, Peter writing, when he writes 2 Peter chapter 1 and verse 16, Peter writes in 2 Peter 1, 16, he says, for we did not follow cleverly devised myths. We made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. but we were eyewitnesses. And Peter is saying our accounts of the Lord Jesus Christ is accurate. We were eyewitnesses. And when we witnessed certain things that we could not understand, the Holy Spirit Himself brought these things to our minds. We heard them. We did not perceive or understand. But later on, when Christ had died and was raised from the dead, we remembered the things He said." The Apostle Paul writing to Timothy in 2 Timothy chapter 3 and verse 16 and 17, he says, is breathed out by God, and it's profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be equipped for every good work. Right in front of us, the scriptures are inspired by God. And we must study the Bible. And as you read the Scriptures, the more you read the Scriptures, the more you realize that this is a supernatural Spirit-filled book. It is a living book. And as you read the Scriptures, by the aid of the Holy Spirit, you begin to see and appreciate the truth that God has said in His Word. and you begin to apply them to your life. You begin to see that everything God says is about Him. And as you take God's Word as a living Word, you begin to appreciate what the Scripture says. You begin to apply the lessons, the principles, the precepts, the promises of the Scriptures to your own life and your own situations. And as you live in this chaotic world, you rejoice that you belong to God. And the Holy Spirit whispers to you daily that you are His child. We can rejoice in this troubled world Because Jesus has returned to the Father, where he's enthroned as the Lord of all. But we can also rejoice because he has sent the Holy Spirit to teach us. We can rejoice. But the second thing we notice there is that we can rejoice because of the peace that Jesus gives. We can rejoice because of the peace that Jesus gives for our troubled times. we can rejoice. Verse 27. Peace, I leave with you. My peace, I give to you. Not as the world gives, do I give you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. The Lord Jesus Christ saying we can rejoice because Jesus has given us peace. He gives us peace in troubled times. And when the Lord Jesus Christ says to His disciples, let not your hearts be troubled, it was clear that the disciples were troubled by the news that He would be going to the Father. They were on the brink of a great storm of their lives with much fear. They've been with Jesus for some time, following Him, hearing His teachings, and now He's telling them that He will be leaving them. They were troubled. They don't know what tomorrow was going to bring. And the Lord Jesus Christ says, Peace, I live with you. My peace, I give you. Therefore, let not your hearts be troubled. And in that verse, we see a double peace spoken of there. The Lord Jesus Christ said, Peace, I live with you. My peace, I give you. There is peace left Peace given, that's a double peace that he speaks of. And when you read the scriptures in the New Testament, we see that peace is often spoken of in two senses. Number one is signifying reconciliation between God and man, contrasted with being separated from God. And then the other sense is a state of calmness as contrasted from a state of confusion. And here the Lord Jesus Christ says, peace I leave with you. This is judicial language there. This will be the peace as a result of his death. Romans 5 verse 1 says, being justified by faith, we have peace with God. God's wrath against us and His dreadful opposition against Him will be ended forever. Christ's death brings about this peace. And the Lord Jesus Christ is saying, peace, I live with you. In my death, you will be reconciled to God. And we've been reconciled to God in Christ. Jesus has ended the war between God and man, God and the believer, paying with his own life. Christ paying in his blood the price of peace in the courts of divine justice. So as far as the records of God are concerned, there's peace between God and the believer because of Christ. And therefore, he said, peace I leave with you. You are no longer enemies of God. You are no longer separated from God. You can sit at table with God because of my death. And then he goes on to say, my peace I give you. Peace I leave with you. This is the judicial peace because of his death. Then he said, peace I give you. This peace will be enjoyed through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the believers. This will be a personal peace which Christ gives, the same peace which Christ enjoyed while on earth. He was never distressed by circumstance. He never resisted his father's will. The Lord Jesus Christ was ever in a state of perfect harmony with God. The peace he now promises his disciples was the same peace that filled his mind as he walked on this earth. The same peace that enabled him to trust in his Father. The same peace that made him to look to the cross, knowing what lay beyond the cross. The peace he enjoyed as a result of his unbroken communion with his Father. And he says, my peace I give to you. Christ's peace is not merely the absence of our former conflict with God. Christ's peace entails the positive experience of peace with God. And this experience of peace with God is as a result of the ministry of God the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer whom Jesus has sent to the believers. And this is why when the Apostle Paul is writing in Philippians chapter 4 and verse 7, he says, the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ. So there is peace with God. We are no