Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Christ's peace is no mere ceremony or hollow wish, but a gift with real effect: the disciples will be always happy through His blessing, not because He remains bodily present, but because His actual presence through the Spirit abides with them. We must learn to be satisfied with this presence and not bind God by our carnal demand for outward signs.
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Two things Christ here comforts his disciples with: - I. That they should be under the tuition of his Spirit, Joh 14:25, Joh 14:26, where we may observe, 1. The reflection Christ would have them make upon the instructions he had given them: These things have I spoken unto you (referring to all the good lessons he had taught them, since they entered themselves into...
Commenting on John 14:25-27
Christ bequeaths peace to His disciples as His last legacy: peace with God that He alone procured by His sufferings and death, peace of conscience that flows from faith in His justifying righteousness, and the Gospel of peace to be preached to all the world. Being given as His irrevocable testament, this peace cannot be lost.
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