APR 17 2022 | Easter: The Peacemaker

Sea Change Church · APR 17 2022 | Easter: The Peacemaker
John 20:19-20
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Hallelujah. Calling our exalted end. Hallelujah. Faith like Him, like Him we rise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Wars across the grave, the skies. Hallelujah. Amen. You may be seated. Amen. Today's scripture is from John chapter 20. 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.

After He said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. The word of the Lord. Hey, yeah, yeah. Hey, yeah, yeah. Hey, yeah, yeah. I was a sailor. I was lost at sea. I was under the waves before love rescued me. I was a fighter, I could turn on the thread Now I stand accused of the things I've said Love comes down, I'm gonna jump that train But love comes down Good morning church, good to see you And great to be here on this Easter Hope you're doing well The cross looked a little shady there for a second I wasn't sure it was gonna stay up So just so it doesn't fall on Zach There we go You good, you got it, you good?

As flowers are falling off You're good, there we go I think we're good There we go Tony works for Delta and he's a mechanic So I think we're good, you're good You guys are good, you guys are good Alright, you're good, it's good You can let it, it's good That's good There we go Preach with it Let me pray Lord Jesus, I wanna thank you God For your goodness and your grace We just love you Lord We give you praise today Let your word just shine into our hearts And those that need to hear it In Jesus name, amen I'd be remiss to not start The Easter service with a top five list I did a top ten list for Christmas A couple years ago I wanna know I love top five lists I don't know about you But I'm a top five guy The irony of it Is that my wife Hates top five lists And let me tell you why There's irony Because I chose to date her Based on a top five list Now wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait Ladies, hang out Hang out, ladies, hang out Wasn't that kind of list, alright It wasn't like, you know This misogynistic list No It wasn't You think that's funny, Zach?

Okay No Let me tell you what was on my list This is dead serious I'm driving And I'm just thinking You know, there was a couple girls I was interested in I was with my friend I was looking to get married I wasn't looking to date I was, you know And so on the list was this You could play Scrabble with this woman And I was like, yeah, totally Couldn't see myself You could take a long road trip With this woman And have great conversation Yes Number three Great snowboarder Gotta be a great snowboarder So number three So the list wasn't what you think A normal list would be It actually was my list And I ended up asking her out 25 years later It looks like it worked out So But she won't do a top Ten, five list She won't do any list And this is how it usually goes Driving to Mammoth To go snowboarding Or skiing together And I always loved her Because she would just get in her car At like four in the morning On her own And like drive up on her own When she was like 24 years old To go ski Mammoth And stay at that Janky Motel 6 up there And we'll be driving up And I'll be like Okay Top five tacos in San Diego And she's just like I don't like top five lists I'm like top five She goes Can I think about it?

I'm like Well we got about six hours Yeah She's all I kind of need till tomorrow And I'm like Ah Okay I came up with a top five list Of my favorite actors For you today I'm going to give you My favorite actors And I'm not saying That these are the best actors ever Because I Whenever you do a top ten list Or five lists Isn't there always a Like a You kind of want to impress people With your decisions Right?

You kind of want to So I thought of everybody I could impress you with But instead I just came up With my favorite actors So favorite is not best There's better actors Favorite Daniel Day Lewis Right? Daniel Day Lewis Now millennials You can look it up on Google Daniel Day Lewis Just kidding Sorry Why don't you get so much shade To the millennials Denzel I love myself You like some Denzel?

Dude I loved him And he got game The basketball movie When he played Jesus Shuttleworth's father As an ex-convict Now this one Almost embarrassed about it But in the end He's in a ton of I heard movies Leonardo DiCaprio Gotta say it He's in there Leonardo And can I have that outfit? That is so cool Cardigan sweater I used to be embarrassed About this one Now I think it's my coolest one Keanu Reeves I love myself Some Keanu Reeves So that's him from John Wick And then my favorite Literally my favorite Not the best actor But he's a pretty good actor Favorite actor of all time Wait for it Really?