longer enemies of God. But there is this ongoing peace that we experience in this troubled world because of the ministry of God the Holy Spirit in the lives of the believers. And therefore, this is the peace that we enjoy because there is this continuous relationship, continuous communion with God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit and in us. We are in Christ. Christ is in us by His Spirit. And Christ is in the Father. And therefore, there is this unbroken communion that we enjoy. We are no longer condemned before the Father. We can approach His throne with boldness. And while He on earth, as everything else is falling apart, We have peace because of the ministry of the Holy Spirit. And Jesus says, the peace I give you is not as the world gives. Jesus' peace is not like that of the world. The world will talk about peace. at the expense of others. During the time of the New Testament, when Rome was in power, there was what was called Pax Romana, the peace of Rome. And that peace of Rome It was not really peace, it was peace having the Romans would have conquered you and destroyed everything. And therefore they'll say, they'll tell you, you must surrender to the Roman rule. And therefore we'll give you peace. Yet everything else has been destroyed. That's the peace of the world. The world will give peace at the expense of others. Even the fighting in Gaza. You hear when the leaders of the world, the U.N. or the U.S. gives their terms, it's always at the expense of the other. Lives destroyed. And Jesus said, my peace is not like the way the world gives. Because Jesus did not make peace for himself at the expense of others. but Jesus made peace for the world at his own expense. He gave his life for his own, and therefore that all those who believe in him at the expense of Christ will find peace with God, but will also experience ongoing peace because of the ministry of the Holy Spirit. And this peace of blessings comes from a right relationship with God. The awareness of His loving presence in the lives of believers and receiving of His grace through faith. That's how you enjoy this peace. It was peace with God and Christ having made peace for us on the cross, the disciples and all of us. can sail through the storms of life untroubled because we have peace with God and we are enjoying ongoing peace because of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in us. A peaceful state of mind is not something that the disciples are going to achieve by their own efforts. but rather Jesus would grant this peace as his parting gift to his disciples. And Jesus did not promise to leave his disciples wealth and inheritance of money, influence or safety in this world, but instead he promised that he would give them inward peace inward peace of conscience arising from a sense of pardoned sin and being reconciled to God. And those who have come to believe in Christ have peace with God. Their conscience do not condemn us. Our hearts do not condemn us. When we stand before God, conscious of our own sinfulness, and when we look to Christ, we rejoice for He has reconciled us to His Father. And the Holy Spirit, who lives in us, continues to whisper peace. We can rejoice. Jesus has given us His peace. And the third thing we see there is that even, brother, we have peace despite Satan's attacks. We have peace despite Satan's attacks. We have peace. The Lord Jesus Christ, this is what the Bible says from verse 28 to the end. You heard me say to you, I am going away and I'll come to you. If you love me, you would rejoice because I'm going to the father for the father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it takes place so that when it does take place, you may believe. I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here." We have peace despite Satan's attacks. Whatever he throws at us, We have peace with God and he cannot take away this peace from us. And as Jesus prepared to depart, not only was his mind focused on the unloving world that will soon cry out, crucify him, crucify him, his heart was also with the disciples. but would also hear the footsteps of his great enemy, Satan. While Jesus was delivering his message to his disciples, Satan was busy scheming through Judas the betrayer. Satan was scheming through the Jewish leaders. the temple soldiers who were arming themselves to go and arrest Jesus in the garden on the Mount of Olives. Thus Jesus mentioned the last threat to the disciples' peace. He says, I will no longer talk much with you, he said, for the ruler of this world is coming. When the Lord Jesus Christ talks about Satan as the ruler of this world, it's not because Satan has actual dominion over the world. No, because God's providence or God's wisdom has granted him permission, which is limited to rule in this world. But Jesus is all powerful. He cannot be defeated by the evil one. It is this same evil one, the devil, who wanted to sift Peter. When you read Luke 22 and verse 31, he wanted to sift Peter, resulting in his denying the Lord Jesus Christ three times. But Jesus said, Peter, I have prayed for you. Later on when Peter would write in 1 Peter 5 verse 8, he refers to Satan as like the roaring lion seeking someone to devour. And so why would Satan's attack not threat the peace of God's people? The Lord Jesus Christ gives this assurance in the last part of verse 30. He says, He has no claim on me. Yes, He is the ruler of the world in the sovereignty of my Father. He's been given freedom to roam and deceive. But He has no claim on me, the Lord Jesus Christ assures. He has no authority over the Son of God. He cannot do anything to overpower the Son of God. And Jesus assures that, yes, I'll be