A Family for the Peacemakers

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🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” - Matthew 5:9. In this episode, Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb discuss how belief in Jesus divides earthly families and relationships, but brings us into communion with a new family.

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Featuring: Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb

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0:00.0	He's talking to the people who are first in line for martyrdom. He's preparing them for this.
0:10.0	You know, Calvin points this out that Jesus has to say this because they were still
0:16.2	carnal in their thinking. They were still thinking that the Missianic kingdom is going to be a restoration of the
0:24.8	theocracy everyone's going to have their vineyard and their fig tree and
0:30.3	there's going to be prosperity, health, wealth and happiness and there's going to be prosperity, health, wealth, and happiness.
0:34.7	And he's got to prepare them for what is really coming.
0:37.9	You know, turn the other cheek.
0:39.5	Do not use force, violence in order to promote the gospel in any way, shape, or form.
0:46.5	Instead, be peacemakers.
0:49.1	This is not a policy for politics. This is not a geopolitical strategy. It was in the Old Covenant. In the
0:58.7	Old Covenant, peacemakers meant seriously, there will be rest from all of your enemies on every side.
1:07.0	Well the church isn't going to have any rest from its enemies.
1:11.0	If they hated me they'll hate you too. applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church. This is Whitehorse Sin,
1:30.0	a weekly roundtable discussion about theology and culture. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and his creation was
1:48.6	characterized by Shalom. Peace marked humanity's relationship with God, each other, to the world, and our self-understanding.
1:57.0	But it was quickly fractured by sin in Genesis 3.
2:01.0	In light of the false catastrophic consequences, God didn't waste any time
2:04.8	declaring his intent to rescue his good creation from the grip of sin.
2:09.0	Genesis 315 says, I will put entity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring.
2:16.6	He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.
2:20.4	This pronouncement of the UN Gaelian, the first gospel, was God's declaration that he was working to return peace to the chaos caused by sin.
2:29.0	This declaration culminates in sending of his son to live, die, and to rise to inaugurate a kingdom that is characterized by peace, a kingdom that is yet to be consummated.
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