No wait for it Neva Second thought Media team Don't wait for it No it's Clint Eastwood She's up there Hi Neva Just giving you a hard time Clint Eastwood When I was In a teenager My mom Put me on a week's restriction And during that week We had Cinemax And I don't know if you know What Cinemax is But you go to school And I was watching All these movies On Cinemax And the movies that they had Was a Was a Film festival Of Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns Now the Spaghetti Western Were these movies Where Clint comes in He's a high He's like a drifter In all these movies They were made in Italy He was a drifter And he would come in And somebody would have Done some injustice And Clint Eastwood Comes in And rights the wrong Now what is interesting In all these movies Clint's actually a homeless man I don't know if you know that Like he never has a house And then he comes in And rights the injustice Which is totally cool I totally like that But he would come in Let me just give you A couple of these movies That were in there And then we're gonna get Right to this scripture And there's a reason Fistful of Dollars You ever see Fistful of Dollars?

And these pictures are awesome Hang Em High Remember that movie? Hang Em High Was a great movie I would break my face If I tried to look like that That is so cool Outlaw Josie Wales Awesome movie The good, the bad And the ugly Here's what's true About all these movies In all of these movies An injustice had been done And they needed some rough justice To right the wrong They needed what they call High Plains rough justice To right the wrong They would come in And he would bring his peacemakers And these peacemakers Would use violence To restore the peace And come and bring peace To a place That it had an injustice When we look at this passage We see Jesus Also a homeless man Don't know if you understood that Jesus was actually homeless During the three years Of his ministry He was a High Plains drifter Like Clint And he comes in In this passage To a group of Jews That had been following him That were expecting him To take over the Romans That were expecting Something more Than what he gave them But less than What he was offering And he comes in Amits them Amits their fear Locked into a room And he says one thing to them He says peace Jesus is a peace bringer Now The sermon title Was called peacemaker But Jesus is actually A peace bringer And what I mean by that Is he made peace You see Jesus had Rough justice to bring But he didn't bring it To the outlaws The rough justice That Jesus brought If you were to Study the Bible You would understand That the justice That he brought To pay for the sin Because the wrath Of God was upon sin Was actually to himself Which is so interesting If you remember The movie High Plains Drifter There was a group Of outlaws That were coming To the town And they were going To burn the town down And Clint Eastwood Shows up And he tells the people In the town He says I got an idea And he says paint the town red And he painted If you remember He painted the town red And then he wrote Hell on the town So when they rode into it They were riding into hell Or maybe you saw Tombstone Where he said You tell him I'm coming What did he say In Tombstone Is it Kurt Russell And hell's coming with me And so he's there In this place Jesus Like these archetype heroes Comes and he brings peace Go to verse 19 On the evening Of that final day Of the week When the disciples Were together With the doors Locked for fears Of the Jews Circle that and stop Locked for fear Of the Jews You know we're in a society Where so many of us today Are locked Behind the walls Of our heart Are locked For so many different reasons Behind this wall of fear And Jesus Comes in Amidst the fear And he stands In the midst Of this fear And he meets them In that place So he comes behind there And we'll look at that In just a second Now what were they afraid of?

