“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.”—John 14:27.
OUR LORD WAS now about to die, to depart from this world, and to ascend to his Father; He therefore makes His will; and this is the blessed legacy which He leaves to the faithful—”Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you.”
We may rest well assured that this testament of our Lord Jesus Christ is valid. You have here his own signature; it is signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of the eleven apostles, who are faithful and true witnesses. ‘Tis true a testament is not in force while the testator liveth, but Jesus Christ has died once for all; and now none can dispute his legacy. The will is in force, because the testator has died. It may however, sometimes happen that a testator’s wishes in a will may be disregarded, and he, powerless beneath the sod, is quite unable to rise and demand that his last will should be carried out. But our Lord Jesus Christ who died, and therefore made his will valid rose again, and now he lives to see every stipulation of it carried out; and this blessed codicil, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you,” is sure to all the blood-bought seed. Peace is theirs, and must be theirs, because he died and put the will in force, and lives to see the will fulfilled.
Taken from sermon delivered February 19th, 1860, by the
REV. C. H. Spurgeon