Jesus came with His sword to make a division clear. He cuts to heal. He washes our feet. He helps us shed ideas. Job uses 150 personal pronouns in chapters 29-31. He needed the sword directed at him. Peace on the inside is a great treasure. (John 13:12-17; Job 29-31; Matthew 10:34-36; James 4:1; Philippians 4:6-8)

Speaker(s): Thomas Schaller
Sermon 12999
Date: 2025-09-24
Time: Wed 7:00 pm

P. Schaller –

All right. Turn to Matthew 10. Praise the Lord! Chapter 10. Finally, we’re at Matthew chapter 10. Okay. One short
word for preparing us for the message to come to Matthew 10:34. Okay, this is Jesus speaking. Wow.
Lord, I thought you came to bring peace on the earth, right? The angel said peace on earth,
good will to men. Roman is here. Okay.

We got peace. Did Jesus come? Did he come to bring peace? What? Yes and no. Yes. No. Okay.
Vs. 34. I thought he was the Prince of Peace, isn’t he? Didn’t the angels say peace on earth?
Yeah. Isn’t that a great verse? How many know the verse? You know the verse. Go ahead. Yeah,
You know what the message is? How about – go ahead. All right. All right. Steve, get up here
and okay. Okay. I think you know it. I’m not sure, but this is so good because in me I don’t have
peace because I’m a sinner and there’s so many contradictions and self-searching in me.
Something missing.

I have struggles in me, darkness in me, guilt in me, fear in me. And so, then the fightings that
were, are within us. Put up James 4, is it vs. 1? James 4:1, okay. Lust is like the word for
stretching. I want another one. I want another one. I want another beer. I want another woman
or I want another job. Or I want another house. I have, I want, I want and it’s fighting in me. It’s
in me. So, there is no peace saith the Lord to the wicked and that’s me.

So, Jesus comes and he’s not going to agree with me. He is going to contradict me. He comes to
me and he sees through me. He knows me. And what does he bring? A sword. Look at vs. 34.
Mt. 10. A sword to me, to my life, an offense, a tool, a sword that cuts and pierces. He’s going
to do operation on me. He’s going to open me up. He’s going to, he’s going to go through me.
And he’s going to do that because he’s a good physician. He is a good God. He is a living God
and he knows us.

And the problem is not on the outside. The problem is on the inside. And people want peace on
the outside, but actually they need peace on the inside. And if we have peace on the inside,
then we have a great treasure, an amazing treasure. So, that’ll be our message tonight.
So, if you want to leave the meeting, you can now! But no, this is, this is good. You wanted to
get closer. Come on. Move on up to the front here. Okay. No, you want, you want to hear it.
You and I, we have something the world doesn’t have. Wow. We have a living God with a sword
that loves me and he’s going to with his sword do something in me and then with you we’re
going to be together, because now we’re united through a sword.

But look at what happens in a family. Chapter 10:35. There will be a difference between family
members. It can happen where at variance we don’t have an agreement because when you are
living with God, then you cannot really live with the devil. When you live with truth, you can’t really accept – you cannot live with the lie. That’s 2 Corinthians 6:36. And a man’s foe shall be they of
his own household.

So, we will have problems in our family unless of course the family, they’re all believers and the
sword is operating in us. Then we have fellowship but even amongst Christians, there can be
this division, this disagreement, this fighting that happens through our flesh.
But when the Spirit is speaking to you and he is correcting us and leading us and filling us, then
we have fellowship with each other and this is called Body life. We are fitly framed. We are
saying amen.

We have an agreement. And one of the things is how wrong I can be. How wrong I
can be and I am before God. The God of all grace and he forgives me and fills me and leads me
in truth and that truth is our fellowship and even amongst Christian families, there can be
division because we all need the sword.

Through the sword, we are both, we are united through the sword. It’s kind of the sword
divides, but the sword also results in us being united. Cuz the sword did an operation in my life
and he did an operation in your life. So, now we are united in him and he’s the head of the
Body and we are in fellowship with each other. And in that unity that comes from God, that
unity is God himself in us as we are in fellowship with God in faith.

