Is God tugging at your heart? Are you ready for a real and lasting peace that only comes through a relationship with the one true God? Take a step toward Him today. Jesus appears to the disciples.Are you worried about the future? Struggling with a personal or spiritual issue that’s causing anxiety, uncertainty or fear about tomorrow? Browse through dozens of topics and questions and begin your journey to a more peaceful life right now. The disciples were meeting again on Sunday. Thomas wants to see the physical proof of Jesus’ body. The disciples joyfully tell Thomas, “We have seen the Lord!” Go and tell.Ģ. Thomas, the twin (Didymus), was not with the disciples on that first Sunday.ġ.
Peace be with you free#
Then like the first disciples we are overjoyed because of God’s free forgiveness.Ī. “PEACE BE WITH YOU” As Jesus’ disciples we are blessed and privileged to look at the wounds of Jesus. In our wicked world we will stand as shining lights as we live lives that are “eager to do what is good”. Believers can live lives that reflect what is right in God’s sight. "Our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ…gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, ea-ger to do what is good" ( TITUS 2:14). Thinking of Jesus’ great love for us will move us to live loves which reflect God’s great love for all of humanity. We ought to stop and consider the depth of the love God daily shows us by the unselfish sacrifice of Christ, our Savior. This is not a bad practice to do when we begin our day.
We might not always consciously stop and think of how much Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection means in our daily lives. The sinless sacrifice of Jesus changes our lives – forever. By grace through faith every believer has become spiritual children of Abraham and heirs of eternal life.į. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit" ( EPHESIANS 2:17, 18). "He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. Jesus came for the salvation of all those once considered outside God’s kingdom – Gentiles. Another miraculous Easter event is the fact that we are also saved. What is a miracle of Easter is the fact that Jesus so willingly went to the cross for undeserving sinners. Any sinner and every sinner need the holy and precious blood of Jesus to cleanse from all unrighteousness. Jesus does not make any distinctions among sinners. The marks on Jesus’ hands and feet and side are the marks made for our forgiveness.Į. "But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed" ( ISAIAH 53:6). Jesus offered himself as the perfect sacrifice. In spite of our sinful rejections of God, God does not reject us. Rather, our entire lives of wickedness, rebellion, and sin only earn for us eternal punishment. God sent his Son, Jesus to this world for us. The forgiveness of God is given to them to reassure the penitent sinner.ĭ. Breath and Spirit are the same Greek words. Again the power of Jesus’ words is what the disciples truly needed to hear and believe.ġ. Jesus reassures his disciples with his words. Jesus appears on that Sunday to his disciples with divine comfort, “Peace be with you!”ī. Jesus’ disciples were still trying to understand all of the events that had just happened.ģ. The disciples did not know if they would be in trouble for following Jesus.Ģ. Jesus’ disciples are locked behind closed doors on that Sunday of Jesus’ resurrection.ġ. May each of us take to heart these precious words of our Savior Jesus Christ.Ī. In what seemed the worst of times, at least in the lives of the disciples, becomes the best of times by the peace of Jesus. The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their cry" ( PSALM 34:14, 15). "Turn from evil and do good seek peace and pursue it. Our loving Lord finds it necessary to encourage believers to pursue peace. Will it ever end? With such bad news always filling our lives we might forget the goodness and greatness of our almighty God.
We are living in times that are filled with wars and troubles.
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