away, I'll be no longer with you. The ruler of this world is coming, but be assured, he has no claim on me. And therefore, if you are in me, he has no claim on you. In the Garden of Eden, Satan came in the form of a serpent and tempted our first parents into sin. He deceived them. They sinned against God. In the Garden of Eden, he found Adam and Eve. suitable to his influence, but how different to be in the garden of Gethsemane. Satan came to the Son of God, presented himself, but he had no claim on the Son of God. Jesus, the fountain of a new spirit, empowered humanity. could not be deceived by the evil one. The devil could find nothing that was suitable in the Lord Jesus Christ's influence. The evil one could not find any flaws to exploit in Christ. The evil one could not find any weakness to tempt in Christ. The evil one could not find anything, no sin, to condemn the Son of God. And this can only be said of the Lord Jesus Christ, that there's no flaw in Him, no sin, no weakness to exploit by the evil one. That's why He says, He has no claim on me. That's why He alone, Jesus Christ, can offer Himself as atonement for the sins of others. And this is why we need Him to redeem us from the power of sin, from the penalty of sin, and from the influence of the evil one. The Lord Jesus Christ, instead of being conquered by the evil one. He went to the cross of his own will. He willingly submitted his life to death on the cross. And he says, this was in obedience to my Father. In verse 31, But I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here." He said, all this was not because the evil one is greater. He has no claim on me. It is out of obedience and love to my Father, so that in my death, You who are in me, the evil one who has no claim on you. And therefore, you can have peace despite his attacks. He has no claim on you. You are hidden in me. You are covered by my righteousness. You have a clean record before my Father. He has no claim on you. Therefore, you have peace and you can rejoice. The Lord Jesus Christ was not tricked into death on the cross, no. It was sovereign obedience to the will of his Father. And he says as he concludes to his disciples, arise, let us go from here. having concluded his discourse with his disciples, he invites them to say, arise, let us go from here. Do you notice that because of the peace that he gives, not only was Jesus able to face the hatred of the unloving world, the assault of the evil one, He also calls his disciples to join him in this journey. He says, arise, let us go from here. He commands his disciples that they must go with him on this way, the way to the cross. And this is true of us today. Christ gives us peace so that we may arise and go to the world unconcerned about its con and disturbed by certain attacks so that we may proclaim the gospel of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, so that others may come to know Christ as Lord and Savior. We can go and preach the gospel, living in assurance of the peace we have with God, and living in assurance that the evil one has no claim on Christ, therefore he has no claim on us. The world will scorn us, but we have peace with God. the world will taunt us, we have peace with God. Our mission is to go and preach the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And as we live in this chaotic world, and as the world see our calmness, our peace, that they may be pointed to the Lord Jesus Christ. We have peace with God. Are you living in that assurance of the peace you have with God? If you are a child of God and you struggle to live in this full assurance of this peace by the continuous ministry of the Holy Spirit, It may be because you've neglected to read your Bibles. You become the center of focus. And therefore, the evil one is exploiting those flaws in you, your lack of scripture knowledge. And therefore, when you look at the world, the chaotic world you live in, you are anxious, you are troubled. You fail to live in full assurance of the peace you have with God, and the peace that you continue to enjoy by the Holy Spirit. Get back to your Bibles, read the Bible, pray every day, and you will grow, grow, grow. Don't neglect the Bible. because the Spirit brings to remembrance the truth of the Scriptures. But if there's nothing in you, what is it that the Holy Spirit will bring to your remembrance? Read your Bibles and you'll see that this peace Jesus gives, it's true, it's experiential, it's one that is there with you and it's one that you continue to enjoy even in troubled times. Anxiety has been described as a thin stream of fear dropping or drooping through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained and drowned. Does this describe you? You don't have to live like that. The Lord Jesus Christ, who ascended to the Father and sent His Holy Spirit wants you to believe in Him for the forgiveness of your sins so that you too can experience this peace that surpasses all understanding, this peace that floods your mind, this peace that makes the things of this world as nothing, this peace. that makes us to sing every day have been redeemed by the blood of the lamb. The things of this world will continue to bring anxiety. With technological advancements, there will be something every day to disturb your peace. And the reason is because within yourself, you do not have peace with God. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you too will experience what he says. Peace, I leave with you. My peace, I give to you. Not as the world gives, And this begins with you turning away from sin, coming to Christ, and experiencing the continuous ministry of the Holy Spirit. May you have this peace today. Amen.