Then Jesus is the head of the Body. We are fitly framed. We have fellowship and we learn how
to walk in truth. Wow. That’s amazing, isn’t it? It is. Now, turn to your neighbor and just say, I
don’t know about that. Go ahead. Turn to your neighbor. Is that – you got an amen on that? Are
you sure about that? Huh? Turn to your neighbor and just say, I don’t know. Is that – I don’t
know. Is that right? Well, that’s a good question. If you doubt it, if you question it, that’s a good
thing because you’ve got the Scripture and the Holy Spirit as your teacher that leads you in the
understanding and embracing it. It’s great. It is.

So, people wonder, How do I find Body life? Through a sword. How do I find oneness? It’s
through a sword. It’s through the truth at the cross, because the sword is also another word for
the cross where my flesh is crucified but then we live and we live in him. Okay. Amen. All right.
Let’s see. P. Renaldo is going to have a good time up here. Come on up. (Gift cards and
offering).

All right. You want to move a little bit. All right. Just stand up real fast. Jump up real fast. Whoa!
Look at – go ahead. Real fast. Come on. Come on. You can do it. Come on. All right, then. Now,
give your neighbor a high five. Just say we’re gonna hear a word. We got 15 minutes. Yes.
Halleluiah! Fifteen minutes. Yeah. God bless you. Yes, Thank you, Jesus. Wow. Awesome. Okay.
Wow. Yes. Lively. Lively. Yes. Okay. All right. Everybody sit down except Josh and Izzy.
Everybody sit down except Josh and Izzy.

Okay. Josh. All right. So, I want to introduce you to everybody. This is Josh. Raise your hand. There’s Josh, Izzy. Right. Thank you. You may be seated. God bless you. Okay.

John chapter 13. Great. I did hear sad news. One of our Hungarian brothers, a pastor of the
gypsy church, died in a motorcycle accident. So, you could keep that family in your prayers.
They are precious people. He was so – he played guitar, he sang, he had a shining countenance,
he had a lot of joy. He has three grown-up children. I just keep him in and he lived in [?] and
had a beautiful brother and servant. So, that happens. So we have had quite a time in the last
couple weeks. God has been speaking to hearts around the world as we know, as we’ve seen.
And I have just a couple of thoughts to share tonight. And we’ll use this text here.

John 13:12, that’s a good question. Do you know what I have done to you? Yeah. A lot of times
we don’t know what God has done, but we will know later maybe. But in this case, he washed
their feet and he said, Do you know what I have done? So, he’s going to teach them what he
did.

Vs. 13-15. You should do it. Maybe you’re not talking about it. You are actually doing it. You
don’t, you don’t intend to do it. You actually do it. Yeah. You actually wash the feet. Wow. We
are not teaching how to do it. We’re just doing it. We’re not learning how you wash feet. Like
we could have a class at MBC&S on, you know, feet washing and, you know, how you do it. And
no, this is about, this is not, this is about doing it.

And there’s power in obedience. When we obey, there’s some power and I read from Oswald
Chambers this piece. The Holy Spirit not only instructs us but as we obey him, he inhibits our
ideas. He inhibits them. Like I have my ideas. I have my ideas. Like you could just think of it as a
mindset and I have ideas and ideas and I obey God and those ideas are not there anymore.
They’re gone.
He says it that he says this, those of you have been a while in grace, examine yourselves and
you will be astonished to find out how much has been shed off your life like autumn leaves.
Ideas you never imagined you could get rid of have gone completely because God’s Spirit has
been definitely selecting out of your mind the ideas he can use. And as you obey him and keep
on that line, the other ideas die out. It is only done by obedience, not by impulses, but by
keeping at it. And I’ll add, by washing feet. When you wash feet, God will affect your mind.
That’s in a proverb. Is it 16? Let’s go there.

Proverbs 16:2-3, your works, what’s that? Washing feet. Doing it and your thoughts, your thoughts
will be established. We can say it this way. Your thoughts will be affected by your obedience. As
you obey God, it affects your mind and your heart.

