Christians have the “peace that passeth understanding” to keep their minds and hearts in the Lord (Philippians 4:7). When we’ve written all, and said all, on the subject, the fact remains that we are privileged to have that which the world does not have, and cannot have, while remaining “the world.” A good point was in a story meaningful to the writer: Two boys, best of friends, grew up together in one of the poorer sections of New York City. One boy grew up respectful of authority; the other, rebelling constantly. One boy finished school, obtained some college, entered law enforcement; the other quit school, early went into crime, and became a ranking leader in drugs, gambling, prostitution and liquor. In time, the one, now highly respected as a police detective, was sent in pursuit of his former friend.<\/p>\n
In the course of things, the criminal was caught, and while awaiting sentencing, the detective went to visit his boyhood chum, who was arrogant and mocking. He said to the detective, “You’re a fool. Do you have a second home in Florida? Do you own a yacht? Have you vacationed in Europe? I’ll have you know that I will pull in four grand this week. How much do you make in a week?” The detective then speaks: “I make $90.23 per week – but I sleep nights!”<\/p>\n
The Christian has the peace that passeth understanding. He can sleep nights. One man put it: “I can sleep when the wind blows.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Christians have the “peace that passeth understanding” to keep their minds and hearts in the Lord (Philippians 4:7). When we’ve written all, and said all, on the subject, the fact remains that we are privileged to have that which the world does not have, and cannot have, while remaining “the world.” A good point was … Continue reading “\u201cI Sleep Nights\u201d – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}