Advent Week 2: We Live With Peace Because God Is Glorious
The peace Jesus came to bring was not coercive or backed up by military might, and it was not the type of peace that most of the world was looking for. The announcement of the Messiah’s birth heralded something different and transformational.
In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar continues the Advent Series as he looks at the truth that God is glorious so we don’t have to fear others. Believing this leads us to peace in relationships, peace with ourselves, and peace with God.
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
- The second of four eternal truths about God that transforms us. (The 4 G’s)
- The ways that the “fear of man” may be ruining your life and relationships.
- How Jesus came to bring peace to all of mankind and the world.
- How to find the unbelief and actions that are keeping you from having peace.
From this episode:
“Think about what your fears and the need for other’s approval have produced in your heart and life… comparisons to others, avoiding any or all confrontations or deeper conversations, susceptibility to peer pressure, or the need to always be liked by everyone. Do you enjoy living this way? The answer to the fear of man in our lives is a bigger understanding of the fear of God and his true glory. For those who trust Jesus, the fear of God no longer involves terror; he’s our Father, and we come before him with confidence through Christ.”
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Transcript
The problem is none of it really works because we have to continually feed that need for their approval.
Caesar Kalinowski:We constantly feel the need to keep the pace that we started with others and hey that worked and so I guess I won't say no like they liked it when I said yes or I didn't speak the truth in love here because I didn't want to flip anybody out because you know I really want to be loved here and I need their approval and so I'll just keep going and regardless of how much we do we still feel unrest like in our hearts.
Caesar Kalinowski:We aren't convinced, really, that we're all that accepted and approved.
Caesar Kalinowski:We, kind of, deep down in our hearts know that, really, what they're accepting and approving is our performance, and our due to be, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:What we do equals who they think we are.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or, if we feel accepted or approved, we know their approval isn't really enough.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, we got it, and we still feel lacking.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, what, on to the next thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or, maybe that person will fill my tank.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's the exact opposite of Peace and relational peace in the way that we want to live and God wants us to live.
Heath Hollensbe:Welcome to the Everyday Disciple Podcast, where you'll learn how to live with greater intentionality and an integrated faith that naturally fits into every area of life.
Heath Hollensbe:In other words, discipleship as a lifestyle.
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Heath Hollensbe:And now, here's your host, Caesar Kalinowski.
Caesar Kalinowski:All right, we're rolling.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here we go again.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hey, glad you're with me.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hope your week's going well.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm recording this episode right before Thanksgiving so I don't know if you're hearing it afterwards.
Caesar Kalinowski:I hope.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, however it went, hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving.
Caesar Kalinowski:We all have so much to be thankful for.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, uh, I, I certainly do.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I'm grateful to God for, for all the good things in our life.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, most of all Christ and the freedom and, uh, relational peace that we enjoy.
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Caesar Kalinowski:So, um, for many, maybe even most of us Christians around the world, we're celebrating Advent during these weeks leading up to Christmas.
Caesar Kalinowski:The, you know, the preparation for the coming of Christ.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so I decided to join this celebration on the podcast.
Caesar Kalinowski:And for these four weeks of Advent, I'm sharing my thoughts kind of a week ahead of the official Advent Sunday.
Caesar Kalinowski:So maybe it'll Help y'all on your own preps and preparations and thoughts.
Caesar Kalinowski:And what we're doing is we're looking at the traditional Advent preparations of hope and peace and joy and love through the lenses of the four G's.
Caesar Kalinowski:These four life changing truths about God, they all start with G, that'll speak into our lives in this season and every day.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I'm loving it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Last week we talked about God is great, so we have hope.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, we started out the series, God is Great So We Can Have Hope, and it's a really cool way of looking at it.
Caesar Kalinowski:If you haven't checked that out, please do.
Caesar Kalinowski:I guess these don't have to be listened to in order, but I would say, hey, if you didn't hear it, stop, go back and listen to that from last week.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, in the, uh, weeks ahead, it's like starting today here, we're gonna talk about God is glorious so we can live in peace with God and ourselves and with others.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's gonna be great.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm excited to dive in, okay?
Caesar Kalinowski:And then weeks three and four of the event, we'll be talking about God is good so we find satisfaction and joy in our lives.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then week four, we'll wrap up this event series with God is gracious so we can experience love in the deepest ways, alright?
Caesar Kalinowski:So let's dive in.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let's dive in here today.
Caesar Kalinowski:Christmas cards often proclaim, and our favorite Christmas carols surely echo, the angels announcement that came at Jesus birth, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Here's what they said, they said, Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, goodwill toward men.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that means mankind.
