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How Can Making Peace Make Joy?

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The slides used during the sermon delivered at the Bromley community worship service on Sunday 5th August 2012.

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Page 1: How can making peace make joy?

How CanMaking Peace

Make Joy?

Page 2: How can making peace make joy?

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Matthew 5:9

Page 3: How can making peace make joy?

Peace – Pax

Shalom – שלום

Pyeong Hwa – 평화 ( 平和 )

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Good people, families or nations can be linked horizontally among themselves on an equal footing. Where there is equality, then there can be peace. Pyeong ( 平 ) from the word pyeong hwa has the meaning of even, flat, horizontal. Without pyeong, even if hwa ( 和 ), harmony, exists, peace will soon disappear.

Father Moon – 10th Peace Message

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Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. (Romans 14:19)

Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. (Ephesians 4:3)

Make every effort to live in peacewith everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. (Hebrews 12:14)

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Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. (Romans 14:19)

Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. (Ephesians 4:3)

Make every effort to live in peacewith everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. (Hebrews 12:14)

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David had just said, “It’s been useless—all my watching over this fellow’s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good. May God deal with David, be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!”

1 Samuel 25:21-22

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Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.”

1 Samuel 25:35

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Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Matthew 10:34

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when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world.

Confucius, Book of Rites

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Peacemakers battle for harmony

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