WEBVTT 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:18.960 Here what God has given me. 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:31.440 Um so when I was approached and asked, you know, from the list of topics, um Jehovah Shalom jumped out at me. 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:37.439 Have any of you ever like saw God about something and just God just like made it jump out at you? 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:39.280 It's like, this is it. 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:43.600 That's what this was when I saw Jehovah Shalom. 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:47.520 Um so a little bit of background on that with me. 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:54.240 Um my father-in-law was a pastor for probably close to 40 years. 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:59.759 Um he passed away in 2014, and I miss him dearly. 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:05.200 Uh, anyways, he was, like I said, a pastor, and he started a ministry. 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:22.400 Uh, we because we lived up in the north woods of Michigan, and he had on his heart that he wanted to help other pastors, pastors that were burned out, that were hurting and discouraged. 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:33.120 And he started this ministry called uh Shalom at Cherrystone, because where they lived was Cherry Stone Court. 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:51.680 And I'm gonna get into shalom here very shortly, and I never really understood why he called it uh shalom at Cherrystone, but until I did the studying, I'm like, ah, that's why. 00:01:51.680 --> 00:02:00.319 So his favorite phrase when he said that was nothing broken, nothing missing. 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.799 So he would share with the ministers that he was helping. 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:08.000 It's like, listen, it's Jehovah Shalom. 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:10.960 It's nothing missing, nothing broken. 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:13.360 So Jehovah Shalom. 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:21.599 Obviously, we all know Jehovah is Lord or God, and shalom relatively means peace. 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:26.080 That's the English translation of shalom. 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:27.759 It's very basic. 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:34.560 Um, but it's more than that, it's so much more than that. 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:46.800 So Jehovah Shalom together is the Lord is peace, and we find that for the first time and only time in God's word in Judges 6.24. 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:54.319 So shalom is also a Jewish word used for greeting or farewell. 00:02:54.319 --> 00:03:07.280 It is also peace, the absence of war or conflict, um, peace of state of mind, a calmness, a calm, like the lake is calm, it's peaceful. 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:12.800 But we're not going to talk about that tonight because that's not the real definition of shalom. 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:18.400 The real definition of shalom is the biblical meaning of it. 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:19.919 It's so much deeper. 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:33.120 It encompasses wholeness, completeness, perfection, well-being, prosperity, and a state of all things being the way God created it to be. 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:40.000 In essence, nothing missing, nothing broken. 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:44.800 Let's dig into the root words for shalom. 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:46.159 This is where it gets good. 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:59.520 And I made a copy of this for everybody to have to take home and to study it, because these root words jumped out at me and meant so much. 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:09.120 So I'm actually kind of glad that Pastor Neil is not here tonight because I am going to butcher these names. 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:11.599 So bear with me. 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:18.720 The first one is Shin Lamed Men, which is to be complete. 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:23.680 Hish to Lam, it was worth it. 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:27.920 Shulam to be fully paid. 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:31.439 To be fully paid. 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:33.040 Think about that. 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:39.279 Meshulam is a friend, an ally. 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:44.560 It's reconciled, perfected, redeemed, paid for. 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:50.160 Mushlam, perfect, complete, or ideal. 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:55.600 And then shalem, which means whole or wholeness. 00:04:55.600 --> 00:05:07.680 So when you combine all of these, you can kind of understand why the nothing broken, nothing missing makes sense. 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:15.199 Because in God there's nothing missing, there's nothing broken. 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:20.399 It's all whole, it's completed. 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:29.040 So let's go into God's word and take a look at shalom in God's word. 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:41.920 So the appearance of Jehovah's Shalom or a variation of it appears approximately a hundred and seventy times. 00:05:41.920 --> 00:06:02.879 Peace appears over four hundred times, and Jehovah is first appears in Genesis 2, 4, which says, These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heavens. 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:09.519 We all know that when God created earth and the heavens, it was perfect. 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:13.279 Nothing missing, nothing broken. 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:22.399 Jehovah Shalom is found once in the Bible, and that was located in, like I said earlier, Judges 6.24. 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:34.720 And I I searched this for quite a bit, and then I had to stop because I wasn't really getting anywhere because every all the translations pretty much said the same thing. 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:43.199 But the only translation that I found was the American Standard Version that actually said Jehovah Shalom. 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:48.639 Every other version says the Lord is peace. 