Blessed are the peacemakers | Living the Way | Week 5

/> ### MESSAGE NOTESLiving the WayBlessed at the peacemakers... • February 5, 2024Teacher: Adam Barnett--/> Matthew 5:9 – Blessed are the peacemakers, for the will be called children of God./> You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. Romans 5:6-11/> Reconciliation is not only of God, but from God, and to God./> All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. - 2 Corinthians 5:18-21/> “The word of the beatitudes penetrates us with the power of the Holy Spirit in order to break up our interior soil.” - Jonathan Pennington/>“The word of the beatitudes penetrates you with the power of the Holy Spirit in order to break up your interior soil.” /> “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. - Matthew 5:43-45/> 1. Pray for your enemies. /> 2. Pray for peace. /> 3. Do all you can. /> Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.