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- 0:00Last December I was invited by Nathan to give a message for Advent on peace.
- 0:10!
- 0:30He makes peace and he preaches peace.
- 0:35Today I've been invited again to speak about peace.
- 0:41We had a little laugh at the dinner table when I told our young ladies,
- 0:48Wow, Dad, you just preached on peace in December.
- 0:51But it's a further aspect that I think somewhat completes the idea that we began to look at back then.
- 1:06And it has to do or highlights the continuing role that Jesus' followers have in bringing his peace to fruition.
- 1:17So let's look at, read together Matthew 5 and verse 9.
- 1:29Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
- 1:40Father, thank you for your word that it is life to us.
- 1:44That your spirit is here with us.
- 1:48And we ask you to awaken our hearts to grasp exactly what you want us to hear and know.
- 1:57And to strengthen us in order to live faithfully.
- 2:02In the light of your love and desire to bring your kingdom.
- 2:09In Jesus' name.
- 2:12Amen.
- 2:12I think the topic of peace should pique our interest because the world around us is so much in need of peace.
- 2:29Someone in 2003 calculated that of the last 3,400 years of recorded history,
- 2:37only 268 of those years have been war-free.
- 2:46That sink in.
- 2:50These continually present wars show us the desperate need for peace among nations.
- 2:57But in addition, lingering racial tensions show us the ongoing need of peace among people groups.
- 3:10And the present high rate of divorces, broken families, conflicts with roommates, neighbors, and co-workers that we all face show us the need for peace in our interpersonal relationships.
- 3:28But as much as negotiated truces and discrimination laws and counseling have been helpful,
- 3:40history and our own experience has shown us that the world's peace is at best uneasy and temporary.
- 3:49But in contrast, the gospel, the gospel that we cherish, the gospel that we love and proclaim every week offers a different kind of peace.
- 4:05It is a powerful peace.
- 4:07It is a peace that Jesus makes between God and his people and between you and other believers.
- 4:18It is a peace that doesn't just restrict hostility.
- 4:24It completely eliminates the hostility.
- 4:28The prophetic portrait of the church in the book of Revelation depicting a great multitude that no one can number from every nation,
- 4:44from all tribes of people and languages,
- 4:48standing before the throne and the Lamb, clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands.
- 4:55This depiction is not just a roll call of everybody that's going to show up in heaven someday.
- 5:05This is an amazing glimpse into the glorious destiny of the church.
- 5:12True unity among great diversity.
- 5:18This unity appears to be foremost in the mind of Jesus just before he was crucified.
- 5:31And we can see it in his prayer in John chapter 17.
- 5:35And I like to read a couple passages out of John 17.
- 5:40First in verse 11, he is praying,
- 5:43And he makes that request even stronger and broader when he continues in verse 20.
- 6:12I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word.
- 6:18That's us.
- 6:20That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I in you.
- 6:28That they may also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
- 6:37If this was so important to Jesus, then I hope you agree with me.
- 6:45It should be a primary concern for us who are his followers.
- 6:50The beatitude we are looking at this morning in Matthew 5 verse 9
- 6:55affirms this point in the strongest way.
- 6:59It links the very identity of God's children with the activity of peacemaking.
- 7:12It must be obvious to us that the church has not yet fully experienced this peace.
- 7:20Our assurance is that one day it will be complete.
- 7:28But perhaps what is not so obvious is that each one of us has a role in the process.
- 7:35Church splits.
- 7:37Segregated congregations.
- 7:42Crises among Christian families.
- 7:45Other broken relationships among believers show us that the task is far from finished.
- 7:55And what the passage before us this morning suggests is that the peacemaking that Jesus describes
- 8:04is the normal activity of the children of God.
- 8:09And that which best represents our father's nature.
- 8:17In a fallen and divided and conflict-ridden world.
- 8:25Of course, in this world, peacemaking is usually a painful process.
- 8:32Now, like most Proverbs, Matthew 5 verse 9 has its limitations.