00:06:48.639 --> 00:07:29.680 But Gideon, much like some of us, when they hear God's calling or God tell him something, he's like, Yeah, I don't think so. 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:30.639 Not me. 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:32.240 Who am I? 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:34.000 I'm I'm nobody. 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:39.199 I I can't, I'm I'm the weakest in my clan, I'm the weakest in my family. 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:42.240 I have nothing to offer. 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:54.560 But God sent that angel to him and said, No, surely God is with you, and you will through God deliver Israel from the Midianites. 00:07:54.560 --> 00:08:05.839 So Gideon said to the angel, like, Okay, hold on, stay here under the tree while I go prepare an offering for you. 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:09.199 So he went, prepared the offering, came back. 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:11.839 The angel told him to place it on the rock. 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:19.040 So he placed the meat, the bread on the rock, poured this broth that he had with it all over it so it's soaking wet. 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:24.720 Now, how many of us know that if something is soaking wet, it's not gonna catch fire, right? 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:25.519 Okay. 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:34.080 Well, the angel of the Lord touched it with, touched the offering with his staff, and it was consumed by fire. 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:35.600 It was gone. 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:45.279 So naturally, Gine was like, all right, I guess I am gonna be the one that's gonna help uh that the Lord has chosen. 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:47.600 So that's why he built that altar. 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:49.679 I mean, the Lord is peace. 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:57.360 The second place that I found interesting was in Psalms 4. 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:59.440 The whole chapter. 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:01.360 We're gonna we're gonna read that. 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:18.000 Um, it's don't worry, it's not like a lot of the other chapters in Psalms that are like a hundred verses long, and this is a prayer from David, okay? 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:33.120 So verse one, answer me when I call to you, O God who declares me innocent, free from my troubles, have mercy on me and hear my prayer. 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:37.759 How long will your people ruin my reputation? 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:41.279 How long will you make groundless accusations? 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:45.279 How long will you continue to continue your lies? 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:47.519 You can be sure of this. 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:53.519 The Lord set apart the godly for himself, the Lord will answer when I call to him. 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:56.879 Don't sin by letting anger control you. 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:00.159 Think about it overnight and remain silent. 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:04.960 Offer sacrifices in the right spirit and trust the Lord. 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:08.559 Many people say, Who will show us better times? 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:11.360 Let your face smile on us, Lord. 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:18.799 You have given me greater joy than those who have abundant harvests of grain and new wine. 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:24.159 In peace I will lie down and sleep. 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:27.519 For you alone, O Lord, will keep me safe. 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:34.000 I think it's safe to say in verse eight, we can say, In Shalom I will lay down and sleep. 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:37.679 So let's break this down. 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:44.000 Verses one and two is a cry to God for deliverance from his enemies. 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.279 How many of us know that David had a lot of enemies? 00:10:47.279 --> 00:11:00.000 Uh so verses three and five is a command to his enemies and also an encouragement to his followers to trust God instead of worldly desires. 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:07.919 It's not about what we have or what we can do or what we're seeking, it's about what God has. 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:16.159 Verses six through eight wraps up this prayer, declaring the peace and security found in God's presence. 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:20.799 So David knew everything was going to be okay. 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:36.879 Even though he had the enemies coming towards him, even though he was facing all the trials and the tribulations and everything that he was going through, he knew God had it. 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:40.559 He knew that he had that shalom. 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:53.360 He knew he had an ally in God, he knew he was reconciled, he knew he was bought, he knew that everything was paid for, and he didn't have to worry. 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:59.279 I think I see that, and I think, you know what, Rob? 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:02.320 You really need to be more like David. 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:06.080 Did he mess up a lot? 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:21.200 Yeah, he did, but look at what he accomplished because his main focus was God, his main focus was Jehovah, and the shalom that he was able to get from that. 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:41.600 The next verse is a verse that's dear to me, and it meant so much to me, but it it means even more now than it did when I first read it, and like I really like this verse. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:44.480 So it's Isaiah 26, 3. 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:52.559 You will keep him in perfect peace, all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you. 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:57.600 I liked this verse so much, I even put it on my business cards. 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:00.240 That's how much I love this verse. 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:02.639 But let's translate this. 