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Jesus Himself had a few things to say about the kind of peace that is produced in the life of a believer:

“PEACE “THESE THINGS I HAVE SPOKEN
TO YOU, THAT IN ME YOU MAY
I LEAVE WITH YOU.
HAVE PEACE.
MY PEACE
IN THE WORLD YOU WILL HAVE
I GIVE TO YOU; TRIBULATION; BUT BE OF GOOD
NOT AS THE WORLD GIVES
CHEER, I HAVE OVERCOME
DO I GIVE TO YOU…” THE WORLD.”
Jn. 14:27 Jn. 16:33

“…JESUS CAME AND STOOD IN THE MIDST, AND SAID TO THEM,

‘PEACE BE WITH YOU’…THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM AGAIN, ‘PEACE TO YOU!

AS THE FATHER HAS SENT ME, I ALSO SEND YOU.’ AND WHEN HE HAD SAID
THIS, HE BREATHED ON THEM, AND SAID TO THEM, ‘RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.’

…AND AFTER EIGHT DAYS HIS DISCIPLES WERE AGAIN INSIDE…JESUS

CAME…AND STOOD IN THE MIDST AND SAID,‘PEACE TO YOU!’” Jn. 20:19-26

One cannot help but marvel at the consistency of the Scriptures. Jesus, like the apostles
He commissioned, always began His sayings with salutations of peace. It was constantly on the lips of
Jesus because He was sent from the Father who is called throughout the New Testament Scriptures,
“The God of peace” (Heb. 13:20, 1 Thess. 5:23, Phil. 4:9, Rom. 15:33, 16:20)

We can deduce from the above that Jesus imparted this unique, supernatural peace upon His followers
through the giving of the Holy Spirit. Remember, that one of His supernatural fruits is “peace.” We must
notice too that Jesus distinguishes His kind of peace from the kind that the world strives for which is
peace without tribulation. Jesus promises that as long as His followers are in the world, they will have
tribulation. However, in the midst of that tribulation, they will be sustained by God’s supernatural peace
which is the result of embracing the gospel of peace, a peace that is imparted by the fruit of the Holy
Spirit to the believer, a peace that along with righteousness and joy, governs the Kingdom of God while it
exists in the midst of the turbulent kingdoms of this world that presently belong to Satan ( Luke 4:5-6).
Consider these beautiful promises of peace upon the believer from the Old Testament:

“YOU WILL KEEP HIM IN PERFECT PEACE, WHOSE MIND IS STAYED ON YOU,
BECAUSE HE TRUSTS IN YOU…LORD, YOU WILL ESTABLISH PEACE FOR US,

FOR YOU HAVE ALSO DONE OUR WORKS IN US.” Isa. 26:3,12

“THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL BE PEACE,
AND THE EFFECT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, QUIETNESS AND ASSURANCE FOREVER. MY PEOPLE
WILL DWELL IN A PEACEFUL HABITATION, IN SECURE DWELLINGS, AND IN QUIET
RESTING PLACES, THOUGH HAIL COMES DOWN ON THE FOREST, AND THE CITY IS
BROUGHT LOW IN HUMILIATION.” Isa. 32:17-19

Contrast what God promises above to His people with what He “promises” to the wicked:

“THEIR THOUGHTS ARE THOUGHTS OF INIQUITY; WASTING AND DESTRUCTION ARE IN

THEIR PATHS. THE WAY OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN, AND THERE IS

NO JUSTICE IN THEIR WAYS; THEY HAVE MADE FOR THEMSELVES CROOKED PATHS;

WHOEVER TAKES THAT WAY SHALL NOT KNOW PEACE.”

Isa. 59:7-8

“ ‘THERE IS NO PEACE,’ SAYS THE LORD, ‘FOR THE WICKED.’”

Isa. 48:22

Often I have seen on car bumpers this clever play of words on the subject of peace:

“KNOW JESUS, KNOW PEACE! – NO JESUS, NO PEACE!”
“KNOW JESUS, KNOW PEACE! – NO JESUS, NO PEACE!”