They were afraid Of the Jewish leaders Who were all afraid Of something I was listening to Podcasts this week And they said Fear and anxiety Is part of the human condition The Jews were The Jews that were in the room Because remember The Jews that were the leaders Helped kill Jesus But the Jews That were his followers Were afraid that they were Going to be next But they were both Groups of Jewish people Jesus came and stood among them And then he said This incredible thing He says peace Be with you Circle be with you We'll get to that In a second After this After he said this He showed them his hands And his side Remember he had been Pierced here He had been nail marked Hands and feet And he showed him His side And what he was Offering to them As we'll see in just a moment Is a peace treaty He's offering them The actual physical example Of what brought peace Of the rough justice That was done To bring peace Because there wasn't An enmity Between the high plains Drifter And a bunch of outlaws There was an enmity Between God and mankind And not God and man Because God Is not angry at man God is angry at sin And there was a sermon By a guy named Jonathan Edwards And Jonathan Edwards Had a sermon It was called Maybe you've heard it From the 1800s Sinners in the hand Of an angry God That's terrifying I wouldn't go to church Like seriously If you would have known Hey come to Easter I'm doing a sermon Sinners in the hand Of an angry God You know that wouldn't work Right I think he should have Changed it It's sinners In the hand of a loving God But what God hates Is sin He hates it so much That he wants to Dole out justice upon sin And someone needs To pay the price So what happened He paid it himself He paid it upon The cross is the scripture Now if you go into Here the first thing We've got to talk about Is the elephant in the room Go to verse 19 again On that evening On the first day of the week When the disciples Were together With the door locked For fear of the Jews Jesus came in And stood among them I don't know if you know About this actual miracle But Jesus actually Teleported into the room How cool is that right Like there's an elephant In the room and it's this If you were going to Follow Jesus And understand Jesus It is faith And it's understanding That God not only created But he is over All of what he created And so we see Jesus Actually show up I think it's one of his Coolest miracles Except when he flew into space So people kind of Always talk about healing The blind man And all these things My favorite miracles Are like when he flies And teleports I don't know about you You guys just looking at me If you're like Hey I can't really do that Whole like Jesus supernatural thing Just pretend like You're at a Marvel movie Right now okay And you can focus on that Because we're longing For something That is beyond What we can see You see there's a Supernatural component Now why is that important Because when it comes to peace And asking where peace Comes from And that's the next question On your notes Where does peace come from If you were to read the Bible And you want to actually Understand the Bible If you want to read the Bible You would see That peace is God God is not peace God is peace But excuse me God is not all peace God is more than peace He is peace He is love He is joy But peace is a component of him And it's an eternal component So the Bible would say That peace just exists Because it exists in the deity And in the substance And being of God It is a reality Because it is God So when Jesus offers peace He's not offering peace Peace from a bunch of slogans He's offering peace from himself And the reason it's real Is because he is peace And he can actually offer it If you're perhaps A secular materialist And I have a lot of friends Who are secular materialists You would ask them Where peace comes from And they would tell you Well it is from biology It is from an evolutionary thought And the reason you have peace Is because there are some squirts That happened in your brain Of some dopamine Or some other You know Function of the brain And something caused that to happen But you're happy So it also means this That you love your children Because of a few squirts Of some you know Dopamine Or you know Some type of chemical In the brain That actually That is where the love comes from Now what the Bible actually says Is that it's more than that It's actually an essence of God himself And God has given us the ability Through things like squirts In the brain of dopamine And things like that To experience peace and love Those are the things That bring love and peace But they're actually rooted In an eternal reality So when Jesus shows up in the room Jesus is saying to them I'm bringing you peace And it isn't because of a bunch of slogans I was in Encinitas this week I was helping my mom And I was looking for some office space up there Because I like to You know I go and visit my mom And do some Zoom meetings and things And so there's a place Where you can go rent some office space And I thought Well I can have some office space Because I can't really do it At my mom's place And you know She's always got like days of her lives I know she has always days of her lives So I got something going on You know Some music or something And my mom likes to talk So she's And I was like Mom I'm on a Zoom call I really can't talk about that right now But nonetheless So I go to this place And if you've been to Encinitas All right Encinitas is the capital of Zen In San Diego Does anybody get their Zen on More than Encinitas I mean They are so chill Up in Encinitas You know Like if this was in Encinitas Half of you all wouldn't have shoes on You know And you'd be wearing Petulia oil And all that You should have to have a license To wear that stuff by the way They should You should have to have a license To wear that Because I can't handle But nonetheless I walk in there No offense to the climbers I see you Brian I walk in there And all of the cubicles Are decorated With like symbols of peace There's like Tibetan prayer flags Isn't that cool Tibetan prayer flags They're on top of Everest I get it And then there's a bunch of slogans And as I look around There's all these And everywhere I look Like 80% of them Were like putting some statement up That I think is meant to bring you peace And I get that The Bible talks about that I have slogans I think You know And verses And I think that positive talk And all these things are important But it's not It's not the founding You know I would say cornerstone Of where I'm building my peace from Here's a few that I saw Peace Is found in your breath Now My wife would totally disagree With my breath And that I am so sick of her Offering me a piece of gum If I wanted gum I would buy gum You're all real nice to me But I tell her Nobody else tells me My breath stinks But you always offer me gum Now you can let me know Maybe everybody else In the world is nice Peace is found in your breath Manifest your truth That was another one Manifest your truth Like truth can be manifested by you I think what we would The Bible would say Is God is truth And I can basically Say what truth I can speak truth What is But I can't just make my own truth So it was interesting Manifest your truth Which I actually kind of You can kind of believe in something And make it happen I like that All these I like Be unapologetically you And I like that one as well Here's the thing Not The statements are great And I You know Maybe I'd have them around me You know They don't bother me But what I found Was It felt like a bunch of people Especially in their 20s and 30s That are plastering slogans All around their life In order to remind themselves To be happy One of the most tragic things About the pandemic And most of you Have heard this statistic That 25% Of teenage girls Dealt with Thoughts of suicide Or suicidal ideation 25% of teen girls 25% Don't do it now Google it afterwards That's a lot Only 8% of boys Really interesting A lot of the Atlantic Just had an article About how that is Comparing themselves And Instagram And all these things I want to say The world is not peaceful Look at Ukraine It's not just Think about Ukraine What about Syria What about Some of the streets Of the city What about The subway in New York As I'm looking around The world is not peaceful And beyond it Not being peaceful There aren't very many people That are peaceful There was a quote I saw In one of the The cubicles Many people think Excitement is happiness But when you're excited You're not peaceful True happiness Is based on peace So where does peace come from What What the Bible says And you don't have to agree with it But what the Bible says Is God is peace And God offers peace To us He offers it He harvests it out of himself Because it's an ultimate reality And there is no peace On that And if you're going to have Slogans If you're going to have a trip If you're going to do All these things That are supposed to Bring you peace It has to have The foundational cornerstone Of that Peace It says Is a state of tranquility Or quiet The end of hostilities There's a lot of people That are at war With themselves The disciples in this passage Were at war With fear They were at war With all the things That they wanted to do They had a vision Of who they would be And they couldn't be That vision anymore Peter had said to Jesus I would die for you Now he's up in a room With the doors locked I talk about Jesus Teleportation Just kind of as a joke And the supernatural Element of it But let's go to Verse 19 Because Jesus I put unlocked fear He doesn't just Unlock fear He doesn't really care About unlocking fear He stands in the midst of it On the evening Of that first day Of the week When the disciples Were together With the doors locked For what?

