![]() The Dalai Lama who is basically God to most Tibetan Buddhists and is well received by Roman Catholics around the world, is supposed to be the world's greatest expert on inner tranquility. By the way, virtually all of them included meditation and visualization as a key component. A cursive examination of the first and the most popular sites listed indicate is that the answer lies within ourselves. I found 3,670,000 sites that will give you that answer. I looked up on Google how to find peace with yourself. In fact, the country is more divided today than it has been in years, probably not since the Civil War. In fact, the slogan of our current president that got him elected was: Hope and change, and I think if you look around you will see that there hasn't been much peace as a result of any of that. Man is always looking for ways to somehow find relief for the stressors in his life, the problems in his life. But also personal peace is an elusive goal. No serious person could possibly believe that such a thing is attainable. The very thought of global peace in the 21st century is, frankly, laughable. In fact, in the last 5 1/2 millennia, it has been estimated that more than 8,000 peace treaties have been broken and more than 14,000 wars have been fought with a combined total of around 4 billion casualties. As we look at recorded history, we see that human beings have been killing each other since Cain slew his brother Abel. It craves peace in our society both among nations as well as among nations but people also crave peace internally. ![]() I don't think anyone would argue with the fact that the world craves peace. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. We read,ΔΆ7 Peace I leave with you My peace I give to you not as the world gives do I give to you. ![]() This morning we are in John's Gospel, chapter 14, verse 27, and I want to speak to you about the transcendent peace of Jesus. Moreover, as in any transcription of the spoken word, the full intention and passion of the speaker cannot be fully captured and will in no way reflect the same style of a written document. ![]() It should in no way be considered an edited document ready for print. Each transcript is a rough approximation of the message preached and may occasionally misstate certain portions of the sermon and even misspell certain words. ![]()
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