Blessed are them who makes peace.

Matthew 5:9 “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”

We now come to our next beatitude and that is the peacemaker, a peacemaker is one who makes peace with others. There never been any doubt that God is a peacemaker; not with all mankind but with all who will be saved. A peacemaker is one who makes peace with Gods creation; God never commanded that Christians live any other way than peaceful. Romans 12:18 “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.” People tend to attempt to make Christianity as an un-peaceable religion but it is not; neither un-peaceable or a religion. Christians and mostly Baptist have always tried to live peaceably in this world. Now remember God commanded in Romans 12:18 “If it be possible…” meaning there will be times when it will not be possible. However even with that being said God did command “But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” Matthew 5:39 meaning we are to be a longsuffering people also. When we look at all of this from top to bottom and side to side we see that the finality of t all is that we are to be like God a likeness we lost in the fall. When God said He created man in His own image He meant that man was created in His likeness in attributes, not all attributes but many and these are regained by mankind in salvation or in Christ.

We must understand this does not mean that we can make peace with God because man does not have the ability to make peace with God. God makes peace with man only through Christ Jesus. Romans 5:1 “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:” man lives under the misunderstanding that we can make peace with God. We have nothing with God except through Christ Jesus which is our all and in all with God.

Now being peace does not make us children of God but means we will be called the children of God because we are saved in Jesus Christ not because we are peacemakers. As we look at the worlds religions we see evilness in all of them to a point and some more radical than others as in the Muslim faith. Now some attempt to make the lying point that the Christian faith is just as evil as the religionist but they do not understand what a Christian is; for example I do not consider Catholicism as a Christian faith but rather as a religionist faith. I also do not consider those out of reformation a Christian faith. How can one be considered a Christian faith if they do not have faith in Christ Jesus. But those that do have faith in Christ also are peacemakers and are also called the children of God because none others in this world can be called either; peacemakers or Gods children. Ephesians 5:1 - 2 “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; (2.) And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.”