Fear of the Jews Maybe you have a fear as well Jesus came And did what? Stood among them I can say two things One Jesus didn't knock I love it Didn't knock And he didn't ask To have the door unlocked He came And he just stood In the fear Man That is so powerful They weren't even Looking for him To do that He just showed up At the right time And he was there This week I had a moment When I was meditating On this scripture And when I think About my own fears My own anxieties All the things I've dealt with In my life Usually my mind Goes into mental calisthenics Of how I'm going To fix it How I'm going To do something That is going to Make everything Okay And so I lay In bed at night And I scheme And I plan And I wait For that thing To get that Peace of mind That comes When knowing You're behind On your bills Or something And you go And then an unexpected Check shows up What happens You have the peace All the peace Is based on What is happening On the outside Jesus just comes in And stands in the midst Of it And so I stood there This week Realizing if I had fear If I had anything In my life I'm just going to Meditate on Jesus Coming and just Standing there In the midst of it But he doesn't Just come and stand There He comes and Offers something He comes and He says Peace to you The other thing That I also like In this passage Is Jesus Offered peace But he didn't Vanquish The reason For the fear He didn't show up And say Hey by the way I took care You know the Jews If you see that Real giant one In that Roman centurion I took care of them Like I came back On the horse I took care of All the things That are plaguing No he didn't fix it What he actually fixed Was on the cross Because what he was Bringing is the Foundational cornerstone Of peace That you can have No matter where you are You can have that peace And so that He was offering them Something beyond The circumstances Now if he would have Come in And said to them I fixed all your problems Then they would have Had peace But what would the peace Possibly have been Based upon All of your problems Being fixed Now Jesus fixes Some problems I gotta say He's really good At fixing some problems And he works at that But he's not about Fixing problems Except the main Core problem we have Which is often ourselves And he brings peace In the midst of it And doesn't always change Your circumstances There's a verse In Philippians When my mom Accepted Christ She wrote this verse By hand And put it up on a wall And it was at my Grandma's house Forever Back in the 80's And it says You know There's a part in the Scripture That it says Be anxious for nothing But in all things Through prayer And supplication Giving things to God It says Make your requests Known unto God And he will give you What?

A peace But it says That that peace Transcends understanding I don't want a peace That transcends understanding I want a peace Of my understanding I want to know That the bills are right I want to know That that person Is not upset with me I want to know That my wife and I About an argument That's been settled Or if there was one Or if it was my Or or or or Jesus says What the Bible says Is I don't care About all the circumstances Yes I care I love you And I want to help you Sort those things out I don't want you To live in suffering And pain all the time But what he says Is I want to give you A peace that transcends All understanding And so when he shows up He doesn't change The outside circumstances Let's say Can you have peace Without the outside Circumstances being changed Jesus says you can Why?