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:15.440 Jehovah will keep in Shalom, Shalom, all who trust in Jehovah, all whose thoughts are fixed on Jehovah. 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:21.759 Notice how Shalom is mentioned twice and Jehovah three times. 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:28.639 Because perfect is a root word of shalom. 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:32.159 And shalom means peace. 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:43.279 So with that being said, it's perfect peace, nothing missing, nothing broken. 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:48.240 You're gonna hear me say that over and over and over tonight. 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:54.240 So I'm just forewarning you, that's probably about what, the tenth time I've said it. 00:13:54.240 --> 00:14:11.840 Um, but it's so important to know that that even though we face things, if our thoughts are fixed on Jehovah and fixed on Shalom, we will have that perfect peace. 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:16.080 And we can go through whatever it is we face. 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:20.799 But you're gonna say, you may say, I'm not perfect. 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:21.919 You're right. 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:31.120 You're not perfect, I'm not perfect, Peter wasn't perfect, Isaiah wasn't perfect, Moses, you name it. 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:37.279 You could go through the Bible, and everybody that was mentioned in the Bible, every name, nobody was perfect. 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.279 The only perfect one was who? 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:45.840 Jesus, Jehovah Shalom. 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:48.480 So, yeah. 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:50.240 So that's the thing. 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:53.279 We're not perfect, but that's the awesome thing. 00:14:53.279 --> 00:15:02.639 We don't need to be perfect because we have God, we have Jehovah, and His that shalom peace. 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:07.519 If you go back to the root words, I'm I'm jumping ahead, I'm not, I'm gonna stop. 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:10.159 I don't want to jump too far ahead. 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:11.279 I really don't. 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:18.159 So walking in shalom does not mean that we're gonna have a trouble-free life. 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:18.879 Right. 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:44.639 Walking in shalom just means that we can walk through it and face the trials and the tribulations, knowing that Jehovah Shalom is with us, that we have that perfect peace, that we can go through it, that nothing is gonna be missing and nothing will be broken because we have God on our side. 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:48.320 What if I fall in sin? 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:50.960 Can I be honest? 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:54.480 You're gonna fall, you're gonna sin. 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:55.440 It's inevitable. 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:56.559 We're we're gonna do it. 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:59.840 We're humans, it's gonna happen. 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:08.720 But does this will not keep us from the shalom peace that God has for us? 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:20.159 Remember the root words that I've said that it that you have the list of we are redeemed, we're reconciled, and we're paid for. 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:26.480 In His perfect peace. 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:27.919 And that shalom. 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:30.960 Nothing broken, nothing missing. 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:40.480 It really ministered to me because I'm gonna I'm gonna be honest with you. 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:45.919 I'm gonna share a little bit about me because I feel it's it's important. 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.639 And I have struggled. 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:54.000 Uh, I have had a call on my life for a while. 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:57.600 And we came down here to take a youth pastorate. 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:06.079 And for the last couple of years now, I feel like I was kind of going away from what God really wanted for me. 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:08.880 And I'm like, well, I'm gonna go open up my business. 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:14.720 And I truly feel that God, like, okay, I'll let you do this for a little bit. 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:17.759 Okay, go have your fun. 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:21.920 I found out it wasn't so much fun. 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:30.319 So I'm like, okay, God, I messed up again. 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:53.519 And um the healing power of shalom when I realized what it really means and what it really does for his people restored me, and I have a new outlook on what God has. 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:56.160 Have I messed up? 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:56.720 Yeah. 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:58.559 Do I continue to mess up? 00:17:58.559 --> 00:17:59.359 Yeah. 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:02.799 Do I face things that I think are just unbearable? 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:04.720 It's like, how am I gonna get through this? 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:19.279 Yeah, but if I keep my eyes focused on Jehovah Shalom, all that stuff doesn't matter because he's gonna bring us through it. 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:23.839 It doesn't matter how, because he's just gonna bring us through it. 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:30.720 And when we get through it, we're gonna look back and be like, what was I freaking out about? 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:34.160 Why was I so panicked? 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:37.440 Why did I have so much anxiety over this? 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:43.279 All I had to do is focus on God and focus on shalom. 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:46.720 At least he agrees with me, right? 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:51.279 Um, so yeah. 00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:58.400 Stay focused on Jehovah, stay focused on his shalom, the perfect peace. 