Blessed are the Peacemakers | Matthew 5:9 | Pastor Greg DeWeese

This message continues a series through the Sermon on the Mount by focussing on Jesus’ words, “Blessed are the peacemakers” from Matthew 5:9. The teaching explores why true peace is so rare in the world and why the need for peacemakers is rooted not in circumstances, politics, or education, but in the sinful hostility of the human heart.Peace is shown to be far more than the absence of conflict. Biblically, it begins with reconciliation to God through Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, who made peace by the blood of his cross. Only those who are first at peace with God can become authentic peacemakers in a hostile world.The sermon explains how peacemaking flows from the earlier Beatitudes and describes the character and cost of peacemaking, including the willingness to speak truth, confront sin with love, and endure opposition. Peacemaking is presented as the calling of every true disciple and evidence of being a son of God.