Finding Peace 1) Peace is paid for: joyfully unite (v2-5a) Eph 3:14: 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility Tim Keller: “Sisters, remember where you’re from. You’re citizens of heaven. Remember where you’re going, the glory. Realize and remember what Christ has done so this could be true. If your minds are filled with that, where’s the pettiness coming from? How could there be divisiveness in the presence of those ideas. If you think about that, how could you be petty? How could you be divisive? How the moroseness? Lift up your thoughts,” he says. “Lift up your eyes. You’re not seeing the big picture. That’s the only possible way you could be so upset with each other.” 2) The Peace of god is near: don’t be anxious. pray. (v5b-7) D.E. Garland: The anxiety Paul warns against is the kind that unhinges, paralyzes, and incapacitates one—“anxious, harassing care”. Paul is not calling for them to be indifferent toward life. The root idea of the verb “to be anxious” (merimnaō) is “to be pulled apart.” Martin Luther: “You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair” - Michael Hugh: The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything

3) The God of peace is here: IMMERSE YOURSELF (v8-9)