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1. Thanks for joining me today for “A Little Walk with God.” I’m your host Richard Agee.
2. How many guns give you peace? Guns are debated a lot in this country. Is one or two a good number? How about 13 million? Actually, guns have nothing to do with peace or fear. But they are  interesting to talk about.
3. Scripture
   1. John 14:25-27
   2. Jesus: I have spoken these words while I am here with you.  The Father is sending a great Helper, the Holy Spirit, in My name to teach you everything and to remind you of all I have said to you.  My peace is the legacy I leave to you. I don’t give gifts like those of this world. Do not let your heart be troubled or fearful.
4. Devotional
   1. As I read Jesus words today, “Do not let your heart be troubled or fearful.” I thought about how fearful our nation remains. We seem to be scared of everything. Sometimes for good reason with all the talk of terrorists and crime rates and road rage and general violence going on everywhere.
      1. Last available statistics from the Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosive
      2. Interesting they put all those things under the same department, things that are all equally deadly to our population
      3. 9 million firearms manufactured in the US 2015
      4. 3.9 million imported into the US in 2015
      5. 13 million brand new firearms floating around the country in the hands of mostly responsible, but some pretty irresponsible people
      6. I’m one of those holders of firearms, think I’m responsible
      7. Never the gun that kills, but the person that holds it
   2. Weapons don’t bring peace
      1. Instruments of destruction
      2. Provide an easier means of taking life
      3. Able to do so without getting as personal as with a club or bare hands
      4. Just pull the trigger and with a rifle, may never see their eyes or the expression on their face
      5. Comedian on the Internet
         1. Wanted to buy a defensive gun for protection
         2. Not one of those that killers and robbers use
   3. Jesus brings peace
      1. Gives gifts unlike the world
      2. Promises a legacy of peace
      3. Inner peace
      4. Will never stop the wars between nations or between fellow human beings until He returns
      5. Holy Spirit beings personal peace in the turmoil of life
      6. Circumstances don’t dictate our states of mind or emotional distress
   4. Jesus gives peace the world cannot understand or receive because the world doesn’t know Him
      1. I still like shooting my guns
      2. But my peace comes from the legacy Jesus gives, not from the legacy of the wild west
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