- 8:41It doesn't instruct us how to be peacemakers.
- 8:46Nor does it even command us to be peacemakers.
- 8:53Neither does it show the context for peacemaking.
- 8:56Rather, I believe it simply serves to encourage us that the change that God has worked in us to make us peacemakers is evidence that we belong to him.
- 9:16And the fact that we thus belong to him is what makes us blessed.
- 9:21I believe this morning Jesus wants to encourage you and me by reminding us of what truly makes up the blessed life.
- 9:36Each succeeding beatitude affirms this.
- 9:41And in this seventh beatitude, we focus first on the idea of peacemakers.
- 9:49And then the benefit that belongs to you and I.
- 9:56First, Jesus wants you to know that peacemakers are among those who are blessed.
- 10:03Blessed are the peacemakers.
- 10:07Very straightforward.
- 10:08So, to begin with, I'd like to consider what peacemaker is.
- 10:14The Greek term that we find behind this word is a compound word that is translated literally peacemakers.
- 10:25Really simple.
- 10:28But it's only used right here in the New Testament.
- 10:32When a word is only used once in the scripture, it's difficult to interpret it.
- 10:40More difficult, perhaps, because we don't have the support of other uses to determine meaning.
- 10:47But in this case, we do have some other help.
- 10:50In Colossians 1.20, we find a verbal form of the same compound that refers to Jesus as one making peace by the blood of his cross.
- 11:04And closely related to that is Ephesians 2.15.
- 11:10Where there are two words.
- 11:12Where the two words of the compound are used separately.
- 11:15To simply say, making peace.
- 11:19And there he describes the mysterious work of Jesus when he created a unity between Jews and Gentiles who were previously enemies.
- 11:35Now, both passages emphasize God's work of reconciliation.
- 11:38And the use of the word peace in these passages, I think, aligns more with the Hebrew relational idea of shalom rather than the Latin pacts or the Greek irain.
- 11:56Which we get the name Irene.
- 12:00Both which refer to a state of being consisting of no war.
- 12:06There's a, you know, that kind of peace is just the absence of war.
- 12:11It's a state of quiet.
- 12:13Whereas the Hebrew word shalom refers more to harmony and wholeness and welfare.
- 12:20And it's a relational kind of term.
- 12:24And the uses in Ephesians and Colossians suggest to us then that Jesus' peacemakers are those who are somehow involved in his reconciling work.
- 12:36Now, further than that, we have a passage right here in Matthew chapter 5 that appears to shed some light on the idea.
- 12:48Look at verses 43 through 45.
- 12:52In chapter 5 of Matthew.
- 12:57I'll read those verses.
- 12:59You have heard that it was said,
- 13:02You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.
- 13:06But I say to you,
- 13:08Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- 13:11So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven.
- 13:18For he makes his son to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
- 13:25For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have?
- 13:31Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
- 13:34And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others?
- 13:40Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
- 13:44You therefore must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.
- 13:48Now, even though the word peace is not used here in this section,
- 13:55the connection to this seventh beatitude is quite strong.
- 14:02The main similarity is the use of the phrase,
- 14:04Sons of your Father who is in heaven.
- 14:07And Jesus is saying that contrary to the present religious teaching,
- 14:16he instructs his followers to love their enemies.
- 14:21And he says it's an attitude that reflects the care that God has for those who are evil as well as good.
- 14:29And the characteristic of love in a follower of Jesus is what designates him as a son.
- 14:40A son of the Father.
- 14:43The same identification we find in Matthew chapter 5 verse 9 for peacemakers.
- 14:50So what I think Jesus is describing is not someone who simply tolerates enemies,
- 14:57but who actually loves and actively demonstrates that love through prayer and interaction with them.
- 15:07And really that's the heart of peacemaking.
- 15:11Verses 44 and 47 provide two simple ways this love is demonstrated.
- 15:18First, pray for those who persecute you.
- 15:24This is a way in which peacemaking is accomplished.
