Perfect Peace This Day

JUDE, A servant of Jesus Christ (the Messiah), and brother of James, [writes this letter] to those who are called (chosen), dearly loved by God the Father and separated (set apart) and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy, [soul] peace, and love be multiplied to you. Jude 1-2

Our Father empowered Jude to understood how that we are able to have peace that passes all understanding in a crazy world. He also showed him why our love is so abundant and it is because we are now kept by Jesus. The Truth for us is that our Lord, Who is our power, never leaves us and He never forsakes us, Hebrews 13:5. Our Father has called us and chosen us to be kept and separated for His Holy use, Galatians 1:15. We are a chosen generation and we are a royal priesthood, 1 Peter 2:9.

We have been given liberty in Christ, even while we are in this world. 

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom). 2 Corinthians 3:17 

Our liberty in Christ allows us to have a spirit of peace and joy. We do not have to fear ever loosing our relationship with our Father, Romans 11:29, because we can’t loose it. The perfect love of our Father towards us is the power that drives out all fear from us and this allows us to have abundant peace. Our peace and joy are not products of our works and faith. Our peace and joy are products of our Father’s love being freely bestowed on us. So we don’t ever have to fret about if we are good enough to enjoy perfect peace.

In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world. 1 John 4:17

The Truth is what sets us free and faith comes from hearing the Truth. And the Truth is that our Father is totally in control of every aspect of our life's. He will never stop being in complete and total control of them and because He is we can enjoy the exact same peace that Jesus has right now. Our Father's love has made us to be exactly like Jesus is right now and so we are able to enjoy everything, including the peace and joy, that Jesus has.

I pray that everyone in Christ comes to know this glorious Truth this day.

Philippians 3:20-21

20 But we are citizens of the state (commonwealth, homeland) which is in heaven, and from it also we earnestly and patiently await [the coming of] the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [as] Savior,

Through the power of the Holy Spirit we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that we are citizens of Heaven right now. We know that we do not have to wait for the benefits of our citizenship. 

We know [positively] that we are of God, and the whole world [around us] is under the power of the evil one. And we [have seen and] know [positively] that the Son of God has [actually] come to this world and has given us understanding and insight [progressively] to perceive (recognize) and come to know better and more clearly Him Who is true; and we are in Him Who is true--in His Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah). This [Man] is the true God and Life eternal. 1 John 5:19-20

Now because we are and forevermore citizens of Heaven, we can have perfect peace with what our citizenship brings us.

Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to present [you] unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the presence of His glory in triumphant joy and exultation [with unspeakable, ecstatic delight]-- To the one only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory (splendor), majesty, might and dominion, and power and authority, before all time and now and forever (unto all the ages of eternity). Amen (so be it). Jude 24-25 

21 Who will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation to conform to and be like the body of His glory and majesty, by exerting that power which enables Him even to subject everything to Himself.

Our bodies may be weak and dying now, but that in no way means that we are blemished and faulted. Jesus will return and when He does this mortal flesh will be changed, but currently our spirits and souls are enjoying all of the power that Heaven has to offer.

Yet the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen [you] and set you on a firm foundation and guard you from the evil [one]. And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you are doing and will continue to do the things which we suggest and with which we charge you. 2 Thessalonians 3:3-4

In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides]. Ephesians 6:10

Philippians 1:29-30

29 For you have been granted [the privilege] for Christ’s sake not only to believe in (adhere to, rely on, and trust in) Him, but also to suffer in His behalf.

If you grew up in the churches that I did, you were told that everything was going to be roses for you here on this earth because you were saved, well if you only had the faith to accept it. But the Truth is something very different. 

Blessed and happy and [enviably fortunate and spiritually prosperous (in the state in which the born-again child of God enjoys and finds satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of his outward conditions) are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake (for being and doing right), for theirs is the kingdom of heaven!. Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous--with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of your outward conditions) are you when people revile you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things against you falsely on My account. Matthew 5:10-11

Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to part asunder a man from his father, and a daughter from her mother, and a newly married wife from her mother-in-law-- And a man's foes will be they of his own household. He who loves [and takes more pleasure in] father or mother more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves [and takes more pleasure in] son or daughter more than [in] Me is not worthy of Me; Matthew 10:34-37

[And] not be like Cain who [took his nature and got his motivation] from the evil one and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his deeds (activities, works) were wicked and malicious and his brother's were righteous (virtuous). Do not be surprised and wonder, brethren, that the world detests and pursues you with hatred. 1 John 3:12-13

The Truth is that when we are called and chosen our Father allows us to be persecuted. He does this so that we are never able to trust in ourselves. As we are persecuted will see and feel our Father’s victory in the persecution. Our Father will keep us in the victory and power of Christ even if we are called to be martyred. The great thing is that the world will also see our Father’s power flowing through us in our persecution. Just as Pharaoh saw our Father’s power, just as Nebuchadnezzar saw it, just as the Roman soldiers saw it when Jesus was crucified, and just as people saw it when Christians were thrown to the lions in the Coliseum. 

Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to present [you] unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the presence of His glory in triumphant joy and exultation [with unspeakable, ecstatic delight]-- Jude 24 

30 So you are engaged in the same conflict which you saw me [wage] and which you now hear to be mine [still].

We will be persecuted, but our Father’s Love for the persecutors will never grow cold within us. Our Father will have us bless them, pray for them, and intercede for them. Our Father’s Love will have us forgive those who come against us. Our flesh will grow weak, but as it does, our Father will grow stronger within us and we will be far stronger in our weakness then we ever were before.

So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities and distresses; for when I am weak [in human strength], then am I [truly] strong (able, powerful in divine strength). 2 Corinthians 12:10

Philippians 1:27

27 Only be sure as citizens so to conduct yourselves [that] your manner of life [will be] worthy of the good news (the Gospel) of Christ, so that whether I [do] come and see you or am absent, I may hear this of you: that you are standing firm in united spirit and purpose, striving side by side and contending with a single mind for the faith of the glad tidings (the Gospel).

Here is our great peace, Jesus will always keep us. He will cause us to walk in a manner worthy of the Good News. The Holy Spirit causes us to stand firm with a united spirit.

For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue). 2 Peter 3

Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to present [you] unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the presence of His glory in triumphant joy and exultation [with unspeakable, ecstatic delight]-- To the one only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory (splendor), majesty, might and dominion, and power and authority, before all time and now and forever (unto all the ages of eternity). Amen (so be it). Jude 24-25 

Now may the God Who gives the power of patient endurance (steadfastness) and Who supplies encouragement, grant you to live in such mutual harmony and such full sympathy with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, That together you may [unanimously] with united hearts and one voice, praise and glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). Romans 15:5-6

We cannot help but be who our Father has destined for us to be. We can have perfect peace and confidence that Jesus will cause us to be victorious in all things. 

For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren. Romans 8:29

And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). 1 Thessalonians 5:23

No worries for us, Jesus makes sure that we win! 

Philippians 1:9-11

9 And this I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more and extend to its fullest development in knowledge and all keen insight [that your love may display itself in greater depth of acquaintance and more comprehensive discernment],

10 So that you may surely learn to sense what is vital, and approve and prize what is excellent and of real value [recognizing the highest and the best, and distinguishing the moral differences], and that you may be untainted and pure and unerring and blameless [so that with hearts sincere and certain and unsullied, you may approach] the day of Christ [not stumbling nor causing others to stumble].

11 May you abound in and be filled with the fruits of righteousness (of right standing with God and right doing) which come through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One), to the honor and praise of God [that His glory may be both manifested and recognized].

All scripture is given through Divine intervention, 2 Timothy 3:16. So this prayer is the will of our Father. It is our Father’s will that we abound in love and to insure that we do,  He gave us Jesus to live continually within us, John 17:26. It is our Father’s will that we have full knowledge and insight into love, so He gave us His Holy Spirit to teach us all things, John 14:26. Our Father wills that we be blameless, so He based our righteousness on Jesus, not on us, Philippians 1:11. And finally it is our Father’s will that we do not stumble and that we are constantly producing fruit. So He gave us Jesus to keep us from stumbling and to keep us productive, John 15:1-6 and Jude 24-25. 

The prayers in the New Testament are not just wish lists of their writers. They are revelations into what our Father is causing to happen for us and through us. 

Philippians 1:7-8

7 It is right and appropriate for me to have this confidence and feel this way about you all, because you have me in your heart and I hold you in my heart as partakers and sharers, one and all with me, of grace (God’s unmerited favor and spiritual blessing). [This is true] both when I am shut up in prison and when I am out in the defense and confirmation of the good news (the Gospel).

Paul did not have a different Grace then those who he was used to serve had and Jesus does not have a different Grace then our Father has given to us. We are all controlled by the glorious power of our Father, just as Jesus is. 

Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to present [you] unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the presence of His glory in triumphant joy and exultation [with unspeakable, ecstatic delight]-- To the one only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory (splendor), majesty, might and dominion, and power and authority, before all time and now and forever (unto all the ages of eternity). Amen (so be it). Jude 24-25 

8 For God is my witness how I long for and pursue you all with love, in the tender mercy of Christ Jesus [Himself]!

The reason that we love is because Jesus causes us to love.

And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. John 17:26

During the end times the love of many false christians will grow cold. 

And the love of the great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity, Matthew 24:12

What is really powerful is that we do not have to worry about this at all, because Jesus dwells permanently within us. As sin begins to abound during the last days, our Father’s Grace will much more abound through us towards those who are sining.

But then Law came in, [only] to expand and increase the trespass [making it more apparent and exciting opposition]. But where sin increased and abounded, grace (God’s unmerited favor) has surpassed it and increased the more and superabounded, Romans 5:20