Let Peace Rule in Your Heart Always — Zac Poonen

Intergenerational Faithfulness and Spiritual Responsibility

Well, I hope you've had a good conference so far with all the other brothers. They are very dear brothers, the ones who've spoken to you, godly men. And we praise God that he's raising up such people in our churches who are in touch with him and who can speak the word of God to another generation.

That is God's will. All of us have a responsibility, not only for our generation, but for the next one. You know, Paul was so concerned, not only for the next generation, but the generation after that.

Turn with me to Timothy, Paul's letters to Timothy, 2 Timothy chapter 2, verse 2. We read that Paul writes to Timothy saying, The things that you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust them not to just to any brother, but to faithful brothers.

That's the second generation. No, Paul, sorry, Timothy is the second generation. You have heard from me, Timothy. Paul is first generation, Timothy second generation, you've heard from me. You must entrust them to a third generation of faithful men who will be able to teach a fourth generation.

You see the burden the apostle Paul had that there should be a continuous testimony, not just of good doctrine, but of faithful men and women in every generation. That's the responsibility, first of all, not of elders, but of parents.

Paul was a spiritual father to Timothy. He called him his son. Children, and those of us who have children, you have a responsibility to ensure that your children, boys and girls, grow up to be faithful young men and women in their generation.

It's not enough that you are wholehearted. You must raise up another generation of wholehearted people. There is a saying in the world, in the business world, that success without a successor is a failure.

Success without a successor is a failure. That means even if you have done a great job in a company, but you haven't raised up someone to take over that job, you're a failure. Same in a church. If an elder brother does not raise up others who are faithful after him to carry on, who are 20, 25 years younger than him, he's a failure.

And if you are a wholehearted brother, and your children are not growing up to be wholehearted, don't be so proud. Consider yourself a failure. Don't just say, oh, my children are born again, they are baptized.

That's a very low level. That is like saying, well, my children have passed kindergarten. They know their ABC, and they know two plus two is four. Are you happy with that, that your children passed kindergarten?

Or even that they finished 12th standard? Every one of you, you're eager that your children should go to college. What about spiritually? Are they progressing? We are living in a very evil world. Standards are going down, particularly in the sexual area.

So many people are being tempted through the internet and many other things. The whole society is going in another direction. The influence of Western influences are influencing Christianity as well. Standards are going down.

There's so much of compromise in many churches. For example, divorce is something we never heard of in India in my younger days. It has become common now among Christians, among people who call themselves born again Christians.

What does it indicate? Standards are going down. Immorality. People are married and are unfaithful to their wives. I'm talking about believers. I don't know whether they're real believers. They claim to be believers.

A man can't be a believer and walking with the Lord if he's unfaithful to his wife. No, he's deceiving himself. Even a person who says he's happily married and he's watching pornography in secret, he's fooling himself.

The sad thing is not that people fall into sin. Listen, the sad thing is after they fall, they don't weep. They don't weep. They don't repent. There are no tears in their repentance. You know, the Corinthian Christians, they're known as a bunch of carnal people.

Paul’s Strict Correction of the Corinthian Church

Let me show you what Paul tells them in 1 Corinthians chapter 3. By the way, we read in Acts of the Apostles, Paul spent one and a half years in Corinth. Can you imagine if Paul spent one and a half years in your church?

One and a half years, the mightiest apostle in the world living in your town for one and a half years, preaching every Sunday and many days of the week, visiting your homes. Boy, you'd think you're going to have a really spiritual church.

Paul started the church in Corinth and stayed there for one and a half years, 18 months, because the Lord told him, it's all there in Acts chapter 18. I have much people in this city. There are people in your town whom God says, I've got people that I want to reach, and I've kept you there to be a witness in your office.

I know there are limitations in open witnessing in your countries, but no one can stop the witness of your life, your uprightness in your office. No one can stop you from, stop them from, they can see you reading a book.

I remember when I was working as a naval officer and I had an office and a table, I would keep a Bible there and people would know what I was reading. Nobody can stop that. I'm not actively witnessing, I'm just keeping a book there to read.

People know that. And I do the same in a ship and people see that and get converted. I remember a brother said to me once that when he went into a new town, and it was a sort of a Christian town and he, a country, I mean, nominally Christian.