- 15:29And second, by, interestingly, greeting.
- 15:35They're not complex tasks, but they can be difficult.
- 15:41God has not left us alone in the process of peacemaking.
- 15:45It's his task, but he wants us to participate with him.
- 15:49And so prayer must be natural.
- 15:51And praying for enemies is a first and major, perhaps the most important step.
- 16:00But why does he mention greeting?
- 16:04Hey, enemy.
- 16:04Hey, enemy.
- 16:04Perhaps it's simply a simple but powerful way of making a bridge.
- 16:19There's someone who doesn't like you, hates you, has a problem with you.
- 16:26John Piper has an insightful insight here.
- 16:29He says, peacemaking tries to build bridges to people.
- 16:34It does not want the animosity to remain.
- 16:37It wants reconciliation.
- 16:39It wants harmony.
- 16:41And so it tries to show what may be the only courtesy the enemy will tolerate.
- 16:46Namely, a greeting.
- 16:47The peacemaker looks the enemy right in the eye and says, good morning, John.
- 16:56And he says it with a longing for peace in his heart, not with a phony gloss of politeness to cover his anger.
- 17:09Peacemaking is not necessarily a pleasant task.
- 17:12And there are major areas that fall under this category.
- 17:20Important, serious issues.
- 17:24But we have to begin right here.
- 17:27Right with our neighbor.
- 17:29Right with the conflict that we are experiencing.
- 17:33And to love.
- 17:35And to seek reconciliation.
- 17:37Whether it's a conflict between you and another person.
- 17:43Or between two other people.
- 17:46Or between groups.
- 17:48The process is difficult.
- 17:50And it's often painful.
- 17:51And it's not always successful.
- 17:55But the point is, it's the normal occupation of every believer of Jesus.
- 18:02According to Jesus, these, as well as the previous Beatitudes, these peacemakers are the blessed.
- 18:17Nathan has already adequately explained the difficulty in translating the Greek word from which we get the word blessed.
- 18:26Blessed.
- 18:26Blessed.
- 18:27Most translators and scholars understand the limitations of the word blessed.
- 18:33But they use it anyway.
- 18:35And so I'm using it anyway.
- 18:36I think it's because all the other words suggested have their own problems as well.
- 18:44And we just don't have in English a 100% equivalent word.
- 18:51And so, blessed is sufficient.
- 18:57But what's really important to see here is that peacemakers are included in this unusual list that is described as having great benefit.
- 19:11And so whether you use the word blessed or whether it's fortunate or whether it's happy or whether it's flourishing,
- 19:19ending the peacemaker is a beneficiary and this will be well known.
- 19:27But also, like the other subjects of the Beatitudes, the benefit isn't the condition or the subject or the activity being described.
- 19:40in other words there's nothing blessed about the pain of desperation the pain of sorrow there's
- 19:47nothing blessed about the pain of restraint restraint or unsatisfied longing or the pain of
- 19:54of standing in the middle of warring people and getting hit from both sides there's nothing
- 20:00blessed in that the reason they're blessed is because of the promise and that brings us to the
- 20:09second part of the verse not only does jesus want you to understand that peacemakers are among those
- 20:15who are blessed but he understands he wants you to understand why peacemakers are blessed