Caesar Kalinowski:That comes right out of Luke 2, 14.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, a little history here, Jesus was born during the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus.
Caesar Kalinowski:who was known as the Roman Prince of Peace.
Caesar Kalinowski:That was kind of his moniker, hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:But in keeping with Isaiah's prophecy about the coming Messiah, Jesus too came as the Prince of Peace, right into that reign of Augustus.
Caesar Kalinowski:And yet, the peace that Jesus came to bring was an entirely different kind.
Caesar Kalinowski:The peace that Jesus would bring was not authoritarian, coercive, or backed up by military might.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it was not the type of peace that most of Israel, or the rest of the world, was looking for at that time.
Caesar Kalinowski:The announcement of the Messiah's birth in Christ Jesus heralds something new, something bigger, something transformational and supernatural.
Caesar Kalinowski:The announcement of Jesus birth was really an announcement of peace with others in your life and peace with yourself and a peace with God, an eternal peace with God.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, could it be?
Caesar Kalinowski:Was it possible?
Caesar Kalinowski:Was it possible for people then and what do you think?
Caesar Kalinowski:Can it be a reality for us today, this type of true peace?
Caesar Kalinowski:Here it is again.
Caesar Kalinowski:Glory to God in the highest and on earth goodwill toward men.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, notice the connection here, as I was kind of digging into this, doing my research and really trying to, you know, find all the goodness for myself and for you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Notice the connection in this angelic pronouncement, Glory to God.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it's connected to peace on earth.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, the word glory, we throw it around a lot as Christians, it's in a lot of our songs, we kind of, glory to God, right, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, the word glory in Hebrew means weightiness, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:It means heaviness, like that's what it means, like weight or heaviness.
Caesar Kalinowski:But it also means the way something or someone truly is.
Caesar Kalinowski:The source, the ultimate reality of that being.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so the glory of God, right, says glory to God means may the weightiness and the reality of who he is be seen.
Caesar Kalinowski:Peace on earth.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Do you see that connection?
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, one common reason why we have stress in our relationships and we're constantly worried about what others think or say about us is, or maybe we, or we fail to speak the truth in love, is that we crave the approval of people or we fear their rejection.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Can you feel that?
Caesar Kalinowski:We see them and their approval as more glorious or more weighty, more the reality we crave at times than that of God's.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, think about it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sometimes, you know, you're freaking out.
Caesar Kalinowski:Have you ever felt this way?
Caesar Kalinowski:Or someone says something and you're just gutted or you're afraid to say something because what if they don't like it and you won't have their approval or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:And in that moment, that person is more glorious.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're, they're, they're more weighty.
Caesar Kalinowski:And what they think of you is more weighty than God's.
Caesar Kalinowski:We feel like we need the acceptance of others.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so we ended up kind of being controlled by them in a way.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now the Bible has a term for this.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's called the fear of man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:The fear of man in Proverbs 29, 25, it says, The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let me read it again.
Caesar Kalinowski:The fear of man, in other words, fearing what others think of you and their, you know, approval or all these things, lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
Caesar Kalinowski:So think about it.
Caesar Kalinowski:I guess if I was sitting here with you face to face, I'd ask, what has the fear of man produced in your heart, in your life?
Caesar Kalinowski:Because there's a lot of symptoms that roll off of the fear of man.
Caesar Kalinowski:How about this?
Caesar Kalinowski:Susceptibility to peer pressure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Have you ever done something, or said something, or gone along with things in your life because others were, and you wanted them to like you, or feel good of you, or speak well of you?
Caesar Kalinowski:And you could think through all these stages of life.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, like, I jump back to teenage years right away, but what about in business, or in the neighborhood, or With those you lead, either at work or in a church setting or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:How about concerns with self esteem?
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, you're so wrapped up with what others think of your performance, or you did this, or you blew that, that you just feel horrible about yourself.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or, how about this?
Caesar Kalinowski:Sometimes the fear of man will produce needing something more from a spouse or your closest friends.
Caesar Kalinowski:And let me unpack that a little bit, because this is, this one's real.
Caesar Kalinowski:See, if, if we live with the fear of man, Then often times, their approval of us and what they think of us is so big and so glorious that we start to require that from people.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I can, I can share this, you know, cause Tina given me the permission to do so, but like for many years in our marriage, Tina said what I thought of her And her performance, or how she cooked, or kept the house, or how she looked, or whatever, was paramount.
Caesar Kalinowski:It was the biggest thing in her life.
Caesar Kalinowski:Way bigger than what God thought of her.
Caesar Kalinowski:I was way more glorious.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's horrible, because a couple of things.
