Chats About God

Dan Schlarb is the author of Beyond Belief: How God Found Me (found here on Amazon) and he shares some powerful insights about God and his journey in this episode. Enjoy! May God Bless You!

How to Find Peace and Rest by Trusting in God

Have you ever heard someone say, "I believe in God, but..." 

This episode recorded on March 4, 2020 (during the Coronavirus lockdown) will bring you peace and rest even when dealing with seriously challenging situations in your life. What is the New Covenant, and what does the renewing of the mind mean? Also, how do you take off the Old Covenant Goggles of judgment off, and put on your God goggles to see God in all?

How can we find peace and rest as the world economy is on hold during this Coronavirus pandemic? 

In this chat we take a Deeper Look Into What The Bible Is and Represents. Does how you interpret it bring you peace and rest? If not, this episode will help you recognize how to attain peace and rest, amidst the daily challenges we all face.

What does that mean to be in this world but not of it? We dive into that and more in this episode as we also revisit several other key topics to help you find understanding, peace and rest in this journey. 

Who is God? What is God? How does God Think? Listen in as we have a chat about God and how he sees us through the New Covenant that Jesus Christ ushered in with His death and resurrection. The New Covenant is NOT the New Testament. What is the Bible? What does it represent? How did the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil effect us prior to Christ and how did Jesus bring us the Tree of Life? This and more is discussed in this passionate episode. Hebrews 8:10-12 (NIV) 10 This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts.I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” Check out Chats About God resources page for more about The New Covenant.

This can be hard to hear. Shakes your ideology, theology, and identity. Why Jesus asked often, “Can you hear?” 

Hard to hear a God when we’re so sure we’re right in defending the ideologies and theologies we’ve been taught since birth. All that came from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We have a belief system of right and wrong, good and bad. Religion is just a byproduct of mans belief system. If you went to get rid of religion you’ve got to get rid of man. Man fights over morality of who’s right and who’s wrong. Who’s belief system is superior? 

The Bible is a representation of the old covenant age. From the trees in the garden to Moses, up to the cross is all the old covenant. Talking to the Jewish people at that time. Jews kept thinking we can do it all through laws. Jesus came and kept dumping more laws on them (making up new ones). Every time the Jewish Pharisees kept saying they could do it, Jesus kept making up new laws. A law is a law. If it’s in the you ought to do this and ought not do this, that’s a law. He kept giving new laws until the essence was, you’re going to have to be perfect. Think you can do that? You can’t!  

 The New Testament church didn’t get it. They still talk about unrighteousness, behavior, sin, the enemy (satan or the devil) and hell. And don’t ever introduce the finished works of Jesus or The New Covenant.  This New Covenant and the finished works of Jesus Christ is the greatest gift that relieves you of judgement, unrighteousness, heavy burden, anxiety, depression, fear, doubt, and more. Yet most who know the Bible inside and out and who’ve been in the church for their entire lives, even the preachers on the pulpit, don’t know about or speak about or receive this gift from God.  

We’re talking about coming to know God not coming to know a program, not seeking to become a better Christian, person or whatever that program is called.  Most religions or programs people are in brings more guilt, not peace and rest, that comes in trusting the God and His New Covenant with all. There are none excluded.   

Takes you from going through life trying to make it happen, to trusting in God who created all of this finished work before man (you and I) showed up. Thank you God for taking care of this. From my perspective it may look off, or not good at times, yet I trust in You for it all.  

Hebrews 8:10-12 (NIV)  10  This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel     after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds     and write them on their hearts. I will be their God,     and they will be my people. 11  No longer will they teach their neighbor,     or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me,     from the least of them to the greatest. 12  For I will forgive their wickedness     and will remember their sins no more.”  

What could you do that would be unforgivable by God? Absolutely nothing is unforgivable by God. 

How can we live in peace and rest in today's day and time? You can have Peace and Rest NOW versus Rest In Peace, when you pass. It is possible for you. Here is what God and Jesus say about this.