• Jesus is the only one who brings real peace.

• A right relationship with God is the foundation for living in harmony with others.

• The Holy Spirit activates the peace of Christ in the believer.

• Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is a settled soul with God by the atoning death of Jesus.

• The Holy Spirit is the source of unity in the body of Christ.

• Our witness is either ratified by our unity or ruined by our disunity.

• Only Jesus gives and confirms the forgiveness for which He paid, and that by the activation of the Holy Spirit.

• We cannot represent Jesus in a hostile environment if we are hostile toward one another.

• We cannot represent Jesus in a hostile world without the Holy Spirit.

• Boldness for witness comes from the ​b​aptism and fullness of the Holy Spirit.

1. In the mechanical world, when something is out of balance, i​t ​i​s​ ruinous. How is it that when something is out of balance in the body of Christ, we ​just ​tend to hope it will go away?

2. Describe the peace of Christ and how we obtain it.

3. If we are a believer and we’re not living in the peace of Christ, how do we recover?

4. Read John 13:34-35. How is this a NEW commandment from Jesus?

• I will spend some ti​m​e with Jesus this week and ask Him to put His finger on an out​-​of​-​balance issue in my life so ​that ​I can confess​ it​.