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“ Summary, Part 4 (final) ” 4. ITS MANNER. Saving faith has three components: knowledge, assent, and its essence, which is trust. We cast our whole soul upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Our peace will only be as strong as our faith. The Lord again: “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me” (JOHN 14:1). ROMANS 15:13: “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace IN BELIEVING, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Others may not be able to see our faith, but they can see our peace. Our peace is unique because it is in the Lord, and OF the Lord. CONCLUSION. TO THE LOST: there is truth in “Know God, know peace; no God, no peace.” The untranquil heart belongs to he who doesn’t know the Lord. TO THE WEAK IN FAITH: little faith knows little peace. It also slanders God and scatters your faith. Has God ever failed you? Has He ever not kept a promise? Has He ever shown Himself unworthy of your trust? Again, your peace is only as strong as your faith. TO THEY WHO ENJOY THIS PEACE: you may join David in PSALM 84:12: “O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.”
Ian Migala (5/14/2013)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 3 ” 3. ITS PEOPLE. They are called the steadfast of mind. The ancient Hebrew gave the mind a much broader function than the Occidental. The mind was considered to be the whole person. So “steadfast of mind” implies a steady person, leaning his full weight on the Rock of God. David’s psalms reflect such a person. In PSALM 62:1-2, he declares God to be his only rock and salvation. Consequently, “I shall not be greatly moved.” Peace for David was not just an absence of trials, but God’s presence in his trials. True peace is not conditioned upon agreeable circumstances, but upon calmness and serenity in the midst of a storm. Saving peace is covenant love. [On the topic of saving peace, I recommend *A Lifting Up for the Downcast* by William Bridge. –IM] What we have is just a taste of the peace Jesus had as He went through with His Passion for our sake. He said, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (JOHN 14:27).
Ian Migala (5/14/2013)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 2 ” For the Old Testament Hebrew, peace meant all of God’s blessings, external and internal. It included a sense of calm within turbulence, closure with the past, acceptance of the future, communion with God, cheerful resignation to His will (*Whate’er My God Ordains is Right*: “Whate’er my God ordains is right:/His holy will abideth;/I will be still whate’er He doth;/And follow where He guideth;/He is my God; though dark my road,/He holds me that I shall not fall:/Wherefore to Him I leave it all.”), and forbade rashness and despair. 2. ITS AUTHOR. Verse 7 tells us that He is upright: He weighs and considers. He is also a leveler: He straightens the paths of righteousness. In verse 10, we read of His majesty. Unbelievers don’t see it because they can’t. The favor and patience the wicked can be shown will not help them see their authors. In verses 5, 11, and 14 we see that He is omnipotent. He not only destroys His enemies, but He blots them from memory. His zeal for His people puts His enemies to shame. In verses 3, 12, and 15 we see that He is ever-gracious. Despite our fallenness, God sees the perfection of Christ imputed to us. In verses 4 and 16, we see that He is our great deliverer. He is utterly reliable and durable.
Ian Migala (5/14/2013)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 1 ” ROMANS 15:4: We are not to ignore the Old Testament; it was written also for us for our instruction. ISAIAH 26:3 shows the inhabitants of the City of God to be a calm, serene people. If we are not so, then we are living beneath our privileges. The City of Man knows no such peace; we can see it in the news and all around us in the secular world. Isaac Watts, *Our God, Our Help*: “The busy tribes of flesh and blood,/With all their lives and cares,/Are carried downwards by thy flood,/And lost in following years.” In the present verse, we see FOUR CHARACTERISTICS OF CALMNESS AND SERENITY: 1. ITS NATURE. In verse 11, we see the shame of the City of Man, and its bondage in verse 13. But in the City of God, we have “peace squared”. Rather than live for ourselves, we live for God. Verse 12: “LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.” In ROMANS 5:1, Paul says that peace with God through Christ comes with justification by faith. We stand with it: it characterizes our life. From here to glory there will be problems, but we exalt in our tribulations: they bring perseverance with the grace of hope. In the City of Man, however, we see in ISAIAH 57:20-21 we see the tossing sea of the wicked.
