How To Be a Peacemaker in a Hostile World – Matthew 5:9
April 21, 2024
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This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today, we unpack Matthew 5:8 and look at what it means to be merciful and to receive mercy.
Questions to ponder:
- What does it mean to be a “peacemaker?” What does it mean we will be called children of God?”
- What does it mean to be a “peacemaker” from the Biblical definition?
- How is it possible that we will be called children of God if we are peacemakers?
- Why must we understand God’s idea of a peacemaker? Are there eternal consequences?
- What does the word peace mean to you? Why is it life-changing?
The Greek word for peace is (eirēnopoioi). It means to be
“The good life is for those who are peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
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- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Beatitudes
- Peace
- Peacemakers
- Reinhold Niebur
- Serenity Prayer
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
- Wesley UMC Festus Missouri
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- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Beatitudes
- Bee Gees
- Blessed
- Pure In Heart
- Tin Man
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today, we unpack Matthew 5:8 and look at what it means to be merciful and to receive mercy.
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- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- 1 Timothy 2:1-4
- 2 Peter 3:9
- Exodus 24:6
- Ezekiel 33:11
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Forgiveness
- Forgiving
- Grace
- Merciful
- Mercy
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
- Wesley UMC Festus Missouri
This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today, we unpack Matthew 5:7 and look at the first Beatitude and what it means to be merciful and to receive mercy.
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- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- Jeremiah 22:3
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Psalm 11:7
- Psalm 24:3-6
- abundance
- dikaiosune
- Hungry
- Justice
- lack
- mishpat
- oppressor
- Poor
- Righteous
- Righteousness
- satisfied
- sedaq
- sedicah
- Thirsty
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today, we unpack Matthew 5:6 and look at the first Beatitude and what it means to be hungry and thirsty for righteousness.
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- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- Job 24
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Psalm 37:7
- Psalm 72
- Afflicted
- Anav
- Excluded
- Humble
- Humility
- Inheritance
- Justice
- Land
- Needy
- Peace
- Poor
- power
- Praus
- Racial Inequality
- Racism
- Serenity Prayer
- Shalom
- Suffering
- Systemic Injustice
- Systemic Racism
- Unimportant
- White Privilege
- World System
- Wounded
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
- Wesley UMC Festus Missouri
This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today, we unpack Matthew 5:5 and look at the first Beatitude and what it means to be humble and inherit the land.
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- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- Isaiah 40
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Aging
- Birth
- Comfort
- Comforted
- Death
- Excluded
- Five Stages of Grief
- Four Big Pillars
- Four Pillars
- Grief
- Grieving
- Illness
- Stages of Grief
- Suffering
- Wounded
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
- Wesley UMC Festus Missouri
This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today, we unpack Matthew 5:4 and look at the first Beatitude and what it means to be “grief and be comforted.”
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- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Matthew 5:3
- Ashrey
- Baruk
- Beatitudes
- Emmet Fox
- Hopeless
- Hopelessness
- LBGTQ+
- Love
- Markarious
- Poor in Spirit
- Powerlessness
- Sermon on the Mount
- Spaghetti
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
- Wesley UMC Festus Missouri
This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today we unpack Matthew 5:3, and look at the first Beatitude, and what it means to be “poor in spirit.”