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He said, blessed 39 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 4: are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons and 40 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 4: daughter of God. It doesn't say blessed are the people 41 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 4: who can control the situation and make it go their way. 42 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 4: Doesn't say blessed are the ones who are right all 43 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 4: the time. It says those who are willing to be 44 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 4: peacemakers can walk in the blessings of God. See that's 45 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 4: the key right there. What are we willing to do? See? 46 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 4: Are we willing to let other people be right even 47 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 4: when we know they're wrong, for the sake of peace. See, 48 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 4: there's got to be a willingness to make peace and 49 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 4: maintain peace, to walk in the place of blessings. One time, 50 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 4: Joel and I were at this event and we didn't 51 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 4: know everyone at the event, but we knew a few people. 52 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 4: And this gentleman came walking up to Joel and I 53 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 4: and he began to speak to us. And I noticed 54 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 4: as the conversation his passion became a little more intense again, 55 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 4: talking more to Joel than myself. And so I was 56 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 4: watching this and listening, and he just had a conviction, 57 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 4: he had an idea, and he was trying to persuade 58 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 4: Joel to you believe the same thing that he believed. 59 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 4: And so he's getting passionate about this, and just he's 60 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 4: talking and talking, and I look at Joel and I 61 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 4: see this famous smile on his face, and I see 62 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 4: this occasional nod with his head. And so after the 63 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 4: man was finished, he walked off and I said to Joel, 64 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 4: I said, Joel, you don't believe what he was saying. 65 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 4: You don't agree with what he was saying. I said, 66 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 4: I know you don't. Why didn't you just kind of 67 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 4: explain to him what you believed and what you thought? 68 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 4: And I'll never forget. Joel looked at me and he said, Victoria. 69 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 4: He said, I wasn't put on this earth to straighten 70 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 4: everybody out. He said, I would rather hold my peace 71 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 4: than prove them wrong. You see, when you allow other 72 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 4: people to be right, it doesn't make you wrong. It 73 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 4: makes you a peacemaker, it says in Romans twelve eighteen. 74 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 4: As far as it depends on you live at peace 75 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 4: with everyone. You see, sometimes you just need to put 76 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 4: a famous smile on your face and nod your head 77 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 4: so that you can live at peace with everyone. Now, 78 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,239 Speaker 4: it doesn't say that everyone's going to live at peace 79 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 4: with you, But behind that smile and behind that nod 80 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 4: is peace. It's a place that God wants us to live. 81 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 4: It's a place of wholeness where things are together in 82 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 4: our life. See, the blessing of being a child of 83 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 4: God is knowing that God is fighting your battles for you. 84 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 4: It's knowing you don't have to be right to do 85 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 4: what's right. It's knowing that you may not be in 86 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 4: control of the situation, but that God has ultimate control 87 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,559 Speaker 4: of the situation. So often we want to fight back, 88 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 4: We want to be right because right feels good. But 89 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 4: can I tell you right is overrated. If it steals 90 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 4: your peace, if it cost you the blessing, it's overrated. 91 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 4: You can be right and be miserable. You can be 92 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,679 Speaker 4: right and have strife in your home and in your family. 93 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 4: You can be right and you can have no friends. 94 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 4: Being right is overrated. Now, that doesn't mean that you 95 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 4: have to be a doormat, that you have to agree 96 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 4: with everything that people say, that you're not allowed an 97 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 4: opinion and to use your own brain. That does not 98 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 4: what that means. It means that you are sensitive and 99 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 4: you are away when a conversation is going too far, 100 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 4: when it's getting heated, that you understand that when things 101 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 4: like that begin to happen, strife is knocking at your door. 102 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 4: See peace is your guard and it's your guide, and 103 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 4: it lets you know that, Hey, wait a minute, I 104 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 4: have complete control over this situation. I don't have to 105 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 4: keep pushing back. I don't have to prove myself. God 106 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 4: will prove it in the end. I don't have to 107 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 4: be right. I just need to do what's right, and 108 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:35,039 Speaker 4: that is hold on to my blessing of peace. You know, 109 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 4: peace is a gift. Jesus said it like this to 110 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 4: his disciples. He said, peace I give you. I give 111 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 4: it to you. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, 112 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 4: you have the peace of God. He has imparted into 113 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 4: your spirit. He's given it to you. But we have 114 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 4: to continue to maintain and develop and hold on to 115 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 4: that peace. You see, peace doesn't just exist when there's 116 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 4: no conflict. Peace shouldn't come and go according to what's 117 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 4: going on in our life. But peace is an inner being. 