What does the Bible say about the fruit peace? The fruit peace is a peace that goes beyond all human understanding. The fruit peace is a peace that the world can’t explain or comprehend. The world can’t give you this peace. 不管你有多努力, or how many worldly methods you will apply, you will never find this peace. God is the only One, Who can provide you peace.
神的平安, 这超出了所有人的理解, 必借着基督耶稣保守你们的心怀意念 (腓立比书 4:7)
The Peacemaker
Jesus was the Peacemaker between God and man. He brought the Kingdom of God to the earth and therefore He produced the fruit peace and brought peace to this earth.
耶稣医治了所有被魔鬼压制的人, He healed all sickness and disease and He taught with authority (另请阅读: ‘耶稣给地球带来了什么样的和平?')
If Jesus was a Peacemaker, we should also be peacemakers on this earth. 因为我们, 新作品, are made in His image. We should walk like Jesus walked, and follow His example. We represent the Kingdom of God, and will bring the Kingdom of God to the people, and therefore we will bring peace to the people (另请阅读: ‘上帝的和平者').
Bringing peace by speaking the right words
When we bear the fruit peace, we will bring peace, calmness, and order instead of chaos. How can we bring peace to this earth? By speaking the right words of God, over someone’s life, then we will create peace.
When we speak evil about other people, our job, our church, ETC. we will sow negative words of the devil, and reap destruction and turmoil. When we do this, then we are 不 the peacemakers, we should be. Therefore we must be careful with the words we speak.
The Kingdom of God is a Kingdom of peace
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; 但是公义, 和和平, 和圣灵里的喜乐 (罗马书 14:17).
The earth was without form, and void before God brought harmony. God brought peace upon this earth. The beginning of creation represents His Kingdom; a Kingdom of peace, 和谐, 命令, etc. After the creation, this peace that God created, 被破坏了, because man disobeyed God’s commandment and believed the words of a serpent (an animal) 反而.
Adam and Eve listened to and obeyed the animal(创建), instead of obeying God (their Father, and Creator).
Disobedience to God causes turmoil
Immediately after they disobeyed God, sin entered the world, and the spirit of man died. But God in His great mercy, had already a plan B and that was the promise of the seed that would bruise the serpent’s head. 耶稣必须来, so that man would be reconciled to God, and that their spirit would become alive again. Jesus came to this earth, to create peace in the chaos of sin and iniquity. 所以, Jesus is the Prince of Peace;
对于我们来说，一个孩子诞生了, 给我们一个儿子: 政府应在他的肩膀上: 他的名字将被称为奇妙, 顾问, 强大的上帝, 永恒的父亲, 和平王子 (以赛亚 9:6)
Jesus came to this earth to bring peace. The peace He brought was not an earthly peace, such as the Jews expected; freedom from the oppression of the Roman Empire. But Jesus came to bring heavenly peace.
He came to redeem people, from the oppression of the devil and restore the relationship between God and man. He gave back the authority (to the redeemed man), which was lost in 伊甸园.
God promises peace
因为我知道我对你的想法, 耶和华说, 和平的想法, 且不出于邪恶, 给你一个预期的结局 (耶利米 29:11)
God is the Author of peace (1 哥林多前书 16:11), God is our peace (约翰 16:33, 以弗所书 2:14, 歌罗西书 1:20). God said in Isaiah 48:18, that if they had given heed to His commandments, that their peace would have been like a river and their righteousness as the waves of the sea.
What should you do, if you don’t experience peace?
The opposite of peace is turmoil, which can be caused by i.e. worry. For example, when you worry about the future, or finances, thoughts will be running through your head. You will not experience peace but chaos.
The worries of the world will control your mind and your way of thinking in such a way, that it will kill the seed (这个单词) 神的. When the seed is killed, it won’t produce any fruit.
When you spend time with Jesus and study His Word, eventually your mind will line up with the Word. There will be a peace in your mind, 通过所有理解.
Every time a situation will try to get a hold on you, you will speak the Word of God and not let worry enter your mind. Every thought, that is not of the Lord will cause chaos, and must be taken captive in Christ Jesus; 神的话语.
Therefore the only way to experience peace, and bear the fruit peace is to know His Word, 遵守他的诫命, apply His Word to your life and walk in His Word.
Jesus specifically says, that we should not worry about our lives (垫 6:25, 卢克 12:22). Paul confirms this once again in Phil 4:6 and said that we should not be worried about anything. That means in nothing.
Worry doesn’t belong in the life of a born again Christian.
Do you experience worry or anxiety?
When you do experience worry or anxiety, then I would like to urge you to begin to study the Word of God. 更新你的想法 与神的话语. 去, 例如, to Philippians 4:7 and read this verse over and over again. Start memorizing this verse and every time, when a thought comes up in your mind, that will try to create chaos and try to take away your peace, then say out loud:
“I’m not worried, and I shall not worry about anything, because the peace of God, 这超出了所有人的理解, shall keep my heart and mind through Christ Jesus”
上帝说, that the wicked have no peace (以赛亚 48:22). We don’t belong to the wicked anymore, because we have given our lives to our Lord Jesus Christ. We have received the Holy Spirit and therefore we will have peace.
耶稣说: “Peace I leave with you, 我将我的平安赐给你: 不像世界所给予的, 把我给你. 不让你的心烦恼, neither let it be afraid” (约翰 14:27)
When you are too busy with the things of the world, and feed your mind with the things of the world, and don’t spend much time with God, 在他的话语中, then it won’t take long before you will be overtaken by worry, 焦虑, 恐惧, and turmoil. 如果你用肉体播种, you will reap in the flesh.
水果和平
你会让他保持完美的平静, 谁的心思全在你身上: 因为他信任你 (以赛亚 26:3)
Do you believe in Jesus Christ, but have not submitted your life to Jesus Christ yet? Do you see Jesus as your Saviour, but not your Lord and Master? Or maybe you have been raised in a religious home and went to church every week, but have not made Jesus Lord over your life and don’t have a personal relationship with Him? Maybe you’ve been entangled with the affairs of life and caught up in all the problems of the world, and are looking for some peace?
Then there are six steps to get peace:
- 相信耶稣基督, 悔改 并让他成为你生命的主宰
- Be baptized (水的洗礼)
- Be filled with the Holy Ghost
- 更新你的想法 与神的话语, by reading and studying the Word of God
- Keep and walk according to 他的诫命
- Walk after the Spirit instead of walking after the flesh (因为体贴肉体的就是死; 但有灵性的思考才是生命与平安 (罗马书 8:6))
When you walk after the Spirit in His commandments, you shall experience a peace that passes all understanding. You shall bear the fruit peace and experience a peace that the world can’t give you, but Jesus can!
‘成为地球之盐‘
