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. No matter how hard you try, or how many worldly methods you will apply, you will never find this peace. God is the only One, Who can provide you peace.
神の平和, それはすべての理解を通過します, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (ピリピ人への手紙 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.
Jesus healed all that were oppressed by the devil, He healed all sickness and disease and He taught with authority (こちらもお読みください: ‘What kind of peace did Jesus bring on earth?「)
If Jesus was a Peacemaker, we should also be peacemakers on this earth. Because we, the new creations, 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 (こちらもお読みください: ‘神の平和を創り出す者「).
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, 等. we will sow negative words of the devil, and reap destruction and turmoil. When we do this, then we are じゃない 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; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost (ローマ人 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, 調和, order, etc. After the creation, this peace that God created, became disrupted, because man disobeyed God’s commandment and believed the words of a serpent (an animal) instead.
Adam and Eve listened to and obeyed the animal(creation), 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. Jesus had to come, 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. したがって, Jesus is the Prince of Peace;
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace (イザヤ書 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 the garden of Eden.
God promises peace
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, 主は言われる, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end (エレミヤ 29:11)
God is the Author of peace (1 コリント人への手紙 16:11), God is our peace (ジョン 16:33, エペソ人への手紙 2:14, コロサイ人への手紙 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 (言葉) of God. 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, that passes all understanding.
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; 神の言葉.
Therefore the only way to experience peace, and bear the fruit peace is to know His Word, obey His commandments, apply His Word to your life and walk in His Word.
Jesus specifically says, that we should not worry about our lives (Mat 6:25, ルーク 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. Renew your mind 神の言葉とともに. Go, 例えば, 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, それはすべての理解を通過します, shall keep my heart and mind through Christ Jesus”
神は言う, that the wicked have no peace (イザヤ書 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.
イエスは言いました。: “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” (ジョン 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, in His Word, then it won’t take long before you will be overtaken by worry, 不安, 恐怖, and turmoil. If you sow in the flesh, you will reap in the flesh.
The fruit peace
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusts in Thee (イザヤ書 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:
- Believe in Jesus Christ, 悔い改める and make Him Lord over your life
- Be baptized (water baptism)
- Be filled with the Holy Ghost
- Renew your mind 神の言葉とともに, by reading and studying the Word of God
- Keep and walk according to 彼の戒め
- Walk after the Spirit instead of walking after the flesh (For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace (ローマ人 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!
「地の塩となれ」‘