And I wonder if that is why David was increasing in his life in 2 Samuel 8. Wherever David went,
he prospered. Let me get the verse up on the screen. 2 Samuel 8. Let’s try. I don’t know. Vs. 6.
Let’s go. Yes. Vs. 6. Put that up for me. Then again in vs. 14. I wonder why God’s hand was on
David in this way? I think because there was an increase going on. As you obey God, you find an
increase happening in your heart and in your mind. I believe that. So, the Lord will show me
something in my heart.

So, let’s go back to John 13 and read the rest of that. Vs. 15. Like let’s make a few lists. Like
what if, what if I tithe. What if I tithe. What will happen in my heart and mind? Will it have any
effect on my heart and mind? I don’t know. I’m saying it does. Obedience.

How about if I open my mouth and share my faith like Charlie Kirk did on college campuses?
Was there an increase in his heart? Or a missionary in Cambodia or in China or an American
sharing his faith by love, by faith, by obedience, not impulses. But by just simply faith.

Faith. Faith. How about prayer. Sometimes I don’t know about you but sometimes in prayer, I
pray when I feel prayer. When I feel prayer that’s when I pray. But actually, that’s not correct.
You pray by faith regardless of your feeling and impulses. You just are in faith because of the
grace of God and God teaches us. And then it affects my mind. The plaguing things that maybe
rotate in my mind are gone. They may be coming back, but they also, they also – it’s up to God,
but God is causing your life to increase. I really believe that our lives are increasing because
there’s a sword that’s happening and this lesson is a sword.

Because he said, Do it. I like that. Do it. Don’t just think about it. Do it. I think there are areas in
my life where I think about it and I haven’t done it yet. I haven’t yet done it, but I want to take it
as a challenge. Do it. And you find something happening in your personal life.

Maybe we could call it a personal revival. Maybe we could call it a passion or a joy or a new
focus or a concentration or a new care. I know in our society that we judge people a lot in our
culture. We are very judgmental. Like we put ourselves up on a high place and we judge others.
You don’t love enough. You don’t care enough. You’re wrapped up with yourself. You are that
you can be found guilty of everything. And so, when that bothers you, when you are being
judged by others, when that bothers you, then you have to process that and it is, it drops away.
It doesn’t bother you anymore because you have found the mind of God. The mind of God.
Let me show one short lesson here. Turn to Job 29. I did have some other message, but I want
to point something out to you and finish here. We got time. Job 29. Do I have the iPad or no?
Okay. Could you look at that with me for a minute? Job. 29, 30, and 31.

Okay. Let me write it down here. Job 29-31. I’m going to ask a question. Anybody know what
these chapters are about? What? They’re about Job. That’s good. No, she’s more right than you
realize. It’s about Job, Job 29-31. It’s all about Job. What do you mean? It’s about Job talking
about himself. It’s all about him and how spiritual he was and how people treated him and who
he was and how much respect he had. These chapters are Job’s meditation about himself. And
it doesn’t take long. You just go right through it.

Look for the word “I” in chapter 29. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I. Me, me, me, me. It’s about him. If you don’t
think it’s enough, look at chapter 30. Let’s see. Vs. 9. Me. Vs. 10. Me, I, I, I, I. Chapter 31. What’s
it about/ I, I, I, me, me. You count 150 personal pronouns on this, in these three chapters. What
does it remind you of? Yourself. Yourself. You talk, we talk so much about ourselves. What
happened? What I used to be, what I am, what people did to me. We talk so much about how
unjust life is and what happened to me and how unfair it was and what’s going on with me.

I remember when I was in Bible school. I was very spiritual. I was filled with the Spirit. I was on
fire for God. I did great things. When I came into a room, the children got quiet. Princes stood
up. That’s what Job is saying. It’s there. Yeah. This is your nighttime reading tonight.
And you know, I see myself in that as we do. But I mean, that’s what we’re talking about tonight
for this lesson tonight. It is, it’s the wars within me. It’s the fightings within. It's the struggle in
my life. It’s me.
And when Jesus comes into your life, you have this new equipment that’s given to you. And
you’ve heard this many times here. You have your spirit and you have the Holy Spirit. And he
brings a sword, the word of truth into your heart and you are in fellowship and have his mind.
And I said the thoughts actually change in your mind. He gets rid of dead thoughts. And it
doesn’t matter what people may say about me. I mean, that’s, this is new. This is something
that happens to you.

