SUNDAY LESSON, 2/25/24
PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS: BECOMING PEACEMAKERS
Matthew 5:9; Ephesians 2:11-18
We will be studying the eighth beatitude this Sunday in a series titled “PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS”. Jesus said, “Blessed [happy] are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons [children] of God” (Matthew 5:9).
The world we live in is filled with conflict, division and strife. Everywhere we turn we see people fighting and arguing over everything from the use of pronouns to who you are going to vote for president. It seems that peace is a rare commodity that is difficult to find and even harder to maintain.
Yet, God calls us to live in harmony with one another. He desires us to be peacemakers in our homes, churches, workplaces and communities. He sent His Son to the cross to become a peace offering between Him and sinful man and between us and those around us. And Jesus says, in order to be called “children of God” we are to be peacemakers.
Come join us Sunday as we delve into what it means to be “PEACEMAKERS”.
MATTHEW 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
EPHESIANS 2:11-18
Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— 12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