He didn't know how to make contact with other believers. So whenever he went to a restaurant to eat or have a cup of coffee, while he's having that, he'd sit there reading a Bible, openly. And like that, one or two believers saw him and say, hey, are you a believer?

What a wise way to make contact with people in a strange town. So, Paul writes to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians chapter 3, verse 1, I cannot speak to you as to spiritual men, but you are fleshly men, you are babies in Christ.

Paul was there for one and a half years. And some of these people never took their Christian life seriously because they were clever. They were clever. They were rich. And you are fleshly, verse 3, there's jealousy among you, there's strife among you.

You're walking like ordinary men. You're walking like other men. Is it a crime to be walking like other people in the world? Yes. It says here, it's one of the crimes of the Corinthians. They were walking like all the other people.

They were behaving like all the other people. You go into their homes and they would be yelling at each other, husband and wife, just like other people. No, that's not to be for a Christian. This was the Corinthian church.

And Paul wrote such strong words to them, some very strong words. One person who lived in sin, we read in 1 Corinthians chapter 5, he said, put that man outside the church. Remove him. He called him a wicked man.

He was a believer. 1 Corinthians 5 .13, he called him a wicked man. Take him out. And it says here, 1 Corinthians 5 .5, he handed him over to Satan. Apostles have that authority. He could hand a believer over to Satan.

Not to send him to hell, but to so trouble him in his life with all types of problems and sicknesses, perhaps, so that one day, 1 Corinthians 5 .5, he'll be saved. So sometimes God loves a person so much that he hands him over to Satan, so that he'll be troubled and get saved.

You know, so many people have been saved through sicknesses and getting cancer and things like that. So God loves people not to give us a comfortable life on earth, but to save us for eternity. But this is the type of way Paul dealt strictly with his church in Corinth.

Thank God for a strict apostle like Paul, who would not compromise and who did not care for his own honor, whether people thought he was too hard or people thought he was strict. He didn't bother about that.

He lived before God and he did his work. What was the result? A few years later, he writes 2 Corinthians. And in 2 Corinthians, he says, my letter to you, see what effect it had on you. See, 2 Corinthians chapter 7 and verse 8.

In the second letter, he is telling them, I caused you sorrow by my first letter. I know that. He says, my first letter, which is first letter to the Corinthians, caused you a lot of sorrow when you read it, but I don't regret it.

I love preachers who are so faithful to the word of God, that even when they cause sorrow to their hearers, they don't regret it. Because they are concerned about the growth of those believers and not their own honor before God.

They are not concerned for those people to get a reputation for being very gentle or things like that. No, that's not what they're seeking for. They're seeking for the good of the people they speak to.

And now see the result. And he says in 2 Corinthians chapter 7, verse 8, although it caused you sorrow, it was only for a little while. Now I rejoice because I see the result. That sorrow brought you to repentance.

And such a sorrow is according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. So you see, this is how Paul wrote to people. He wrote strongly. And the purpose was that they might grow spiritually and become Christ-like.

He says that's sorrow. Now listen to this in verse 10. The sorrow that is according to the will of God produces repentance. And it says here that I'm sure there must have been a lot of weeping their sorrow because it produced, verse 11, what earnestness.

What a longing, what zeal. And you have demonstrated yourself, verse 11, the last part, innocent in this matter. So when a preaching of an apostle brings a great sorrow in people because of their sin, and they repent and they weep, it's producing a result of the Holy Spirit.

That's how those apostles worked, you know. They were not concerned about their reputation. They were never interested in people's money or honor or any such thing. They were concerned that people should come into godliness.

And he kept on speaking like that. And that is God's will for all of our churches as well. I want to share something further about how there is an expression in the Bible called that God's peace is a very important thing in the Christian life.

Pursuing Peace in Every Relationship

In fact, you know, if you go right to the beginning of the birth of Jesus, what we read there is when the angels came to the shepherds, we read in Luke chapter 2 that the angels said to the shepherds in Luke chapter 2 and verse 14, the angels were singing and saying, glory to God on the highest.

That we can understand. And on earth, peace among those with whom he is pleased. This is how it is in the NASV, and I believe that's a good translation. Peace among those men with whom God is happy. If God is happy with you, you will have peace.

And if God is happy with your church, there'll be peace among people in that church. God is not happy when there's no peace, either in your heart or in your home or in your church. Peace on earth among men, those men with whom he is happy.