Caesar Kalinowski:For one, I'm not God, and I, I, she doesn't need my approval.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, I could, I, that's crushing to me, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:In other words, she'll always be let down by my lack of perfect approval, and acceptance.
Caesar Kalinowski:But it's also crushing.
Caesar Kalinowski:That she needs that from me.
Caesar Kalinowski:So it was a blockage in our relationship.
Caesar Kalinowski:And when God shared this with us and showed us this, that God was more glorious than either of us, that, that, you know, and we're going to talk about that we have his approval, that freed us up and it really changed our relationship.
Caesar Kalinowski:Maybe you can relate to that.
Caesar Kalinowski:What else does the fear of man produce?
Caesar Kalinowski:Sometimes it produces being way over committed because we just can't say no, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:We want, we want to be, you know, everybody's go to and liked and thought well of and all that, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:How about small lies or exaggerations to make yourself look better in a situation, or maybe the putting down of others?
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, that's, this is what leads to gossip very often, or we compare ourselves to others and then we get jealous or angry.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, hey, wait a minute there.
Caesar Kalinowski:Look at them.
Caesar Kalinowski:They got it.
Caesar Kalinowski:They got, you know, the approval on that or they got a promotion at work or why are they being given that responsibility?
Caesar Kalinowski:I should, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:This is all connected to that same thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:Who's most glorious in our lives?
Caesar Kalinowski:I could go on and on with this.
Caesar Kalinowski:The problem is none of it really works because we have to continually feed that need for their approval.
Caesar Kalinowski:We constantly feel the need to keep the pace that we started with others, and hey, that worked, and so I guess I won't say no, like, they liked it when I said yes, or, I didn't speak the truth in love here, uh, cause I didn't want to flip anybody out, cause, you know, I really want to be loved here, and I need their approval, and so I'll just keep going, and regardless of how much we do, We still feel unrest, like in our hearts.
Caesar Kalinowski:We aren't convinced really that we're all that accepted and approved.
Caesar Kalinowski:We kind of deep down in our hearts know that really what they're accepting and approving is our performance and our due to be, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:What we do equals who they think we are.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or if we feel accepted or approved, we know their approval isn't really enough.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like we got it and we still feel lacking.
Caesar Kalinowski:So what on to the next thing?
Caesar Kalinowski:Or maybe that personal feel might.
Caesar Kalinowski:Tank, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:That's the exact opposite of peace and relational peace and the way that we want to live and God wants us to live Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:So, so how do we get free from this?
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, the answer to the fear of man is fear of God, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:We, we need a big view of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:We need to see that God is holy, off the charts holy, always does what is good, right, and perfect.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's almighty, like, which means like majestic and all powerful.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's perfect in love and goodness, and he's righteous in all of his judgment.
Caesar Kalinowski:Isaiah 40, 25 says, To whom will you compare me, or who is my equal, says the Holy One.
Caesar Kalinowski:And see, for the Christian, the fear of God, that sounds like such a weird term, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:The fear of God no longer involves, like, terror.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's our Father.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's our loving Father.
Caesar Kalinowski:We come before Him with confidence through Christ, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Psalm 27 1 says, The Lord is my light and my salvation.
Caesar Kalinowski:Whom shall I fear?
Caesar Kalinowski:The Lord is the stronghold of my life.
Caesar Kalinowski:Of whom shall I be afraid?
Caesar Kalinowski:Certainly not Him.
Caesar Kalinowski:He loves us, and the Father loves us enough to have sent the Son.
Caesar Kalinowski:Having that fear of God is having a right view of how big and glorious He is.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's what that verse means.
Caesar Kalinowski:I want you to try this.
Caesar Kalinowski:Imagine God and the person or thing you fear the most, you know, in your life, getting that approval or whatever, standing side by side.
Caesar Kalinowski:Who is the most glorious?
Caesar Kalinowski:Who's the most beautiful and holy?
Caesar Kalinowski:And awesome and majestic, like, is that person or thing standing there, you know, next to Jesus more glorious than the creator of the universe?
Caesar Kalinowski:What can they, or that thing that you so want in life, what can they do for you or to you that's greater than what God can do?
Caesar Kalinowski:Have they laid down their life for you and taken your sin upon themselves that you might be free?
Caesar Kalinowski:Are they able to make you truly free and grant you Peace?
Caesar Kalinowski:See, the fear of God and understanding how glorious He is, is liberating.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it's not like once we believe that and we have that, that we just blow everybody else off.
Caesar Kalinowski:We can still take people's expectations seriously because we want to love them as God has commanded, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:But here's the thing, we're not, we're no longer enslaved by them.