I’m saying me. I’m saying us. That there’s a maturity. There’s an increase. There’s the Spirit
giving an increase. There is the mind of God, the mind of Christ. There is an edification that you
cannot compare it to anything in the world. The world has no idea what this edification is. Jesus
said, If you do what I say, washing the feet, then you will, you will know. It’s back in John 13. It
says, Blessed are you. This is fantastic really. Okay. Come on. Okay.

John 13:17, how can you be happy? How can you be happy when we are so much occupied
with ourselves? How can I be happy when I am so much occupied with what has happened to
me, how it shouldn’t have happened, how what I have had in the past, what I’m looking for.
How could I ever be happy? The answer is that quiet. Quiet. Okay. Forget it.

The answer is quiet down. Wait upon God. Be quiet before God and let his sword do his work in
your heart and the Spirit will bring that truth into your heart and you walk in faith and there will
be a simple increase.

How does the increase happen? I don’t know but it happens. Happy you are, happy you will be
if you do this. If you do this, you will be free. You will know the truth and it will set you free.
And you will be a Spirit-filled brother, sister. You’ll be in a fellowship in the truth. You’ll be
simple, lighthearted, and simple in your faith. You’ll be edified in the Body. You’ll be increasing.
Is it, is it increase in a month? Maybe. Maybe in a day. Maybe in a week. Somehow those
plaguing thoughts are gone. It’s changed. They’ve drifted. They’ve fallen away. And I’ve got my
new focus on Christ. I have a new focus on Christ. I’m fresh in Christ. I’m living in faith in Christ.
I’m built up in Christ. There’s nothing I cannot do.

Paul said in Philippians 4 that I can do all things in Christ Jesus. I feel that in my heart. That’s what
happens to a believer. And that’s how we are now living in an evil world. And we don’t have to
worry about it. Don’t worry about the world. The world has its problems. You are different.
Don’t worry about what the world would ever do to you. It’s like you are seated above. You are
living in faith and blessed are you if you do these things. And the Lord will take care of our
hearts and our minds.

Look at Philippians 4 as we finish up here. Yeah. Wow. That’s great. It’s only 7:00, right? Or is
that 8:00? What? Yeah. What happened? It should be 8. Okay. Philippians 4:6. Ask God and leave it
alone. Ask God and let it go. Don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about it. Let it go.
Sometimes when you pray for your children, you get worried and nervous. You get down and
pray for your – when you get up, you’re more nervous and worried about them. That prayer,
that’s not what it says. It says, let it go. Be thankful. God answers the prayer. Let it go. Thank
him for answering the prayer. Let it go.

Like the heart and mind of the man of God and the woman of God is free of anxiety and worry.
And then vs. 7. How can you have the peace? Because we’re obeying. Because we’re doing
what he said. Because we’re, he’s dealing with our hearts and minds. And he will keep our
hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:8, Can you imagine having a mind like that? A mind with purity and truth and loveliness
and whatever is of good report. There are people that run for the scandal. Where is the
scandal? All the foolishness on the social media platforms, all the foolishness that people get
involved with and they’re hungry for it and they love it and they want it. Oh, that’s because
they’re unsaved. Unsaved people love the darkness. Unsaved people live in gossip.

Romans 1, unsaved people are scandalmongers. Unsaved people don’t know what they have.
Unsaved people talk a lot about themselves without any real solution and no real peace.
Unsaved people, they don’t have the sword that makes them accountable and says, Get right
with God. Get right with God and repent and repent and repent before God and you will come
away blessed of God and capable and powerful and blessed by God. Okay. Amen.
Oh, I just got started. I mean really, man, I got, I think. Wow! I wish I could see it more forcefully
what that means. That’s amazing. That’s amazing. Okay. Amen. God bless. Let’s pray. Here we
go. (Prayer).

 

 

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