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What's Funding Your Peace | Dr. Ernest Grant, II | Accelerate Church

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Summary

Main message: True, lasting peace is not funded by money, possessions, or what we look to for security — it is found in trusting Jesus. Jesus warns us to stop treating wealth as our source of peace and to invest our hearts in heavenly treasure.

Key points:

  • We often try to fund our peace with what we hold (savings, possessions), but those things decay, get stolen, or fail to hold up under anxiety (Matt. 6:19–21).
  • We fund our peace with what we watch: whatever we fix our gaze on shapes our heart and hope; a “healthy eye” is undivided and generous (Matt. 6:22–23).
  • We fund our peace with whom we serve: you cannot serve both God and mammon — money becomes a rival god when it becomes the source of your security (Matt. 6:24).
  • There are two kinds of peace described: borrowed peace (fragile, can be repossessed) and inherited peace secured by Christ’s work on the cross and resurrection.

Scriptures mentioned: Matthew 6:19–24