Caesar Kalinowski:We don't serve people for what they can give us in return.
Caesar Kalinowski:Their approval or their affection or security or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:That'd just be usury.
Caesar Kalinowski:What an icky relationship that is.
Caesar Kalinowski:See, by submitting to the truth, that God is glorious, we're free to serve others in love, not for what we can get from them.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here's how the 4G statement that I learned from Tim Chester originally goes, God is glorious, so we don't have to fear others.
Caesar Kalinowski:See, just in re hearing that, it kind of sets me free.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, do you believe that?
Caesar Kalinowski:God is glorious, so we don't have to fear others.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you know what?
Caesar Kalinowski:He's glorious and he loves you so much that Jesus was sent to save us through his own death.
Caesar Kalinowski:God is the most glorious being and in Christ you and I are fully and completely loved and accepted.
Caesar Kalinowski:Nothing that we have to do or can earn or add to it.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's all because of what has already been done in Christ.
Caesar Kalinowski:The most glorious being in the universe has said, You are my beloved with whom I am well pleased.
Caesar Kalinowski:So what more do we need?
Caesar Kalinowski:God is glorious, so we don't need to fear others.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and if we believe this, then we can have peace with everyone.
Caesar Kalinowski:We can have relational peace and real relationships where it's not just I'm performing to basically get you to respond a way that makes me feel a certain way.
Caesar Kalinowski:Just usury.
Caesar Kalinowski:Ah, that's horrible.
Caesar Kalinowski:Ick.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, If I truly believe I'm perfectly loved by the Glorious One, well then I can also love myself.
Caesar Kalinowski:See, that starts to change my heart in that way too.
Caesar Kalinowski:No more beating yourself up, thinking you're less than, or unworthy, or you're some sort of fraud, or something.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's about a glorious God who knows all things, knows you, knows everything you've ever done or thought or will ever do or think or become.
Caesar Kalinowski:If he knows all that, the glorious one, and he loves you enough to die in your place that you might know as peace, then you can also start to love yourself.
Caesar Kalinowski:You can have peace inside, peace with yourself.
Caesar Kalinowski:Quit walking on eggshells all the time or beating yourself up or living with shame.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I also want you to think about this, and this is huge.
Caesar Kalinowski:We can have peace with God because of the cross, because Jesus came.
Caesar Kalinowski:And his perfect life, and death, and then his resurrection, are now counted to us.
Caesar Kalinowski:We can now have daily, moment by moment, an eternal peace with God.
Caesar Kalinowski:The Glorious One loves you completely, and He keeps no records of wrong.
Caesar Kalinowski:God doesn't see you as the person who used to do this, but, you know, you kind of stopped mostly, and, But I forgave you!
Caesar Kalinowski:No, the Bible says He's put all that away.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's not only forgiven, but it's taken away, never to be seen again.
Caesar Kalinowski:You are free before God.
Caesar Kalinowski:You can come right to Him with all things, with no shame, no fear, with full peace.
Caesar Kalinowski:Jesus was born to bring peace to all and for all.
Caesar Kalinowski:And when we celebrate His birth this Christmas, we celebrate this peace.
Caesar Kalinowski:Glory to God in the highest heaven and on earth.
Caesar Kalinowski:Peace to those on whom His favor rests.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, you may not have noticed, but at the beginning of our discussion, I read you that same verse, Luke 2, 14, but I read it to you from a different translation.
Caesar Kalinowski:I read it the way most of us have heard it and sang it in Christmas carols for years.
Caesar Kalinowski:I read you the King James Version that said, Glory to God in the highest, on earth, peace, Goodwill toward men.
Caesar Kalinowski:Did you catch the difference in those two translations?
Caesar Kalinowski:See, most of the other translations say, On earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.
Caesar Kalinowski:or some variation of that.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, is this peace that Jesus brings for everyone, or just some?
Caesar Kalinowski:And there are commentators out there, they've argued this for years, and they say, oh, no, no, see, his peace is only for those for whose favor rests.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, then, you know, who are those?
Caesar Kalinowski:Do we need to get hung up on that?
Caesar Kalinowski:I don't think we do.
Caesar Kalinowski:Clearly, the peace that Jesus brings And he said it himself is for all and in fact in Luke 2 10 right before that Luke 2 14 We were just listen Luke 2 10 the angel announcing Jesus birth said to the shepherds nearby Don't be afraid because they're flipping out.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here's these angels and bright lights, you know I bring you good news for all the people so then on who does this peace in God's favor rest Well, please believe it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Because of Jesus life and death and resurrection, peace is now available to all of mankind.
