John 16:33 "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world, you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
There are many places in the Old and New Testament where we can find messages from our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus, that comfort us during our time in this world and reassure and remind us of specific promises from God. For example, as the day Christ Jesus would save the world by His great sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary got nearer, the small band of followers of Jesus grew more and more frightened and anxious about what the leaders of the Jews would do to Jesus, and in extension, to them. In the last few days before He went to the Cross, Jesus, in His great love and compassion, spent time comforting and encouraging the few faithful followers that had not turned away from Him. Jesus reiterated what He had been teaching them from the beginning: that in this world, they would face much adversity and hardship, but He had conquered the world, and through their faith and trust in Him, they could know peace.
This promise of peace that Jesus gave to that small ensemble of His followers that day is the same peace God promises us daily. He reassured that tiny flock of followers of Christ Jesus that if they believed the words that He had been teaching them, they would find a peace that the world could not even imagine (Philippians 4:7).
As followers and believers in Christ Jesus, He gives us that same reassurance today that if we believe and follow the Word of God, we, too, can find the peace that cannot be described or explained by mere human words. The Word of God is unambiguously clear that Christ Jesus defeated Satan at the Cross of Calvary and claimed victory over this world system. God’s Word gives us a preview of what He had in store for all people that place their faith and trust in Christ Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
Jesus triumphed over sin in the world by the perfect, sinless life He lived as God in the flesh. Moreover, He claimed victory over sin on behalf of everyone that would place their faith and trust in Him as the true promised Messiah, the Savior of the World. In the same respect, He claimed victory over death when He exited the Tomb on the third day. Jesus also claimed victory over death for all born again, washed in His precious blood, placing their faith and trust in Him. Tribulations came to Jesus while He was on this earth; likewise, they will come to His followers in this life. However, given that Christ Jesus has overcome the world, His followers will also benefit from that victory. The true peace that all seek and the few that follow Christ Jesus will find has its foundational structure in the fact that we are in Him (Matthew 7:14; 1 John 5:4-5).
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace” (John 16:33).
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