Because the peace He's given you Is peace from the From the heart of God Himself That he scoops it up And it says That it is here What is interesting Is if you look at it It says when he The disciples It says after he said this He showed them the treaty That's my word Of his hands and his side It says and then what? The disciples were overjoyed When they saw the Lord Systematically it works this way Peace is the foundation of joy Peace is the foundation of joy I think we are Living in a society That says find the next Excitement And then you will have joy You will have peace You will have these things But we're not building it On that foundation Turn it over The next thing As we come in Circle the tower For a landing on this sermon The next thing is We see that Jesus comes And he brings a peace offering If you know what a treaty is Right now they're working On a treaty right now If you're following the headlines Of what's going on in Ukraine If you were to study You know war Often times there is a white flag And then one battling army Will come out to another And say hey we're going to give you A little bit of land We'll give you some money We'll pay tribute We'll allow you We'll start paying taxes This happened in England a lot We will give some type of treaty And we will sign a treaty If you study World War II history It was a treaty of Versailles In World War I That was actually broken By the Germans But it was a treaty That they said Put too much Onerous things upon Germany And hence you had World War II And the breaking off of that When Jesus comes And brings a treaty He doesn't bring a map To you He doesn't bring you Something that he shows you That he's going to Offer this and that What Jesus shows Here Is his hands and his feet Why is that a treaty?

Because Someone as I said earlier Has to pay for sin We understand In our secular society today That it's interesting That the word sin Is being used again You're starting to see People who don't Follow Or are part of a religious In any way They start using a term So you'll hear that You know That right now Racism is the According to many The original sin Of our country Or whatever You're seeing this word sin It is interesting That we have some agreement now At least in this That there is sin in the world God is perfect And no amount of sin None Can be with a perfect God That's the whole reason That Jesus died on the cross And there had to be justice Because God cannot allow sin Not to be paid for Because otherwise He wouldn't be just Right?

And so He pays it himself In this I would say that it's interesting Because then he comes And he shows this peace treaty To them He says here's the treaty I have made peace With whom? He says I'm making peace with you He doesn't say I'm making peace with you He says peace be to you He gives them peace But he doesn't bring the treaty to them And say hey let's have a peace treaty He says he has already made the treaty And you know who he took the treaty to?

He took it to his father Because that is who was offended by sin And what he did was He showed them The peace treaty But he said it The peace was not made between them It did give them peace Because he brought peace to them The peace that needed to be made Was peace with God And he made it Three quick things We're done Of all the possible first statements Jesus could have said to the disciples After rising from the dead He chose to say peace Have you ever thought about that?

Like if you raise from the dead Pretty cool Supernatural by the way And you show up And you show up in the room You teleport into the room Through the wormhole Which is so cool I just I know I think it's super cool But it's super sci-fi And Jesus shows up What's the first thing you're going to do? Are you going to go like this? Like woo! Check me out! You know Or perhaps like Dude, I told you I'd be back You know, you do something, right?

