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Yes, we are a grateful people. Amen. I want to encourage us all today to have a peacemaker's heart. A peace

maker's heart. The heart of a peacemaker. You see, we all want to live in peace. We all want

people to be at peace with us. We want peace in our families. We want peace in our homes. But the way we're going to have peace

is to make peace. Peacemaker is a compound word. Peace maker. We should be the maker of peace.

The maker of peace. You see, we have the ability to draw the line in the sand and say, I'm not going to

step over this line into strife, into division. I'm going to make peace. And how do we do that?

The Bible says we make peace. We make unity through the bond of peace.

See, it's our responsibility.

No one.

We don't have to depend on anyone to make peace for us.

It's our responsibility to resolve the differences and the conflicts in our life honoring God.

See, that's what a peacemaker does.

He honors God. It's an attitude. And that's why I described it as developing a heart of a peacemaker, because it's an attitude that we have to develop. It's something

that we have to realize is our responsibility. See, Jesus gave a sermon on the mound and he gave all the

beatitudes. And he told about these beatitudes. You could call them, these are attitudes that bring

the blessings of God in our life. And he said in Matthew 519, he said, blessed are the peacemakers.

For they shall be sons of God.

Blessed are those who are willing to let go of an offense.

Blessed are those who don't walk in the pathway of conflict.

Blessed are those who don't have to have their way all the time. Blessed are those who are willing to keep the peace. See, we have to learn how to reconcile our differences

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