118 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 4: It is something that controls us during conflict, It controls 119 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 4: us in the storm. Peace is a powerful force that 120 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 4: causes you to be able to enter a situation and 121 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 4: be able to radiate a calm stability intense situations. You 122 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 4: have control because you have peace. Peace comes by knowing God, 123 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 4: by reading his word. Peace comes by meditating. You see. 124 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 4: God wants us to first realize we have this peace 125 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 4: and continue to develop this inner peace. Right now, there's 126 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 4: so much much violence, so much conflict, so much gossip, 127 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 4: so much strife going on in our world. All you 128 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 4: have to do is turn on the television, watch some movies, 129 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 4: and you will not find an example of peace. You 130 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 4: just won't find it. It's not out there. So God 131 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 4: is saying understand that you have to know and stay 132 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 4: in touch with this peace. You can't just go out 133 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 4: there and forget about peace and just react to situations 134 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 4: and just do your own thing. Who wants to live 135 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 4: in strife? The Bible says that when there is strife, 136 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 4: there is confusion, and there is every evil work. When 137 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 4: you are in strife, you become a blamer, You become 138 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 4: someone who is suspicious, you become bitter, you become everything 139 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 4: that's not of God. Strife, it just goes on and on. 140 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 4: So you can today, if you're even in strife with somebody, 141 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 4: you can say, I'm putting I'm gonna draw a line 142 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,839 Speaker 4: in the sand. Strife is not for me anymore. I'm 143 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 4: gonna be in touch with this inner peace, this gift 144 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 4: that Jesus gave me. I'm gonna continue to develop it. 145 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 4: I'm gonna be a maker and a maintainer of peace 146 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,199 Speaker 4: because I want to walk in the fullness and wholeness 147 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 4: of the blessing of God. And can I remind you 148 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 4: when it is hard. When it is difficult, you've got 149 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,199 Speaker 4: to remember that God has called you his son or daughter. 150 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 4: When you are in peace, maintaining peace, you are his 151 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 4: I can tell you something that God is not going 152 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 4: to let you out of his sight. He's not gonna 153 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 4: let anyone do anything to you. He's not going to 154 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 4: curse you or not bless you. He's gonna make things 155 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 4: go your way because you're His child. Now, as soon 156 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 4: as you get out of peace and start getting in 157 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 4: there yourself, you've just got out of the place of blessing. 158 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 4: But can I know, Oh, if you're a parent today 159 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 4: and you've got a child, you're going to do everything 160 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 4: you can to fight for that child. It doesn't matter 161 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 4: what's going on. You are for that child no matter 162 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 4: what's going on. And I'm want to tell you your heavenly 163 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 4: Father is for you. You are His child. Rest in that 164 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 4: God in peace, in that Listen, when we walk in peace, 165 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 4: we walk in the fullness of the blessing. Be a 166 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 4: peace maker, be a maintainer of peace, and you'll walk 167 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 4: in the wholeness that God intended you to walk in. Now, 168 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 4: I just want to take this time right now while 169 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 4: I feel like that God has got our attention on peace. 170 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 4: And maybe many of you are thinking things of areas 171 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 4: or situations in your life. But right now I want 172 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 4: to just take this moment to just call that peace 173 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 4: into awareness, into our innermost being and to really ask 174 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,679 Speaker 4: God to give us a peace and get us in 175 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 4: tune with that peace so that we can be the 176 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 4: calmness in the storm. See, God wants us to wake 177 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 4: up peace within us. Jesus was in the back of 178 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 4: the boat. The disciple was wearing a big storm. Water 179 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 4: was splashing over the storm, but Jesus was asleep. What 180 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 4: did they do? They woke up peace. They got Jesus 181 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 4: on the sea. And when you feel those winds and 182 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 4: waves flashing you in the faith, you need to say 183 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 4: It's time for me to wake up Peace. I'm waking 184 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,559 Speaker 4: you up right now. Peace. I'm in touch with you. 185 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 4: I'm in tall control of this situation. I'm not getting 186 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 4: in strife. 187 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: Father. 188 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 4: I thank you right now God that you are just 189 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 4: making us more aware than ever about peace. We'll understand 190 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 4: that it dwells on the inside of us as a 191 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 4: gift from Jesus to keep us calm, and it's a 192 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 4: force and it's a power to be reckoned with. Father. 193 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 4: I thank you right now that you are giving everyone 194 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 4: just a tremendous peace. And through the weak God, they'll 195 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 4: be in touch with that peace. They'll say, peace, you're 196 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 4: still there. Thank you, I feel you peace. I'm gonna 197 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 4: feed you with the word of God. Believe that peace 198 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 4: will sustain me and keep me stable in any storm. 199 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 4: Thank you Father, that you will bless your people, that 200 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 4: you will bring a harmony to our homes and to 201 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 4: the people around us. And as far as it is 202 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 4: our ability, Father, we will be makers and maintainers of peace. 203 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:22,319 Speaker 4: Whether someone wants to live in peace with us or not. Father, 204 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 4: we know that we hold the keys, and that is 205 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 4: your peace. In Jesus' name, and everyone said amen, Amen. 206 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 4: Thank you for listening to the joelos Deine podcast. Help 207 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 4: us continue to share the message of hope with those 208 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 4: all over the world. Visit jolostein dot com slash give 209 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 4: Hope to give a gift today. Thanks so much for 210 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 4: listening to today's message. 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