Hope Community Church
September 13 2026

      • John 14:1–6NASB95

  • Introduction

    John 14:27

    Oswald Chambers opens one of his devotionals with a penetrating question: “Are you ever disturbed?”
    Are you disturbed when your health is not what it used to be?
    Are you disturbed when you lose someone you have loved for many years?
    Are you disturbed when your children and grandchildren are facing struggles you cannot fix?
    Are you disturbed when the cost of living keeps rising but your income stays the same?
    Are you disturbed when you look at the condition of our communities and wonder what happened?
    Are you disturbed when injustice still shows up after you have lived long enough to remember how far we have come?
    Are you disturbed when loneliness settles in after the house has become quieter than it used to be?
    Are you disturbed when the church you love is going through changes you never expected to see?
    Are you disturbed when you pray, but God does not seem to answer as quickly as you hoped?
    Are you disturbed when you know God has brought you through before, but what you are facing right now is still troubling your heart?
    “Are you ever disturbed?”
    It is a question that reaches all of us because disturbance is an unavoidable part of life. There are moments when circumstances change, trouble rises, grief comes, and what once seemed secure suddenly becomes uncertain.
    Chambers reminds us that genuine inner peace is impossible unless it is received from Jesus. He points us away from our disturbance and toward what he calls the “undisturbedness of the Lord Jesus.” In other words, while our circumstances may be unsettled, Christ never is. What perplexes us does not perplex Him. What surprises us never surprises Him. What is beyond our control is never beyond His control.
    And that is the setting of John 14. The disciples are facing uncertainty, sorrow, and an approaching crisis, yet Jesus says:
    “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you.”
    Jesus does not promise them a life without disturbance. He promises them His peace in the midst of disturbance.
    That leads us to our subject:

    The Path to Peace: in the midst of Disturbance

    John 14:27 LEB
    27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you—not as the world gives, I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.

    Sermon Idea

    Jesus does not always remove the disturbance around us, but He gives us peace that governs us within it.
    The setting of John 14 makes Jesus’ words remarkable. Jesus is not speaking about peace from a place where everything is peaceful. The shadow of the cross hangs over the Upper Room. Jesus has announced His departure. Judas will betray Him. Peter will deny Him. The disciples’ familiar world is about to be shaken.
    Yet into this atmosphere of disturbance, Jesus says, “Peace I leave with you.”
    This immediately teaches us that biblical peace cannot simply mean the absence of trouble. If peace required trouble to disappear, Jesus could not have promised it here.
    The peace Jesus offers is fundamentally different from what circumstances can provide. The world's peace depends upon what is happening around us; Christ's peace is grounded in the One who reigns over us and within us. It is a deep and lasting security rooted in our relationship with God rather than favorable external conditions.
    The question, then, is not merely, “How do I get out of this disturbance?”
    The better question is:
    “How can I experience the peace of Christ while I am still in the midst of it?”
    John 14:27 shows us the path.

    1. The Provision of Peace

    “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you”

    Jesus begins with a remarkable promise:
    “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you.”
    These two statements should be heard together. Jesus moves from leaving peace as a deposit to giving peace as a gift—from the departure of peace to the transfer of peace.
    And what makes this peace distinctive is the possessive pronoun:
    “MY peace.”
    Jesus does not merely say, “I give you peace.” He says, “My peace I give to you.”
    The peace He leaves is the peace He possesses.
    And that is significant because Jesus is not merely the Source of Peace—He is the Prince of Peace.
    Therefore, the peace of the Christian cannot be separated from the Person of Christ.
    Jesus is not offering a psychological technique. He is not teaching positive thinking. He is not promising favorable circumstances.
    He is giving them His peace.
    This peace is more than the cessation of conflict. It is an internal security that remains even when external circumstances are unsettled.
    Biblical peace does not mean:
    No storms. No struggles. No suffering. No uncertainty.
    Rather, it means security in God while those things are occurring.
    That is why Isaiah declares:
    Isaiah 26:3 KJV 1900
    3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on thee: Because he trusteth in thee.
    Notice the connection:
    Peace is connected to trust.
    The disciples did not know everything that tomorrow held, but they could trust the One who held their tomorrow.
    In fact, Jesus had already told them:
    John 14:1–3 KJV 1900
    1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
    Think about their situation.
    Their present was disturbed, but their future was secure.
    Jesus was leaving. Judas was betraying. Peter would deny. The cross was approaching. Their world was about to change.
    But none of those circumstances could change what Christ had promised them.
    And neither can ours.
    You may not know what tomorrow is going to bring.
    You may not know how the situation is going to work out.
    You may not know when the disturbance is going to end.
    But your uncertainty about tomorrow does not cancel God’s sovereignty over tomorrow.
    When I know that God governs what I cannot control, my soul can rest even while my circumstances remain unsettled.

