Have a Peacemaker's Heart

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You see, we all want to 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.920 live in peace. We all want people to be at 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.320 peace with us. We want peace in our families, we 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:57.640 want peace in our homes. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:01:59.920 But the way we're going to. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.680 Have peace is to make peace. Peace Maker is a 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:09.280 compound word, peace maker. We should be the maker of peace, 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:11.400 the maker of peace. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:12.480 You see. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.080 We have the ability to draw the line in the 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.760 sand and say I'm not gonna step over this line 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.320 of into strife, into division. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.400 I'm gonna make peace and how do we do that. 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.880 The Bible says we make peace, we make unity through 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:30.680 the bond of peace. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.280 See, it's our responsibility. 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.760 No one. We don't have to depend on anyone to 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:40.440 make peace for us. It's our responsibility to resolve the 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:44.160 differences and the conflicts in our life honoring God. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:49.360 See, that's what a peace maker does. He honors God. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:51.600 It's an attitude. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.120 And that's why I described it as developing a heart 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.079 of a peace maker, because it's an attitude that we 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.160 have to develop. It's something that we have to realize 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:02.720 is our responsibility. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:04.640 See Jesus gave a. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.680 Sermon on the mound, and he gave all the beatitudes, 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.600 and he told about these beatitudes you could call them. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.400 These are attitudes that bring the blessings of God in 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:18.360 our life. And he said in Matthew five nineteen, he said, 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:24.519 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be sons of God. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.920 Blessed are those who are willing to let go of 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:29.519 an offense. 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.200 Blessed are those. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.320 Who don't walk in the pathway of conflict. Blessed are 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.280 those who don't have to have their way all the time. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:45.600 Blessed are those who are willing to keep the peace. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:47.400 See, we have to. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:51.800 Learn how to reconcile our differences and honor God. See, 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.320 it's about unity, and the only way we're going to 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.320 find unity is through the bonds of peace. Unity doesn't 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.560 mean we're all going to agree on everything. Unity doesn't 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.120 mean we're all clones and we look alike, we act alike, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.200 we talk alike because we all know that ain't happening. 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.400 We're all from different backgrounds, we have different opinions, different 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.920 ways of doing things. So we have to learn that 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.880 peace is what's going to bind us together. You know, 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:27.880 it's so interesting in families and with co workers, in partnerships, 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:32.120 with business husbands and wife. The interesting thing is this, 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.760 we start out good. We have the same goal in mind. 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.240 We want to be successful at this task. We want 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.560 to have peace in our homes. We want to raise 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.320 kids that are thriving and well able to accomplish things. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.919 We want to have financial security. These are all common 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.560 goals that we start out with. But somewhere along the way, 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.840 because we differ in our personalities and the way we 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.279 do things, we begin to get in conflict. We have 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.200 the same goal, but we do it differently and that 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:08.320 conflict side tracks us and gets us off course so 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:12.279 we don't have the desired outcome, or it extends and 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:13.760 prolongs the outcome. 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.360 You see, those are the things that's at the end 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:17.960 of the day. 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:19.960 It's not the way you do it or I do 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.279 it that's gonna bring the happiness at the end of 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.080 the day. It's gonna be peace that binds us together 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:33.039 in unity that brings the happiness, the achievement, the outcome. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:33.159 Of the goal. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.520 You see, there is a place in your spirit that says, 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.800 I am a peacemaker, and because I'm a peacemaker, I 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.520 can trust God to fight my battles for me. I 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.400 can trust God to bring the outcome even if it's 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.839 not the way I would do it. The attitude of 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.760 a peacemaker is what we all need. 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:53.040 We're all gonna. 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.800 Face challenges along the way. Those challenges are getting along 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:00.599 with people because we all want our way. We all 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.480 want to do it our way, our way or no way. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.200 You know, sometimes it can get to the lowest part 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.039 of our maturity and it can be if you don't 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.440 do it my way, I'm not gonna be happy. In fact, 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.119 if you don't do it my way, we're not moving 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:14.360 forward from this point. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:19.839 That is what is hindering our outcome. We've got to 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:24.679 learn that if we want peace, it starts with us. 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.600 We can make it. I was talking to. 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:32.080 A beautiful, really sharp, brilliant young girl the other day 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:33.400 and we were having a conversation. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.400 I could just see how sharp she was and with 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.640 it and right on the ball. And she began to 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.680 tell me I have a strong personality. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:40.359 You know. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.080 I love to win. I love the feeling of winning. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.159 She says, there's just something about being right. It's a 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:47.000 great feeling. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:52.000 And then she paused and she said, you know, those. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:57.919 Traits of mine, those personality traits, I'm realizing they're beginning 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.279 to slowly. 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.200 Demise my marriage. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:08.120 They're beginning to change the atmosphere of my home. It's 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.520 beginning to affect my children. You see, if you have 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.760 to be right all the time, and you love that 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.240 feeling of being right. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.400 You're making other people feel wrong. You see, we don't 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:23.760 want to make the people in our life feel wrong. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.320 We've got to let other people be right. We've got 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.960 to allow them to be right. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.160 Doesn't mean that you have to agree with everything that 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:40.000 they're saying. Just let them be right. It doesn't make 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:44.040 you wrong. It makes you a peacemaker. It makes you 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.120 a peacemaker, it makes you a person because says I'm 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:51.400 gonna make peace because I don't want to be right 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.280 all the time. It's too costly, it's too expensive. It 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.880 isn't worth the price of my home, of my family, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.320 of my children, of my job. 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:08.280 It's too costly. We have to be willing to be 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:09.120 a peacemaker. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.360 I looked up the synonyms for peacemaker and listened to 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:18.840 some of these words. It's diplomat, arbitrator, mediator, calmer, sooth, 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:25.440 go between. Sounds like the characteristics of Jesus, doesn't it. 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.640 It sounds like the attitudes that he walked this earth 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.559 with and he won anyway. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.720 You see, he is saying our attitudes should be like that. 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.160 You see, he made peace for us so that we 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.199 could make peace for others. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.360 We could be reconcilers of peace. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.360 When Joel and I were really young in our marriage, 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.960 before he was ever the pastor, we were at a 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:59.360 meeting and he was talking to this gentleman and I 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.559 came up a few minutes into the conversation. But this 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:07.520 gentleman was talking passionately and really had these convictions about 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.080 what he was talking about, and he was going on 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.600 and on, and to me, some of them sounded a 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.880 little unrealistic and a little bit wrong in my opinion, 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.120 But I wasn't going to say anything because I really 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:19.840 wasn't part of the conversation. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:21.800 So I just sat there and listened. 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.120 And I looked at Joel, and Joel was standing there 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:25.960 with a pleasant look on his face. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.920 He was being very cordial, and I thought, oh, okay, 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:30.120 all right. 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.400 So as I was standing there just listening to the conversation, 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.400 a little while later, Joel had somehow given. 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:38.200 Us an exit point. 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.800 He had dismissed us and said, hey, we got to go. 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:44.040 So as we were leaving a little later, we were 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.280 in the car going home, and I said to Joel, 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.360 I said, hey, you know, who was that guy? 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.520 And what did you think about his opinion? And you know, I. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:52.880 Didn't know what I thought about it. I don't know 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.200 if I agree with all that. And I said did 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.840 you agree with his opinion? And Joel said no, I didn't. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.800 And I said, you were standing there so nice and everything. 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:07.040 I thought, maybe you did. And I'll never. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:11.440 Forget what he said he said, Victoria, I wasn't put 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:20.000 on this earth to straighten everybody out. You know, some 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:24.840 people think they were. They're the judge and the jury. 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:29.000 I thought that was so profound, very deep. 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.120 I thought, I like that. I'm gonna remember that. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.720 Have you ever interjected in a conversation and later on 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.000 when you left, maybe when you got home, you thought, 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.720 why did I do that? I just wish I wouldn't 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:47.480 have said anything. We ought to adapt that motto. I 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:52.440 wasn't put on this earth to straighten everybody out. You know, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:57.760 that doesn't mean that we can't have opinions, likes and 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:03.520 dislikes that differ. You know, even in the most difficult conversations, 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.560 if we will come from a place of honoring God, 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:15.360 from a place of a peace maker, a place of unity, 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.280 that's how we're going to make it in this life. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.640 That's how we're going to keep the bond of peace. 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.559 We all know that we have to have difficult conversations, 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.520 but it's not about having our way. It's about saying, God, 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.400 I want to converse with this person. I want to 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.640 be intelligent about it, but I don't have to have 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:40.280 my way. I can let someone else be right and God, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.480 it doesn't have to be done my way. There is 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:46.240 more ways to a point than just my way. There's 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.400 more ways to a common goal than just my way. 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.520 Sometimes you've got to know when to take your hands 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.720 off of it, and when you've got to say, God, 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.040 this is the way I would do it. But you 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.280 know what, I'm gonna zip it up because I'm gonna 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.920 keep unity through the bond of peace, through the common 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.640 ground of peace. And God, I'm not gonna try to 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.079 fight my way. I'm gonna allow you to step in. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.640 And you see, God says you're not blessed when you're right. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.040 You're not blessed when you win every argument. He says, 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.720 the blessing comes from being a peacemaker. See, there's a 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.480 blessing on the other side of that promise, and we've 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.680 got to walk in that place of a peacemaker's heart. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.559 The Bible says in Ephesians, it. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:34.400 Says to bring unity through the spirit, through the bond 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.480 of peace. If we're gonna achieve unity, we're going to 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.800 have to be active, and we're gonna have to take the. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.680 Initiative to do what it takes to make the peace. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.240 The scripture says, you know as far as it's up 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.720 to you, the buck stops. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.720 There be at peace with all men. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:57.080 Let's be instruments of peace because there's a blessing in 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.800 the life of a peacemaker. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.880 Amen. 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