- 20:21because they will be called the sons of god
- 20:26now if you were to go to israel or
- 20:30run into some israeli people in walmart
- 20:36there are various ways to ask someone their name you can simply ask what's your name
- 20:44ma shemcha or ma shmech
- 20:48but you find commonly this other phrase and it's simply
- 20:56eich korim lacha or eich korim lach if it's a female so memorize that when you run into an israeli at walmart and you hear them speaking hebrew you just walk up to him and say eich korim lacha and they'll go oh you speak hebrew okay of course they'll say it in hebrew and you won't understand what they're saying but
- 21:18but it is literally translated how
- 21:24how
- 21:24do they call you
- 21:28eich korim how are they calling you in other words what's your name
- 21:34and i think
- 21:37eich korim lacha and i think it's very similar
- 21:44and i think it's very similar
- 21:46it's very similar
- 21:47to the sense used here by the verb
- 21:48it's an idiomatic way of stating one's identity
- 21:50they will be called the sons of god because
- 21:52they are
- 21:53the sons of god
- 21:54now
- 21:57this concept of the sons of god is an important one for us and
- 22:01it has a rich
- 22:02biblical context
- 22:03context
- 22:04all the way back to the garden
- 22:07god announces something unique about the
- 22:09creation of humanity
- 22:12they
- 22:14among all his creation will be created
- 22:18in the image
- 22:20and likeness of god
- 22:22now though there are various opinions about exactly what that image and likeness
- 22:28referred to
- 22:30there's strong evidence in
- 22:31in
- 22:32the scripture itself
- 22:35and in the context of the
- 22:37the ancient world at that time
- 22:41that both rulership and sonship
- 22:44are in view
- 22:45man was created as the image of god
- 22:49according to
- 22:50genesis 1 26 through 28
- 22:53and first corinthians 11 7 supports that
- 22:57in relation to the world
- 22:59man is
- 23:00a ruler
- 23:01in relation to god
- 23:04he is a son
- 23:06now this idea
- 23:08of sonship
- 23:10is supported by the use of the same term in
- 23:13genesis chapter 5
- 23:15verses 1 through 3
- 23:16they're
- 23:16referring to the relationship between a human father
- 23:20and his son
- 23:21let's look at that just for a minute
- 23:23if you want to turn there
- 23:24genesis 5
- 23:251 through 3
- 23:28this is the second
- 23:29place where
- 23:30image and likeness are used
- 23:32in the scripture
- 23:33and it says there in genesis 5
- 23:381
- 23:39this is the book of the generations of adam
- 23:45when god created man he made him in the likeness of god
- 23:49male and female he created them and blessed them
- 23:52and named them man when they were created
- 23:55and adam lived 130 years
- 23:58or when adam lived 130 years
- 24:00he fathered a son
- 24:01in his own likeness
- 24:03after his image
- 24:05and named him
- 24:06seth
- 24:07and on and on it goes
- 24:09and the idea is further supported by luke
- 24:12in his genealogy
- 24:14in chapter 3 verse 38
- 24:16where he
- 24:16ending the genealogy of jesus
- 24:19says in verse 38
- 24:21the son of enos
- 24:23the son of seth
- 24:24the son of adam
- 24:25the son
- 24:27of god
- 24:28so as a son
- 24:33adam was to reflect
- 24:34god's likeness
- 24:36in a way that he
- 24:37in the way that he ruled over creation
- 24:39mediating god's will
- 24:41later the designation
- 24:44of son of god
- 24:46was inherited by israel