How is it in your home? How is it in your relationship with fellow believers? We can't have peace with everybody. The Bible recognizes that, but we must do our best. Let me read this verse to you in Hebrews chapter 12.

Pursue peace, Hebrews 12, 14, with all men, even with unbelievers. I must never, never be a person known as a man of strife. Not in my office and not anywhere. I want to be known as a man of peace everywhere.

So pursue peace with all men, without which you will not see the Lord. Isn't that quite a strong word? If I'm not a man of peace, there's a doubt whether I will see the Lord one day. I have to pursue peace and holiness.

And then I want to show you Romans chapter 12. Romans chapter 12 is a great chapter about Christian living. And in verse 18, we read, if possible, as much as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.

We already saw in Hebrews that we must pursue peace with all people, but the Holy Spirit is realistic. And he recognizes that some people will not cooperate with you in having peace. Even though you are for peace, they are for war.

Sometimes your relatives can be like that. Some daughters-in-law find that with their mother-in-law. They want to be at peace, but the mother-in-law wants war. Or the other way around. Some mother-in-laws want war, but the daughter-in-law want, some mother-in-laws want peace, but the daughter-in-laws want war.

What can you do, even though you're a wholehearted Christian? And therefore it says in verse 18, if possible, as much as it depends on you. You know, there are many commands in the New Testament, but there's only one command in the entire New Testament, which says, do this if possible.

But no other command does it say that. He doesn't say, if possible, don't steal. If possible, don't tell lies. If possible, don't murmur. If possible, don't complain. No, if possible, don't kill people.

No command is prefaced with if possible. If possible, don't lust after women. If possible, don't get angry. No such command. Only one command in the Bible, it says, if possible. That is peace with all people, because the Holy Spirit knows many people in the world don't want peace.

What can you do? Therefore, it says, as much as it lies in you, be at peace. See, I've been a servant of the Lord for more than 50 years. And when you're a servant of the Lord, seeking to serve him under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, you're a target of Satan.

And I know I've been a target of Satan. I think it's a great honor to be a target of Satan, because he considers you to be a threat to his kingdom. So, I've been a target of Satan for a number of years, but I'm not afraid of that, because I feel it's an honor.

And so many people don't want to be at peace with me. So what shall I do? What shall I do? I say, Lord, if possible, as much as it lies in me, I shall be at peace with all men. But I can't guarantee that.

That's up to them. From my side, I will always seek to be at peace with every believer, with my neighbors, with my relatives, with my in-laws, and with every person in the world. But it requires a cooperation from the other side.

I will not start a strife or a fight. But if they want to be, I say, I have nothing to say. People want to quarrel with me. I say, I'm not going to cooperate. Like I often say, you need two hands to make a sound.

If somebody wants to come and fight with me, and you refuse to cooperate, they can never make a sound. They cannot fight, because I don't cooperate with them to make that sound. So if possible, as much as it lies in you, it's entirely up to you whether there's strife or not.

Let that person come for strife, but you don't cooperate. You seek peace. It's a very important thing. Maybe your wife is in a bad mood one day, or your husband is in a bad mood one day. Bear with it and keep quiet.

Don't judge them. You just make sure that you stay out of the way and be at peace. That'd be a great testimony for your children when they grow up to see that I grew up in a home where I had a mother and father who were not yelling at each other, like in other homes.

And they'll want a home like that when they get married. That's a very important testimony. So peace is a very, very important thing. And I want to show you another verse. Colossians in chapter 3. Colossians chapter 3, we read in verse 15.

It's a very interesting verse. It reminds us of a football game. Let the peace of Christ, and the margin it says, act like a referee in your heart. You know, in a football game, you have a referee. And it says, the peace of Christ must be the referee in your heart.

You know what happens in a football game if the referee blows a whistle? The game stops. And you cannot continue the game until you bring the football to the place where the foul was committed, put it there on the ground.

And then the referee says, OK, now, the non-offending party can kick the ball and continue the game. That's the meaning of a referee. When you lack peace in your heart about any situation, you're worried about something.

Peace is gone. Or you're agitated about something. Peace is gone. Or you're disturbed the way somebody else is behaving. And you want to go and tell him what you think. Peace is gone. The referee is blowing a whistle in your heart.