    “Not as the world gives do I give to you”

    Jesus now distinguishes His provision of peace from everything the world calls peace.
    The world’s peace is usually circumstantial.
    If everything goes right, I have peace. If everybody treats me right, I have peace. If my money is right, I have peace. If my health is right, I have peace. If my family is right, I have peace.
    But there is a problem with that kind of peace:
    When the circumstances change, the peace changes.
    Jesus says, in effect, “That is not the kind of peace I give.”
    The world's peace depends upon what is happening around me.
    Christ's peace depends upon Who is reigning within me.
    His peace transcends what we can see, touch, or control because its foundation is not our circumstances—its foundation is Christ Himself.
    Philippians 4:6–7 NASB95
    6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
    Paul shows us how this peace becomes practical:

    Philippians 4:6–7

    “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God… will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
    Notice the movement:
    Disturbance → Prayer , Peace
    Prayer does not always immediately change the situation.
    EM Bounds tells us:
    Prayer should be the breath of our breathing, the thought of our thinking, the soul of our feeling, and the life of our living, the sound of our hearing, the growth of our growing.”
    Sometimes prayer changes the person standing in the situation.
    Then Paul says:
    Colossians 3:15 ESV
    15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
    Christ’s peace is to exercise a governing, ruling, influence within the believer.
    So the disturbance may be making noise around me, but Christ’s peace can still be ruling within me.
    That is the difference between the peace the world gives and the peace Jesus gives.
    The world says, “Change my circumstances, and then I'll have peace.”
    Jesus says, “I can give you peace even before your circumstances change.”
    Because peace is not necessarily the silence of the storm; sometimes peace is the quietness of the soul while the storm is still raging.
    Douglass Miller says it best:
    Though the storms keep on raging in my life And sometimes it's hard to tell the night from day Still that hope that lies within is reassured As I keep my eyes upon the distant shore I know He'll lead me safely to that blessed place He has prepared
    But if the storms don't cease And if the winds keep on blowing My soul has been anchored in the Lord

    2. The Power of Peace

    “Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.”

    Now Jesus moves from gift to responsibility.
    Because He has provided His peace, He commands:
    “Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.”
    Jesus acknowledges that there are things capable of troubling the heart.
    The disciples had legitimate reasons to be disturbed. Their Master was leaving. Opposition was intensifying. The cross was approaching. Their lives were about to change dramatically.
    Jesus does not deny their disturbance.
    He tells them that disturbance does not have to dominate their hearts.
    That is the power of peace.
    Christ's peace possesses an independence from circumstances. The external situation may remain unchanged while the internal condition of the believer is transformed.
    Job tells us:
    Job 5:7 NASB95
    7 For man is born for trouble, As sparks fly upward.
    That is why Jesus later tells them:
    John 16:33 NASB95
    33 “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”
    Notice that Jesus puts two realities in the same verse:
    Tribulation is real. Peace is real.
    You can have tribulation around you and peace within you at the same time.
    Jesus is not just commanding us , but He is empowering us :
    To Wholeness
    To Security
    To Hope
    The King of Kings and the Prince of PEACE is empowering us to obey Him !
    John 14:26 NASB95
    26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
    Acts 1:8 NASB95
    8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”
    Zechariah 4:6 KJV 1900
    6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, Saith the Lord of hosts.
    2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV
    9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
    He is promising divine resources for troubled hearts.
    The disturbance can shake my surroundings without shaking my Savior.
    The disturbance can change my plans without changing His promises.
    The disturbance can threaten my tomorrow without threatening my eternity.
    The disturbance can knock at the door of my heart, but I don't have to let it take up residence.
    Because Jesus said:
    “My peace I give to you.”

    Closing

    WE don’t need to wait to Palm Sunday to worship the KING OF KINGS
    All hail the power of Jesus' name! Let angels prostrate fall. Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown him Lord of all. Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown him Lord of all!
    WHEN I KEEP MY EYES ON JESUS IM LOOKING INTO
    (LIST HIS NAMES AND GO HOME)

      • John 14:27NASB95

      • John 14:27NASB95

      • John 14NASB95

      • Isaiah 26:3NASB95

      • John 14:1–6NASB95

      • Philippians 4:6–7NASB95

      • Colossians 3:15NASB95

      • John 14:27NASB95

      • John 14:27NASB95

      • John 14:26NASB95

      • Job 5:7NASB95

      • Acts 1:8NASB95

      • Zechariah 4:6NASB95

      • 2 Corinthians 12:9NASB95

      • John 16:33NASB95

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