- 24:47eventually being applied
- 24:50to the kings of israel
- 24:52solomon especially
- 24:53he will
- 24:54he will be a son to me
- 24:55i will be his father
- 24:56and then jesus
- 24:58in jesus
- 25:00the idea of sonship
- 25:01takes on its full significance
- 25:03and then finally
- 25:07the designation
- 25:08sons of god
- 25:09continues to those who believe in him
- 25:12and that's us
- 25:14now some of the translations say
- 25:17children here
- 25:18and that's
- 25:19legitimate
- 25:20because
- 25:20of
- 25:21the fact that it is generic
- 25:23although
- 25:24man in the old testament
- 25:26is generic there
- 25:27at least where it speaks
- 25:28of humanity
- 25:29and not specific man
- 25:30adam
- 25:31but i think the word
- 25:32sons here
- 25:33helps us
- 25:34because it links us
- 25:35back to this rich history
- 25:37of sonship
- 25:38and what god
- 25:39is implying
- 25:40by this term
- 25:41in the old testament
- 25:44this image
- 25:45and likeness
- 25:46was to be
- 25:46reflected in man's
- 25:48dominion
- 25:50over creation
- 25:50in his character
- 25:51in the way he rules
- 25:53he had
- 25:53relationship with god
- 25:55in the garden
- 25:55and from that relationship
- 25:57then he was able
- 25:58to
- 25:58to adequately
- 26:00and
- 26:01and represent god
- 26:02in a way that
- 26:03that
- 26:04was consistent
- 26:07with who god
- 26:08was
- 26:08and is
- 26:09but here in matthew
- 26:13there seems to be
- 26:14an added dimension
- 26:15and that is
- 26:17not just
- 26:18rulership
- 26:19but love
- 26:21motivated
- 26:22peacemaking
- 26:24and it's appropriate
- 26:28considering
- 26:28the state
- 26:30the world
- 26:31is in
- 26:31what jesus
- 26:33appears to be saying
- 26:34is that peacemakers
- 26:35reflect
- 26:36god's heart
- 26:37for reconciliation
- 26:38and unity
- 26:39in such a way
- 26:40that reveals
- 26:41that they are
- 26:42actually
- 26:43the sons of god
- 26:44that is why
- 26:46they are blessed
- 26:46the blessing
- 26:48is that god
- 26:49has included you
- 26:50in his family
- 26:51and this
- 26:53blessing
- 26:55is consistent
- 26:56with the other
- 26:56blessings
- 26:57of the beatitudes
- 26:59possessing the kingdom
- 27:00of heaven
- 27:01being comforted
- 27:03inheriting the earth
- 27:05being satisfied
- 27:06seeing god
- 27:08being called
- 27:09the sons
- 27:10of god
- 27:10these all
- 27:11reflect
- 27:12in different
- 27:15words
- 27:15and
- 27:16different
- 27:17nuances
- 27:18the same
- 27:19idea
- 27:19that
- 27:20the blessing
- 27:21is that we
- 27:22are included
- 27:23the blessing
- 27:24is that
- 27:25we belong
- 27:26to god
- 27:26the blessing
- 27:27is that
- 27:28the kingdom
- 27:28is ours
- 27:29the blessing
- 27:29is that
- 27:30we
- 27:30are a part
- 27:32of god's
- 27:33plan
- 27:33and that's
- 27:35the hope
- 27:36i believe
- 27:36jesus wants
- 27:37you to have
- 27:38to hold on
- 27:39to
- 27:39to take
- 27:40with you
- 27:40this morning
- 27:41now in conclusion
- 27:46and i know my
- 27:47family's really
- 27:48surprised to hear
- 27:49me say that
- 27:49so soon
- 27:50it's funny
- 27:53because i showed
- 27:54one of my
- 27:55daughters my
- 27:55notes today
- 27:56she goes
- 27:56six pages
- 27:59that's all
- 27:59miracles
- 28:03happen
- 28:04but i believe
- 28:12that jesus's
- 28:13reason for
- 28:14beginning the
- 28:15sermon on the
- 28:15mount with
- 28:15these beatitudes
- 28:16is just
- 28:17as important
- 28:18to us
- 28:18today as it
- 28:19was to the