Stop. Don't go anywhere. Don't try and don't speak to that people at that time. You know, in the Bible says that when we are, we should not be, we should be angry, but not sin. Ephesians 4 and verse 26, Ephesians 4, 26.

It says, be angry, but don't sin. Don't, there is an anger without sin. And there is an anger with sin. The anger without sin is what concerns the glory of God. When Jesus saw people making money in the name of God in the temple, Jesus was angry.

And he took a whip, chased them out, all the sheep and everything. And when Jesus saw some Pharisees not willing to let a man with a withered hand to be healed, on the Sabbath day, he was angry. That is an anger without sin, where it concerned the glory of God.

What is the anger with sin? When people hurt us, when they spat on Jesus' face and called him prince of devils, he was not angry. So there you understand, Jesus is the dictionary by which we know what the word of God means.

Every verse in the Bible, you find the answer in Jesus. Just like if you don't know an English word, you open the dictionary. So you read a verse in the Bible you can't understand, go to Jesus. That's the spiritual dictionary.

That is the word made flesh. In the Bible is the word in printer's ink. But that word in printer's ink, you can see made flesh in Jesus. So when we read, be angry but don't sin, I say, Lord, what does that mean?

What is anger without sin? I go to Jesus and I see what was anger in his life without sin, where it concerned the glory of God. But if it concerned himself, people called him bad names or even spat on him.

He never got angry. Even when they came to capture him, he put his arm around Judas Iscariot and said, friend, he healed the man whose ear was cut off. No, he was never angry when it concerned him. I've tried to follow that law since I got light on this in my own life.

Anything people say about me or do to me, Lord, give me grace never to get angry. I hear that somebody said something against me or did something against me somewhere. Immediately, I forgive him. I say, Lord, I don't know what he said or where he said it, but I forgive him in Jesus name.

I don't want him to be condemned. Like Jesus said on the cross, Father, forgive them. They didn't ask for forgiveness, but he forgave them. That's what I want to be. And I don't want to have anything in my heart.

I say, Lord, I bless them. I wish them good. It says, bless those who curse you. Pray for those who persecute you. And we want to actually do that. I want to bless everybody who curses me. I want to pray for those who treat me badly.

That way I'll remain at peace. If you take a neutral stand and don't do anything, peace will be disturbed. Do what Jesus said. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who treat you badly. Love your enemies.

There will be peace in your heart. Ask God to give you grace for that. All of us will face in our place of work. People are jealous of us and trouble us. Our children face it in school with people who trouble them in some way.

I remember my own children faced problems in school because some of those teachers were from churches, which were not from which people left and came to our church. They were disturbed by that. Those teachers would take it out on my children in school.

I said, okay, God bless them. I taught my children to have a good attitude towards them. And I sought to have a good attitude towards them. Pursue peace with all men. Nothing can happen. My children did not suffer because some teacher tried to trouble them in some way.

No, they'll suffer if you lose your peace and you start getting into a fight. But if we honor God, I'll tell you this. If you honor God, God will not only honor you. He'll honor your children. Yeah, that's God's way.

Righteousness, Children, and God’s Faithfulness

If you are righteous, you know, all of us are concerned about our children and that's right. But I'll tell you the best way to bless your children. Read Psalm 37. Be a righteous person. Psalm 37 and verse 25.

You know, David wrote most of his psalms when he was a young boy. Before he was 30 years old. Before he became king. You read that in the top of the psalm. But this is a psalm that David wrote when he was nearly 70.

He died when he was about 70. And this is one of those psalms that he wrote when he was a very old man. After years of experience. And he says that in verse 25. Psalm 37, verse 25. I have been young. Now I'm an old man.

But in all my life. Psalm 37, verse 25. In all my life. I have never seen a righteous man forsaken by God. Or a righteous woman forsaken by God. If God leaves the hand of a righteous man. Impossible. It didn't happen in David's time and it does not happen in my time.

It has not happened in any generation. I have never seen the righteous man forsaken by God. Be righteous brother. God will never forsake you. You may lose money in the world because you're righteous. You may lose your position in your office because you're righteous.

You may lose friends because you're righteous. But God will stand by you. But not only that. It says and his descendants. I've never seen his descendants. The descendants of the righteous person. Begging for bread.