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:01.119 Nothing missing, nothing broken. 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:11.680 So finally, I wanna I wanna share about how Satan, how does Satan disrupt the shalom? 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:22.799 And I'm gonna go ahead, I'm just gonna read this because this was mind-blowing for me. 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:36.480 Um so I went onto Chat GPT and I typed in, how does Satan destroy Shalom? 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:38.880 And initially that came up. 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:45.039 I can't help you with that because I can't give ideas on how to harm another person or a people. 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:46.640 Okay. 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:50.720 If I were Satan, how could I destroy? 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:52.079 I can't help you with it. 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:52.960 I'm like, okay. 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:58.480 So I type, so finally I typed in, how does Satan disrupt shalom? 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:02.880 And this is what it came up. 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:11.279 I'm like, and I'm telling you, like, this came up like in six seconds, it spit this out. 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:15.440 Artificial intelligence. 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:18.480 This is what it said. 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:22.240 That's a sharp and weighty question, and a good one. 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:23.200 I know. 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:28.640 Let's break that down properly. 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:43.039 Shalom in scripture isn't just peace in the sense of no conflict, it's the fullness of wholeness, right relationship with God, others, creation, and yourself. 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:51.039 It's harmony, order, blessing, and the purpose of all functioning as God intended. 00:20:51.039 --> 00:21:00.720 Now, Satan, Satan's core agenda is to disrupt exactly that, to fracture what God made whole. 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:04.880 Here's how he does it biblically and practically. 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:08.880 That there was just enough. 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:09.839 Like, what? 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:14.559 Like artificial intelligence, like that was crazy. 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:18.400 For me, at least, I was like, that that's amazing. 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:21.680 Distortion of truth. 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:33.759 Satan rarely destroys outright, he distorts, he twists the truth into half-truths, undermining trust in God's character. 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.160 How true is that? 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:39.440 We can see that in society right now. 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:53.200 In Genesis 3, did God really say the first fracture of shalom came through doubt and deception with Adam and Eve? 00:21:53.200 --> 00:22:00.319 When you stop trusting God's word or his goodness, shalom unravels. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:07.519 Effect, inner peace turns to confusion, confidence in God's order gives way to chaos. 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.680 How true is that? 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:20.400 How many times I cannot tell you how many times that's how the enemy tricked me. 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:28.319 I'll look at that, like even on who I am and who I am in Christ. 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:30.400 Oh, you just messed up. 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:31.759 You're just a sinner. 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:34.640 You're just gonna continue to make mistakes. 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:37.119 You'll never be good enough for God. 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:40.480 And that's when we need to say, you know what? 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:41.279 You're right. 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:48.240 I'm not good enough for God, but he created me for a purpose and I'm his and I've been bought with a price, right? 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:53.200 So, okay, I'm gonna hold back because I'm gonna start preaching otherwise. 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:58.880 Um, so number two, division and conflict. 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:05.680 Satan thrives on division between people, within communities, even within ourselves. 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:12.640 He fuels pride, offense, jealousy, resentment, all of which tear at unity. 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:18.480 Ephesians 6 12 reminds us the real battle isn't against flesh and blood. 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:25.519 The devil stirs relational conflict to destroy the image of God, reflected in healthy community. 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:33.440 Effect, shalom between people breaks love, and unity are replaced by suspicion and bitterness. 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:40.000 And we all know bitterness is a major, a major thing. 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:42.000 Bitterness is not good. 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:47.680 Number three, corruption of worship and purpose. 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:58.720 Satan wants worship, not necessarily in the form of bowing down to him, but by redirecting devotion away from God. 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:05.680 He feeds ego, materialism, and self-reliance. 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:07.839 I can do that. 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:13.680 I don't want to follow God because I'm not going to be able to have all the things I want. 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:17.440 I'm so good. 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:23.680 I can do whatever I want because everything I touch turns to gold. 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:25.920 You know, feeds the ego. 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:34.559 When people chase success or pleasure as ultimate things, they lose alignment with their divine purpose. 