Peacemakers, Conclusion

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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Matthew 5: 9.

When we have received the Indwelling Holy Spirit living in us, then we have Jesus abiding in us, and we in Him. This means that you and I no longer are our own, but Jesus lives and rules in each life. That being the case, you are peacemakers, because Jesus, who is peace, lives in you. When peace lives in you, ruling, ordering, working, serving and controlling, you cannot but be a peacemaker. A peacemaker is not first and foremost what you do, think and speak, but who you are.

As silly as this may be, it has brought unarguable understanding to me. My neighbour has a dog called foxy, that does not like to bark. People come to the gate and he pays them no mind, but he is a dog. He has never bitten anyone, nor does he ever show aggressiveness to anyone, (not that she wants him to bite anyone), but he is a dog. Here is the point. He is a dog, not because he barks or does not bark and not because he bites or does not bite. He is a dog because it is what he is, first and foremost. What he does, comes because of what he is.

Peacemaker, is who you are first and foremost, because it is who Jesus is. Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God, the Father. When you are dead to yourself and who you used to be as a son or daughter of Satan and sin, then you are in Jesus, a son or daughter of God. You are a peacemaker, because you are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, so that in your new, spiritual nature, in Jesus, you are peacemakers, being and doing as Jesus.

We conclude with two incidents when Jesus, our Peacemaker, Son of Almighty, Father God, made peace, by using quite different actions.

Peace made, through Jesus’ Astute Actions

Jesus has gone to the temple of God, a place where peace should reign and rule. Instead, He finds the opposite, so that people who have come for the peace of prayer and the fellowship of worship, find the opposite. Jesus saw how the peace, and solemnity of His Father’s House was desecrated, and dishonoured and He made peace to rule and reign again. Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves. Matthew 21: 12 – 13. Matthew gives us a glimpse of how peace flowed, as he takes time to mention that the blind and lame came into the temple and Jesus healed them all.

Peacemakers bring healing.

Peace made, through Jesus’ Astute Words

Jesus is in the temple teaching the people, when scribes and Pharisees bring in an adulteress, who was caught in the act. They make a public spectacle of her right there in the temple and pester and goad Jesus about the Law of Moses and stoning that sinner woman to death. Have you ever thought of that poor woman and how afraid and lost she must have felt? She has been brought to the temple, the house of peace and prayer, yet all she is receiving from the leaders, teachers and rulers of the temple, is nothing but intimidation and condemnation. At that moment, she must be a woman totally swallowed up by lost-ness and fear, a woman with no hope of any kind of peace.

Nevertheless, Jesus gives those religious leaders the silent treatment, but they keep on goading Him. When Jesus does decide to lift His head and respond to them, He left every single one of them with their tails between their legs, as they walked away, one by one, beginning with the oldest, leaving behind the sinner-woman whom they brought in. Then Jesus turned to her, and using His Wise Words, brought total peace to a sinner. Listen to Jesus. Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you? She said, No one, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more. John 8: 10b – 11. I ask you this. If Jesus has just lovingly, in that place of peace and forgiveness, given you pardon from your guilt and shame, will not peace overtake your anxious, miserable mind and heart? When He says to you, go, is He not sending you in His blessed peace? Additionally, when He commands you to sin no more, is He not guaranteeing perpetual peace to you, if you abide by His commands?