Descendants means children. And grandchildren. Begging for bread means who's the one who goes begging for bread? We have. We see them in India. Who are the beggars who beg for bread? Those who don't have a job.

Those who have a job don't go begging. So I paraphrase those words like this. If you are a righteous man. If you are a righteous man. Your children will always get jobs. Your grandchildren will get jobs.

What a wonderful promise. That is my paraphrase of that verse. It's not by giving them a good education and giving them a lot. A lot of money that you earned in the Gulf. That is going to go well with your children and grandchildren.

Don't fool yourself. Don't make money your God like the people in the world. You want to bless your children and grandchildren. Be a righteous person. That is the greatest wealth you can give your children.

And when you're righteous, you'll seek to be at peace with people. You'll be at peace in your home. You'll be at peace with your family. Always pursue after peace. I want to show you another verse. You know, I was telling you about the referee that blows the whistle.

That the peace of Christ be a referee in your heart. Whenever you feel a disturbance in your heart. It doesn't matter if the other person did the wrong thing. Lord, I find a little disturbance in my heart.

Something's wrong with me. I want to judge myself. Maybe my attitude to that person is wrong. Maybe he is wrong completely. That's right. He's wrong. But my attitude towards him is also wrong. Please forgive me.

Help me to have a loving, humble attitude even to my enemies. Or those who try to deceive me and fool me. Many people in my life have tried to deceive me and harm me. But I'll tell you till today. Nobody has succeeded.

In 61 years that I've been a believer. Romans 8, 28 has always worked. That's my testimony. Romans 8, 28 says all things will work together. Not individually. When you look at the events that happen in our life individually.

Yeah, it looks as if it's all disturbing. But put together with all the other events that take place in our life. They will work together for my good. It's a very important verse. We all, many, most of us know Romans 8, 28.

But I want to ask you a question. Do you know Romans 8, 29? The next verse. Most Christians who know Romans 8, 28 do not know Romans 8, 29. And you will not be at peace if you don't understand Romans 8, 29 also.

So I want to read both those verses together. Romans 8, 28 says we know something. It's very important for us to know it. It's not just that God does things for our good. That itself is great. But it says in Romans 28, we must know that.

My question, my dear brother, sister. Not whether that verse is in the Bible. But do you know that? Do you know with absolute certainty? That no matter what the devil or anybody else in the world tries to do to you.

It will work for your good. That is the way to be at peace in our heart always. That guy is trying to harm me. That chap in the office is trying to trouble me. Lord, it'll work for my good. Read the story of Joseph.

He had 10 brothers who hated him. Sold him off to Egypt. Thought they'd never see him again. And when he went to Egypt, there was a wicked woman who accused him falsely. We haven't faced such things, have you?

Have you had 10 brothers who sold you into slavery? Have you had some wicked woman who accused you falsely? Maybe you have. But it's pretty extreme cases of persecution. And he was only 17 years old. And for 13 years, he suffered.

But at the end, God made him the second ruler in Egypt. To bless his 10 brothers who had troubled him. Here it says, God makes everything work together. It didn't look like that for Joseph for a number of years.

But 13 years later, he saw the amazing way God worked. And you will see in the future, if you honor God by seeking to be at peace with all men and keeping peace in your heart and keeping an attitude of love, you will see one day that God makes everything work for good.

They will come and ask forgiveness from you. I've seen that happen to me. People come years later. I've seen that happen during this COVID -19 time. I see old people whom I knew many, many years ago come to me and say, Brother Zach, I'm getting old.

I don't know when I'll die. I did this wrong to you. Please forgive me what I did many years ago. Thank God for COVID -19. If it brings a fear of death into some people's hearts, that they seek forgiveness from people and set matters right before they meet the Lord.

Isn't that a good thing? So COVID -19 is not entirely bad. If it makes people seek God and set things right with others, because they know they're going to meet God soon. It's happened to me. At least three, four people have done that in the last few months.

I say, thank God for COVID -19. Not that they ask forgiveness from me, but they're setting matters right before they meet God for the way they treated a servant of the Lord. Okay, praise the Lord. I blessed them.

Of course, I never had anything against them. But all things work together for good. Romans 8, 29. And that good is described in verse 29. The good is not that you'll get a promotion. The good is not that if you're single, you'll get a better wife.