- 28:19disciples that
- 28:20first heard
- 28:21him
- 28:21just like
- 28:23them
- 28:23he wants
- 28:25to encourage
- 28:26you
- 28:27who follow
- 28:28him
- 28:28to keep
- 28:30your hope
- 28:30fixed
- 28:31on him
- 28:32to understand
- 28:34that peacemakers
- 28:36are among
- 28:37those who are
- 28:39in this way
- 28:39blessed
- 28:40and that
- 28:42peacemakers
- 28:42are blessed
- 28:43because they
- 28:45will be called
- 28:45the sons of
- 28:46god
- 28:46as the
- 28:48introduction
- 28:49to jesus's
- 28:50sermon on
- 28:50the mount
- 28:51the beatitudes
- 28:52have an
- 28:52important place
- 28:53when you think
- 28:55of this in the
- 28:56context of the
- 28:57sermon
- 28:57the sermon
- 28:58is a beautifully
- 28:59structured
- 28:59teaching
- 29:00that warns
- 29:02against
- 29:02deceptive
- 29:03religious
- 29:04hypocrisy
- 29:05that relies
- 29:06on external
- 29:08righteousness
- 29:09that seeks
- 29:10the approval
- 29:10of man
- 29:11rather than
- 29:12god
- 29:13that exhibits
- 29:13a compromising
- 29:15loyalty
- 29:16to god
- 29:17and to
- 29:17the things
- 29:18of this
- 29:18world
- 29:19and that
- 29:22kind of
- 29:22religion
- 29:23jesus makes
- 29:23very clear
- 29:24is not
- 29:25enough for
- 29:26salvation
- 29:27and will
- 29:27crumble
- 29:28in the
- 29:29storms
- 29:29of
- 29:30judgment
- 29:30the vision
- 29:34of a
- 29:34higher
- 29:35kind of
- 29:35life
- 29:36a better
- 29:37righteousness
- 29:38is cast
- 29:40in the
- 29:41beatitudes
- 29:42and it's
- 29:42unpacked
- 29:43in the rest
- 29:44of the
- 29:45sermon
- 29:45many of us
- 29:48today
- 29:48are in
- 29:49similar
- 29:50or in
- 29:53danger
- 29:53of a
- 29:54similar
- 29:54religious
- 29:55approach
- 29:55to our
- 29:56faith
- 29:56god
- 29:58will love
- 29:58me
- 29:59if i do
- 29:59this
- 30:00you might
- 30:00even be
- 30:01thinking
- 30:01i gotta be a
- 30:02better
- 30:02peacemaker
- 30:02i gotta
- 30:03you know
- 30:03do this
- 30:04kind of
- 30:04thing
- 30:04because
- 30:05i want
- 30:05to be
- 30:06right
- 30:07with god
- 30:07that's
- 30:08that's
- 30:09what he's
- 30:10trying
- 30:11to have
- 30:12us
- 30:12avoid
- 30:13and
- 30:15the
- 30:17sermon
- 30:17on the
- 30:17mount
- 30:18helps
- 30:18us
- 30:18with
- 30:19that
- 30:19but
- 30:26there
- 30:26is also
- 30:27another
- 30:28kind
- 30:29of
- 30:29danger
- 30:29another
- 30:33kind
- 30:33of
- 30:34deception
- 30:34and it's
- 30:38a
- 30:38deception
- 30:38that
- 30:39relies
- 30:39solely
- 30:42on
- 30:42mental
- 30:43assent
- 30:43to
- 30:44certain
- 30:45doctrines
- 30:46as
- 30:46evidence
- 30:47and
- 30:47assurance
- 30:48that
- 30:48we are
- 30:49god's
- 30:49people
- 30:50rather
- 30:55than
- 30:55looking
- 30:56for
- 30:56evidence
- 30:57in our
- 30:57lives
- 30:58we
- 30:58we ask
- 31:00ourselves
- 31:00if we
- 31:00believe
- 31:01the right
- 31:01things
- 31:02or we
- 31:04have a
- 31:04list
- 31:04of
- 31:04things
- 31:04that
- 31:05we
- 31:05know
- 31:05if we
- 31:05believe
- 31:06these
- 31:06things
- 31:07we're
- 31:08okay
- 31:08with
- 31:08god
- 31:09and
- 31:11they
- 31:11even
- 31:11sound
- 31:11good
- 31:12justification
- 31:12by
- 31:13faith
- 31:13scripture
- 31:15alone
- 31:15trinity
- 31:16and
- 31:17we
- 31:17believe
- 31:18these
- 31:19things
- 31:19as
- 31:19long
- 31:19as
- 31:19we've
- 31:19got
- 31:19that
- 31:20together
- 31:20we're
- 31:20okay
- 31:21and
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- 32:54involved
- 32:56Amen