John 20:19-22
First, Jesus commanded us to have peace of mind
vv 19-22 Jesus mentioned twice ‘Peace be with
you’
19 On the evening of that first day of the week,
when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders,
Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with
you!”
20 After he said this, he showed them his
hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father
has sent me, I am sending you.”
Jesus was telling his disciple to have a
peace because He is and will always be with them
We have to live the new life that Christ gave
us. When we live as disciples of Christ we will face a lot of struggles suffering
difficulties hardship and problems but if we don’t have peace of mind we won’t be
able to handle all those things
This peace comes from trusting God who is and
will be always with you and let the peace be in you.
Second, Jesus Christ commanded us to go
21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
Jesus was sent to initiate the ministry of new heaven and new earth through
saving us from sin and being raised from the dead in other words he was here to
save not only some chosen people but whole world (John 3:16)
Jesus Christ is sending his disciples to continue the ministry that he
initiated which means Jesus Christ was sending disciples to this world as missionaries
and we are one of the missionaries who were also sent by Jesus Christ.
It doesn’t’ mean that we all have to have a job as a missionary but we
have to spread the gospel in our own mission field.
The mission field does not have to be other countries spreading gospel,
doesn’t have to be preaching a sermon. We can show Christ’s love.
Do our best as who we are with Christ’s love. People will see God through
us.
We should give ourselves to God as living sacrifices. We must respond
to the ministry of Christ toward us through giving our life.
Jesus came to his people knowing that he had to die. This is the love
of Christ
We are compelled to do it because Christ has done it for us
We are sent to go into our own mission field and save the world and people
in our individual mission field through living out the love of Christ
Third, Jesus commanded
us to receive the Holy Spirit
22 And with that he breathed
on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
We are saved from sin and yet we still have brokenness in us which will not be reconciled until the second coming of Jesus. Without Christ’s help we still make mistakes, however there is still a way in receiving the Holy Spirit.
We cannot be perfect but can’t
even do ministry unless Christ is in us. This is why Jesus ascended to heaven so
that he could be with all of us and to give everyone the Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit is the only
way to live the new life in the right way.
Then how do
we receive the Holy Spirit ?
First, we
have to repent
Acts 2:38
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Second, we have to believe that Jesus died for us
John 37:37-39
On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” 39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
John 15:26
“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit
of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.
Holy Spirit is the helper
who helps testify Jesus and His ministry.
If we don’t believe in
Jesus and don’t accept the invitation to live the new life that Christ gave us,
there is no reason for the Holy Spirit to be with us.
We have to truly believe
in Jesus and everything he has done for us. We should respond to it through
testifying what he has done for us.
The believers of other
religions they believe that they have to behave well and pray hard so that they
can get the reward such as righteousness, heaven or forgiveness of sins from
their own god.
Christians work for God
and live for God because we believe that we already have received the reward which
is the salvation.
Jesus has fully paid for all
our sins with his precious blood. It is past tense which means it already
happened. We already received the reward, the grace from God.
So we are called to respond
to this grace by living the new life as disciples of Christ.
Go and live as disciples of Christ.
Testify Jesus in your own mission field and have peace of mind
because God will always be with you through the Holy
Spirit.
Remember Jesus the Christ and what he has done for you and respond to that grace through your daily life.
Go with the peace that comes from the Holy Spirit
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