Blessed Are the Peacemakers

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Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, 163859, Desiring God, John Piper, Preaching, Christianity, Messages, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 March 1986

⏱️ 33 minutes

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John Piper | God has made peace with his people, and he calls us to push for peace with friends and enemies alike.

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0:00.0	Matthew 5, 1st 9,
0:04.0	Blessed of the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.
0:10.0	It has seemed to me this week as I've meditated upon the beatitudes again that every
0:14.4	beatitude is another nail driven in a coffin. And inside this coffin there's a
0:19.5	corpse. It's the corpse of a false teaching that says you can be saved without being changed
0:27.8	Beatitudes are nails in the coffin of that false teaching that says you can get to heaven if you just believe in Jesus
0:34.0	whether you live like the world or not whether you're merciful whether you're
0:40.5	pure whether you're a peacemaker.
0:42.7	Just look at them one at a time.
0:44.6	Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
0:48.8	Blessed of the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
0:52.3	Blessed of the peacemakers, for they shall see God. Blessed of the peacemakers, for they shall be called the
0:56.3	sons of God. If you don't obtain mercy, what do you obtain? Judgment. If you don't see God, what do you see? Hell.
1:07.0	If you don't be, if you aren't called the sons of God, then you're outside the family.
1:18.0	These are all descriptions of salvation, eternal salvation.
1:24.1	And therefore the Beatitudes are all spikes being driven into the corpse or the coffin
1:31.4	containing the corpse of a false teaching that says,
1:35.0	you just make a decision for Jesus one time,
1:40.0	and it doesn't make any difference,
1:41.5	whether you're merciful, whether you're pure in heart, or whether you're peaceful.
1:47.0	You'll receive mercy. You'll see God. You'll be called the son of God.
1:57.0	The whole sermon on the mount rings with this summons,
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