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:39.680 The effect of that, shalom between humans and God, is severed. 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:43.759 We become restless and spiritually adrift. 00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:48.880 Number four, fear and accusation. 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:54.960 He's called the accuser of the brethren for a reason in Revelation 12:10. 00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:59.920 He uses guilt, shame, and fear to isolate believers from grace. 00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:02.079 Fear replaces trust. 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:05.279 Shame silences prayer and relationship. 00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:17.279 The effect of this, the peace of being known and forgiven by God is replaced with anxiety and hiding, just like Adam and Eve after the fall. 00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:20.640 Number five, chaos and creation. 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:34.960 Satan loves disorder, environmental destruction, moral decay, social corruption, because disorder mirrors his rebellion. 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:38.960 Shalom includes creation, order. 00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:45.039 And we know this in Genesis: God created everything in order. 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:58.000 When greed, violence, or carelessness rule, it echoes the serpent's lie that we can define good and evil on our own terms. 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:11.519 The effect, the harmony of God's word, the harmony of God's world is disrupted and everything becomes disjointed, spiritually, socially, and even physically. 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:25.279 In short, whenever there's deception, division, disorder, despair, or deception or distortion, Shalom has been fractured and Satan's fingerprints are nearby. 00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:28.880 But the good news is Christ restores Shalom. 00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:36.079 Isaiah 9:6 calls him the Prince of Peace, literally Prince of Shalom. 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:48.799 Through his cross and resurrection, he reconciles all things to himself, Colossians 1 20, repairing every fracture Satan caused. 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:55.920 Now I could have sat, I this is why I wanted to read this verbatim. 00:26:55.920 --> 00:27:07.839 I typically don't do that because I like studying and I like writing things down in my words and hearing God. 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:11.599 And I did for this whole thing. 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:18.480 But what Chat GPT came up with, I don't after I read it, I was like, I can't. 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:25.200 I have to read this verbatim just because of the root of where it came from. 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:29.440 It was so accurate. 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:50.720 Listen, Satan is trying so hard, and he doesn't do it blatantly, he does it through little tiny things to try and sever shalom in the church, in society, in our country, in our world. 00:27:50.720 --> 00:28:09.279 I'm not going to get into specific things, but you can see in everyday life, all you have to do is turn on the nightly news, and you can see where the enemy is plugging in, trying to disrupt and destroy shalom. 00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:14.240 He's trying to stop what God has created. 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:18.720 But here's the good thing: he can't. 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:21.039 He can't. 00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:28.000 Shalom is permanent, it's perfect, it's whole, it's complete. 00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:30.079 You can't break it. 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:40.799 What God created and what God has made and what God has called you to be and what God has called you for cannot be severed. 00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:44.400 Satan can try, but he will not succeed. 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:50.000 All we need to do is stay focused on Jehovah Shalom. 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:51.759 Amen. 00:28:51.759 --> 00:29:00.799 So with that, I mean uh I'll just end in prayer and then we can go ahead and you know, you can be in your groups. 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:04.720 You have uh a sheet with questions on it. 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:08.240 Um, they're really easy questions. 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:13.759 We talked through it, most of them are probably on the other sheet that I gave you. 00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:25.759 Um, I I was telling my daughter that I would probably be the worst teacher in the entire world because if I had to create questions, everybody would pass because they're so simplistic. 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:29.519 So let's go ahead and pray. 00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:32.480 Father, we thank you for this night. 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:35.599 We thank you, Father, for the word that has gone forth. 00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:38.079 Thank you for using me as your vessel, God. 00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:48.240 Father, I pray right now for everyone here to experience your shalom, your perfect peace, God. 00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:52.160 Nothing missing and nothing broken, God. 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.880 Lord, that we will focus on you and realize who we are. 00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:01.599 Father, that we have been Paid for. 00:30:01.599 --> 00:30:03.119 We have been bought. 00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:05.839 We have an ally and a friend in you. 00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:09.359 We have been redeemed and reconciled in you, God. 00:30:09.359 --> 00:30:12.720 You have chosen us and you have created us, God. 00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:15.200 Father, we thank you for that. 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:26.720 And Lord, as we go on with this night, Father, that you will be with us in our discussions and that your spirit will be with us and that you will be with us on our way homes, Lord, that you will keep us safe. 00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:28.400 In your name we pray. 00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:29.359 Amen.