Or like Let's go do this! You know Or let's go get the Romans You would say something Like what would you say? You're raised from the dead And you show up Let's go You know, whatever You know what he says? It's really interesting This is the first thing he says The first thing that comes out of his mouth Actually he spoke to women first Which is really cool He meets women The first people he showed himself to was women I think that's so cool Met him in a garden He just like chatted with a bunch of women The fact that he met Mary in the garden was super cool That goes back to the Genesis passage The Bible is so intricate and powerful and amazing But he shows up And the first thing he says is peace He says, I'm going to bring you peace I have made peace I have taken sin upon the cross All sin And I have paid for it And now there's peace I made a peace treaty I want you to know You get to be the beneficiary of it The first thing he said was peace So many of us need peace We live in a world that needs peace The other thing that's interesting He says, Jesus did not say Peace be to the world He said, peace be with you He said, peace be with you He's offering peace Now, you can choose to take it or not That's the thing about Jesus He never forces anybody to do anything He's like, I have peace I have made peace I have restored it Now, peace be to you The Bible, following Jesus Is a personal, individual faith Granted, it's community One of the things we wanted to highlight today Was not in it When we were thinking about the Easter service We're like, you know Should we blow it out And like amaze everybody With an incredible service And then they come back next week We're back to normal again I said, let's just do our normal service And let's highlight our people Let's highlight Jesus We'll do a great sermon We did an extra song We do the flower cross They've been doing that for 700 years here I don't know how long we've been doing it But other than that We just want to show our people Because Jesus is dwelling in our people And I don't know if you noticed it But like I hope you got welcomed on the way in Like we want this to be this incredible place Where you experience that In the individuals And so what Jesus offers He offers it to individuals And I will say That one of the things we sell short In church sometimes Is how much God loves you personally Like it's not sinners in the hand of an angry God Jesus doesn't want you to stop All the things you're doing Because he just made up A bunch of arbitrary rules He knows what's best for the creation And any rule he gives That would be called sin Is made for a reason Because it's best for you Because he loves you It says in Romans The reason he gives all the rules The reason it exists Is because God loves you To not tell you what the rules were Wouldn't be loving It's like my two year old daughter If she was walking around with a fork Knife one time And there was an electrical socket And she was like Almost like licking it Getting ready to shove it In the electrical socket I'm like you know what I don't want to mess your mojo up You know You do you You do you No But tell her Don't Don't put the fork Or knife Into the electrical socket Because I love you And that's what God's doing He's not just here to be a buzzkill But he offers peace to you And maybe you need peace And then the final thing The nails scarred hands And feet of Jesus Were displayed as a proof of the peace A treaty with God And after he said this He showed them his hands In his side And his disciples were overjoyed When they saw the Lord In the final movie By Clint Eastwood That final Not his final movie But he made a movie in 1992 That won best picture And it basically Was another western That ended westerns For 20 years There was basically no There was a few made But hardly any westerns Were made After this movie Why?

Because it took 70 years of movie making About you know You know Rooting, tooting, shoot them up Justice And it brought it back To a human element Of an outlaw Who was dealing with his past And in the movie Unforgiven He plays Clint Eastwood plays William Money And The Scofield kid If you remember Is this young kid Stupid kid Who thinks he's all that And he He's nearsighted He's never shot at anybody He thinks He's acting like he's tough And he rides in To find William Money He goes I hear you're William Money And he says Yes, I'm William Money He says I'm going on a killing And he says I'm done with those I don't do that anymore Says Clint Eastwood And he says Well this guy He cut up a woman And then he says Oh really?

And he says Yeah, he cut up a woman There needs to be justice He goes Well I don't like that And he goes I need the money So it seems like A righteous killing I'll do one more And he rides with The Scofield kid Well on the way there Scofield kid Ends up killing another man But he doesn't kill him In a gun fight And anything with glory He actually walks up to him If you remember And he's in an outhouse And kills the guy In the outhouse And now he's dealing With his shame Because he's got no peace Check it out It don't seem real I ain't gonna never breathe again Ever How he's dead And the other one too All on account Pulling the trigger It's a hell of a thing Killing a man Take away all he's got And all he's ever gonna Yeah Well I guess They had it coming We all have it coming Get down Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Other times, sorry, I was off my mic. Other times, there's people that, you know, they just kind of hang out and check things out for a while. If you want to know more about Jesus, we have a couple things you can do today. One, if you need to be prayed for today, you're like, I need prayer. You're just a believer and you want to pray for someone in sickness or whatever.

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If you want to know about our next steps, you can check that out. If you're comfortable with it, I love people that you can extend your hands. I want to give you a blessing if you're comfortable. If not, you can just chill. And Lord Jesus, I want to bless people. You say, whoever you bless will be blessed. I want to bless you. No matter where you are, God loves you personally.

And he says to you, no matter where you are, no matter what you think, whether you even believe in him or not, he loves you and he comes to you and he blesses. I want to bless you with peace. In all the struggles and all the joys and all the hardships, I want to bless you with peace. Jesus says, peace be with you. He shows you his nail-scarred hands and feet in his side.

And he says, I want to know you. I want to stand in the midst of it. If you've been terrified, just let him stand there. Let him stand there with you. And God, I pray that you would stand there with them. That you would give them more than slogans. That you would touch their hearts. Bring them healing. Bring them healing of their minds. Bring them healing in their bodies.

Bring healing in their families. Bring healing in all their relationships. Bring prosperity to their lives in all ways. And bring them peace so that they can be peace bringers. Now I send you out now to change the world with a smile, with a heart, with the actual harvesting, the peace of God. And to walk and to share that and spread it in the earth like seed that will grow into an amazing harvest.

We bless you now in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. We love you. Hope you had a great Easter. We'll see you. Bye-bye.