The Beatitudes - Peacemaker Part 7 - Home Church Ministry
Channel: Home Church Ministry
Date: 2014-06-29

Ft. Pastor Jessie Martinez Click Here To VIsit My Website: http://www.homechurchministry.com/

Notes:
Matt 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 
This is an example of what Jesus is speaking about:
Luke 12:49-53
I have come to set the world on fire, and I wish it were already burning!  I have a terrible baptism of suffering ahead of me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished.  Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other!  From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of me, and two against—or two in favor and three against.  'Father will be divided against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against mother; and mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.'" 

Sometimes the conflict between a believer and a non-believer last a life time, and there’s no fixing it.
But for the true disciple of God it’s a price that we are willing to pay, and it’s because of the love the Lord has put in us for the lost.

So this sword is not made of steel. 
Heb 4:12 the word is a two edged sword

If he was bringing peace that the Jews wanted then he would have brought a sword made of steel, to fight.

This is part of the reason the Jews rejected Jesus; they were looking for a King that was going to fight physically in a battle.

Remember when Peter went to defend Jesus the night they came to arrest him.
Matt 26:52 “for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.”
The Lord is saying here, if you want to do it your way go ahead, but you won’t be called a child of God.

The word peace in the bible means, you are right with God, forever.

John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Don’t worry about what the world throws at you, for we are overcomers:
Rom 8:35-37
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Col 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
God stared with peace with peace in the Garden of Eden, but then man messed up when he sinned.
Jesus made peace again at the cross, with those who believe in him.
And God is going to finish what he started with peace with the new Jerusalem.
Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

If you don’t have peace within yourselves, it’s because you don’t have peace with God.
Life for an unbeliever has no peace.

Knowing you have been forgiven for your sins, that give you peace, once you receive this peace, you become a peacemaker.

Acts 10:34-36
34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
36 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: 
Being a peacemaker is showing the peace of God that is in you.
If you’re not a peacemaker, either you’re not a Christian, or you’re being disobedient.

Phil 4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

The devil and man want to have their own independence from the Lord.
When self is first, peace is last.

God’s peace never evades issues, it doesn’t hide from problems, and it doesn’t excuse them.
With the peace of God we can confront our problems and not struggle with them.
Only Christians can have this peace. 
Phil 4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
For the lost there is no peace, because of the devil that is their enemy, has blinded their eyes from the truth.  

The Lord told Paul on the road to Damascus, where he got born again.
Acts 26:18 “To open their eyes, so they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and be given a place among God's people, who are set apart by faith in me.'
Until they give their lives to the Lord, they are under the power of the devil.


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