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Intro —
On May 1st of this year, the members of Greater Bellevue Baptist church in Macon, GA gathered to discuss their pastor’s future.
Knowing that there might be trouble, the discussions were moderated by a local Sheriff’s Deputy who continually had to remind the people of basic manners and rules of discussion.
About 20 minutes into the meeting, decorum decayed and a fight broke out.
Young men threw punches, and folks shoved each other over chairs that had been knocked over.
More Law Enforcement was called in and they used whistles to break up the fight and send people home.
Even when it is not an all-out fight there can be serious issues.
In a small church there exists a cultural obligation for people to get along, to help one another and work together.
This cultural expectation pressures people to overlook their differences and look beyond the petty quarrels that divide people.
This can often challenge people to resolve their conflicts, but it can also become a mask behind which conflict simmers and festers, and eventually explodes and divides the church.
The tensions may never degenerate into open warfare, but a cold war can exist where people manipulate church politics to undermine their opponents’ programs or ideas.
Conflicts because of Cultural Tensions —
Conflicts because of Lost Authority —
Conflicts because of Change —
Conflicts because of Personalities —
(Glenn C. Daman: The Enrichment Journal)
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We’ve been studying the Sermon on the Mount and we have been looking at this Sermon bearing in mind its purpose: Jesus is forming the New Israel.
These are to be the founding marks of God’s new Israel.
So often it is not the case.
Today we come to the next Beatitude: blessed are the peacemakers.
This is such an important theme for Jesus that it will come up again and again in the SM.
Matt
Matt 18:
Matt 18
What is a Peacemaker?
Matt 18:21-22
Matt 6
“The ‘Peacemaker’ is someone who is reconciled to God, knows God is for peace, and seeks reconciliation instead of strife and war.”
(Scot McKnight)
1. God is for Peace —
Rom
2. Peace is one of the blessings that God gives to those who follow Him
Numbers 6:24-
3. God repeatedly commands His people to seek peace
1 Cor 7
4. God describes His covenant in terms of peace
5.
The standard biblical greeting was “peace”
Ma 2:5
Jud 6:23
Rom
1
6.
Every NT Epistle contains an admonition to seek peace in the church.
Romans 15
1 Thess 5:13
What do Peacemakers do?
They Avoid Unbiblical Responses
Escape — Faking Peace
Attack — Breaking Peace
They Pursue Righteousness
Because true peace is not the absence of conflict.
It is dwelling together in righteousness.
Sin is the cause of conflict
Psalm 85
What are steps to peace?
Remember the Gospel
Matthew 18:
2. Live the other Beatitudes
3. Overlook offenses
4. Take the Burden
What is the Promise for those who are Peacemakers?
Kids look like parents.
This is the motivator!
You get God.
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