This one rejected you, so you'll get a better one. That's not the point. The good is that you will become a little more conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. What is the greatest good you're looking for?

That shows a test of whether you're spiritual or not. If you think the greatest good for you is a promotion in your job or getting a visa or some earthly thing like that, you haven't really become a wholehearted Christian.

Maybe you have accepted the Lord, but you haven't become a wholehearted Christian. You're a wholehearted Christian. You'll say, Lord, there's only one thing I'm aiming at. Like Paul said, forgetting what is behind, pressing on to what is ahead.

He says in Philippians 3, 10, I want to lay hold of that for which Christ laid hold of me. That is Romans 8, 29. To become like Christ. So all things work together for good to make me like Christ. That's why my heart is at peace.

My heart is not at peace because I'm going to get a promotion. Maybe you lose your job. And maybe that's what God wants for you. He doesn't want you there anymore. He wants to take you away somewhere else.

But he'll make you like Jesus. I'll tell you one thing. I can guarantee, I can give it in writing, absolute certainty that there is, if you're a wholehearted disciple of Jesus Christ and you want to glorify him in your life, and that's your only goal.

He will make every single thing that people do and what people don't do, who should do something. And they don't do it for you. They forget. Like, you know, it says, Pharaoh's cupbearer. Joseph interpreted the dream for him in the prison.

And he was released. And just before he was released, Joseph said, please, will you go and tell Pharaoh that I've been unjustly put here in prison so that I can be released? At that time, Joseph was 28 years old.

You read that in Genesis 40 onwards. And he was 28. And it says Pharaoh's cupbearer, who experienced such a miraculous explanation of his dream, when he went up to Pharaoh, he completely forgot about Joseph.

Can you imagine such ingratitude? Someone who did, you did a great favor to someone and some good result came from that in his life and he completely forgot about you. Have you had that experience? You're not the first person.

Joseph had it. And that man forgot about Joseph for two years. Then one day, when Pharaoh had a dream, and none of his magicians could interpret it, then this man remembered, oh yeah, I remember two years ago, there was this guy in the prison who explained my dream to me and he told Pharaoh and Pharaoh said, oh, is there somebody like that dream here?

And Joseph was now 30 years old. And he comes before Pharaoh and Pharaoh immediately appoints him as second ruler in Egypt. Why did that man forget about Joseph? God removed it from his memory. God removed it from his memory because Joseph was not yet ready to be the ruler.

It had to wait two more years. So don't think that God has forgotten anything. God is always on time. And your time is not God's time. Be at peace. Somebody's forgotten to do something he promised for you.

You did so much good for him and he completely forgot about you, didn't help you when you needed it. Be at peace. Think of Joseph. He did not have Romans 8 28. He didn't have a Bible. He didn't have any fellowship.

But you know, Joseph spoke Romans 8 28 from his own mouth when his 10 brothers came to see him. Have you seen the Romans 8 28 of the Old Testament? Let me show it to you. The Romans 8 28 of the Old Testament is found in Genesis chapter 50.

That's a great verse and it came from the mouth of Joseph. You know what he said to his brothers when they came to see him and they were bowing down before him and he forgave them. He said to them in Genesis 50 verse 20, you all meant something for evil against me.

But God turned it to good to bring this present result. You meant evil, but my God turned it for good, not only for me, but for all these people. When God does something good, it is not only for you, it's for all the people around you.

God meant it for good to bring about this present result to preserve many people alive. I call that the Romans 8 28 of the Old Testament. And it came from the mouth of Joseph who had suffered such a lot.

I'm mentioning these things to say to you that there is no excuse for you not to be at peace. Be anxious for nothing. Let your request be made known to God. I'm sure Joseph prayed in that prison. Lord, I don't know why that guy's forgotten me.

I did some good to him, but he seems to have forgotten me. Six months gone by, one year gone by, nothing's happening. And he's just praying. And one day God answered that prayer. Be patient. Be at peace.

Don't have a grudge against that person who forgot to do something for you. Be at peace. Love him. Wish the best for him. If you keep your heart at peace, you know what God will do for you? Let me show you.

The God of Peace Sanctifies the Whole Person

1 Thessalonians chapter 5. It's a great promise. 1 Thessalonians 5. Here is the one verse in the New Testament which tells us what we are made of. It's the only verse in the Bible which tells us what man is a trinity.