Caesar Kalinowski:But that peace rests on those who trust him.
Caesar Kalinowski:Those who believe that he is the most glorious one, and those who accept his peace.
Caesar Kalinowski:Instead of trying to gain peace on their own terms.
Caesar Kalinowski:Instead of trying to perform and earn it, and get it from everywhere but God.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so, so this Christmas, in this year ahead, how and in whom will we look for peace?
Caesar Kalinowski:Will we live as if others in our lives are the most glorious and live for their approval?
Caesar Kalinowski:Will we continue to believe lies about God and what He says is now true of us and live with shame and fear?
Caesar Kalinowski:Or will we believe that God is glorious above all, and that we are now, because of Jesus, fully and completely loved and accepted, and so we have peace?
Caesar Kalinowski:And again, it's our choice, as it always is.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now before I wrap up today, I want to leave you with the big three takeaways from today's talk and this topic.
Caesar Kalinowski:If nothing else, you don't want to miss these three points.
Caesar Kalinowski:And as always, you can get a printable PDF of these big three that I'm about to share with you as a free download.
Caesar Kalinowski:by going to everydaydisciple.
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Caesar Kalinowski:Because maybe you're driving or maybe you're at the gym or something, so I like to write these up and then let you download them.
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Caesar Kalinowski:Okay, so here we go.
Caesar Kalinowski:Number one.
Caesar Kalinowski:God is glorious, so we don't have to fear others.
Caesar Kalinowski:Whomever or whatever you deem to be most glorious is the one you'll fear.
Caesar Kalinowski:And whoever you fear is the one whose pleasure or approval you'll seek after the most.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you know what?
Caesar Kalinowski:Most of us will go to great lengths to gain that approval.
Caesar Kalinowski:But in Christ, you already have our perfect, glorious Father's full approval.
Caesar Kalinowski:The pressure's off.
Caesar Kalinowski:So live at peace with others, not to gain approval or their favor, but to glorify God.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, that's such good news, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Alright, number two.
Caesar Kalinowski:The Glorious One loves you unconditionally and now sees you as His beloved forever child.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let that soak in.
Caesar Kalinowski:Please believe that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let this be the Christmas and the year you start to believe that.
Caesar Kalinowski:If we believe this truth and how God now sees and loves us, we can begin to love ourselves and live with an internal peace.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let this truth put to death all of the negative self talk in your life and shame and endless rehearsing of past sins and mistakes.
Caesar Kalinowski:It is for freedom and peace that Christ came, and you get to live in it.
Caesar Kalinowski:And third, the fear of man no longer needs to be a trap that you fall into.
Caesar Kalinowski:Think about what your fears and the need for others approval has produced in your heart and throughout your life.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, things like comparisons to others, avoiding any or all confrontations, or having deeper conversations, susceptibility to peer pressure, or the need to always be liked by everyone.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do you love living this way?
Caesar Kalinowski:The answer to the fear of man in our lives is a bigger understanding of the fear of God and His true glory.
Caesar Kalinowski:For those who trust Jesus, the fear of God no longer involves terror, because He's our Father.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we come before Him with confidence through Christ.
Caesar Kalinowski:Remember that, that Psalm 27 1?
Caesar Kalinowski:The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?
Caesar Kalinowski:The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
Caesar Kalinowski:We really can't have this peace.
Caesar Kalinowski:I hope you'll believe the truth.
Caesar Kalinowski:God is glorious, and so we don't have to fear.
Caesar Kalinowski:We can live with peace.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, I want to invite you to, you know, go deeper into these truths and really work them out in all of life and community with others.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, you know, as you look to a new year, If you want to live with the spiritual peace and freedom that Jesus came to give us, if you want to make this next year the year when you, your church, and family really start to live with greater relational peace, and you want to make discipleship a lifestyle, In everyday life.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'd love to get you some information about the coaching and mentorship that Tina and I offer as couples to couples, okay?
Caesar Kalinowski:. If I can get you some information, you can go to everydaydisciple.
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Caesar Kalinowski:All right now, that's about it today times up So I want to invite you to join me next week as we uncover the truth.
Caesar Kalinowski:God is good So we can find satisfaction and true joy in our lives.
Caesar Kalinowski:This will be week three in our Advent series.
Caesar Kalinowski:You won't want to miss that.
Caesar Kalinowski:I hope you have a great week, and I'll talk to you soon.
Heath Hollensbe:Thanks for joining us today.
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Heath Hollensbe:And remember, you really can live with the spiritual freedom and relational peace that Jesus promised every day.